New Training Grounds
1132 Words
Jewel's POV
Athens dragged our asses out the next morning to a spot on the edge of the castle grounds near their gym. There Hawk, Max, and himself. worked out a training plan for the ones that we're new. Athens took me aside to work with me while they worked with everyone else.
"I am going to teach you dagger fighting." He spoke quietly as he looked around the area. "You are already skilled in other areas. But weapons are your weakest." He pulled a small silver dagger with a wrapped handle. "You will keep this on your person at all times." He handed it to me with the blade pointing to him. "Yes even when you pee, I want it with you," He grunted knowing I was gonna ask as he rolled his eyes enough you heard them click the back of his skull.
We fought for an hour, are hashing the same moves before he went back to hand to hand for another couple of hours. I was covered in a layer of sweat, and yuck from fighting at my full speed. Athens would always be faster but I knew I was faster than most wolves because of this training.
Walking back to the castle, we heard the alarm bell go off. We saw a group of rag-tag-looking wolves, likely rogues and southern wolves with a large leader. He turned bright green eyes on us. The wolves and humans with them charged us. I saw the bright green-eyed guy smirk.
Had he waited to attack until after training? If he did, it would have been smart, minus the fact normally we were training all day long. This was what Mortou would have said was a warm-up. Athens, Mike, and Logan launched forward as my brother stepped in front of Jakarta and me. Elder Braun, Tiffany, Lory, and Pinky made a circle around the back of us. Athens tore through the wolves aiming for the green-eyed man. Then suddenly Athens stopped. He turned with a huge grin on his face as he started to help with the remaining wolves Mike and Logan hadn't torn up.
The green-eyed man started slowly toward us when he was hit by a large salt and pepper-colored wolf leaping toward him. He dodged as Athens, Mike and Logan had stopped slaughtering the wolves as there was nothing left but bodies. Mr. Green Eyes morphed into a jaguar. The salt pepper wolf danced around him nipping and snapping at him. The Jaguar man seen his wolves were dead, he knew that he lost. A massive (like 30 wolves) group of wolves came from the trees, surrounding the two as they continued the cat and mouse game. I watched closely as the wolf bit certain areas he knew were going to cause the cat to strain harder to fight. The wolf was methodical in his approach to biting. Always miss directing until he had the spot he wanted open. Max came to stand near us.
"Who do you think he is?" He glanced at me then back to the scene.
"Gael, the head guard," Hawk answered surprising us both.
"How do you know?" Came the surprising words from my mouth.
My brother glanced down at me, his eyebrow raised. Really? He yapped in my head.
His scent? I looked up at him.
Photographic memory of all smells. He smirked.
I was a bit surprised I didn't know this but I didn't. I heard a shrill howl of a cat. My head snapped back to the scene. Partly because it was a cat's yowl of pain and the wolf in me perked up. Mr. Green Eye lay on the ground naked and bleeding in front of an equally naked Garl who stood above him.
I averted my gaze, (yeah ok, I did give him a good once over. He has got a drool-worthy body. So sue me.) Hahaha. Anyway, I was looking at the ground. Then, I heard some movement come from there.
"You ok your Highness?" He asked.
I looked back up to see he had sweats on and no shirt. "They didn't even get close," I smirked. Looking over to see Athens, Mike, and Logan blood-spattered and grinning.
"I see that," He nodded back to me. "¿Hablas español?" He added in Spanish. (Do you speak Spanish?)
"Yo hablo algo de español." (I speak some Spanish.) My accent sounded horrid to me. It had been a while since I spoke Spanish. I could understand it completely but I didn't want him to know that.
"Ok," Gael nodded, turning to go he barked out a bunch of orders in Spanish about taking the cat guy to the cells and cleaning up the bloody mess my boys created.
"I am going to shower and I will be back," Athens said a massive grin plastered to his face like he had won the lottery.
I laughed at his big flourish of a bow, as he blinked out. Gael's eyes bugged out of his head. "¿Que es el?" He exclaimed. (What is he?)
"Vampire," my brother smirked.
Gael's eyes are still wide with shock. "Who?" He looked intently at us both.
"Athens, the Head Council vampire." My smile tipping the corners of my lips out of pride.
"He was with the Royals," He c****d his head to the side. He could tell he was missing something.
"You were here last time," I sighed. "The other head guard knew who he was." I looked out at the trees. I missed Tau it had been just over 24 hours gone. Actually, 27 hours, and 42 minutes if I counted.
"That was my father, he was killed by that cat." Gael's words growled in anger, as his eyes looked at the man in question.
"Why didn't you kill him?" It was Leon I noticed who asked. I hadn't even seen the group show up. Bad form Jewel. Need to be aware at all times. Even if there is a yummy morsel in front of you.
"Not my choice." He stiffened. "My father died protecting Lobos's heir. It is up to Lobo's as he was the one to injure that boy." You could feel the edge of hate in those words. He didn't want to do this. He wanted Green Eyes dead.
Interesting. Lobos didn't seem to have a fan in him. That meant I had a chance with Gael as the family head to come to my side. I just needed a way to work this situation to my advantage. I needed Athens's brain for five minutes.
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Greetings Readers!
Sorry I missed yesterday's update. I had a few chaotic events I needed to handle. I will see about doing a big update soon!
Much Love and Thanks,
M. Merrill
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