A Kiss From A Rose (The Twisted Tale Of Beauty and The Beast

A STORY OF A GHOST FROM THE PAST

Lance POV:

 “I have this weird memory that conflicts with these dreams I have been having. Sometimes it's hard to tell whats real and what isn't, but it all started 14 years ago when I met a girl. She was well different than others. She had beautiful midnight black hair, smooth caramel skin, soft plump lips, cat like eyes, and a cute button nose. She was beautiful for a five year old and I, at the age of seven felt that she was someone rather important in my life. We met in the woods by a river that separated pack lines from the free lands. We were both stunned by each other however became friends quicker than the blink of an eye. Back then as you know my father was critically hard on me and I was royally pissed, so I would always run to the river to clear my head after our trainings. It just so happened that on that particular day I wasn’t alone fore she was there upset because her step mother hated her and insulted her for in her words being a mistake. She shifted earlier than normal after witnessing her mother being killed while protecting her from rouges. The problem was more than her shifting early it was the fact that her step mother wanted her gone so that she could have her father all to herself and she honestly felt that her stepmother had something to do with her mothers death. I helped her calm down and comforted her best I could. I also explained that all of her wolf traits are tide to her emotions being so young. So shifting early was her wolf ready to battle to save her mom. Since then we would meet and start talking. I told her about my life and my father and she in turn told me about her life and parents. I remember she told me her dad was her best friend, her hero for that matter and everyday he would bring her a new book. She never told me why and I of course never asked. I just assumed she loved to read. She then told me more about her mother and how beautiful she was before she died. She told me how her mother and father were true mates but her father married another after a year of grieving his mates death. She said her stepmother is only nice to her in front of her father but torments her in the shadows. One day I asked her to show me her wolf and she was having a hard time changing as she didn’t quite know how without her dad so I helped her. She had a puffy tail, pointed ears, long claws, a small snout, and the longest canines I have ever seen, not to mention she had the whitest fur I had ever seen covering her body. To me she was a site for sore eyes. She was more beautiful then any girl I have ever met, even more so when I helped her change back and saw her full beauty.”

“We would meet up everyday and train each other on things we knew that the other didn’t know. We would pack a lunch to share and go swimming together. We grew so close together that by the time she was 8 and I was 10 we wanted to be mates. However we were young so to us mates were people who cared deeply for their best friend and never wanting to lose them. So we spied on our parents to learn how to become mate and protect each other. We found out that we had to mark each other and mate. We both knew we were to young to mate but we could mark each other especially since I shifted early as well. I hid the fact that I shifted early to evade my father from more horrendous trainings. We made a pack to mark each other and mate when we were older. Marking each other was an experience in it self that we were not prepared for but did anyway. We found that after doing so we grew even closer to each other. So close in fact we could mindlink each other no matter the distance and we could feel what each other were feeling. As time went on we found out the true meaning of mates but new that our little bites were ok considering we barely bit each other and it was on our shoulders and not the marking spot. By the time she was 11 and I was 13 we decided we wanted to finish the bonding if only to make our friendship stronger so we can always be there for each other even after finding our mate. Since we didn’t want to hurt our mates more than we would by not waiting for them we wanted to mate with each other only if we never found our mates. We didn’t care that we weren’t mates or that we were being impure we loved each other too much. But we never got further than planning. As we were so caught up in our own little world we didn’t realize we had company. We were being circled by twelve rouges and they were not wasting time. They immediately started to attack, we were back to back fighting off the rouge when one of the with strange looking claws practically torn her apart. I couldn’t get to her as one of the rouges caught me off guard and slashed my back. Soon enough we heard howling coming from all directions and the rouges ran off. I fell to the ground crawling over to her noticing she was barley hanging on and there was nothing I could do. When the other wolves showed up I heard a powerful growl and a huge wolf on two legs running for me only to be cut short by my father. They faught each other no one getting the upper hand while the betas jumped in to pull them apart. They changed back and the two legged wolf whom I assumed was her dad ran to me asking what did I do while taking his daughter in his arms yell BB. He turned to my father and said this means war and ran off with her. I tried yelling to him that I didn’t do this but I was slowly healing and in so much pain. My father had his beta pick me pick and carry me back to the infirmary and that was the last time I saw her. When I was fully healed and able to move around my father asked me what happened. I explained the whole story and by the end he told me the girl lived but that I was never to see her again or there will be war. I didn’t listen to him after I turned eighteen and had been looking for her since. I almost gave up on her when I started receiving letters from her about her new life and mate. I guess I figured she was ok and living her happy life.”

“Damn bro, so wait what does this dream or memory have to do with earlier” He asked

“Well, you see when the girl and I first met either in the dream or memory I felt a warm tingle glide down my back and earlier when we passed that place I felt the same feeling.”

“Damn dude that is freaky weird. Do you think she could be there?”

“I don’t know but I would doubt it though like I said she has a mate who is an alpha and the alpha in that territory has no mate he is nothing but a merciless beast I hear.”

“Oh… damn bro, but wait why do you refer to her by her s*x but never her name, and why can’t you guys mindlink anymore I mean after all ya’ll did marked each other”

“The weirdest thing is I don’t recall her name. The next morning I woke up in the infirmary and she was gone. After going back to the lake to look for her not hearing from her for a while I found that our entire cave was abandoned and she was gone without a trace, except for a letter she sent to me. Strangely enough after I woke up following the attack I couldn’t remember her name or her just… images here and there. So I stopped looking like my dad advised until I had the crazy dreams after turning 18. Sadly I forgot about her for a long time, I couldn’t even remember that we marked each other or anything nor could I feel her. I am not even sure if we really did. The only thing I can recall was calling her Snow and thinking about us marking each other I have no marks on me other than some messed up tattoo I got as a teenager as my father and others keep telling me and I just added more to it. Beside I feel nothing other than my own feelings and Midknight constantly nagging to find our mate.”

“I don’t even know what to say to all that bro, I do have another question though. What are you going to do about that place than?”

“Nothing like I said it’s just a feeling and I could just very well be tired so lets forget about it for now and head to the orientation I still have to get back to that place to settle in.”

“Alright Bro you got it but if you need me I am here”

“Yeah I know man, now lets go”