The Wolf Keeper

Chapter 10 Pain

              Each day we had lessons over our history, adding to our growing board about our history. We became to have a gym class twice a week, and battle training for the older children during one of those days.

The day that Miss Lin showed up didn’t seem to come soon enough for me. Being a teacher wasn’t in me for a long-term career. After a week of having her follow me around as I begun to show her what we had been doing, and she was ready to let me leave the teaching behind. Though we both agreed I would remain the PE teacher, as she was still trying to find her own routine as well as needed more training to keep the kids safe.

I’m not sure when it happened, but time seemed to slow down, but speed up all at the same time. On the days I wasn’t being a coach, I was hunting for the vampire that had been entering our land for the last few months. I would remain out late on the night I could, trying to find this person. I couldn’t tell if they were just lost or scouting.

We had begun to change our patrol ever other day, never using the same path more than twice a month. I wouldn’t let this being find any hole to let in its friends. Though we have been at peace with all the supernatural world for hundreds of years, the vampires had a deep seeded hatred of lycans. After all we can kill them with ease.

There was one night, I was walking around, about to head off to bed as I had gym in the morning, when I smelt them. The stench of death was more filling. I let a low growl, not because I was warning, but rather Avye knew part of this smell. Whoever it was, had a blend of Sir Adam’s smell. A low chuckle filled the trees around me. “Do not fear me. I am not my father.” What would seem a man to be about my age stepped from behind a tree.

“Why are you here?” The growl wouldn’t stop.

He had glowing white skin, not like little spots of ice that glowed in the sun, but that kind that told the world it couldn’t stand in the sun. He had standard red eyes of a vampire, but you could tell they were really hazel eyes with a bright green in them. His face was elegant, but handsome, the kind that pulled you. This man was a classic vampire, a monster that could call his prey to him.

“Me? I happen to be Sir Adam’s son, Robert.” His smiled an innocent smile, a lying smile. “You must be the queen lycan. You have that grow to you.” When he walked around, it was like he was floating, but his feet never left the ground other than to take a step. “My how I wish the Goddess mated our kind together. You would be prefect for me.”

Avye growled at him, not low, but challenging him. She hated him, “The Goddess would never bless living to the dead.” It was his turn to growl at me. But his wasn’t like a wolf, more like cat getting ready to hiss. The growl that was only in the chest. “Why are you here?”

He looked at the sky, to the moon, “To make my own mate.” Before I could ask anything more, I felt his teeth. Which you might question how because I am stronger and faster than him. But his father and Avye’s mother have a history, one where she was always weak against him.

I cried out in pain, a pain I should have never known. His bite wouldn’t killing me, but he would have a level of control that only a certain king would be able to end. Once his pulled away, the grin on his face told me nothing. “You were meant to be mine. Only the strongest should have the strongest.” He turned to walk away, when you realize this, your blood will know where to find me.

I held my neck, feeling Avye disappear. My connection to her fading, as I fell to my knees, trying not to black out. I wouldn’t die from his bite, but without Avye, I wouldn’t be able to heal fast. The last thing I remember hearing was a warm voice, something that made me feel like home, “Avye is fighting.”

LeRoy POV

Over the years I came to know rejecting her was a mistake, but I needed something simple in my life. A lycan as my mate would only bring more questions, and most likely a war within the werewolf world.

I choose Leila after discovering her mate rejected her. Though given my title, I had to get his blessing. It wasn’t hard to do, he had already more on taking on a new mate. He respected me enough to explain that he gave her up because he had nothing at the time and didn’t want her to suffer for him. I had been trying to get Mina to let me take on a queen, but she refused. Though I don’t understand. Lycans are known to be different from werewolves.

She has been back in her pack for months now, and I haven’t been able to speak with her though I have requested many times for her to speak with me. Most have been over politics of the wolf to lycan worlds, she will only send her eldest brother, Alpha Paul. We have gotten the finer detail figured out; however, I need a queen. This is a meeting only she can have with me.

After court one day, I stopped in the garden, to look at the moon. Call it a wolf thing, but the truth is any supernatural will look to the moon. She is our Goddess, the witches use the moon to mark time, and have learned when to use certain spells, the fairies charge their dust under a full moon, vampires use the moon to tell them when its they can mate and make children. There are many others that know who she is. But tonight, the moon only looked sad, as though something horrible was going to happen.

As I turned to head into my palace, a pain began to shoot through my body, starting at my neck. Soon it was on fire, I couldn’t move, my breath was escaping me. I fell to my knees, but somehow, I knew this wasn’t my pain. Though little was channeled between Mina and I, pain that she couldn’t bare was something that was always sent through.

My doctor informed me of this when she had somehow damaged her left arm, to the point I think she may have broken it. As long as she could control her pain, I would never know, and same for her. But we would always know when the other was mating with someone else unless we were given a blessing for a chosen mate.

The pain was causing black spots to appear before me, I couldn’t see what was around me, but I heard a voice, it was warm, almost like home, “Avye is fighting.” The world was then lost to me.

As I have said, I have never understood the lycan world. Part of me is glad that I don’t, I never want to be part of it again.