The Rise of Blue Moon

Surprise tracking

Adonis POV.

Me and James spent every morning in the gym, from 6:15 until 7:30. Then we took a shower and headed off to breakfast. Unfortunately, we had Frank as an escort. Mum wouldn’t let me not have an escort. It wasn’t that bad though. Frank seemed to actually like it, although he wouldn’t let on.

Me and James began pushing ourselves occasionally. Frank would only let us do it occasionally.

“Come on lads, time to finish now.” Frank told us.

“Five more minutes please Frank?” I moaned.

“No, your mother will castrate me!” He said dramatically.

“She won’t even notice. She’s too busy with max!” I said angrily. We were working on the bags; I was punching, and James was holding it. We always took it in turns. As I finished my sentence, I could feel myself getting angry. I swung at the bag with a kick. The impact on the bag caused James to fall backwards 4ft. I stood looking at him dumbfounded.

“James, are you ok?” Came franks worried voice.

James never answered him. He looked at me confused.

“Right, now we finish.” Frank said sternly. I realised what had happened at that moment.

“You ok James?” I asked him. James nodded his head. “That was a rate kick.” He exclaimed.

“Sorry!” I said sheepishly. I offered him my hand and helped him up.

“Come on lads.” Frank said bringing us back to the room.

“Coming now.” I spoke. Me and James both headed for the showers. Once we had showered, we headed for breakfast. James walked to his parents table and took a seat, while I walked towards my parents. Frank was talking to my dad, no doubt telling on me, so I decided to get my breakfast.

I walked to the breakfast carts and grabbed a couple of pancakes and syrup, then I walked to our table. Mum was sat with max in her arms and dad was beside her. I sat in my chair and began to pick at my food. I felt out of sorts for some reason.

“How was training today?” Jason asked me.

“It was fine, thanks,” I replied not even looking at him.

“Good. Do you think you are up too some tracking later?” He asked me.

“Yes please.” I replied, hurriedly. It would be good to do something different.

“Good, just you and me!” Jason said. “Let’s see if you have remembered everything, I taught you shall we.” He added. I got excited at this. It had been weeks since me and Jason had done any tracking together.

“You need to do your schoolwork first mister!” My dad said looking at me.

“Yes sir.” I replied. I carried on picking at my food. I really wasn’t hungry this morning.

“May I be excused?” I asked my parents. Mum looked at me worriedly.

“Yes Adonis.” Came my father's answer. I got to my feet and took my still full plate to the trolly. I scraped it away and put the pots on the trolly, then I headed out the dining room towards the stairs. I stopped briefly at the foot of the stairs and listened for some reason. I couldn’t hear anything, so I continued my way up the stairs, as I reached the second floor and turned to walk the rest of the way up, I smelled vanilla frosting again. It gave me butterflies in my stomach for some reason.

I continued my way up to my room. I changed out of my extra gym clothes into something more appropriate for the day, jeans and a T-shirt. I checked the time, 8:07, school started at 8:30. I walked out my room and down the stairs, the school was in a separate building from the pack house. It was only a 5-minute walk down the main road in. I was just about to head out the door when James shouted me.

“Hay. Hang on.” He shouted as he began running towards me, I stopped and waited for him to catch up. “Are you ok man, you're not your normal self.” He informed me.

“Yeah, I am fine. I think I’m just tired.” I lied. I had no idea why I was feeling off it.

“That was an awesome kick by the way.” He complimented me.

“I’m sorry if I hurt you.” I told him truthfully.

“Na, I’m tougher than that. You want to hang out later, after school?” He asked me.

“I can’t. I have tracking with Jason. Maybe after.” I told him.

“Yeah, no worries, mate.” He replied. We talked about what lessons we had and general school stuff. Once we were in school, we parted ways, and I headed off to my lessons. I spent all day thinking about tracking training with Jason. It had been a few weeks since we had done it. I couldn’t wait.

Once school had finished I rushed back to the house and straight up to my room. I needed to put some joggers and a T-shirt on. That’s what I wore when I went tracking. As soon as I was changed, I ran to my fathers office. I knocked on the door and awaited a response. After a few moments of silence, I pushed open the door. The office was empty. I decided to check mums' office. I knocked and waited but there was no response. I looked inside but it was just like my father’s office. I headed for the rec room; I ran down the stairs two at a time, upon reaching the rec room, I saw everyone except mum, dad, Jason or Arron.

“They ain’t here young man.” I heard someone say. I looked to where the voice was coming from. Damon was sat in one of the chairs looking directly at me.

“Do you know where they are sir?” I asked him politely.

“Jason said to tell you he’s in the gym.” He said sharply.

“Ok thanks.” I replied. I wondered where my parents were, but I didn’t intend to ask Damon. He was never very talkative. I headed for the gym, that’s where Damon had said Jason would be.

I ran down the corridor towards the kitchen and turned towards the gym. It only took a few moments to get there. I slammed into the door and pushed it open, I slowed down as I walked past the changing rooms and into the main gym.

“Jason, are you here?” I linked him.

“Yes, young master. Near the boxing ring.” Came his response.

I speed walked towards the ring and saw him watching two warriors sparring.

“Ahh, young master. I will be with you in 2 moments.” He told me, not taking his eyes of the warriors.

I walked beside him and lifted myself up on the side of the ring. I watched the warriors spar too.

“Right lads. That’s enough. I have other arrangements now.” Jason suddenly said. I began to get excited and jumped down from the platform.

“So, am I tracking you then Jason?” I asked.

“No young master. I am going to help you. I have no idea what we are tracking. I was instructed by your father to help you. If you need it.” He told me.

“Really. How are we going to track if we don’t know who we are tracking?” I asked extremely confused.

“No idea. Come on. I was told where to start, then we should know.” He said cheerfully.

We both walked out the back door of the gym and out to the training field. As we neared the edge of the woods Jason stopped and scented the air.

“It’s on.” He said with a grin.

“What?” I asked before lifting my head and sniffing the air. I couldn’t smell anything for a few moments, then it hit me. My mothers scent. I grinned from ear to ear. Me and Jason began working together to follow the scent, it was really difficult but then I had a thought.

“Why not shift Jason?” I suggested.

“I have been instructed not to. I need to remain human like you.” He said sadly.

“Well, that sucks.” I complained.

“We can still do it. Come on young master. Have some faith in your skills.” He spoke. I smiled again.

We continued to track my mother and follow her scent for another 15 minutes. I had an uneasy feeling though. I stopped and looked around. I couldn’t see anything.

“Come on young master. We can’t give up now.” Jason egged me on.

I carried on but I started to listen more. After about 5 minutes I heard a twig snap behind me.

“Jason something is behind us.” I said via mind link. I didn’t want whoever it was to know I had heard them.

“Really? Are you sure?” Jason asked.

“Positive sir.” I told him. We swooped places an I went up front. Jason began listening harder. We came up on a clearing in the forest, there was a lake in front of us. I was gobsmacked at its beauty to start with. It looked so surreal with the sunlight reflecting of the surface. That’s when I got tackled by something big and white. At the same moment Jason shifted midair to his Wolf, shredding his clothes as he did. As the wold landed on all fours another Wolf tackled him to the ground. That wolf was black and came from behind us.

There was a quick growl from Jason’s wolf, but it soon changed when Jason realised who they were. It was Star and Lynx. It was mum and dad. Star began licking me rapidly and Lynx let Jason’s wolf up. They began to run around to perimeter of the lake and star laid beside me.

“Good work my pup.” Star linked me. I smiled and hugged her.

“Thanks star.” I responded.

“Nice job Adonis. I am impressed. You almost caught your father. He’s never been one for stealth.” Mum linked me. It was strange looking at the large wolf and talking but it was cool. Jason and my father came trotting up to me and mum. Lynx nudged me causing me to fall backwards. I laughed and hugged his huge head. We spent a bit of time talking about my tracking, well I talked they linked me, then we began walking back. It would take us a while as I was walking.

Just then Lynx came beside me and motioned for me to get on his back. I looked at him perplexed for a moment.

“Come on. We can go much faster.” My dad linked me. I climbed on Lynx’s back and that’s when we began to run. I held onto his fur firmly but not enough to hurt lynx. Lynx was a rather large wolf, and I was only 7 years old, so I wasn’t massive, Lynx had no problems carrying me.