The Unforgivable Mate Curse (long story ongoing)

Temple Training

P.O.V Brielle

After Dinner, Elder Natasha, Chadrick and I, went up to my room. If I recall there was a door there to the temple, but I never saw it, how can that be possible? As I slide my door open I look around and in the wall at the bottom of my bed, there was a door I never saw before.

It was a wooden dark door, with iron engravings, the two hinges where a massive iron, that came from the side until the middle of the door, the drawing was like a half-moon, a crescent moon, the door handle as an M and G on the sides of it, I don’t see a place to put the key. “How do we open the door?” I look at Elder Natasha. “Just use the handle to knock, they will know who it is.” I look at the door and grabbed the handler knocking it 3 times. After a few seconds, the door opened and I had to close my eyes for seconds to adjust the light that came from inside.  I was trembling, my body would not move like it was frozen. “Brielle something wrong?” I feel Chadrick coming behind me putting his hands on my shoulder. And when I did not respond he wrapped his arms around me. “Brielle??”

Images... I could only see images of doors, brown, black, and sounds, screams, whispers. It was like I was seeing photos passing in front of me, of doors. And my body would not move.  ‘Its safe Brielle, you can come in, no one will harm you here.’ A melodic voice in my head. ‘I know this voice.’ My body began to calm down everything coming back to normal. I looked up to Chadrick, and nod, he then let me go. And we all walked inside the door.

The inside, I think that it could feel, it would be amazing probably, like those people I see in movies going inside big mansions for the first time and gasping.  Never entered a Goddess temple, so I think that may be the proper expression, besides I looked at Chadrick beside me and his mouth was hanging open, on the other side Elder Natasha was normal like this was an everyday event. “Does the Moon Goddess live here?” She looked over at me.  “Elaine? She has her house, this temple is more of a sanctuary for those in need, sometimes she also comes here, to her garden, and the lake.” Chadrick almost screaming, “This place has a garden too?” Seems his mind is still blocked. “Yes, several, I will show you two around.” We are walking on a big hall, with high ceilings, each side we can see columns with bindweed crafted to the top, everything rose gold marble, the craft pure white, we look up, and as we pass from ceiling to ceiling, there were images of beautiful women, with wolfs by they feet, and a big moon behind them, I stop at one and focus on the wolf that is right beside the woman, its silver and has some marking on the left shoulder, it was too high I could not tell, but it reminded me of my wolf, and the marking reminded me of…. Then I look to the other side, and there was a black wolf with the same image on his left shoulder.

I had stopped to check the drawing better. “Brielle, anything wrong? Why did you stop?” Chadrick coming behind me.  “I was looking at that drawing.” Natasha turned back and now in front of me looking up. “That is my mother, Moon Goddess Stella.” I was still looking. The black wolf seems so familiar. “Why is my wolf with your mother in this painting?” She looked back at me. “Your wolf?” “Yes.” I point at the silver wolf. “That painting is exactly like the wolf the Moon Goddess showed me in my dreams.” She smiled. “I understand that is the Queen Omega Wolf.” I took my eyes off the ceiling and look at her. “The Queen Omega from the curse?” She seems satisfied with something. “Elder Silvanie already told you the story!” I just nod. “The Black Wolf next to it.” She looked again at the painting.  “Ohhh that is….”

The door behind us opened and a Moon Goddess Warrior Guard came out, the same guard that came to give the scroll to Elder Natasha. “Good evening Elder Natasha, Warrior Chadrick, and Brielle.” She looked behind her. “Good evening Warrior Thonn.” He gave a little bow.  “The guards are waiting to start training.” She just turned to him, “Is that late already. Lest go then, we can pick up the tour on another day.” We all followed inside the big doors, to a circular area of the temple, that was surrounded by others, we got to the middle of the circle, Elder Natasha did one step forward. “Warriors of the Moon Goddess, we are now to start a special training with Brielle,” she looked at me and I gave a step forward, “and Warrior Chadrick that is also a Guard for the Night Spark Pack, Purell Pack, and his one Sunshine Pack. Some of you already know him from your training in those packs, he will now be training the light weapons, and shadow combat. I hope you will help him also.” Everyone cheered for a few seconds, especially the packs that already knew Chadrick.

“Let’s start training. Chadrick you will go with Warrior Thonn and the warriors to train, Brielle will train with me.” Chadrick looked at me and I nod, he then went to the side of Warrior Thonn. Elder Natasha went to a corner of the room, that had an obstacle course, we stop in front of it.” Elder Natasha??” I look at her. “In the temple, you will start calling me coach. This will be what you will be doing, but not now, first, you must train your body for endurance, resistance, for the 1st to 4th weeks.”

She passes me a paper with my training ad points at:

Week 1

1st session will be 5min fast walk, 1 min run, 1 min walk (repeat 6X) Then 5 min walk “That is what you are going to do now, around the obstacle course, you can see there is a small track around it. “

I look again at the paper to see the other sessions:

2nd Session will be 5min fast walk, 1min run, 1 min walk (Repeat 10x) Then 5 min walk

3rd Session will be 5min fast walk, 2 x 8 lunges, 2 x 10 squats, 3x 15-sec plank

4th Session was: Start New habits??? I look at her.  “I will give you a healthy eating plan tomorrow, for that one, and the training will be yoga in the garden with me.”

Week 2 

1st session will be 5min fast walk, 90sec run, 1 min walk (Repeat 10x) Then 5 min walk

2nd Session will be 5min fast walk, Circuit x2, 8 lunges, 10 squats, 15sec plank, 5 press-ups (on knees)

3rd Session will be 5min fast walk, 90-sec run, 45-sec walks (Repeat 10x), then 5 min walk

4th Session will be: Focus on your new habits

The other weeks were still blank. “The two last weeks, depends on this second one, if you still are not ready, we will repeat week 2, before continuing.” I simply nod putting the paper in a small tablet that separates both training places, that was water and crackers.

 “Brielle, time to start.” I start running. “I will be counting.” She shouts.

---After a while---

“5-minute walk Brielle.” I think I don’t have feet anymore, I can’t feel them, and my breath is erratic. I look to where the coach is and see Chadrick coming behind her, making her jump. She showed him her plan, and he nodded in approval, ‘great’ was my thought, although I am not sure if it is so great.

“1-minute left Brielle.” ‘Still?’ I am not looking down, I probably am walking on my knees, because my feet are long gone. “You can slow down coming to me and stop.” I walk near her and collapse in her arms. “Tired?” She chuckles a little bit. “Do I still have my feet?” She laughs. “Yes, they are still there.” “Great, I cannot feel them.” I was taken to a chair near the table and passed on a bottle of water. “Drink, and wen better you can eat something off the table.” I look around, the thought of chewing was not easy in the state I was in, but I found some liquid yogurts, and that was it. Elder Natasha was looking to the other side of the room and I looked also to a Chadrick that was sweating a lot, holding a big light hammer, bigger than him, that was flashing.

“Your brother is a fool.” I looked up at her. She never stops looking at him. I looked again seeing Chadrick get a blow from the other side and went back on a wall, the Hammer was gone. He then got back up and I could see he was trying to concentrate again, and a Hammer appears again, not that bright as the one before, and he strikes again. After a few minutes of seeing my brother against the wall so many times, I stopped counting. I know how werewolf heals, that is why I think I am not affected by it, I have already seen too many training of him, broken arms, broken ribs, broken legs, this is more of the same.

“That is enough.” Warrior Thonn Shouts, “Everyone does 5 laps and 5 walks and that’s it for the day.” We wait for Chadrick to finish, then he comes up to us, Elder Natasha gives him a towel since he was dripping the floor. “Thanks, Kitten.” She looks affected by something. “Why do you keep on evoking that enormous thing?” He looks at her. “The Hammer?” She does a frowning face like my mom does when she does not like something we are doing. “Yes, that thing.” He just smiles. “Because I like it.” That tickles her off. “Why not something like a sword to start.” He looks at her with a look like I don’t believe you. “The hammer is the weapon of a warrior leader.” She scowls, “That is your ego talking.” She was now very much looking like my mother when I do something wrong.  “Not all is ego, that hammer can give a much larger blow a kill a lot not only at the end of the strike but by the maneuver also. I don’t need to be near the enemy, I can also use it on the ground, creating an earthquake.” Elder Natasha's eyes widen. “Thonn told you that?” She was not pleased because her tone got for a higher pitch like a surprise. “The moment he told me to show my weapon of choice, his eyes widen, and he told me everything we can do with it.”  I can see in the back Warrior Thonn flinch, then looking over here, and giving a small smile. I could bet there is some mind link going on.

“Then I hope the big Hammer of yours won’t cost your life dealing with it.” She was now close to his face with burning eyes and poking his chest. “Worried about me?” He picked her by the waist, making them closer.  “More worried with the temple.” Her fury was gone with that, and she was blushing. I looked to the other warriors that were now looking at the scene and started scattering, grabbing their things, going away.

“Any other day, and I will show you another big thing I can handle,” Chadrick whispered in Natasha's ear.

I think I was not supposed to hear that, so I started going to the big door, maybe it was better to leave those two alone for a while. I got out the door and stop at the spot of the painting, and I keep staring at it again. Black Wolf, Silver Wolf, Moon Goddess Stella, if the Silver Wolf is the Queen then the Black Wolf is… “There you are.” Elder Natasha running out the training door. “I got worried when I could not see you in the room.” I looked at her with a smiling Chadrick behind. “Is getting late, tomorrow we will try to come sooner so I can show you guys around. Now let’s go.”

We got back to my room. “Bath and sleep Brielle.” Coming up to me and giving me a small kiss on my forehead. And almost run to the door.  “Nighty Night and sleep well.” Chadrick hugged me kissing me also on the same spot. I looked at a very blushing Natasha and a smiling Chadrick, they last looked at me and closed the door.

I got to my bathtub, which was already filled with a bubble bath, clothes off, and I immerse myself in the bath, feeling my body rest. After a few minutes, I wash, feeling my feet and legs a little numb, going to be hard walking tomorrow, got out, pick up a towel and a bathrobe, and got inside, on my bed was a paper and a jar with a cream on it, I picked the note.

“Your feet will be hurting from the training, put this on your feet is Lavender cream, it will help them recover overnight. Elder Silvanie”

I got in my pajamas, put the cream on my feet, and socks on. I then looked at my bed table where the Diary was still wrapped, got in bed, and pick it up, going to try to read it. Soon as I open the Diary a light came from it, and I fell asleep with it on my lap.