PROTECT MATE!

Dimitri point of view

THE NIGHT AIR WAS soothing, as I laid my back on the window frame of my black Rolls Royce, underneath the moonlight. I let out a silencing hiss at the creatures that chirped all around the dark forest. Poor things fell silent, even they feared me. Chugging hard on my bottle, loving the burning feeling it left on my throat. I had already emptied an entire bottle of Bourbon and I was on my way to ending the second one. But sadly one of the perks of being an immortal lycan werewolf was that I couldn't get drunk no matter how hard I tried. Goddess only knew how bad I wanted to be drunk right now. I stared at the gigantic moon that hung above me, as it radiated with pure energy and power. The moon goddess must probably be having a good laugh right now at my pathetic situation, just today she had made sure I and my so-called human mate cross paths. Couldn't she for once stay out of this.

Why?! Why did she have to show up... now? Her appearance only spelt danger to the pack according to Celeste prophecies and that old witch was never wrong. Countless times I had hoped her premonitions were shamed but each time they were proved right, that's the reason why for centuries our pack leaders always thought it wise to listen to her warnings, but it was never a habit of mine to be told what to do. Although I couldn't have a mate who would be the undoing of my pack which my predecessors had tried to keep strong despite the curse that keeps dwindling our numbers every passing full moon. If there was any possibility that my mate could be of any danger to the pack I might as well have to reject her for the survival of the pack. Moreover, there are hundreds and thousands of wolves all over the globe dying just for the opportunity to be addressed as my mate and Luna of all wolves. I could feel Luca whimper sadly, I could feel his sadness from within. Whatever the scenario was he still wanted her, irrespective of who or whatever doom she represented. He needed her still.

I was about to gulp down the last doze of my Bourbon but I stopped. I had too. I caught a scent that put my entire senses in overdrive. I could feel Her around again.

'Mate!' Luca growled in excitement 'she's close'.

I could hear her little heart, beating faintly within her chest. I could smell the most alluring scent of lilacs and vanilla mixed together from near the outskirts of the forest, pulling me to her like a moth to a flame.

"What the hell is she doing here in this woods? She shouldn't be here" I jumped down smashing the almost dried bottle up Bourbon on the hard ground. This forest wasn't safe at day but even more at night, no one could tell what creature you would find but whatever creature you would meet won't come with a smile while baring gifts and presents that I could assure you for sure.

'Mate- she is hurting. We need to find her. We need to protect mate,' Luca told me and I couldn't agree less with that. No one dares to hurt what belongs to me. No one, not even the devil himself would dare to do that. She was mine and mine alone.

In a fluid and incredibly fast motion, I roamed through the forest like a bullet in the night, following the beat of her heart which seemed to dwindle with each passing second, urging me to move faster.

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When I arrived I could see her laying on the bare ground with what smelt like her blood covering her like a sticky bloody tattoo. And a man was looming over her laughing like a mad man. Rage tore through my body like a knife through butter. My blood boiled in anger. How dare he hurt my mate?!

He bent low over her body like a creep, as he reached to attempt to touch her face. In super speed I was beside him, gripping his hand so tight and crushing it not caring about the cracking sounds of his bones.

"If you touch even a single hair on her head one more time I'm going to cut your bloody head off and feed it to the wild animals of the forest" I threatened and I was never known to make an empty threat. I threw him away, with a thud his body slammed on to a tree then another tree and then to the ground.

"Who in the fucking hell are you?! And how dare you even touch me, werewolf. Do you know what I am?!" He snarled, wiping some blood off his lips as he tried rearranging his bones.

"What are you? A dead man that's for sure. And I would tell you my name but it's no use seeing as your about to lose your head any moment now if you don't watch your tongue." I chuckled. "But since you're about to die anyways my name is Dimitri Axel Castellan '' I smirked as I could see the shock and fear in his eyes, call me insane but I always enjoyed seeing the fear in my enemy's eyes. Actually I reveled in it. He knew who I was, what I had done. Whatever version of the story he must have heard about me wasn't a good one, that I was always sure about. There was never a good side to the story.

I was never one to chit chat so in a flash my hand was sawing his head off his body in a clean swipe. Fuck it! I got blood on my shirt, not that I cared having a bit of blood on me but his blood was strange. It was black as coal. It was like nothing I had seen before.

His body fell on its knees, limp to the ground while his head rolled to somewhere around the bushes and blood spilled across the floor. The bastard was as good as dead now. Immediately I turned back to see my mate laying on the floor as she trembled in pain. I couldn't control myself as I rushed to her side, cupping her little head in my hands.

"Save me!" She managed to beg through her pale white lips. At those words I felt something inside me snap, I don't know what it was but I couldn't help feeling the need to protect and shield her from the eyes of the entire cruel world. She wasn't waking up. I placed my palm on her forehead, she was burning up fast and it seemed like poisoning.

"Hang on, I'm here now. You're safe" I clenched on my jaws as I spoke. Why did I feel an unending urge to protect her so much?

"Mom, please save me!" She muttered as I could see a single tear roll off her eyes and onto her cheeks. She was in great agony, she needed to see a healer. I had to rush her to the pack's doctor. Quick.

I lifted her, racing back to the pack. It's really funny how destiny goes. The one I always wanted gone is the one I now wanted nothing other than to protect. I could hear my mother's words replay in my head as I muttered along.

"Those destined for each other are bound to cross paths one way or the other. It is bound by the moon and was fated by destiny herself" indeed my mother was right after all. She always was.

Unknown point of view

"When the skies cries blood the earth is fertilized with something- dark, something evil-, something wicked" a slow but wicked laugh crawled out my lips echoing all around my dark solitary chambers, as I hummed the lullaby Mockingbird. I haven't left the four corners of this room for the past eleven days. I was already running out of time, I needed to find her. It's been fifteen years now and I haven't felt our family ancestral magic. It was almost as though it was wiped off the face of the earth. Well almost. I gasped allowing an evil smirk to creep up my crimson red lips, while my eyes fluttered wide open welcoming the darkness around. I immediately stood up from my mid air meditation.

I can suddenly feel her now. It was like I could feel all the energy bottled up for fifteen years was finally tipped off over the edge, causing it to shatter and all that energy could be felt everywhere. And she is quite closer than I had thought.

Every step I took echoed around until I met my magic workshop.

"Illuminous" I mumbled, snapping my fingers, instantly my room was lit up by red burning candles and I flipped through the pages of my grimoire to find a location spell and there it was.

"Let's see now, my little niece. Where could you be?" I could hear Scylla hiss in excitement, as she slithered towards me. She knew how long I had to wait but no more waiting. She had been able to hide from me and evade the clutches of the red circle coven but not any more, not this time. Time was already wearing thin and I needed to have her at all cost.

I opened a cage, taking out a black raven. It cawed, fluttering his wings, making me squeeze on its neck even tighter.

"Insidous ankse revelus potem" I said the spell twisting the birds neck, putting an end to it's little protest. As soon as it's blood touched my hands, I inhaled deeply as series of visions flew by my mind trying to show me her exact location.

"Yes! Yes! I can see it all now. There you are." I giggled as I saw where she resided and it wasn't as far away as I thought.

"Bournville. She hides in Bournville" I turned around wasting no time. I needed to get her.

"Mistress!" Yennefer said, rushing to my side as soon as I stepped out of my chambers. Yennefer was my best witch and was a natural born killer, she showed no mercy or weakness, none at all. She was my prodigy. It was no wonder she was my second in command. Before I met her she was a petty thief whose parents abandoned when she was just eight because they feared she was the incarnation of the devil when she threw her mother off the roof. Her dumb parents called the priest to perform an exorcism but the poor child didn't just have any control of her unique abilities yet. Now that's what I call true power. Power isn't meant to be controlled and guided with restrictions and red tapes. True power is meant to be wielded and bent to your own will with no limitations whatsoever. After I took her under my wings she went back to show her family what a monster truly was. I guess you could say I saw myself in this little witch.

"Yennefer, tell your sisters, we leave tonight. I have found her '' her bright purple eyes widened and without any further question Yennefer nodded her head running off to spread the word. I haven't seen my little niece in fifteen years, I wonder if she missed me much, well I was about to find that out. I am literally dying for a family reunion.

***AUTHOR NOTE***

Hey besties!!! So how is this chapter. How do you see DAC (Dimitri Axel Castellan) I'm loving him so far tho...

And js y'all shouldn't forget the name Yennefer... Trust me she is going to be a very important character in the upcoming chapters... Also Incase you don't understand anything about aunt Delilah, it all will be explained the next chapter.

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