[Divination by Moonlight 1] Shadows of Destiny

[Divination by Moonlight 1] Shadows of Destiny

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The Darkness is being manifested by an unknown enemy, and prophecies of a war start coming true. The Protectors of the throne have been preparing for war for over 1300 years, but everyone is still wondering if the prophesized royal will emerge in time to protect the Osvald Kingdom. Rolf, a Regent Prince, has been hiding the fact he is a member of the Protector Family so he can earn his rank in the Lycan Army without the privilege he was born into. His world is turned upside down when he meets his mate and must decide if she is worth the exposure. Thyra has one mission in life, to avenge the slaying of her pack that happened five years ago. She doesn't have time for the pull she feels toward another soldier in the Officer Leadership Academy. Will he understand that her oath has to come before the distraction he brings? Or will she have to submit to him just so she can keep looking into his amber eyes...

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Chapter 1

1. Family First, and Always...

***Rolf's POV***

"No, Uncle, the deal was I would have 10 years," I was exasperated with my uncle and trying to remain calm as I paced and talked to him on my cell phone. I was too far away for a mind link, completing training at a specialty hand-to-hand combat course for the Lycanthrope Army. He had called earlier and left a voice mail telling me it was time to come home and announce myself to the kingdom's court.

"That deal was made before the prophecies started coming true, and you have duties here that need to be handled," my uncle said. He is the patriarch of the Protector Family, and the King Regent of the Osvald Kingdom. I can hear the stress in his voice, and I realize I need to tread carefully. He could order the soldiers attending the course with me to hog tie me and carry me home if I gave him reason to get angry enough.

"I am not taking over for you. Can you please have Zev handle this as we planned? I still have 4 years left, and I want to use them as fully as I can before I am announced. Please Uncle, this means the world to me," I pled my case to him one more time. I know he and my Auntie have done everything they can to shield me from the notoriety of being a part of the Protector Family since I was a small child, and I am not ready to give that up.

"Your brother already has work he is doing, and preparing to take over the Regency from me on top of his training. I need to give him some time to find a wife, he will need a Queen Regent by his side." My uncle is starting to lose his patience. I need to end this call before it is too late.

"I have a leadership course that will bring me back to Capitol City in a week. Can we discuss this in person with Auntie Lyall and Zev then?" Maybe I can come up with a compromise or anything to keep me from the court. As soon as I am announced, my face will be associated with the Protector Family as a Regent Prince, and currently third in line to the throne. It was a miracle I was able to keep my anonymity until I was 16 let alone the additional 5 years. My 22nd birthday, and 6th year, is coming up in a few weeks. I went by my mother's family name of Stigarra, instead of the Protector Family name of Varg.

"I thought you might ask to do that. I have already coordinated for you to spend a week here in the palace and then go to the leadership course. I think you will benefit from it more than ever now," he sounded almost triumphant, this is not a good sign.

"Uncle, if I stay in the palace a week I will be a week late to the leadership course! The whole point of me staying out of the spotlight was so I could earn my rank on my own merit and give no one a reason to doubt that I am a great leader when I take over the Army." This is bad, this was the last course I needed before I could get my commission on my own. If I have to face this war on The Darkness, I want my Army to respect and follow me, not wonder if my Uncle paid for my training scores.

"Do not worry about that, General Onyx is the only one I dealt with, and he will ensure your alias holds... well, at least until we put out a press release." Now he is just teasing me, at least his mood has shifted for the better. "I will see you in a week, bring a suit," the King Regent got a final parting shot in before hanging up the phone. He knows I would rather just show up in uniform and stay as inconspicuous as possible.

I walk back toward the training facility, at least I have a way to calm my nerves and relive stress until then. When I get back to Capitol City, I will have to find time to spar with my best friend, Axel. He is stuck at the garrison there after he and the garrison commander found out he was dating the commander's daughter at the same time. After that, his request for specialized training courses kept getting lost or denied somehow.

***Thyra's POV***

"Goddess dammit!" I yelled as I landed on the side and heard the pop of my shoulder dislocating, "Kenyon, I told you not to go easy, I didn't say to try to maim me!" Kenny walked over to help me up, his long blonde hair was tied back at the nape of his neck and his golden brown eyes held some concern when he was looking me over. He and his twin sister are some of my best friends and two of the six of us that survived. He was also always just one step ahead of me when we sparred. I was getting better and have been training for 5 years. I got close to pinning him, but it seems that now he is fighting for real and not pulling the punches he would have just months ago.

"You're over training Thyra, you need to give yourself a break and a chance to recover from this non-stop training," he replied with that same concern in his voice. He also knew if he let me win just to let me win, I would count that as a betrayal. So he still mopped the floor with me. I am not mad about it, he is the only person I have trained with in the last year that is better at fighting than I am. Even the cadre for our morning training sessions could no longer win against me. I have gotten used to using their size against them, but Kenyon is built similar to me, thin with long lean muscles, almost a dancer's build. He is still a bit faster than me, though I am catching up.

"Come on guys! Stop fighting for a moment and I will look at that shoulder," Kenny's sister, Otsana, yelled from the bleachers surrounding the training grounds. She was the opposite of Kenny in almost every way. Except for our coloring, Kenny and I looked more alike than he did with Otsana. Her hair was as dark as mine, and cropped even shorter in a pixie cut full of wild curls. She was short and full of curves that made men stop in their tracks to watch. Which is exactly what happened as she bounced down the bleachers and walked toward us. There were not as many soldiers on the training ground this late in the evening on a Friday night, but Kenny and I had a bet going, and he just won again.

"Ana, it's ok. I just need to pop it back in." I hollered over to her as she walked up. This is going to hurt but at least it will heal quickly. At 16 our senses started getting stronger, but at 18 when we met our wolves, our healing was faster and better. Physically, we were faster and stronger as well. Ana manipulated my arm until we heard the shoulder pop back into place.

"Ana, ever notice how she calls out our full names when she is mad," laughed Kenny. "It is almost like hearing mom yell across the fields for us to come in at dark. Maybe we should start calling her mom instead." Kenny and Ana talk about home more and more, they seem to have been better able to move on than me. When he mentioned his mom, it felt like he punched me in the stomach all over again. I have gotten really good at keeping my mask up when our pack gets brought up. It took me years to stop flinching and having my eyes fill up with tears. I even have the twins fooled.

"I have to go, gonna hop into a shower and then finish up on my reading for the battle strategy class I have that leadership course starting in a week. After that I am heading to bed, y'all have a good night." I got the words out coolly enough to hide any emotion. But as I walked to the showers my rage was building so fast that I knew a cold shower was in my near future. In my head visions of battling the rogues that torched my pack is what I am running strategy scenarios against.

"We have to get her out of the Garrison and doing something fun in town soon, she is getting way to detached." I hear Ana whisper to Kenny.

"She is ok, did you hear her slip and say y'all? It has been a while since I heard that accent. And she almost had me in a lock before I threw her off me. I was too close to needing to tap out." Kenny replied as the visions in my head took over my full attention. Except for the small part of my mind that always heard the last words my father said to me, 'family first, and always.'

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26 Chapters
1. Family First, and Always...
***Rolf's POV*** "No, Uncle, the deal was I would have 10 years," I was exasperated with my uncle and trying to remain calm as I paced and talked to him on my cell phone. I was too far away for a mind link, completing training at a specialty hand-to-hand combat course for the Lycanthrope Army. He had called earlier and left a voice mail telling me it was time to come home and announce myself to the kingdom's court. "That deal was made before the prophecies started coming true, and you have duties here that need to be handled," my uncle said. He is the patriarch of the Protector Family, and the King Regent of the Osvald Kingdom. I can hear the stress in his voice, and I realize I need to tread carefully. He could order the soldiers attending the course with me to hog tie me and carry me home if I gave him reason to get angry enough. "I am not taking over for you. Can you please have Zev handle this as we planned? I still have 4 years left, and I want to use them as fully as I can be
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2. Lean into the Future
***Unknown POV*** The only light in the office is coming from the computer screen, and all of my senses are alert and waiting for danger. If I get caught doing this it could ruin me, but she deserves this and more for being from such a weak pack. How dare she keep stealing what is mine, over and over again. Everyone loves her and thinks she is such a good little soldier. Screw this, I worked for it and she swooped in at the last minute to take it from me. Well, now neither of us will be able to attend. Let's see how she likes rejection for the first time in her life. I navigate to her personnel record, maybe I should look around to see what skeletons she has in her closet of pity parties for the lost pack. That pack was weak, and it got what it deserved. If they were stronger, they would have been able to protect themselves from the rogues that killed them all and burnt down their homes. Too bad she wasn't there when the rogues came. Maybe then I would have gotten the posting I deser
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3.Seriously, Screaming Birds?
***Thyra's POV*** My weekend was the same as always, sleep, train, study, eat, sleep, rinse, repeat. Friday evening, I calmed down from that rage monster that was building. So, I did do something a little different to distract me this morning. I am starting at the results in the mirror of my barracks room now. Since I was 16, I have kept my hair cut to my shoulders tucked back in braids. I needed to focus on something other than my anger, and I took some clippers to my hair and buzzed off most of the right side of my hair. My scalp is only a little paler than my complexation, but I have always been pale. My black hair is combed over to the left side of my head, showing off the new style I gave myself. I look into my murky green eyes, and thank the Goddess that I got bored with cutting my hair before shaving all of it off in frustration. Ana has clinic hours and isn't in our barracks suite right now. She has always been the one that cares for anyone else, the pack mom of our little g
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4.Elite or Bust
***Thyra's POV*** After lunch, I was on my tablet trying to finish the prerequisite reading list for the Officer's Leadership Academy. I will have to report to the academy a week from Monday, and plan to be in Capitol City in a week to get my living quarters established and scope out the new area. I've never been to Capitol City, the largest city I have been to isn't even a quarter the size of Capitol City. And I will be leaving Mak, Ana, and Kenny behind here at Lyngvi Training Garrison. The academy is usually for year six cadets, but they accept one year four or year five cadet each year. It is an application process I completed after losing a bet with Kenny. I didn't expect to be chosen, but he claims he knew it would happen the entire time. Usually, year six is the year we focus our training on our specific fields. Ana will apprentice in a clinic at a garrison, and Mak will be out with a scouting unit at a field unit near the border of The Darkness. Or if she is lucky, she will
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5.Barbeque, Doughnuts, and Visons- Oh My!
***Rolf's POV*** The small city outside Lyngvi has all the amenities you would expect, but with a focus on getting soldiers to part with their monthly paychecks from the Regency. Everything, restaurants, clubs, tattoo parlors, car dealerships, and even some of the seedy strip joints that started popping up more and more since the mate bonds of the past started to fail to happen. From what I read, it started before The Darkness emerged from the warlock tribes of Somsak. It feels like a myth at this point that mating bonds ever existed. The best investigators still only assume what actually happened, but as the story goes, The Darkness was in response to a warlock that fell in love with a prophetess. She was lycan, and his fear was she would find her true mate. So, he kept her locked away in Somsak, and tried to convince her to stay with him and return his love. Then one day, the royalty from Osvald arrived in Somsak to hold diplomatic trade discussions. As King Oran was touring Somsa
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6.Is it Love or a Headache?
***Rolf's POV***Grandma Petiet is in her element. She flits around table to table in the small diner, like a humming bird floats from flower to flower. The place is casual, and she seems to treat us all like we were invited to her own dining room for a meal. As she walks over to us her smile brightens, instead of standing at the booth she scoots in next to Axel."Dear, I have fresh doughnuts frying for you right now to take home with you." Grandma Petiet turns from Axel to look at me. "And you don't get any of them after teasing this sweetheart about being obsessed with little more than dough, oil, and sugar. I heard you being a snot to this growing male right here," she leans over and attempts to nudge Axel's shoulder with hers, but really only comes up to a few inches past his elbow. Axel wrapped his arm around her shoulders for quick hug."Thank you Nana! I keep telling him that the main ingredient isn't dough but love from your hands that roll it out." Axel gives Grandma a peck o
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7.Murphy's Law
***Thyra's POV***Today feels like Muphy's Law decided to set up camp and follow me around. In the Army, we all like to joke about it. The thing you need, broken or disappeared, the weather is going to be crap for training. Or in my case, the travel approval orders you were supposed to get to go to a leadership academy aren't there when you need to start turning in equipment to get ready for that move. Murphy's Law is basically, anything that can go wrong will go wrong, usually, at the worst possible time. Of course, while I was standing around the supply office trying to turn in gear, I don't need to take with me the hard ass behind the desk said she couldn't accept anything because her system didn't show my orders.As I walk to the Admin Shop for the garrison, I get a chance to look around at all the activity on post. Creatures that are just getting ready to start year one in gaggles while waiting to get their own supplies issued, or heading toward the barracks that year one's share
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8. Say My Name
***Rolf's POV***Looking down at Axel on the ground wasn't something I could brag about last year. We came to the training fields to spar before lunch. I had just gotten done with another one of the hand-to-hand combat sessions with one of the Finrir Elite trainers. And right now I was gloating just a little, and I hold my hand out to help Axel get up."OK, you need to explain that move to me, that was pretty good," Axel said as he got up, but bent over with his hands on his hips. "Just give me a moment, that knocked the wind out of me.""Hollis showed me that one. His training the only reason I was OK with Onyx changing the normal training schedule for me a little this year," I reply while trying to keep the gloating to a minimum."You think that the general would be willing to smooth things over with the garrison commander, so I can get in on that course?" Axel grins a little as he doesn't quite mention the blow up with the commander last year."If he could have done that he would h
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9. The Red Wolf
***Thyra's POV***We don't have anything personal decorating the barracks room. However, this has been home since year 2, and I am going to miss being here. The layout is like any other suite in the buildings that house year 2 through 6 cadets. There is a common area that is a sitting room and kitchenette combined. The sitting area has a couch, facing an entertainment center with a small television and bookshelves. The kitchenette has a small refrigerator and microwave along the wall with some cabinets. And a small countertop island that is between the kitchenette and sitting area. There is a hallway off the kitchenette that leads to the suites entrance. On the other side of the hallway are three small bedrooms and a bathroom to share. When you enter the door, the rooms are to the left, and directly on the right before getting to the kitchenette there is a storage closet for all of our military gear.This is where we really grew as a small family. I was lucky to be assigned a room wit
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10. Chow Time
***Thyra’s POV*** Getting to the D-FAC is only a 7-minute walk from the barracks. Mak and I are seated in our normal area when Kenny walks up with his tray of food. He smiles when he sees us at the table and sets his tray down. Before sitting down, he ruffles Mak’s hair. “Why does it always take like 3 days before you don’t smell like The Darkness after your scouting missions?” He teases in a good naturedly. Then bending over, he sniffs at her hair and sighs in relief. “Seriously, you are the only one to complain about that. You should be a scout with what that nose could track,” Mak laughs as she ducks her head away from Kenny. This is what I will miss the most, the moments where we are all just relaxing and carefree. The mornings when we are rushing around the suite getting ready for classes and training that day. Or some of the movie nights where Mak is curled up with her head on Ana’s lap and Kenny is sitting on the floor in front of them throwing pop corn behind him at us. See
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