{ Vynetta }
I woke next to the cove, covered in dirt and sweat but so happy. I could feel the pulse of the Earth in my veins and I was always the most rested when I slept outside, feeding directly from the soul of the Earth itself.
It was nearly night, I had fallen asleep for hours and I saw that there were blankets and a snack next to me, indicative of my mother having been over to check on me. I saw the signature golden hues of sunset peaking through the canopy above and sighed as I took in the beauty. Haven was the heart of the Earth. It was not only my home but it was a sacred place for our bloodline and now, also for the bloodline of the Moon Goddess. Leaving Haven was almost as difficult for me as leaving my family because of the peace it brought me simply being here surrounded by nothing but nature.
I brought myself out of my thoughts and stood to stretch. I felt that Juno was still in the back o
{ Vynetta }I stayed in the shadows as I traveled further from Haven. I knew which way the village was from when we had gone a year ago, but the pull indicated my mate was more east and south than that so I debated which way to go. Only minutes after stepping away from the entrance to Haven the tug in my heart had amplified. It was intense, I could hardly breathe I needed him so much. I suspected that Haven had diminished the feeling and now it was here, in full force. I could sense him so much more clearly. I knew where to find him, how to reach him.As I started my walk towards him, it was only minutes later that the tug became ever so slightly more distant. I froze in my shoes and called to Juno.“Why did it fade slightly?” I asked her.“He’s moving… away from us.” She replied.“But can’t he feel us too? Doesn’t he know we
{ Oryn }I heard my wolf’s deep, arrogant chuckle in my head.“Would you please shut it?” I growled at him.“I’m just happy, that is all.” He hummed in return.I rolled my eyes. Of course he was happy. He was ecstatic about this idea of a mate. I on the other hand was more than hesitant. And unfortunately, whoever my mate was, she was getting closer, hence his chipper mood.“How can you so blindly trust this? Her? Whoever she is.”“How can you not? You feel what I feel, the longing, the trust, the bond. She’s our other half. She’s… everything.”I paused my fast, angry stride when he said those words. My breath hitched. My brain was arguing with me every second, it was telling me to be cautious, entrusting, safe. I had been burned before, I was afrai
{ Kayden }“Why am I seeing your hideous faces before me?”“They were drunk and on duty their captain told me.” Lyden said.“All 5 of you? In one place?”“No,” The blonde haired pup spoke up, “John and I were together and the other 3 were somewhere else.”I looked between them. They were all 17-20 year old soldiers of mine. They were stupid, arrogant pups who knew nothing and simply wanted protection and a paycheck. They were stepping on toes enough to get neither ever again though. The dark haired pup, presumably John, spoke next.“Sire, we meant no disrespect, we patrol a part of the northern woods that is uninhabited, never traveled through, we have yet to see more than a travel or two every few weeks in the past year we have been patrolling the area. It is my fault
{ Oryn }“Wait,” my wolf told me.I paused my steady pace and impatiently waited for him.“What?!” I asked, harsher than I meant to.“Something is wrong.. with mate.” He muttered.I froze then, my ears perked up, and I focused on the pull in my heart, my connection to her. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary at first so I calmed my breathing and tried again. I felt the pull in my heart, and I did my best to grapple at the tether itself, our connection. Once I found it and grabbed it, I tried to follow it all the way toward her.“I can feel her..” I whispered.“So can I. It’s our bond with her. Once we are completely with her, we will be able to feel her all the time. Right now we only get fleeting feelings of her most prominent emotions if they are extreme.” He t
{ Oryn }Her fear had eased through the connection. It seemed to lessen slowly until it was gone all together. But for reasons I couldn’t explain, this didn’t ease my worry. I felt that she was still in danger, that she needed me and maybe even my protection.“She’s moving,” My wolf told me.“She feels the same to me, what direction is she going?” I asked him.“West…” He mumbled.A small unexpected smile played at my lips. She was headed right towards me.“I don’t think she is alone, but I also don’t think she is in danger,” My wolf told me.“We will be to her soon enough, just focus on her pull,” I told him and he nodded to me. We held our steady pace, closing in on her.After the one idiotic patrol we ran into, I was att
{ Vynetta }I asked Codyn to take the lead again as we ran through the path since I didn’t know exactly where it lead. I told him which direction my mate was and he nodded and told me we were on the right track.We ran for a few more minutes and I felt my heart speed up when we realized how close we were. I could feel him, his heart beat, his emotions, his worry. He was worried about me. He was trying to find me.I saw what looked like the end of the thick bushes and trees that we were hidden under all at once. And as soon as I saw it, I saw something blocking the exit of the path. I looked to Codyn and saw him glance down at Scar and before I could warn him he barreled straight into whoever or whatever had been there.I watched as two bodies went flying across the forest floor and both men groaned from the pain from the contact. Scarlynn immediately ran to Codyn. I watched as she called on her
I nodded and then I listened. I listened as she told me of who she was, born the Earth Goddess, hidden away, and how her life had been the same up until a few weeks before her 18thbirthday when she learned she would become a wolf. She told me how she could speak to the Earth Goddess and of the day when she spoke to both the Earth and Moon Goddess’ who explained about her shift and what would come. She told me of wolves, the new line of wolves that would turn from the moon itself, born of love and peace, not the curse which Kayden’s wolves were born under. I could tell she was minimizing some of the parts that had to do with me to protect me but the more she spoke the more I wanted to know, so that I knew everything we were up against.When she finished speaking of mates she was looking deeply in my eyes waiting for my response. I wasn’t sure what it was she wanted and I was struggling to form sentences because as she spoke of o
“Ok, tell me about your village.”“Well, it’s small, very small. Relatively exclusive actually. There are people from all over the world there, so many different languages and cultures in one place, yet none of it seems to clash. There are people of all different descent there too, like your fairy friend. I’d sensed a fairy in the village before. And a witch at one time. Even a vampire a long time ago. Thornbridge was always bustling with people, but rarely wolves. It’s one reason my parents hid me so well and my father taught me to conceal my aura, I had to be protected from everyone, even my own village.”With every word he spoke my heart raced more and more. It can’t be. It’s impossible. There was absolutely no way this was the truth. He was from the same village as Scar, which wasn’t the most shocking part. He was from the village I visited a year ago. He could sense other peopl
I didn’t even register the other 4 sisters screams echoing all around me. I focused only on his aura and on Mari’s. I closed myself off and followed them. He blipped with her to the hill across the field and then he was gone again, the next time I sensed him it was far enough way I couldn’t pin point his location and then just like that, he was gone. I shook my head and I could feel tears brewing under the surface but I swallowed them down.-She’s fine- Juno told me calmly and I focused on her voice.-Elaborate- I told her firmly.-We need to speak with an elder wolf from the area. There are two who are close still. Have Oryn call to them.- she said instead of answering my actual question.“Oryn,” I called out, still trying to push away the worried yells and words from the sisters around us.“Yes? Did he touch you? Are you alright?”
With one swift whirlwind I push Codyn out the of the way and the second I see the knife soar past his shoulder I simultaneously call on the Earth surrounding the man who threw the knife. Vines appear through the snow, despite the terrain and gasps come from the wolves surrounding him. Within just a few seconds vines have wrapped his legs and arms, making him completely immobile. I don’t let me guard down yet though, and I see that my mate has the same thought.Codyn is now standing defensively in front of Scarlyt who has her hands out, no doubt thinking she would have to once again heal her mate. Oryn moved faster than I even realized and was in the same stance as Codyn in front of me. I gently stepped to the side of him, but not in front of him and addressed the wolves.“We are not your enemy,” I boom out this time, using every ounce of my Authority.“We are not Kayden, we are not here to make yo
“I love you,” she said out loud as she kissed my jaw. “Baby, you are my everything,” I told her breathlessly. “I can’t imagine my life without you, I would still be so lost.” I moved inside her and she moaned at the sensation. I chuckled as I pulled myself out of her and got a towel to clean her. She laid there with one hand on her hip and the other above her head and I felt myself already getting hard again. I handed her a towel and she smiled to me, cleaning herself off. I watched her carefully and something occurred to me. “Baby, how do you feel about kids?” She glanced up at me and the sweetest smile grew on her face as she said, “I want them.” “Lots of them?” “I think so, yeah. I was an only child because that was the way our bloodline worked but that isn’t the case anymore so I’d love to have a house full of babies. Little us’s.” She giggled
{ Carolyn }I felt a rush of cold as I used the snow to disappear and go back to our cabin. My little snow portal settled to the ground around me and I shook off what remained. I looked ahead and really took in the cabin I called home.It’s logs were cut from the woods that surrounded us. My mother was an incredible woman. She was handy, sweet, she could cook up a storm in the kitchen and she somehow managed to raise five little witches all by herself. We all knew we were a handful, our powers grew each day yet she took it all in and managed to make us disciplined and precise, she taught us the value of our magic and the value of life around us. She told us often the story of Luna, her eyes always holding hope when she did of one day not having to hide, one day allowing us to live a free life.My heart was racing as I stepped closer and I was bombarded with sweet memories. Our life here was quiet and ca
{ Vynetta } As Oryn was shaking hands with the Elders I felt it. As quick as Juno and I registered it it was gone. An aura in the mountains near us. A man, a hybrid Juno said, but having only sensed it for a moment she struggled to determine his origin. He was an original without a doubt, he was also strong, and clearly hidden. I hadn’t sensed him during the meeting of all the wolves and he was already long gone by the feel of things. I stretched, searched, my eyes remaining closed as I forced out mine and Juno’s power as far as I could. I heard the sound of my mate’s voice but I was deep in concentration and couldn’t make out the words he said. Finally Juno heaved a deep sigh and assured me that the mysterious aura was in fact gone, leaving us with more questions than answers. I took a deep breath and opened my eyes to the sight of a very distraught mate. I felt a small smile on my face as I took my hands out and place
“I think your mate was a tad distracted and didn’t hear quite everything,” One of the elder wolves says. Well shit, I Wasn’t only busted by my mate this time either. I clear my throat as a small blush creeps up my neck but I shake it off. If there is anything I will always own up to its the way my mate affects me. “You would be right, I am easily enthralled by her beauty and her voice,” I admit to the elder wolf who gives me a sly smile. “I was telling them about how we are mostly done here….” Vynetta tells me softly, giving me the cue to pick up after that. That’s all I needed. “Yes, thank you all for your patience and your kindness again.” One of the wolves covers a laugh with a cough and now I’m positive that Vynetta already said that same thing so I continue while shaking it off, “We look forward to seeing all of you next week in your own territories with more good news. As of right now,
I immediately held out my hand and called out, “Scarlyt will you please come here.”She gently made her way through the crowd and after her first few steps they seemed to realize she was the one I was calling to and made a path for her. She crossed the snow giving a soft smile to her mate who sighed a breath of relief. I made a mental note to apologize to him for not calling her back to us sooner.She stood next to me and took my hand in hers. I felt the power of our pack work through us as she was my Mona. I turned my head back to the wolves in front of me and most had their eyes narrowed At Scarlyt trying to figure out why they sensed she was different.Release your aura, all of it. I told her in Mindlink.She did as she was told. Her aura held power, but it was not overwhelming in the least. What her aura held more than anything, was proof. And it washed over the wolves in one sweep an
{ Vynetta }The moment that my aura reached the furthest corner of the tundra and the wolves all boomed out respectfully I felt an insurmountable pride radiate from Juno within. Everything had been nothing short of chaos recently and while I knew who I was, and what was coming, this was the first time I ever felt like what I was, a queen. Looking over thousands of wolves who awaited the right words, the right orders was intimidating, but having my mate beside me lowered my anxiety greatly.His aura washed over me and his scent wrapped itself around me once again as my knees went weak, Goddess what that scent alone does to me. I watched him carefully as he nodded gratefully to the wolves to stand and then I gave him my full attention as I waited for him to address them as well.“My name is Oryn. I am a descendant of Tellus, and I am proud to stand before you today as the Alpha. I was like most of you. I was born dif
{ Oryn } I stand with Vynetta beside me as wolves funnel in and slowly fill up this icy cove-like area that we chose as the spot for this first meeting. We are positioned among the wolves, Vynetta looking like a simple family member of myself to the incoming wolves, a few of whom I notice also bring with them members of the family. Mostly men, but I spy a couple other women in the group as it grows larger. Codyn stands in front of everyone with a scowl etched on his face, his stance wide and his arms crossed as he radiates power. He is more powerful since he became Beta of our Pack, but we were able to work with him on suppressing this in his aura for these meetings. From where we and the wolves are standing, he looks like a pissed off and intimidating general for Kaydan’s army which is exactly what we were aiming for. There is a few silent minutes that go by when no more wolves are entering the area. I see Codyn n