Dutch looks around in his office he just trashed. Tessa is testing him, pushing him to his limits. No one has ever talked to him in that way. She is a real fire cracker, but he doesn't need someone pushing boundaries, he needs her to follow him, to obey him. It's been a week since he taught her a lesson, he stayed away to give her a chance to think about her options and realize that she doesn't have any left. But she kept quiet, always looked away when they gave her food. Her defiance is annoying. He smiles at the thought of breaking her will. The challenge is turning him on. He will take her blood now but it will have to be pure, they will need to cleanse her for the ritual. He walks out towards the dungeon "Simon!" he calls out to the guard standing in the doorway. "My Lord?" Simon asks keeping his head bowed down. "Tell the cooks to leave out the wolfsbane and gold dust, we need to get her stronger to take some blood. We can't have tainted blood if we want to succeed." h
Dutch moves quickly to his office where he finds Christian busy with the cauldron. "Took you long enough" Christian says glancing at him. "I had to have a little fund. She is a real fire cracker, one could say she hates me" Dutch says chuckling. Christian rolls his eyes and take the vile from Dutch and half of it into the cauldron. "What the hell are you doing? I know this isn't how the blood need to be used! Dutch says shocked as he look inside the cauldron seeing a red purplish liquid " Don't you think the way you act like you know everything was the downfall of everyone who tried and failed to do what we are doing? It's because of arrogance, now let me do what I do best, stay quiet and watch" Christian snapped at Dutch and he continues stirring. "Now drink this and I will begim with the ritual." Christian hands Dutch a cup of the liquid he brewed and starts to form a pentacle, softly saying encantations, burning candles. Then he sprays Tessa's blood all over the pentacl
A Few weeks earlierLandon and Jarek runs through the forest trying to work through their emotions, but a sudden guilt falls over them. They shouldn't have left her their withoit being able to explain, but the thought that one of them could be rejected was overwhelming. Landon stopped and shifted back to be able to talk to Jarek"We need to go to her. We need to talk this through, no matter how painfull" Jarek stares at him through Kane's eyes and slowly nod and turns around sprinting to the town with Landon on his tail. The both of them has an urgency to get to her as soon as possible and in no time they have the hotel in sight.Jarek stops and head to a tree to get some shorts before he shift and find Landon waiting on him"You know it is unfair for you to be able to shift without tearing up clothes" Jarek says walking besides him in a quick pace"Perks of being a cat, we have magic in us" Landon chuckles but he stops instantly and lift his nose in the air sniffing. "Something is
The three men walks over to the packhouse. Eliza's family wating just as confused as everyone else infront of the packhouse, but as they turned around and saw her in Jarek's arms she rush forward. Her Father grabs her out of his arms and glare at Jarek. "What happened?" he asks with a harsh tone "Sir, she tried to protect someone important, she just didn't know what she was up against. You can go and prepare her for her burial. I wont expect you to join this fight under the circumstances" Jarek says but Carter shakes his head handing his daughter to his mate to prepare her. "No! This is just the reason to join whatever is going on" he says and Jarek nods. He takes his place infront of his pack. "I know you all are wondering what is going on and why Eliza died and why we have a stranger in our midst , so I'm going to be open with you because we are all linked by one cause. King Landon is a werecat and so it happens we have something in common. We share a mate" Jarek stops talki
Lee and Valory returns with a group of 10 witches and warlocks. All of them has a look of seriousness on their faces. The just nod as they walk past everybody and head to Gina. They setup the room and starts working immediately. It goes in for days, trying one spell after the other, failing each time and Jarek and Landon has an unsettling feeling inside them. Folkor and the other dragons flies daily scouting the areas finding nothing and the scouts returns each time with no results but a promise to answer to a call if needed. Landon and Jarek runs in the area tirelessly but find nothing and the trackers lost the scent in Seattle. Tired and hopeless they returned, feeling like they failed. Jarek retreats to his office and pours him, Ben and Landon a whiskey and paces up and down. Where is she?" Jarek throws his glas of whiskey against the wall. It's been weeks since Tessa dissappeared after they left her. The feeling of guilt eating him alive. "We never should've left her!" he
*Doctor, I'm coming in with a critical patient. Open up a space where dragons can land, get everything ready, we will be there in an hour.* Jarek calls through the mind link. Watching Tessa unconscious in Landon's arms. Whatever they injected him with has him holding on for dear life not to fall off of Folkor's back. The dragons really took the demons on with force but their Lord is a coward. He left them all to fend for themselves. Landon looks over his shoulder and finds Jareks clinging onto Folkor, his face is pale and his eyes half open and glassy "Folkor! We need to get moving, Jarek is in bad shape!" He shouts over the wind noise. Folkor swings his head and look back and he picks up his speed and before they knew it he lands infront of the hospital. A few humans are startled with their presence and scurry away. Dr Bavere waits for them with a few nurses and instantly grabs Tessa from Landon's arms but they don't see Jarek. "Your alpha needs help! He was fighting off a de
Folkor qquickly returns with Gina and Alexandra. As soon as they land both women rush into the hospital. They walk past everyone ignoring the attempts to stop them. Once they are in the operating room where Tessa is being treated they scrunch up their noses. "Red wolfsbane and gold" Gina whispers and search her bag. "Do you you have a place where I can cook this?" She ask holding herbs in her hands and the nurse immediately take her to the lab. "It may not be big but it is the best I can offer" She says leaving them. Gina and Alexandra starts brewing the antidote enough for both Tessa and Jarek. After an hour she holds two viles in her hands and rushes to where she hears commotion in one room. She rushes in and sees Jarek's Light fading. The doctor shocks him with the crash cart but all they hear is the flatline on the machine. She hands Alexandra the viles and rush forward. "Inject him while I work on him." she pushes the medical staff away and hold her hands above Jarek's
Two days late... "Hold on Allison, you know I can't just outright get rid of her." "But Daddy! You said once you give her to the Demons I will have him!" "Let me handle this! I just need to get rid of they eyes then I can think of a plan and set it in motion, for time being, keep your distance and don't draw too much attention". Doctor Bavere hangs up the phone. His daughter has set her eyes on Jarek and being Luna. She is his only child and after his mate died he tended to her every need. Her window was open to be chosen. Jarek seemed quite fond of her until this girl showed up. He tried to convince Jarek that she is a danger here, not in a million years would he have thought that she is his fated. He heard about the Demon lord looking for her while working on a shipment of Salvia divinorum, A plant that is illegal all over. He does his bussines on the black market, and will get the best information. He got in contact with one of the demon soldiers and asked who they were looki
"I would love to see you in action some time" Stefan says his interest peaked. "You will once I start my training and I have controll. But that's not what we are here for now." Tessa says steering the conversation away from her. "Right, why all the secrecy?" Stefan asks and Jarek steps closer to inform him. "We have a threat toward Tessa in my pack. Her life may be in danger." "Okay, but where do I come in?" Stefan asks confused. "You need to convince this girl that you are against Tessa too, that you want to remove her from my life because you hate the move and that Tessa is the cause. Seduce her if you must but you should never be seen with us. We will stage confrontations if we have to, to make it more believable. " Landon says, hoping his brother will agree to this. " why do it have to be me? I dont even know of I'm good at acting" Stefan says not convinced. "She knows everyone here, and you are new here. It will be more convincing if a stranger that just uprooted hi
Tessa wakes up with the sun shining high. The trip they took and the magic she used drained her, but she can't lose momentum now. There is too much to learn, too much to do. She takes a long shower trying to soothe her aching body, gets dressed and head down to find something to eat. One thing she learned about the packhouse, there is always food available. She is disappointed to see that the men isn't there waiting for her. One thing she learned the padt few days are that she has deep feelings for both of the men. She dread the thought of losing one of them, but that is not how life works. She walks down the stairs and stop as soon as she hear an annoying voice around the corner. "Daddy said he will handle this bitch. She won't live long enough to take her place im this pack" "What is he going to do?" Another voice asks "I'm not sure, but he said I just have to be patient. He had a setback at the hospital with the witches but he has a plan" Allison says and a cold shiver ru
The next morning Stefan leads everyone to Astoria, their new home and the rest is ready to set out on their quest. They decide to head out to the bear clan. They aren't difficult to find but rhey are not the friendliest. Once they arrive the guards immediately shift and is standoffish. But with Folkor and Valory no one dare to attack first. The leader steps through and introduce himself as Tate, he is arrogant and nonchalant. He eyes Tessa as prey and seems annoyed as Folkor blocks his view. He is the only one not in bear form. "Little girl, tell your dragon to back off." Tessa steps forward. "He isn't my guard. He is king Folkor to you. We are here with a proposal." "I'm not interested in anything you have to say. We live here on our own, not bothering anybody and you show up looking like you want to attack us with your small army. If I can give my advise break free from dragons. They are not to be trusted." he says and Tessa realize this will be tougher than she thought.
The days after Landon made rhe announcement that they will move is full of excitement. Folkor and Jarek has sent orders to start the preperation and construction. In a small amount of time they formed their own family. The pride has accepted everyone but is still wary of Gina and keeps her at arms length and it bothers Tessa, but Gina just smile and wink at her. She has something uo her sleeve that will convince everyone that she can be trusted. Early the next morning the other three kings arrive. They look annoyed at the fact that they need to travel without much knowledge about the situation. Stafan shows them to the secret room where Landon awaits them with Tessa and the rest of the crew. "your highness' I'm glad you could make it on such short notice" King Andrew of the North acknowledges him but looks suspicious. "No problem, I see the pride is packing up. Any reason for that? Do you have problems with hun..." He stops mid sentence and sniff the air and his eyes land on Gina
Landon walks outnof the room to find his friends and he sess them all standing around uncomfortable. His pride eyes them suspiciously and he rolls his eyes. They have lived apart from civilization for far too long. It is time they are reintroduced into the world, bit before he van reach his group he hears a ruffle in the bushes and is engulfed in a big hug. "Brother, you don't know how happy I am to have you back! Father was unbearable and I wss afraid that if I didn't leave I would kill him." Landon laughs "Good to see you too Stefan. Let me introduce you to my friends... And Mate" Stefan steps back and look at him wide eyed. "You really found her? Dad mentioned it but was so vague that I doubted it." Both turn to the group and Landon introduce them all. "So what are you doing here?" Stefan asks and Landon chuckles, his brother, always nosy and impatient. "I'm calling a meeting right now to talk to everybody. You will know soon enough" Landon says and immediately opens a mi
"Why did your Father react that way when he saw Gina?" Tessa ask and Landon looks at Gina apologetically "Witches have been hunting us for years" Tessa gasps "What? But why?" Gina clears her throat. "Because some covens believs that slaying a cat and extracting their essence will give them more power. Which isn't true. Witches can only gain power by channeling their magic deeper. Al it did was to turn them dark, take away a part of their soul" Landon looks at Gina, this is the first time he heard anything like this. Everyone thought is was true, but even with what she said it doesn't change the fact that they are still being hunted. When they hear the door open they al turn to see who it is simultaneously, and Logan steps into the room. "everyone will be here in three days, but they won't be happy to se her" He points to Gina. "Well that's too bad dad, she is here because she is helping us. She forges the bond that will help us fight the demon lord" Landon says and Logan turns t
Gina rolls her eyes and step forward. "Now what do you need?" She asks facing Folkor. "We need you to help forming and allegiance. The real unbreakable bond" He says and her eyes widens "Is it really that serious?" She asks and Folkor nods. "Okay, now Tessa step forward. Everyone here including her mates need to perform the ritual" She waves Folkor closer as he is the nearest and takes his and Tessa's hands and put it together like a handshake, and place a chalice underneath their hands "Declare your allegiance" Folkor takes a deep breath. "I King Folkor, king of Dragons of the west and leader of blue mountain lair hereby declare my allegiance to Queen Tessa, Queen and Guardian of all" a white line forms around their hands and transforms into a chain. Gina take a need and prick their fingers with a needles. As soon as both drops fall into the chalice it swirls together and forms a gold liquid, and both of them feels a connection forming between them. Any ill feelings th
Landon sits next to Tessa and she rests her head against his shoulder, breathing in his scent calming her down. "This is too much. How am I suppose to fill the position I'm was forced in?" A Tear runs down her cheek. She has a living fear of failing everybody. That she will be the one causing the world as they know it to end. She is a guardian, a queen of all. How will she ever be able to handle it. 'My sweet girl, for now you just have to get control of yourself. We are not a full guardian yet. We are still like a puzzle that need to be put together. Aurora and I can summon full guardian powers at timd, but it drains us, like the marking. That is why it is a good thing Dutch didn't have us when we are fully evolved. He gained power but not as much as he wanted and needed. ' Luna says comforting her and Tessa gasps ' Do you know what he wanted my blood for? ' she asks as she completely forgot about it ' No we don't. But we need to find out and find a work around for it' Aurora
Valory quickly returns with everyone they asked for and as soon as she lands she shifts back and runs into Ben's arms. As Tessa is standing close to them she sees the mark on the crook of their necks and it peaks her intrest, and she make a mental note to asks Valory if she can see it later. Folkor steps closer and take Tessa's hand in his and kiss the wrist. "Good morning my Queen" Jarek steps closer and growls "Oh stop it, I'm not making a move on her. I can clearly see she is taken, but she is our Queen." He says annoyed at Jarek. "Why do you call me that?" Tessa asks confused. She isn't a queen by far. "We can discuss it where it is more private" He says as a crowd is starting to gather around them. Even after all this time they searched for Tessa the pack stilm isn't used to seeing the dragons up close. The eighth of them walk into the packhouse and Jarek leads them to his office. He will need a bigger sound proof space if he is going to host meetings like this he tho