Sebastian realized as soon as he stepped out of the pack house that Jimin’s words of encouragement was all he actually needed. He felt so bold, so strong like he could do anything at all and he knew that he was going to go out for his first night watch and come back successfully. Jimin believed in him. Jimin had been the leader of the Sentinels for close to seven years and he had come back every single day. He was definitely not going to die on his first night out.He slipped his phone out of his pocket and sent a message to the Resistance group chat. “Hi guys. I would be picking from amongst all of you tonight, I would be picking the bravest of you, eight of you that would follow me out and become my first Sentinels. Promises to be fun. Meet me at the Cove that’s where I’ll make the selection.”Sebastian felt happy that he was finally going to make an impact on his pack – a positive impact and he just couldn’t wait to get started. Outside the pack house, he saw some girls walking to
The first night watch turned out to be more revealing than any of them had expected it to be. It was a silent walk all the way down the woods and the six of them walked carefully, making sure to watch each other’s backs. Jimin had already given them a short debriefing on how Lycans attacked and in his speech, he had made sure to inform them that the average Lycan was three times as smart as the average werewolf. None of them liked the fact that he was comparing them with Lycans and so they frowned as he told them. Jimin smiled inwardly, knowing that his little story would work on them exactly the same way it has worked on him some seven years ago when he was going out for his first Sentinel duty. He could remember that day as if it were yesterday. The former head of the Sentinels, Carrick was badly ill and for the first time in over twenty years, he couldn’t go out for his duty. That was how serious it was. His assistant, Jones had died in a battle with the Lycans a night before and s
The twins were pumped up by Jimin’s words but they felt a little bit uncomfortable and Jimin could notice it very well.“You know our father?” Jake mumbled, getting closer to Jimin as the five of them trudged along.“More than you do,” Jimin smiled at him. “No offence but your father, Carrick, was a prick.”“We hear that all the time,” Jake nodded appearing beside Jimin. “But at least he was a brave prick. The bravest prick in the whole of the Pack. Jimin turned to him and smiled at him, seeing what he was trying to do.“I understand you like the word a lot young man,” Jimin laughed. “Don’t get me wrong though. Your father was a brave and we’ll respected man. We had our own personal issues but we had mutual respect for each other. He knew when his tenure had ended and he left without causing me any problems. Carrick was that simple.”“But you don’t know when your tenure is over Jimin do you?” Jake asked staring at Jimin. “What are you doing among the Sentinels, Beta Jimin?” Jimin frow
Her hair was the color of burning lava and she emanated a degree of heat from her body that made the two of them back off slowly as she walked closer to them. Both Jimin and Sebastian knew who she was or at least they thought they knew – Calisté’, the legendary witch, the sworn enemy of their dead Alpha King, Dan Damon. The look of hatred and the fire burning in her eyes was more than enough to tell them that she had not forgotten what Dan had did to her family and she had not forgiven them. “Sebastian Coatés,” Calisté smiled. Her voice was husky and cold. It reminded Sebastian of a damsel in distress, calling for help, except that she was not a damsel. She was beautiful of course, not even looking like someone that had spent the last hundred years of her life doing evil, but she was definitely not a damsel. She was a witch that needed to be stopped at all costs. Sebastian turned to Jimin, asking him with his eyes if it was okay to talk. He had not quickly forgotten what had happened
The two of them stared at her for well over a minute and as if on impulse, they burst out laughing at the same time. Calisté stared back at them, wondering what was funny and Jimin cleared his throat.“Hold on a second,” Jimin said, “I would be with you tonight. I don’t understand that. What do you mean by ‘I would be with you?’Calisté shook her head in pity and attempted to hold Jimin by the hand. He shifted away a bit and she laughed. “There are over a thousand legends about me,” she said. “Calisté the witch, the betrayer, the wolf slayer. In as much as these legends are true, I can be good when I want to. Come on, Jimin. You’re the last person I would want to kill right now.” She attempted to touch his hand again and he shifted away.“I want to show you the things you would be missing by refusing to follow me,” Calisté said. “Can you remember how your father looked like?”Jimin stared at her, a lost expression on his face. Truly, he couldn’t remember his father’s face. He couldn’
“That is a child,” Jimin said. “My dad was young then. People make all sorts of mistakes when they are younger.”Calisté laughed. “If you say so then. Just watch.” Jimin watched as the two children played together. He couldn’t deny the fact that they looked very happy together and he dared to imagine that there had been a romantic spark between his father and the notorious witch. As he watched them, he noticed the little Calisté whisper something in his father’s ears and he watched as his father held her hands and they ran deeper into the trees. Jimin turned to face Calisté.“Where are you taking him to?” Jimin frowned.“He’s the one holding my hands,” Calisté laughed. “The question should be where is he taking me to. But see for yourself, I won’t like to spoil the fun for you.”They followed the two children as they cornered through the thicket of bushes deeper and deeper into the trees. They had been running for a long time and if not that Calisté used her magic powers, it would hav
From the very moment he woke up on his bed in the pack house, Sebastian knew he was in a lot of trouble. He could not remember sleeping off on that bed. The last thing he could remember was refusing to leave Jimin’s side as he negotiated with Calisté and the next place he saw himself was on his king sized bed in the pack house.“Shit!” he cursed out loud. “Where the fuck is Jimin. I’m in a whole lot of trouble.”He hurried down from the bed and jumped to the floor. There was water on the floor and he looked outside the window wondering where the water had come from. The window had been left open throughout the night so he guessed that rain must have fallen heavily and the wind blew the rain right into the room.“Hope you are safe Jimin,” he muttered to himself as he turned around the room in circles, looking for his slippers. “I warned you to stay away from that witch but you just wouldn’t listen to me.”“Sebastian!”He turned in shock at the sound of someone calling his name and he s
Sebastian found Trey awake. He was sitting on the bed in his room and staring into space when he walked in and even after he had waved his hands in his face continuously, Trey refused to move. Sebastian sat down on the bed beside him and held his hand. Trey stood up, shocked and for the first time saw that Sebastian was in his room.“Sebastian?” he said. “When did you step in? I didn’t see you. Sorry, my room is a mess.”“Your room is always a mess Trey,” Sebastian replied smiling. “And it doesn’t matter to me.” Trey turned to look at him and they were silent for a long while before Sebastian finally spoke up again.“I assume you know why I am here right?” Sebastian said, straightening up.“I think I do, Bastian,” Trey mumbled. Sebastian could see the fear in his eyes and he knew immediately that his friend was worried about the exact same thing that worried him.“You woke up here on your bed this morning?” Sebastian asked, staring at him.“Exactly, Bastian,” Trey said looking up at h
“Rhea? Helping? After all I told you about her?”The disgust on Jimin’s face was pretty much obvious and Xavier knew that it was going to take more than mere words to convince his Beta that the Lycan kings daughter was actually on their side.“She’s helping out with Calistè,” Xavier frowned staring at Jimin. “She saved my life and i really think we should give her a chance.”“Well I don’t think we should,” Jimin sighed. “After all that she’s done, but if that’s what you want, who am into argue with you?”Jimin turned around immediately and stormed out and Xavier watched as he left. He turned to face Jaime and Layla who had been quiet all the while and he stared at them.“What’s with the look?” Layla frowned. “Come on let’s go help your Luna. I want to be an aunty very soon.”Xavier smiled and blushed and bolted towards the sound of the clanking swords. He was happy that his sister had gotten over her hatred for Rhea and he knew that with her on his side now they were going to defeat C
"Hunny! Did you miss me?" Calistè gave a smug smile while Xavier stared in shock."You…yo " he tried to speak but what befell his eyes was greater than what his mouth could speak out loud."Yeah. I understand" she made a mocking face." Now! Are we going to fight or what?" She grinned big time and whistled to her beasts.He beasts all came after the others that stood in the room, Layla immediately changed to a wolf, her teeth snarling and her roar as clear as crystal.Calistè raced towards Xavier, her sword in hand as she raised her arms and swung at Xavier.Xavier missed it by a beat and she smirked hard ."Oh, much I've waited for this!" She screamed and charged at Xavier again, her heels hotter than the very earth as she kept off.Meanwhile kycans began to climb the walls and started to hit the windows."Jimin! The windows" Jamie screamed while trying to fend off a beast who looked at him as though he was nothing more than food.Before jimin could think of anything else, the shatte
Jimin watched as Layla rallied the group together in the small study, the space getting filled up immediately with eager faces ready to fight for their Alpha, for their kingdom. Jimin turned away from the group, striding into the main study and shutting it close behind him. When he turned around, Xavier was staring up at her, his hands frozen untop a map that he'd probably been gazing at before Jamie entered."You know you can join your sister and help with the planning. Instead of being all by yourself, worrying, like always." Jimin was satisfied with Xavier's severe frown, his forehead wrinkling. Xavier ignored him and went back to his perusal of the map. Jimin drew closer, his head tilting down to take in the almost real picture of their kingdom. Xavier had placed pins around the boarder, and was currently swirling one in his hand while staring at the map in concentration.He stuck the pin at a place that didn't make sense and let out a grunt of frustration. Jimin was confused and
"You can't believe you can ever defeat me, right?" Calistè said with vigor and a growing grin coming up on her face."Just wait till I smack that stupid grin off your face" Rhea said, her brows nearly touching from anger."Make me?" She challenged.Rhea rushed at her, her hands holding two daggers now, her feet swift on the ground and her stance defensive even though she was the attacker now.Flames went up in different directions and Rhea glanced quickly to see that Layla had her hands on Xavier as he steadied his breath to catch his breathing and stop the bleeding that was now obvious.Rhea got even more angry as she dodged the attack on time, her face nearly been dissected by calistè's sharp sword."You know how I got this sword? Huh!" Calistè boasted and struck again, missing Rhea immediately from her swift and tricky movements."I have a feeling you're going to tell me anyway, so do" Rhea said and took another stance.With two of her fingers she gestured for calistè to meet her a
Xavier looked from jimin to Layla with so much surprise."How did you know that?" Jamie asked the man in question but he didn't reply.He gestured to his fellow elders and they all went to take their various seats at their high tables."So tell us, Xavier. Why have you come back?" The eldest elder asked again.Xavier who was still managing to recover from how they knew about Rhea snapped out of his head and stepped forward in the council."I have lead this kingdom for a while and everybody can see my works" Xavier began and some of the elders nodded their heads to what he said but not Marcus."I have been away for quite some time" he looked intently at everyone" And I bring you news from the snowy mountains and others... Calistè is alive and well" the elders gasped in shock." And what's even more? — he paused Ashe examined each and everyone one of them including Marcus — she has beasts of her own"Gasps rang out from every corner and Xavier liked the fear it impacted on them, it was
The fight took a lesser time to finish as they had gotten that source of information, blood and splatters of beast remains stained them and the very earth that they walked on. Layla couldn't help but feel very dirty about the whole scenario that played out in front of her."We've got to help the women and the children Xavier" she said while Xavier turned back into his human form.Xavier didn't utter a single word as he walked past her and back to where a horse had galloped to."Xavier!" She called for him, her feelings out on a platterXavier stopped walking but didn't turn to look at her."I'm talking to you. We should help them out Xavier" she said, her voice sharp and firm and this got Xavier turning to look at her square in the face and Layla was able to see just how much anger resided in his little orbs of crystal clear darkness."No" he said, a Huff if air coming out of his nostrils with his finality."What?" Layla asked, baffled by what the heck he could mean."You heard me rig
"Calistè?" Jamie asked, astonished.layla didn't know what to say or how to respond, the whole world felt like it went silent and collapsed."She gathered up every last woman and child and took them with her alongside some beasts" a man spoke up." You've got to help us sire. You're our only hope now" the first man said. Xavier came out in front of jimin, his hands still placed on the scratch he had obtained."We journey to my Homeland, the black wolves" people began to murmur." We plan on taking back our Homeland and we plan on defeating calistè once and for all" Xavier said with an air of finality.The crowd stopped murmeeing and cheered a bit." Can we come with you?""Oh... Let us come with you!" Another said." Let him rest folks, wherever he goes, we go. We pledge our loyalty to you sure" the first man said again. Xavier didn't know what to make of all of these information and all of these kinds of response. He just gave a Curt nod and that was it. The men dispersed out of the h
"What did you find?" Layla said with all seriousness. Jamie had so much excitement in his eyes as he jumped up and down." I found a shelter and jimin found food, we could make a camp fire later tonight" Jamie replied. Xavier nodded his head in agreement."Lead the way" Jamie was more than happy to do so.They walked together under Jamie's direction and lead, he would lead them to a path that had a sheltering , like a makeshift house but with tents. Jimin was bent over a hurdle of stacked sticks and on closer inspection, he was currently striking two stones together in order to produce fire."Jimin, let me help you with that" Layla said and walked ahead of the men to help jimin, in seconds she had done that which jimin had struggled with.With food on the raging fire, each of the flame licking a bit of the left over meat, night had quickly fallen on them."I have a question Xavier" Layla suddenly said, everybody's attention focused on her , the illumination the fire casted around the
There was an obvious change in the air the next day, Xavier was calmer and for the first time, so was Layla. They had both had time to think, mostly Layla.Jamie had appeared out of nowhere, map in hand as he suddenly cleared their breakfast off of the table that had seen more of the good life than the ugly.He spread the map evenly and Xavier glanced at Layla just in the nick of time to see that same excitement he couldn't deny made him feel a spark." Xavier, lead the way" Jamie said as he stepped away from the map. Xavier who had been seated stood up and so did the rest. With their necks outstretched, they gathered around him like a flock of flightless birds in need of direction."We go through the Rocky mountain which should take a day but now that we have no means of flight or how to get there asides from our obvious walking, we'd have to take nearly two days to get there," he said, pointing at some steep and yet pointy figures that made its way to the map."What about going arou