Having the lake finished has given the Coven more motivation to go outdoors for the day. Most witches are already outside quite a bit but now they all seem to be hovering around outside. Some are working the gardens while others are playing in the lake. I cannot help but join them when I see just how much fun they are all having out there."I have an idea. I hope that you all will try it with me." I tell them as I walk into the lake in a swim suit this time and actually allow the water to touch me."What is that?" Jade asks me."I want to have another competition. This one is just for bragging rights. I will even be a part of it." I tell them."Ohhh...what is it?" Hazel asks sounding intrigued."I say that all of us elementals see how detailed of a fish we can make float above the water. It needs to have scales, each part of its body and be able to move the way that only a fish can move. Maybe not even just a fish but some type of sea creature would work as well. As long as you do not
Walking over towards the Council after my experiments with the novices I can see them talking amongst themselves. They are all whispering and giving me very pointed looks. It is not like I cannot tell that they are talking about me once again. It is extremely obvious. I planned to go past them without stopping but when Simonetta steps right in front of me I have no choice but to stop. She stares down at me for a while before sniffing and moving slightly off to the side. That is when Katrin walks up in front of me instead. "Would you mind walking with me for a moment?" She asks me. "Do I really have a choice?" I say sarcastically as I turn to follow her. She does not answer but leads me away towards the pack border. Before we get there she stops and turns to me. "Do you understand just how special you are? Even if Simonetta refuses to see it the rest of us can. Do you get it?" She asks me. "I am sorry, what?" I ask sounding confused. That almost seemed like a compliment. "You c
Returning to the witches hanging out at the lake, I look around with a small smile as they all look overly happy to be here and be hanging out together. They have all worked for about 3 days to be able to get to the point where we can release fish into the lake. The wait for the fish is finally over and we are ready to make sure that all of the fish settle into the lake as well as possible. Once they arrived I was still a little frazzled but now as I watch all of the fish settling in I can see that this might all just work out rather well. The fish seem to all be finding their niches fairly quickly. Rojo is definitely enjoying having some company although I am still not sure how he feels about the other arapaima at this point. They both seem to avoid each other quite a bit. I watch Safiya while all of the witches laze around the lake. While all of the other witches are full of excitement at the idea of having the lake done, Safiya seems to be majorly distracted. She keeps eyeing the
After dinner all of the witches head to their prospective rooms so I make my way to mine. Making sure that all of the Council members see me walking up to the family quarters, I wave sleepily to each of the witches that are still downstairs. Elle follows me knowing that being a werewolf I stay up much later than most witches so something has to be up with me.I placed a spell on the perimeter of the house earlier that will let me know if any of the Council members leave the house at night. It will send me a weird sensation that nobody else will notice but I will. That way whenever Safiya sneaks out I will know instantly and be able to follow her. "What are you going to bed so early for? Are we finally going to figure out what is going on with the Council?" Elle asks after we make it into our quarters. "What, me, planning something? No way." I feign with her. When she raises her brows at me I continue, "Yes I am going to follow her tonight. I just need for her to think that we are al
With Safiya a decent ways ahead of me, I find myself trying to hurry while still keeping myself hidden. She is moving at a decent pace as if she is not afraid of being followed. It only takes a couple of minutes for me to get close enough to see that she is heading towards the pack. What could she be doing there? Maybe she is spying on the pack for the rest of the Council? Keeping a distance back, I rely on the Earth to guide me instead of my sense of sight. She does not veer off from the path heading towards the pack. Instead, she follows it slightly to the side of the pack's territory and heads into a clearing that borders both of the properties. What she is doing there is a complete mystery to me. She sits down on a fallen log as if she is waiting for someone. After a few minutes of her sitting in silence in the clearing I have my own seat grow from behind me so that I may be more comfortable. I also have a wide swath of bushes grow all around me to keep my from being seen by the
I make it back to my room and fully plan to collapse onto the bed but find that Dante is already laying on it waiting for me. I should have known that I would not be able to go straight to bed like I had planned. As soon as I reach the bed, he sits up and starts laughing at the look on my face."What is so funny?" I grumble."How many witches and werewolves have been hooking up that we do not know about?" He says in between gasps of laughter.I smile slightly at that thought. It seems like ever since the witches have moved in we have been learning of more and more relationships. Julia has had absolutely no qualms when it comes to hooking up with a werewolf and is having the most open relationship out of everyone. There was the one teenager and novice witch and now Safiya has been caught having a tryst. "If we have learned of this many then I am sure that there are many more as well. Once it becomes known that the species are able to find a way to make it work then I am sure that the
Safiya is conspicuously absent the next morning at breakfast. I can tell by her power signature that she is here but she did not come to eat breakfast with the rest of us. Simonetta, on the other hand, had no issues coming to breakfast with the Coven. "So, Laina, when do you plan on getting the witches and the werewolves to mingle some more?" Simonetta asks. I ponder the question before answering. This would be a wonderful question to have Safiya with us for. Hoping that my hunch that they have a way to communicate with their minds, I choose my next words well. "I am hoping to have a dinner soon with both species. Considering a lot of the mingling that has happened lately, I have high hopes that it will be fruitful." I tell her sweetly. "Oh, do the species mingle often that you know of then?" She asks with a brow raised. "The few times that I know of they seem to." I admit. While I am talking Hazel is very unsuccessfully hiding the fact that she is freaking out over what I am say
We begin our walk to the training area to begin our training with the werewolves. First, I am going to teach the witches how to make the shadow people that I have been using to help the pack with their training. That way, they will be able to split up and help different groups that are different levels with their training. Eventually, I want to have the witches teach the pack members how to deal with attacks from other witches and vice versa. If possible, I want to make both the Coven and the pack function as a cohesive unit. "Laina, where are we going?" Hazel says running up to me as we all begin walking towards the pack's territory."We are going on a field trip. We are going to be working with the werewolves on training exercises." I tell her matter of factly.She looks a little nervous for a minute. I guess she is not ready to see her fling around the other witches yet. It could be interesting to watch her get flustered around everybody."If there is someone that you would like t
"Wait, you can do that?" Frank asks shocked. "Yes, of course I can. It is not something that I have done often, actually only one other time but it is an option. It is one that terrifies her." I admit. "Who did you do it to before?" Rand asks me. "I did it to Morden. There was no other way to stop her from coming after my pack or my family." I answer simply. "Your grandmother said that Simonetta was behind that the entire time. That only makes it right that she gets the same punishment if not worse than what Morden received." Rand points out. I had not thought of it that way but it is true. Still, we need to have a system set up for something like this. Otherwise, there will always be somebody that takes advantage of the power and that is not something that I can condone. "That is very true. I had not thought of that but this is not a decision to be made lightly. There might be longer reaching consequences that even I am not aware of by using this ability. Still, I see no other o
It did not take long at all for the Hybrid Council to arrive. They all file in looking a little shocked to see Simonetta there, unable to use her magic as she floats slightly in the air. Quickly, they find their seats. Then, both Rand and Frank walk in as well. I had not thought of inviting them but I am glad that Dante did. With how long she terrorized their pack it is only fitting that they are here for this as well.I smile at them all as they whisper among themselves for a few moments. This is a bit of a shock for those that were not here to see Simonetta arrive. For Frank and Rand, they finally see their enemy tied up and floating in the air. They are not aware that I can take away her ability to use magic so this is going to be a shock to them when the meeting starts. "I take it you called us all here for a reason?" Elle says once everyone starts to calm down."Yes, I did. As everybody here knows, Simonetta has caused quite a few problems for us. She has terrorized werewolves,
Simonetta rushes towards me using wind to guide her speed. It is not enough to throw me off guard though and I shove a wall of dirt up in front of me. She almost crashes into it before she is able to skid to a stop at the last second. If she had prepared then she might have been able to use the air that was helping her speed up to me to jump over the wall but instead, she is used to using her other powers for combat and did not make the decision in time.As soon as she begins to stop, I tear down the wall and shift into werewolf form quickly to land on top of her with my teeth to her neck. Out of all of the forms that I could have turned into this was the only one that registered as an option. I would like for her to see the one thing that she thinks is beneath her be the thing that brings her down. For once, she surprises me when she throws me off of her with some air. I quickly flip over and land on my paws. I shift back and face her again. She is breathing hard and I find myself a
As soon as my illsuion drops I see Simonetta's face blanche. Chelsea drops to the ground and has it swallow her up as she falls through it to meet the others. I send her a brief thank you as she helps to keep them all safe from whatever back up plan Simonetta could have.She sends me a sad farewell. Apparently she is worried about whether or not I am going to make it out of this one. I might not have used much magic recently but I guarantee that there is no way I will let her get away with this threat. Today, she is going to go down and she is not going to be a threat to anybody with werewolf blood ever again."Wait, you had the baby? No! You can't have had it already!" She screams in rage."Actually, I can. There was nothing stopping me from having it. There is also nothing in the way of me putting a stop to you and your bullying once and for all" I say. She takes a few steps back as she steels herself for what we bothk now is going to happen next. It is a shame that the rest of the
"Why would she ever want to go with you?" I ask Simonetta in shock."I am sure that she can see the benefits when she realizes that if she doesn't then she will never get to meet the bundle of joy in your stomach. I will personally make sure that you are unable to deliever them. After all, the more powerful the babes the less the mother can use magic so I am sure that you are not able to defend yourself very well." Simonetta says triumphantly.I try my best to look worried. I really do. I find that it is difficult to be worried about her though. She has never really had a lot of sway over me. Even when I first realized how much stronger than her I am I had found it difficult to be scared of her. "You really think that I am afraid of you? Even without being able to use my powers you do not worry me. I have plenty of other witches that are able to come and help me." I say."Not before something bad happens to you. Chelsea, I would hate to see for anything bad to happen to Laina. I just
Each team splits up and gets ready to make their way through the obstacle course. They are all going to have to take turns trying to make it through safely. Each team has a designated amount of time before they get elminated. The one that makes it through the fastest and with the least amount of mistakes, will be the ones to win the competition. The course is very similar to the one that we did with the entire pack when we first started training. The one that really got the women moving faster as they fought to make good time through the course to beat the men. This one is just a little more geared towards children and not fully grown adults.Some of the obstacles are smaller to better accomodate their size, some things are closer together and they have even added some new obstacles that would have been difficult for the adults. There are also some obstacles that are going to require teamwork to make it through. If they do not work together then they have no hope of making it to the
It takes much longer than planned to get the babies ready for travel. I have never packed a diaper bag before but luckily Scarlett shows up to help me get them ready and squeal over the twins for a minute. Or more precisely, several minutes."I can't believe that they are finally here! I swear it felt like your pregnancy was never going to end. Every time that I thought you were going into labor and you never did. Yesterday, I had no idea that you were going into labor. How did you keep that from me?!" She says to me."It was not exactly on purpose. I did not even know that I was in labor until I spoke to Dante and then Elle confirmed it. It was a really odd day. We had a lot that happened that day so I thought that everything I was feeling was just from stress." I admit to her."Ha! For once, I could have answered that if you had just talked to me. Instead, you have me doing made up jobs with you to help me out." She says excitedly.I shake my head as she begins showing me exactly h
The first night with the babies was quite a bit of a learning curve. Whenever we put them in their bassinets they just started to cry nonstop until we picked them up again. It took a couple of hours to find out that if we put them into the same bassinet they were able to sleep peacefully and not wake us up. By the time we managed learning that, I was beyond exhausted and ready to sleep. Thankfully, there was more than enough people in the house to help us out throughout the night.When I wake up I find that Dante is already standing over their bassinet watching them sleep. They have managed a few hours of sleep straight which for me was quite shocking considering that they are newborns. "How are they?" I ask him sleepily.Chelsea decided to sleep on one of the loveseats last night as well. She was just too excited to go to sleep in her bedroom after I had the babies. I do not blame her but as she shifts when I start talking I do realize that that might have been a mistake. She is goi
Chelsea comes running in once the babies start to cry for food. Her face is filled with excitement as she rushes over to me. Even though they are hungry, I allow her to hold and rock Caterine while I first feed Archer. I might get good enough to be able to feed them both at once in the future but for now feeding just one is tricky. I never knew that it could be this hard to feed a baby."Hi Caterine, I am your Aunt Chelsea. We are going to be best friends. You are going to get to go to school with werewolf pups and use magic. It is going to be wonderful. I can't wait to teach you everything that I know." Chelsea coos to the baby making all of us smile.It is a good thing that she already has so much experience being around babies because she does a great job holding Caterine while Archer is feeding. She does sit down though as she looks at her. Even though Caterine was crying just a moment ago from hunger, she is now looking at Chelsea with wide eyes. Werewolf pups have much better ey