Finding out where my childhood home might be located is invigorating. Even though I know that we need a plan, I am infinitely more determined to go and look for it. Is it as I remember or is it something different? Will there be clues as to what happened to my parents? All of these questions keep spinning in my head and I do not have an answer until we actually find the house.
Deciding it best that we focus on my training some more before we try to go find it, we settle down for some lunch. This time we are just having some nice and simple sandwiches and chips for lunch. There is a touch of horseradish on our deli style sandwiches which is simply amazing. We begin to plan when we can go and look for the house as we eat. He makes me promise that when I do find it I do not try to go into the house alone. I agree with it considering we do not know if it is going to be a trap or not.
"So, have you tried to contact anybody else through the mind link yet? Dante asks.
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Yes, I am just as sore this morning as I thought I might be. We ended up staying in the bedroom for the entire night. The only time Dante got up to leave was when he went to the kitchen to bring us some more sandwiches. When we got tired we turned on a movie in his room. I did not realize that there was a television in his bedroom but he pulled a remote out of his bedside drawer, hit a button and the wall opened up at the other end of the room to reveal one.He thought it might be fun to watch what he said are some classic boxing movies. I had never heard of Rocky before then but I ended up thoroughly enjoying the movies. It also helped to see someone else do some of the moves so effortlessly that I am trying to learn. Dante has shown me some but I seem to get distracted when he shows them shirtless. What can I say? That man has an effect on me.Dragging myself out of bed, I make my way to the closet. Normally I shower after we get done training but after l
I feel absolutely invigorated after my sparring match with Kevin. It seems strange to think that I am actually good at something. It seems pretty obvious that he is better than he let me see but it still feels amazing to have done that well. For once, I do not feel like I lack basic knowledge in some aspect. I still want to keep training to get even better but right now I feel like I am going to burst with excitement.I run upstairs and decide to just grab a quick sandwich before heading over to Scarlett's. My heart beat is still a little erratic after all of today's excitement. I took down the pack Beta! There should be an award for that. Giggling, I scarf down my sandwich before yelling out a swift see you later to Dante and jetting out the door.This time, my walk is not quite as troubled as the last time. Instead of focusing on everything that I am worried about and that I do not know, I am reliving everything I have learned since I got here. I am growi
Making cupcakes with Scarlett while we talk and joke about my training is more fun than I had anticipated. A month ago, I would never have imagined myself here, making cupcakes with a friend, joking about beating a beta in a sparring match that was put together by my Alpha mate. Not even in my wildest dreams would this have been possible. The craziest thing that I could think of at the time was saying hi to somebody. Now, I am in my friend's kitchen, getting treats ready for a pack dinner the following night where I can talk to everybody if I wish."So, when are you guys going to have the Luna ceremony?" Scarlett asks."What is a Luna ceremony?" I ask perplexed."It is where you are introduced to the entire pack as our Luna. There is a really short ceremony and then everybody gets to wish you the best. I am sure that Dante has already started to plan it." She insists.A ceremony sounds a little far from my comfort zone currently. Dante h
Dinner last night was absolutely amazing. I think that little Italian restaurant is quickly going to become my favorite place to eat after Dante's own cooking. This morning some of my soreness is easing a little bit so I guess that means it is time to get back to training. The pack dinner is tonight so I should really try to get done early.Stretching, I look around and see that, like always, Dante is already ahead of me and in the gym. I wake up with the sun so I cannot imagine that I am a late sleeper but he is always somehow one step ahead of me in the mornings. I wipe some of the crumbs out of my eyes and get up to find some workout clothes. This time, I choose a pair of shorts as well as I tank top.Dante is not in the gym when I enter. I am not sure where he is but the fact that he is not here is odd. Should I just start some of the drills while I am waiting for him or should I try to find him? Normally he is always waiting for me with a list of exercises that he
When Scarlett gets to the pack house with the cupcakes I go outside to help her bring them all in. "Hey Scarlett, I see you got them all here. Where is Quin? Shouldn't he be helping you?" I ask her when I see that he is not with her. "Well, he went out to patrol our lands this morning but he was supposed to be back by now. He probably got distracted hunting. The weird thing is that I have not been able to get ahold of him with our mate bond." Scarlett says sounding a little worried. "Did you tell Dante?" I ask her. "No, I didn't really want to worry him because he has done this before. He gets so into the hunt that he does not notice me trying to talk to him. This is longer than normal though." She admits. "If he is not back soon I think you should tell Dante." I tell her. She just nods to me as we walk through the pack house and into the back yard for the dinner. It looks like it might start raining soon but when Dante checked the
Dante still seems rather worried about me coming with but he seems resigned to the fact that I am not staying behind. There is no way that I would let them go without me if it does, in fact, have to do with me. My only friend's mate is missing as well so if she is going then I am too. I do not think that there is anything that they could do at this point to make me stay behind. Since there is a pack dinner going on in the back, we figure that it is best to go out a side door instead. We do not want to cause a panic when we still do not know all of the facts about what is going on.Once we reach the woods, we all turn away from each other and start to strip. I am the first one in my wolf form. While I wait for the rest, I push all of our clothes off to the side with my nose. Turning to look at Dante in his white wolf form, I see that Kevin is a large black wolf and Scarlett is a red, and white dappled wolf. I am actually the smallest wolf in the group and my red fur is unmatch
Once we arrive back at the pack house, Amora comes rushing over to make sure we are all alright. "What happened! Is everything okay? Did you find Quin?" She rushes out."Mom, everything is fine but we will talk more in a while. I don't want to worry the rest of the pack until we know what all is going on. Quin will be okay though so don't worry. Did the dinner go smoothly while we were gone?" Dante asks."Yes, everything went fine. I just told them that you guys were working on the ceremony for tomorrow." Amora explains.The ceremony! With everything going on I forgot all about it. I can't help but wonder if now is the best time to do it with what just happened."Are you sure that we should still follow through with the ceremony? Should we wait for things to become clearer before we go on with it?" I ask Dante."Of course not, the rest of the pack would start to worry if we cancelled the ceremony this soon before we do it. I would rathe
It takes a couple more hours for Quin to finally wake up. When I hear Scarlett's excited gasp, I jerk up out of an uncomfortable sleep to see Quin's eyes open. Dante is still half asleep next to me so I give him a small shove to wake him up. He looks confused for a second before realizing what is going on and smiling at Quin."Quin! You are okay. I am so glad to see you awake. You scared us all." Dante rushes out.Quin looks a little confused to see us all in the room with them. The doctor had said that it might take a little bit for the past events to come back in so we might have to give him just a little bit of time for his memories to catch up with him."I wouldn't say I am okay since I am in the hospital but, why am I in the hospital?" Quin asks confused."The doctor said that you might not remember right away but something happened to you while you were on patrol yesterday. We do not know what happened yet so we were kind of hoping that you would re
"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