"Hey! Make sure that you are not letting her get behind you! Move faster. If a witch gets behind you it could all be over. Move, move move!" I shout at the pair in the ring.
Normally I try not to yell at the sparring partners but it is getting more difficult to hold back when they spend so long thinking about their moves that they are not reacting to the actual fight at all. How am I supposed to get them to stop doing this? Is there a way to get them to stop trying to think about their moves so much?
"Alright, take a break. I need to think for a moment." I tell them.
I walk away from the ring to a stunned silence. This is the first time that I have ever stopped a lesson. Hopefully it is the last too. Mind linking Dante we brainstorm some ideas on how to get them to stop thinking so much. One way would be for me to get into the ring with them and hit them so fast that they do not have time to think about it. That seems like a good way to make a lot of peopl
All through dinner we found it difficult to talk about much as we were both heavily anticipating news from Natalie and Kiba. Kiba is convinced that it will be a boy but Natalie does not seem to be as sure. Wolf pups do not let us know their gender before they are born as they shift and move so much that it becomes impossible to tell their gender in the womb."Are you as excited as I am to see where this is going to lead the two of them?" I ask Dante excitedly."Of course I am. I have been hoping for something like this to happen for Natalie ever since her mate died. The fact that she found somebody while still pregnant with his child is quite astounding. None of it would have been possible without you though." He says to me."Me? I did not really do anything. Not besides almost getting killed as a child and then stumbling into your pack. It is just pure luck that I was here. It is still shocking to think that Kiba is an ally after all that had happened.&nb
The girls all take the news of our friendly competition fairly well after the initial shock of seeing the obstacle course. When they walked into the gym it took them a while to be able to stop staring. I took that time to judge who looked the most excited to try it out. Once they got over the shock it was time for me to make the announcement."Alright all of you lovely women and even you fierce kids. We are going to be starting to train on this wonderfully daunting obstacle course today. I came up with this to help you guys learn to react without thinking as fast. In just a minute I will show you how to make it through the course without getting knocked out but I also have another announcement to make. I think that we all deserve a little more fun. So, in order to achieve this we are going to train differently for the rest of the week. Yes, we are doing the obstacle course both today and tomorrow but on Friday the men are going to join us for our practice. We will
After practice I manage to get a decent workout in before heading back to the pack house for dinner. Dante is still training with the men so I just make myself a sandwich and head over to visit Scarlett for a while. I have not seen her since our announcement so I wonder how the pregnancy is progressing. Pregnancies for werewolves happen to be a bit faster than those for humans so she should be showing at this point.As I walk up her walkway I notice that some of her plants are not doing as well as they were before. I remember that the last time I left I had somehow given them more life so maybe I can do it again? Rosa says that this should be one of my powers that comes naturally to me so I am just going to wing it and see what happens.Reaching out to the first rose bush, I gently stroke some of the branches that are not doing as well. I peel off some dead rose petals and keep stroking parts of it. It does not seem to have improved much while looking at it closely. Ma
The women were getting much better at the obstacle course by the end of our second day of practice. Most of them could make it through just fine and were just working on their speed when we left that day. I kept the information from Dante during our dinner that night though.Today is the day of the joint practice and the women are all nervous to have to practice in front of the men. If it goes well then maybe we can do joint practices once a week. Dante is having the men stretch and warm up elsewhere before meeting us here. Practice will be a bit cramped in the gym but we can make it work.The men finally arrive as we finish up our warm ups. They walk in like they are trying to intimidate us. They do not make eye contact with any of the women but me. They all stare at me on their way into the gym. The women are all silent as they watch their mates and family members walk in and act like they do not know each other. Time to show them what their women are really made of.
At dinner after we get done with our joint practice Dante seems as if he is torn between gloating and feeling sorry for me. I am a little smug at how practice went but I do not want Dante knowing that I am happy with anything. Little does he know but we played them during practice. We have went through the course way too many times for us to be doing that bad at it still."You know, if you do not want to do the competition tomorrow we don't have to. Or we could switch up teams so I can have some women mixed in with some of the men and vice versa." He offers trying to placate me."No, that is alright. We have worked hard to get to where we are and I do not want to abandon the women now. They have shown real improvement the last couple of days so I am sure that we can hold our own. Or have fun in any case." I tell him.He scoffs slightly and shakes his head. "If you insist then go ahead. I don't want you to be too upset if things do not go as well as you think the
This is it! The big morning! Today is the day of the competition. I am ecstatic! I send a short pep talk to all of my girls and get up to get ready. After last night I feel energized and ready to go. Checking the clock, I still have time to go for a jog before the competition starts so I throw on a pair of gym shorts and a crop top and head outside.I have not jogged through the neighborhood much so this might be a chance to see places that I have not seen before. As I stretch my legs, Dante comes up beside me covered in sweat. It looks like he got a head start on his run."You must have had the same idea as me. Care to join me on my run?" Dante asks me."Sure, I woke up wanting to run. Figured that there is plenty of time before the competition starts." I tell him."Yeah there is. Are you sure that you do not want to mix up the teams at all? It might be fun." Dante offers."Naw, I am good. Let's just get going shall we?" I ask him raising an
"Alright now, I know what the men think of us since they have all been training for years but I want to tell you all that I have faith in you. It might not matter if we win or not but I know that we can at least put up a fight. Then, if we do this again next year, we will be able to kick their butts. If we can hold our own today after only a couple of months of training then in a year we will be unstoppable! Now, even though I know that we can beat them no problem, let's focus on what we need to do most. Have fun and learn from the course. Ready!" I shout to my teammates. "Ready!" They all shout sounding more confident than I have seen them since we started training. We walk over to where the guys are waiting for us. Both teams have all of their names in a bowl and are going to be drawn at random. The only names not in the bowl are mine and Dante's. We are going to go last after we get done cheering on our teams. Standing in front of the other tea
"How were you able to do that!" Dante says rushing up to me. He picks me up and swings me around laughing."Um, shouldn't you be upset that I kicked your butt?" I ask him confused."I would be if it hadn't been in such spectacular fashion. That was amazing! I have never seen anyone or anything move that fast. You have been holding out on me." He says amazed.Looking back at the rest of the pack members that are gathered I can tell that they are all in just as much shock as Dante is. Some of the women find it difficult to even look at me. I had not realized just how fast I had run the course. Must have been pretty impressive if they are all still staring at me."Why is everyone looking at me? All that I did was kick your butt again. Not for the first time I might add." I say jokingly."Maybe it is because going that fast shouldn't even be possible. The course could not even try to knock you off because you moved so fast that it could not register th