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Chương 6: Chapter Six

It was their turn to shut up this time. Scanning through their faces, she could see shock written all over them. Shaemus, on the other hand, only scowled at the claim. "So the hotshot is in trouble and you are here to cover for her. Is that how it is?" he said, his voice going dangerously low while he said it, allowing all the malicious intent to seep into his tone, "Just how much trouble is she in that you came here to tell a white lie such as that one?"

"She's telling the truth. I saw the license with my own eyes," Kyle tried to pitch in.

"She's a freakin Chase, man. Of course, she can have a license if she wants to," Shaemus yelled at him, "The rest of us only have to work harder if we are to make it that far. No wonder she doesn't even care about her school life. There is probably some university ready for her once she's done with her work here."

"Why would she be going to…"

"To get out of being a hunter, that's what… She'd rather just run with her tail tucked between her legs," Sandra was not sure if this was the same Shaemus that they interacted with every day or if he was someone else entirely, for the amount of hate that came with his words was more than he seemed capable of.

"She's the strongest one here. Why…."

"You're the one always fighting her battles for her. Who of you here have ever seen Katie actually strike a single werewolf?" he asked the hunters around. The cafeteria was now silent, the tension in the air as they all looked at Shaemus brimming with anger.

The silence went on for a while… Shaemus kept looking around from one hunter to the next, looking for any of them who would want to speak up against his claim. Sandra would have, considering she had witnessed Katie take down a few rogues before, but there was no proof of an incident like that. Besides, Shaemus seemed very intent on shutting her up the most. Going against him now that he had swayed everyone over to his side was not a wise decision. "Great, then I call her out to a challenge, tomorrow, at the hunters' old exercise ground in the forest. I want to see that lazy dunce getting her hands dirty for once, and when I make her eat dirt tomorrow, she will have to step down from the position of head hunter…"

"Hello, can I talk to you, Sandra?" a deep voice came from behind Shaemus, so clear that it shut him up immediately. The atmosphere of the room changed, a few gasps could be heard from the crowd as Shaemus turned to see the newcomer. He was immediately frozen in place by the sight before him.

A tall muscular guy much taller than Shaemus stood on the outside of the hunter's sidebar, his arms folded across his chest. If it wasn't for the striking intense bright blue eyes, Shaemus would probably have lashed out at the guy for interrupting him. In the world of werewolves and hunters, size didn't always matter, but in this scenario, the power difference was clear and Shaemus knew it. This, however, did not make him lose his cool, "And you are?"

"Cole, I'm a royal. I'll be attending this school starting tomorrow. I just came to pick my tour guide and be on my way," he said, flashing him a wide smile that stretched from one ear to the other. Tension was in the air as the two stared each other down. That's when Sandra saw it… the reason many people, mostly females, couldn't take their eyes off the brief exchange. Cole was still in only an undershirt that slightly clung to his body translucent with sweat.

Sandra did not bother arguing about it and walked out of the sidebar, dragging the Royal by the ear against his complaints outside the cafeteria, frustration written all over her face. A few whistles could be heard from the male students in the cafeteria… sounds which Sandra chose to ignore. She continued dragging him even outside the cafeteria, "Hey, hold on, hey would you let go so we can talk properly?"

"What was that?" Sandra asked anger clear in her voice.

"Are you mad about me addressing you in front of all those hunters? If that's the case, then I'm…"

"I don't care about you being a werewolf. I meant what were you doing back there barely dressed?" Sandra finally stopped dragging him to point out his annoyingly revealing look. Sweat still slightly soaked the undershirt he had on making it cling to him.

Cole paused of a while looking down at his shirt and back at the look in her eyes before bursting into laughter, "Werewolves don't care about that. Isn't that obvious?" he tried speaking in between laughs. "You sounded like the few human grandparents I have had the unfortunate pleasure of meeting during my early morning runs." Cole was still laughing. Sandra used this chance to drag him further until they were back in the gym where they found a few students talking amongst themselves.

Sandra walked up to them, the laughter drunk Royal in tow and smiled at the students, "Would you kindly help get us two juice boxes from the cafeteria, please. My friend here is just too indecent to go in there."

"I'll get them," a small boy with slightly… no, over gelled black hair spoke up. Sandra could barely place where she had seen him before and brushed off the thought.

"Thank you very much, that would be very helpful," she said, watching the boy leave the vicinity. The others remained seated, watching her with questioning gazes. Cole finally stopped laughing and came to stand next to Sandra. The students froze up, shaking nervously, frightened at the sight of Cole. They got up with their trays of food and walked out, making sure not to turn their backs on Cole. They all made their way out, finally clearing the gym.

"Hey…"

"Don't bother," Cole stopped her with the raise of his hand, "I'm already used to the reaction. It's the same every time. That's why I'd want us to be friends. You would be my first human friend outside of my usual group. You know there is one flaw about being a Royal."

"Since everyone the Royals would bite would gain the power of an alpha, it was impossible for them to build packs and usually ended up with a small pack of only alphas which also made decision making amongst them difficult," Sandra had done her research with Katie and knew this well. Royals were powerful, but for the sake of peace, they exercised as little of their power as possible making it seem like they didn't have a pack at all and yet, they had the power of every werewolf in existence that wasn't a rogue.

"Yeah, that's about right. I guess I should expect as much from a hunter such as yourself," he said. The boy returned with their drinks, Sandra and Cole, thanking him for them before bidding him farewell. They drank for a bit in silence before Cole spoke up, "So, was the loud one the one known as Shaemus?"

"Yes, that was Shaemus. He is usually quiet, but I guess you never know somebody until they get the chance to talk behind your back," Sandra said, thinking back to the argument she had had with Shaemus. There was no reasoning left behind his every word he said. He was only looking for a means to an end that was desirable to him and the reason why he was trying to accomplish that feat eluded her.

"So, he was speaking ill about Katie then?"

"Yes, and it made me sick to my stomach. I hope Katie does not accept the challenge," Sandra said, "but knowing her, there is no way she will pass it up."

"Why don't you want her to accept it? I thought she was the strongest one here."

Sandra sighed, having to explain the reasons for the confusion, "Yes, she is the strongest hunter in this school, but no one has ever seen her fight for real… well, except for me although it was a long time ago. I'm always around to finish his fights for her before they even start. I have been doing that since we came here as freshmen."

"Doesn't that mean that she is rusty in combat?"

"Not necessarily, I don't think the Chase family would let her slack off and lose focus on her training," Cole nodded in understanding after hearing that.

"I want to see her."


Chương 7: Chapter Seven

The trio stood silent for a while… Katie's guardian seemed too petrified to answer the question that had come from their child. Katie could feel the wolf from her dream struggling to get out, but unfortunately for the wolf, it relied on emotion and anger, all things that Katie had been taught to suppress while she was growing up. In fact, the more the wolf struggled, the more she found out how to block it out. "You might want to sit down, Katie."

Katie's aunt was the first one to speak up, slowly pulling her to the dinner table where she retrieved a chair for her to sit on. Her beloved guardians sat on either side of her. "Honey, go bring her meds." Her aunt said beckoning for her husband to go and search for the pills they had been feeding Katie since she could walk.

"So is this it? The talk that…"

"Yes, Katie, this is the talk…"

"So you knew, then…"

"Your breathing, Katie… focus on your breathing," her aunt raised her voice, putting all the authority she could muster into it. Katie began getting worried about what they were telling her and the constant probing of the wolf did not help cool her nerves. Katie then began the breathing exercises she had been taught growing up, the wolf in her imagination retreating the more she got a hold of her emotions. Now she knew why the training she was put under was different from the training the others were put through.

"So you can see her," she said to Katie before footsteps alerted them of her uncle returning.

"Marie, dear…" Katie kept calm as he revealed the crime she had obviously been carrying out for the past few days, "the bottle is still full," he said. The room went dead silent upon his revelation. She put out her hand, getting them from him and giving Katie two of the blue capsules from the bottle. The wolf from her 'imagination' clawed its way back and snarled at her ferociously before she swallowed the blue pills. At first, nothing happened and then the dizziness hit her like a brick to the skull along with a hammering headache. Katie staggered wildly, the world spinning a hundred kilometres per hour. In just two steps, she tripped forward, fainting before she even hit the ground, unconscious.

Katie woke up much later, her head giving her one hell of a hammering. She brought her hand up to her forehead only to find a wet cloth there. "Don't move just yet. That's what you get for skipping your medicine."

Katie closed her eyes in search of the wolf but found nothing. It was gone like nothing had been wrong, to begin with. Her hands felt like lead under the weight of the blanket. Her whole body had lost a ton of energy in a short amount of time. The feeling of loneliness that briefly overwhelmed her was not among the reactions she expected to come from her, "It's gone. The wolf…"

"Yes, that is what the medicine is for," the voice of her uncle spoke up, startling her. Her mother stayed at the threshold of the door to her room, silently listening to the conversation. Katie noticed the ceiling and walls weren't the same wood she had been accustomed to before she fainted. A quick look around the room told her that she was back in her room in the estate. As it so seemed, they had moved her back to the estate to avoid a night when they did not come home from 'work.' "You must have noticed by now. You aren't exactly normal," her uncle began.

"Just get to the point. Tell me the whole truth," Katie was trying her best to keep her cool while they explained what it was they had to say. "So, I'm supposed to believe that I am a werewolf, is that it? I've been careful to keep from being bitten for as long as I can remember, I have never been bitten by an alpha or a Royal for that matter."

"You didn't have to be bitten. You were born a werewolf," Aunt Marie spoke up to speed the process along. The news hit like a brick, Katie's heartbeat getting heavy and loud in her chest. A part of her wished they were just saying stuff to prank her, but the Chase family was not known for such behaviour, especially when it came to issues of such magnitude.

"That's preposterous. My eyes have never been bright blue and I don't have any characteristics of a wolf. I've seen them in a mirror enough times that I… I know the colour of my eyes," Katie tried arguing, the fight between reality and fantasy was now in full swing within her mind as she struggled to grasp what she was being told as well as find a way to deny it.

"We have been giving you that medicine for as long as you can remember. It was meant to suppress your werewolf abilities. When the medicine is working, it removes all the characteristics of a werewolf from you including the glow of your eyes," her uncle said, waving at her a plastic container filled with blue pills.

"But then, my eyes… they are blue…" panic was starting to rise within her as she realized the last thing she needed right now was to know that it was actually a bad thing for his eyes to be that colour.

"You are a Royal," Aunt Marie said, her voice completely void of any emotion as she said it. Katie's headache threatened to split her skull as she got even more agitated. "We were meant to tell you all this within this week because over the weekend, when the moon is full, on your birthday, the medicine will lose all its power on you, and you'll shift."

"How are you so calm about this?" she asked them, disbelief etched into her voice.

"We have known about that deadline since the day we were sent into hiding to raise you and we have taught you everything we could so that you would not be defenceless," Aunt Marie spoke, steeling her voice once more and hiding all emotion that she was feeling at the moment. Her eyes, however, still betrayed her and released tears slowly.

"If I am a Royal, why am I in hiding?"

"Because… an attempt on your life was made when you were only an infant. The moon goddess herself sent us to protect you… I'm still unsure why the moon goddess would rely on humans to save her species. All she said was that you were special and your existence threatened the evil that lay in the shadows of both mankind and werewolves," her uncle did the best to explain what it is he meant.

"I don't understand what it is that you are trying to say," she told them.

"I only hope she speaks to you herself on your birthday," her uncle spoke up.

"I have to go to that party on that day," Katie said

"That won't be happening," Aunt Marie said, "you can attend the day part of that programme, but once it clocks seven, you come straight back here."

"That day is special to Sandra. I will be making it to that party on that day. I also have to make sure she doesn't get carried away by having too much fun," Katie chuckled at the thought before continuing, "Don't worry about me. You trained me well. There is nothing I won't be able to handle on that day."

"Get some rest. We'll discuss this later. We trust your judgement. On that day, if you notice you may not be able to stop it, you come right back," Aunt Marie said. Her uncle got up from the chair he was seated on and made his way to the door, switching off the light once he was at the threshold of the door.

"Sleep tight, Katie," he said. Regardless of how they looked at it, these two were like parents to Katie and she valued them more than any other Royals that would claim to be her real parents. She almost asked the question… the question that would disclose who her parents were, but thought better of it and kept her mouth shut. Besides, she had all the family she needed with her. Nothing was going to change that. Her thoughts swirled into a confusing mess as she closed her eyes, sleep coming to her faster than she had expected rendering her unconscious within minutes.

......…

As Katie slept, the horrors of her reality trying their best to break her mind and world apart, someone watched on from far away, preferably for her own safety and convenience or simply because there was nothing that they could do for her at the moment. "How long are you going to keep this hidden from her?" a man asked his wife, hugging her from the back while he kissed into the crook of her neck. The woman dressed in a white robe, barely responded to the loving gestures as she watched the girl sleeping, her mind deep in thought, trying to find a way she could best approach her current predicament, "You need to stop stressing so much. It's not good for you."

This time, the man gently licked the mark in the crook of her neck forcing a reaction from her as that was probably one of the most sensitive parts of her body. "Honey, it's not the right time yet," the moon goddess said leaning into her husband.

"When is the right time then? You have watched this girl grow up and you have done nothing to interfere with her life… I thought that was all you were ever going to do, but now it seems like each time you stand at this pond staring down at her, you are holding back with all your control from going to her," the man voiced his observations.

"You are right," she did not bother denying what he said, "four days from now, she will turn eighteen and her wolf will awaken. The time we have been waiting for is almost upon us."

"I don't quite understand what you mean. I thought the girl was a hunter," the man said, confusion leaking into his voice.

"On the contrary, she is a werewolf. One of the pair that will bring peace to the humans and the werewolves," she said.

"You remember that night that the Rogues attacked the royals to kill the newborn baby that was meant to do that. You sent me to protect her, but when I arrived, the baby's blood was in that crib and her mother had vanished along with her personal guard. I was sure that she was dead. Are you telling me that this whole time, the girl was still alive? And I been watching you loom over her for all this time," a hint of agitation leaked into the man's voice as he spoke to his wife.

"Yes, my love, that is correct," she spoke, her voice completely void of all emotion as she did. She felt the man's hands tighten their grip around her waist before he let go and walked away from her. "Where are you going?"

"For a run," he said, briskly walking out of the room, his fists constantly clenching and unclenching as he searched his mind for a way to blow off some steam.


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