A/N- and here we are! Another saga of Wolf Love! As you know, i wrote that lil authoress' note in Phoenix Love for you to decide whether i posted it soon and slow updat- well, yeah, you know...
Post now/Slow updates- 4
Post later/medium updates- 3
So, here it is. Now but with slow updates. Not all updates will be slow, though. I may have a writing spark and literally jump on my computer...
Thank you for all your reviews and support through all the other Wolf Loves! I really appreciate it... but between you and me; the original Wolf Love was part of a dream i had many a moon ago... scary thought, huh?
Well... it's about to get even scarier...
'Animal Talking'
'Moon Child thinking'
Normal thinking
"Speaking"
"Someone talking in a different language"
Chapter One- Circe
Sea green eyes scanned the room before her. There were many mortals here; mostly men, but she was delighted to see a few females there too… though the most handsome of the males were not paying any attention to them whatsoever. Her eyes narrowed.
Disguised as a silk spider, the great and powerful witch, Circe, hid on the ceiling. For over two millennia, she had been trapped in Tartarus or, as most mortals called it these days, 'Hell'. When Christianity took over the world, the Greek gods were forgotten about. Because of this, they abandoned the land that they had helped create and retreated to the Elysian Fields, or, as it is called now, 'Heaven'. The god of the dead, Hades, was the only one not to be forgotten, though he was given a new name; Satan...or the devil.
Circe had been forced to hide in the safest place she knew, which was with Hades in Tartarus, but was freed by a great Deity; though it came with a price. Circe had to fulfil a task for the great god…
She had to look over two couples and make sure they were true to each other. She could do it anyway, anyhow, but her plan had to work and it couldn't put lives in danger. The great god had shown the powerful witch an image of the couples and told her their stories. The witch had to admit that they were close to their lovers.
But Circe could never trust a man again. When she had been a mortal herself, back in ancient Greek times, she had been married to a strong and handsome Greek Olympic champion. Long, flowing brown hair and sea green eyes that could be mistaken for gems made her one of the most beautiful woman in the whole of Greece; second only to Helen of Argos. For a few years, Circe had lived in total happiness, but her life crashed down when she caught her dear old husband in bed with another woman. Her heart was broken so bad that it turned to powder. Shestumbled from her home where she ran into a beautiful goddess.
Bowing down, though still in tears, she prayed to the great goddess to help her. The Deity took pity on the equally beautiful woman before her and gave her immense power; turning her into an immortal witch, also giving her a long wooden staff with a dragon winding up it; in the dragons' mouth held a giant crystal the colour of the sea; the colour of her eyes.
Circe thanked the goddess and set back to her house where she cornered her husband and his mistress. With a strangely expert wave of her staff, she turned her husband into a wild boar and the woman into a bear. She watched, from a safe distance, the she-bear kill and eat the boar; watching the woman eat her husband. It made her feel happy to watch men suffer like this.
She stayed in her golden palace in her magical forest on the coast of what is now known as Italy, luring men to her home before turning them into animals to fend for themselves in the wooded area. There was only one man she helped; Odysseus, one of the best heroes of the Trojan War. Though she coaxed him into staying in her palace with his men for a whole year after he managed to resist her magic, she let him go, also aiding him with information and supplies on his way back to his home, Ithaca. But of course had to flee down to Tartarus later on...
She had been free of Tartarus for a year, just watching the couples, but also watching the modern world; it amazed the two thousand year old woman.
But back to the mortals.
She moved along the ceiling towards the four males that had caught her eye. Her eight eyes blinked one after the other and a small smirk grew on her spidery mouth. She was about to creep down the wall, but spotted a small, racoon-type creature on one of the male's shoulder; that creature looked like it ate insects.
There were also two wolves lying beside them. Wolves were Circe's favourite animals, but that didn't mean that she was the favourite of wolves.
She studied the males. They seemed to be avoiding the other mortals in the room, staying within their own group. Circe's eyes (all eight of them) softened. Maybe they had been cast out of the way…? She didn't know… she began to listen intently to their conversation…
"So, do you think you're going to tell them?" Ray asked, scanning the blading reunion scene.
Tala frowned. "We don't know." He looked at Kai. "We might just let everyone find out for themselves."
"Sounds like a plan." Bryan admitted. "Plan for us, Kitten?"
Ray remained silent, but he didn't have to bother replying, because Michael came over.
"Hey guys." He greeted, his American accent feeling stronger, since they hadn't spoken to him for a long time. "Listen, just wanna thank you for saving Johnson and Davis. The way they described it to us, you did a lot of butt kicking."
Tala smirked. "You could say we did."
"You?" Ray scoffed. "I didn't even see you land one punch; now, Bryan, I think, did."
"There was no need to." Tala shrugged again.
"But there's also no need in thanking us either." Bryan said. "We did what we could to stop Voltaire."
"Yeah, but it rocked." He glanced behind him as he heard his name being called. "Sorry guys, I gotta jet. Talk to you later, eh?"
He gave a little wave before walking away.
Ray smiled. "Well, you heard it from him, folks; we rock."
Tala chuckled, settling back in the cushy armchair, silently wishing that he could just sit on Kai's lap; he thought it was more comfortable…
"Oh sod it."
He stood and, just like he had done the many weeks before, plonked himself in Kai's lap.
Bryan raised an eyebrow. "Whatever happened to letting everyone find out for themselves?"
"Ah, I'm just helping things along." Tala said with a shrug, leaning back on the hard chest of his lover. He felt the familiar weight of Kai's arms on his waist and smiled, eyes half lidded in satisfaction, sighing happily. He smiled upon spotting Ray's hair in a loose ponytail. "So you decided to keep your hair down for me, eh Ray?"
"Yeah; much less of a hassle…" Ray sighed. "I'm going to go see my team." He drawled after a while, standing up, Fai balanced perfectly on his shoulder. "Though, you may not be able to see Fai for quite some time if Mariah sees him… expect to hear the word 'Cute' screamed at full volume."
Smirks were all around as they watched Ray walk off dejectedly.
"Ah, I feel sorry for the poor bastard…" He caught the slight glare from his teammate. "Using 'bastard' in its true way: fatherless person."
Bryan frowned. "How do you know about that?"
"What? Do you think that I haven't had a proper talking with Ray? He told me about that Xiu Juan woman."
"Hm…"
"CUTE!"
"That's the fuzzball for ya…"
But then, a white blur streaked past them and dived down in between the small gap between Moon Child and Cha'tima. The two wolves looked down confused but when Mariah appeared, they acted like nothing was wrong.
The pink haired teen's eyes narrowed upon seeing a certain Russian. "Oh, hello Bryan. How've you been? Ray told us about your daring rescue mission."
"Well, that was nice of him, wasn't it?" Bryan replied calmly.
"Uh, Mariah?" Ray asked, coming to stand next to his 'sister'. "Why don't you go back and talk to Julia and Matilda? I…er, need to speak to Bryan privately."
"I am not leaving him with you. I don't want to have to plan your funeral so early in life."
"Yeah," Ray muttered under his breath, "but you're driving me to an early grave too, so-"
"What was that, Ray?" Mariah asked sweetly.
"I said that you don't have to be so grave, Mariah, he won't do anything I-"
"Ray, you may trust him but I don't."
"Listen fuzzball," Bryan growled, "I've spent more than a week with Ray. And, Ray may I ask, have I ever tried to kill you?" Ray shook his head. "Exactly."
Ray edged away from his teammate as smoke billowed from her. Her pupils were such slits that they could no longer see the black part of her eye.
Ray laughed nervously. "Uh, Lee? Get here… now, please."
The black haired neko-jin appeared a few seconds later and, upon seeing his death glaring sister, rushed off to grab a few of the girls.
"Listen, you purple haired bastard, call me that one more time and I'll-"
"Mariah!" A baby-pink haired girl, Matilda, and dual haired, Spanish-looking girl, Julia, appeared. Matilda laughed nervously. "Come on Mariah! We need to show you something!" She exclaimed, grabbing the neko's wrist and trying to yank her away; Julia doing the same.
They did in fact manage to get the Chinese girl away, though it took a lot.
"And don't insult me by calling my hair purple; it's lavender." Bryan called after her.
Ray's sweatdrop grew to an extend that it could've been mistaken for his head. Bryan stood and, as he walked past his neko-jin, grabbed his hand, pulling him away. Ray didn't know if it was true, but he had an inkling that he dragged Ray past Mariah on purpose.
Pulling him into a deserted corridor, the Falcon proceeded to push the Tiger against the wall. He leant in and Ray shivered when he felt Bryan's hot breath on his ear. He thought that his lover was going to whisper something in his ear, so, of course, he nearly jumped out of his skin when he felt something slippery lick the shell of his ear.
"Oh come on, Ray." Bryan whispered in his ear. "You don't mind it being shoved down your throat, so why is it a problem here?" He gave his ear a lick to emphasise his point.
"Oh shut up, Bryan."
"Your sister doesn't seem to like Bryan that much." Tala commented, looking Lee in the eye. "But you don't seem to have a problem with him; or us for that matter."
Lee shrugged. "If Ray doesn't have a problem with you guys then I haven'tareason to be worried. Also the fact that I can't have a grudge with Bryan because of the whole Russian tournament thing; I heard from Michael about what the reason was and it definitely weren't just for the sadism. And also the fact that what happened in the past can't be changed; not even the great spirits or whatever Deity is up there can change it." Tala nodded thoughtfully. "Unless you want me to be scared."
"What would be the fun in that? I would rather you be actually scared, than pretending." Tala admitted.
Lee smirked. "So… are you two and item, then? You and Kai?"
"We could be…" Tala smirked. "No, I just like sitting in Kai's lap."
"Actually, it seems to me that you admit to both." Kai muttered. He looked at the Lion. "But is there a problem with us being together?"
Lee snorted. "I'm not a homophobe, Kai. I'd never even in a million years dream of discriminating people for their… likes. If you two are together, then so be it." He thought of something. "Hey, which one of you told Ray to keep his hair unwrapped?"
"What makes you say it was one of us?" Tala said nonchalantly, as he ran his fingers through Kai's hair, studying the texture.
"Because Ray would never have it down."
"Blame Tala." Kai muttered loud enough so that Lee could hear.
Tala pouted, still running his fingers through navy-grey hair. "Fine, it was me. But it did come with a deal: if his hair gets knotted, I'm the one who brushes it. But, I think his hair's beautiful, so it shouldn't be hidden away."
Lee shrugged. "I guess you're right though; he does have nice hair… that's the tiny thing that Mariah hates about Ray. It's only like 10 per-centbut she's majorly green-eyed."
"Mariah hating Ray? Has the world come to an end?" Tala laughed. "She's obsessed about our little neko… you'll have a heartbroken/psycho sister on your hands, I expect."
"Ray's with someone?" Lee asked surprised. "Who's the lucky girl?"
Tala grinned and looked at Kai, finger's still submerged in grey strands. "Wait till Falcon hears that he's the lucky girl…"
Kai smirked. "Oh, I expect he'll be as happy as Tyson at an all-you-can-eat."
"Oh come on, guys. Cut the suspense please." Lee said.
"We'll let Ray tell you, but just a little clue: It's not a girl." Tala said, standing up and dragging Kai off somewhere else.
"Ray's… gay?" Lee shook his head. "Those guys know too much for it to be safe…"
He felt something climb up his back and onto his shoulder.
"Oh, you must be Fai." He said to the white racoon. "Come on, I bet you're bored here. And it's not exactly safe here; Mariah's nearby."
Circe watched the black-haired neko-jin and the racoon walk off, still disguised as the silk spider. So now she knew the two couples… but…
There was just one problem for Circe…
They were both male.
The three thousand (plus) year oldwitch had never ever heard of two males being together. It had been heard of in Ancient Greece; and if it had, she was sure it would've have been punishable. The gods created man and woman to be together!
But her mission wasn't to think about that; it was to make sure that they wouldn't be heartbroken. And…
She guessed that if they were happy together and others were happy with them being like… that, then it was okay to be like that in this day and age.
Her mission would start tomorrow.
For now, she had to find some other mortal men to scare…
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