"Don't bother." Maura says closing her eyes, taking in a deep breath before snapping her fingers, a bleeding man appears in front of her, she sinks her fangs in his bleeding arm. Not quit killing him just depriving his arm of blood. "I like this kind more. Don't kill them when you bring them to me. The feel of their beating heart is so soothing." Maura says her eyes returning to their natural color.
"Like mother like daughters, everyone else likes them dead already. May I finish?" Katlin asks pointing to the man, receiving a nod from her sister she changes into a wolf with brown fur the same color of her hair, ripping into the man, finishing him off.
"Had I known it would be like this I wouldn't have made such a fuss."
"How do you feel sweetheart?" Hope asks snapping her fingers and cleaning Maura's mouth.
"I can feel the power and magic flowing through my veins."
"Your are getting your powers faster than you should. You are truly the most power of both vampire and witch. We will start training in the morning. Get some rest."
"Now I want you to close your eyes and focus on the sound of my voice, ignore those around us." Hope says the next morning, standing a few feet in front of Maura.
"I'am. You should put that dagger away before you get yourself hurt sis."
"How did you do that?"
"No offense, but you smell like a wet dog Katlin and all your weapons smell like a flower bush."
"She has a point. You shouldn't use rose water to clean your weapons." Hope says feeling very proud of her eldest daughter.
"Maybe you should bath in the rose water instead." Maura says, and Hope takes a step back to watch her daughters.
"You know what!" Katlin says going to tackle her big sister, but Maura moves and pins her down on the ground, not yet opening her eyes.
"I haven't even opened my eyes yet Katlin, maybe your wolf form is a better training partner."
"Maybe you're right." Katlin says, letting her wolf form come through.
"You smell a little bit better now little sis."
"You two would make your father's proud. Maura and her control over powers she just found out about. Katlin and her stalking. My girls are growing up so fast. Maybe it's time to have another child." This statement causes Maura's eyes to fly open and Katlin to let out a low growl. "I'll take that as a no."
"You can take that as a hell no from me." Katlin thinks, causing Maura to laugh.
"I didn't know I could hear others thoughts."
"You're not supposed to. No vampire can hear a wolf's thoughts. Only vampire Hybrids can hear a wolf's thoughts."
"Well I did, she said you could take that as a hell no from her. What does this mean?"
"It means we have to very careful if we don't want what I think this means to happen."
"And what do you think this means?" Katlin asks when she transforms back into her human form.
"Maura is going to be bitten by a wolf."
"Can I do it?" Katlin asks already stalking over to her sister, but freezing in place when Maura waves her hand in her direction, not saying a word or even looking at her.
"Does that answer your question, sweetheart? Maura unfreeze your sister."
"She doesn't seem like she needs much help in learning how to use her powers to me mother."
"Yes it seems that way doesn't it? Well I think we are done for today. Maura you are free to explore the grounds there is now where you can not go. One day all of this will be yours. It's been mine for over three hundred years."
"But you don't look a day over forty."
"Vampires stop aging when they kill a human."
"Well I will never stop aging. I don't have it in me to kill a human."
"You practically killed a man earlier today Maura."
"He was going to bleed out anyway."
"We will see. Until I see reason enough or you have trouble with something you won't need further help learning to control your powers." Hope says walking away, leaving Maura in the courtyard. A few months later
"Can you believe your going to be a full vampire and witch in two days!?" Katlin projects into Maura's head as they go on a walk through the woods behind the castle.
"I know and it feels like just yesterday I was learning I had powers. But knowing how to use all of them with perfection makes it feel like I have had them all my -" Maura stops suddenly on the unmarked path they had taken, not knowing what has put her on such high alert. "Something is out there."
"I don't smell anything out of the ordinary." Katlin says sticking her nose in the air, taking deep breaths."Maybe you're just jumpy."
"Maybe-" The word is cut off when a big black wolf jumps out of the shadows and attacks Maura. Biting and scratching her everywhere possible. When Maura manages to get a hold of the wolf she drains it of all its strength and levitates it so she can freeze the wolf Katlin is fighting before smashing them both into nearby trees, before falling dead or unconscious to the ground.
"Maura!?"
"I'll teleport back to the house and send guards back to help you with them. Be careful."
"Their dead they won't be a problem, go back to the house and get that venom out of you before it's too late." Katlin says, Maura nods before she teleports herself back to the castle.
"Mother! Mother! I need you now! Please!"
"Maura!? Maura my god what happened to you!? Where's Katlin!?"
"We were attacked by two wolfs. Katlins fine, I got the worst of it. I already sent some guards to help her. You need-" Her sentence is stopped when she feels a pain shoot through her right side then the left until her whole body feels like it's on fire.
"It's too late Maura, the venom was in a large quantity, no one would have been able to stop it. I'm so sorry." Hope says a few hours later. Maura looks down at herself she has massive dark brown paws for hands and hind legs, wants to see what the rest of her looks like.
"Here." Katlin says moving a large full length mirror in front of her sister, "You're a wolf now, so I can hear you thoughts like you can hear mine when I'm in my wolf form."
'I'm bigger than you are.'
"Alpha wolves are bigger than the rest of the pack."
'Alpha?'
"The wolf that attacked you was the alpha, he was also my father. The pack said he's been planning on killing you since he found out that you, the strongest vampire and witch, could hear a wolf's thoughts. You killed the alpha and now that you're a wolf too your the new alpha."
'I don't want to be alpha. You're his daughter you can be alpha.'
"You killed him, you're a wolf, you're alpha. It doesn't matter that I'm his daughter, was his daughter."
'I'm sorry Katlin.'
"No hard feelings sis, you had to do what you had to do to save your life. I would have killed your dad to if he came after me." Katlin says looking at her sister in her wolf form. "I have to say you make one beautiful wolf. All the Omegas are going to go crazy when you go in heat."
'What do you mean 'in heat'?'
"Mom would you like to inform her of the phrase 'in heat'?"
"Humans get aroused wolves go in heat, it normally last the same time period between human menstrual cycle."
"Couldn't have said it better myself."
'So I'm Alpha, future Queen of all vampires, and leader of a witch coven? I'm such a badass.'
"Yeah you're a badass sis. Wolf, Vampire, and Witch. What's next Dragon?"
'There are dragons?'
"You didn't know there were dragons?"
"Stop teasing your sister. There or no dragons Maura. You can transform back into wolf form whenever you want."
'How about we go finish out walk?'
"Yeah we can finish our walk. Now that you're a wolf and alpha is time you meet my other family." Katlin says transforming into her wolf form, leading Maura to her wolf den, deep in the forest.
"Katlin is back, she brought a new wolf." A young boy says as he sees the two of them coming down the pathway.
"He's just five years old, the youngest pup we have. He'll be your first trainee."
"Mine? I thought your parents trained you?"
"They do but Tyler was bitten by my father as revenge to his parents for killing his bond mate."
"Bond mate for wolves, twin flame for witches, what is it for vampires."
"Just mate for vampires."
"Hi, I'm Tyler, I learned how to change Aunty Katlin wanna see?"
"Sure buddy." They step back and watch as the little boy transforms into what someone could easily mistake for a small golden retriever. "Good job Ty, this is my sister Maura and guess what."
"What?"
"She's going to be your mom."
"What happened to daddy Marcus?"
"He tried to hurt your mom but ended up getting hurt more."
"Who would want to hurt you? Was it because you were too gorgeous?" A dark red wolf says walking up behind them.
"Philip this is my sister Maura."
"The vamp witch? Marcus was stupid enough to go through with that stupid plan of his then. Well as second hand to him let me be the first to welcome you as our new alpha." He says lowering his head to rest in front of Mauras paws.
"Um, thank you?" She says looking at her sister for help.
"Philip, I'm going to need some help showing Maura how to be pack leader."
"I would be more than welcome to help Maura learn the way." Philip says grinning mischievously.
"Down boy. She's more likely to mate with a vampire or have a twin flame."
"That reminds me, I need to see how the coven is. I haven't been there since I first found out about my powers. We can do this some other time, you two can handle the pack right?"
"Of course, go see about those full blood broom riding witches." Katlin says nudging her sister's shoulder with her snote.
"See you back at home." Maura says taking off in the direction of the coven.
"Open the gates." She says as she transforms back into her human form.
"A vampire and now a wolf as our leader. We are doomed."
"Not we Sofia. You are half human. No human half witch or not is welcome in this coven." Series says escorting a woman with dark brown hair out of the coven.
"So you're a wolf too?"
"Yeah its still new. I got bit this morning by the alpha I killed him."
"Oh Maura! Alpha dog, Vampire Queen, and Leader of the largest coven. What's next on your list? Queen of Great Britain maybe, then President of the united states?"
"How about learning how to be a mother? There is a pup who was changed by the last alpha, hes mine now."
"Wow. Are you going to change him so you can have him as an heir to all your domains or let him raging over the pack and have a child by a witch and vampire so they won't be lead by a hybrid? Because you know none of us can stand the other, they only except you because your Paddy's only child that is not human."
"I hadn't thought about that- Did you just say that's not human? Are you saying that he has other children?"
"No, he has only one other child, a son. I believe he is called Colin but he hasn't been seen around here for years, some say he went to california for the gold rush down there."
"I have a brother."
"Yes you do, now would you like to hear how the coven is doing without a stable leader?"
"Yes."
"We are fine, we have survived hundreds of years with your father as leader and he was gone six months at a time. We hardly ever saw him. When something happens and you are needed I will call for you. No need to worry about us."
"I will think about having an heir for each domain. Thank you Series."
"No problem, see you later Maura." He says, watching as Maura transforms into a wolf, taking off in the direction of the castle.
"Maura there you are, I was wondering where you were when Katlin came back alone." Hope says as Maura changes back into human form.
"I had to go check on the coven. How do you feel about me having an heir for each domain?"