Mythology: Night's bane
Chapter 4: School and the reclusive German
Summer v: thanks so much you're my 3rd review ever; you don't know how much that meant to me, thanks a lot : D
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Luna yawned as she sleepily treaded to her morning class, her eyes and body unwilling to get up at such an ungodly hour, who's Idea, was it to hold school at 5:30 in the morning! She though as she struggled to keep her eyes open, she looked down at her purple long sleeved shirt and skinny jeans, her Winter fur boots getting covered in the mud like ground that lead to Miyako's den
She looked over to see snowstorm get out of his grey colored house, he had a grin the size of his ego on, a back pack slung over his shoulder, he was wearing something different today, A grey long sleeve shirt with jeans and white sneakers, as always his ears and tail were there, he walked over to Luna
"Just not a morning person are you Luna?" he said snickering
She didn't say anything instead she gave him a punch to the shoulder, he laughed as she rubbed the spot where she hit, they both remained quiet as they walked down the long street of houses and buildings, every time Luna looked at all the houses and shops, a little bit of miyako's tale of only 67 people living here died inside her, for good reason, there was a large enough town on the top of this mountain for 3,000 people, and only 67 half-demons were roaming around here? She scoffed and blew her crimson hair out of her eyes
They both walked until they reached another fellow wolf's house, Anna stepped out of her house yawning, she wore something different today too, even though it was winter time she wore a short sleeve shirt that was greyish black and skinny jeans, her black and white accented sneakers trotted over the rough ground, she had a backpack in one hand and a jacket in the other, Luna's Eyes widened at the sight of the red dragon tattoo on her upper arm, its maw open with flames scorching out of it mouth, it was remarkably detailed, almost like a Picasso piece on her arm, however, half of it was covered up by her short sleeve and she didn't get much of a good look, Anna's Green eyes met her light blue, tracing to where she was looking at, she gasped a bit and put her jacket on quickly, Luna was confused
"Anna what was that?" she asks in curiosity
Anna sighed as she got along aide them both "it's a long story Luna…..could I tell you later?"
Luna nodded, completely understanding "oh yea sure, it's totally fine Anna" she smiled at the black haired wolf
"Thanks Luna" She said, her eyes looking like a huge weight had been taken off them
Luna shrugged "no problem"
As They approached the Alpha's den, Luna swore she was about to collapse from pure exhaustion, with what had happened yesterday, you wouldn't really be happy to go to school at 5:30 in the morning too.
The three of them entered the large wooden building; the first person Luna noticed was Miyako at the front of the foyer
"Oh good! You got up on time!" she said decently surprised
"Not easy when you set my alarm clock without telling me…" Luna grumbled
"Haha….your welcome Luna!" she joked as she winked at her seemingly innocent
Luna just growled at her
Miyako stood up from her chair " okay guys, follow me, the classroom is right over here..." miyako said as she led the three of them to a door to the right of the foyer down a hallway
She opened the door inside was a smaller room with about 30 desks, most of them were taken up with some younger half-demon teenagers, but the two most striking were two large wolves in the mix
One was a German wolf as Luna could tell from the stockier build, he was black with some darker red spots, and he was a bit smaller than jack, at about 4 foot long without the tail. He, whom Luna could obviously tell the gender due to the larger stature of him, was sitting obediently at a desk, his eyes focused on jack in the front of the room who stopped as the three other wolves entered the room, Luna was surprised that jack recovered from the gunshot wound so quickly, but I guess being almost full demon has its perks, although he had a bandage under his shirt that kept the wound from bleeding
The other wolf was all but massive, larger than 6 foot long (I sh*t you not, they can get that big, Slavic wolves I mean, well at least the largest one) without the tail and almost the same height as Luna when she was standing up when he sat down, he was a Slavic wolf as she could tell from the large but skinnier frame of the wolf, he was a sleek black color with a steel-white color, black covering most of his body, the white covering his underbelly, fore-legs, and some of his long tail, his cheek fur was white accented as well, he was sitting down at the desk across from the other wolf
"Welcome guys, take your seats" jack said as he put down his chalk that he was writing with
Snowstorm took a seat next to another girl, Anna next to the German wolf, and Luna next to the Slavic wolf
Luna faded in and out as jack taught English; she was more focused on the pasts of her fellow wolves, as would be with any 16 year old in the same society of an enigmatic group of half-demons, rather than focused on English
"….and an adjective will most likely follow..." Luna heard jack say as she faded back into the lesson
A small bell rung out "oh well you wolves are lucky I nearly got to the next stage, alright, do pages 53-65 in you English books
Luna cringed, that was more work than her old school, but she guess when you only have one school day you have to have an excess amount of work
The class slowly left, Luna stuck back a bit, curiosity still lingering in her head about the two wolves.
Jack erased the board and turned around to the two wolves and pointed a finger
"lys I want you and R.j. to do better in English, you two will do pages 53-78…come one guys you are better than this!, you're on a 11th grade level for god's sake!" he said as he turned back to the board to finish erasing his writing
The German wolf who was R.j. looked away, the Slavic wolf who was Lys let out a small whimper of disappointment
They both got up from their desks and left, the only sound being the padding of their paws on the floor
Luna got up as they left "so that was R.j. and lys?" she asked Jack
He nodded "yep, they're both really smart but I wish they were better in English, but I guess your second language is always hard" he said as he set down the eraser
"Second language?" Luna asked simply
Jack nodded again "yep, German is first for R.j., Ukrainian for lys"
"Ukrainian?" Luna asked puzzled
Jack waved his hand "you'll learn the countries in history and geography..."
"Now head out, I'm cleaning up, unless you want to help..." jack said smirking at the last part
Luna eyes widened a bit "O-oh no, you look like you've got it, I'll catch you later jack…." She said as she quickly walked out the room
Jack just chuckled to himself "gets 'em every time…"
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Luna exited the den of her alpha's, she looked around a bit, she saw Snowstorm talking to another girl, and Anna was already walking back home
R.j. however was now in half-human form, he was kneeling down rubbing the head of his dog Adolf (I didn't name his dog after Hitler….Adolf means Royal or Handsome wolf I believe...)
Luna thought it would be a perfect time to introduce herself, she walked on over to R.j., her books still in her hands as she clutched them to her chest
"Hey!" she said cheerfully to the older boy
R.j. jumped from being startled, and turned to her "y-yes?" he said, Luna heard a slight accent from him
"I'm Luna! You must be Rj right?" she said smiling
"Y-yea that's me; you must be ze new wolf Luna?" he said as he looked up to her, but looked away again, she could tell he couldn't look her in the eyes, maybe he was shy; she didn't know
"Yes that's me!" she said she then looked over to the large German Shepard next to R.j.
"He a very pretty dog, you trained him yourself?"
"Danke, and yes" he replied as he stood up
"Where is your other dog?" she asked
"Vhich one?" he asked as he scratched under Adolf's muzzle
Luna raised an eyebrow "uh….I think his name is Zhuk…not sure"
RJ smiled "ah y-yea Zhuk" he said then turned to Adolf once more
"At ze house, he isn't zat good around zis many people,"
Luna nodded "I know what you mean…"
Luna asked another question to prevent the awkward silence that she knew would follow "so….. do you breed any other kinds of dogs other than German shepherds?"
R.j. nodded his head as well "yes, some Wolves and ze occasional Timber wolf, but you know. Ze are very similar, I do remember training a pack of huskies once though…."
"That's cool, do they get along better with you sense your half-wolf?" Luna asked as she shifted her weight from one leg to the other
R.j. noticeably cringed "v-vell, yes und no…" he said, his accent getting thicker for some reason
"What do you mean? They don't like a half-wolf ordering them?" Luna inquired
The German boy looked away "forget it….j-just yes zey do, zat answer your question?" he asked looking back up at her
"Vell I'm off to combat training with Miyako, are you going to be joining us?" he asked getting up from his crouch
"Combat training? Miyako never told me about that…" she said as she looked up at him
He shrugged, "perhaps she thinks you're not ready for it yet" he said
"Yea….hey you mind if I come along?" Luna asked
"v-vell I don't know, it's really up to miyako" he said unsure of the answer
Luna smirked "well ill follow you and then if she says I wasn't allowed I will take the fall, how that sound?"
RJ looked down to his side, considering the idea "ya alright, just behave okay?" he said pointing a finger at her
"Promise" Luna said as she placed a hand over her heart mockingly
"Vell lets go, you won't mind if Adolf come Vis us vill you?" he said as he looked over at the dog next to him
Luna shook her head "no, not a problem"
They both started walking, RJ gave an audible whistle to the German hound, the dogs ears shot up and ran to his side, Luna was surprised of his obedience to RJ, and it was impressive to say the least
After walking a little while Luna asked another question, much to the dismay of Rj, who didn't like to be question that much….but he had to admit Luna was pretty nice, he was taken out of his thinking when one of Luna's numerous question rang into his ear drums
"What does R.j. stand for?" she asked said boy
Rj looked over to her, and then back to his front, she almost thought he wasn't going to answer, but then he gave it to her
"Richard jack" he said almost in a whisper
Luna grinned "that a cool name"
He had to take a double take to make sure it was her saying that, he looked surprised to say the least
"Thank you, no one has ever said zat to me before" he said honestly
Luna smiled "no problem"
Luna followed Rj to the right side of the mountain plain, there, they started to walk down a steep path to another much larger field, Luna could clearly see Anna, snowstorm, Jack, miyako, apparently no one else wanted to come and join in on the training
"Hi guys!" Luna said as she came into view
The other wolves looked over
"Hey" Anna said short but sweetly
"What's up" snowstorm said
Jack gave a wave
"Good to see you here, I didn't think you wanted to harness your half-demon Abilities so soon" miyako said as she walked up to them
Luna stuttered, "That's what this training is about? Harnessing our powers? Cool!"
Snowstorm walks over and leans on a tree "yea why do you think they call it 'combat training'" he said using air quotations with his hands
Luna playfully retorted back "alright you know what you smart aleck…."
Snowstorm cringes and jumps up in the tree, much higher than Luna could ever hope to get too
She looks up; it hurts her neck to look up so high "hey get down here you crazy wolf!"
Miyako walks under the tree as well "come on Snow, don't make me get you down…." Miyako said darkly
This time snowstorms eyes widened "Y-yes mam…" he jumped down the 25 foot height with amazingly no bodily harm
"Good boy" miyako says mockingly as she places a hand on his head like she was praising a dog
Snowstorm grumbles at the action and gets out of her reach before she could continue doing it
Miyako then turns to RJ "I see you decided to come and join us for the first time, I'm glad to see that"
Luna was taken aback "it's your first time too?" she asked him
He nodded "ya, I decided today to come und join zem, it was chance zat you happened to want to join me today as vell" Rj sat down near the group, Adolf laid down under a tree after Rj pointed his finger to it and snapped his fingers
"Alright kiddies line up! Luna sense you haven't even been able to show your ears and tail, get over their will miyako and she will help you with that, the rest of you get over here and get ready to do some basic fire abilities!" jack shouted over the sound of everyone, snowstorm snickered at the comment about Luna, the red wolf girl gave him a quick punch to the shoulder, snow just rolled his eyes, it was now a common thing for her to do
Luna walked over to a tree where miyako was sitting "okay miyako, teach me please how to get my ears and tail…"
Miyako waves her hand "it's easy, first calm your heart rate" she said as she took a deep breath
Luna did the same
"Now think of your inner energy, the part of you that gets you pumped up in a fight or when you're in danger"
Luna raised an eyebrow "you mean adrenaline?"
Miyako nodded her head
"You need to trigger your fight or flight response to its greatest degree for your first half transformation, then after that you should be able to remove to your features without much more work than just calming yourself down and thinking about it, same goes with getting them back, but once your body has reverted to its true form, that will be your true form, if you get tired or sick, your features will show, same with everyone, you removing them is only a disguise, and so when your body gets under stress it will change back"
Luna took it all in, she looked at miyako's particular set of features, her red wolf tail behind her sat calmly, her ears were twitching with every blow of the wind, and Luna did want her features, her own ears and tail, without them she just felt out of place here
"Yes I do" Luna said
Miyako opened one eyes, as she had closed them for a bit to wait for Luna's response
"Okay then, I want you to walk over here with me..." she said as she brought Luna to a nearby cliff, Luna looked down the large fall, it was easily 20 feet at the most, she looked back at the group of wolves practicing a fire ability, each one of them was practicing conjuring up the small fireball, holding it in their hands, then letting it go, Luna wished she was over there with her friends, she had to get her features!
"Miyako, how will I trigger my fight of flight response?" Luna asked as she looked down the cliff again
"Like this…." Miyako said as she pushed her off the cliff!
Luna's whole body rushed with energy, she was freaking out, she was dropping, and she was going to die!
She flailed in the air, trying to desperately grab a holdfast that wasn't there…
The ground came up fast, it seemly casting a grin as it eagerly awaited her
She fell to the ground with a sickening thud….but she wasn't dead! And she didn't hurt that much either…
She looked up, her first response to the push from miyako
"What the hell was that for!" Luna yelled at her alpha
Miyako chuckled back "you can thank me later!" she said
"Come on back up and join us!" miyako said as she walked away from sight
Luna was confused, two things, how did she survive, and how did she feel no pain from the fall?
She gasped, and slowly pulled her hands to her head, she brushed through her red hair, her hand stopped at an anomaly, she felt the fur of her new red wolf ears, and her eyes widened and looked behind her
Sure enough a red fur covered tail was there connected to her
She felt excitement well up inside her, she ran up the path to the left of the cliff that led to the plain she was just on, she saw miyako under the same tree they were both previously under
"Miyako thank you thank you! How did you know that would work?" she asked as she jumped up and down
The older wolf girl looked to her "just ask Anna, and a few of the other younger wolves, no one that is truly half-demon has not changed from the fight or flight response"
Luna grinned "well I guess I can join the rest of the wolves now?"
Miyako nodded "I'll be over in a bit"
Luna walked over to group of wolves that were now practicing what looked like a water spell if you want to call it a spell
Snowstorm takes a double take at Luna, a smile on his face as always
"Wow, someone has a nice set of…..ears…." he said jokingly and somewhat perverted
Luna narrows her eyes, and sits down next to RJ, ignoring Snowstorm's comment
RJ was a bit startled by her choice of sitting next to him
"Hallo yet again, frau" he said in his ever present German accent
Luna smiles at him
RJ looks at her wolf ears "you know you should ignore Snowstorm, he iz always up to make someone embarrassed..." he said
Luna just blew her hair out of her face "I know I just have to ignore it… "She said quietly
Snowstorms ears are not to be taken for just show, he heard the conversation completely "try as you might Luna, I don't think you can ignore it for long…" he said in singsong
Luna grumbled and looked to jack
Jack nodded and walked calmly over to snowstorm, snowstorm grinned nervously, next thing he knew he was heaved across the field by the alpha wolf, who was now dusting his hands off
"Now that that's taken care of….everyone you can head out, that's enough for today, Luna you stay and work with me on the Fire and water energy..."he said looking at her with his golden colored eyes
Rj, Anna, and snowstorm was about 30 feet away all got up and started back to the village, Miyako came over to the area with jack and Luna, she sat down next to her den mate and smiled at him, jack grinned back, Luna had to clear her throat to get their attention
"So….about that fire energy" Luna said awkwardly
Jack cleared his throat as well, as did miyako
Jack got up "first you must visualize the fire in your hands, then you'll notice something different about your body sense the half-demon change, you now have complete control of your body's energy output, you can put more energy to your legs or arms, in this case your hands, you will feel a tingling in your hands when you divert the flow of energy, them once you feel it you will visualize the fire, and your body will take care of the rest, it'll take a while considering its your first time.."
Luna tried her best to follow what jack had said, she diverted her body's flow of energy to her hands, the tingling came….and nothing….just a few sparks of fire and that's it
"Aw…" Luna said sadly
Jack put a hand on her shoulder "hey…hey…you did good, I'm surprised you even got that far on your first time, that shows great promise"
Luna grumbled "but it was R.j. first time and he did awesome with it, did you see it? His flame energy was flowing wildly!"
Miyako cut in and clicked her tongue "I don't think this was Rj first time doing it….something is odd about that…... but none the less…anyways, you shouldn't compare yourself to others! Now try it again!"
Luna nodded "yes miyako…." She said disappointedly and held her hands apart from each other about a foot length apart
She tried focusing again, the first time it didn't even spark, she growled lightly and stood up
"what happened? I just had it a few minutes ago! Ah forget this!" she yelled at herself and swatted the air, just as she did a line of flames came from her hands narrowly hitting jack who was a few feet in front of her
"whoa!" jack groaned, he fell back on the ground, it missed his face only by a few inches
Luna yelped and held her hands to her face, then ran over to jack "jack! Oh my gosh I'm so sorry! Are you okay?"
Jack chuckled and got up "I'm fine Luna calm down, nice job on the fire though!"
Luna laughed uneasily "yea, but I almost hurt you!"
Jack waved his hand "Luna, it's okay, trust me it wouldn't have been the first time getting hurt by my students accidently"
Luna nodded biting her lower lip "are you sure your fine? You're not mad at me are you?"
Jack shook his head "miyako do I get mad?"
Miyako shook her head "no unless it's really bad"
Luna sighed "okay, but it doesn't make me feel any better"
Jack shook his head "okay, fine head back to your house Luna it's getting dark"
Luna nodded and started on home "bye guys!" she said then turned ahead to the road that led into the village or town to be exact