The beginning of all things

Written by; Thomas G. Arndt

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf

Chapter 10

What the hell did he just say, I had to shake my head as I said, " I know your Gaia, she would never place a wolf in one of our cities, she sees then as filled with all that isn't natural."

He took a good hard look at me, then he turned his attention back to Serena, then it was as if he was shaking hid head in remorse as he replied, " Gaia promised me my mate, she has led me to this city, you have to know that I am not happy here, but I do as Gaia directs me, in my own way that leaves me pack-less, and you know how that is and how bad it is that I'm telling you this, I am a true werewolf."

I then had to blink, he had told me much more then I wanted to hear, Carla and Kimberly both said together, " Ah." He was trusting for me to do the right thing, he would never allow this much out unless he was willing to be seen as he was, in his world he was a scourge, an outsider. But I did have two very important questions that needed answering, " So you won't leave the city no matter what my threat?"

" Nope."

He responded far to quickly, his remorse was set, he was willing to do this or die, I knew it would be like throwing good body after another to try and rid us of him. So I asked my next question, " If I were to allow you to stay in my city, could you stay out of the other vampyres sight?"

" I've done it for twenty years now, I guess I can if they stay out of my way."

" And if they don't?"

" I give them one chance, then I rip them a new ass hole."

" I only allow you to stay until you fulfill your goddesses will. Then I want you out of my town."

" Oh I was so waiting for your approval, get out of my sight leech, like I really want to stay in a town full of leeches."

He was really pissing me off, was this his way of saying yes, In my own way I had to think yes as I had the kids to think of, so I felt I had to leave one more threat, " After I will inform the Prince of your decision to stay then, he maybe interested in why you decided to disobey me order. Now I'll leave you to your lunch."

" Ag, is that really his lunch?"

Kimberly had said this just off to Serena's right rear in a bush, the man then replied in a gruff voice, " It's better then eating you, you need some meat on those bones of yours, well first I would do to you like I would your teacher."

And of course I said in a hard voice, " Kimberly Anderson, I've just about had enough of you, when we get back you go to Amy and receive a punishment, do I make myself clear."

Serena and I moved to her, I tried to grab her hand that she fished out of my grip, Serena had her firmly by the elbow, I then said in a stern voice, " We're going home right now young lady." Carla and Nicholas were there in a mere flash of a second, and now I had her arm firmly wrapped in mine, then I continued, " Now we go home, I hope you're happy Kim, Nick take her other arm from Serena, wolf we will talk more on this later."

He replied, " I'll keep my night night on worm, you know so you can crawl in."

Kimberly then said, " Ran I'll be good, you can let go of me."

I then asked, " How can I trust you, I tell you to stay on the roof, then you come back down after you listen to me, when you should have never been down here in the first place."

" Ok, confusing, but I can walk home on my own, you don't have to hold my hand, I know I'm in trouble, ok, let me walk on my own, jeesh, I can walk my own green mile."

" Ok then, but straight home from here."

" I got it capiton, I follow your orders, can we say power hungry."

I then allowed her to take the lead, Carla and Nicholas were behind her, and Serena and I took up the rear, and yes I didn't trust her in inch, I was so made it took Carla finally taking my hand to bring me down. We then went through the back door, as this was our normal way, Serena and I guided her to the ballroom, Serena then crossed her arm's as I pointed up and said, " Practice now."

She turned and took a three step run then jumped to the ceiling, I then shook my head as I said in a normal voice, " Amy the kids are home."

Serena had told the other two to go to their rooms, we didn't want to be forceful to them, Amy and Timothy then showed up in only their robes, she looked up to see Kimberly doing what I had told her. Then she asked, " Is Kim in trouble again?"

Serena who had her fists on her hips replied, " She was worse then ever today, we had an incident that Ran had to take care of, but she wouldn't listen to him, and she made a problematic situation all the worse. I do have to say that Ran handled the situation very admirably, if I do say so myself, even though he had to keep worrying about her."

With this Amy had to put her hands on her hips as she asked in a very hard voice, " What do you have to say for yourself young lady?"

She stopped as she looked at Amy with a genuine smile on her face, it faded as she replied, " He was a werewolf Amy."

Amy's gaze came down to us, and I then said, " Serena and I had him trapped in between us, but then her and Carla came down after I told them not to, I was beside myself with worry. Then after they went back up we were able to get his story, and I felt it safe to allow him to continue his quest, but she had to make a reappearance. I was so worried for her safety that I made them leave, I felt that they could all go have coffee, but then I had to get her back here for our discussion, so she preempted that. I had her practicing until you feel ready to discuss the rules, and for the jump she missed at the end of our exercise."

Amy crossed her arm's as if she was trying to hold something in, she then blurted out, " Ran was only thinking of your safety, and, and you jeopardize his life with your silly antics, you put him in almost as much danger as you placed him, have you any idea what you could have done?"

She had a look of terror as she had never heard Amy like this before, she then replied, in a soft voice, " No, but he was such a dirty puppy dog."

Well I had to set this right as I scolded her, " A puppy dog that could have ripped you limb from limb, you are the weakest link in our house, don't think he wouldn't have used that to his advantage, you heard him, he's pack-less, that makes him even more dangerous then no of his normal kind."

Amy looked at me as she asked, " He's pack-less and you allowed him to stay?"

I nodded my head as I replied, " He told me that his goddess told him to search out this city for his love, but their ways to me are strange, I felt it safer than involving the entire city."

" Exactly how did he say it?"

Kimberly replied before I could, " Gaia, that's his goddess, told him her would find his mate here, then Ran told him it was ok to be here, except that he had to hide from other vampyres, and he had to leave once he was done."

Well Amy didn't want her to answer so she gave her a stern stare as she asked, " To my room now young lady, now is that what he said Ran?"

I had to smile at her, Kimberly had done it in so few words, so I replied, " She glossed over a few parts, but essentially that's what we talked about."

She had to give me a genuine smile as she said, " Ran I believe you did very well, you adverted danger for the children, and seemed to settle a problematic situation to boot, now for my difficult task, I have to get to Kim."

I knew what was going to happen now, I knew as I would, that Serena would go to her mate to comfort him, I had to think that Kimberly had definitely worn the wrong dress to do what she had done this very day. Amy had a very old barber strap just for this, she would come into her room and say to her, grab your ankles, then she would go to her closet to take it off it's hanger, then she would come and hit her with as much surprise as she could muster. Kimberly would never even see it until it hit her in the rear end, most would say that it was cruel punishment, but vampyres had to be punished harshly, but you have to think that they can turn and kill you. And as I knew Serena and I would hold onto our mates and prepare them for the first sound, I put my arm's around held Carla tightly as we both heard Kimberly's first scream, she would be the first vampyre punished in our house. I pulled Carla closer as I whispered and the second scream came with a moan, " She'll need all of you after this, as a professor we can't undermined Amy's authority, you may need to take her a little blood."

She whispered back as we actually could hear the third smack and scream with whimper, " How bad will it be?"

I put my head on her's as I replied in a whisper, " It differs with every vampyre, but bad maybe an understatement."

She nodded her head as we could hear another smack and a whimper, no scream this time, Amy had brought her beyond screaming with only three hits, normal punishment was only six hits, but I knew Amy would stop early if she was hitting her that strongly. Then came another smack, and all we could hear out of her was a low cry, I had to hold Carla close as she was trembling terribly, and then we heard the sixth hit and no sound. I didn't say anything, I just waited, Timothy then appeared at the door, he spoke in a low tone, " It is finished, Amy is waiting for your support."

Then he was gone, he might have not known that Serena was with Nicholas, but I had to think he was smarter then that, I then lifted Carla to her feet, and I supported her until we got to the room. As we walked I whispered, " Be ready for anything."

We then came to the open door, we could see the bloody barber strap on table, Amy stood with her back to Kimberly, she was shaking terribly. Kimberly was laying on the floor in a ball, you could see the strap marks on her body, I then released Carla hand and pushed her toward Kimberly. I then joined Amy and put my arm around her shoulder's then said, " This is far better then banishment."

Then I squeezed her shoulder's, Serena then came in, I had to figure she did the same with Nickolas, then she joined the two of us, she put her arm's around her waist and said, " In the light of disobedience is only punishment or banishment, one feels bad for a time, one is bad for an eternity."

Then Timothy had to step into the room and say, " Kimberly Anderson you are restricted to your room for twenty-four hours, you will not be allowed to leave this house to and up to four weeks. And as this is a school punishment you have to write a paper and allow both Ryan and Serena hear and discuss it, then and only then will your punishment be reconsidered by Amy, now I have to ask you, do you understand?"

She whimpered out, " Y. Yes."

Now I had to figure that he stepped aside as he directed them to leave, I could hear Carla and Nicholas whisper to her as they moved her, I had to take a small look as I could see she was walking, but just barely, and blood was running down her legs. I had to do this for a reason, because as she cleared the door I squeezed her shoulder's, then Amy spoke out just loud enough to be heard, " Why. Why did she force me to do that, does she know we hate to punish."

Then Timothy slammed the door, we were very well practiced at this, even though we hoped never to have to use it, what we weren't practiced for was the sudden break down of Amy. She dropped to her knee's as she sobbed for real, I mean she must have been really hold this in, her sobs were so deep and out of control. I had to whisper to her, " It had to be done Amy."

Timothy then came over and picked her up and put her in her bed, he then said, " Ran she understands that, you don't understand, I think she lost control, she, she allowed Kim to see the belt, I believe she was trying to scare Kim straight. But Kim had to make a snide remark, and Amy just went off, I only understood after the fifth hit, it took me everything to stop the seventh blow."

I then helped him straighten out her body, it was the scariest thing for a vampyre to loose control, Kimberly had to thank the stars that Timothy was there. Amy then curled up in a ball, Timothy then got behind her and put his arm's around her, I brushed the hair out of her eye's and said, " I think Timothy has this Amy, I think I'll go and watch out for Kim."

She nodded her head as the tears rolled down her face, then I turned and Serena and I walked out, in the hall she whispered to me, " We both keep an eye on her."

I nodded my head, then we took each others hand until we got to my floor, I then went to our room, I pulled out two glasses, then I got a root beer from the mini-frig, with a chaser of blood. I poured the soda into the glasses, and filled them the rest of the way with the blood, I hated the mix, but Carla loved it, then I walked to Kimberly's room with the glasses. Every hall had a table with two chairs by them, this room had it's right next to Kimberly's room, I set the glasses down then sat down myself, I knew that soon Carla would need this. Shortly there after Serena joined me, she had two flutes glasses of wine, she handed me one and sat down in the other chair, of all the guys in the house I was the only one that enjoyed wine. Timothy preferred tomato juice, and Nicholas preferred Red Bull, this is a God awful combination, I know I tried it once, I guess you could say all the girls love whatever. Most of the time you saw Carla with a root beer, Kimberly with a Diet Coke, Amy was the red wine love, but she preferred it in a normal glass, then you had Serena, she like a glass of tomato juice and a celery stalk. It was like an inside joke to her, and I kind of understood it, a Bloody Mary for a Bloody Mary, not that she would ever put alcohol in it, why waist your money.

Then we saw Carla burst from the room, she almost jumped out of her shoes as I cleared my voice, she quickly whirled around as I pointed at the two glasses on the table. She smile at me with the recognition of what I had done, then I put my finger to my mouth and she nodded, then she took the two glasses and mouthed thank you, then she returned to the room. Nicholas then came out with a reluctant stride, I put my finger to my lips as Serena caught his arm, then I whispered, " Is Carla getting her ready for bed?"

He nodded his head and asked in a whisper, " Did she have to hit her so hard?"

I had to ignore this as I went onto my next question, " How's she healing?"

" All right I guess for having your flesh ripped from your hide, Serena I'm going to my room, I'll be there if you want to talk about this."

He was older when he was turned, so in time he would understand it better then most, but right now he needed the time, Serena then came back with, " We have to watch her for now, but I'll be there as soon as I can."

He nodded his head as he turned and just walked off without a word, so I whispered to her, " Go be with him, he doesn't understand yet, Carla and I will watch her."

She stood up and looked at me, then she mouthed thank you, so I took her hand and kissed it then whispered to her, " We love the very young, in time they'll understand, now go be with him."

She nodded her head and turned without a word, then she was gone, I sat there alone for about twenty minutes, Carla came out and sat down across from me, so I whispered, " Hows she doing?"

She whispered back, " Ok I guess, Ran her strap mark were really deep."

" I know, Amy lost control, she's in her room right now crying."

" She is, we all thought that was just an act, you know with the dramatic door slam and all."

I had to chuckle as I asked, " So we didn't have you fooled?"

" No that was just to over the top, plus it's Amy, she would have told Timothy to just go back and close the door properly."

" Well she broke down after our little show, I think she really fears what might have happened."

" What, I mean exactly what could have happened?"

" Well if Timothy hadn't been there to stop her, we may have been having a funeral for Kimberly right now, worst of all Kimberly was to blame, and I'm sure we would have been having a funeral for Amy a couple of day later."

Carla asked a little to loudly, " Hows Kim to blame?"

" Shhh," I said then replied, " Kim smarted off to Amy, I don't know what she said, but it really set Amy off."

" Sounds like Kim, she does have a way to rub a person the wrong way."

" Really? I hadn't noticed."

" Oh you, so what are you doing right now, Kim said she'd be okay until morning."

I had to sigh as I replied, " After a punishment we have to watch them for twenty-four hours, that's why they aren't allowed out of their room."

" Not even to use the potty?"

" Well for common things they are, it's really two fold, one we have to make sure they heal, two some are foolish enough to run. I mean where are they going to go, another haven, they'll just send them back to us, you see she's our charge until she's ready to go out on her own."

" Like a puppy or kitten."

" Yeah kind of, she thought that werewolf tonight was a big dirty puppy, she even said that."

" Really, she said that?"

" Yeah, then I reminded her that that big dirty puppy could have ripped her limb from limb, I'm not sure she still understood, I guess we'll have to assign someone to watch her from now on."

Carla shook her head as she said, " Oh she's really going to love that."

I then pulled her over on to my lap as I said, " Well it's better then having her trying to pet the dirty doggie, and some of the things he said, rogues are known not to lie, so you can just imagine."

Carla made a strange sound as she asked, " Are you telling me that he would really eat us?"

" Well no, maybe I should explain, our blood can kill all of the similar races, as in dead as a door nail."

" Like the gypsies and I guess now the werewolves, what about the other part?"

" Oh if he felt the need he would do that, and because we have blood within that he would have insured their deaths, but he would have ripped them apart just to be safe."

" Normally I would have disagreed with this kind of punishment, and even though I'm not sure it worked, I know now why you were so mad at us, and he was kind of sick."

" I know he smelt."

" No Ran he didn't smell. I mean he really smelt, I think I'm going to have to burn this dress."

I kissed her on the mouth, it was a simple peck as I asked, " Hey if you want I can help you remove that dress?"

She gave me a light smack as she replied, " Your so bad Papa Bear."

Oh Carla and I had moved away from Honey, she called me Papa Bear, and I was supposed to call her Sugar Muffin, well I was having a little problem with my half of the conversation. So I replied, " I know Ha, I mean Sugar Muffin, the more to eat you with."

She giggled and said in a very low whisper, " I will go take a shower, then I'll come back a little more comfortable."

As she removed her panties I whispered back, " No fair, I have to sit here, now I'm going to have a problem."

" Then we can relieve that problem when I get back."

As she turned I lightly tapped her on her rear, then I said, " Oh Please, please hurry back, your Papa Bear is truly ready for you."

She giggled as she ran down the hall, I then peaked into Kimberly's room to make sure she was ok, she was crying so I figured I was ok for a while, I sat down and wait for Carla. As soon as she arrived back, she had on nothing but her robe, oh I could resist a lot, but her I could never resist, and I'm sure I really don't have to tell you what happened between us next. I think it may have been that we were doing it out in the hall, but we really never stopped that night, I did have to wonder what a neighbor would have said, this nineteen year old girl riding this twenty-six year old man all night. Well that's if they even saw us, you see Kimberly's room was on the sixth floor so she could be close to Amy, she was worried about her after what had happened to her sire. But to her it was just all a big game you see, I mean she was just so young, she really seems to take things off the deep end, I should have realized this may have happened. As we watched the sun come up, I kissed her deeply and whispered, " Carla get Kim into the showers."

She jumped up and redid her open robe, then she opened the door, she looked around as I saw the made up bed, I knew this had to be a sign, Serena or Amy had to be on Kimberly every morning to do her bed, they said it was only lady like. Carla then asked, " Kim are you in the closet?"

I then moved into the room as Carla came out of the closet. I then went straight to the three windows in her room. It was unmistakable, she had gone out the middle window. I turned to Carla and then yelled, " AMY WE HAVE A RUNNER!"