A/N: Okay and as usually i only only want one thing from you, the readers, in return, and that is...drum roll...REVIEWS!! It is all i ask for, it keeps me writing. Oh by the way I have been asked if I would have a lemon in this story. ((If you have to ask what a lemon is you're to young to know)) But I want to leave it up to the readers, so if you do or don't want a lemon just stick it in a review and I'll tally them up. Well on with the story...

Sera landed on the ground roughly, "Damn I hate that tornado…"she mumbled under her breath

Sera landed on the ground roughly, "Damn I hate that tornado…"she mumbled under her breath. The wolves' lands had a charm surrounding them so no witch could come within five miles by magic, and their land just happen to be located in the densest part of the forest. Sera looked up at the moon and started dragging her butt toward the werewolf camp.

Demitri was in the snake-shifter's nest, he really got along while with them, even though everyone else saw them as hostile. In Demitri's opinion they were just easily upset or angered just like him and Sera. At the thought of Sera, he hung his head she just has to go and take the wolves. Skyler or I should have gone instead, but no one relates to the snakes like me…and Skyler fits in with the birds better too…but if she gets hurt, or worse, NO don't think like that Demitri, she'll be fine, just fine. He was so caught up in his own thoughts he didn't even hear the leader, the Dante, of the snakes enter the room, "Good to see you," he bowed and whispered to him, "I'm not here for a pleasure visit I'm afraid, some children are missing from our lands and we need you and your people's help."

The Dante nodded and showed Demitri the way to his private room, but right before Demitri entered he looked up at the moon and said a prayer to keep his beloved Seraphim safe.

Link was in the sewer and hating every minute of it, Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, why can't these people live in a place where it doesn't smell like crap! She had already spoke with the head of the brood and was about to leave when they invited her to dinner, naturally being a council witch she had to accept. Their food was pretty good and she got a couple new recipe ideas, but she couldn't wait to leave. I am so boiling my skin with a hot shower when I get home…

Seraphim was exhausted, dirty, and pissed. She had covered about three miles already, but she had tripped over an exposed tree root and fell down into a large valley, and to make matters worse, her dress/robe was ripped down both sides with her ankles to her waist. Now she really looked like a slut, she had tried using her magic to change close, but the wolves' charm wouldn't let her; so now she was stuck in these clothes or lack there of.

She looked up at the moon and figured she had an hour or two before dawn and about three hours before her first class. That really didn't bother her that much though; if she wasn't back in time Link would cover for her.

Sera kept walking until she heard a twig snap close by, she could she better in the dark than any human or witch, but wolves' eyesight was even better than hers. Some leaves rustled in the canopy above her as she did a 360 sweep of the area. Something, no someone was following her, question was who?

Sera took a chance and called out into the night, "I know you're there", she readied her hands like she was starting a spell, "Come out now and no one gets hurt."

A dark smooth chuckle came from behind her, "Oh you're sooo wrong little witch. You can stop acting already we know you can't do magic here."

Did he just say we? Shit this is not good, I can take on one maybe two with without my powers, but how many are out there, and he knows I'm a witch. Everyone knows witches exist but no one knows about the other races, so I can't just ask, Are you guys wolves? "What are you and your friends doing out here anyways, huh?"

Another voice answered from somewhere closer than the first voice, it wasn't as dark but still just as smooth, "Wouldn't you like to know, what are you doing out here little witch, and all alone? There are things in these woods, little witch, that you wouldn't want to meet especially by yourself."

Sera was annoyed now, "Stop calling me little witch!"

The one with the dark voice spoke again, "Aww, you don't like your pet name?" A human shaped figure appeared from behind a tree and shrugged, "Then what do we call you?"

Sera turned to face the man, "It's not any of your business what my name is," she sneered.

Another voice came from the woods; it was higher than the other two but still male, "But than we are at an impasse my dear."

"No, we're not. You leave and I go on my way."

The third guy stepped out from behind another tree farther away from the first one and they spoke in unison, "We can't do that little witch."

"God you two are so annoying…" she turned to face them wait two, where's the third one? Sera scanned the woods in around her but it was useless it was pitch black out here. "So boys where's that idiot partners of yours, he hasn't spoken in awhile." She heard some leaves rustle and looked up to see a human shape falling from the trees.

The one with the deep voice laughed, "Oh, you found him!"

Sera leapt out the way as the second one landed gracefully on the ground. She turned in circles watching them. They had her smack dab in the middle of a triangle, and any way she ran they would catch her, she was screwed.

All three spoke at once, "You're ours now little witch."

"Well boys, you cornered me pretty well I'll admit, but remember a cornered animal bites back." Sera ran for the opening between two of them with the third behind her. They ran toward her but she back flipped right before they grabbed her. They smashed into each other with a sickening crack. They broke something, question is what? Sera landed softly on the ground just as the third man grabbed her wrist. Sera placed her arms on his shoulders, pushed upward lifting herself in the air. Her hair fell in front of his face while she was doing a handstand on his shoulders.

"Damn it all to hell, get down here," he tried to pull her down but he couldn't get a good grip on her.

Sera saw a huge tree limb above her and wrapped her legs around it; she released her hold on his shoulders and swung upright into the tree branches disappearing from their view.

The other two had gotten up and walked over toward the tree and their partner and spoke in whispers. Sera watched them from between the leaves, I really hope they give up and leave but knowing my luck… and true enough the three of them climbed into the tree from different spots. Well time to have some fun, Sera had spent many hours as a child climbing and swinging in the tree at school. All she had to do was keep out of reach and make them fall and they'll leave.

Nine o'clock back at Campus

Link was making breakfast for herself since Sera hadn't showed up this morning. She called all her professors and told them she had a family emergency. They ate it up, but she still hadn't heard from Sera, her phone was out of service, and she was beginning to get worried. What if the wolves took the kids to get one of us their on purpose, what if they're torturing her or worse what if they killed her! Link just stared at her oatmeal thinking of the horrible things and why her friend hadn't come home yet.

She stayed like that for an hour until her door bell rang causing her to scream and jump out of her stool. "Who the hell, "she groaned as she went for the door. The bell rang again as she swung open the door growling out, "What the hell do you want?!"

Cai and Zek stared at her in shock; Cai spoke first, "Um…we're sorry, but you two didn't meet us at the mess hall last night."

"Yeah, so we came to make sure you and Sera were okay."

Link just sighed and ran a hand through her messy blonde curls, "Sorry, guys. Come on in," they followed her into the kitchen and sat down, "Sorry about last night but something came up, and we had to bail."

Cai nodded, but Zek looked around, "Where's Sera?"

Link tool her bowl to the sink and washed it before answering him, "She had a family emergency and had to leave asap. I left with her too, but she stayed later to help out."

Cai smacked Zek in the back of the head, "Dude you are too damn nosey," he turned Link, "Rough night then huh?"

Link just yawned and nodded, "Don't you guys have any classes today?"

Cai grinned evilly, "Nope someone blew up the chemistry labs, so until they're fixed we're free. How about you?"

"I have a…writing class at ten and I already called Sera off for the day, so she's good whenever gets back, why?"

Zek pulled out some tickets, "We have passes to the first Greek house party night and tomorrow is Saturday so you won't be weighed down with too much work for the first week. So do you and your roomy want to go with us?"

Link smirked at them, "Sera should be back by five, we'll meet you two at the mess hall, ok?"

Zek pushed the air, "Yes!" and Cai grabbed Link under her butt and twirled her around.

Link was laughing and playfully scolding him to put her down when she noticed it was nine thirty, "Shit, I have to leave right now, or I'll be late!," Cai placed her down and she grabbed her stuff running out the door, "would one of you two lock the door?"

They guys ran out, locked it, but not before Cai grabbed Link's keys off the table, "Don't forget these!"

Link grabbed them from him, "Thanks," and kissed him on the cheek before running down the stairs towards the door.

The guys watched her run off before dancing down the hallway screaming, "We got hot dates tonight!"

Back in the woods

Sera had been hiding in this tree for hours now, these guys wouldn't give up, and being in this charm shield was draining her energy. She was near the top of the tree and they were closing in on her from all sides.

"Nowhere…to go little…witch," panted one.

"You put up a good fight though," growled another.

"We are going to get go, so just behave already," whined another.

"You boys sound tired, giving up so soon?" she taunted as she quietly jumped on to another tree nearby.

She heard them screaming at each other that for letting her get away; so she quickly climbed down her tree and ran toward the wolf camp while they searched. She ran as fast as her legs would go. They saw her on the floor and started making their way out of the tree. They weren't fast climbers, but she knew as soon as they hit the ground she was toast. Sera thought that she was only one or two miles away, she only had to out run them that long, no problem right? Wrong, she barely got twenty yards before all three of them were on her heels.

The sun had risen about three hours before so she stuck out in the day light, while these morons blended in perfectly with the trees. Their eyes would have told her if they were wolves or not, but there was no way in hell she was getting that close to them. Their clothes were normal cameo and they each had a full backpack. One of them was currently reaching for something in it.

Sera could see the smoke from then camp in the distance Yes! Almost home free!, but what she didn't see was the unfolded spear one of her assaulters had taken out.

The other two pulled back a little to give him room.

Sera was running with everything she had when she heard a high whistle sound behind her, within seconds of the sound she felt a something rip through her shoulder causing her to fall to the ground. She landed on that shoulder and screamed in agony before rolling over on to her back.

The three men surrounded her and the one with the really deep voice pulled out the spear, "You shouldn't have ran, little witch."

Sera's head was spinning, "Bastards, leave me the hell alone."

The high whinny voiced one, kicked her in the ribs hard, "That's for not…listening…to us early."

The second one who had jumped out of the canopy above her early knelt by her wound, he was also the biggest one, "Nice shot though," and pulled out a syringe.

The small whinny one panted uncontrollably before sitting down by a tree, "Damn she's pretty fast, I didn't think we would caught her."

Mr. Deep voice smirked at her, "She's fast alright, and cunning. That little tree stunt of hers almost worked too. If she had her magic, we would have been dead before we spoke to her."

"Damn straight," Sera wheezed out. I think they may have nicked my lung or at least cracked a rib with that kick.

The big one was still kneeling next to her, "Well little witch, are you going to tell why you're in these woods and who you are?"

Sera tried to stand up but he just placed a hand on her wound causing her to fall back and scream in pain.

Whinny had stopped panting and moved over towards her, "I guess that's a no then, huh?"

Sera spat in his face, "Fuck you and you're moronic friends."

He growled menacingly, "We'll see just how brave you are in a little while, bitch."

Big boy had decided to inject her with something at this point; she wondered they were going to take her: if she woke up that is.

Hours later

Sera woke up with a huge headache, what the hell; did I drink a lot or something? She raised her right arm and felt a burning in her shoulder and laid back. Flashes of the last couple of hours played through her mind, where am I? Better yet where are they? She heard voices coming closer to the door and pretended to still be knocked out.

Big boy walked in with followed by another huge guy.

He had short spiky silver hair, yellow eyes, his skin was completely camel colored, and all of his muscles were perfectly defined, no veins showing either. He had an arrogant air about him, but a friendly face, voice was very deep, "So where is she?"

"Over there, sir. We caught her in the woods heading this way, but she wouldn't tell us who she was so we had to take her down. She's really fast, smart, but vicious. We almost lost her; we had to spear her and tranquillize her too."

"I bet that pissed off your men."

"Oh yeah, the rookie especially, he got so pissed at her kicked her in the ribs, I think he might have broken some too."

"I might know her, or at least her clan."

"I don't think she's wake yet, sir"

"My dear Ulf, she was up before we walked in, and if she would just stop acting we could start this meeting."

Sera smirked at the man's voice, "While it looks like your men brought me were I wanted to be anyways."

Ulf growled at her, "I knew it; you wanted to invade our camp didn't you."

Sera sat up as carefully as possible but her hair was hanging in her face, "Maybe you're not such a dumb puppy after all, huh."

Ulf made a lunge for her but the other man had him back with one arm, "You better explain yourself, little witch, or I'll let him go."

Sera laughed softly, "I don't think you want to do that."

"And why wouldn't I?" Ulf was still glaring at her.

"Because you don't want to start another war, do you Richard?" Sera slowly raised her head to stare into his eyes.

Richard growled and threw Ulf into a wall, "Get your men in here NOW!"

Ulf picked himself up and ran outside yelling for the other two of his group, Richard sighed and whispered to Sera, "I am so sorry Lady Maelstrom, this is an unfortunate event. I will beg your forgiveness once I deal with these idiots."

She nodded, "But before that happens, could you help me off this floor, I don't have the strength right now."

Richard hushed over to her side and lifted her easily into a chair by the fireplace. He then turned the chair towards the door, just as her three captures came in to the room.

All three of them knelt before Richard, "You called us, sire."

"Yes, do you know who this woman is?" They stayed silent and he yelled at them again, "DO YOU IDIOTS KNOW WHO THIS WOMAN IS!!"

The one with a whinny voice spoke up first, "She's just some little bitch we caught in our territory last night, why?"

Richard strode up to the rookie and choked the boy, "Just some 'just some little bitch', huh."

The man with a deep voice came to his defense, "We asked her name, sire, but she would not tell us. We know she's a witch, but that is all."

Ulf just glared at Sera from his knelling position while asking venomously, "Who are you really?"

Richard kicked him in the face, with whinny still in his hand, "You have no more right to question her than to question me."

Mr. Deep voice looked at her in alarm, "She is from the council; she's a messenger."

The other two stared with looks of horror at her and Richard.

"You are right I am from the council-"

Richard cut her off "But she is not a messenger."

Ulf looked confusingly at Richard, "then who is she?"

Richard dropped the gasping boy and turned to Ulf, "Her name is Seraphim Maelstrom."

Mr. Deep voice thought out loud, "Maelstrom, Maelstrom where have I heard that name before?"

Whinny rasped, "Doesn't ring a bell to me; how about you Ulf. Do you know her?"

Both of them scouts looked at Ulf: he was sweating, extremely pale for someone with a golden tan, and shaking violently, "sss…She's the head cc…council woman of the bbb…black wi…witches." Ulf swallowed hard and tried to control his shaking, "She's also one of the mm…more powerful ones on the council."

Richard was leaning against the table to Sera's right, "Correct as usually Ulf, and do you know what your actions towards her mean?"

"We may have just started a war," Ulf gulped; Deep Voice was also now shaking, and whinny had passed out.

Sera stood albeit very stiffly and walked over towards the men, she nudged whinny with her foot until he woke up. Richard was right next to her just incase she collapsed.

The three men stayed kneeling and bowed their head to the ground; they were all shaking so what.

Sera laughed lightly, "Please no bowing or kneeling, and stand up." She waited until they were up right, "Now look me in the eye, good. Now I know I came her unannounced and at night. If I were in your position I would have followed me too, but the spear," she looked at Whinny, "and the kicking were unnecessary."

Richard tried to hold back his growling.

"Now it is up to me, not your Alpha, to deal with you." She looked them over and nodded, "You three will be accompanying me back to my lands and helping me with our current problem. It will teach you respect for the other races as well."

All four wolves in the room said in unison, "Huh?"

"Some witch children were kidnapped and we found some evidence that some wolves were involved, we believe that it was some rogues. Each member of the council has personal gone to each head of the other races, except humans, and asked for their help. We will need to wolves to help us verify our theories, help us find the children, and stop whomever's doing this."

"But we these men," Richard asked.

"Because they will stop anyone in their way, they are good soldiers, even if they did make a mistake or two. I do have one request of you though, Richard."

"Anything"

"Would you please lift this damn charm so I could heal already, I think they broke two ribs and I can't go home unless I walk five miles." Richard nodded and left to his healers house, leaving Sera and the three scouts, "Would one of you get me something else I could wear, this 'dress' is rather revealing after our little adventure in the woods."

Whinny ran out at her command and was back with in minutes with a pair of black jeans and a blue button down shirt that matched her eyes, "Is this okay?"

"Perfect," she got undress and put on the clothes slowly.

All three of them turned around to give her some privacy, but Richard came in right after she got the jeans on, "what the hell!"

She pulled the shirt on slowly and zipped up the jeans, "God I hate that dress, thanks whinny, oops."

Richard and the guys turned around, "Whinny?"

"Yeah, he has a whinny voice, I know Ulf's name but I call the other one deep voice," she shrugged, "you don't try and guess your' attacks names now do you?"

Richard laughed and the other three chuckled, "I raised the charm by the way."

"Sweet," Sera placed a hand on her chest and yelled Guarire a reddish fog covered her body, but when it cleared Sera was bending backwards in a stretch, "God I love magic."

The three scouts stared in shock at their first sight of magic, before whinny let out an excited, "Awesome."

Sera laughed before handing Richard a letter of information, "Here is everything that we've collected so far, the pictures and bios of the kids, and directions of how your man can reach me."

"I will start a search party in the woods immediately. Ulf and his men will get supplies and leave as soon as I brief them."

"Excellent, but first I must give them a sign so they are not attack on our ground."

The three stepped forward and Sera started to weave different colored lights together Il simbolo del mio potere, li protegge e li custodisce. Lasciare sono sicuri da tutta la magia e malvagio finché mi incontrano ancora, li proteggere con la mia luna nera, blu, e d'argenta. The black, blue, and silver shaped moon the size of her fist appeared out of the lights.

She placed them in their hands, "These will keep you safe from any magic, harm, or evil in our lands until you see me again. It will also keep the witches from beating the shit out of you, always wear them in our lands and don't take them off."

Richard smiled as the three stared in awe of their gifts, "You should go; I'll send them on their way as soon as you leave."

Sera nodded and called upon the water tornado again, she stepped inside, waved goodbye to her wolves, "See ya soon." She spread her arms and the tornado span faster, lifting her off the ground shot through the sky like a comet.

Whinny whispered in awe, "I am so going to love this."

Ulf rubbed his head and sighed as they left their Alpha to organize the search parties, "We so got lucky just now, you have no idea."