Chapter 4 Second meeting
It had been exactly fifteen minutes when Rysen walked into the room. Wolf after wolf had walked in and sat down on the other side of the room. The room was specially made for meetings and there was nothing more than a table with a lot of chairs around it. The wolves weren't staring at all, they were talking among each other like friends. We were sitting there a little awkward but it was only for a few minutes because Rysen had walked in already.
"Now that we're all here, let's start discussing this alliance." Rysen said when she had taken her seat at the head of the table. When Rysen had walked in all the wolves that were still standing or sitting on the table sat down on their seats. Rysen didn't demand respect, she simply got it.
"As for the introductions, everyone that's Zoey Redbird, the granddaughter of Sylvia, the High Priestess of Tulsa's House of Night and the head of the American Vampire High Council." The wolves nodded at my introduction and I was surprised Rysen bothered to mention more than my relationship to grandma. "And that's Stark, Aphrodite, Darius, Damien, Stevie-Rae, Rephaim, Shaylin and Shaunee. You already know their relationships and powers so I'm not going to mention that." Another nod from the wolves. "Well, I think you guys would like to know somewhat more about this bunch of weirdo's" Rysen was so easy going and cheerful that I forgot she was their alpha, an unchallenged leader, she was their friend and same as with me they had chosen to follow her.
"Let's start with the female on my right. This is Thalia, my second in command and best and oldest friend. We have affinities too but we simply call them powers and not many have powers. Thalia has none, I have telekinetic powers which simply means I can move everything without a heartbeat with my mind. That power has not been seen since the very first wolf who was blessed with these powers to protect all the other wolves that were yet to come." Thalia had black hair like Rysen and it was braided back into a very long braid so was Rysen's hair at the moment. They looked like each other but the only difference between the two was Thalia's eye color. Rysen had intense sapphire eyes and Thalia's were bright green which was a beautiful contrast with the rest of her. I noticed everyone was wearing black with a bit of silver. There was a silver emblem over their hearts which formed a full moon with a spear through it. It made me think of Kalona in some way.
"The wolf next to Thalia is the one I always turn to when someone needs to start talking or stop talking, this is Yana." I was a little confused by the way she had introduced her and when I looked at my friends I saw the same confusion on their faces. "You mean she's your torturer and assassin?" Darius said. It didn't surprise me Darius had fully understood what Rysen said. He might be young but he was still a well-trained Erebus warrior. "Yep, I am." The wolf said. Yana didn't sound like a torturer or assassin and she certainly didn't look like it. She was beautiful. Her hair was dyed dark red, she had dark brown eyes and light skin. "I know, I don't look like my profession." Yana said with a smirk. "You are way too cute for what you do but it does make you so much better at it." Rysen added. Yana gave her a look that would have send me running for my life if she ever looked at me like that. Rysen simply smiled. "Yana doesn't like to be called cute." Thalia explained. "In fact, she hates it. Only Rysen can call her cute without Yana going feral." They were good friends, all of them. "Yana has an interesting power. She can take people's pain and also inflict a great deal of pain. That's why she's so good at what she does." Rysen said.
"Here on my left we have my third in command and worst pain in my ass, Ciara. She can move water to her hearts content but cannot summon it. Through years of training she can now also freeze and boil the water she's bending. Her second language is sarcasm and she is the most sassy wolf around but I wouldn't have her any other way." Ciara smiled at that. I do think that when your alpha says something like that you are honored. I know I feel honored when Nyx compliments me.
"You've met Jaerah. The others could not join us as they are currently in meetings with other alphas. Normally I send my females but this is about war so I send my males. These three females are also oath bound to me. We are all warriors but in a way I'm the queen. I'm also called the high alpha of the wolves and that means that I'm the alpha of all the wolves and always have the last say on every matter. You'll soon meet the rest of my warriors and we'll soon explain more about the wolves but for now I'd like to talk about the bull of Darkness."
"How do you know that he's most likely going to succeed if we don't stop him? I haven't had a vision about it and I pretty much always do. Kramisha has not written a prophecy about it yet either. So how do you know?" Aphrodite asked. She was being impolite but Rysen didn't seem to mind or she was good at hiding it.
Rysen pushed the document in front of her over to us and Aphrodite snatched it away immediately. Rysen smiled and with her affinity she moved it to my hands. "Seriously?!" Aphrodite exclaimed. "Yep, seriously." Rysen said smiling. I had to give it to her she knew how to handle Aphrodite. I looked at the papers and it were all kinds of attacks. Some were terrorist attacks that were looked at in magickal perspective and there turned out to be some involvement from Darkness. Other papers were brutal murders, all wolves. Many other cover ups where the wolves found out that it was something dark that had done those crimes. "That sure is some bullpoopie." Is all I said. Stark had been reading over my shoulders. After we were done flipping through those pages we gave them to the rest of your company.
"You can see that things have gotten out of hand. Humans don't know what to do but we have wolves stationed everywhere. We have lawyers, police officers, detectives, doctors, name it and we have someone with that profession. That's why we got our hands on those documents." Rysen was getting more serious with the minute.
"How do you propose we do things from now on? We can't just attack the bull but we also can't let it attack us." Stark said. Always the warrior, always the protector. "Wolves all over the world are getting ready. There are more and more guards around our perimeters, as well as more wolves checking up on the humans. We do not know what he's planning only that he wants to destroy the black bull. The black bull came to me and said I had to talk to you. He said that he would sent someone or something, he wasn't very clear about that, to help us. Let's assume it's someone, we have absolutely no idea who it is only that this someone will come to the camp when vampyres and wolves have their allegiance. Hopefully it won't take too long for this person to come."
We still had a lot to talk about but the wolves didn't know anymore then they had shared with us. Rysen and Thalia spoke with us about what we can do from the House of Night. Erebus warriors had to be notified and the High Priestesses of the other Houses all over the world had to know. Once again our story had to be told, now we had to tell it to the world. "Good that the whole council is back otherwise Z would have a lot of work on her hands." Shaunee said with a grin. "Yeah Z, you have been doing a lot lately. Aren't you tired yet?" Stevie-Rae added. "Nah, after Neferet I can handle some extra work."
Rysen and her wolves had been watching us with a slight smile on their faces. "Why are you smiling like that?" I asked politely. Thalia answered this time. "We were once young and all we had to worry about was training and school. It's nice to see the youth have fun with each other." Rysen bristled then. "Yeah, okay you had a tough childhood." I looked at Rysen urging her to say more with still staying polite. "Children of the alpha are their heirs. The strongest has the right to be the next alpha. Normally the males easily win and then compete each other while leaving their sisters alone. I was way stronger than anyone. I could beat my father in a fight when I was only fourteen. My father was 356 years old back then. He did not like a female heir and pretty much made my life a living hell without anyone knowing about it. Real nice. My brothers eventually found out and demanded he step down. He wouldn't and so they told the rest of the packs and then he was executed." I concluded that wolves are the opposites of vampyres because we are all about the females.
"Since we can't talk about anything else let's show you the rest of the camp and tell you more about the wolves." Rysen offered. "Good idea." I said.