Chapter 6 Meeting 'someone'

Rysen

My wolves had spread out again because they had a lot of work to do. I gave the vampyres a tour. They did not ask many questions to my own surprise. They watched and listened as I walked through camp with them. The full moon was annoying me greatly because every movement caught my eye and every noise made its way into my ears. I already had the most heightened senses in the world and now the moon was making everything practically unbearable. My focus was pretty much gone and my mind was all over the place. A bad case of ADHD so to say. Those two wolves fighting had not made my mood any better. The full moon was bothering everyone more since the balance had been turned upside down but it seemed to affect me more than the others.

Stark, Darius and Rephaim were talking to each other about the wolf way of fighting and about me. Normally I would not have mind them analyzing me. It's something that warriors do but now it was highly annoying. "Would you please continue your conversation about me when I am not around?" They were surprised I had heard them in the first place but then again, they had never asked how good my senses are. They had asked who had the better senses but that had been all. I had seen many warriors of many kinds in my time and those three still had much to learn. You don't discuss the person that might be a threat when she is within a mile radius. How stupid can you be in the first place?

Zoey was more than I had expected. That was certainly a surprise, a pleasant one. I had not anticipated to be walking next to the High Priestess she was meant to be. At Sylvia's farm she had been a simple vampyre who had been chosen by Nyx to be her eyes and ears on Earth, nothing special. The girl walking next to me now was a powerful High Priestess chosen by her goddess and destined for greatness. I could see what the goddess had seen in this girl.

We were walking near the edge of the forest when I felt a tug in my core. Knowing it was not one of my warriors contacting me through our bond I decided to follow where the feeling was leading me. The vampyres had no idea where I had planned on going so they followed suit not thinking any of it.

We arrived at a clearing in the woods and I looked around. There was nothing to see beside the usual sight that the forest provided. I must have had a puzzled look in my face because Zoey asked if something was wrong. "I don't think something is wrong. I felt a strange power tug at my core and decided to follow it only to find nothing here. It might be the person or thing that the black bull would send but I don't see anything that looks out of the ordinary." Then the flapping of strong wings could be heard and the leaves of the trees moved on the sudden wind that was brushing through the woods. A crack sounded and when I looked up at the branch where the noise had come from I saw an immortal warrior with moon colored wings sitting on the tree branch.

"What in the name of the moon are you doing here?!" I asked him. I was startled that the black bull had meant Kalona when speaking to me about someone giving us an explanation. I guess Kalona would know how the white bull thinks since he was part of Darkness for a long time. The vampyres were shocked at the way I spoke to him so I decided I better explain myself before Aphrodite opened her mouth and said something about my attitude. "Kalona and I have known each other for many years and when he fell from the Otherworld and did what he did, I was the one that put him in that prison under the ground. We knew each other before that as well because the wolves were created by his father long before Kalona was even born. Since his father, the moon, decided to leave his place as a deity of the moon and moved on, the responsibility of the wolves fell on Kalona. He epically failed as the new guardian of the wolves and at that time I was already the High Alpha of the wolves so he requested that I take care of the wolves. I did it because I wanted to help a friend out and because I still owed him for the time he saved me from my father, who tried to kill me. Then he screws up in epic proportions and I was the only one that could come up with a plan to give him some time to think about his actions without destroying people's lives in the process. Then he comes back, finds his way back to the path of Light, goes back to the Otherworld and stays with the love of his life and all the while he did not visit once. And that folks is why I'm talking to Nyx' immortal warrior and lover in the way that I did."

"Never piss her off." was all that he said.

"You are one hell of an insufferable immortal bastard, Kalona." I said sighing.

"Hello to you too." He said with his 1000 Watt grin. Stupid moon warrior.

"How old are you?!" The vampyres then said in unison when they came over their shock of me and Kalona being close friends.

"Old." I answered. "Older than Kalona, younger than Nyx." They all huffed and scoffed. They badly wanted to know my age. Very funny.

"To answer your question, Rysen. I came here to explain since the bull had no time to explain. I am also here because Nyx requested I help you and hopefully make amends with you along the way."

"Good luck with the latter, you prick. Let's get back to the conference room. I have a feeling we have a lot to talk about."

With that I turned around and walked back to camp. Kalona had most definitely pissed me off. I could forgive what he had done in the past but I could not forgive nor forget that he had forgotten about his best friend. So much for best friends.

"You better not expect to be on good terms with that bastard within a few days. Nyx, because then you'll be in for a nice surprise." I muttered under my breath, soft enough to be inaudible for the vampyres and loud enough for Kalona to hear.