Rhydian and Katie went to meet Maddie, Shannon and Tom in the woods. There was a rope swing there, Maddie and Shannon found it when they were in Year 8. Katie watched Shannon swinging on the rope. She was laughing and having a great time.
"Ok. It's my turn now" Tom said. Tom started to swing on the rope but he got distracted and lost his grip.
"Tom, are you alright," Katie asked as she approached Tom.
"Don't move?" Rhydian said. Tom grabbed his knee.
"Someone's there," Tom said. "Someone was spying on us"
Katie looked around but she couldn't see anything. The only evidence that someone had watched them was a couple of broken twigs and the faint smell of another Wolfblood. Shannon was kneeling on the ground looking at the broken twigs.
"So, he was spying on us?" Tom asked.
"How am I supposed to tell from a couple of broken twigs" Shannon said. "Come one let's get out of here"
Shannon and Tom started to walk away. Katie turned to look at Rhydian.
"It's the Wild Wolfblood," Katie said. Maddie nodded.
The three Wolfblood's joined Tom and Shannon in Bernie's Cafe. Katie, Rhydian and Maddie sat down at one of the tables while Shannon ordered drinks. When Shannon sat down, Tom was complaining about the football match that he was going to play in.
"Who cares about football. I want to know who that creep in the bushes was" Shannon said.
"It was probably a dog walker or a hiker," Tom said.
"I didn't see a dog and nobody hikes in the woods," Shannon said.
"Ah, so you've seen her to then?" Bernie asked.
"Her?" Shannon asked.
"The homeless women. She's been seen around the village recently" Bernie said.
Katie, Rhydian and Maddie walked outside and stood in the school playground. Most of the boys were practising for the football match. Tom was one of them. Katie watched as Tom kicked the ball in the direction Mr Jeffries Window.
"The window"
Rhydian jumped into the air and knocked the ball out-of-the-way. Katie was impressed.
"Sam, go and get Mrs Graham." Jimi said.
Katie walked over to Rhydian
"Nice save. Maybe you should join the football team" Katie said. Katie went to join Maddie. Mrs Graham came out and walked over to Rhydian.
"Looks like Rhydian is joining the football team," Maddie said.
"Yep," Katie said. Katie knew that Rhydian wasn't a big fan of football. This would be interesting to watch.
Rhydian had a place on the football team as the new goalie.
After school, Katie and Rhydian walked through the woods. They were trying to find the Wild Wolfblood when they heard twigs snapping. The twins looked up and saw a stranger. She had scruffy brown hair and brown eyes.
She said something in a language that Rhydian and Katie didn't understand.
"Who are you?" Rhydian asked.
"I'm your mother," she said.
"We don't have one" Rhydian said as he started to back away. Katie followed Rhydian but the women who claimed to be their mother followed them.
"We don't have a mother. You can't be" Katie said.
"I am"
Katie and Rhydian backed away unsure of what to do.
The following day Katie, Rhydian and Maddie sat in the form room, listening to Mr Jeffries.
"And a reminder from Miss Fitzgerald, the school book group will meet every Wednesday. That's it for notices." Mr Jeffries said.
"We'll go back to swing a dusk, the ground will be damp them. It will hold her scent better." Maddie said. Rhydian and Katie didn't answer. They were busy thinking about what they would say to their Mum, next time they saw her. Katie wanted to know why she had left them in the middle of the woods all those years ago.
"Katie, Rhydian. Are you listening?" Maddie asked.
"Just forget that we saw her," Rhydian said.
"What do you mean?" Maddie asked.
"Rhydian, come one we have to practice" Sam and Jimi called out.
"What are we going to do about her?" Maddie asked.
"I have to practice," Rhydian said as he jogged off to where Sam and Jimi stood. Katie watched Rhydian until The Three Ks interrupted the small playground game. They had pompoms in their hands.
"Who wants to see our new routine?" Katerina asked before the three girls start to perform the routine.
"Ready? Ok! Go! Go! Bridlington High kick that ball into the sky. Beat that awful Baron's Mill, show them they are over the hill. Go Bridlington"
"So, what did you think Rhydian" Katerina asked.
"Yeah, I thought it was good," Rhydian said. The three Ks walk away with the pompoms down by the side.
Katie and Maddie waited for Rhydian to finish football practice. When Rhydian walked out the changing rooms he didn't look happy.
"What happened?" Katie asked.
"Jimi and Liam expect so much from me. I told them I didn't want to play on the team and walked out" Rhydian said as the three Wolfbloods left school.
"Can we talk about the wild Wolfblood now?" Maddie asked.
"Not here," Rhydian said.
Katie, Rhydian and Maddie found themselves in Bernie's Cafe again. They sat around a table of three. Jimi and his friends sat across from them.
"Maddy, she's our mother," Rhydian said.
"Do you know what she's doing here?" Maddie asked the twins.
"No. We never asked her" Katie said.
"We ran away" Rhydian added. "She can't show up like this. She left us in the middle of nowhere. What kind of mother does that?"
"You don't know what really happened. No one does, expect her." Maddie said "Maybe you should try talking to her"
"Please," someone said. Katie and Rhydian looked up and saw their Mum standing by the door.
Maddie went to talk to Bernie. Katie and Rhydian didn't say anything for a few minutes.
"What are you doing here?" Rhydian asked. "This is Maddie's territory"
"What will the tame Wolfbloods do about it?" Ceri asked
"I think we should take this conversation somewhere else" Katie suggested as she looked at Liam and Jimi.
"Sure," Rhydian said. "Come one"
Katie lead Rhydian and her 'Mum' to a clearing in the woods.
"If your really our mother then why did you leave us?" Katie asked.
"I couldn't find you. We left you somewhere safe while we went hunting but when we came back the humans were taking both of you away in their machines." Ceri said.
"You could have told Social services or the police that you were our mother," Rhydian said.
"They would have locked me up behind bars," Ceri said
"Maybe you could have tried living like a human" Katie suggested.
"That sound's worse than being locked up," Ceri said
"Why did you come back now and not five years ago?" Katie asked.
"I sensed both of your transformations," Ceri told them "I knew that it was time for both of you were born for"
"How did you find us?" Rhydian asked.
"A true Wolfblood can always find their kin," Ceri said. "Come with me to the wild and we can be a family again."
"I like the human world," Katie said. "What so good about living in the wild?"
Ceri didn't answer Katie's question instead she talking about Wild Wolfblood abilities.
"There are senses that you've never used, things both of you can do that you've never imagined. Things that your tame friends will never learn about. It's called Eolas" Ceri said.
"What's Eolas?" Katie asked.
"I can teach you how to use it if you like, or you can go back"
Ceri tried to teach Rhydian and Katie about using Eolas but the twins but they looked up confused.
"You said that we should try and..." Katie started to say
"Don't try. That's what humans do" Ceri said. "We listen to our instincts"
"I can't do it," Katie said.
"Look at me," Ceri said.
"Fell the wind blowing over you and the earth under you." Ceri started to say.
Katie did that, and she saw an image of the school playground.
"I saw my school," Katie said.
"I saw Maddie" Rhydian added. "I think we get it now."
"It's amazing," Katie said.
"The Wild Pack runs with Eolas, that is how we exist," Ceri said.
"You want us to go with you?" Rhydian asked.
"Yes," Ceri said.
"Forever. What if we don't like it?" Katie asked.
"What have you got to come back to? Bullies, School, Homework and Teachers that have already given up on you" Ceri said.
"We have friends," Rhydian said.
"If you come with me then you will have a pack," Ceri said.
"We already have a pack," Katie said.
"Traitors to our species," Ceri said.
"Can we have some time to decide?" Katie asked.
"Thinking is for humans," Ceri said. "Trust your instincts"
"We have to go home now. Mr and Mrs Vaughan will be worried about us" Katie said.
"Yeah," Rhydian said,
Katie and Rhydian walked away from their mother and back to their foster parent's house.