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Sentinel Legend.
The ten young guides and sentinels crowded round the Dark Sentinel, who gently stroked the head of each one of them, he sniffed them, each of the children realised that he was imprinting them, they could feel his power and none had ever felt anything like this before. They felt the rage and anger bubbling in the background of his mind but the youngsters felt safe and protected in his presence, the children touched him in turn and the Dark Sentinel allowed it.
Jesse watched quietly he could hear the occasional giggle from the children as the black clad sentinel hugged and then sniffed at them. Jesse had read about sentinels and guides, but he had never thought he would see anything like this. Jesse moved to get in a comfortable position on the floor, he stiffened when he heard the growl from the adult sentinel.
The Dark Sentinel tilted his head listening he heard a car coming along the dirt road to the cabin. He stood up, he quietly spoke to the pups around him.
"Stay here and quiet." The dark clad man made his way up the stairs he had snarled at the teenager who just cringed back away from him. "Do not move any closer to the pups."
Smith drove closer to the cabin, he expected to see atleast one of his men patrolling the outside, stopping the car Smith looked around the outside of the cabin, he began to feel a sense of growing unease. Flipping open his phone, he called one of the men he had left in the cabin, getting no answer Smith decided to go with his survival instincts and he revved the engine and spun the wheel, he headed back down the dirt road. Smith looked in his rear view mirror and saw a man stood with a wolf by his side. Smith put his foot down, The Dark Sentinel snarled as he realised he would not get to kill the man in the car, but he saw what the man looked like and he would not forget.
He rejoined the children in the cellar, the Dark Sentinel rumbled his displeasure as he saw the children gathered around Jesse, who was being fussed over by a couple of the guides. The children looked up at him, and each one smiled in welcome to the sentinel who saved them.
"Sentinel, Jesse was hurt and we're helping him." Billy Travis grabbed the Dark Sentinel hand and pulled him over. "Oh Wow."
Billy looked in fascination at the huge wolf by the side of the silent sentinel, he tentatively reached out his hand and stroke the huge head.
"Is he your spirit guide?" Billy had never been able to touch a spirit guide before, he was soon joined by the others who crowded round and each one touched the silver wolf.
"Phone." The Dark Sentinel looked at Jesse as he moved towards the teenager. The young guides and sentinels kept stroking the wolf who occasionally used his broad wet tongue on one of the children who sniggered and giggled in delight.
"Here." Jesse held out his phone hoping that they would get a signal here.
Chris looked at the phone in confusion, he knew he needed to call someone to come for the children but he knew no one in the Sentinel and Guide Foundation. Smiling to himself he realised who he would call.
"Billy." The Dark Sentinel gruffly called.
Billy ran over to the blond man, he took the phone held out to him and listened as the man quietly told him where they where and what he had to do.
Buck Wilmington was a level eight sentinel, he worked for the ATF, he was a member of the Denver pride but he rarely took part in anything pride related due to his dislike of the Alpha who ran the group.
Buck was like every other sentinel and guide in the Denver area at the Sentinel and Guide Foundation building, this was because of the kidnapping of the ten children. The Denver Alpha pair had called in every member of the Denver pride, he wanted the people who had taken the children caught before something awful happened to the gifted children.
The parents and family of the children where gathered together in the large hall where full pride meetings where held, the rest of the pride gathered around them offering what support they could. Buck could see his boss Judge Orrin Travis stood with his wife and daughter-in-law, they where all mundane but the Judges grandson was a sentinel.
Buck could see a young sentinel and guide stood off to one side, he could feel the sadness and pain coming from the pair, it suddenly dawned on Buck that these must be the teachers who had been left behind when the children where kidnapped. Some of the Alpha's cronies where growling in displeasure at the pair who huddled together in mutual support.
Buck moved to Judge Travis.
"Are you alright Sir?" Buck quietly asked.
"I just want my grandson back Buck." Judge Travis looked around at the gathered sentinels and guides he wondered who would be mad enough to kidnap so many gifted children and hope to get away with it.
"We shall get you grandson back." The deep voice of the Denver Alpha confidently declared. "And all those responsible will be punished."
Buck wanted to growl at the man, Stuart James was a level eight sentinel and in Buck's opinion he was a bully. Buck saw the man give a dark look to the young guide and sentinel, he surely could not be considering punishing the teachers for what had happened.
"No one will get away with taking any of our children." Stuart James roared, his pride echoed his roar of defiance.
To Stuart's annoyance he heard the ringing of a cell phone, he turned to snarl at the man who took his phone out.
"Hello." Buck ignored the growling Alpha.
"Sentinel Buck, my name is Billy." Buck immediately turned his phone onto speaker so all of the pride including Judge Travis and his family could hear.
"Billy." Judge Travis called.
"Grandpa." Billy sounded excited as he spoke.
The pride crowded around Buck and the phone.
"Where are you son?" Judge Travis quickly asked.
"We're all fine Grandpa." Billy declared. "The Sentinel saved us from the men who stole us and where in a cabin on forestry land."
Billy then proceeded to tell his grandfather where the cabin was, Buck recognised the location, but he did not think it was important at this time.
"Can I talk to the Sentinel Billy." Judge Travis waited, he could feel the people round him where eager to hear from this sentinel who had rescued the children
"No Granpa he's feral and not really into talking." Billy giggled as the wolf licked his face and the Dark Sentinel patted his head fondly. "He has a really big wolf Grandpa."
Shocked looks where exchanged, the gathered sentinels and guides new how dangerous a feral sentinel could be.
"A wolf son." Orrin Travis could not keep the shock from his voice.
"Yes his spirit guide is silver and he's bigger than I am." Billy was nudged by one of the guides.
The assembled sentinel and guides began to whisper in shock, a wolf spirit guide was unheard off, this sentinel must be exceptional to have such a spirit animal. Stuart James growled his annoyance, so what if this sentinel had a wolf guide, he had a lion, which would rip the wolf to pieces.
Buck could see the annoyance on James face, he smiled to himself at the look the other man struggled to hide, he watched as the man's guide gently stroked his arm in an effort to calm the Alpha.
"We'll be coming to get you soon son." Judge Travis noted that a group of the sentinels and guides had left and where headed to the location that Billy had provided for them.
"Ok Grandpa, Jesse is with us too." Billy looked at the man, he noted that the Sentinel was checking the man out, and Jesse was keeping his head down, the dark sentinel patted the teenager's head.
"Sentinel my Grandpa is going to come get us." Billy confidently declared. "Grandpa are any of the other parents with you?"
"Yes son there are." Judge Travis noted the parents move even closer.
"Mom I'm alright, the Sentinel punished the men who tried to hurt us." A high pitch girl's voice came over the phone.
A man and woman who Buck thought where the girls parents stood hugging.
"Trudy you're a brave girl." Her Sentinel father proudly announced as he cuddled his guide wife close to him.
"Love you daddy." Trudy giggled as the wolf licked her nose. "Can we get a puppy daddy."
The surrounding adults smiled at the childish giggle.
"Protect the pups." A feral voice growled.
The adult sentinels and guides exchanged looks when they heard the almost inhumane voice growl. Alpha Sentinel Stuart James stepped closer.
"Who are you sentinel?" James snapped. "Answer me as your Alpha I command it."
A angry snarl was the answer James received, he looked shocked by the disrespect he was being shown.
"I'm sorry Alpha James but the sentinel has gone to check the cabin and surrounding area. Are my parents there, my name is Sam Jensen." A boyish voice quietly asked.
"I'm here son." A huge bear of a man moved closer, he had a diminutive woman by the hand, she seemed in awe of the gathered sentinels and guides.
"Papa I want to be like this sentinel when I come online, he's so strong." Sam patted the wolf on the head, green eyes watched him closely.
The remaining children all spoke to their parents and then Billy informed them that the battery was going to run out.
"The sentinel and guide team will be with you soon Billy and the police will be with them, let the Sentinel know." Travis passed the information on.
"He heard you Grandpa." Billy was not worried.
"Is he there with you Billy, is he ready to talk to us?" Travis wanted to speak with the man who had rescued his grandson from an unimaginable fate.
"No he's still outside." Billy did not understand how he knew the Sentinel was outside, it was like the man was projecting his location to Billy and the rest of the gifted children.
The phone cut out, all the parents and their families where excited by the thought that they would be reunited with their children.
The Dark Sentinel moved amongst the children, he gently touched each one, his spirit guide walked by his side. The children knew that the Sentinel did not want to meet the coming sentinels and guides, he would wait and watch from a distance until he was sure they where safe and then he would leave.
"Will you not come meet my Grandpa?" Billy sadly asked.
The Dark Sentinel's green eyes sparkled with life as he shook his head, a lean hand ran gently over Billy head, the youngster felt a strange sensation, suddenly a bear cub appeared in front of him.
"Is he mine?" Billy was itching to move closer to the bear cub who sat looking at him.
The man nodded, the other children watched the two sentinels avidly, they timidly approached as Billy got down on his knees and hugged the bear cub which licked his ear. Jesse could not believe his eyes as the area around the children suddenly filled with young animals and birds, as each child's spirit animal appear to the young sentinels and guides. He saw a polar bear cub, a fox, and an eagle to name but a few, Jesse felt tears come to his eyes as he realised that it was the adult sentinel who was giving the children this opportunity. Jesse jumped as he was nudged by a cold wet nose, he turned as was confronted by sharp fangs and a wide tongue.
"Do better." The sentinel growled at him, before man and wolf left the cellar.
Jesse found himself in handcuffs and being escorted to a car which would take him to the SGF headquarters in Denver to be interrogated, he had not struggled and cooperated fully with the growling sentinel who arrested him.
Buck stood with Judge Travis, his wife Evie and their daughter-in-law Mary Travis, he wondered how Billy Travis had gotten his number, and he would have to ask the youngster. The sentinel felt sorry for the two youngster stood silent at the edges of the pride, they where being ostracised by the majority of the gathered sentinels and guides, although occasionally someone would go over and speak with them. Buck noted that the Alpha, kept giving the two evil snarls which made the female guide quake in fear and the sentinel avert his eyes so not to be seen as challenging the Alpha.
The doors to the meeting room burst open and the children raced in, they all hurried to their parents and families, excited babbling about what had happened, they where checked over by the surrounding sentinel's and guides and apart from being tired and dirty all of them seemed in good health.
Billy was being hugged by his mother and then his grandparents, he excitedly told them about seeing his spirit guide and that he wanted to be able to do that for others when he grew up. The audience listening to the children gaped in shock as they realised that this unknown sentinel could do what no other could do, they all decided that they needed to find him.
Alpha Stuart James and the head of the Denver Sentinel Guide Foundation Guy Royal headed for Judge Travis and Billy, they wanted to speak to the youngster as he seemed to have the most knowledge of the unknown sentinel. Alpha Stuart James wanted to know who the sentinel was so that he would know his place as he was the dominant sentinel in Denver and this man would be taught to respect him. Director Guy Royal wanted to meet the man who could possibly be something new in the history of sentinels and guides, he wanted the kudos having such a strong sentinel would give his office, Royal was a mundane but he had not let that stop him from succeeding.
"Sentinel Wilmington." James greeted the tall sentinel, he had been worried that this man would challenge for the role of Alpha, but then he had realised the other man did not want the responsibility of leading a pride.
"Alpha James." Buck was civil to the other man.
"I would like to ask Billy some questions." Director Royal smiled at the adult Travis's.
"I'm sure he would be happy to help his pride." Mary Travis smiled at the two men.
"Billy can you describe the other sentinel to us." James looked at the youngster.
"He was smaller than you but bigger than Granpa." Billy pointed at man stood watching and listening. "His hair was that colour."
The adults saw the man had blond hair, Buck turned back to Billy.
"Billy what else can you remember about the man?" Buck could see Billy thinking.
"He was like a shadow all dressed in black and he had bright green eyes." Billy beamed as he looked at Buck.
Buck jaw dropped he reached into his back pocket and pulled out his wallet, he looked at the picture that he kept in there, the man and woman smiling broadly at the camera while the tow headed boy sat on the man's knee giggling at the camera.
"Is this the man Billy?" Buck held the photo out to the youngster.
"Yes that's the sentinel." Billy looked up at Buck. "Who is he Sentinel Buck."
The whole hall had gone quiet when everyone realised they may have the identity of the sentinel.
"His name is Chris Larabee."