Chapter 2:

° The disclaimer is still present in the prologue.

He was late!!! Xander had needed to talk with his hyena, because he knew that she was the only one able to help him with what he was looking for. But now that he knew what happened, the sky was already dark and he had to rush to the park. Though he was grateful to Mayeab; now he would be able to help Kyle with whatever he would need to adjust.

As he arrived, he noticed a silhouette leaning against a tree in the corner of his eyes. He approached and smiled as Kyle's eyes came to stay on him and a sigh of relief was heard.

He could see the anxiousness in his eyes and he didn't like it. "Don't worry Kyle it's going to be fine, I know what is going on, and I think I have a solution."

"Really; that's good to hear, because I don't know what is going on with me and the others are worse." Kyle replied, his posture seemed to relax a bit as I came next to him and squeezed his arm. It was the first time I saw him so confused and worried.

Before Kyle all I knew was loneliness, my 'parents' never even like me, I have always been a burden to them but when I met Kyle I felt like we were meant to be together, like brothers. I felt for the first time that I belonged somewhere and that was the greatest feeling of my life.

I met him at the kindergarten; the first memory I have of him, was of a boy playing by himself in the corner of a room, his back against the wall. He was playing with a car but his eyes never left the people around him, he wouldn't let anyone approach him, be they children or adults. He was like an injured wild animal, betrayed once and not willing to trust again; but what I saw in his eyes was a call for help, so I went to him, sat on my knees and hold out my hand. He never looked at it but continued to watch my eyes like he could see all that I was in them. Feeling the importance of the act even at this young age, I never blinked my eyes and waited patiently for his reaction.

He must have found what he was looking for because he took my hand in his and with a small smile, he gave me his car for us to play together. As I finally really look at him I saw bruises, a lots of bruises on his arms and legs but seeing his shameful look, I never said a thing. I knew he would talk to me when he was ready, so without a word we played together all day. I didn't even learn his name before my mother came to take me back home.

Letting me go to the kindergarten was the best and only thing my parents did for me. Just some weeks later Jesse came too; he was black and blue from head to toe. Like with Kyle I knew from the first look I took of him that he was meant for us. He was so similar to us that we were drawn to him the second he took a step in the room. So without discussing it with each other we reached for him and protected him from everyone. Where Kyle was wild and hard, Jesse was shy and scared and I was gentle but strong. Our personalities were balancing each other; in fact we were perfect together. That's how our trio came to be, three lonely young children, abused and insecure but in need of love, attention and protection, and to this day I continue to think it was the best thing to happen to us. I think that my need to take under my wings strays and abused children went back to that time too.

The arrival of Willow at the end of the year was the beginning of the hell that was slowly ravaging Sunnydale these days. She entered the room like she owned it, took a look at her surroundings and came to sit between me and Kyle. Even if she thought of us as children, the meaning of it wasn't lost on us; she wanted Kyle's place and she would have it. Even at that young age we instinctively knew that she was dangerous and we didn't want for Kyle to be hurt or worse.

So we decided that to keep him safe we needed to hide the binds that the three of us had forged. It hadn't be easy, Willow was always jealous of the people approaching me, only Jesse was able to stay at my side and it was because she thought him as weak minded. I must say we never try to change her opinion on him; it was too useful to us. If she wanted to underestimate one of her enemy, I wasn't going to dissuade her; it could very well become an advantage to us in the future. In addition it was protecting Jesse from her so he took great pleasure in playing her like a fool. I really missed him. He had always been the one to comfort us, to nurture the peace of our minds, like a calming balm. Jesse's calm, shy and contemplative nature made him easily look weak but what most people didn't recognize was that under this mask was a really intelligent, wise and determined person.

On the contrary Willow never liked Kyle; she had always felt threatened by him. He never acknowledged her and it hurt her pride. His wildness and strength of will made him unpredictable and she had always dreaded what she couldn't control. So she pushed him out of her way and we let her for Kyle's protection.

Even now this charade is continuing because we need to keep an eye on Willow, but since Jesse death it's nearly too much to hold on. Without him the balance we had succeeded in creating is lost and my inner peace as well, but I digressed I think poor Kyle had been waiting longer than necessary for my explanation.

So I took his hand and together we sat under the tree, I began it with me finding the book on spirits and possessions. I explained that, as I was searching through the pages I came to a ritual which gave a person the ability to accept a spirit in itself to use its power. Of course in our case it was Hyena spirits. I did compare the drawing of the book and the one which was on the ground and they were the same, at least now we knew what we were dealing with. I knew what Kyle needed to know first; he needed to know if the spirits were safe or not.

Kyle has always been a really protective person, if not a little possessive, and he really worried for those he loved. I know it well because the two of us had a relation together. We had been together for more than a year before we finally decided that our love was more fraternal than anything else and that the passion had died. We were meant to be together; not as lover but as brother. This relation was something that I would never regret and it provided us the closeness and comfort that we couldn't reach because of Willow. We broke up just after the death of Jesse, we couldn't continue like that. Now we are a lot more than brother and a little less than lover, and we are really happy with it.

My Hyena spirit agreed completely with me on this subject, she saw Kyle as her beta; her brother and warrior. I couldn't say how much I'm grateful to have him in my life, without him I wouldn't be half the person I am today. I don't think I would have been able to surmount the death of Jesse without taking it on all the vampires who crossed my path, and if it had come to it I would have break; I would have lost a big part of myself and become what I'm fighting against. I have been born with the ability to discern the dark from the evil but I would have killed them all, victim or killer, it wouldn't have made a difference in this state. I would have been no better than Buffy which had become one of my nightmares nowadays; I would have turn into an assassin, a killer. I have been born with a role to play, and I will see to it to the best of my abilities.

But tonight I will know for sure if I am meant to fulfil this role alone or not.

So gathering my courage, I look Kyle in the eyes and explained what I did to enter in contact with my spirit. In fact all I had to do was to fall in a meditative state and search the place where I knew she was lurking. With a nod of acceptance from Kyle I began the process to help him reach this state, once there I talk him into searching his spirit. Kyle shown an easiness for meditation that make me jealous, I had to try for more than half an hour to reach the peace needed, my mind was always on something, always analysing and processing information, in clear a real chaos.

While I was once again thinking to myself I felt a tremor coming from Kyle's hand, so I look up in his eyes and saw them green and gleaming. The Hyena had taken control of him and I could see he wanted to talk to me. "Thank you Luenor for giving me and my queen this chance and I can assure you, we won't ever harm you. I know you talk to my Queen, but I want to promise you that all we want is to help you. I'm honoured to be able to protect you and my Queen, because we know that you will be the one to gather the pack and to change things. We have been searching you for years now, you won't ever be alone and my host his in complete agreement with me"

I was so relieved to hear of Kyle's acceptance that all I could do was thanking them.

Gathering my emotions back, I felt my spirit move and I let her control my body. The two talked to themselves for a moment without us being able to listen, having been blocked out of our link. Yet I have a feeling it is about the dispossessing spell I read from the book, it makes evil and weak spirits returned to their own planes. What I don't know is what it does to really strong spirits whose hosts are accepting of their presences. I asked her about it but she wasn't willing to tell me at the time.

Once the two spirits gave us back our control, I crushed Kyle in my embrace and thanked him with all my heart. "Xander you should have known that I would have never let you alone in this. I love you bro, I'm used to Sunnydale's night life, I know that it was really vampire who stole Jesse from us, and don't you dare doubt me on that. You know me better tan that!" And with that he crushed me back in his embrace.

"I know and I'm sorry but I was so scared to loose you; we already lost Jesse, I wouldn't be able to continue without you…" I was so happy to have him by my side that I decided that I would tell him who I really was, not willing to keep anymore secrets from him. So I told him everything that I could think of, from me being a luenor, my 'parents', my brotherly love for him, my abilities and so much more…

Once I was finished I couldn't even look at him, so I did the only thing I was able to and fixing the ground I whispered to him that I was sorry. Tears were beginning to fall from my face and I was starting to hate myself for it. I couldn't even face him with the truth, I was so ashamed, I must have made a really pitiful sight to watch. But as I was ranting to myself, I felt a hand raised my head and saw eyes looking in mine with an amused and exasperated air about them.

His hand released my chin to gently caress my cheek and lovingly he said. "Xander… What am I going to do with you? I already told you that I loved you bro and I can assure you that what you just told me, didn't change that at all. If it is even possible it made me even more proud of you. So stop worrying about things that don't need to and accept that I am here for the long run!" With that Kyle sat on the ground making Xander sat between his legs and began to stroke his hair to help him relax.

Feeling completely secure and warm in Kyle's arms, Xander began to purr making Kyle laugh. "I know that we are possessed by hyena spirits but I didn't know that you were part cat too…" Xander didn't feel the need to retaliate; he was too comfy to move.

After a moment of relaxing in the other presence and the calm surrounding them, they began to talk of what they were going to do at school. They needed a plan and a plan fool proof; they couldn't make a mistake. It was too important.

So opening their links fully with their hyena's spirits, they began to search a solution to the Willow's problem. They knew that she would notice the change in them even if it was subtle; she would sense their new powers and would be drawn to them like a moth to a flame. At first she would try to take advantage of their power in draining them for boosting her magic and if it revealed to be impossible for her to do so. Then she would try to get rid of their powers and if she could kill Kyle in the process it would make her day. So they discussed every possible solution that ran through their mind, but none were enough.

It was Mayaeb who finally came to the only one possible even if she knew that her boys wouldn't like it. She talked to her beta about it earlier and he agreed with her that it was for the best. They decided to explain it to their host; they would have to win this argument because that was the only way for them to protect the boys.

Mayaeb reached for her link with Xander and the link of Draith and Kyle then bound them; making the four of them able to mind speak with each other. She felt her Xander's awe and happiness as he sensed Kyle's presence within his mind and saw his materialisation with Draith. "You will be able to mind link with all of those who will belong to your pack little one. You will be its heart and for you to be certain of their safety, you will need to sense when one of your pack will be in danger. And as the heart you will have the need to feel them for yourself too." Xander couldn't speak but he sent her the feeling of how grateful he was. "Draith; teach Kyle of what this link consist and how to erect barriers, he will need them against Willow. I will do the same with Xander." Nodding Draith went a little farther away from where Mayaeb was and showed Kyle a place to sit next to him to begin his instruction.

Mayaeb was already teaching Xander on how to empty his minds to reach with ease a meditative state. Once there she would move on building barriers for him and maintaining or reinforcing those of his pack members.

After a while the two boys were completely at ease with their new connection, and Xander was able to erect barriers at will. Once he knew the right method, Xander was a natural in managing it. That only served to show Mayaeb that he was the right one.

Now that they were ready they sat in a circle and Mayaeb explained to the boys her idea. "Xander; you and Kyle will have to act like 'evil', you will want Willow and Buffy to notice you. Make sure that she will understand that you are possessed and out of their control. Make a show on preferring Kyle to Willow and insulting her, it will give her the will to dispossess you. From there she will go to Giles for whom, you will already have placed the book with the spell where you are sure he will find it."

"It's a good plan but what will this spell do to you and Draith, I know that it expels weak spirits from their host but you two are extremely powerful. I'm afraid of what it will do to you both!" Xander told the hyenas with worry. Coming closer to Xander, Mayeab pushed her head against his chest. "Child your fears are legitimate but we won't be hurt and you won't loose us either. We are going to merge with your souls so our powers will be yours to use, you will continue to have all of our instincts, and the need to form your pack will be stronger."

Xander's hands were trembling as he stroked the fur on her head. She sighed, she knew he wouldn't understand and seeing as Kyle's fist was white clenching Draith's fur; he was no better.

So gathering her courage for the task at hand she said. "Don't you dare think like that you two, it won't kill us! Once the spell is cast, it will cause a merging of our souls; we will continue to live in you, just not in the same way! We will still talk to you but it will be through your instincts. We have waited a long time for you two and this merging will be our reward, we will be able to protect you, form our pack, find our mate and we won't ever be alone; that's what we have wanted. If we continue to live like we are, we will be hurting ourselves; you and me both. Your body and mind aren't made to support another spirit; it would slowly but surely kill you. Do not deny us the pleasure to stay by your side for all of your life."

"Okay I think I understand now, but that doesn't mean that I like it. In spite of everything I will do whatever is needed to keep you alive and with me, with us." Xander answered looking at Kyle for his response. Kyle nodded his head in acceptance but his entire body was rigid showing is uneasiness with the merging and the possible loss of Draith and Mayaeb.

"That's all we can ask of you and if you have any question, you know where to find us. Even when we will be merged; all you will have to do is focusing your question on us and we will find a way to answer them." Mayaeb said closing this subject of discussion. Finally deciding to spoke, Kyle said. "So tomorrow we go to school, play the part of being possessed, belittled Willow, and act like bully for willow and Buffy to recognize the problem and reach Giles for a solution. Well that will be fun! Did I forget anything?"

"No you didn't, in keeping the plan simple; it made it possible to improvise in case of a problem. I'm proud of you two, you are so much more mature than your fifteen years old." answered Draith affectionately.

Knowing that the boys had to return to their home if they wanted to sleep before going to school Mayaeb explained to Kyle how to retreat to his own mind and keep his connection with Xander open. Once done the boys came out of their trance and after regaining his composure Kyle stood up feeling exhausted. Before Xander could fall asleep where he sat, Kyle helped him on his feet and taking him in his arms; wished him goodnight under his breath.

As they left the park, the night was already giving her place away for the morning to come; they were so tired that once back to their beds, they fell asleep before their heads had the time to reach their pillows.

Author note: Alright firstly if you reached this note I wish to thank you for taking the time to read my story!!! That's really nice of you.

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