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I had sadly underestimated what Faye meant when she said that we would be training today and early. I didn't expect her to zap me with a little lightening shortly after 6 am. I'm pretty sure she's crazy but who wouldn't go crazy after almost 600 years of being alive. Not that I would ever say that to her face, she may kill me for it. After she zapped me, she threw workout clothes at my head and told me to meet her out front. I slowly got up and went through my morning routine, only to have to pick up pace when my backside was zapped again. I am without doubt not in a good mood now, I don't like mornings to begin with and now I'm getting damn near electrocuted at this ungodly hour. This was supposed to be my last day to sleep in before I go back to hell, otherwise known as high school.

"Alright, I'm here. What is the big rush?" I grumbled at Faye as I walked out the front door.

"We have a lot of training to squeeze in the morning before Paul arrives at 10. We are going to be practicing your aim when it comes to fire today, and I have a safe zone set up in the middle of the forest where we can fire at targets without harming the forest or any animals. Also when we get there we can't be detected by anyone, either human or mystic." Faye explained in a cheery voice, how I wanted to send a fire ball at her just for being that damn cheerful this early in the morning.

"Alright, let's go." I held out my arm for Faye to grab onto so that she could flicker us to her safe zone.

"Oh no flickering this morning, we are going to do it the old fashion way and run there. It's only about 5 miles there and 5 miles back. It will help build up stamina for fighting and will also help if you're unable to flicker away." She has got to be kidding me; I have to run 5 miles. I think I may accidently zap her today.

"Don't even think about it young lady, or did you forget that I can see the future?"

"Yes, I actually did. But now I won't do it." I snapped back at her.

"Let's go, try and keep up, I don't want you getting lost." Faye took off towards the forest at a slow run; I groaned and ran after her. This was going to be a long day. As we ran through the woods uphill, downhill, over logs, around trees, I kept praying to the Keepers that we would get there soon. I haven't run anywhere since the last time I played a high school student about 15 years ago, I flickered every where it was much easier and quicker. My thoughts started to drift to Paul the longer we ran and I began to day dream of running through the forest on his back while he was in wolf form. We would be going so much faster and the wind would be blowing in my hair. I would have to tell him soon what I was so that he could make his confession. I was not looking forward to having the conversation but it had to happen. I can't even think how I'm going to bring up the topic. Should I just blurt it out or start giving him hints so that he asks. I can't reach a decision and I really needed to talk to my best friend about it. She wasn't a big fan of the wet dog smell, or so she has told my brothers numerous times and she wouldn't be happy that my singer was a shifter but she would get over it in time I hope. She eventually would be happy that my singer was immortal and I would not be aging. She'll probably just tell me to zap him in the tail when he was spying on me and fry his tail hair as a hint. Subtlety is not one of her strong suit. I tried to laugh at that thought and then realized that my lungs where bursting from running for so long and my legs felt like they were going to break if we didn't get there soon. Faye stopped running so suddenly that I barely managed to avoid slamming into her. Apparently we were here, because Faye started mumbling spells and waving her arms to secure the place. All I could do was stand there, pant and wish for water. At least now I know the key to running long distances was to think about Paul because he was a great distraction.

"Alright, this is how we are going to do this. I have set up a spell to give you moving targets, when I say the magic word; enemies will start appearing and moving around at vampire speed. You must eliminate them by sending fire balls at them quickly. The first sequence only has enemies and they move in a pattern. After that it will become increasingly difficult, there will be friends and allies mixed in and then the enemies will not be moving in a pattern. The final sequence is pretty much an all out battle. There are five sequences before you are done. You must pass each sequence with a perfect score before the spell will allow you to move on, so please catch on quick or we will be out here all day because this is a spell that must be completed before it will release us. Do you understand everything?" Faye finally explained what we were doing in the middle of nowhere.

"I think I got. Are you going to be helping me with any of them?" Please say yes.

"The first two I won't be but once there starts to be allies then yes. You won't be able to see me until you get to the third sequence, so at least you won't accidently fry me in your training. Are you ready to begin?" I got into my fighting stance and warmed up my arms and hands so that they would be ready when the enemy made an appearance.

"Ready!" I can do this, it doesn't sound hard and I'd been doing this for so long that I can apparently shoot fire in my sleep. We'll be out of here in no time. Faye said something under her breathe and then she disappeared and white blurs started to move quickly around me. I started to shoot the fire balls from my hands in front of where I saw the blurs and none of them managed to get me. All of sudden things picked up when the blurs started to move in different directions and I knew I was onto the second sequence. Not bad that only took about 20 minutes. Easy!

Two hours later I realized how wrong I was about this. I was standing back to back with Faye and I was now only on the forth sequence, and I was starting to run out of energy. I knew I would have to keep going until I either collapsed or I finished. There was no way I was admitting defeat, I was too stubborn for that. I fired a ball at a blur and suddenly the scene changed. Nothing was moving and I stood there breathing heavily.

"Was that the last sequence? Did I miss count?" I hoped.

"There is only the battle sequence left and this is the calm before the storm. Are you ready? I'll give you a hint for this one. If you find that you starting to lose power, think of your singer. Think of him standing on the other side of the field and that you must save him. If you don't use every single ounce of your power he will die. That is my key, I think of Phil and you kids. Just think of Paul and you will have even greater power then you have right now. You have a reason to fight and that is the key to every great Witch's power." Faye filled me in on a secret to not loosing. "Ready, because here they come."

With that the blurs took on new faces and new strength. It was like fighting newborn vamps, they were much faster and stronger then the last four sequences and they were coming from every angle. The more fire I shot at them the faster they came. After the first 30 minutes of the battle I was starting to lose energy and my fire balls weren't as big or as strong as when I first started. Then I remembered what Faye had told me and thought of Paul. If I didn't defeat these vamps then Paul and everyone I cared for would be in danger. I imagined Paul in wolf form fighting along with me, and I started to draw strength from that. I swiftly felt the red rage rising in me, it was feeding on the idea that someone was putting my singer in danger so I did something I never did. I let it loose.

"INCENDIA PLUVIA IN HOSTES HOSTIUM!" I yelled, where did that come from. Unexpectedly my whole body shot off a large fire ball that destroyed all of the enemies in the sequence. Everything stopped and I fell to the ground.

"Anthemia! Are you okay?" I could hear Faye yelling at me but it was very distant. "How did you do that?"

"I don't know," I said shakily. Everything was slowly coming back into focus. "I'm feeling better. What did I yell at the end?"

"It was Latin; it meant fire rain upon the enemy. You haven't used Latin in the last 100 years but they always produce the more powerful spells. How did you know to say that spell?"

"I have no idea. I started to do like you said and imagined that Paul's life was a stake and then all I saw was red and I knew I had to let it out. Then I yelled the first thing that came to mind and then everything was very distant. How did I do that? Mom, that was more power then I have ever had before and it kind of scares me."

"I don't know baby. I'm going to make some phone calls when we get back and hopefully we can figure out why this amount of power has never manifested itself in you before." You know it's bad when even your Mom is concerned.

"Maybe one of the Elders will have an answer." I hope.

"Are you okay to run back or maybe we should just flicker?" Faye asked me looking very worried.

"I'm okay to run back. Don't worry Mom, the spell just took me out for a second but I'm fine now." I really didn't want to run the 5 miles back but I wanted to make sure she knew I was okay. I really did feel full of energy now that everything was in focus. After the spell I had about 15 seconds of down time but now I had more energy than I've ever had before and was starting to bounce around. Maybe it was a good thing we were running and I would have a chance to burn off some of this abundance of energy before I saw Paul. Crap, Paul! He was coming over at 10 and it was already 9:15. We were going to have to run full out to get back before 10 and I needed a shower after today's training.

"Let's get going! Don't forget Paul's coming over and I need a shower first!" I jumped up and started running back to the house. Faye flickered in front of me and started running.

"Don't forget, you don't know where you're going and I don't think you want to be lost before your big brunch date." Faye teased.

As we ran back I started thinking of what I had done in the clearing. That amount of power really did concern me and I hoped someone would have an answer. I think maybe the reason that I was able to do that was because not only was my mom a witch but my father was half witch but that didn't explain why it took 296 years to manifest. I call my father a half witch because males born from witches took on the traits of the father while the females became witches. Few males had power but some did have a little power depending on their father but not much and could only do simple spells and some would remain immortal. The twins where a good example, they where shifters because their father is but they can do some easy spells for protection and for making drinks appear but nothing beyond that. It is very rare for a male to have a lot of power, but I have one brother who is about 90 (but looks 25) that has a lot of power for a male because his father was a half witch as well. The other two brothers that I have had where mortal and both lived into their 70s. That is the only down side of being immortal, you lose most of the people that you are close to. You stay young while family and friends grow old and die. It's not easy, and it never will be. It makes it hard to make friends when I'm in school because I know they will all outage me and die before too long. There was only one time that I made a close friend and that was in the 1920s but I got lucky there depending on how you look at it. She was still alive, for lack of a better word, and still my best friend but at a very dear cost. I can't think about that or I'm going to lose my concentration and probably break down here in the forest because her story doesn't have a happy ending. I switched my thoughts to Paul and how I couldn't wait to see him again and look in to his eyes and be close to his warmth. We where almost home I could feel that Paul was already waiting on the front porch and I knew I was late. I propelled myself with renewed strength and crashed through the edge of the forest onto the front lawn only seconds behind Faye. I waved at Paul as I doubled over panting, maybe I pushed myself a little too hard, but it's defiantly worth it to see the smile on Paul's face. I slowly walked over to Paul trying to catch my breath and Faye just waved at us as she went inside to have a shower.

"Did you have a good run this morning?" Paul asked with a smile.

"Yeah it's great to be woken up at 6 am and made to run 5 miles into the middle of the freaking forest only to be made to work out more and then have to run 5 miles back. I can't wait to see what the evil sister has planned for tomorrow. Maybe next weekend you can come." I told him returning his smile.

"Sure, if you and your sister don't mind me tagging along I'll come with you next weekend." Well he could come and Faye could probably work him into the sequences but that would mean I would actually have to tell him by then. I don't know if I'll be able to suck up enough courage before the weekend. I guess I can always just go for a run with him.

"I just have to take a shower and then I'll make breakfast or rather Faye will when she gets out of the shower. I'm not the best of cook but I'm learning. Faye is amazing, so I hope you're hungry."

"I'm always hungry," Paul said with a smirk. Of course he is, food is one of the main thoughts of any shifter.

"Do you want to wait out here or did you want to watch TV? I won't be long in the shower."

"I think I'll wait out here, I haven't been introduced to your sister yet and I think it will be less awkward to stay outside until you come back."

"Sounds good. I'd give you a kiss but I'm sure I'm pretty smelly so I'll give you one when I come back down."

I took off at a run towards my bathroom and as soon as I hit the stairs I flickered into the shower. It was probably the quickest shower I've had in my existence. It didn't even take me 15 minutes to shower, throw on some makeup, brush my hair and teeth and put on clothes. The clothing probably took the longest, what do you wear to the first meal you're sharing with your soul mate. I chose to go with comfort and put on a pair of jeans that I know look great, a pair of Gucci sandals and my favorite purple and black eclectic t-shirt. I flickered back down to the landing and could smell brunch cooking; I really need to ask Faye for some cooking lessons. I ran back out to see Paul exactly where I had left him.

"Hey, I'm back." I went over to him and sat down on the step beside him.

"That is amazing. I didn't know females could get ready that quickly, but I must say you look amazing." Paul started to lean towards me and this time I gave into the pull and moved towards him. The magic of last night's kiss was repeated. We broke off the kiss to the sound of a throat clearing.

"Breakfast will be ready in 10 minutes, come and wash up and set the table please." Faye said with a knowing smile and then turned to go back to the kitchen.

"If you want to get fed then we better do as she says," I told Paul. He stood up and grabbed my hand while pulling me to my feet. I held his hand as we walked inside to the kitchen and I introduced him to Faye. I grabbed everything that I need to set the table and passed it over to Paul. Faye and I carried over the mountain of food that she had prepared, which was a good thing because at this point I may be able to almost out eat Paul.

"So Paul, you'll be going to school with Mia?" Faye asked with an innocent expression. I had a feeling that this would turn into an inquisition in no time.

"Yes, and I think we're both juniors. Hopefully we'll be in some of the same classes." Paul answered in between stuffing food into his face. "This is really good by the way."

"How are you in school?" Faye fired off another question.

"Some subjects are better than others." Paul was starting to look embarrassed.

"Well maybe Mia can help tutor you in the subjects that you need help in, she's very smart." I'm not that smart I've just had a long time to learn everything that they teach in school, plus I have 4 degrees, 3 Masters and 3 PHDs.

"Smart and beautiful, a wonderful and rare combination. That would be great if you're willing to help me. I'm sure I can use as much help as I can get." Paul told me with a shy smile.

"Another quick question for you Paul and then no more probing questions at the moment. How would you classify your relationship with my sister," Faye asked pointedly.

"Ummm…," Paul started to blush, "I'm hoping that she'll consider herself my girlfriend."

"Of course!" I practically screamed. Could my morning get much better?

"Wow Mia, not even in school yet and you've already got a boyfriend, you work quick lil sister. And Paul, I've very happy with your answer. I'll make sure Phil and my brothers take it easy on you." She finished the last part like it was almost a threat.

"I'm done, are you done Paul? If you are why don't we clean this up and then go outside." I said quickly hoping Faye would get the hint that this conversation was done. Paul was finished so we quickly cleaned up and where heading back outside.

"Don't go too far. Phil and your brothers will be here soon." Faye called as we opened the door.

Paul and I walked over to the porch swing and sat side by side. Paul slowly swung us as I curled my legs up beside me. Paul started filling me in on what to expect at school tomorrow and promised to meet me in the parking lot so that I wouldn't get lost. We had been sitting there for about 2 hours when I felt a twitch on my watcher radar. That meant Phil and the boys where here.

"There here!" Faye came running out of the house and I jumped up from beside Paul. I hadn't seen any of them in almost 6 months since Mom had sprung the plan to move on me. Paul sat very still; I think he was nervous to meet the boys. Phil pulled into the yard first and barley had time to stop his truck before Faye was hurling herself at him, last night was the first night in over 50 years that they had spent the night apart. My brothers pulled their trucks in behind Phil's and jumped out.

"Mia, get your scrawny ass over here and give me a hug," Devon screamed at me. I ran over and threw myself into his hug; he spun me around and only stopped when I was grabbed from behind by another pair of hot hands. Drew gave me a crushing hug but at least didn't spin me.

"Why is there a nervous looking shifter on the porch?" Drew whispered into my ear.

"My singer, I'm his imprint." I whispered back. "Don't say anything he doesn't know yet."

"It won't take him long to figure out, the three of us smell like wolves." Devon leaned over and whispered to me.

"Well until it's out in the open say nothing please."

"Will do and Mom already informed Dad so you're safe over there." Drew let me know. I looked over towards my parent and quickly looked away, no child no matter how old they are need to see that.

"Paul, come over here and meet my brothers, then you can help bring boxes in." I called to Paul.

Paul slowly walked over and I think he realized that his joke the other night about being able to take care of my brothers was wrong; they were just as tall and just as muscle bound as he was.

"Hi, I'm Paul." He put his hand out to shake Devon's hand.

"I'm Devon and this is Drew. It's nice to meet the guy that is willing to try and tame the shrew." I stuck my tongue out at him as he took Paul's hand to shake.

"What the hell?" Paul exclaimed and then started to mumble to himself. "You're like me aren't you? That's a dumb question of course you are. How? Wait until the guys hear. This isn't safe for Mia to live with shifters. What if they get mad?"

With that thought Paul started to tremble and shake.

"Paul, step away from Mia," Drew said calmly.

"Don't order me around," Paul snapped back. Smart Drew, piss of an already pissed off shifter, idiot.

"You need to calm down," Devon put his hand on Paul chest and started to push him towards the forest. Paul made a grab for me as Drew joined in pushing him. The next thing I know I was flying through the air and there was snarling coming from the silver wolf in front of me. Dev and Drew stood in front of me in their fighting crouches and Phil was walking over to join me. I looked down at myself to make sure everything was okay, I wasn't hurt but my shirt was a different story. There was almost nothing left of the shreds still clinging to me.

"Paul, what the hell! This is one of my favorite shirts asshole," my temper was starting to run away; "You need to phase back because we are not having this conversation with you in wolf form. Dev or Drew get the man some pants while I go change." With that command I flickered to my bedroom. Stupid wolves wreaking my clothes, why did I choose to wear my favorite shirt today. As I started to calm down I realized that I just flickered in front of Paul and where I should have been gravely injured, there wasn't a single scratch. The conversation that I was dreading was going to have to happen today. I flickered back to the driveway and I was hoping Paul had calmed down enough to phase back. When I got there he was wearing a pair of shorts and talking calmly to Phil.

"Hey Paul, sorry I freaked. Do you want to go for a walk; I think we have some secrets to trade." I said with a smile, hoping that he would take me up on my offer.

"I think we need to talk about everything." Paul walked over, grabbed my hand and we walked into the forest. We walked in for a bit not saying anything before finding a log to sit on.

"So…" Paul started. "Obviously I'm a werewolf as you've seen but I'm guessing you already know that."

"Actually, you're a shape shifter; werewolves or Children of the Moon are something completely different and have no thoughts except for blood lust. They can't change shape on a whim and only change with a full moon." I replied automatically.

"Do you mind telling me what you are? I blinked and then you where gone, and you didn't even have a scratch where my claws hit you in the chest and stomach. You're not a vampire, so what are you?" Paul asked.

"I'm a Witch," I answered.

"A Witch? They actually exist?" Paul looked confused.

"You're a Shape Shifter and you fight Vampires. Do you honestly believe that there are no other mystical creatures in the world?" I shot back.

"I wasn't sure. We don't have any legends on any other mystical creatures. Is your sister a witch too? Your brothers and your brother-in-law are shifters, right?"

"Faye is actually my mom and yes she's a witch. Phil, Devon, and Drew are shape shifters and they also shift into wolves because they are of Quileute decent, and Phil is actually my step-father."

"How is Faye your mom? She's only, what, 10 years older then you?"

"You have a lot to learn about witches. We are immortal to an extent. We only age when we decide to, when we decide to stop aging we do and we can start to age again if we want. I decided to stop when I turned 18, so I'm 18 until I decide to age again which I never will. The only reason a witch decides to age again is to be with her soul singer."

"What's a soul singer?"

"A soul singer is the exact same thing for witches that an imprint is for shape shifters. It's when you look into the eyes of your soul mate and it makes your soul sing with happiness. You are my singer."

"Well that's good because you're my imprint."

"That also means I won't age unless you decide to, which means you would have to stop shifting for a prolonged period of time. Faye doesn't age because Phil hasn't decided to age. "

"I know this a question your never suppose to ask a lady but how old is everyone in your family."

"Faye is almost 600, Phil is 127, and Devon and Drew are 22. I have more siblings that you will meet, the oldest is almost 500 but she is now looks like she's 60 because her husband and singer is a mortal."

"How old are you really? I know the story is that your 17 but if you decided to stop aging at 18 then obviously you're a lot older."

"I hope this doesn't freak you out but I was born in 1711 in Greece. I turned 296 in July."

"Wow, my imprints an extreme cougar, going after men over 250 years younger. The guys are going to get a kick out of this." Paul started laughing.

"Yup I'm a regular cradle robber." I started to giggle along.

"What can you do, power wise? I know you don't get hurt easily and you can disappear really quickly."

"The disappearing is called flickering. I can think of a place I want to go and move there as long as I can picture it. If I haven't been there it makes it more difficult but is doable because of my other gifts. I won't flicker into a confined space I've never been to though. Getting stuck in a wall once was enough for this witch. We have spells that we use, and we all have a specialty in defenses. My special defense is fire balls, my mom's is lightening. Also some witch's are granted special gifts from the Keepers of Power. My special gift is the being a Mystic Watcher. I can look for a specific being and find them, or I can look over a certain area to see what beings inhabit the area. I can look over the world and only look for specific mystic beings. Faye is also gifted; her gift is an Oracle and has visions of the future."

"Bet she saw me in your future."

"She did but she was stingy with details."

"So the training you did today was it like human training and did you actually run?"

"Faye was in a mood this morning and made me run there and back. Training was combat training with my fire. I used a new stronger power today that I was only able to use because I had found my singer. It was more powerful than expected and Faye is now speaking to the Elders about it."

"Will I be able to see you train next weekend?"

"Now that you know maybe you can train beside me, because I'm guessing that if I'm fighting that you wouldn't be far from my side anyways."

"Your right, if you were in danger I wouldn't let you out of my sight. Are you going to be able to tell the rest of my pack about this? I have patrol tonight and I don't think I'll be able to hide this from anyone."

"Don't worry about hiding it. I'm sure Phil, Devon and Drew will be getting in contact with your Alpha soon. Would it be possible for you to ask your Alpha if my family could meet with him after school tomorrow? We can meet here, or at his place or in the woods, whatever he is more comfortable with."

"Sure I'll ask him and let you know at school tomorrow. I have to leave to patrol now but I'll walk you back to your house first."

We walked back to the house hand in hand, and he repeated his promise to see me in the parking lot tomorrow morning. He gave me a passionate kiss good bye and then ran off towards the forest to phase. I floated inside knowing I was about to be teased by my brothers, but I just didn't care.

Thank you for reading. As this is the 6th chapter and there are no reviews I'm thinking about discontinuing this story. Please let me know if I should continue or not.