Secrets of the Starnik

Chapter 4: Sibling Rivalry

Myka couldn't sleep, not while she knew some girl who came flying in out of nowhere with her strange powers and same blue eyes and telekinetic power was sleeping beside her father. She retuned home that night angered, Jack could sense it. It was safe to say that their other "plans" for the night weren't going to happen. They were still trying for pups, but with Myka being as she was she wasn't happy or up to it. She wanted to level another tree; she wanted to break something in two, preferably that girl. That same night, Scott vowed to Aria that he'd help her understand her powers and learn to use them safely so she wouldn't hurt anyone when she accessed them. Lupa and Dakota seemed to like her, as did Faolan; she was a nice girl who just needed her father at this time in her life. But she wasn't the only one.

Not only did Jack sense his mate's anger, but the overwhelming power of jealousy which he could practically smell, he didn't need to be an Empath to know this though, he could see it as clear as day. It was clear to him, although he hadn't met her, she had either upset her or she just didn't like her. In Scott and Rosie's eye however, they could understand her jealousy and anger towards her, they too seeing it as well. Myka has had her father all to herself for as long as she's known him. She's learnt to share Rosie because she's known Lupa and Dakota as well, so it was an understanding. But now that Aria's made her appearance in the scene, all his attention, in her eyes, is slowly being turned away from her and to this new girl. Her father, now in this girl's palm. Scott wasn't Lupa and Dakota father, and although they loved him like one, they weren't. Whereas this girl is, and this caused issues, she had to know that he loved her more.

This wasn't being immature, this was just proving who the top dog of this position was, who had the bigger right to Scott as their father. And it was going to be Myka; she was going to sure of it. She had mastered her powers of Telekinesis, healing and Wicca, this girl was a virgin to it all, she knew nothing. So her plan was needed to be put into place. The following morning, Jack was nudged awake but his mate nosing his face. "Hmm, what? Myka, what is it?"

"I need you to help me with something." She replied.

"What time is it?" He asked as he raised his head to look outside. The sun was hardly showing itself. "Oh my god Myka, the sun's not even up yet."

"I know, I know, but will you just come with me?"

"Is this about Aria?" He groaned.

"Of course it's not." She spat in a lie. He opened one eye, an unconvinced glint in them and she knew it. "Ok fine, it is."

"I'm not getting in-between all this or taking sides." He answered and rolling onto his other side to turn away from her. "Now please, you kept me awake all night." He added and covering his eyes with his paw. She growled and turned around to walk outside the den. She flicked her tail up to the roof of them den, her eyes flashing involuntarily and causing it to quickly crumble and a large pile of earth fall onto his head. In a way, in expected her to do something, but this was taking it too far. He sighed and shook the large pile of dirt off his head, using it as a pillow to go back to sleep.

"There is no time to stop and stare, make it quick to travel there." Her eyes flashed again and at the end of the words she was consumed in green light, and when it faded she was walking towards her parents den. She peeked inside to a horrid sight, her Aria sleeping here in the bed while her mother and father curled up around one another on the floor. "I thought she was sleeping at Tony's?" She growled to herself mentally. Clearly not. Still, her task could be fulfilled, it might even be better if she witnessed this.

Aria started to open her eyes not a few hours later. The sun was up and shining, birds tweeted and chirped outside and no breeze blew into the den. It looked an amazing day. She pushed off the caribou skin she had used as a blanket and shuffled around to find out what the course of the noise was that caused her to awake. She looked down, nearly treading on her step-mother's tail. This was just too strange; her step mother was a wolf, as was her father now. He chose to live this way. In one way it was cool, in another it was just odd. A furry family, and she was the only one that wasn't. The floor was like a field covered in land mines, only it was a den covered in things that could wake them up. She completed the obstacle course with some near misses and stepped out into the light barefooted. It was bright, so she covered her eyes to search for the grunting and dragging sounds. To her right, a pretty much, al black furred wolf dragged a deer of some sorts up a slope towards her. She knew that wolf and she smiled.

"Hey, Myka right." She dropped the deer and looked behind her, quickly sighing after seeing who it was and rolling her eyes and starting to mumble to herself as she continued to drag. She pulled and pulled, dragging it to the centre of the stone surface in front of the den and dropping it. It was hard to bring this down on her own, hence why she wanted Jack to be with her. She stretched her jaw muscles; they ached after dragging it all this way. "Oh man, that's so cool." Aria gasped again. "And you got the throat."

"It's how we kill." Myka responded. "Go for the throat and kill it quickly. That way you won't get hurt."

"So, just to clear things up here..." She started as she walked around towards the view of the valley through the trees. "You weren't born a human too were you? I mean, you don't have a human mum as well right and you didn't just turn into a wolf too?"

"Don't be ridiculous." She spat. "My mom and dad are both in there." She pointed back to the den as she looked down to the kill. How could she make this better? Maybe cut the best bits out, leave them to warm up in the sun and by the time they're awake it'll be perfect. But just as she was about to slice into the belly of the beast, Aria sat on the other side of it, crossing her legs as she lowered herself.

"So what powers do you have?" Myka glared her right in the eye and sliced, a disgusting, squelching sound emitting and making Aria watch her in disgust.

"I have the sane power as dad and mom; I can move things with my mind and heal people."

"That's so cool."

"Is everything "cool" to you?" She asked hotly, now starting to get fed up of her. She only nodded back.

"Pretty much, I've never had siblings or a dad before. We don't have wolves in my country either so we don't get to talk to them or see them. Plus I've never met anyone with powers, so that's all new to me too."

"I'm sure someone will teach you how to use them." Myka grumbled as she ripped into it a little more and dug in deeper to find the prize of every and any kill. Her tongue stuck out as she was shoulder deep in the buck's belly, she find to focus on find it. Aria just watched, her gaze with her blue eyes only getting more and more irritating. Eventually, both her watching and being unsuccessful at finding the liver was too much. She growled to herself, yanked out her paw and picture to liver bursting out as she pulled back her paw in a fist. And that's what happened, her eyes flashed and the liver came sliding out as if something inside had thrown it out. "Now that was co…" She never got to say that word, not until Myka held up her paw and sealed her lips together as if her own paw was doing it. She mumbled as she tried to talk, but the invisible force wouldn't let her.

"If you say "cool" one more time, this'll be you." She gestured to the kill before relaxing her paw and Aria could open her mouth again.

"Awesome, I was going to say awesome." She said. Myka had to be joking, they were sisters, she wouldn't really do that. Myka dug her paw into the kill again, this time for the thick and tender piece, the heart.

"So what were you going to do today?"

"Dad and I are going to spend some time together; we haven't done that in a long time."

"Well, I hope you don't mind if I tag along." She hoped sincerely. "It'd be fun to hang with my dad and sister for as long as I can before I go back." That was the best thing Myka had heard her say since last night, tat she'd be going home in a week. But the words before hand weren't that good.

"Yeah, whatever." She clung onto the heart, getting a good grip on it and readying to pull it out. She braced her legs and pulled, yanking out the heart and holding it up in her paw. It dripped with blood, it squelched as she squeezed it slightly and more blood poured out of the arteries still attached to it. Myka licked her lips, this looked pretty good, she'd eat it if she hadn't planned for her mother and father to have these parts.

"Oh man." Aria said, this time not as enthusiastically. Myka looked to her, her face turning pale and slightly green. A deviously grin grew on Myka's face.

"Here's catch." She then tossed the heart towards her, it hit her chest and she panicked. She tossed it back, her shirt and hands covered in blood. She turned paler and paler by the moment and quickly her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she fell out her back out cold. Myka felt a slight pang of worry, but that was too miniscule to the fact she was finding this too hilarious. She walked around to her and poked her side. "Aria?" He laughed. "Earth to Aria, are you in there?" She was out like a light. It was about then she heard a few groans and moans coming from inside the den, her parents were waking up. She looked back down to her sister, a second and far more devilish look on her face.

A few minutes later, Scott and Rosie walked out into the sun to a surprise. Myka sat beside a kill, fresh by the looks and smells of it too. "Morning guys." She greeted, her tail wagging, but Rosie could sense something fishy about this.

"What are you after young lady?" She asked sceptically as they walked towards her.

"Me? Do I have to be after anything to just want to catch you breakfast?" She protested innocently.

"Yeah, whatever." Scott chuckled and licking her cheek. "Have you seen you sister, she wasn't around."

"She went for a look around, said she wasn't too far and to start without her. Go on dig in." She insisted. "I saved you guys the best bits." She added and tossing over the heart and Liver she plucked out, her entire right fore paw still looked like she had dunked it into a pool of that liquid. They laid down, still trying to figure out what she had planned for them and readied to eat. "But first." She quickly added. "Dad, I know you're getting fat so I thought you'd want more." She then presented a squirrel and she laid in in-between his paws licking his cheek this time as she moved away. It was alive, it breathed and its ears twitched.

"Me, fat?" He chuckled.

"I noticed it too dear." Rosie giggled. "She's not the only one. You should start running or something."

"Yeah whatever." He took the squirrel in one of his paw and opened his mouth, readying to bite into its head and kill it. But Myka's eager glare stopped him. She was defiantly up to something, and her glare began to worry him. He moved the squirrel away and her gaze turned into that of worry. Rosie sensed something was wrong; it had something to do with the squirrel.

"Myka, where's your sister?" Rosie asked again. She didn't answer, but her eyes darted quickly from the squirrel again back. Scott couldn't believe it, neither could Rosie and they both looked down to the small creature. It was! "Myka you didn't?!" Scott exclaimed and jumping to his paws.

"Damn it!" She cursed herself mentally, something they heard.

"You turned your sister into a squirrel?" Scott exclaimed. "I nearly ate her!" He was furious, he nearly ate his daughter. She wasn't fazed, she didn't accept this.

"Myka, turn your sister back now." Rosie ordered, she still didn't move or change anything. "Now." She snarled again, this time with her eyes changing to add more to make it a threat. She was defeated, and with a wave of her paw in the direction of the squirrel, it was engulfed in white light which expanded super quickly and when it faded Aria sat groaned and rubbed her eyes.

"I was having a little fun." Myka protested. "What's wrong with that?"

"You took it too far." Scott replied before he turned and helped his human daughter sit up. "Are you ok sweetheart?"

"What happened?" She asked.

"You fainted, that's what happened." Myka answered. Once again the parents shot her a glare, she needed to apologise. "What, she did, I'm telling the truth. I did it afterwards!"

"She did what?" Aria groaned again.

"Nothing honey, don't worry." Scott answered. "Are you feeling ok?"

"A little light headed, but I'm ok." She nodded.

"Come on; let's get you inside the den." He took her hand and started to pull her up, but as she stood up she seethed and looked down to her shoulder. She had a reasonably large cut going over her shoulder a little way and across her shoulder blade. Scott had a thought his teeth as he was readying to eat her.

"Myka you can either apologise or heal her. Chose now." Rosie said. Myka didn't intend to do either.

"There is no time to stop and…" Scott used the same trick he taught her and picture her lips stuck together, and after that she wasn't able to finish."

"Heal her." He ordered. She couldn't and wouldn't say sorry, but even she now saw she was going to be forced to do either. She walked towards her sister who knelt down so she could reach her. Scott didn't take his focus of her lips as Myka raised her paw and placed it gently over the wound. But something unexpected happened. Before she even had time to focus, the wound seemed to have an idea of its own. It was like some magical green fire with its own life appeared around and over the wound. It was like it danced and over the wound, healing it as it travelled from her collar bone and up to her shoulder, healing everything it its path before it extinguished itself. Scott's focus was broken, and even Myka grew more jealous of the girl's powers. She could heal, she couldn't self heal. This was her power, the power of the phoenix. But this was something they'd have to push to one side for now "Now say sorry. Scott ordered again." She rolled her eyes.

"I'm sorry for turning you into a squirrel." She sighed.

"She turned me into a squirrel?" Aria asked and looking up to her father.

"Now that's enough of this, anymore and things will get serious." Rosie warned as Scott helped Aria up again. "We'll all forget this happened and move one."

"You can't punish me, I'm a pup anymore."

"But you were in our home, so we will punish you if we see fit." She saw the complete seriousness in her eyes. This wasn't fair; she was a grown she-wolf for goodness sake. She had powers, she was all grown up, she has sex for crying out loud! She wasn't some pup that could be scolded by her mother and father anymore. If she wanted to travel then she would, if she wanted her father to herself then she would make that so, if she wanted to have sex then she was going to, if she wanted to turn her sister into a toad then she would. She turned around and started walking away.

"Enjoy breakfast." She said before she recited her spell and vanished in her green light.

Aria changed her clothes and washed her hands, everything that happened to her just before she fainted came flooding back. So while her parents ate she changed and washed in a stream she knew was pointed towards not too far away. She was there in a heartbeat, it was freezing, not surprises there. Myka seemed a nice girl; she understood that her being her into a squirrel was a practical joke. They were sisters she wouldn't really do that. They were going to get alone soon enough, she could feel it.

She sat back onto her heels and slipped on a fresh shirt, she was clean and had a fresh set of clothes on, much better. But as she started to put the dirty, bloodied ones into the bag she had, an idea sparked. She was telepathic right, and if the comics were right, she could read minds. She composed herself and closed her eyes, sitting there and trying to figure out how this worked. She linked in with her father back up the slope; he was only a few hundred metres away, so she wasn't in any immediate danger. Common sense made her think, the idea was that you form a link, imagine your mind in the mind of another if you want to talk and see their thoughts. So she imagined she was in her father's head, her eyes clenching a little more as she tried to imagine that happening. She exhaled loudly as she gave up; he'd have to teach her how to do it. "Is everything ok?" Her father's voice suddenly spoke to her. He looked around, expecting him to be around somewhere.

"Dad?" She asked aloud.

"Who else?" She heard him chuckled. "I felt you nudging me, what's up?"

"Nothing, I was just trying to see if I could reach you." She laughed, she actually did it. It was like a phone call, he just wasn't answering.

"Well you did, but only just. Come on back up and we'll talk about it." He sensed her nod. She packed up the rest of her things into that rucksack and scampered back up the slope, this afternoon was going to be a good one.

Some tense moments, Myka really isn't happy about this. but surely she'll see sense and calm down after seeing Aria just wants to get to know her dad, not steal her away from him. Right? Until next time!:D