109I'm in the process of starting my first vampire fiction. Icarii won't be the star of the show though, sad because I enjoy her as a character of my creation, but she's just too powerful for what I need. No this will be a little different yet the same. WriteKindOfLove once said that I have a talent for taking used cliché ideas and giving them a new twist so why wouldn't my first blood sucker Fic be any different?
Chapter Twelve
Eleuthera. It rolls off ones tongue does it not? Foreign and familiar all at once.
That was what they called this place, in honor of their moon goddess, but to Rayne, paradise seemed far more fitting for the perfection with which she was surrounded.
That this very place had been the home where the mistress of the night skies had raised her first child, well it almost seemed to ring true now that the wild wolf girl saw this land with her own eyes. It was made for a pack.
Mountains practically in the backyard, a forest sprawling cross the front, a winding lane disappearing round the bend, shaded from the close cropped trees. The scent of a stream not far off, the sound of a waterfall somewhere hidden in those woods. There was a promise of secret places few would ever see within those shadows.
She could all but feel the familiar itch of fur sprouting down her arms with the desire to go find them. To run free in this utopia with the pair of brothers at her side.
She glanced at Dacado and Ajal who waited patiently yet both were seemingly hopeful that she'd be impressed with their stretch of wild domain. She was to say the least and more than willingly granted them a smile which both brightened at.
Glancing back out into the darkness Rayne inhaled deeply as a breeze twisted through her hair, pulling at the over sized flannel shirt she wore. She could almost hear the words even now; "My name is Rayne."
Every morning she watched the sun rise kneeling before its glory repeating those words in ritual. At first she'd stated her name in full, her parents names, even her grandparents names, her childhood home. Then she would recite her birthday, the year, then the last date she remembered. Sometimes she ever remembered the names of the children she went to school with.
Slowly though each piece lost it's importance. She couldn't keep track of the days, the pack ran in dark and light alike. With that gone what was the point of recalling her date of birth? It wasn't as if the pack would celebrate it with her. Suddenly the seasons the importance not the years. Her grandparents fell into the background along side her childhood home. They were useless to her while in wolf form. Friends? Her friends were pelt bound now.
She'd always mused that the fur made her forget the human of the past. Of course she'd not have survived out there if she'd fought harder to maintain all of her humanity.
Finally all she was left with was her name and a memory of a snowy night where one life gave way to another. It didn't bother her over much. She'd long since mourned her parents before forgetting them. They simply didn't hold the same place in her life as they once had.
'My name is Rayne.'
She sighed, opened her pale blue eyes and gazed up at the starry sky. At least it was the same here as it was in the bitter cold of her former pack's territory. She could make out the lines connected between the points of light, marking the pictures she herself had deciphered on long nights. Each had their own story, each their own place in her mind. Despite the lack of human communication Rayne had made due and developed a very creative imagination for entertainment.
"Beautiful," she whispered knowing the brothers could hear her complete and utter approval of the domain they.
"There's a collection of caves up there by that peak," Ajal stepped to her side and pointed to the furthest summit to the far left of them.
"We'll show you them someday," Dacado added.
Rayne glanced at the wolf boys once more smiling softly, "I would like that."
"So you are going to stay?" Ajal asked with a half smile.
Rayne closed her eyes with a silent yet gentle incline of her chin.
"I will kill you both."
The presence of his mate made for Kedyn's nights to be both short and restless. Her scent always lingering on the edge of the air had grown stronger this night causing him to abandon his bed in all agitation. Of course finding her free of confides standing closely with the pack pups in the night air was not what he had expected to find on his way out for a moonlit run.
All three youngsters turned as one to face a livid Alpha wolf.
The boys instantly pushed Rayne back towards the tree, then dropped to their knees, head's bowed in an automatic show of submission.
Kedyn it seemed would have none of that as he kicked Dacado squarely in the chest causing the mortal born wolf to careen backwards into the hardened dirt.
"Kedyn stop, please, we meant no harm!" Ajal protested wide eyes on his fallen brother.
Kedyn ignored the comment, seized the offending wolf by the throat and threw him into the first.
Dacado managed to scramble out of the way, despite his legs becoming entangled with his flailing brother, "It's not what it looks like!"
"Like hell it isn't!" The Alpha of the moonlings roared as he stalked towards his prey.
"You way wasn't working!" Ajal cried in dismay and fear as he and Dacado took two steps back to every step Kedyn took forth, keeping themselves low to the ground as unimposing as possible.
"How the fuck would you know you useless pup off some human bitch."
Rayne who'd stood frozen between the enraged man-wolf and the shadows of freedom stuck within an inner turmoil of defending her new brothers or fleeing this place. That of course was quickly decided by the Alpha himself and his ill thought out words.
Her mother was a human bitch.
A snarl crept over her pretty features, anger welling within her bashing her fear aside as she herself bashed aside her new brothers.
Protect her pack. Always.
"I wanted to see the sky!" She all but screamed over Kedyn's fury, matching it with her own.
It seemed to delay him as she closed in. She was a fair bit shorter then the leader of the wereclan but in that moment it didn't seem to deter her in the least.
"If you had merely agreed to treat me as a human being we'd not have had to resort to these measures. You need to be...to be bludgeoned, yes that's exactly what you need to great roaring bafoon; bludgeoned. But no you are Alpha therefore we for some reason or another are to bow down to your ridiculous whims so as I am just the useless offspring of some human bitch-" she snarled pushing past him and re-entering the historic home of the pack.
Kedyn stared after her for a moment feeling rather then seeing or hearing the pups shuffling uncomfortably at his back.
"Give her the room on the second floor, the one with the mountain view."
He knew the expression the pups now wore without glancing round at them, surprise and probably a dash of excitement as they went without a word into their home to find the female wolf and take her to far more suitable lodgings.
"I do believe that's the most progress we've made. We should have let the pups near her sooner," Rurac mused at his back.
Kedyn remained silent yet agreed. A young wolf would be more likely to adopt other young wolves as their new pack. They'd be less intimidated as well as more comfortable around those equally matched.
He should have known.
He'd made a mistake.
Without her acknowledgment of their connection he may very well lose her as it was apparent that ignoring their link wasn't nearly as hard for one who didn't even understand it.
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