The next morning I heard the front door open and shut. I got off the couch to investigate. I saw Deerlin standing outside; her black, very long hair flowing in the morning wind. Her arms were out and a steel ring was on her left hand and on her fourth finger. Her eyes were closed and she was calm. She was in an outfit that Hera had lent her which was a white shirt and tight black pants that showed her tiny body. The white shirt was missing straps, but had sleeves. She also had on a big necklace that was made out of ocean shells. Her skinny body hardly had anything to keep her ahold. It looked like the wind could just carry her off. For a second her hair moved away from her back and I could see a tattoo on her back of a wolf howling at the moon. I asked, "Is that a tattoo"? She looked at me and nodded and moved her hair over to the side to cover it up.
"Deerlin are you alright? You are acting a little weird. Your thin body is calm. Your eyes are closed" I said. She opened her eyes and nodded and said with a sigh, " Last night was the best night of my existence. My husband and I were on our honeymoon. When we met you we had just finished our wedding. We are two wolves now as one. We are so in love and in harmony. He imprinted on me and I imprinted on him. We went far, far, far away from our families because they wanted us dead. I was going far as I could go before I found you. We will won't be here for awhile because mating season is coming for all of us wolves. We will be gone for some time. In two days time, there will be full moons in the sky for the next two months". Howl then came out of the house, shirtless and put his hands on Deerlin's waist. I could see a tattoo on Howl's back, like Deerlin's. It was a wolf, the wolf was howling at the full moon. On his tattoo it wasn't just one wolf, there were two wolves. Near the wolves were lines of fire and smoke filled the rest of the space. This tattoo went from his back to his chest.
"Ready?" Howl asked with two bags in his hands. Deerlin nodded and they both turned into wolves, Howl threw the bags on his back and they were off. All that they left of them were their clothes in shreds and their howls in the wind. I stood in the sunlight and I heard footsteps. I looked behind me and standing there was Nick. He was shirtless and was showing his dark brown abs which made me smile.
"Hope I didn't scare you Angel. Who was outside?" Nick said.
I answered, "Nick, Deerlin and Howl left. Not forever but for mating season. I am scared they won't come back".
Nick put his hands on my small waist and kissed my cheek saying softly, "They will come back, I promise". He stroked my curly red hair and we stared into the sunrise. I then just referred myself that Nick and I were dating and that I had never been so happy
After awhile we went inside for our morning breakfast. Nick grabbed my hand and threaded his hands into mine. Natalia stared at our hands together and smiled at me. We all sat down and planned a hunting map out. Hera would take the forest closest to the human's homes, and Richard was going to take down the deer's territory. "No need to hunt. We got food for all of us" said a voice at the door. Hera opened the door and Megan was standing at the door with 5 elk on her back. Next to her was Jase, her husband with a big cougar. Megan set her stuff and took Jase's stuff. Jase grabbed Megan's hands and Megan looked up at him and she kissed him.
We all stood there, uncomfortably. Then Nick coughed loudly and the whole table stared at him. I looked at him and I rolled my eyes. He smiled and from under the table cloth grabbed my hand, weaving his fingers in between mine. My heart stopped, and it wasn't in a good way. My eyes rolled into the back of my head and I fell down.
"I told I would kill you, you're weak like I suspected. It didn't even take that long. It took less than a day" Thomas said. I could see Thomas cleary, then I realized that he was in my head. He was in my head. I had full control, he was in my world. He got on top of me and he got a dagger out of his pocket. He was wearing a white shirt and red pants and his printed skin with the white and black lines, like Aztec or Incan art which I noticed on the first time I saw him. The dagger was covered venom and Tomas brought it near my neck. I took my wings and began to strangle him with them. I closed my eyes and thought of metal and my wings turned into metal daggers. I began shouting, " This is my mind, I am in control. I have the advantage, get out my mind"!! I then puffed into a cloud of smoke and I got a lot bigger and began to crush Tomas. He waved his hand and said, "I may not be able to beat you here, but I will find you"!
I woke up with a jolt and opened my eyes. Someone's lips were on mine and it let go when I began to kiss them back. I got to see the person's face and thank god it was Nick. I was still stunned and was wondering why this was happening. He held on hands and asked what had happened. I answered, "I don't know. My brother Tomas was in my mind. He had a dagger with poison. He almost cut me, what was it? What happened? He was in my mind! I am so…". Hera responded and said, " Your brother, we didn't know about him. He is your twin right?" I nodded and she continued.
"You see twin fairies are so rare and fairy twins can go into each other's mind. It may seem scary but you had the advantage. You are more powerful than him! You were born last but, you are the one who will rule over him". Hera exclaimed.
I stood up with Nick's help and I noticed my head was hurting like crazy. I stumbled but didn't fall. Nick was next to me and helped me up. Natalia then said with a scowled face, "Nick you better not get attached, remember what happened to Lady".
Nick ran out of the house and Natalia smirked as she watched her little brother in away in fury. I ran after him calling, "Nick"!!! I went outside and noticed the shredded clothes on the ground and stretched out my wings and began to look for Nick. I kept calling his name and I flew for about an hour. I noticed him on the ground and I flew down as fast as I could; I flew a little too fast though and crashed into the dirt. Nick was in his human form and his hands were in his black hair. He looked down at me and helped me up and said, "You shouldn't have followed me here. You hurt yourself because of me. I hurt everyone I come in contact with. My life is so messed up, I have messed up so many people's lives".
I looked at him and tears filled my eyes and I said, "Nick it's not your fault at all. I followed you here because I care about you. Everyone I have ever loved has died, I have found someone I really like. I am never letting you go. You can tell me, I understand you. We are two of a kind. We have lost people in our lives. When I first met you, I felt such a strong connection. I don't know who Lady was but, I know that I won't follow her fate. My mother died, my father took my brother, and then my brother killed him, I was taken by priests and all of them died. You can tell me anything, I have nothing to lose. I can protect myself from Tomas. Can you trust me?".
Nick opened his mouth and said, " Everyone I have ever loved is dead. That woman, Lady, was my fiance. She was not amazing. She died and was having an affair. She left me for someone else who I now despise. I then killed her out of anger. She was a horrible person and this happened when my mum died. I was suspecting that she was having an affair with my brother and I was right. I didn't want to know anymore of what happened, my brother killed my mum. I didn't know what to do so, I killed my brother. She was the one who turned me into a the monster I am though, and I never imprinted on her. I didn't feel anything, I thought that was love was. It wasn't love, it was pain and death being born. You have to know I would never hurt you, I really like you...."
We looked up to see Tomas, he was on the mountain and looking down at us from a distance. "Should we fight him, he is right there" I said.
"Not yet…" Nick said. It was too late. I flew up to the mountain and was right next to Tomas. Nick then began to run very fastly up to Tomas. He reached the ledge a few seconds after I did. "We don't even know how to fight very well. C'mon Victoria, we have to go" he said to me. I scowled at Tomas and knew Nick was right. I began to walk away from him but I couldn't. Neither could Nick; we were stopped. Nick began to fall down and began to shout. I turned and saw Tomas using his dark magic on him and was using it on his back. I turned back to Tomas and he smirked and winked.
I then appeared somewhere else, it was the inside of a castle. It must have been the castle on the hill. Tomas was standing in front of me and Nick and said, "Don't try to struggle, it's not worth it. Those chains haven't broken ever. You will never get out. Sweet Victoria, you had fallen into my trap! If you listen to your boyfriend here, you would still be on a rock and having a heart-to-heart conversation. Instead you followed the complete unknown. When the Obren stars line up, the dagger will take both of your lives. Oops" he said with a laugh.
I went for him and he whirled his hand and we then were transported into a dirty, old cell. I shouted and began to cry. The chains were off now and I felt a warm hand on my shoulder. Tears streamed down my face and I looked up in curiosity. It was Nick, he was shirtless and his tattoo on his chest shown out. I put my head on his chest and I began to cry. He put his hands around my small body and I began to dry up the tears on my face. I looked up at him and he said, "Hey, hey it's gonna be ok! You're fine, we are going to get out. You will see. If we are going to make it out alive as girlfriend and boyfriend, then we need to get through this".
I nodded and smiled through tears. I wasn't going to ruin this moment, I was going to love it. Life as I knew it wouldn't be the same, I would be seeing cell bars for the rest of my life. All of my life I have been waiting for a man to come into my life and I have that; I never will let it go. I dried my eyes again and sat down on the cold, hard bed that was given to us. I looked out the metal bars that kept little sun in the chamber. I knew I would never see the sun again or feel the wind flow through my wings and hair. I noticed a piece of paper and some ink on the desk and I had an idea. I was going to write my last words, I was going to write a letter to Hera and the rest of the group. Maybe they could save me. I picked up the pen and began to write, I would write about where I was and how Nick and I would never escape without their help.
Nick saw me writing and took the pen out of my hands. He held it above his head so my small body and short-like arms couldn't reach it. He kept laughing and then kissed me. My straight face broke into a smile which evolved into a laugh. He put his hands down and began took my hand. I stopped laughing and looked down. Nick was drawing something on my arm. He drew smooth lines and cut deep with the pen. In the cuts he quickly filled them with ink and my skin didn't fill in for once. It made black lines where he drew. When he finished I admired it and all I saw was a moon. I looked up at him and he looked at me and said, "Even though you and I are going to die, I thought we could share a happy moment. The moon calls me and I have noticed it calls you too. Even though you're a woodland fairy, the moon has called you".
I laughed and took off my shirt revealing my black camisole and my white skin. I picked up the pen and said, "Mark me. Mark me with the tattoo of wolves. I am part animal, I want to be marked" .
Nick smiled and nodded. He cut my skin and filled it with ink. I looked at my back in the mirror and I saw the tattoo that Nick had, it was even in the same place. I smiled and drew my hand towards his neck and played with his hair. He then asked, "Why are you afraid of me? I won't bite. You can trust me".
I looked at him and said, " I can't trust anyone. All my life I was a prisoner. I never knew real love. I was beaten for god's sake! The scars on my back don't even look the same as the ones on my heart". Nick looked at me with his beady brown eyes and took my chin. He leaned in and I grabbed his neck. His lips began to touch mine and at that time I felt he was the only one who I could trust. I felt like I was soaring and I technically was. My wings had opened when Nick and I were kissing. I folded them down and kept going, making sure to take a breath and tried to remember how to breathe.
Nick pulled away gently, stealing a kiss here or there and said, " I think, I think I love you. I want to do something".
He then took my hands and prayed over them. He then kissed my lips and this burst of dark colors showed me scenes of Nick. I saw a wolf over a dead woman, and I saw him with some other wolf who looked like Natalia. I then saw him being bit by another wolf . I saw him croak over when he was being strangled to death by a wolf. I saw him getting a tattoo with a hot metal rod and I saw him kiss me for the first time.
I pulled back and asked, "What were those? I saw things"! He answered with a laugh and said, "Those are my core memories, they are good, bad, and amazing. That kiss was the only good one in there" .
I laughed and looked into the sunset and said, "I have hope. I have hope that we will be free from this mess and we will live together and we will be happy". I then looked to see a blare of light come from Nick's body into mine. It made me feel warm and fuzzy, it made me feel like I was in love.
I then asked what that blare of light was. He said that it was him imprinted on me. He said, "This is one time thing for wolves. Imprinting means that you are prophesied to have the best kids together".
I began to get confused and said, "Please clarify. You really love me and want to have kids with me?".
"That is the full truth Angel. You see whichever lifetime we are in, I would wait tens of thousands of years to be able to just see you. You make me feel so warm and whole" he said.