She had to be joking.
Or possibly under some magic spell.
As much as all this irked him, what really really struck him was the fact she had learnt to block him from entering her mind.
Something that even his parents had tried immensely and ended up giving up, letting him read whatever he wanted.
Axel, surprisingly still in his human form, as he walked to wherever his feet was taking him, hands in his pocket and a frown on his face.
She's not happy too, he heard Rin mind link him.
It doesn't matter, are you okay Rin?
I don't like you both not talking. It is hard, it's like I'm divided into two and it hard on which side to follow.
I know you're loyal to us both.
Don't say both, you two are one. Unity.
I understand how you must be feeling Fine, and I am sorry we are putting you through this, bit we'd be fine.... I just have to know, is she okay?
I don't know.
Axel sighed, he hated this.
Worrying about someone that just ripped his heart out?
And yet, even though he was hurt, he just didn't feel....
Mad.
He just felt so....
Low.
Master? Are you okay?
Yes, please, stay around her, she can be reckless.
Okay, Master.
Axel stopped walking, letting out a sigh as he looked up, staring at the sun.
Shit, he hasn't even showered.
He probably smelt like Raven.....
Raven....
Fuck, the little witch.
Thinking her threat could actually harm him.
Sure, he hurt, but the threat had made him smile and fix his nose (which hurt as fuck)
"For someone that just experienced a major heartbreak, you're smiling like you're hanging unto a fun memory"
"I don't know Noona, maybe a heartbreak is what my heart needed to love more"
Axel turned, a small smile coming at his lips as he saw the old woman walk towards him, with a staff in her hand "It's nice to see you outside your cabin. Finally taking a walk to release all your fat?"
"Don't you dare insult me boy, I have four hundred years ahead of you" She said with a harrumph.
Axel chuckled as she finally reached him, wrapping his arms around hers "Just like old times I dare say"
"You mean 1994 when you were single and not so nice? Oh I remember" She said "I believe I looked at least fifty then"
"Thirty" Axel replied with a small kiss to her forehead "You were excellent"
She shoved the staff into his ribs "Were?"
He laughed now "Are. Still are. A bit old and all, but excellent stilll"
She mumbled something he didn't hear as they reached her cabin.
While they climbed the stairs, she ordered him to sit outside and wait for her while she made his tea just the way he liked it.
He would have loved to tell her that he had changed his tea preferences ever since he met Kyle, but didn't end up doing so.
Kyle....
He imagined that Sasha had gone ballistic and Kyle was possibly feeding off her annoyance.
He smiled.
Noona came back after a minute, sitting on her rocking chair next to him handing him a cup "Here"
He said his thank you, collecting it and sipping "Wow, you also know my new taste"
"I see all baby!" Noona said with a laugh.
He smiled, taking the tea from his lips and setting it back on the saucer "Everything?"
"Well not all but you know what I mean" She replied "How did the break up go anyway?"
"It wasn't a breakup"
"Don't bite me, I didn't do anything" Noona said raising her hands up "You should have seen it coming. I mean her blurting out she likes you from nowhere and just wanting to...."
"Did you see all this just today?" He asked.
"Yes. Fresh from my head, after it happened though" She replied "But really Axel, you know how it works...."
"I thought....."
"You thought that three days with a woman who was strongly set on not being tied down by any male would change her mind? Yes, we all know you are irresistible, but no, no it doesn't work that way boy"
"But I've done possibly everything! I....."
"Axel" She cut in gently "You have loved her, yes, but you haven't shown her. Okay, I understand you've been doing it, but I don't know, let's forget you guys are Mates and you're courting her. What happened to dates? What happened to gifts? What happened to 'destroying her with love and affection that she could eat and not just common words'? Axel, you've literally been singing a song and the person doesn't want to listen. I think it's time you actually WROTE the song with her, you know?"
Axel stared at the cup, now stirring it around with the spoon "I dreamt of Misha"
It was as if the aura around changed as Noona said "It's normal to dream of a loved one....."
He turned to her "Noona, she was..... She wasn't dead. I felt her.... My wolf.... Recognized the fact that she was here"
Her eyebrows furrowed "Here? As in?"
"Maybe she didn't cross over, I don't know" He said "But she's here. I mean, I've been feeling her in my dreams, normally, but this time, she was so powerful and real that I thought that I had died"
The woman's playful face had gone as she had thinking lines over her face before she stood up "Come inside"
She went in first, before he followed.
The house was dark, except the little ray of light that came from the windows that brightened the place a little bit.
Noona walked to her kitchen "The wolves that commit murder on themselves never cross over. It is punishment of the goddess, until they pay their punishment, again and again. It takes years, centuries, I should know because my friend did the same and finally crossed over just two months ago after two hundred years. Misha is just four years"
Axel stared at her as she mixed somethings inside a pot "So?"
"She would come to your dreams, it's normal, it makes sense that she would go to you as she had hurt you before doing the thing she did, but..... But she wouldn't be able to interact with you, ever"
Axel, can you keep up?
His dreams of her were always him running after her and never catching up.....
"She spoke to me" He said "Held me, even, she would have kissed me....."
"And you're damn lucky she did not" The old woman continued as a green smoke poured out of the broth she was making "You may have rejected her but you still love her"
"I love...."
"You love both" The woman cut in "You see Misha might not have been an ideal person, with her corrupt morals and selfish interests, but she also loved you and it was pure. If she had kissed you, she possibly would have kept you with her. You loved her in return and she knew that, and now that you have a new mate, I believe she's bloody aware and we all know she wouldn't share with Raven. Anyone but Raven"
"What did she have against Raven?"
"Do you know Raven's hair was originally white?"
"What?"
The woman nodded, now stirring it with a large spoon "You see, Misha was vain as a witch, and if there was anything she wanted that she didn't have, it was white hair"
"Why?"
"Because she believed she would be more pretty" She said with an hiss "And when she saw it on her little sisters head, hate set in. The need to make sure she was the best came and all the time, she would manipulate Raven into making sure the little girl was hidden from the world, devoted to her while she made sure no one acknowledged Raven's existence"
"Why didn't anyone say anything?"
"No one noticed, Misha is smart, give her credit.... Oh!"
Noona had suddenly moved back from the pot as Axel held unto her "Are you okay?"
Her eyes were wild with fear "Someone... Someone is trying to bring her back"
"From the dead?"
"Just her.... Ghost"
"The goddess... What for?"
"To keep you from Raven"