My brother smiled and grinned showing a little of his teeth. He was standing on two legs. Holding a staff similar to the one in Zane's mystic room, wearing a leather cloth as undergarments', a tattoo of some kind almost like a rune, and another tattoo of our family symbol. I opened my arms out as he did too dropping his staff. We both hug each other tight him lifting me up a little before letting go. I give him a slight punch on the left shoulder and speak.
"Little brother, I recognize that voice anywhere, although I do have to say it is deep, but I know that saying anywhere. Our secret code, can't believe you remember it."
"Yes indeed I do, one of the few things that reminds me of where I came from. When I got the message from Zane I was already in the area. I came to warn the pack of something, something huge. Speaking of the pack where are they? Did Zane not hear my calling?"
I shrugged and shake my head. Speaking of the devil Zane comes out in her mystic gear and sighs a relief. She also shakes her head and walks up to Damien. "Well, that was quick, I just sent the message not an hour ago."
"As I was telling my brother I was already in the area. The forest nymphs called me three days before."
"Oh, what would the forest nymphs need, their gate doesn't open till next month."
"I'll explain my magister, come let us talk." Damien picks up his staff and walks inside following him was Zane who looked at me with a questioning look, I shrug to her and give her a I don't know look. Inside Damien heads to the dinning room and Zane does the smart thing and howl for the others there. I sit down next to my brother. I haven't seen him in a long time, a really long time. Before he was also the one who was late to things like meetings and never really cared, an immature type he was. Now it seems that times do change for he is another man, and a different one at that. Soon all but Vix come and sit down. This was understandable for Vix was a child, I remember growing up and having to wait for the adults to be done with the meetings they had. Damien looks around before speaking.
"Hello all. First off sorry for showing up unexpected but I was already in the area. Now first and foremost I do wanna say that this was a surprise to see my brother not only here but bearing the mark of The Wolf. I do also wanna say a congrats to Lucy and Zane, never got the chance to say that to you two, but you know we were on the run during those times so it was better not to say anything. Now comes the part where I have to punish you all." He then smacks my head before speaking again. "Your little stunt with the Fenrir has caused a little problem. The Fenrir are now split in two because of you. Although you were in the right yet you all could have broke the balance of power. With the Fenrir now in a civil war, which has not happened in nearly 200 years, now they want to place a bounty on all of your heads and hopefully end their little war. Your should be all glad the other families were able to but a stop into that."
"Well sorry, but last time I checked a Fenrir shouldn't be ruling over another pack that's not theirs" said Zane.
"Yes I know, that's why I said you were in the right."
"I'm sorry, but did you just come to yell at us pup or was there something more dangerous" said John who turned to look at Damien with a slight angry look.
"Yes, yes there was. The forest nymphs called to me three days ago. This call was more serious than the last, and it seems that you all have forgotten you duty of protecting their gate."
"What do you mean failed, that gate is sealed shut, only I can open it again."
"Zane, someone was able to find a way through and almost killed the leader."
"Who broke through?"
"Them, the parasites' that plagues the town is still here. Thought you all got rid of them?"
"We did, just not all apparently."
Me, who was confused asks "Wait wait wait, who what when where why? What is going on?"
"Brother, shush."
"Don't you shush me I demand to know what is going."
"Now is not the time to argue about silly things."
Slamming the table I grab me brother by the neck and pull him to face me to say "Brother knock your shit off, may I remind you who can kill you. Better yet may I remind you that I just took on a Fenrir by myself, or better yet do you want to be the next decoration in uncle's place." With that I let go of him and he straightens himself. He then turns to the others and say "Well, aren't you gonna tell the man."
"Long story short, a year ago we had to deal with all sorts of things. Vampires, or what we call them parasites, were starting to get more aggressive with each kill almost making the town population to zero. Me, Julian, John, and Lucy were able to kill a few when Julian here decided to fall in love with one. Wasn't just any vampire it was a succubus. This one however wanted to change, and there was only one way to change."
"Forest nymphs have been known to change a succubus into one of their own. A complicated ritual had to be taken place. However that ritual was going to be hard. The vampires proved a challenge" said Lucy. "I killed my fair share of vampires in the past, hence the scar on my eye, but these ones were harder. they were more structured, more like if they were being controlled."
"This we don't know about, so we just kept killing them. It was enough to get them to hide again and for the ritual to start. Nothing happened after that, hell Lucy went to take a vacation for almost a year. John got to focus more on his little problem, Julian spent most of his days writing to his girlfriend while she was in training with the forest nymphs. Everything seemed fine till, well now."
I nod and look at them all except my brother who was just standing there waiting for this little story too be done. "So let me get this straight, you all stopped killing the vampires just because they slowed down their killings, never investigated more into their structure, and now it's all happening again."
"Brother, I'm surprised you didn't know their story till now."
"I was told bits here and there but never the full thing."
"Look you two we get it we messed up but what are we suppose to do now? I mean we got all own problems to deal with."
"Not for long, your Matt problem can be fixed sooner than we know it." He then pulls out two notes from his leather undergarments', gross but I've touched worse, and hands them to me. I read them and each say 1/10 and 2/10. One having the Herbaterras symbol and one a Fenrir. I look at my brother and ask "How did you get the Fenrir one?"
"Before I left the Fenrir leader, Father 'Nris, gave this to me. for whatever reason he wanted to make sure this was in good hands. When I questioned to him how he had it he just said something along the line of "The girl trusted me with it" to which I didn't question it and left."
"Well now since we have what four of them now, we still need six more. It would be more helpful if they weren't in chicken scratch."
"Not chicken scratch, Latin" said Damien. "Jane wrote these in a weird form of English and Latin, but primarlily in Latin. Which brings me to my next topic, I need a place to stay John, I know your wife wouldn't have turned down one of her own kind."
John with a slight growl looks at Damien and says, in Latin "Fine, but watch your tone pup."
"Well then, I think we could all come up with a plan on stopping all of our problems. With that I say meeting over." All then leave except for Zane, Damien, and I. Me and Zane look at him before taking the notes but not before Zane saying "Your luckily John took a swig of blood, if not that tone of yours would have gotten you killed." She walks away and I just chuckle before patting him on the back.