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Chapter 12 - Time is ticking

Chapter 12

- Morgana -

A witch, a cursed cat and a wolf of questionable sex ¿What could go wrong?  Well the answer is easy.

¡Everything could go wrong!

¿Was it too much to ask for just a day of peace?  A day when I don't have to face sexual demons who seem to be crazy about a cat, a witch who has tried to kill me for as long as I can remember or in this case... ¡A whole herd of lycanthropes!

– One day... I only ask for one day — I said in a low voice as I went to the edge of the house to wait for what was coming.

I could feel the headache coming as close as the pile of legs a few feet from me.

— Yes...? — It was what I said when I had the brown-haired wolf in front of me, which I have to assume is the leader — I'm going to start by saying that, I don't speak through grunts or with animals over two meters high, understood? — I only needed that to be able to see a great imposing man with dark brown hair in his forties apparently, green eyes that match his tanned skin.

— ¿We can speak now? — I put clothes on him in a snap, since I didn't feel like talking to a naked man.

— Yes, we can — I said a few words and the circle disappeared, we began to walk into the cabin without any hurry, I let out a smile when I heard those four legs that I could already recognize after weeks.

— Yes, we can- He said remarking the "Yes"  a few steps behind his father.

Since we were inside the house, I could only wait for him to speak.

— I will be direct, I come for help, I have to assume that my daughter has already spoken to you about what happens in the herd.

— I'm not aware, mister — I could see how Dayana scratched the palm of her hand as a sign of nervousness — Could you do me the favor of explaining, since apparently her daughter does not tell me anything — I said with total calm

— Around our pack there have been various situations, deaths and disappearances, even people from one day to the next go crazy.  At the moment we have managed to control the problem, but I know that this will not last forever.  And I need to know what is happening, since all this disaster started when you entered our territory.

— ¿Are you accusing me of something?  Because I do not like the tone of his voice at all — I said from my seat a few meters from him.

I already knew what he was thinking, I was aware of the history of his race and mine of his, so it was not strange to me that when he saw some problem in his pack he pointed to me.

— Dad, you said that you were going to talk to her first, and your tone is not helping us — Dayana finally intervened, I couldn't help but see her with some resentment for having hidden that information from me, she knew that all this was because of me and even so I hide that from myself.

— I apologize for the way my words were heard, but you will know the history...

— Yes, I know him perfectly, so I'll be brief — Cut your apology since I knew it was just for education — Everything that is happening has a reason, but to your misfortune and mine I still don't know, I just know that what is attacking his pack is the same thing that has been attacking me for years — I let out a sigh what he was holding back since I began to speak — A few weeks ago we managed to capture one of the beings that attacked his pack and before he start asking — I said when I saw him with the intention of speaking — We could not get anything out before they will come for him and leave as they came. The only thing I know for sure is that this is far beyond my power or its claws and fangs — I released all the information I had, even if it was not much, since I needed him to trust me.

— Well ¿What could go wrong? — He said the place of her Dayana.

— ¿What are you talking about? — Asked her father.

— It's pretty obvious, isn't it?

Her father and I looked at her in question, not understanding anything.

— Oh please, it's pretty obvious what fleas are trying to say — Kay said jumping to the table in the form of a cat.

— ¡Oh, for the Moon!  ¿¡Did that cat speak¡?   — Shouted the "great" man from the ground and what do I know had gone back his chair by the scare.

— ¡I already told you I don't have fleas!

— Yes, the cat spoke, what a great surprise, now explain that I still do not understand anything.

— They are so slow, it is clear that we have to unite to defeat the witch.  Let's just imagine, a whole battalion of 25 wolves and two witches, against a witch and two fourth-grade demons, easy — She said it with an ease, as if she were explaining how to serve cereal with milk.

— ¡Yes!  It's great.  And when we finish them we can live calmly and we can be together — Dayana said with emotion as she looked at me with a shine in her eyes.

— Yes, calm down — I said as if it were a distant dream.

The man and I exchanged glances as Dayana and Kay already made vacation plans when this is over. And I couldn't help but listen carefully to Kay.

— When this is over, I will go back to look for Maya, I will forgive me and I do not know, maybe we can be the four against the world. ¿Can you imagine?  You, Morgana, Maya and the amazing Kay, she's going to be great — she said with so much joy in her voice.

— I'm sorry to overshadow your happiness, but there is still no plan, much less I have said yes to all this that I still do not know what it is — The hard voice of Dayana's father made them both stop talking — I do not know what you have past Dayana, but the welfare of the pack is above anything. And this — I point to the whole place — puts everyone in danger.

He had never seen Dayana's jaw so tight until this moment, it seemed that she was going to transform at any moment. He got up from her place where he was with Kay and without taking her eyes off her father said.

— You are wrong, if there is something that is about the pack, it is our most sacred rule.  She is my other half and nothing is going to stop me from helping her or being with her, not even you, father — During all her speech she was moving until she was by my side holding my hand tightly — She is like a book, every time that I see her again I see something new that I did not see the first time, it is to see everything from a different perspective, she is my escape from the world, she is all the stories that I want to live in a single person — I stop seeing her father to connect her gaze to mine — She is ... The light that illuminates my path.

I couldn't help but collide my lips with hers, I don't care what people were in front of us, because when her gaze collided with mine, they all disappeared. On hers, her lips, poor hers, her love, the sweetest taste I all tasted in her, I could feel her hand caressing my face as if it were touching the finest material and I took her hands as if was to disappear and become a memory.

After what seemed like seconds, we parted ways. She was so close to her, I could feel her breath on my lips.

— It was even better than I imagined — He said in a low voice even in front of me.

— You remind me of me and your mother-We both turn to see her father — You see her with the same love that I look at her.

— I love her, Dad — Was all she said.

— Okay ¿And what is the plan? we have 25 wolves, and two witches

This time it was my turn to smile.

— You have to find the damn thing.

- Aradia -

— ¿How is everything? — I asked from my place to the body standing in front of me.

— Everything is going according to plan, my lady, at the rate we are going she will be here in less than a month. We have made sure to leave the necessary clues as you have ordered from the beginning.

— Excellent, leave — I said making a sign with my eyes

— Yes my Lady.

— The clock is ticking. And soon you'll be begging to be running too.