Shane's POV
My mate isn't taking the news well. Of course I wouldn't either, there's still more of this. More than what we know, I can feel it.
"Powers?"
"You were blessed with the Snow Queen's powers. Your mother confirmed that they can show anyday and on that day you won't be in control of your body." Holden explains, "Another being lives in you and she is evil just like how the Snow Queen was."
"Wasn't the Snow Queen already evil even before her powers showed?" Jane comments causing all of us to snap our eyes in her direction.
"What I did research on her before, she sounded interesting." She says shyly. I guess that made sense.
"She was yes because she is a Fae, because Zhavi is half of that maybe it's the reason why it hasn't showed yet. She is older now, that means any moment or time." I responded.
"Have you felt anything weird happening to you Zhavi?" Holden asks my mate who seems to be deep in thought.
She stops to think for a moment,
"I have felt I was in someone else's body or looking through someone's eyes the day I woke up. I was in the forest I grew up in but that person didn't recognize it." She says. I remember Christian telling me that she had her irises turn blue.
"Maybe that's part of it." I say. She looks like she had a brick wall fall on her, long gone was the happy mate I woke up next to. I feel very bad.
"So what's the plan?" She asks.
"Well we can't give your mother your powers, we don't know what she will do with them. Faes are not to be trusted and that's why we are still trying to figure out a way to get that thing out of you." He says.
"And how is that working out for you?" My mate says with a tone laced with sarcasm.
"Not good," I answer her question.
"I'm sorry pecas." She looks at me with hurt. Her eyes hold so much hurt it's painful for me. I don't want her to go through that.
"Right, so my life was a lie. All of it was a lie, they lied to me," she says more to herself than everyone else. We all stay quiet giving her space to let out her feelings.
She stands up pushing me away from her, "All you have to tell me is you are sorry? The only part of my life that keeps me alive, the only memories of my life that actually make me smile are lies, they lied to me. River, lied to me. I don't know what to believe anymore." She says her voice sounding shaky.
For the first time ever, I see my mate's eyes get watery. Her nose and cheeks turn pink. I feel a strong sting in my chest seeing her in the state. I stand to put her in between my arms. I know this must be hard for her to hear and it's hard for me to see her like this.
Once again she pushes me off her, her glassy eyes held a different emotion before. She fought back her tears, she didn't cry. She turned to Holden who seemed as sad as I am.
"What if I fought this- side of me that is evil?" She asked, her voice now stronger than it was before.
"I haven't thought about that, can you?" Holden says.
"I will never let anything or anyone control me. Whether it be my mind or my heart, I control my body." She said with determination.
"But you won't be prepared when it makes a presence." Christian comments.
"Then we'll just have to find a trigger." She says. That makes sense, but what is that can trigger her?
"If your powers turn something negative into evil then that trigger would be someone you care about getting hurt, or dying." I say.
"Wait wouldn't that have to be her? If she were in a life threatening situation of some sort." Jane says.
"Zhavi has already proven she would prefer her death over someone who's important and I wouldn't let that happen to her. I don't care about the consequences." I say my tone coming with a warning.
"And you're the person I care about the most, that's out of the question too." She says. I smile at her knowing she feels protective of me as I am for her.
"So what now?" Holden asks.
"We wait..." I reply.
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We are currently back in the castle, my mate's mood is no longer of anger she seems.. relaxed. She's too calm for this and I don't like her hiding her feelings. I want her to talk to me but I guess she doesn't want to.
She decided she wanted to train with my warriors so that's where I'm taking her.
"They're strong." I tell her as we walk to the arena.
"I'm stronger. Don't underestimate me mate." She says.
I suddenly remember something, it's not safe for anyone to know who she is to me. Without my mark, no wolf recognises her as my Queen which means they won't protect her in any case of danger. In other words she's exposed to danger but as long as they don't know who she is then she's safe. So this means we need to keep in on the low.
"Do me a favour pecas, refrain from calling me mate publicly. People can't know who you are to me yet, alright?" She nods yes. We continue to walk to the arena.
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Zhavi's POV
Well that was a bummer, he wants us to be a secret? This should be exciting but I keep thinking if he feels embarrassed of me. Removing those nasty thoughts out of my mind, I focus on the training. I can't wait to put these doggies in their places. Wolves have too much of an ego that it may be too heavy for their thick fur.
Suddenly all the warriors line up in front of us, maybe he mindlinked them. Again I like this thing.
"This is Zhavi, she will be training with you and will train you too. Treat her as your equal." Shane informs.
"Forgive me Alpha for speaking without permission, but she is small." A blonde haired boy raises.
"But I bet I can beat you." I say to him.
He gives me a flirtatious smile while shamelessly looking at me up and down.
"Trust me, you won't have a chance." He says.
"Stop eye fucking each other." My mate says through gritted teeth. Ooh someone's jelly.
"I won't be monitoring your training today, Christian is also unavailable. Lydia and I have some business to take care of so Darian, you're in charge." Shane says before he left. What business is taking care of with Lydia?
"Aww the tough human has a crush on the king?" The annoying boy says next to my ear.
I turn to look at his grinning face. Annoying.
"I'm Samuel by the way but you can call me yours." He says with a lame pick-up line. Pffshh
I ignore him and head over to the one called Darian. "What are we doing today?" I ask him.
"We're working on stamina and endurance." He says. That's boring.
"Only because the little human can't take punches." A girl with orange hair says standing next to Darian.
"Wow, you guys really underestimate people do you?"
"If you can prove by beating Sam in a one on one then maybe we will give you some respect." Darian says crossing his arms. You don't say?
"Okay then," I say.
"Zhavi? What are you- what's going on?" Raven says approaching me.
"Raven! I'm so glad you're here." I say cheery.
"Well the British human girl is about to fight Sammy because she thinks she can beat him. Awww." The ginger haired girl says with a small pout. Haha funny.
"I don't think you should be doing that." Raven says warily.
"Oh don't worry about her, I'll be gentle. Wouldn't want to ruin my chances of a date." The Samuel guy speaks.
"I'm not worried about you." Raven responds. I love what she said. She knows me very well. Love to see it.
The idiots don't listen and give me and Sam space to fight, with Darian acting as referee incase I get injured too badly. Can you believe this.
Since it's training, we aren't going to use weapons. Fine by me.
We both stay few feet away from each other.
"Positions!" Darian commands us to stand in our fighting stance.
I study his fight stance, this way I can detect his first move.
He has his left hand covering his face, his right hand being front and his left close to the face. Left handed got it. His legs copy the actions of his hands. Which means when he comes to me he will use his left foot and may either punch me using his left hand or send a flying kick with his right foot. Got it.
"Fight!" Darian says as Sam charges against me.
I let my guard down noticing that he comes with anger so I have to be calm. It helps think and the angrier the person the more loopy his fighting is. My estimation is confirmed when he does exactly what I interpreted.
He sends a punch to the my right and I dodge it. He spins himself to try and back kick me but I back away just in time. He continues to attack me and I easily dodge him with my face straight. I see this angers him more causing his moves to be faster and harder for me to dodge. He finally sends a kick to my chest. Fuck!
He brings back the pain from that stupid arrow arghhh. My mind starts to wonder to the arrow. Suddenly I remember that both my parents don't love me, what I held on to most was my mother's love since my father proved not to. My brother also broke my trust. No one in my family loved me. I've always been alone.
I get up from the ground cleaning myself up, I'm mad now and I'm done playing. I see Sam watching me with pride. He thinks he won.
Without another thought I charge at him and he manages to block attack so I go for another strategy. I let him attack me and use his strength against him. This works to my advantage because the next thing you know I push him with my leg to the ground. Weak.
This goes on for a while until he punches my face again causing a cut to my bottom lip. He did all that for a drop of blood? I attack him using only my legs as a form of attack and my hands as defence. I finally have him pinned on the ground. I keep him in that position for a while until his body starts to radiate massive heat and hair starts to grow all over his body and just like that I'm thrown off him and my back hits the wall of the arena that was 10 feet away. My back starts throbbing from the pain but there's no time to register that as I see a massive dog charge against me.
I stay and watch its movements, he starts running to me in great speed. I run towards him too while studying his move, he's going to jump. When we are only a foot away he leaps in the air and I do the opposite, go under him. Luckily he was close to to walls he hit his back, this works to my advantage because I'm quick to face him and give him a strong kick on his snout.
Thud!
The huge wolf falls in a sleep. That was easier than I thought.
"She won.." The girl says sounding to be in disbelief.
They attend the wolf and find out that he was only out for a few minutes. Either way, I won they better respect me.
"Congratulations human, who would've thought?" Darian starts clapping, the other warriors started clapping and for me too and congratulating me.
The day went by well, I had fun. Despite the way it started well it was a great day. I only missed Shane, I haven't seen him for hours.
I sound like a clingy girlfriend!
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