Within a matter of seconds, five more wolves jumped out of the woods. She recognized the wolves as her brothers, Jaxson, Garrett, and Braxton, as well as Bastian, and finally her mom as they surrounded her and Ryker, preparing for a fight. All at once the men that had appeared changed into wolves and a bloody chaotic fight broke out. The sounds of snapping, snarling, and growling filled the woods, and Calypso's ears. The odds were not in their favor, it was eight Rogue Hunter’s against the six of them. Caly wished more than anything that she would change now so that she could help, but it didn’t happen. Both her mother and Ryker were standing over her, their backs to each other protecting her from both sides. Jaxson, Bastian, Garrett, and Braxton were fighting the rest as best they could. Suddenly, Caly could hear the mind linked conversations between everyone, it was all jumbled and she couldn’t make out who was talking but she just listened.
“There are too many of theAs he turned around, he locked his eyes with a pair of shockingly bright baby blue eyes, filled with desire, and he instantly recognized her. Possible recognition flashed for an instant in her eyes, as they dilated, then denial. He quickly closed off his expression, a trick he has learned so others cannot tell what he is thinking, “Oh shit! Hopefully she won’t recognize me. Why the fuck did he volunteer for this mission?” he thought. It was supposed to be an easy in and out mission to gain intel on the Everwood Pack’s plans. Then finally, he would advance to the right-hand man of his father, and he could get close to him. He has carefully laid all the pieces into place, this mission was the final one, then he could finally take down the Rogue Hunters from within. He has spent the last six years working on this plan. He has changed so much over those years that he thought for sure they wouldn’t recognize him, plus with the help of brown colored contact lenses, and his ability to mask
“Rae, something is up. Let’s head to the North gate wall, where the hole is.” “Caly, I really don’t think this is a good idea. If something is going on and it was important enough, someone would’ve told you,” Rae reasoned. “Don’t you see Rae, ever since the attack six years ago, and when my mom died, they have all wanted to protect me, and put me in a little glass box. I’m not that fragile. I can defend myself and fight now, I’m one of the best women fighters in the pack. They just don’t understand, I’m not a little helpless girl anymore, I’m eighteen now, shit!” Calyso said irritated. “Language, Caly, you know I don’t like when you cuss, you can get your point across without sounding vulgar. Have a little self-respect and class,” Rae reprimanded. “Ok, Miss Prim and Proper. But there hasn’t been a lock-down like this in two years. I need to find Eli, so he can let me know what is going on. He always tells me everything, even when he’s not supposed to.” “Please, just be careful.”
“Have you seen Eli anywhere?” Caly’s question interrupted Seraphina's thoughts.“No, not since this morning when your father sent him and Derrick to go and check the northern perimeter of the territory.”“Why? Is something wrong?” Caly asked worriedly.“No, no, no,” Seraphina lied, “it’s just routine,” she tried to respond convincingly. She was a terrible liar, Seraphina thought to herself. I can’t tell her there was another incident, that he, Derrick, Gavin, and Jaxson went to investigate. Otherwise she would want to go too, and put herself in danger while investigating it. Gavin made me promise not to say anything to Caly about the small attacks around the territory, although this recent attack was much bigger than the rest, and it made her very uneasy. Caly is stubborn just like him and would want to get involved in the possible fight, if there was one. Right now, was not the
Calypso scanned the yard, the walls, the training area, and the gardens looking for her brother Eli, who always helped her get through the day, but he was nowhere to be found. “That’s strange,” she thought, “he’s usually nearby, ready to help me if I have a panic attack.”“How are you doing today, sweety?” came Seraphina’s voice from behind her. Caly spun around and saw a very pregnant Seraphina waddling towards her, she was due any day now. It still bothered Calypso knowing that the baby would be her new step-sibling, since her father and Aunt got married last year. Caly knows they were only related through marriage, and once her mother died that was severed, but it still bothered her that her aunt is now her step-mother. She still catches herself calling her aunt at times. Part of her is glad that they are finally happy after the loss of her mother. She thought about what her best friend Naomi said
Present day…For six years she hasn’t wanted anything to do with it at all. Not the celebrations nor the parties, the joy, the excitement, the gifts, not even the birthday wishes, none of it. For her, this day just brought sorrow, pain, and an overwhelming sense of grief and guilt. A birthday is supposed to be one of the best days of the year. For Calypso Everwood, since she was twelve years old, it is one of the worst days every year. Today she turns eighteen, but nothing has changed for her, the day hasn’t gotten any better over the years, it has remained the same. All the hurt and pain is still there consuming her, she still has nightmares, still feels the grief and pain of her loss, as well as guilty as hell about it. Everyone tells her it’s not her fault that her mother died, they say she did everything she could, she even saved her brother Garrett’s life at the time. Despite what everyone tells her, she still
She raced back towards the house, she was almost to the main gardens when a very large, and very powerful dark brown wolf attacked her mother from the right flank, taking her down immediately, with a high pitched whine. The wolf opened his large jaws, ready to chomp down on her mother’s neck. Caly didn’t know what to do, she turned around, and jumped at the wolf on top of her mother. As she jumped, she changed into a beautiful all white wolf with bright blue eyes. She knocked the dark brown wolf off of her mother with all her body weight and scratched it across it’s left eye. The wolf howled in pain and backed up. She then went back to her mother and stood over her protecting her. She lay unmoving on the ground. Caly didn’t know what to do so she howled out for help, at the same time she reached out to Ryker through the mind link. “Ryker! Shadow! Someone, anyone help, my mom is hurt badly, she is not moving.” Caly watched as