Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“We can’t even touch the door.” He looked at me with shock with just a little bit of fear and awe mixed in.
“What do you mean? How could you not touch the door? It’s right here.” I was confused by his words. I wasn’t having any trouble touching the door so they obviously hadn’t even tried to open it yet.
“What I mean is…” he started, while looking me in the eyes with not a hint of laughter or joking in his voice, “…that, whenever we tried to touch the door, it threw us away from it.”
Now that I looked at Joaquin, and Trevor, I saw that the two of them were covered in dust, and there were marks on the floor that showed where someone or something had been moved across it. Honestly, I just thought that they had been searching thoroughly. I never once thought that they had been thrown away by a magical door.
“This makes no sense to me.” I turned back to look at the door. It was shimmering and glowing, gold and silver, that seemed to be lit by some kind of magical light within the door itself. The door was thrumming with immense magical power that felt like it was calm and pleasant. If this door seemed so calm and pleasant, why would it throw the others away from it? Oh, and there was no knob or handle on the door to try and open it with.
“This is just a thought, Riviana, but perhaps the door will allow you to touch it because you are part Fae, unlike any of the rest of us. You are the only one part Fae among us.” Vincent’s words seemed to stab me in the gut. He was right, I was the only part Fae among this group. If that was the reason that I was able to touch the door then, I should have been able to think of that reason myself. Why was it that I tended to forget that the others weren’t quite like me?
“Riviana? Do you think that might be the reason?” Joaquin looked at me with wide eyes. “I mean, it makes sense to me.”
“Yeah, now that Vincent mentions it, that seems like the only logical thing.” Trevor added as both he, and Joaquin, looked at me with curious eyes.
“I think it is a good thing that we have a Fae with us then.” Landon grinned.
“Are you going to try and open the door?” Joaquin asked me.
“I am.” My voice was steady and my resolve was firm. I would do what I needed to do because I was a strong, warrior queen. This was what I could do that they couldn’t. This was my time to prove that I was more than capable.
I turned my back to them so that I could concentrate on my task. When I placed my hand on the door, I poured just a little bit of my magic into it. I was doing my best to make sure that it would open for me and not push me back.
I felt the magic in the door reach out and touch the power that I was pouring into it. I felt that it was skittish and afraid at first, but the moment that it sensed that I meant it no harm, it started to feel as if it were warming up to me. The magic within the door felt like that of a scared little animal that was nervous around people.
After that magic seemed to welcome me and accept me, I felt as if it were smiling with relief and gratitude. What exactly was going on here? Since when did magic have a mind and emotions of its own?
With that acceptance and gratitude the door was giving me I felt the seal on it break. With my hand still pressed against it the door began to open or, should I say, disappear. It was there one second and gone the next. And, on instinct, I walked forward into the shining white light that it revealed.
As that light surrounded me, I felt a comforting warmth spread through my entire body. It was like I was being taken to some sort of paradise. Though, I was certain that no paradise would smell like blood this much. Whatever had happened in the house and the shed had moved to this place too. Before that bright light faded, I started to wonder just what was waiting for me on this side of the door.
The next chapter will repeat a little of this chapter but hopefully not too much. It will be Joaquin and the others searching the buildings outside and finding the door along with their reactions when Riviana opens that door.
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Joaquin
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I was a little frustrated when Riviana told me, and the others, to search the outer buildings. I would have preferred to stay with her. I didn’t like leaving her when we were in unfamiliar situations like this. We didn’t know if there was a killer on the loose somewhere in this vicinity or not. So why, then, was she sending me away?
Actually, I already knew why. The others were nowhere near as strong as we were. Riviana was the most powerful person that I had ever met in my entire life and, through her, I was an extension of that power. She wanted to send someone that had been blessed by the Gods and Goddess with the other party, and that only left me. So that was why she wanted to split us up. Still, I didn’t like it.
When we got outside, I immediately saw that Nathair had followed my orders and was instructing the nearby knights to watch the house since Queen Riviana was still in there with half as many guards. I was glad that he was so willingly following orders.
When we got around to the back of the property, I could see the barn and the shed that we were going to search. They were both made of metal like the house was, the primary source of metal seemed to be silver and gold.
In the barn, which we searched first, there were four horses that looked to be a little hungry, but otherwise fine. Their stalls had clearly not been cleaned out in a day or two which made for a stronger stench and a bigger mess.
Since they were hungry, the horses were a little less than cooperative. So, to achieve our mission of thoroughly searching the barn we had to feed the horses while searching. Oh well, it wasn’t that bad I guess, and it helped the animals.
In the end, no matter how thoroughly we searched the barn, there was nothing that we could find. There was nothing that was out of the ordinary or amiss at all. I was beginning to think that coming all the way out here had been a waste of our time.
When we went into the shed, we found out just how cramped it was with the four of us in there. Still, we did our best to search every nook and cranny possible. However, I wasn’t very hopeful, and I was swiftly losing faith in this whole thing.
“I think I have found something.” Kayda’s voice sounded so loud in the silence of the room that it might as well have been an explosion.
“What is it?” I asked as I hurried over to her. The other two were already following after me.
“There is a panel here that doesn’t seem to fully match the others.”
When I was next to her, I saw what it was that she meant. There was part of the paneling that didn’t have the exact same pattern as the rest. The difference was subtle but it was there. When I touched the panel, I felt that it was able to slide to the side.
When the panel moved, it revealed what looked like a door. There were hinges and a frame, all made of gold and silver, and it was shining brightly, but it had no handle at all.
“How the hell are we supposed to open that thing?” Trevor asked as he walked closer to the door and tried to touch it.
The moment Trevor’s fingers tried to touch the door he was knocked to his ass and slid across the floor until he hit the wall.
“What the hell?” He looked confused as he stared at the door.
“What happened?” I asked as I went to touch the door. I too was thrown to my ass and slid away from the door. I ended up against the wall about four feet to the side of Trevor.
“What is up with that door?” Trevor asked me with shock.
