Filed to story: Wolf Crying Mate of the Alpha by Jazz Ford
Mum, Dad, Seth, Mia, Josie, and Flint burst into laughter. Except for Amelia, whose face becomes suddenly pale.
‘Good one, Leon, so continue. Tell us what really happened.’ My father says.
Leon and I give each other a nervous look. Nina won’t even look up from the table and fiddles nervously with her fingers.
‘Well, Alpha… that’s what actually happened.’
The room grows silent as they all stare at Leon.
‘It’s true dad, Nina can cast the magic from the wands too.’
‘That’s impossible. May and Nina are wolves, not witches.’ He says in a serious tone.
Nina gives me a worried look.
‘It’s okay Nina, show them.’ She hesitantly nods and stands up.
She pulls the wand from her back pocket and swirls it around.
‘Aqua…’
‘Bedew.’ I whisper.
She gives me a small smile.
‘Aqua Bedew.’ She says and swirls of water appear, and she directs it into a cup on the table.
It is so quiet that I can hear everyone’s heart rate rapidly increase.
‘This is impossible.’ My father says, standing up. ‘This can’t be happening. Magic has been long gone and forbidden for many years. We only found out that a few witches still exist when you had the terrible fever, Magnus.’
‘Nina, you and your sister cannot experiment with this. You are already in danger. If everyone finds out, you are cursed and that it affects Magnus and now to know you can cast magic. It will cause mass panic. Everyone will hunt you and May down. The only way to keep the secret safe is to not cast magic at all.’ My mother says.
I know how much being able to cast spells meant to Nina. She was trying hard to hold back any tears and hid her feelings from everyone.
‘We need to figure out how this is even possible.’ Dad says.
We all look at Leon and Amelia. Leon shrugs his shoulders.
‘I’m in just as much shock as you all are. I swear I do not know.’ He says, then looks at Amelia, who has the look of guilt written all over her face. ‘Amelia?’ Leon says.
‘Well, you see. There is something I have told no one before. I didn’t really see the point until now.’ She takes a deep breath. ‘My grandma was a witch.’
‘What?’ Everyone shouts in shock.
‘My grandfather was a wolf. It turned out my grandmother was a witch. They knew it wasn’t right, and it was unheard of, a witch and a wolf being fated mates. They tried hard to stay away from each other, but found it impossible. My mother and another child were born to them. Neither of them could wield magic, but both got their wolves at eighteen. My mother had me, and I never could wield magic. We all figured the wolf gene must have been stronger and having two generations without magic thought it would never happen to future generations. Now it seems it happened… two generations later. Nina and May are half-witch, half-wolf.’
We all look at one another, taking it all in.
‘None of this information is to leave this room. Nina, I will leave it to you to tell May she is to no longer cast magic.’ My dad says.
Nina stands up and runs up the stairs without saying a word. I know she is upset.
‘There’s something else you and mum need to know, dad.’ I say.
‘What’s that?’
‘Moss… is dead. I killed him. He shifted and came at me, intending to kill me. He would have taken Nina back.’
‘You did what you had to do to protect our pack members. I’m sure the wolf council will understand.’
‘That’s not all. His mother was there. She said, “You will pay for this. I should have killed your mother long ago and now I will kill you too!” You must know who she is?’
Mum and dad give each other a worried look.
‘Did you see her wolf? Any of their wolves? What colour were they?’ she asks panicked.
‘Moss’s wolf was brown with grey ears and a grey tail and when his mother shifted, she was small brown and scruffy with a grey patch on her side.’
‘Vanessa!’ Mum and dad, say together in shock. My dad looks at Leon.
‘Have double the warriors at each post in case Vanessa tries to attack us.’
‘I don’t think Vanessa would be capable of much harm on her own, though?’ I say.
‘Don’t underestimate her son. Knowing Vanessa, she will have more rogues somewhere.’ Mum says.
I leave the table and go up to my room. May’s bedroom door is ajar. I can hear Nina informing May that they are both banned from using magic.
‘This is so unfair!’ May says. I continue to my room and close the door.
I fall backwards onto my bed and stare up at the roof.
After a while, there was a knock at my door. It’s May.
‘Um hey, so I was wondering. Well, Nina was wondering if she could borrow the spell book from you… please?’
‘She knows you are both banned from casting magic and spells. I can’t loan either of you the book. Even I shouldn’t have the book.’
‘Please Magnus, at least let her borrow it just for tonight?’
I sigh and walk over to my school bag and unzip it and take the spell book out.
‘I will give it to her, though.’
‘Okay.’ She smiles and follows me.
I stop and face May.
‘Alone…’ I say.
‘Oh… I’ll just be going to my room then.’ She says, annoyed.
I knock on Nina’s door. It surprised her to see me, but she sees I’m holding the book in my arms.
‘Come in.’ she says, stepping aside.