Snake Root
*~Hunter's POV~*
Week One, Day Three
We've been traveling for three days now. The days were long, nights short. But it's been nice having Alex next to me this whole time. He's been keeping me center. I didn't have time anymore to worry myself sick about how I shouldn't be keeping someone that isn't really my mate. But he didn't seem to mind being mine. And that, I suppose, was a good thing.
As of right now we were traveling through some tress that felt too tall and grass that was long. The sun was starting to set and we would have to set up camp soon. The walking was tiresome but it wasn't without perks. The scenery was beautiful. The leaves were turning golden, red, and orange. The tension wasn't as bad as it was before. I think that everyone just really needed a second to let everything settle in. I knew how unfair it was to just thrust everyone into a war and not expect confusion and an unorganized mess. Especially with me as the “alpha”. My father was putting me in the position to make all the hard choices.
I let out a little sigh and Alex looked up at me and gave me a small smile. I smiled back at him. And I felt better knowing that he was supporting me, even if I make some mistakes. And of course my father was helping me. But he mostly explained to me what a certain choice could lead too, how I could know that before hand, and then simply testing me on the best choices from time to time. But it was mostly a lot of following him around and taking notes on how he deals with things.
Natalie had sent out word to Snake Root and we should be seeing them sometime soon. And I hoped that we would see them before it gets too dark. We had arrived at a river. The rocks were covered in moss and the water seemed to be fighting with itself.
“Hunter!” I turned towards Damon and saw him looking at the edge of the river. I walked closer towards him and saw what he seemed alerted by. Rainbow rocks?
“Oh, aren't you very perceptive.” There was a slight laugh from the voice. Everyone turn towards the intruder. He smirked. Blond hair covered his eyes. He lean against a tree with his hands in his pockets. “I was hoping we could watch you guys for a little longer.” He kicked off the tree and walked towards me. “But it doesn't matter. Your weak.” His smirk grew wider as green eyes stared at me.
“That's enough.” A women appeared from the the trees nearby where the intruder was standing. She was dressed in a simple attire but she screamed, control and dominance. He turned away from me and scoffed.
“Enough? I hadn't even begun to tell them how weak their form is not to mention that they have no chance whatsoever of beating Rain Shadow in a real fight. In fact, even at their best I'm sure they would be so easily over whelmed and shocked that they couldn't put up a fight.” He said walking back over to her. His words were thrown over his shoulder causally like he was simply stating facts.
“It's not like we didn't already know this.” Another man with a strong build and long brown hair pulled into a bun on top of his head said coming out of the trees, followed by two others. A women dressed in combat armor, blond hair tied into a ponytail and a man with silver hair that covered his eyes completely. They stood together and looked at us with disgust. I felt myself become angered but I didn't do anything. This was a time for my father to work and for me to observe. I highly doubt that they would even care to here me speak simply because I wasn't alpha. So yes, this was another learning experience.
My father walked to stand in front of the pack. “I'm sorry, who are you?”
“Sandra, the alpha of Yellow Stone. I'm not here to start a fight nor will I fight in your war, I have no interest in it. I just want you off of my territory.” She stated.
“Your territory?” There was a new voice. A women with long brown hair and sharp gray eyes. She was dressed in much more casual clothing than Sandra – who seemed to be annoyed with her appearance. Several others were trailing behind the women. All in similar clothing and supplies.
“Christa!” The man smiled and ran to her. Christa glared and caught him by the arm before making him fall to his knees.
“Evan, please refrain from touching me in public.” She said coldly looking down on him.
He smirked, “Is that anyway to treat your mate?”
“Tch. You may be my mate but you are also my enemy and no bond in love is going to change that.” Christa said and shook him Evan off of her. She glanced at Sandra and crossed her arms against her chest. The air seemed more tense as the two women glared each other down. She looked back over to us and smiled lightly at Natalie and Robert before looking back at Sandra.“You keeping him on a leash?”
“Tightly.” She said through gritted teeth.
Christa raised an eyebrow, “Not tight enough. These are my guest. I suggest you not interfere if you don't want to be apart of there war.” Sandra's eye flashed with rage for a mere second before she turned around and started to walk off. The others followed her. Evan trailing behind, openly staring at his mate who glared back in response.
“You're so cold to me, Christa.” Evan laughed, “But I love when you do that. And don't worry, we'll come by later to help you with some house cleaning for your guest.” And then they were gone. The tension started to fade back out to more friendly terms. Natalie introduced Christa to us as the alpha of Snake Root. Natalie's grandmother that use to be in the Snake Root was a highly respected lady.
We followed them back to their base. On the way we learned more about the feud between Yellow Stone and Snake Root. Apparently, both packs have had mainly female alpha's that have never gotten along. Although, Christa was the first to be mated to one other Yellow Stone's members. Christa and Evan were happy together when they first met and do actually care for each other, they just aren't as starry eyed, crossed lovers type of thing. Christa took her role as alpha seriously and so she dominated the relationship and set the ground rules. Strangely, Evan was clearly okay with this and liked being pushed around by her.
After a little bit of walking we made it to their base. It was smaller than ours and had more homes as the members of Yellow Stone were older and are generally home schooled. We let the rouges take the stuff to an area and all settled into rooms before my father, the adults, Alex, Aurora, and I met up with Christa and some others.
“I hope you all get some well deserved rest. There will be a slight disturbance later tonight. Evan will be returning with some back up. They won't hurt any of you. It just a general practice match for me and him. You're welcome to watch or join if you chose too.” Christa said.
“I would like to join. It's been a while since I trained with someone other than my pack members.” My father spoke.
Christa smiled, “Great.”
Alex looked at me, “Are you going to fight?” He asked. I shook my head.
“I'll observe.” I said. Alex laughed a little and mumbled something about always being the peaceful one.
The rest of the day was calm. I was finally able to really go to sleep. Alex joined and we fell asleep in the room given to us. Although it was rather embarrassing explaining to them our mating. There were several questions and … gifts, that were unnecessary. And the question of why Alex was a human was awkward and the look the other Snake Root members gave us when we passed by was a bit unpleasant. Although, Christa didn't seem to mind us and commanded her pack to behave themselves.
And as Christa had said, Evan turned up that night. With him was the blond girl and the guy with silver hair and couple of others. Evan rushed to greet Christa and was put down once again. And after a moment everyone moved to a more open area. Christa and Evan were first to get started and quickly changed into their wolves. It was almost funny how greatly Christa over powered him. I could tell he was giving it his best but she easily tackled him down and forced him to come to a stop.
Everyone cheered for Christa as she came out victorious. There were some more battles between the pack members, most of which Snake Root won, but finally it was time for my fathers fight. I watched closely knowing the strictness of his teaching and now finally getting to see it in action.
The wolf he was fighting was the silver guys. He didn't seem to look like much but his wolf was a lot bigger than I had expected. It was gray and a little over medium sized. He stood calmly and didn't charge forward. He seemed to be observing my fathers wolf that was at least twice the size of him. There was a brief moment of the highest tension before the gray wolf launched at my father. My father responded by swiping him away and he crashed into a tree before getting back up and charging my father again. This time my father raised his paws and brought them down on the other.
The gray wolf growled at my father and managed to roll my father on too his back and swiped at him. My father bit into the wolfs arm and tossed him off of him before pinning him down and let out a loud, deep growl to which the gray wolf wined and stopped fighting, not meting my fathers eyes.
Christa and Evan both looked a little shocked. The blond headed girl smirked and hid her laughter.
My father turned back and held out his hand and helped the guy up. The guy starred at the hand for a while after changing back but finally took it.
“You're good.” My father said and gave him the ghost of a smile.
The guy looked down and mumbled a 'thank you' before leaving. Christa laughed and patted my dad on the back. “That's the first time I’ve seen him lose so badly.” I laughed slightly at my fathers blank expression and then it was time for everyone to head to sleep. I sighed and climbed into bed with Alex.
“So what did you think of the fights?” I asked.
Alex laughed a little, “Intense.” I smiled and kissed him goodnight. We maybe in a war but right now, this felt like the most fun that I’ve had in a while.
A/N: Woah, Finally I was able to finish writing that gosh dang it that took for freaking ever. Anyways, I hope you gwys enjoined this. Um soooooo, questions: How are you liking Christa/Snake Root? How do you feel about Yellow Stone? And Are you happy i uploaded???? Alright~ I'm gonna try and eat food now. Until next time my lovelies!! Pick is of Hunter - I've changed the person that plays him again... will change the other pictures later =.= (Also this is unedited and written mostly while I was halfway asleep so my apologies...)