The Guardian (10 page)

Attempt after attempt, John failed at
stopping Vitality’s attacks. Hours had gone by and not one
successful counter to anything Vitaliy threw at him. Vitaliy halted
for a moment trying to understand what to do about this, suddenly
he screamed,” What the hell is your problem? If they kill you they
will kill her! Are you really going to let a woman’s bad mood throw
you off?”

John looking ashamed hung his head in
complete embarrassment,” No sir, I don’t want to die or let them
get their hands on her.”

“
Get your head together; Adela will
deal with her later.”

Vitaliy tried for another couple of hours
with very little progress and a feeling of absolute loss for
knowing how to remedy this situation. Realizing that soon enough,
the ancients would be on the hunt, just as soon as they catch with
of this young and green guardian.

When he got home she was there and a little
warmer than before, but still had the ice queen feel about her.
After, he got done cooking up supper for the night, and serving
some wine to Galechka in the room he had lit with candles. He was
doing his best to warm her frigid heart; she seemed to smile a bit
and was speaking more and more with him, but things was not going
as well as he wanted. He sat upon the bed and patted on the corner
for her to come and take a seat by him. She did so and he ask her,”
Why are you so hesitant about us? We have had a great time and no
issues at all.”

“
I am not sure if I love you; if I do
not love you than it is a waste of time for me.”

“
Let’s try and make this work; I
believe that we have a great thing between us.”

“
I do not want to feel like I am
trapped.”

“
Let’s just try for a little bit and
see how you feel.”

Without another word she leaned forward
wanting to be kissed by this man before her. She magically became
extremely passionate; she was even very aggressive with him. He
spun her around placing her back on her back with him looking down
on her. They were kissing hot and heavy as they had their hands
running all over each other. She was doing her best to pull and
hold him close. She was now lifting up her shirt and kissing and
licking her stomach in all the spots e knew she liked, working her
way up to her chest, kissing and teasing her as she rolled her head
back in the moment; her breathing became deeper as her lover was
touching in all the right places. She got a smile on her face as he
started to pull her shirt up and she assisted on removing it; she
knew he was going to start kissing and chewing or her neck and
ears, which always drove her completely crazy over this. Her eyes
rolled back into her head as she felt his hot breath upon his
ear.

She could feel her temperature rising along
with her pulse as her breathing also deepened. How could she doubt
what she felt for him with moments like this? Ran through her head
as the two kissed and teased each other; he was kissing and
nibbling on her ear as she loved so much and had requested a few
time from him. He rolled them both over so that she was now on top,
realizing a long time ago that when he did this she became more
aggressive and responded better to him. She was hot and ready, now
she was kissing down on him, down his stomach and trying to undo
his jeans as quickly as she could. This was something she wanted
now and not a second later; as soon as she got his jeans undone,
she quickly removed her own. She only left her panties for she knew
how he liked the way they looked on her before slowing tugging them
off has he kissed in all the places around, but never other than I
slight brush did he touch her pedals on her flower. Again as he
starts to get a taste of what he had been craving so badly, she
reached down and grabbed him by the head pulling him up onto her;
he was frustrated, because he wanted to saver in her taste and
smell, even her sent was heavenly. She smiled as she pulled him up
to wrap her legs around him and pulled him as close as she could.
She knew exactly how to make him lose his mind.

The early night, came quicker than he was
ready for. Being up until the late afternoon making love to her, he
was worn out and drained, but knew there was work to be done. He
struggled to scrabble up his eggs, make his coffee all the long he
allowed her to sleep; he was tip toeing around and trying not to
make any off sounds that could disturb her.

Soon, came the expected knocking at the
door, but this time John was already at the door and had opened it
right after the first rap of Vitaliy ’s hand; he had is finger
placed in front of his lips as a sign to Vitaliy to be silent. He
motioned to Vitaliy that he would be on his way.

Vitaliy whispered as they were walking away
from the door,” I take it that you two have resolved all of the
issues.”

Quietly he replied back, “Seems that way,
but I wish I knew what they issue was.”

“
A little word from the wise, that
girl will never be honest to you or herself about her feelings; all
you can do is hold on for dear life and give her space when she
needs it. Trust me; she does not do well with people questioning
her.”

“
So you’re a wise man now?” John
jokingly said.

“
After almost a millennium on this
Earth I think I have learned enough to call myself wise or at least
wiser than I was a few hundred years ago.”

“
So you’re an ancient.”

“
No, I am no ancient at least not so
far I haven’t seen the signs yet; to be honest, I am hoping you
have some luck in killing a few before my change. You see some
times they will kill us when we start to get our ancestral powers.
The men at the top do not like any competition.”

“
So you are telling me that they kill
anyone that is showing signs of power, which could threaten
them?”

“
That would be not too far from how it
is; not too far from the truth at all. Throughout all the time that
Adela and I have seen, any threat or future chance of a threat is
exterminated without prejudice. The wolves’ numbers kept thin,
guardians wiped out as soon as they are found any vampire that
starts to show ancient powers is usually found guilty of some
terrible crime against the covens and killed.”

Vitaliy paused for a moment listening
closely to their surroundings before continuing,” You can never be
too sure or too careful, speaking of these things can and will
cause you to lose your head. Well I guess, training a new guardian
in a conspiracy to take down my ancients warrants death in their
eyes.”

“
So no one has ever been as strong as
them?”

“
Not of my knowledge; there are rumors
of a time when a guardian had killed a few of the ancients at one
time and that is why they fear your race so much. Adela’s guardian
was very young, untrained and still held his own for a while, well
that is until they used her as leverage.”

“
What do you mean?”

“
Her life or his was the option he had
and a guardian cares more about the vampire it belongs to than its
self. He made them promise not to touch Adela. I believe the only
reason they kept their word is to see her suffer his loss, because
it was clear he was also the love of her life time.”

Hours past and John had made an enormous
amount of progress, but was still falling prey to most of the
attacks thrown at him. It was becoming clearer and clearer his
strengths and weaknesses; having taken note of all of his pupils’
strengths and weaknesses he decided to have a word with John.

“
Youngster, your attributes are more
strength than speed; some of the ancients have both and we need to
prepare you for this.”

“
How do I deal with both?”

“
I need to teach you how to anticipate
the moves that are about to come; some monks can envisions the
whole fight before it happens and I need to teach you to somewhat
do the same.”

“
So the ancients move as fast as you
and are stronger?” John asked with a sound of concern in his
voice.

“
No! They are stronger and faster than
me. You have to understand that I could be as fast as some of the
ancients, but do not have their strengths. Adela will need to teach
you that my friend.”

“
Wait how is Adela going to teach me
how to deal with an ancient when you cannot?”

In a flash John could feel Vitality’s breath
on his ear as he whispered,” It turns out our lady has started to
become an ancient and not even your little girl can know.”

“
Are you sure?”

“
With the display of power she
demonstrated a few days ago on a spy we found, there is no
doubt.”

Their training went on for a few weeks and
each day he made progress by leaps and bounds; it mattered not how
fast or strong Vitaliy attacked him, John more and more was being
able to counter all the moves handed to him. Rather they were
fighting with staffs hand on hand or even when Vitaliy would blind
side him with an attack whenever John would be walking with
Galechka just to make sure John was on his toes. The battles became
more and more aggressive as Vitaliy was sure he wouldn’t kill John.
Vitaliy also devoted hours upon hours on teaching him how to
meditate and focus on knowing was going to happen before it
happened.

It cooling off and there was sure signs that
Autumn was around the corner if not already knocking on the door,
wind was gusting outside and blowing the few leaves that had turn
round and round when a gentle and soft sound of the door knocked
was bounced off of the old oak door on which it was mounted. Behind
the door as it was swung open was a woman with an older style
hooded outfit, but doubtlessly a beautifully shaped woman by the
way the outfit molded its self around her small petite body.

As the woman with long and well cared for
nails, fingers covered in old Russian gold that had more of a red
tone to it than a gold color, reviled her astoundingly beautiful,
long black hair as she pulled back her hood; as she lifted her head
upwards her hair parted reveling what seemed to be an even younger
and more alluring Adela. Somehow she now seemed that of a seventeen
year old than the mid 20’s she seemed earlier and more of a glowing
energy to her.

“My lady,” Bernandas
exclaimed;
shocked and astonished by the changes in Adela,” forgive me and
welcome to my humble abode.” As she walked father into the his
place she could see Vitaliy standing next to the table bowing to
her, but as he straightened up it was clear the shock he was
feeling by the look on his face; both he and
Bernandas
practically had their jaws hanging to the floor.

She had a playfully wicked look on her face
as she revealed her bright, dark blue eyes; with her flowingly
long, dark black hair and light skin tone with no perfections and a
younger appearance than the boys had last seen on her stated, “A
few blessings have come with becoming an ancient.”

Vitaliy took a step towards the lady that he
had served all these years with his hands out waiting for her to
grasp onto his; as she took his hands in his he stated with a sound
of glee and shock in his voice,” My lady, how have you changed,”
not believing his eyes in what he seen before him, even her body
had taken on a firmer tighter shape and how could you not be
mesmerized by her pure beauty,” I almost did not recognize you my
queen.”

“You flatter me my old friend, but my looks
are not the only thing that has changed you know.”

Looking interested and inquisitive he asked
his dear queen,” What are the other marvels of which you speak
of?”

Releasing her hands from his, she walked
around his back and over to her other dear loyal friend Bernandas
and patted him on the chest as she passed by him to stand in front
of the enormous old stone fire place that was in this quaint old
home of his and ran her hand along the old wooden mantle that had a
mix of wooden statues hand carved by Bernandas himself, some of
wolves howling upward, some of owls in different positions and some
of other animals in the woods, he was a true master of carving.

“Such beautiful work my dear friend,” she
said as she played with some of them taking time to take in their
details,” I have always loved the presents that you have carved out
for me throughout the years. I know you do not come into our home
and I would like that to change; we are approaching a new era and I
want us to lead others into it by example.”

“Thank you Adela,” he said as he bowled
slightly to her, somewhat out of embarrassment, because he never
carried his own work in high acclaim and there friend ship meant
the world to him,” but you are being to kind about my work; I
believe our friendship through the have blinded you to my works
great deal of imperfections.”

After bounced the palm of her hand off of
the mental twice and spun around shaking her finger at her dear
friend that loved to howl at the moon and responded,” My dear
friend, you have always been far too modest about your talents and
maybe that is why your work is so good; I have noticed throughout
the years I have lived that one whom brags or boasts about the
talent of their artistry of any type is usually a far cry from one
who was insecure about their work.”

Bernandas now blushing and trying to council
this interrupted her,” Well that is up for a great deal of debate
about my work and I agree with you about the braggarts, but we have
much more important things to discuss.”

“Yes my lady much to speak of.” Vitaliy
chimed in.

“Oh drats, you two cannot take any time to
reflect and appreciate what and who surrounds you.”