The Guardian (14 page)

You could see the fear in Galechka’s eyes as
she tried to peer through the cloud of dust and debris, just hoping
her man was still by some miracle still alive; she could see in
Adela’s eyes that it was as if she was possessed by some evil being
not of this planet or plain. She could hear John now breathing and
sound of growing was coming from the cloud of dirt, he was on all
fours and picking up his one fist and slamming it into the
ground.

He was holding his fist just above the
ground after his massive strike to it growling, he looked up at
Galechka and his eyes stopped glowing green for a second and they
changed to a bright yellow as she gasped at the sight they turned
back to green as he growled, his bones and skin felt as if they
were cracking and breaking, they felt as though they were
expanding; John felt his spine snapping and popping as he could
feel this electricity running through his system. To Galechka it
seemed like he had gained twenty pounds in muscle and his eyes were
like green torches as he growled, it reminded her of what it looked
like when a werewolf took on the werewolf form.

He howled into the air like a rabid beast
and charged after Adela, she laughed still drunken on her new power
to have a sobering surprise and he not only struck her and sent her
sailing through the air, but managed by some unknown miracle to be
standing thirty feet in front of her launching ground to raise his
hands up over his head with his fists clenched together forming one
fist, slamming it down in perfect timing on her skull sending her
smashing into the dirt below. He kicked her out across the field
and Galechka quickly put herself between him and Adela begging him
to stop.

Using both of her arms to lift herself up of
the ground, her face covered in dirt, but hardly a mark on her
angelic complexion. She stated,” All now, Galechka he and I are
just starting to have fun.” Galechka took the hint and stepped out
from in between them, she was still shaken, but glad to see that
John would obey her even when fully enraged.

Adela spun herself up and around onto her
feet motioning to John to bring it; she put her hand up for a
moment to get John to halt, looking at Galechka she said,”
Galechka, this is what we need; we need to open up his hidden
powers, but it seems we have opened up some of my own new found
abilities.” With her eyes still on Galechka she motioned for him to
commence with his attack on her.

John growled to himself, you could see the
rage he had in his eyes, the power of something none of them had
seen before. Adela knew that she needed him to stay focused and not
lose control at this point so he knew how to deal with the real
ancients when it came time.

Their battle was not contained to the normal
training fields, but for almost the whole forest. Adela knew now
was not the time to worry about a spy seeing or hearing them, but
the time to push both of them as far as they could before
sunrise.

While Galechka was trying to keep up with
the fight, she ran across the wolf pack and Vitaliy ; every being
watching the destruction of the forest were not just bothered by
their families home being destroyed, but cringed at the thought of
what strength a real ancient had if Adela was only a newbie. They
only hoped and prayed that the boy would not fall doom to the
ancients, because it surely would mark their demise as well.

Galechka was so glad to be back home, back
in her comfort zone, back in the place that was her personal
palace. She was so glad to be in her own bed, surrounded by her own
things, and not to have the smell of wolf around her. John was just
glad to see her so happy and delighted to be back in her
surroundings. He was coming to grasps that he hadn’t a place and he
had chosen to be around strangers to him that wanted to cause him
harm just to be with her.

It bothered Adela that Galechka never took
John’s thoughts or emotions into consideration; she had noticed
that since they had been back Galechka while surrounded by her
friends in the coven was ignoring and even being cold to John, it
seemed to be just to make her vampress friends happy. Adela also
was not too happy with hearing one of the males mocking Galechka
for laying with a human, calling her a whore who sleeps with jungle
monkeys, because he was also born in another country. She knew not
what to do with these events and was concerned over John’s mental
state, since that was as important to everything for his survival;
he needed to be on his toes and ready to deal with anything that
might come his way. She feared that depression may cause him to be
sloppy and unprepared.

The younger vampires were all in the front
all by the main entrance to the castle talking and joking, mostly
poking fun at Galechka. She tried to play it off so worried about
what they thought about her. Dear God what if they think less of
me. She tried to act like she wasn’t sure what she was doing as her
friend spewed twisting words for her boyfriend trying to make
Galechka reject the man that loved her so much. She had no clue
what was going on, just believed it to be her friend giving her
unknown truths to life, where two beings from other countries
should and could not be together.

Adela had finally had it; she called
Galechka into the hallway and commenced with her voice sounding
like a demon from hell,” WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?”

Galechka not knowing what to say,” Nothing,
we were just taking.”

“
ARE YOU GOING TO BE SO STUPID? IN
ANOTHER YEAR MOST OF THEM WILL BE GONE. SOON YOUR MAN IS GOING TO
DO EVERYTHING HE CAN TO SAVE US ALL!”

“
But they are right, we are not just
human and vampire, but he was born in the States and it is not
correct for us to be together.”

“
ARE YOU NUTS? HE IS HALF SLAVIC; PLUS
HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING. DO YOU NOT SEE YOUR MAN THINKS OF
YOU FIRST AND THEIR MEN DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT THEM UNLESS IT IS
CONVINENT?”

“
I don’t know, maybe you are right
maybe they are right, but I do not need this kind of
relationship.”

Unaware of anything that was going on, John
was lying in bed trying to rest after the battle he had had with
Adela a few days before. He was takings Adela’s advice on getting
rest and being ready for what was to come. He had some idea some
that the one person was trying to tell Galechka stupid things, but
not that such and orchestrated group was working on her. Girls
jealous and upset that they see a man was caring for Galechka more
than their men cared for them.

“
THEY ARE ONLY JELOUS OF WHAT YOU HAVE
AND I AM GOING TO END IT NOW!”

Adela drug Galechka by the arm into the
front entrance way, just in front of the fire place and said in a
calm, soft voice,” Who thinks Galechka is making a mistake being
with that thing upstairs?”

One of the boys raised his hand with his
glass of wine in hand and said,” Hear hear, that is what I have
been telling everyone.”

Completely on aware of what was about to be
his fate, he smiled at everyone with his glass raised up in the air
as to incite a huge toast among the room. Adela wanted to puke,
because of what a waste of space he had and always would be; so
proud of himself and his stupid blathering’s. This man not only
would mess up his own life, but of all those around him, forever
damning himself and those in his company to be nothing. He smirked
and grinded and said things of such stupidity that it did not even
register in Adela’s ears. He went on to say that in the dead of the
night he himself would stab the outsider and anyone lying with
him.

Adela rolled her eyes knowing what was about
to happen ahead of time; she grabbed Galechka by the arm and said,
“Summon him.”

“
Why?” She questioned,” There is no
need.”

Adela growing more and more angry at
Galechka’s worries of what her so called friends thought over the
man you would die to give her everything, twisted Galechka’s arm
and whispered in her eye,” Oh, my dear you are in grave danger at
this moment.”

Galechka looked at her with fear and concern
in her eyes; she was wondering how Adela could be so angry over the
truth, which her friends were speaking. How could she, and all the
sudden an immense pain seared into Galechka’s arm, it was Adela
squeezing her arm to the point it felt as if it was going to
rupture.

In Galechka’s bed John sat straight up
feeling Galechka’s troublesome pain and need for help, but was
confused by the miss signals coming from her telling him not to
come. He jumped out of bed and ran out, and down the long hallway,
at the very end of it was the banister that led to one of the two
spiraling staircases that led to where his beloved was waiting. He
launched over the banister taking the full plunge of the fall of
about twenty feet, landing in a crouched position ready to pounce
on whoever was harming her; his eyes already glowing a bright,
bright, dark green, his half naked body had veins exploding out of
his skin, you could see his pulse through them as his muscle mass
heaved to the motion of his breath.

Adela lent her head to the side motioning to
the drunken buffoon with the glass of wine and said,” He is
planning on killing you in your sleep and Galechka my dear
friend.”

John looked at her to make sure she was
serious or if this was just a statement brought on by a drunken
maiden. He could tell that she was serious and she motioned her
head for him to attack.

“
For the love of god, kill him,
because he will in your sleep; he is a coward and never will say it
to your face. “She laughed and released her hold on Galechka,” Wait
until you see what her human can do.”

The drunkard laughed and proclaimed,” I have
no problems for the one that was not born of Mother Russia as long
as he leaves our people alone.”

Adela sighed and retorted,” This is the
trouble I have with those I turned after the Red Revolution, they
all believe this stupidity. You know I remember when Russians could
speak three or four languages, to work hard earn money was not
enough, you needed to be well educated.”

“
What trash do you speak of wench?”
The drunkard said as he took s slug of his drink, so sloppily that
it ran down his cheeks and onto his shirt,” Before you turned me my
grandfather told me all.”

“
You are a coward and a waste of
space; it was a mistake to turn you, but I was trying to do your
lady a favor when you fell ill.” Adela frustrated and motioned for
John to attack him.

Galechka had a look of anger and fear, her
boyfriend against her friend’s boyfriend how could this be. The
drunk through his glass at Galechka and said something in Russian
to her and by the look in her eyes John knew it was bad and being
enough to cause him to go on the attack. John jumped halfway across
the room landing in front of him spinning around and back handed
him hard enough to send him sailing into the wall. As the drunkard
found himself sliding down the wall he felt someone hitting him in
the stomach with unreal power and strength with rapid fire left,
right, left, and then an upper cut into the chin sending him
sailing into the air again.

This time he fell straight into the ground
and John grabbed him by the hair on his head holding him in place,
so that he could ram his knee into the drunkard’s face over and
over again, as he felt the drunk vampire begin to blackout he
loosened his grasp and gave one final blow with his knee, harder
than the rest sending him soaring through the air onto the ground
landing and skidding about five feet after impact right in front of
Adela’s feet.

Adela sipping on a glass of wine stepped in
front of this waste of space and time and addressed the room,” Who
in here believes a word of what this man says?” As the question
reverberated around the room she looked around to people’s
reactions,” Who are his followers and who are mine? Looking around
the room she disappeared only to reappear in front of two of the
girl’s, that soon fell to the ground, because their hearts where
both in Adela’s hands. The maggot of a vampire was trying to crawl
off in the distraction of the entire coven being shocked by this
display of power from Adela.

He thought he was almost out the door to
find Adela’s heels were digging into the back up her skull, she
lifted her foot off and as he sighed in relief she slammed it back
down sending his skull into pieces across the floor like a bomb had
gone off with in it.

“
ANYONE CAUGHT SPEAKING THESE WORDS OF
UTTER STUPIDTY WILL BE DAMNED TO THE SAME FATE!”

She walked up to Galechka and said,” Careful
who you let close to your heart most are hateful bitches spewing
venom of hatred and lies just trying to take what you have, which
they don’t away.”

Adela walked over to John motioning for him
to follow her to the kitchen, deciding to leave Galechka to sulk
over the loss of the trash she called her friends. She knew that
these three were the culprits in the twisted thoughts Galechka had.
She knew she had other issues of being trapped, but those were now
for her to deal with alone. Adela was more worried about getting
this boy fed and having him ready for a real fight.

“My coven, we have gathered here
today in our great hall to discuss: treachery, jealousy, hatred,
and enslavement; you all may not be aware, but a spy was caught
among these very halls listening in on our private
conversations.

I have done my best throughout
these centuries to look out for myself and this coven, but every
member and their personal freedoms and rights. Those things that
have been begrudged from others and myself when I was just a member
of another coven myself.