Yasmine was slowly eating her breakfast and watching as more people came into the restaurant of the lodge. She nearly choked when a good-looking man and woman walks in. They were being followed by a younger woman behind them. The man had long dirty blonde hair and looked like a Greek statue that had come to life. He was at least six feet tall and had impressive muscle build on him. The woman standing next to him had long blonde hair and was almost as tall as he was, but was shorter by only a few inches. She had a body that most models and famous actresses wish they had. She had a deep bronze tanned skin and was dressed in painted on jeans like the man next to her and both wore matching shirts. The short dark hair girl following behind them had on a leather collar that was at least four inches wide and had a huge D-ring on the front of it. There were small studded spikes covering the rest of the surface. She had on a white gazed blouse with a tight matching leather corset and painted on blue jeans and ankle boots that matched the boots the man and woman were wearing.

“Lily, who are those three?”

Lily looks over and spot Neil and his wife and slave.

“That’s Neil Jones and his wife Clair Jones with their servant. They are the leaders of the Chattan Pride. The young dark hire girl following behind them is Jessica, their servant/slave.”

“Why is she a slave?”

“Because, of the type of life she had.”

Ava was walking by when she heard the question.

“May Courtney and I joined you?”

Yasmine looks towards Ava’s aunt and sister.

“Don’t you want to sit with your family?”

“Please, have a seat Ava.”

Lydia had answer her and motion to the two-empty seat at the table.

“Thank you, Lydia.”

Both Courtney and Ava sit down in between Lily and Lydia.

“To answer your question Yasmine, I figure it might be best if I sit with your family and help answer your questions. Some people have found you amusing and some are wondering why you are asking so many questions.” Ava snatches a few slices of bacon off Courtney’s plate.

Courtney growls at her mate and tries to stab her with her fork.

“My bacon, eat your own.”

Courtney grabs a few slices off Ava’s plate.

A smile appears on Ava’s face at her wife’s antics.

“To answer your question about Jessica. I had the same reaction when I first met my Ardri, that’s his title among the Chattan Pride. Jessica enjoys being their servant/slave and she needs it. When she was first turned a very bad person abused her all the time. Neil and his wife Clair freed Jessica and tried to let her live a normal life. However, they found out that Jessica is happier being some one’s servant/slave. She can’t function without someone telling her what to do or how to act or stop her from seriously hurting herself. Since it is the Ardri’s responsibility to look after all the Were-Cats in his pride. They took Jessica as their own personal servant/slave. Neil and Clair are into the BDSM scene, but they don’t force it on anyone else. Jessica will do anything for them and enjoy it.”

“Will she kill for them if they tell her too?”

“Yep, she will.”

“How about you? If they tell you to kill someone?”

“They can’t and they know I won’t listen to them. It’s not in my nature. They also couldn’t tell my wife here to do it, because her allegiance is
first to me. Because I am her mate and second it is with her father who is the leader of the Hipamika pack/clan.”

“But don’t you belong to the Chattan clan?”

“Yes and no. Yes, I am a member of the Chattan clan. All Were-cats in the Cairo area are required to seek out the Ardri to inform him that they
are in his territory. Now, if they plan on staying or hunting in his territory. They are required to join the clan or leave his territory. That’s how he keeps strays from intruding and causing problems in his territory. If a member has a beef with another member, he has the right to challenge them. There’s a pecking order in a clan and pack. If you want to go up from the status you are to a higher status. You need to challenge the next highest person in that status. Neil and Clair are the alpha leaders of the Chattan clan. Tabitha and I could challenge them for leadership if we wanted too. I don’t want to because I have a clan of my own back on my ranch. Tabitha doesn’t because she is my aunt’s body guard and is an instructor to me, Courtney and to my little cousin/sister. Tabitha prefers being what she is and I enjoy being what I am. Courtney could challenge her father for his position of the Hipamika pack if she wanted too and win. However, she prefers to help me run the clan on our ranch. We answer to both clans, but in the end, we still do what we want to do.”

“So, your saying that you belong to a clan, but you don’t do what the Ardri tells you?”

“Nope, the Ardri and his wife know that it is a common trait of my family. We also, insist on following certain traditions that both clans have forgotten about or chose to ignore.”

“So, if that is the Ardri.” Yasmine points to Neil.

“Where is your father, Courtney?”

Courtney looks around and spots her mother and father talking to another pack leader.

“Over there talking with Dave. He’s the leader of the Bloody Claw Pack.”

“Isn’t that the pack Carmen belongs to?”

“She’s their shaman.”

“Your father looks like the guy off the Brawny commercials, Courtney.”

“If you think he looks handsome in his human form, you should see him in his wolf form. He looks impressive in that form as well.”

“Cool, what is the title of your father in his clan?”

“They call my father the Zupan. He goes by that title, instead of alpha. It means the same thing technically. Dad, just enjoys the title more.”
Yasmine looks at Courtney and then Ava.

“So, that makes him not only your leader, but your father-in-law.”

“Yep, he’s my father-in-law and my Zupan as well. So, how did he handle finding out that you were Courtney’s mate?”

“Let’s just say none of the leaders liked finding out Courtney and I were mates. We performed the mating ritual the first night I met her, instead of waiting till we were of legal age.”

Yasmine jaw dropped along with everyone else at the table.

“You got to be kidding me? You and Courtney performed the mating ritual on your own without your Alpha’s permission on the first night you two met?”

Lydia, Lily and Ryder couldn’t believe it.

Ava just smiled at their reaction.

“I think you broke them, sweetie.”

Courtney had a smile on her face.

“How old were you two?”

“I had just turned thirteen and learned that I was a were. Courtney was fifteen at the time and it was only the second time I met her. I had been shot-up by some Hunter agents on my way to her house for my first meeting with her father. We were outside on the porch swing when my cat realized that this beautiful woman was my mate. Her older brother Brad challenged her to have the right to mate me. I couldn’t stand seeing a brother and sister fight. So, I challenged him and fought him. I was still weakened at the time, but I won. I paid a price for it afterwards. While we were up in her bedroom, we performed the mating ritual. My cat wanted her mate and nothing was going to stop her from claiming her mate.”

“Once my wolf got a good sniff of Ava’s scent. She wanted her mate as well and I wouldn’t have been able to stop her till she had her mate bind to her. So, we did the ritual and it quiet both our natures.”

Courtney was looking at everyone at the table.

“Your natures must be very powerful if they couldn’t wait till you two came of age.”

“They are Lydia. Ava, woke-up my wolf and me. I was never very confident or felt like I was special compare to the rest of my family. Sooner or later I would had taken my life. It wasn’t till Ava came along that I realized that she was what I was missing in my life. Being the daughter of a powerful Alpha pair sometimes is very hard and having an abusive older brother can do things to you. However, when a certain bloody half Native American newbie cat came into my life. It brought be back to the living and made me realize she needed me and I needed her.”
As they were talking, A beautiful Native American woman glides in and up to the line waiting to get breakfast.

“Who’s that?”

Ava looks towards the direction Yasmine was looking.

“That is Amy Wolf. She is the daughter of Wolf himself.”

“What do you mean the daughter of Wolf himself?”

“She means my dear daughter that Wolf refers to the Native American Wolf spirit?”

Lydia looks towards Ava to verify what she said.

Ava nods her head yes.

“How can she be the daughter of Wolf, if he is a spirit?”

“Sometimes, the spirits assume an animal or human form to walk among the people. The last time he assumed an animal form. A rogue government scientist managed to trap Wolf and performed experiments on him. One of those experiments were conducted on the teenage daughter of an MP that got to close to finding out their secret. So, they had her parents killed and took her. They used her for the experiment. According to what was found during the investigation into the matter. They had drained all her blood and transferred his blood into her body several times over. The last transfusion they did of his blood into her body, it killed her. However, what it did was make her look like she was dead. Wolf’s blood was slowly changing her to what she looks like now. She has his god like abilities. She is truly, the daughter of the wolf now.”

“How much does the government know about the supernatural?”

“Enough to be dangerous. Amy wasn’t the first experiment that went wrong. Ginny over there.”

Ava points to a dark hair young girl standing with a group of men.

“She was another experiment that didn’t go as planned. A veterinarian wanted to see if he could change an ordinary animal into a Were. He injected the serum he developed into a coyote/wolf hybrid and it escaped from his lab. One day while she was pulling parts at a junkyard in the desert. She was attacked and got bitten by that coyote/wolf hybrid. She can turn into an ordinary coywolf any time she wants. She has some traits of a werewolf, but she isn’t a true werewolf. Her coywolf form is the same as any normal coywolf form.”

“So, there are pixie’s, Were-wolf, Were-cats, Immortals and…??”

“and me.”

Yasmine, Ava, Courtney, Lily, Lydia and Ryder all turned to look at a middle aged Spanish woman standing before the table.

“Hi Emygdia, I didn’t think you were coming.”

“Ava, you should know better than that. If the threat you guys are facing makes all of you nervous. Then it matters to the gargoyles as well.
Since, I am the only gargoyle able to move around during the day time.”

“I know, you’re going to represent them.”

“Bingo, plus I’m your little cousins godmother. Where ever he goes, I go. Since your cousin Victoria is here with her husband. I’m here as well.”

“You know, she hates being called Victoria. She prefers being called Vicky.”

“I know, but I never call people by their nicknames. I always call them by their given name.”

“Also, you like to give her a hard time as well.”

“She is my favorite wolf.”

“Is there a Were-dragon or Dragon?”

Yasmine figures it couldn’t hurt to ask.

“Yes, and no. There are Dragons, but none of them are here anymore. The last one that stayed here died a few years ago out in California. So,
there aren’t any more Dragons on Earth.”

“Dang, I would had loved to meet one.”

“You would never know you met one, Yasmine. They don’t reveal what they are to anyone. You have to be very skillful to look through their disguise.”

“Well, I still would had liked to have met one.”

“Maybe one will come back to this dimension and you’ll met them.’’

“If you’ll excuse me everyone. I’m going to go and check on my godson and see how he is doing.”

Everyone watches as Emygdia walks over to a woman in her early thirties with long blonde hair and light tanned skin holding a bundle in her arms.

“You know, the council may be mad at me for giving Vicky what she wanted, but I don’t care.”

“Why would the council be mad at you for giving her what she wanted?”

“Because, Vicky’s baby is an immortal Were-wolf. He’ll never die. He’s just like his father. Her and her husband were never meant to have
children. He’s immortal and they can’t have children.”

“So, immortals aren’t permitted to have children?”

“Nope. The magical energies that make them immortal require a price and that price is normally Immortals sacrificing the ability to produce off-springs. I have another form that is the accumulation of all my family line traits that is capable of granting wishes. However, I can only grant one wish and it needs to be something you are willing to sacrifice anything for. In Vicky’s and Tom’s case it was a child of their own. So, I granted their wish. Three months later, Vicky found out she was pregnant and was carefully watched the whole entire time she was pregnant. You should had seen her husband, Tom. It was so funny watching him treat Vicky like a porcelain doll. It drove her crazy.”

“So, why do you have a second form Ava?”

“That is a question even I can’t answer, but my second form is someone you don’t want to meet. It could be considered good or bad.
Sometimes my second form will help you if you need it or it could kill you. It all depends on the reason why it was called forward. I can’t call it forward any time I want either. There has to be a reason it needs to be here.”

“So, you can’t control it?”

“No, it comes when it is needed and the situation requires it to be here.”

“Oh,”

Yasmine looks confused by what Ava told her.

Courtney noticed the confused look on Yasmine’s face.

“Trust me Yasmine, it’s better that you don’t know. Even I don’t know why she has a second form and I’m her mate. All I do know is, Ava’s second form only listens to me and sometimes my father, but mostly to me.”

“Yasmine, whatever questions your aunt or parents can’t answer for you. Feel free to come to me or my aunt and ask us. My aunt might be the best person to ask, because everything I know I learned from her.”

“Thank you for the offer Ava.”

“You’re welcome. I know what it is like being thrown into a world you didn’t know existed. I was brought up in a vanilla family and found out the hard way I was a supernatural. When my abilities first manifested I attacked my real mother and hurt my older brother.”

“Don’t forget about being shot at and thrown through a window either.”

Courtney smiles at her loving partner.

Ava just shakes her head.

“You were shot at and thrown through a window?”

Yasmine couldn't believe someone would do that to their own child.

“Yep. The man I thought was my real father shot me with a shotgun and then tossed me out the window when it didn’t stop me. He was really my step-father. My real father had been killed when I was just six years old watching over me. The thing is, he seduces my mother while her husband was away and got her pregnant. The family kept it quiet and made everyone believe including me that I was really the man I thought was my father. I didn’t know anything about my real father until I moved in with my aunt and he visited me a few times in ghost form. So, when I first changed it was a shock to me and to my family. I’ve managed to patch things up with my mother and brothers, but my step-father still hates me.”

“Why does he still hate you?”

“Because I put my grandfather in jail for trying to kill me. He was the regional director of the Hunter organization and with help from the Zupan, the Ardri and the High Priest of my aunt’s coven, a few friends and my girlfriend. We took the Hunter organization down in Cairo, Kentucky.”

“Wow.”

Everyone at the table looked shocked.

Courtney snatches a few more pieces of bacon from Ava’s plate.

“Hey, that’s my bacon.”

A little growl escapes Ava’s throat.

“Turnaround is fair play.”

Courtney leans over and kiss Ava’s cheek.

Yasmine just smiles watching them.

They all finish eating their breakfast. Yasmine still looked around, but now she had a better understanding of people there.