CHAPTER 84

it was still early in the morning as Amelia journeyed towards the training ground the fog was still on the ground. She was tired, her body in pain due to what she had been through the previous day, but she was now confident. Such disclosures during the past several weeks had been shocking for her, although they had also awakened in her the need to learn and master all the strength that was in her blood.

When she reached the field, Bruce and Elijah were already present waiting for her. The two of them were present both comforting her and scaring her at the same time. These two influential grandees, both strongmen of their state, had thought it fit to supervise her apprenticeship themselves. The pressure of the expectations rolled in on her shoulders.

“Hello Amelia,” Elijah said to her in the morning; something which made him look a little like a smile was trying to form on his face. "Ready for another day?"

Amelia agreed, pretending, she was confident when in actual sense she was not that confident. “As prepared as I’ll ever be. ”

Bruce grunted approvingly. ”That’s the spirit. Now, let’s start with the warm-up exercises. “

The next hour seemed like a complete blur of activity most of it being highly physical. Martially, she jogged, did more elaborate gymnastics, and grappled single and with Bruce and Elijah. She was panting and covered in sweats by the time they decided that it was time for them to take a five-minute break.

Bruce shook his head and said, “You’re improving. ” He passed her a bottle of water. ”Your endurance is rising and your form during the fighting, with your bare hands, is becoming more precise.

Elijah wished he could capture the look in Amelia’s eyes right now – she smiled and nodded, unable to stutter out a thank you since she was out of breath. After that, she stopped to catch her breath, and suddenly she drowned with his glance, something in Elijah’s gaze was making her somewhat uneasy. There was a certain look in his eyes which was puffed up with pride and concern and something that Jodie couldn’t decipher.

‘Okay. ’; told Elijah who sprang into action clapping his hands together. It is time, to practice your werewolf's skills, Amelia, you need to learn how to control both the werewolf’s power and the Vampire's power.

With her eyes shut, Amelia focused on the energy she could sense pulsating right under her skin. It was as excited and shocking as an electric current and as hot as liquid fire; in a way, it enthralled and also frightened her. Tentatively she started to tap into it, starting with her hands and realizing her hands were pulsing with it.

“Good,” said Elijah from what seemed to be nearby. “Okay, eyes open and focus that power on the objective. ”

Amelia blinked, once her eyes were wide open and targeting the practice dummy about fifteen meters ahead. Taking a few moments to center herself she charged with a high surge of her fingers and hit the dummy right on the chest. To everyone’s amazement, the force of the impact caused it to roll back across the floor with feathers of straw coming out like a snowstorm.

‘Imps,’ Bruce growled, offering a non-Bruce-like approving nod.

Smiling was immensely natural for her at this point, as she couldn’t help but let out a grin. For a moment she felt that she was able to do things the way she wanted to, she felt that she was so capable in a way she had never felt before.

But the triumph was for a moment, yet again.

It therefore howled, and another and still another. The loud howling of the wolves became a chilling sound for Amelia. Looking at Bruce and Elijah she saw her wthey on their faces.

“That is not our pack,” Bruce said angrily his entire stance was already prepared for a fight.

Elijah went through the training field searching and his eyes darted at the trees. ‘Oh my God’ he barked: ‘Amelia, go to the house proper right now!’

But before Amelia could move, people started coming out of the bushes and trees from the forest side. Even adult wolves, including dozens of them, have evil and voracious eyes. And at their head – Amelia shuddered, she saw the face she had disliked more than anyone – Ema.

“Well, well,” Ema said loud enough for everyone reveling on the field to hear her. “Seems like we arrived right in time for some training,” She said to which no one opposed Her.

Bruce moved out of the shadows and his muscles seemed to further bulge as he got ready to transform. “Infraction of territorial integrity, Ema, you are on pack territory, get out or suffer the consequences. ”

Ema giggled nastily; her laugh had no humor in it, it was cruel. ‘No, no,’ she quickly reassured him. ‘You see, we are here to fetch someone. ’

They looked right into Amelia and the level of hostility that oozed out of that girl’s face was unbearable. Drawing herself up Amelia took an instinctive step back her throat choked with fear.

“You will not lay your hands on her. ” Elijah said with his wolf trying to unleash, standing in front of Amelia.

‘Oh you will indeed,’ Ema snapped back, her face contorted in a smirk. Then, giving the signal to attack, which could barely be discerned as a nod, she took the charge.

The field panicked all over. Fury that came from hundreds of wolves left the forest and filled the night with snarling and howling. Bruce changed in the blink of an eye, his huge werewolf going forward to fight with a battle cry that made the earth tremble. Elijah stayed human for the main time, trying so hard to take note of their enemies.

Amelia was stunned at the sudden action and stood rooted to the spot for a while. But when a wolf threatened to attack her then she was able to respond out of instinct. She stepped back from the blow, moving as though her hands had a life of their own. They exchanged grumpy stares until the wolf backed away suddenly and yelped in pain on the ground after she struck him with energy from her palms.

‘Amelia, run!’ Elijah yelled while trying to dodge two men at the same time. "Get to the house!"

They wanted to follow, to escape. But she could not refuse them in the same way and left them with herself alone. But she had no time to think as she launched herself at her opponent, everything she had been taught in the last weeks rushing through her head.