Chapter 89
Heidi
“Now let me see….” Said Gulteer, twirling his cane, smacking it on the ground, and a crystal ball floated from nothingness. He waved long clawed fingers over the glowing orb, and motioned me to come look with him. “What did your sisters teach you?” He asked referring to the crystal ball.
“To see their people, it’s easier to use a person who knows the target you’re spying on. Finding people you don’t know is almost impossible, unless they are really worked up, or about to do something that would directly affect the person looking.” I said more than I needed to, because at the moment nothing could be seen.
“Good, good…. Where is the turned mortal then?” He asked with a smile.
Garnet growled.
“I won’t hurt the girl. She is the mate of a supernatural creature; thus the laws apply to her, but I don’t have to see the future to know we’re about to waist a lot of time...” He said dismissively.
“We won’t if you look without my pack members.” Said John with crossed arms.
“So long as it wasn’t her who brought this upon her new family, I have no right nor desire to put her in my cauldron.” He motioned the bubbling kettle filled with a pair screaming souls. I don’t think anyone else could hear that, and if they did, I know they would be even more against them being here.
…I don’t know the purpose of Why he did that to them if he didn’t get information out of them, but he was an old horror. Eating souls is Not possible for a normal witch… but he wasn’t normal.
“She would Never do that!” Snarled Garnet. To suggest that would tell the Hunters our location means that she had betrayed the pack… a death penalty.
“I agree with Garnet. Hunters Kill supernatural creatures; and she holds no human blood after John turned her.” I said defensively. Ann was tormented by those men… it wouldn’t make sense to go to them knowing that she was no longer human anyway. They’d just double cross her and kill her too…
“Don’t pick up this emotional nonsense dear.” He said to me, snapping his fingers, and the front door to me and John’s house appeared from nowhere…. He knocked on it.
“What the hell? Put that back!” Yelled John.
“The house and door are where they belong, but the face of it opens now to where I wish it. It’s why Ron didn’t want me knowing where you lived, but it was easy enough to guess.” He said tapping on the door with his staff lightly. “Can you open the door deary?” he said sweetly. He almost didn’t sound like the same man who became a great serpent and terrorized the countryside a few hours ago.
“Hello?” Asked Ann.
“Ann don’t answer!’” Screamed Garnet, but it was too late. Ann answered the door, rubbing her eyes.
“Morning Alpha, Luna. Garnet you were supposed to come home this morning.” She chastised. “Where are my manners? I’m Ann, but I’m sure you know me Mr...?” She trialed off.
“Gulteer, the First Witch.” He said placing a hand on the top of her head.
“And I am the second, Titafina. We originally came to make sure our little one got home safely with her mate, but Hunters knock at your door. Hunters I know you once knew.” She said nicely, as if she were talking to a young child, but considering her age, we were.
“I don’t have anything to do with them.” She said defensively, and the stern look on Gulteer made his eyes change. Now they were yellow.
“Then I will ask but once; you hold a connection with the mortals I seek. I don’t know this area, and it would be Much faster for me to channel through your hands.” He said a little agitated.
“We can’t perform magic old man.” Said Garnet, becoming hostile. “You will hurt her.”
“You have my word you all are safe.” He said with a toothy grin. He took her hand and gently had her step onto the forest floor. I’d seen this before… he’d bewitched her with his touch. He didn’t have to do that. “Be a good girl and put your hands on the crystal ball.” He commanded, and she walked to the ball without any resistance.
“Why didn’t you give her a choice if you asked?” I questioned.
“Do be calm my little Heidi; as I said I will not hurt your friend. I don’t understand why everyone automatically assumes I am a villain…. Well all the time.” Said Gulteer.
“Because Wolves don’t trust magic, especially Dark Magic from the Adversary’s favorite.” Said Ron.
“….Actually my mistress is the current favorite… the master of my father is a close second though.” Admitted Rahrraam sheepishly.
“…. I still don’t trust whatever you’re trying to do.” Said Ron defensively.
Gulteer sighed. “Then here is a lesson. Crystal magic like this won’t hurt the girl.” He tried soothing us, but Garnet seemed unable to move. I could tell he was trying to get to his mate, but there was no way he would be able to break such powerful magic unless Gulteer let him. “I will not let the rest of you get close. I will not apologize either, because had you all trusted me, we would already see what’s happening.”
“We do not Trust you because of your ways Witch.” Snarled Ron, who took confrontational steps to Gulteer, followed by John, who also seemed resistant….
“I can sense that something important is happening Now, otherwise we wouldn’t have minded waiting.” Said Titafina, placing her hands on the ball, but it only glowed red. “We Need her hands.”
“Your swears mean nothing with her looking so blank.” He said as if his heart were broken.
“It’s safer for her mind.” Said Gulteer. “By my power, her headache is Mine… since I Swore she was safe, anything that happens to her at this moment, instead would happen to Me unless she’s a traitor. Watch.” He took a clawed finger, and poked her with it, though it couldn’t scar her skin. Instead, he bled. “I gave my word; here is my blood. I am here for my little one and Her safety, but if I must vow with something so precious…. so be it.” He sneered.
“I still feel as if you go too far.” Said John with crossed arms.
“I do not. You turned a mortal who has ties with the very Hunters that Will kill all your children and your wives. I can literally taste their hatred and I haven’t even found them yet. I can tell they wouldn’t mine killing even the milk suckling babes. I can feel that they blame Your people for Everything wrong with their lives, and that is something that cannot be faked…” He said with crossed arms, stopping the spell he was working on. “I have charmed her; it will root out if she has had any contact with them.”
“Ann wouldn’t do that.” Said Alpha Ron.
“All the more for someone who Isn’t attached to her to look into it. It doesn’t have to be intentional. I have a theory, about 95%, that she is innocent, but It could be one of them got her number. The ones snooping around might have seen her the last time she left the pack. How do we know if we never look? It could be that she saw one of them recently, and there’s a level of guilt that could come with being here, and not with her family. Humans are good at playing that card on other humans.” He said making his hands glow.
“Then I won’t break your circle.” Said Ron. I didn’t even know he’d done that… and I didn’t see Ron and John had both broken out of their spell a second time. John’s father put a hand on his arm to stop him.
“Plus I Don’t know their locations as we’ve said Multiple times. This same spell could take precious time we Don’t have with the technology that they possess.”
“Father, you agree with him?” Said John. He was serious… but I didn’t want him to get into a fight over this… plus unlike them I trusted his words.
“…. He swore on blood given to him by the Horned One himself. If he broke it, I know he’d probably die immediately for it.” I said thinking out loud.
“…. I didn’t think of that... I must admit I am biased on hating him and everything he does. It blinded my thinking but John let us see what he will do…. Ann is a Good soul, and those humans hurt her enough that she willingly turned…. If she said anything about the pack, it would likely be from a place of unintentionally doing so.” He said thinking out loud.
“Test me.” She said firmly, rubbing her eyes. “I can hear all of you, you know.” She said with a small frown.
“I only need you still and calm; something I should have waited for first… but I automatically assumed you’d see me and not trust me.” Said Gulteer. His grip on her was gentle, and he sounded like a grandpa at the moment, though his eyes were still yellow.
“You didn’t really give a reason to though, to also be fair. A large thin man radiating darkness teleports my door to the forest and pulls me out in the cold and puts magic on me.” She countered.
“… I see why Heidi likes you.” He said with a sheepish smile. “…for that you have my apologies. Now I Ask and will Wait… would you do us a favor by allowing me to channel to find the men who threaten your people and my grandchild?”
“Go ahead.” She said giving him her hand. He placed it on the crystal ball, and it glowed red before turning black. It was working, but he’d drawn a crowd of Warriors from both packs now with all the agitation of their Alphas in the air.
No one said anything for a second, but he must have heard one of the others, because he responded to them.
“Your overreactions Would hurt her. All I did was block her mind from the magic it takes to spy on the Hunters. Now listen. I’m going to turn the volume up now that I found them. Please don’t move. If you do, it’ll end the transmission.”
We listened as distorted voices got louder and clearer. We all could now see what was happening as well. Many men argued, and papers were slid off a desk dramatically. It looked like they were in an office, but none of the men were in suits. Instead, they all looked like bikers. The main two who butted heads were likely leaders.
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