Chapter 29

Alex’s POV

5.00am; my alarm is going off; Jess has already showered and is dressed in her black and purple sports bra and matching pants. “Get out of bed, sleepy head” she yells, shaking me; “ten more minutes” I yawn; rolling over and pulling the blanket over my head. I hear Jonas’ complaining in our heads **“it’s too early, the sparrows haven’t even farted yet.”** “I’m going down to get breakfast; it's not my fault if you turn up late and Master Joe makes you do laps of the arena” she says and heads out the door.

**“I guess I better get up”** I say to Jonas but still lie there a few more minutes.** “Am I moving yet?” “Nope.”** I pull myself up and head into the bathroom. I turn on the shower and let the water hit my body, waking me up.

**“I don’t know about this plan of Adrian’s; I can see the merit Master Joe and him said, but I don’t want ‘him’ anywhere near here”** I tell Jonas. **“I know; if Sebastian even looks at Jessi the wrong way, he is a dead wolf.”**

I turn off the shower and wrap a towel around my waist and start brushing my teeth **“I feel we need to have a Plan B, C and D just in case.” “Let’s talk it over with everyone”** he says; **“Yeah, we’ll do it after the tournament.”**

I get dressed in my black shorts and blue shirt and head down to the dining area. Jessica, Master Joe and Olivia were the only ones in there; sitting at the table closest to the door. I pick up a piece of toast off Jess’ plate and take a bite. “Good morning, Alex” Master Joe says in an overly enthusiastic voice; I grunt back to him. Jonny walks in still yawning “hey” he says wiping sleep out of his eyes. “Come on you two, half the morning has gone already.” Joe smirks.

Both Jonny and myself grunt together. They finish their plate of food and we head out the door to the arena. There are people surrounding the doors of the arena. “What’s going on down there?” I ask Master Joe. He smiles; “hopefuls” he says. My mind doesn’t function at 5.50 in the morning; it took me a few moments to register what he was hinting at.

“There’s at least 300 people down there; they’re all trying out to be our enforcers?” “There’s 328 to be precise; I told them all, you were coming to train this morning and they all wanted to train with you” he answers. We all stop; “Holy Crap! When I sent out the invitation, I didn’t think we would get such a good response” Jonny says, “All the leaders agree it was a good idea to open the positions, not just to our pack but to the whole community; it’s ‘forward thinking’ they said” Master Joe chortled.

“We are going to have our work cut out for us tomorrow” Olivia responds, we all nod our heads in agreement.

We get to the doors and go inside, Master Joe yells “Everyone has their owns schedules to train; find yourself and area. You four, 2 laps around the arena.” We take off running, if I wasn’t awake before I certainly am now. We have 328 people behind us mimicking our training. Joe is at the side of the arena chuckling to himself. Jess kisses me on the cheek and takes off **“what are you waiting for, chase her down”** Jonas yells at me. I run after her; catching her as we get back to Joe and wrap my arms around her. **“She’s quicker than I thought.”**

“Break yourselves up in pairs of 2 and start sparring” Master Joe booms over the crowd. A young wolf by name of Peter from the Red Moon pack comes up to us “Master Joe, can I spar with Luna Jessica?” he asks, I growl. Joe pushes me behind him, “Why don’t you ask Jessi if she would like to spar” he tells him; whispering to me, “she’s a natural Luna; she will be right.” He asks Jessica; she looks over at me and I give her a half smile. She smiles and moves to a vacant spot and gets into a crouch position. Oliva, Jonny and myself stand back with Master Joe.

Smirking, Peter gets into position; standing a foot and a half taller, she looks out classed. He runs up to Jessi and throws a punch; she blocks him and hits him in his side. She bounces back and he tries again; she blocks again and sweeps his legs with hers and lands on his back. Jessi jumps backwards. Peter flicks himself off the ground and kicks her in the chest.

I let out a growl, Master Joe puts his hand on my shoulder. She slides between his legs like a baseball player sliding into home base and kicks the back of his knees. Peter tumbles forward; Jessi jumps on his back; placing him into a choke hold; he flings himself forward throwing her over his shoulders.

He runs towards her; she jumps high and lands a kick in his stomach. He falls backwards; she grabs him around the neck and throws him over her shoulders and he lands on his back across the ground. She jumnps on his chest, legs either side of him pinning him. He can’t move and he taps the mat with his hand.

She gets off of him and walks over to me; giving me a kiss on the cheek. I have a grin from ear to ear “That’s my girl.” “She’s a natural” Joe tells me again. “It’s amazing how quickly all the sparring and fighting I did as a pup with Cathy and Nath came back to me” Jess includes.

Another hopeful comes up; Alister, a bear shifter asks if he can spar with Olivia. Master Joe didn’t look pleased. “It’s ok, Master Joe” Olivia says with a smirk. Olivia looks at the contender; “are you ready?” He rushes toward her; she places her hands out in front of her; a look of deep concentration on her face. Jessi and myself gasp; her eyes went from green to purple; Alister reaches her and she side steps him, placing her hands on his back as he rushes past. He falls to the floor in pain. It lasted 15 seconds. She shakes her head; her eyes changing back to green and leans over him. “Never underestimate your opponent” she tells Alister.

“Did she just electrocute him?” I ask; Jonny starts laughing “Yep”.

“I want to see you and Jonny spar next” Master Joe says beaming from ear to ear at Olivia walking back to us. “What would you prefer; Human, Wolf or Lycan?” “I’m still learning what I can do in Lycan form, wolf?” I nod and start taking my shorts and shirt off and hand them to Jessica. Jonny does the same and hands his clothes to Olivia.

We head out to the centre of the arena and shift “Ready Jonas?” “Ready” putting up the blockade so Jessica and Celeste can’t see what we are doing. Everyone stops sparring and stands in a circle around as. Tyler comes running toward me, Jonas growls and bites his legs. Tyler retaliates and jumps towards Jonas’ back. bearing his teeth; he bites Jonas on his side and Jonas rolls over, flinging Tyler across the floor with his feet. They both stand up; getting up on their hind legs and claw at one another. Jonas bites Tyler’s front shoulder and Tyler pushes Jonas backwards with his front paws **"Go for his side"** I tell Jonas **"Shut the fuck up and let me fight."**

We continue the fight for half an hour, Tyler and Jonas biting, clawing and pushing one another. Master Joe sounds a hooter and calls it a stalemate. *“Tyler wants to jump on the girls, is Jonas up for it”* Jonny mind links me. **“Jonas?” “Jessi will be pissed; but what the hell!”** he says *“yep, Jonas is in”* I link back. Tyler and Jonas run directly at Olivia and Jessica. Jonas leaps on Jessica, licking her face. “Fuck Jonas, you still haven’t brushed your teeth” Jess says laughing. “Get off me you overgrown furball” I hear Olivia yell out. I shift back and put my clothes back on.

I look around the arena, the look of awe on the faces of our hopeful enforcer applicants. “Training is over for today” he says to the four of us. “We will see you all tomorrow, Good luck” he says to the 328 applicants.

We grab a water bottle from the fridge in the corner and head outside “that was fun” Jessi says. “We do have a tough decision ahead of us” Jonny announces. “Can’t wait” Olivia agrees.