Chapter 258

“Anyways, as I was saying, this is jack, and Casey, they are brothers, and this is Jamie; his wolf is my wolves brother,” again with the jaw dropping information, but I just nodded. “Good, now were going to show you a demonstration of me being attacked, we aren’t going to do this with you right away, but I need you to understand what we are aiming for you to be able to do when we finally leave here. Like I told your uncle we aren’t on vacation, you’re going to have to work to get to a level where you can protect yourself. It’s not about fighting off an attacker either Oakley, sometimes you need to know within seconds if you can manage or fight and win. Because if you sense a wolf is much stronger than you, or something like that, you need to be able to get away. Find a way to escape, not because you’re a coward,” she paused, “because I want to live?” I offered up, she nodded and even though I didn’t have the bad jagged looking scar on my wrist anymore I still rubbed the spot. Everything she was doing for me would – will be for nothing if I don’t have a will to live… exactly, I know you have problems and you are angry but you can use all those reasons inside that are just festering to get prepared, get trained and learn what these people are trying to teach you, Byrdie said, I nodded. Stopping after the second bob, now I’m answering the voices with physical gestures. Perfect. “Now I want you to understand that I’m not in real danger here, but I am in pain. That’s another thing I need you to understand, an attacker isn’t going to stop attacking you because you’re hurt Oakley,” I nodded understanding, “they will have two incentives and they may overlap. Either to kidnap, hurt and then kill you, or just wanting to kill you pointblank.” “I understand,” and I did, it made sense and Chelsea continued, “right now we will train you, but we won’t break your bones or do anything that will hurt you to that extent, not at all, but when you shift, we need to teach you to be able to fight off an attacker with your full shifter potential.” “Is – is it hard?” I asked shyly. “What?” Jack asked, but I’m sure Chelsea saw my thoughts, “Well say I’m fighting someone human, is it hard to control that strength? So far I haven’t really used it, or well I don’t think that I’ve used it…” my mind went into sifting through my memories checking, while I explained better, “What I mean is that is there a difference, say I’m in a regular fight with a human person, they aren’t trying to kill me just beat me up, will I be able to defend myself and not kill them?” “It-” “Oak-” Both Jack and Chelsea started speaking, but he let Chelsea finish instead, “I don’t know – we are – okay right now, just standing with you Oakley, I can feel a few things coming off you, things that you don’t… you aren’t even aware of it. It’s so secondary to you that I think it’s a part of who you are. The two I’m most worried about, your anger and the down side, your low self-worth which I’d bet fuels that anger…” I didn’t know what to say, I bit my lip, just feeling bare, naked and on display. “I – I don’t feel the anger,” I said swallowing. “Well I don’t feel angry?” it was supposed to be a statement but it surely didn’t sound that way, not to my own ears. She shrugged, “Okay…” she wasn’t convinced but she dropped it. “Just watch,” Chelsea said intensely, her voice matching her eyes, she focused on me completely; Jack, Casey and Jamie stepped away from her as she just stared at me, until she closed her eyes. Her body seemed to deflate, my heart was in my stomach, or felt that way, how could she be closing her eyes? My anxiety sky rocketed when I saw Jamie and Jack, heading for her, running hard. Their advance was filled with complete strength, the dirt beneath their feet flying behind them, and Chelsea still had her eyes closed. I felt someone come up from behind me, but I couldn’t pull my attention from Chelsea, but Julia, Ben and Uncle Grants scent was stronger when it wasn’t before. I knew it was them behind me. It was fast, when each person was less than one foot away from her; ready to rip into her, Chelsea opened her eyes, but moved, kicking Jack with her left leg, the force behind it sent him stumbling back and her right hand deals Jamie a blow to his chest. Jamie recovered quickly, he held onto her hand turning her body, and while doing so he hit her right near her upper right rib. She took it, but didn’t shout or scream, just continued on, turning swiftly, and kicking Jamie right near his knee to the side, and he went down, grunting, but first I heard the moment that popped. “What. The. Hell.” Uncle Grant muttered, as Jack charged for Chelsea again, while Jamie shifted into a wolf, one minute he was human the next, wolf and he gripped onto Chelsea’s ankle. Jack’s approach was different this time, before Chelsea could get the better of him, he fired three quick blows to her shoulder and then I heard that pop, a slight crunch, and I took a step back. Holy… I – I’d never – how. My mind couldn’t even process anything, but I also couldn’t look away from this at all. Chelsea was magnificent. They were getting her pretty well, continuing to attack while she did the same, throwing each other against trees, and it wasn’t that she was untouchable either. Oh no, I had heard a few of her bones break, saw when it hurt because she would go rigid then relax faster than I blinked. She was covered in blood, had opened cuts that were mixed with blood, on her right leg Jamie in wolf had actually bitten her. And so it went on for ten minutes until shockingly, Jack shifted mid-air - his clothes shredding - but then so did Chelsea. Where there was once someone that shared my physical features, she had been replaced with the most beautiful white wolf. Down side? She didn’t stay white very long, because they continued fighting, Jack – I think – bit into her stomach, then to release him she dug her paws into him furiously, until he released her with a whine. A fight in this form went on for another 30 minutes of them, just literally kicking each other’s ass, until eventually Jamie whined and dragged himself away from her when Chelsea shifted back to her human form, kicking him on the side of his stomach. And even though, I knew she was okay, it was alarming to watch when Jack went away as well, her body just fell to the ground in a heap, and she panted. “Wow…” Ben said next to me, he had actually sat down and watched but I couldn’t move, I surveyed her injuries, her ankle looked like it had swelled greatly, her face was bloodied and she had a cut right on her jaw, her lip was busted, her eye on the right was mixed with blood and hair that stuck against her sweaty face. The two wolves went to the bushes hiding themselves, but I pulled my attention back to Chelsea, “Yeah… it really is a good thing we’re staying because she didn’t lie… I – I’d never react to being attacked that way…” Aunt Julia said in a dazed robotic voice. Leaving them I went over to Chelsea, lowering myself down next to her, noting that her bruises were already turning dark and ugly. The deep cuts and minor scratches seemed to be healing as well, her chest rising and falling quickly, “Give,” she panted in between each of her next words, “me – a – few – minutes – and – we’ll – go – for – a – run.”