In The Beginning Chapter 139

In The Beginning Chapter 139
A roar that seemed to echo and resonate, its ferocity was unlike anything I had ever heard before cut through the chaos, silencing everyone and everything. My eyes strained at the corners to try and see what was happening, as several of Apollo’s children were flung across my line of sight before chaos seemed to erupt again. My muffled screams rang in my ears as Apollo grabbed me around the waist, hauling me around as bullets flew by us, the snipers at the base of the meadow struck the cocoon a few times, though I remained unharmed, while the screams and growls around us became deafening.
“Get around me or suffer at the hands of my father!” Apollo screamed, to his minions and though it was hardly audible over the din, they dutifully obeyed, circling us while looking for a way out. I was spun around as Apollo manhandled me, until I was looking over his shoulder and able to see Daniel throwing vampires left and right, as he towered over them in his other form. His massive frame was flinging the vampires out of his path, snarling, his part human, part wolf arms threw creatures bodily, out of the way or eviscerated any of them foolish enough to attack him with his massive claws. His wolf’s head spread his jaw wide, to rip a head clean off one of the reptilian creatures, spitting it forcefully at the other before he threw the limp body at a group of bitten that were advancing on him. He broke through the line quickly, the rest of the wolves pounced on every downed creature, ripping them apart before they could stand. Their growls seemed to surround us as Daniel charged through the last few bitten in his way, Apollo tried to use me as a human shield when Daniel swiped at him. His enormous claws narrowly missed my throat and torso, as Apollo shoved me between them. Daniel ripped me from Apollo’s arms, he cradled me carefully with one arm and swiped down Apollo’s armour-less back with the other, tearing flesh from bone as the coward ran. The injury made him cry out, and whatever he had done to me began to weaken. I gathered my power again, it hurt, but I was able to break through, shattering the shell that encased me. Two of Apollo’s children rushed to his aid, dragging their king away quickly, to the southeast corner of the field, they scrambled through the shrubbery until they reached the other side of it while under constant fire, using their brethren as shields until they could teleport away. I reached out to Daniel, shaking violently from the adrenaline, he seemed to shrink as he held me, I couldn’t really understand it until he spoke, having shifted back.
“I promised I wouldn’t let them take you.” He whispered, holding me tightly against him, I nodded as I clung to him, my chest heaved as terrified, relieved and sorrowful sobs wracked through me and I came to terms with almost being taken and the acceptance that he was alive. “It’s okay, I’ve got you.” Daniel soothed me; he stroked my hair to comfort us both as my tears soaked his chest. I wrapped my arms around him as my emotions overwhelmed me and he held me tightly, whispering words of comfort while I cried myself out. His wolf, who had obviously been waiting until I was more composed, popped a couple of images into my head I didn’t know how to connect, I pulled back to look at him, and his thumbs rubbed away the tears on my cheeks. The first was of him in the mirror the first time they became the other them... I think... And an intimate moment between me and Daniel.
“Huh?” I asked him confused through my sniffles, Daniel looked at me concerned before his eye grew slightly glassy, and I knew his wolf was filling him in. It mostly looked like he was trying to figure out a problem or puzzle, and in his haste to solve it had neglected to tell you about it. His cheeks reddened, and I understood why he liked it when I blushed as he nervously scratched the back of his neck, his eyes anywhere but on me.
“He was asking if that form is easier for you to consider... being... intimate-" Daniel began explaining through the link before I cut him off.
“No, I can’t, but I am looking for solutions and working with Theia, and... Apollo was hurt, badly, and we saw from Hermes they can’t heal those wounds... So, maybe if we don’t get attacked, we could go for a run? Maybe go back to the camp, and the hot spring?” I suggested to them both until a deep rumble rolled out of his chest, it made my knees weak, as I fantasised about him making that noise as he fucked me or went down on me...
“Whatever you are thinking about I am doing to you tonight. I don’t care if every man here hears us.” He growled and my panties were ruined, I became painfully aware of how naked he was as Kasa and Lander ran over to us, still in their wolf forms.
“What the fuck was that?” I heard Lander demand in my head, confusing me, I looked to Daniel, but he shook his head in an ‘I’ll explain later’ kinda way.
“Yeah... about that... I’ve only done it once before, and I didn’t think I’d be able to do it again... I’m not sure how I did it, honestly...” Daniel admitted, unable to look his friends in the eye.
“It’s because of me, my powers... when I got them when I turned twenty-five and they were released... because we were already mated, they changed Daniel. Made him stronger.” I confessed both wolves looked at me questioningly, which is a little surreal, but moving on.
“So...” Lander drew out the O for an annoyingly long amount of time, “he’s part god?”
“No!” Daniel and I said in unison, although Daniel’s made the whole thing seem ridiculous, which had me looking at him with a pleasantly shocked expression as I remembered all the times, I had said the same thing, and how he had looked at me with an almost pitying face. My mind raced with ideas to tease him about it relentlessly.
“Our bond allowed him to be enhanced, the same way it did for Kasa, and the packs... but he was just affected a little more.” I shrugged, that’s how Theia had explained it. I was bonded by blood to Daniel, so he had been given a small amount of power, as it was drawn to my blood within him. He in turn was blood bonded to both the pack, and Kasa, so they also got a taste, and Kasa’s pack, got a tiny amount from him.
“So, I’m the only one without superpowers...” Lander deadpanned which made me chuckle, probably aided by the sudden crash of chemicals as my body slowly adjusted from its heightened state.
“Actually, I think when we made our pact you got a dose of it, or have you already forgotten how quickly you took down that buffalo thing?” Daniel asked, he shifted me, so I was standing in front of him, his head resting on my shoulder.
“This is serious, the warriors are going to talk about this, you could become a target, we all could,” Kasa interjected.
“I know, that’s why I was keeping it to myself... but when I saw Charlie...” Daniel tried to explain, but he couldn’t find the words.
“I was careless, it’s my fault,” I confessed as my guilt swallowed me.
“No, it wasn’t.” Daniel insisted, in a way that told me he wouldn’t argue about it before he turned his attention back to the Alphas. “It was the only way to save her, would you have done any less for your mates?” He asked them sincerely, his arms tightened protectively around me, as I nuzzled into him for comfort. Kasa watched us intently for a few seconds in silence.
“Why don’t you two go up to the house? Get cleaned up? We will oversee the clean-up here for a while.” He offered, his keen eyes observing us closely.
“You sure?” Daniel asked.
“Yeah, go enjoy some alone time.” Kasa insisted. Daniel refused to let me go but instead tried walking us as we were up the meadow, which looked appalling.
“This isn’t working!” I giggled as he tried taking tiny steps behind me, causing us both to stumble awkwardly.
“Fine.” He huffed, spun me around and lifted me up by my ass, his arms stubbornly refused to allow me to wrap my legs around his waist, but his legs kept banging into mine unless he waddled with his legs spread wide. While I cackled like a broken Halloween witch toy at the absurdity until he put me down. He released a loud, threatening growl, that made every wolf around us bow their heads and expose their necks, killing my laughter in my throat. Until he grabbed my hand and strode past me, rushing to get us to the house, his erection bouncing hilariously with each step. A fresh round of giggles escaped my lips as he pulled me around the bare shrubbery hiding the path to the garden. He pulled me inside the house, I didn’t have time to remove my coat before his lips were attacking me. “I’m so sorry. I shouldn’t have left your side; it was my fault.” He breathlessly confessed between frantic, remorseful kisses to any part of me he could find.
“It wasn’t your fault, you saved me,” I reassured him, panting from his frenzied attacks, with no order I could discern. His random switches from my lips to my neck, my hands, my cheeks and my hair, I couldn’t predict where he would be from one second to the next.
“I should’ve been beside you.” He insisted he pulled away like he was somehow no longer worthy of my affections.
“Then make it up to me,” I stated bluntly, refusing to be rebuffed.
“How?” He asked me sceptically. I took a step forward, trapping him against the door, not exactly like he had trapped me, but it made him smirk, nonetheless.
“Pick me up, take me to our bedroom, into our shower, take off all of my clothes... and help me wash his touch away...” I struggled to say, as a rogue tear ran down my cheek. “Help me erase everything but you? I don’t want to remember the way he touched me...” I admitted, his hand slipped into my hair instantly, as the other pulled me closer.
“Anything for you, you know that...” He mumbled softly. His lips crashed into mine with a hunger that was maddening in its intensity. I didn’t register he had lifted me and walked to the stairs until he took the first step, the jostle of my body was impossible to ignore, even when he was leaving hot wet kisses down my neck on his way to my mark. My coat was thrown over the handrail as he sucked on my skin, my fingers scraped along his scalp the moment he released my arms, and my soft moans echoed down the hall as we got to the top.