The Guardian

by J. L McFadden

  John could feel a strange energy coming over him. He could feel it pulsing through his hands and arms. His eyes felt as if they had electricity surging and charging up in them. As they were coming to the end of the seven mile course John could feel Galechka getting closer and closer. It was odd he could feel her worrying. As they came to the end John headed for Galechka that was standing there with her arms wide open, only to have his left foot be ripped up off the ground flipping him upside down and leaving him hanging almost nose to nose with Galechka. It seems they had a snare waiting for him. She kissed his nose and winked at him, “Next time, there will be more traps set up and you will need to dodge them,” she kissed him again and motioned for someone to cut him down, “John, it is for your own good. “She walked a few feet and stopped waiting for him to fall to the grown, “Hurry up now, you need to shower and I will feed you.”

  Bernandas and Adela were off by a camp fire sipping wine together laughing and talking about old times. You could tell these two had a long, long history together. Bernandas had to be six and a half feet and a good bit over three hundred pounds and was pure muscle. He dwarfed all other men let alone Adela that was sitting by his side. John sat down beside Adela looking around for Galechka. Adela laid her hand on his knee, “She will be right back; she is getting your meal together. You did well, better than we had expected.” She went back to her conversation with Bernandas talking about how things were getting harder and harder with all of the humans technology tracking every movement of almost everything that anyone or thing did. They had the same concerns with the three eldest ancients controlling the different groups through their corporations. Having men act as transitioning puppets for their grand scheme of keeping everyone under their control. It appeared to the world that it was five mega corporations pulling the strings, but they would never see the three monsters behind them. They also were discussing if it was true or not that there was another ancient that none dare spoke of. This had been whispered in corners for all of Adela’s life enough to make her question it somewhat. Who knows what is true and what is not. There were certain things that you could be killed by the ancients for speaking about. They had been speaking about them.

  John got a huge grin on his face when he seen Galechka and she motioned for him to follow her into the darkness. He was already missing her with the little bit of time he had been away from her. She reached back with her one hand for John to take in his own as she led him through the dark woods to a small fire she had made and sat him down on a blanket. She had prepared a huge feast for him. She smiled and told him to eat. He was blown away by how much food she had made for him and how well it tasted. Galechka spoke as he ate,” We are staying with the wolves for a while until we get you trained better.” John laid his plate on his lap and asked the beautiful creature in front of him, “Why are we hiding from your coven?” She took a minute to think how to explain it to him. She explained to him: about how a guardian sometimes is born and is attached to a vampire and how it was the law that the guardians had to be killed. She went on to explain to him each guardian has different abilities, as does each vampire, but the ancients fear that a guardian would be able to kill an ancient. What you need to understand is as a vampire gets older its abilities and strength gets stronger and stronger so that other things on Earth stand no chance against them. An ancient was unstoppable by anything other than maybe a guardian. For some reason a guardian grows faster than a vampire, but only because of its bond with its vampire. If the vampire that the guardian belongs to dies, the guardian dies of a broken heart. That is why the guardian always sacrifices its self for its mate. She poured him a glass of tea and the sat there looking at the fire and she tilted her head back looking at him leaning forward and he met her advancement pulling her closer and kissing her. She also grabbed ahold of him and pulled him closer as he also reached around her head running his hand through her soft, straight and full hair in her fingers. With her back arched she started leaning farther and farther back as they deeply kissed each other. Her hair was hanging just inches from the blanket as John ran his hand up her arched back to her bra strap undoing the clasp with just one hand. As she felt it release she grinned in glee as and her eyes got big and lit up. Her larger than usual doll eyes that drove John mad about her. He loved how her eyes were so big, sometimes being blue and sometimes green he was enthralled in completely in her. He ran his and up her perfectly tone legs as she finally let herself flat onto her back pulling John up on top of her. The ground their pelvis into each other ravishing kissing and breathing heavy as he starts to pull her shirt up to reveal the wondrous treasures underneath her cloths; praying to god that she did not stop him as things were getting hot and heavy. She wrapped her legs around his as she started to help him to pull her tight fitted shirt over her arms as he starts to kiss and lick her all over the tingling and ready skin. Where she wanted and how she wanted he already understood by her partner. She was so overcome with passion and lust she felt as if she was going to explode from the inside out. She could feel her body raging in lust and wanted John to take her. She was reaching and clasping at the bottom of his shirt trying to get a grip and started to pull it off of him, John reached down and pulled it up over his head and off his arms revealing his chiseled arms and chest… She was thinking to herself he wasn’t built like that earlier. She pulled him down onto her kissing her even more reaching down and started to push her own pants down off her hips, letting John know to do the rest. He was in such a rush ripping them off, taking the panties went with the pants revealing a perfectly shaved body that only a goddess could have. Everything was in a perfect place even her piercing in her navel was a bonus. John thought to himself I have never seen a woman with a more perfect abdomen..

  He took his time kissing up her leg, licking and kissing every part from the sides of her feet to the back of her knee feeling her body melt into an erotic puddle in his hands, as went further and further up; kissing her inner thighs until he finally came to the set of lips that he had been waiting for. He could not wait to for the, at the moment he was ready she grabbed him and pulled her up onto her, delighted but also disappointed by her motion, he did not resist, but went forth and kissed her softly as he moved farther and farther kissing even her neck and chin as the locked lips as she felt him start to cram inside of her. She wrapped her legs around him and as they began to make love in perfect rhythm with each other; they were perfectly synchronized and interwoven in each other. It was as if their spirits were entangling with each other and becoming almost one.

  The Real Fun Begins

  In the later evening he woke up with her in his arms. He spent his time marveling at her as she still slept. He figured that she would be out until the sun started to set. He could not believe that he was so blessed to be with such a beautiful creature. He could feel her start to wake and she smiled realizing that he was watching her sleep. She reached around and started to kiss him. “How are you feeling after last night sweetie?” John did not know how to take this question at first,” I feel great, last night was unexplainable.” Galechka sat up sort of in disbelief looking at John moving him around so she could look at him. John asked, “What is it?” She looked up at him not knowing how to say it,” It seems like you got bigger overnight, your muscles seem a lot larger.” “No, there is no way there is such a difference overnight.” She pulled him close and said something very sweet in Russian that he did not understand and followed with, “Honey we have no clue what you are capable of. There is no documentation about your species at all.” John feeling out of sorts being called a different species. It started to sink in that he was not really human as it is normally defined and had turn emotions about if this was good or not. It troubled him somewhat now that he had time to think about it.

  Galechka got out of bed and started to play music as she bounced around the room stretching and it seemed like her usual morning habits. She was stretching and doing what it seemed to be yoga to John. He was thinking to himself
not a bad way to wake up watching her do these in her tights. She smiled and asked him to get some tea ready.

  As they headed outside, the others were already waiting Bernandas came up to Galechka and informed her that Adela had to go on pressing issues and she would be back with in a day or two. Galechka asked him why she had not told her, herself and he responded with a shit eating smirk on his face, “We thought you two were too busy to be bothered. Little girl I can hear for miles. Galechka was embarrassed and he told her not to be that he could over hear anything.

  “Listen Galechka, we need to push him hard today. I am not willing to waste time, due to the fact we do not know how long we have until the ancients catch wind of him.” Galechka was startled by the fear in such a large powerful beings voice. “Bernandas, are you afraid of ancients?” Bernandas ran his hand over his face overcome with stress, “Little girl, I am one of the most powerful wolves alive and I cannot handle Adela let alone an ancient. You have no idea how fast strong and other mind twisting abilities they have.” “So how is John going to fare?” She questioned him. Bernandas just rolled his shoulders proclaiming, “Only God knows, but Adela believes if we train him, he will be unstoppable. I am hoping that she is not clinging to what seems like a lost cause. “He took a deep breath, “she took it hard when her guardian died. He was handling his own with an ancient until he yielded, because another ancient captured Adela. She was a millennium younger and weaker at that time.” Looking at Galechka’s shock and fear he slapped her on the shoulder moving her about a foot over and said,” I trust Adela’s judgment and I know she loves you as her won.” This warmed Galechka’s heart, but did not set her nerves at ease at all.

  John was stretching waiting for Vixen to show up since he knew she was his training partner and here she came with her hair tied back, but not looking to happy to see him. He looked puzzled and she looked at him in discuss, “Sleeping with a corpse is just sick.” John angered by her words and said, “No worse than sleeping with a dog.” It was clear today was not going to be a good day. “Whatever,” she proclaimed ,”My pack leader says you are the only hope to save us from slavery.” She took a step back and grabbed John turning him left, right left, right looking him up and down,” This can’t be.” John looked at her puzzled, “What are you talking about?” “ You have gained mass since last night.” John laughed, ”Yeah sure, I hulked up overnight. Galechka decided to put her two cents in too,” I was thinking the samething this morning.” The two girls looked at each other and then at him. Vixen asked Galechka,” So it’s not just me he has bulked up overnight?” “Yeah, by like three kilos or so.” Vixen cracked her neck and looked back at Galechka spouting, “What do you say, should I push him good today?” The two female enemies for once were on mindset. With a serious look on Galechka’s face she nodded to Vixen the go ahead, “Just don’t transform; let’s see if he can keep up to you in human form at your best.” John was just standing there dumbfounded of how it seemed these two were eager to put him in danger. “Let’s do it man cub,” Vixen jested she slapped him on his ass.

  Bernandas proclaimed in a huge intense voice rumbling the ground under their feet,” Today, is not like yesterday; there will be targets you must hit as you go through and traps coming at you. We are now going to start our version of hell week boy!” Speaking like a true drill sergeant with a Lithuanian accent. John was thinking to himself that he preferred Galechka’s accent to the others. He wondered where she was from. She looked at him with a cocked head and said,” Ukraine, I am from Ukraine.” Everyone looked around at each other as John and Galechka locked eyes realizing that she had read his mind. John looked up at her and said, “Guess keeping secretes is out of the question.” She said something in Russian and motioned for John to go. Bernandas and Vixen laughed along with the other wolves. Vixen walked up to John and said,” Let’s start before your girlfriend kills you.” Bernandas exclaimed everyone get to your marks.

  As soon as Bernandas gave the sign John followed Vixen through the course at an even faster pace than the time before. He could hear her growling as she was running. He was side to side with her at times and could see that her eyes had changed to an animal type of yellow. Realizing that she was channeling whatever was inside of her. A log came swinging down and she jumped up onto it not missing a beat running across it and jumping of the other end, John had chosen to ukemi under it, rolling back onto his feet not missing a beat either. She demonstrated on the first target that he should hit it while on the run. John nailed the next three, but feel short on the fourth. Out of the sides came another log swinging from ropes and this time both of them leaped up onto it and executed a perfect dismount from the trap. Vixen yelled back, Not bad!” John took it in stride and kept running. Realizing, he did not have long until his life would be in real danger. Suddenly, he heard a cracking and some large object came from behind and he grabbed Vixen up trying to shield her and as the impact hit him his eyes changed to a yellow then green as he growled a horrific growls as he spun around breaking the log with his fore arm. Vixen crumpled onto the grown covering her head with her hands looked up at him staying on her knees pushing her hair aside. “What was that? How did you do that?” John took a breath and said, “ I just reacted.” He reached out to help her get up, she took his hand and looked at him in a new manner. She was impressed and slightly afraid of him. The dusted themselves off and started back on the path. Running and dodging traps, jumping over boulders and making far better time than before. When they hit the bottom of the course Vixen changed into her wolf form and motioned for Galechka to follow her as the guys looked confused at this situation. After they got away from everyone’s hearing distance Vixen changed back and said,” What is he?” “What do you mean?” His eyes changed like a wolf and then like some green monster type of eyes as he shielded us from a log trap that even I missed. After the log hit him his eyes went greener and he spun around and smashed the log with his fore arm.” Galechka backed up and crouched down taking this in was a bit much. She did not know what to think of this. She had not expected him to start going through such drastic changes and what was her really plagued her thoughts. “Listen Vixen, we have no clue what he can do. Adela told me each one that has been born had different attributes and powers, but it seems from what you told me, even when he is changing he has full control.” Vixen shaking her head and biting her nails,” I fucked up, he could have gotten killed.” “But he didn’t. However we must be careful not to take too many risks with him before knowing his abilities for sure.”

  When the two girls got back to the camp, the male wolves were already training with John. It was clear he had training from a young age. He was faring well against all comers and had no signs of using any powers. Bernandas gave a sign for Galechka to come to him, “Look at your boy, not using any ability and doing well. I think I am going to tell the boys to start turning up the heat on him,” Bernandas howled telling them to start using their wolf strength against John. He was not doing so well has they started increasing the power they used. Bernandas looked at Galechka and said,” Let’s see how connected he is to you.” He winked at Galechka and grabbed her arm applying pressure, ”Ouch your hurting me,” Galechka complained. “Trust me youngster and watch.” John straightened up after being knocked down and turned to Galechka, she motioned for him to get back into the fight that she was fine. His eyes were an insane green that seemed to glow. He could feel his whole body surging, his hands were straining with electricity and heat. It felt as if his bones were burning. He was tossing around the boys like rag dolls. It was no longer a contest. One of them growled and howled and started to transform into his werewolf form and John just smiled and said,”Alright you ugly bastard let’s dance.” The werewolf and John were slamming each other into the surrounding trees and beating on each other. John hit Ivan with a brazen right hook, even in his werewolf form it knocked him off his feet and he flew back slamming and sliding across the ground. Ivan got up leaving out an atrocious growl followe
d by a haunting howl and started to charge towards John only to find himself grabbed from behind and throne clear back into the woods by Bernandas. When the Ivan charged back out of the woods Bernandas screamed,” Enough! Hit the showers!” Ivan growled and headed back towards camp. “Better to wait boy; we are not sure what you can handle without dying yet,” Bernandas stated as he cracked his knuckles, “Galechka, take your monster back with you and get him cleaned up and feed him” Galechka was getting sick of people talking to her in such a manner. She reached her hand out for him and led the way.

  As John was taking a shower Galechka was cooking for him and feeding herself from the bags of synthetic blood that she always fed on. She would only feed on this and not human blood, it just bothered her too much. She was a vegetarian as a human and seemed to follow that into her new life as a vampire. When John was toweling off he took notice in the mirror barely recognizing his own body. His frame was still the same but he had ripped up and gained a lot of mass. How in just a few day?

  “John, how long have you been a vegetarian?”

  He answered back, “Strangely enough, right after I took too many pills and started to have visions of you. Why?”