Chapter 6

JUNE 6TH

After breakfast, Amber and Drew went home as they had to get some sleep before they went off to work, but they promised to be back to finish telling us all we needed to know. Rayne and I did the same, we got ready for bed. We didn't have to work today as we were still in the onboarding process of our jobs. Before I went to bed I made sure all the pets were okay, Milo was just chilling on my bed and Suzie was up there with her. Cerberus was sound asleep on his little bed in the bathroom, and they all had already had their breakfast which meant the girls were gonna need to go on a walk in a couple of minutes. I went around the house to keep myself busy until then which ended up being me just watching tv till they came to the front door to go potty. I grabbed their leashes and we all headed outside for our morning potty walk.

While on my walk I saw neighbor Marcel drive in from work. "Long night?" I asked him, he was just coming out of his car as a yawn escaped him. He was tall, and his black tee shirt did nothing to hide the muscles. God damn, he looks fine, I thought. He chuckled "Like what you see?" HE asked, I shook the daydream off and looked back up at his face. "What? I can't see if you needed help after a long night at work with a bunch of drunk customers?" I said as I walked past him. "Uh huh." I could hear him smiling. "And that little comment about me being fine was just my imagination?" He jumped ahead of me to open the gate, "Yup." we both chuckled "Oh so how was last night? Again, sorry I missed it." He made a puppy face which made me giggle. "You're forgiven, and it was just us getting drunk and some got crossfaded as we all watched old Disney movies from our childhood, So you didn't miss much." "Ah, okay. But you know If you ever wanna come to buy my club you and your sister are always welcomed." he said, "Thank you, and you are always welcomed at the bakery." "Oh, that's where you work." He looked like he was thinking it over. "I think the only bakery around here is not that far from the club either." He turned to me just as we made it to my front door, "I can't wait." He took my hand in his and gave the back of it a kiss. With that, he left to go home, and me and the girls went inside. After I took their leashes off and made sure they had some water before I took my shower and went to bed. "Yeah, It's been a really long night." was the last thing I said before going to bed.

I was walking in the woods, and strangely it didn't feel cold. I thought it might be somewhere in winter by the frost on the trees. The further I walked, the more the trees became less dense. "Hello?" I shouted, though that is a classic horror movie move, where the white girl would make noise in the middle of the woods with suspenseful music playing in the background. But once I know I'm dreaming and two, I'm black and full of magic so in the off chance something really does jump out I can force myself to wake up. It was then that I heard a sound, I turned just in time to come face to face with a wolf. Not the average one either. This one was big, almost as tall as me, no bigger much bigger. I had to almost strain my neck to look at this thing.

"Why have you come?" Its voice was heavy and deep, but its mouth never moved. It stood without motion, just like it was a picture. And its beautiful fur looked soft that I just wanted to touch it and feel the warm softness of it. "What are you?" I asked so silently I was afraid it didn't hear me, but I was surprised when it did. "I am the king of this land, and this world. Where wolves and lycans fight over. Claiming they were here first, and stronger than the others, like wild children fighting over scraps of food. Now that I have answered your question, Wouldn't it be fair, it did the same in turn?" I was so lost in awe over him not needing to move his mouth to speak that I almost didn't hear his question. "This is a dream, I didn't come here."

"Dream of not. Finding this, place, isn't so easy enough for a human girl to just wander in here You had to have been looking for something." I shook my head in protest, "NO! No, I just wanted to sleep after spending the whole day awake and moving into a new place." I told him, but I suddenly began to lose control of my dream state body.

I was looking up at my ceiling fan in a dark room, I noticed the clock read 10:00 pm, so I got up and went to the bathroom. I heard somebody knock at the door, and went to go answer it but then I heard Amber and Drew. "Hey." Amber said in a happy tone, "What?" Rayne asked in a suspecting manner, Amber giggled, "I can be happy at a random moment." I entered the room, "Yeah, after you get your back blown out." Drew and everyone almost fell out from laughter and coughing after my comment. "No, I would be sleepy then and not answering my phone." She stuck her tongue out as she went to put her bag down and pet Milo. "So how did you girls sleep?" She asked us, "What sleep, every time I tried to close my eyes I saw a nightmare." Rayne said, Amber then looked over to me, and I raised my hands in defense. "Don't look at me I barely sleep due to my frequent nightmares anyway, so I'm used to staying up for days," I told them, Amber nodded and sat down on the couch. "Well, I asked because the Immortal world has a couple of prisons in the mortal dream world that they use to find Immortals here. And the longer neither of you are physically fond by them the longer we can hold off going to the immortal world for help." "Wait, shouldn't we go the opposite direction?" Rayne asked, "Yeah, if you want to go to hell." Drew said, "What the hell did I do?" Rayne asked Drew with a bratty face, I was trying not to laugh by the way she said that. Amber, was not so skilled at hiding it. "He actually means Hell, like the nine levels of Hell, Hell." She told her, "So what? WE humans are the middle realm between the two?" I asked them both and Amber made a "Did you really just say that?" look while Drew looked like he was trying not to laugh. "That's not funny." Rayne said with a stone face, "What?!?" I went to sit at the dining room table.

"Actually you're not that far off. There are three physical plains but that's not where the dimensions are." Amber said, "What's the difference?" Rayne asked, "The difference is there are three plains of existence because there were three beings in the very beginning of time. Like those three made everything, the stars, the planets, humans, immortals, beasts, and monsters." Drew said, "While there are 12 plains of created species." Amber said, "And what are the 12 plains?" Rayne asked. "The 12 plains are the celestials, God's, Angels, Daemons, Dragons, Elves, and or the Fae as they sometimes like to be called." Amber hit Drew in the arm, "Anyway, there's also All the Shifters and yes," He turned to Rayne, "All, of them. then there are humans and spirits, or souls, as they know them. Grim Reapers, Berserkers," "They have their own plain?" I cut him off to ask, "You gotta put them fuckers somewhere they can't get to anybody but themselves and kill them all." He answered, "And lastly Demons." "You said that twice, I guess since you said it wrong the first time." Rayne said, "No I didn't say them twice and I didn't say it wrong the first time." He said as a matter of factly, "And D-A-E-M-O-N Is what I first said, they are the children between Gods, no matter the race, because the child of a God is always gonna about 95 percent of that, said God." He said.

"And then the D-E-M-O-N that yall know is the evil spirits and angels that either are just protectors of the innocent or minions of evil. And trust me you will know the difference." He said, "And who are all in the three realms?" I asked, "Oh, the first is primordials the second is celestials, and then there are Eternals." Amber said, "That sounds like a Marvel movie." Rayne said. "It does." I agreed, "Well, Marvel is fiction. The Primordials were the first in the universe. When there was nothing from the dark matter nothing formed the first Primordial, and she looked around and said I am lonely, so she made light through stars and planets. He was the second, and when he gazed are her in all the star's luster he said, "You are the most beautiful sight I have ever seen." And they created the third Primordial, The Shadow. The Shadow was full of magic, and The Shadow learned creation from the first two. One day, The Shadow decided to create a planet, Earth, and it made wonders and magic, then it made man and monsters, but to not upset or attract the first two to its design, it made immortals." Drew said. "The Celestials were made by the Primordial of Light, Light made beasts of wonder, there are some here. On this planet, they are rare and the some are Kings of the forest and or species." Amber said, "And then the Eternals were designed by the Primordial of Night, of Darkness. The Eternals were monsters that only you see in your worst dreams. The ones that The Shadow created, don't even compare it Darkness." Drew said.

"But you said Celestials are one of the 12 plains?" I said, "Yes, I did, and they are one and the same. But exactly as I said about the monsters." Drew said, then he took a deep breath and looked at Amber before looking back at us. "Just so you know we are all fucked." He blurted out, I was confused by what he meant when Rayne burst out laughing, "Um, why do you say that?" I asked while I looked at my sister in concern. "You can't be serious?" He said, "Like do you know what looking at Rayne's true Lycan form did? It got their attention." "But yours was out too Drew." Rayne said, Amber, looked at him "And that's a different reason. But you used too much spiritual magic, which woke your Wolf and Lycan up, which alerted them to new immortals that they had not already accounted for, or thought dead." He said, "Dead!" Rayne said, "Yes." Amber said, "The Elders are really pressing down for every immortal female to participate in helping the population of pure borns, and have us aim to produce more females." Amber said in a huff as she leaned back in her seat. I turned to Drew, "And so they already know about the two of you? Both as being immortal and being together." I said, they looked at each other. "They know of us being immortal, but Drew hasn't been here since he was a pup, he came a couple of years ago on a mission and I happened to catch him and put a collar on him," Amber said as she trailed her finger up his throat and stared deeply into his eyes. "Guys." I called out, "They don't know that we are mates, they just know I work with her at the moment."

"So how come they never knew of us in the first place, or where we were until now?" Rayne asked, Drew scratched the back of his head, "I don't have an answer for you on that." He said, "Or why did our parents send us here in the first place?"

"Because you two are females," Amber said, she leaned across the table and reached to hold both of our hands. "What do you mean by because we're female?" I asked, Amber thought for a second before saying "Long ago, when all the humans and immortals were first created, they were created with the monsters between them, So when the immortals killed and imprisoned them the humans fought against them thinking we were the enemy as well. Then they made Hunters, a superhuman species they designed to kill us. You see, they went for our young and women first, which has both left the immortals to flee and every immortal female shifter now to produce with multiple men in harems. But this also extended to a few humans." She said, "Humans can't produce females of our kinds so there are little to none today. And the ones that are, are arranged to marry Kings, Lord, and Alphas. So yeah. It was because you were female and your parents didn't want you to share the same fate. The Alphas and Kings then were awful and abusive to the many wives they already had."

Rayn cut her off, "Wait what do you mean, many wives? So most of the immortals are polyamorous?" Drew answered, "No, you see every two and a half years to humans but is four to five years to us immortals have a Blue Moon Ball. This event allows men and women to dance with whomever they desire no matter the status and you can also mark whoever you wish to as well, being marked under the Blue Moon makes a bond that's just as strong as the Goddess's pair. And any couple you are mated or marked can have a link if neither party wants to truly be in the relationship." "But I thought you can only have kids with your mate?" I asked. "That was before," Amber said. "But they forbid you to be marked by a person of a different species since hybrids are "uncontrollable." She made air quotations. Drew rubbed her back. It was then that I understood what he really meant when he said we are All fucked. They are not the same and by making the Elders aware of our existence they are now in danger too.

"Are you two marked?" I asked them, I'd known only for a short time before they got together. Amber lowered her head then she looked up at Drew and then back at me. "You remember when we first met? And how this with was supposed to be a one-time thing then it escalated to this," I nodded, "well what I didn't tell you was that we were mates, hence why I was so hesitant in the beginning. Certain witches have the ability to be the barrier between the mortal and immortal worlds."

"And the Elders also like to keep tabs on certain immortals that travel to this plain, either they can't afford to let them get killed or they are suspicious of them. So that was another reason I say we are fucked." Drew said, "Because some Kings can tell when a new shifter or female are of age or have become active. and they could come here in attempts to take them." And that sent a chill down my spine.