An Angel With A Samurai

Chapter 8

3 years ago...

There were farms like Granny's dotted around in most countries of the world. Our closest was in Scotland. It was a really hot summer so the days were a lot longer. Just meant that the vamps had fewer hours to feed.

We managed to keep casualties in our part of the country fairly minimal. If only everyone else knew about them, they could protect themselves.

Dez said if too many people knew about the existence of such supernatural creatures then the natural balance will be thrown off course and we could end up in the middle of a very brutal war.

Meredith agreed with him.

Our Scottish brothers were based in Dundee. There had been quite an influx of new soldiers to their force.

Granny offered to bring them to us to help train and share tactics. Our soldiers had increased numbers quite considerably too, Granny and Dez bought a new farm London way to fit everyone in.

Matiás went to help set the farm up and train the new soldiers and so did Wang. They told me that I had learned all I could and was ready to share my wisdom with others.

I was still having lessons with Meredith daily so a lot of my focus went on that.

I missed them terribly.

Our Scottish brothers arrived just before dinner time. 10 of them in total.

Seth was their leader and was apparently quite the skilled marksman and was looking forward to spending time with li-jun. He was around 30 with a stubbly face and gingerly blonde hair that looked like it could use a really good shampoo. He was tall and very lean.

He introduced his second in charge, and also his brother, Luke. He wasn't much older then me around 20 I would say, he was shorter then Seth with Sandy blonde hair and bright blue eyes. Cleaner looking than Seth and well... Gorgeous.

He was apparently quite skilled in hand to hand combat. I was very interested to see how skilled.

The next morning I was teaching some sword skills to our brothers when Luke joined us. We fought. He really was very skilled. Very fast. He knocked me on my ass. Twice.

We spent a lot of time together over the coming weeks, mainly fighting, but strolling through the woods and talking too.

His parents died in a car accident when he was 7, they had a sister who was 3 years older then him. Seth was 18 and left uni to come home and take care of his brother and sister, they had no other family to take them in and he didn't want them ending up in care.

When Luke was 10 his sister met some guy off the internet, turns out he was a vamp. Seth was just a little too late getting to her. He went into a terrible state of depression.

Dez heard the news and read the police report. I still have no idea to this day how he gets to read them.

Seth mentioned about the 'man' that killed her. Dez went to Scotland and told him the truth about what it was. That's how our Scottish team was created.

We were sitting under my favourite oak just chatting  and looking at the stars. When Luke kissed me.
Present day..

I removed the net, it was heavy. Weirdly heavy.

I took a step back, crouched down on one knee bowed my head to the wolf to show I mean no threat to him.

I sensed the wolf sit on his hind legs. I looked up and smiled at him. Keeping my hands on the ground. He limped very slowly up to me and sniffed me. And sat back down again so his face was about a foot away from mine.

He put his face next to mine and licked me, right up the side of my face. Eewww. I giggled. And patted his head, he rolled onto his back and I rubbed his tummy.

"Hey buddy do you like a little tummy tickle do you" he got back on his feet and rubbed his body against mine. I fussed him. Such an amazing creature.

He was holding his leg up and I noticed what looked like shrapnel sticking out of it.

I kept one hand in front of me showing the wolf my palm and reached into my back pack. I took out a herb coated bandage.
"hey buddy can I take out that piece of metal and wrap your leg? It'll get infected and cause you more pain. I won't hurt you".

He sat back down and held out his paw for me. I knew I was getting closer to nature thanks to merrys training but never thought animals would understand me.

This is awesome, feel like a real life Dr Doolittle.

I removed the metal and the wolf growled and licked his wound to clean it. I waited and when he was done he gave me his leg and I wrapped it.

I heard howling in the distance. "That must be your pack buddy, you should go". He licked me again and ran/limped back into the woods.