A normal life

Chapter 19: Charlie

Chapter 19, Charlie

When we heard that explosion I knew that it was my family because of the aura's that entered the archive that I had been searching through. They all leaked anger, disappointment and disgust but I was used to that by now. Looking at my friends both old and new, I decided then and there that I would protect them all. This meant going against my own family but looking at Maylin making me think about her parents and the risks that they took for their love. They were brave enough to run away for their love but they never stood up to their families and they got killed because of it. If we weren't careful we would be killed as well but I wasn't going to let anything happen to Maylin but we had to stand up for ourselves. If we wanted to stand a chance I would need to confront my family and her clan but since my family was here now I was going to confront them right now.
"Told you he came here, May tipped us off" sneered Joshua as I entered the archive that I had been searching. The room was a mess, the doorway that was hidden behind vines was now destroyed and the books were everywhere seeing as some of the shelves were destroyed as well.
"Did you have to destroy this place? It's basically a library" I said with a sigh at Joshua's destructive nature.
"Charlie what are you doing here at the archives?" Samual questioned.
"I was helping a friend find some information about the war between the Wolven clan and Aven clan" I replied.
"Liar" yelled Joshua as he jumped towards me taking his half form making me dodge out of the way taking my own half form.
"How would you know what I am doing? Beside it's none of your business" I snapped . All of this time I had held myself back because they were my family but no more. I have had enough if they wanted to disrespect me and attack me so be it but now I was going to fight back because I had something I wanted to protect.
"We already know you have been with the Aven wench" sneered Joshua slithering towards me, his nails growing in length. Moving slightly I dodged the slash and my tail made him stumble giving me time to throw a punch towards him.
"Don't you dare talk about Maylin like that" I hissed.
"So you admit to being with her" said Father.
"And? So what if I have been? It's my life, you guys have never cared about me before so don't bother starting now" I fiercely said dodging another attack while hitting Joshua with a left hook making him stumble back holding his face.
"Perhaps if you stopped attacking, we could talk this over" Samual tried even though we both knew that Joshua wasn't going to listen.
"Don't listen to him Joshua, you have to punish the traitor" sneered Mother with Bruce and Gloria and she surprised me when she threw a sword towards me. Joshua swung around to catch the sword and all I could think about was defeating them so that I could protect Maylin and hopefully see her once more.
"That's quite enough" said a voice as the sword disappeared. Looking towards where the voice had come from I was surprised to see all of them there. Derek held the sword in his half Blood pixie form, to his left was Sally and to the right was Eric, Shawn and Kieran all in their half forms looking ready to pounce.
"We won't let you face this alone after all you are our bro" said Eric seriously.
"You are no longer alone so you will never have to worry about fighting alone, we are better as a group so that we can stand together" smiled Maylin as she stood there with an enraged Angeni.
"You have a lot to answer for Michael, not only did you break in and destroy one of the archives but you also let this fight continue even knowing that this area is under a non-aggression pact" growled Angeni her eyes flashing a brighter red from anger.
"I thought I told you guys I would handle it" I sighed.
"Yeah but when do we ever listen to you" grinned Kieran.
"We never agreed to allow you to handle this alone either" pointed out Sally.
"Did you honestly think that we would let you do this by yourself when we could help?" Maylin questioned.
"And there is the proof that you're a traitor, how dare you side with them" Gloria burst out with a glare.
"I followed my heart, that's right I love Maylin and have before she was dragged into all of this and I have even saved her life before" I announced as I held Maylin's hand with a smile towards her.
"Traitor" Bruce barked out.
"That's quite enough fighting between ourselves" Father boomed making us all freeze though Angeni didn't she just eyed my father waiting for him to make a move.
"My apologies Angeni, you have my word that everything will be fixed and Joshua, I told you no fighting within the archives" Father sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"The enemy is right there instead of stopping him you should be killing her" shrieked Mother making all of our ears hurt.
"There is a non-aggression pact on the archives meaning that we can not fight within that space therefore you will not attack" ordered Father.
"So you are Maylin, my brother has spoken highly about you" Samual said with a smirk making me frown.
"Wait a minute I haven't spoken to you about her at all, I made sure to keep it a secret that I even knew her" I said confused.
"You talk in your sleep little brother and your journal is filled with pages of stuff about her" Samual teased with a smirk as I blushed bright red.
"Samual" I yelled in embarrassment.
"Journal huh?" teased Maylin while the others snickered covering their mouths to try and hide it but it wasn't working very well.
"He doesn't know what he is talking about, how could you do this to me Samual?" I pouted getting even more laughter.
"It's the job of an older brother to embarrass his younger brothers but all of that aside I think we have more important things to be going over right now" Samual said. With that all the laughter faded and we were brought back to the situation at hands, we were still enemy clans.
"Your name is Maylin, is it not?" Father enquired as he stepped forth a little.
"Yes it is, just recently I found out that you were quite close to my Father and knew about his relationship with my mother" said Maylin.
"I am not sure about that seeing as I have not really spoken to the Aven's after all we are enemies so we mostly meet when we are attacking each other" said Father.
"You are correct about that but you see your clan also attacks the Aven clan plus my father was not part of the Aven clan" revealed Maylin.
"Not an Aven clan member? And here I thought they didn't accept marriage to outsiders seeing as it would dilute the Bird shifter blood" said Father.
"You knew of my mother, her name was Robin Aven and my Father was Nathan Slyven" said Maylin and Father froze in shock. Just in case he tried something I pulled Maylin back and wrapped my tail around her legs so I would be able to grab her and run. Father could be unpredictable and this was a rather big thing seeing as my father was like a brother to Nathan. On the other hand Maylin's mother was an Aven clan leader and that was the reason that they both ended up dead. Of all the reactions I was expecting what I didn't expect was for him to burst into a joyous laughter.
"So they got away after all? I am glad that they are happy. I used to help Nathan sneak out to meet his girlfriend and I put the pieces together so when he ran away I kept the guards occupied for a while. Who knew that they would have a child, tell me how are they?" Father asked.
"Father I don't think that-" I tried but Maylin squeezed my hand and smiled at me gently.
"I wouldn't know how they were seeing as I never really met them, they were killed when I was just a baby" explained Maylin and my arm went around her shoulders and squeezed her into a half hug making her look at me gratefully.
"Oh. I see somehow I think deep down I knew that something had happened to them but I had hoped that they were safe and happy" sighed Father closing his eyes to hide his pain.
"Who cares about those two traitors they deserved what they got, their half-breed spawn should have died along with them" Mother exploded.
"Don't you dare speak about Maylin like that" I roared in anger as fury gleamed in my eyes.
"No, I didn't have all these plans ready for this to happen, why couldn't you just listen to me and kill her then everything would have been perfect" Mother screamed taking on her half form pouncing towards Maylin making the elders take a step back looking worried. Instantly I threw myself in front of Maylin to protect her after all Maylin didn't like fighting so I would be her fighter even against my own mother. Though it seems I didn't have to worry about that as a blur raced past us and slammed my mother into the ground cracking the stone.
"I have warned you that this is a non-aggression pact area" snarled Angeni, holding Mother down.
"Let me go you demon, I'll kill that spawn then everything will be complete" yelled Mother struggling against Angeni's hold.
"What will be complete? I have let you get away with a lot of things along with Bruce and Gloria but obviously I should have watched you closer" sneered Father.
"Tch, you have always been weak and never took reigns in anything, if I got rid of that wench then I wouldn't need to worry about her claim over the Wolven clan so Joshua would be the next clan head, Samual would be busy with the warriors and Charlie would break down after killing the woman he loved then all I needed to do was make you have an accident" said Mother shocking all of us. That was why she gave me the mission, it wasn't because she believed in me but because she wanted me out of the way. Even though I was used to the cold looks, her having no faith in me, I had even gotten used to her ignoring me but this, this hurt me deeper than anything else ever had.
"Why? Why would you do this?" asked Joshua looking distraught. Mother had always favoured him so it was no surprise he was shocked and hurt.
"I did it for you baby, for your future to make sure that you would be the clan leader" smiled mother.
"I have told you, I don't want to be the clan leader. I want to teach the warriors how to fight, to teach the kids how to defend themselves" said Joshua. This surprised me but when I actually thought about it Joshua had never actually shown any desire to lead the clan and he was a good teacher, even with our strained relationship I could see that about him.
"Then you will be glad to know none of them will be taking over the clan, they each have their own goals so I will not try and force them to do what they don't want to do" said Father shocking us all including the elders.
"You can't be serious" said Bruce in shock.
"The clan" Mother said wide eyed.
"Will either cease to exist or Maylin will take over because this fighting must be stopped so that no more people are killed" Father explained.
"You can't do this" yelled Gloria.
"I can do whatever I wish to do, while the elders are there to guide the clan leader they are not allow to do anything without the clan heads approval meaning you have already broken that by giving Charlie a mission and helping my wife out so you will stand ready for punishment as well" said Father with a glare.
"I couldn't agree more about the fighting needing to stop but the thing is that I can't do it all by myself" said Maylin.
"You won't be alone as you said we are better together" I said pulling her hand up and kissing it gently.
"You'll have us as well seeing as I still owe you quite a lot and you're our friend now, no matter how new a friendship it is" said Derek with a smile.
"You have my help as well after all there is a lot of work to be done and you are still much too young to shoulder this burden that we have created" said Father.
"Sir" called a voice and I turned wide eyed to see a bloody Samson standing there holding his bleeding side.
"Samson what's wrong? What happened?" I exclaimed taking human form and racing over to him to catch him as he fell not caring about the blood.
"It's the Aven clan, they are attacking humans, you have to hurry there are too many of them for us to stop" Samson gasped out before fainting. My blood ran cold, of all times they could have chosen to attack they choose now and they weren't attacking the Wolven, they were attacking innocent humans.