Tales of a Shifter (P6) - Child of Sun & Moon

Chapter 7 - The Reason

Chapter 7 - The Reason

Bonsa steeped to him. "Boy hear me now...I need to understand something and by answering me clearly it will help me to determine if there is truly foul play at hand. You must tell me the honest truth of how Jacob Elicist fell and how you know he succumbed to death."

Ezekiel felt his inner Leopard snap and snarl, and outwardly Ezekiel turned away, balled a hand at his heart and flexed his fangs in discomfort at the beasts rage. It didn't want him to do what he was about to do. It didn't want him to cooperate in any shape or fashion. Ezekiel fought the powerful sense of deepening betrayal the beast felt as he tried to open his mouth and speak his answer to Bonsa's question.

Stop her! Protect mate! Protect mate!

Snarled the Leopard in his mind with hideous fury dripping from its emotions, driving him to panting as he felt his eyes mid-shift and burn with the cobalt blue displeasure of his inner beast.

Ezekiel put a clawed hand to his temple, then flinched as he realized that he was losing control trying to subdue his incensed beast and his own emotions, the rage of the beast summoning guilt as he understood that his actions/words truly could put Brandon in danger but the analytical side of him was sure that he had to give Elder Balder the answers she needed so that whatever was going on could be seen, understood and perhaps used to keep both his family and Brandon from even greater harm.

He had no plans of revealing Brandons origin, but in a split second Ezekiel determined how he could frame his answer so that very little about Brandons connection to the Druids or the Acris stone had to be revealed.

"Elder my mate is..." Ezekiel choked out and stopped, his head was pounding as he Leopard literally began to rip into his soul; it fought him for every syllable. "Brandon is capable of..."

STOP!! DON'T BETRAY MATE! DANGEROUS!

Ezekiel put a shaking clawed fist over his mouth and shook his head as the beast began to bellow so ferociously he felt nauseated by its extreme feelings and refusal to cooperate.

Im not trying to betray him, I wont reveal everything but something has to be done so we can get to the bottom of this whole Treason accusation! WE have to protect all of them, not just our Mate!

Feeling like he was being torn in two as the beast started to overwhelm him Ezekiel closed his eyes and reached out to Lander.

Lander!? Help me. Read my mind and tell her what I cant...!

Obviously having hear his plea for help Landers power slammed into the back of his brain like an icy nail to his senses and his brother opened his mouth looked at Bonsa and he said.

"My brothers mate Brandon is capable of using innate abilities." Lander smooth spoke up, drawing the hisses of all of the other Guardians.

Ezekiel heard their outrage and disbelief perhaps they thought Lander was throwing Brandon under the bus, but Ezekiel turned back to them, and he shook his head.

"Let him talk...he's speaking for me because my Leopard won't let me....He feels that me revealing this information will endanger Brandon and I don't..." Ezekiel sighed and dropped his hands. His eyes were stinging as the power of the shift bled over him, his fangs and claws inches long without his permission. Bonsa eyes him in silence, but he glimpsed something like sympathetic unease in her expression.

His Leopard displeasure with him and the whole situation was just growing by leaps and bounds. "I just dont have the energy or desire to hurt him or myself more by continuing to fight him."