The Silver Guardian Bk. 01

The Silver Guardian Bk. 01 Ch. 07

The Silver Guardian

By DaddyIrishman

A huge thank you to my editor and friend Tex Beethoven for another fantastic chapter that he polished and collaborated on to make it what it is! Thanks Tex you rock!

Book 1

Chapter 7

As Dante, Alpha Odin and Ben, and most of the other Betas, mostly men but also some women, gathered in front of the Manor House, Odin addressed the group. "As usual, we'll warm up with a run, and beginning this morning, Dante will be joining us.

"Dante, we'll be running for 10 miles through the trails and forest, ending up at the gym for a good workout. After that we'll break for lunch, then return and begin hand to hand training and sparring.

"Everyone, since this is Dante's first day with the Pack, I want you each to take some time to introduce yourselves to him throughout the day and provide support as he needs it."

He looked around and everyone nodded. "Alright people, let's head out."

Odin led them all on a very quick pace into the woods with Ben flanking his right and Dante on his left, easily keeping up, especially with his formerly injured knee working perfectly. Dante was glad he'd kept up his training and conditioning after his injury and discharge, otherwise he would have been in trouble; the Pack members with them were all strong and keeping up without any trouble.

For forty minutes they had run all over the mountains and forest, and many were breathing hard and had worked up a good sweat. Dante had been running at about 60% speed most of the time and was just fine, but still sweating hard, pleased to be pushing himself again after taking the last few days off with everything that had happened.

When they were about 500 yards from the finish point of their run, Odin yelled out, "Ok everyone, sprint at full power to the finish!" Odin surged forward, leading the Pack with Ben just a few steps behind him, and the rest of the pack following at varying distances.

Suddenly Dante blazed past everyone in a blur and surged far ahead of them all! He was waiting and panting at the clearing in front of the Manor House as Odin, Ben and the rest of the men and women covered the final 200 yards to catch up with him and stopped.

Ben and Odin, breathing hard, walked up to Dante and Ben spoke, "By Luna, that was amazing! How in the hell were you able to do that!?"

Dante grinned, and after catching his breath responded, "Growing up in the orphanage, I always had to watch my back and take care of myself, so I got rather fast and started learning to protect myself. Once I joined the Navy I just got faster and stronger, but when I joined the Teams is when I sharpened everything to a razor's edge. On my last mission when the RPG exploded next to me and nearly killed me, I was messed up bad and had to be discharged. My knee was fucked but I worked back to the best I could as quickly as possible. But after my first shift last night, my knee was healed when I shifted back, and today I'm faster and stronger than I've ever been in my life! Something strange also happened, all my scars faded, so none of them are quite so prominent anymore, and Lily was the first to notice my physique is even more sculpted and defined, and I'm even bigger and stronger than I was before. But strangest of all is that there's a symbol like a dark birthmark over my heart now, two swords crossed with a crescent moon above them."

By this point the rest of the men and women had gathered around them and were listening to the conversation. Ben and Odin looked at each other with curiosity. Odin asked,"Dante, can you show us that symbol on your chest? We've never heard of or seen anything like that before, let alone happening after a shift, first or otherwise."