Unexpected Prince

Chapter 5

I watch as she passes out on the couch and I look at Melody her face pale in the firelight. Her eyes unreadable and her face blank showing no emotion. I look down at our intertwined hands and can feel her arm shaking. She seems to notice we are still connected and lets go standing up and walking outside. I just let her go knowing she needs the space.

"There is no way for us to get to Mystasia without her, is there?" I say not even looking at my best friend for the answer.

"No." I hear him say before he walks away his heavy footsteps and the crackling of the fire the only noises to be heard.

"How do I keep her safe?" I whisper to the air around me.

"You don't, your my mission not the other way around." She says from behind me, I whip around to see her having not even noticed her appearance.

"But Silver said that I will save you. I don't know how, I don't know magic. I can't shift I don't know anything." I say looking down at my hands then to the tattoo forming on my arm.

"Well I can teach you to shift if you want thats not hard, teaching magic however is not something I'm good at you should ask silver for help with that." She says putting her hair up into a high ponytail.

"Is shifting hard?" I ask slightly nervous but I can feel my body humming with energy I've never felt before.

"Yes and no. For someone who's been ding it for a long time its seamless but for someone new it hurts and is hard. Its like learning to walk you fall you get hurt but you can do it. Eventually however you can do it without thinking." She says shifting just her hand into a paw and back again.

"so how?" I ask fascinated.

"Feel the wilt energy inside you there should be two types if your like me. One that feels wild another that feels controlled find it." She says watching me. I close my eyes trying to feel it.

"Does it have a color?"I ask. I can hear her laughter.

"Yes, your warlock magic will have a color but your wolf magic will be the same color as your fur which you don't know that yet." She says and I can practically feel her studying me. I feel deep into myself finding two colors as she said white and green. The white flying everywhere and the green in straight lines. 'Which did she say would be wolf.... oh the wild one... white.' I mentally grab onto it and I can feel it filling me taking control and I feel panicked before I hear her voice.

"Thats it let go, breath and succumb to it if you fight it you will loose." I do as she says and let go. I feel every bone break, every cell divide and reform, I can feel the change in by body and I can hear screaming, 'where is it coming from?' The pain is so emmence I can not even explain. I open my eyes and I see a kaleidoscope of colors. I look up at Melody from the floor and she is shocked, she falls to her knees besides me and my head is above hers.

"Your huge." She whispers. I watch as she reaches out her hand but thinks better of it and doesn't touch me. "Stand I will open the door so you can go outside." She says before rising and opening the back door. I put one paw under me then another till I'm sitting then I push up with both back paws standing. I try to walk and almost fall straight on my face. I try again this time getting the hang of it as I walk outside. I feel the damp earth underneath my paws and I can smell the game in the forest the sweet smell of roses and an alluring sent of oranges and sweet roses from behind me as I look at Melody. 'Mate' I hear in my head. 'Who are you.' I say to myself feeling silly talking to myself. 'your wolf.' I nod my head understanding.

"Go hunt I will wait here on the deck, it is important that on your first shift you have a successful hunt. Go and brink something back." She says nodding towards the forest. I face towards it and look back at her before taking off into the underbrush. Once I'm deep into the forest I stop and listen and take deep breaths smelling the environment. I catch the faint dirty musky scent of something close to a deer. I jot in that direction smelling and being quiet. As I get closer I start to stalk until I'm almost upon it. I hide in the underbrush watching until I find it. I look at it. Its huge, unlike anything on earth, huge, completely white not off white but a blinding brilliant color. Its antlers look like tree branches and it has piercing green eyes. I wait until it moves closer to me drinking from a small stream. I lean back placing my weight into my hind legs and burst forward flying into the air landing on it back as I sink my claws into it. It try desperately to buck me of and I role forward my jaws going for the neck. I just barely manage to sink my teeth into the fleshy part of the neck.

I feel the life drain from it as it goes limp I start dragging in the direction I know to be Silvers home. I look around as I get close and see that day has turned to night. I drag the stag into the clearing and I see Melody stand next to a large fire and on the other side a hose.

"Place it here your highness, and you please stand here, your coved in blood." I look down at my paws for the first time to see I have white fur and I am in fact covered in golden blood. She turns on the hose and sprays me with it washing it all off without touching me. "Do you want to shift back?" I nod my head yes.

"Envision yourself as human how you looked before. Your body will do the rest." She says opening the rift or whatever she called it and pulling out a knife. She slits open the stomach of the beast and cleans it out. She carefully skins it trying very hard to make it perfect. I watched with satisfaction as she butchered the beast without second though doing it flawlessly. I turn my head at the sound of the door opening to see troy and he looks at me his face completely shocked.

"Did she teach you to shift?" He asks as I shift back into my human form bones breaking and realigning all over again;however, it didn't hurt as much as it did before.

"Yes she did." I say my voice sounding slightly deeper. He looks to her as he notices she almost done butchering him. She goes inside and he looks at Troy.

"Did she touch you, did you mark her?"

"Did I do what to her? Did I leave a hickey is that what you mean?" I say looking confused as Troy starts laughing.

"No marking is when you bite into the sensitive part of her neck claiming a female as your own. It's a strictly werewolf custom. The tattoo appearing on your arm that is a witch and warlock mark. In order for her to be completely yours you will have to mark her. Had she touched you while in wolf form you would have lost control of your wolf and marked her claiming her as yours.

"Oh so that's why she avoided touching me."

"Yes." I watch the back door open again as she comes out with spices and rubs as she seasons the meats and sets them too cook. I sit next to her.

"Do you want a mate?" I ask watching her face as it flashes with surprise want then determination.

"I didn't know I could have one, and no I'm sorry I don't, I don't deserve one and you deserve much better than a science experiment and hired hand." She says looking away.

We ate in silence the food was amazing but I barely tasted after hearing her confession. When we where done she cleaned up and went to head inside but she stopped just short and looked at me pondering something for a moment.

"We leave for mystasia tomorrow morning. Promise me something?" She says. Looking me in the eyes.

"Anything."

"If something bad happens let me fight and go Troy will protect you, but you are the sole heir to the magic and werewolf kingdom. It is possible for you to choose another mate being a royal. Remember that you promised." She said walking through the door before I can respond.

"What did I just promise?" I say looking to the sky.