Phil asked, “What did Oden say?” I told him, “Oden hasn’t stopped purring. He’s not currently talking.” Phil shrugged, “You shared your light with her. Could she get a power from you?” I raised an eyebrow pointing out, “I can’t do that. I’m not electric.”
Phil nodded, “True, but Werewolves don’t shoot electric bolts of power at people. We’ve established she’s a Werewolf. Plus, I’m sure it would hurt if one got hit by an electric bolt.” I conceded, “I know that. I’m just worried.” Phil sighed.
I added, “Plus, she should only be able to exhibit Fairy powers when we are twice light bound.” Phil smirked, “When? You are aware you just saywhenyou are twice light bound?” I nodded, “Yes. When. She is mine.”
Phil sighed, “I know that. I was just teasing you. Changing the subject since you’re not in the mood for such things. Your mate is adding to her growing list of names. We’ve got Ashley, Melanie, Pikachu… other possible names are Our Sniper, Red One…”
I snapped my head towards him. I asked, “Red One?” Phil tilted his head, “Yes, the girl people talk about that saved them from the Hunters and sent them to us and our allies on a rotation. Who else could do that? No, no. WHO else would do that?”
I growled, “Why would she be with Hunters?” Phil shrugged, “Off the top of my head, she was wolf less and the perfect informant. She can defend herself. Plus, it would make sense why she’s SUCH a good source of Cayden’s.”
I growled. Phil put his hands up insisting, “It’s a theory. The family that opened up to Elise, the one lady who likes hair, insists the girl’s real hair color is black. The description they gave lines up with Melanie.” I growled again because I didn’t like it, but he was right. It made sense.
I tucked her hair behind her head. I whispered, “What did they do you, Lovebug? They will pay for it all I promise.” Phil sighed, “So many bad roads. So very many. Could we have one nice path? Could a Beta get a break? NOPE! Not one. Not one break will be given. We are going to war and that’s really all there is to say about it.”
I looked at Melanie agreeing, “There really isn’t. What if I hurt her by sharing my light, since her wolf is so weak?” Phil snorted, “More like now she has weird yet cool powers. I don’t think you hurt her. Plenty of non Wolves have Fairy mates. Even some human ones. Sharing your light does not hurt. Go ahead, ask me how I know that.”
I sighed, “I already know how you know, but fine. How do you know?” Phil smiled answering, “Because Former Beta Dylan has a book called ‘Everything a Beta needs to know about partial Fairies Quick Facts.’ Because he’s been around since we were pups, I’ve literally been tested on the material. There is absolutely no way you sharing your light hurt her. Wolf or not. Which again, on some level, you know with your healing light.”
I questioned, “Then what the hell happened?” Phil shrugged, “I don’t know. Fairy weirdness?” I raised an eyebrow challenging that, “It wasn’t me, and she’s not a Fairy.” Phil sighed, “I don’t know, cousin. Let’s just see if it happens again.”
I grumbled, “I hope not since she passed out afterwards. I had other plans for the evening.” Phil shrugged, “And you’re ok?” I muttered, “I guess. I feel fine, if that’s what you’re asking.” He left me to my thoughts.
What the hell was that? Oden had finally stopped playing. I linked him, “Are you going to just say mate is special if I ask, or tell me what just happened?” Oden purred, “In a way, she marked us.” I scoffed, “Excuse me?”
Oden explained, “Not with her teeth obviously, but in a way that she can.” I replied, “You mean Freya can. Melanie would only know about marking us with her teeth. Melanie isn’t a Fairy so it’s not that side of me. What the hell is going on?”
Oden urged, “Have some patience. I have had some for ELEVEN YEARS! Freya might have done it, but she can’t do it if Melanie doesn’t want to.” I told him, “You have never been this unhelpful in my entire life.”
Oden snickered, “I can tell you she’s perfectly fine. She used a lot of energy and Freya is still weak. Mate is fine though.” I asked, “How are we marked by her?” Oden told me, “Go shift and look at our reflection.” Oh, dear god. What on earth happened?
I popped outside and shifted into Oden. I looked at our reflection, but I didn’t see anything different. Oden instructed, “Look at our paws.” I saw nothing when I looked down then I lifted up my paws and there, on the pad of our paw, was a half-moon with stars. I looked at all the pads of my paws. They all had the same design. Holy fucking shit. What was this?!
I shifted back and looked at my feet. On my heel there was a small half-moon with stars that were shimmering white with black sprinkled in. I grunted at my wolf, “You could’ve told me to look at my feet.” Oden admitted, “I didn’t know if it would mark your feet as the human side of this.”
I linked Phil, “Are you still up?” Phil retorted, “Am I still up? I’m RACKING my brain trying to figure out what’s going on. I am not just your Beta, I’m also your cousin. I do actually want to figure this out.”
“One, my brain likes answers and oddly meeting our mates brought a HELL of a lot more questions than answers. I’m questioning everything I’ve ever known. I have a feeling that’s going to get worse. I couldn’t sleep if I wanted to.” Well, that was going to get worse.
I demanded, “Come outside.” Phil snorted, “Cryptic. I’m coming.” Phil came outside a few moments later. He asked, “What’s up?” I showed him my heels. He raised an eyebrow commenting, “That’s not a guy tattoo usually. Hell, I’ll double down and say women get that tattoo.”
He put his hands up saying, “I’m not judging. I’m just saying if you had told a Beta you were getting a tattoo, I would’ve picked a different one out for you. Also, I’d ask why you went without me. Where you went and when you had the damn time to do so.”
I snorted and shifted into Oden and flipped my paws around. Phil jumped back shouting, “HOLY SHIT?! YOU ARE SAYING WITHOUT WORDS THAT MELANIE DID THAT? The electric thing she used did something that gave you a tattoo?! Because obviously you haven’t had time to get this tattoo. Aesir above, I need sleep. I should’ve realized that earlier.”
I shifted back. I told him, “Oden told me to shift to see it. He didn’t know I would get them in human form too.” Phil thought about it before asking, “Does Melanie have them?” I shrugged, “I didn’t know what I was looking for before I left my room. My wolf is out for revenge for me not listening to him eleven years ago about Melanie being ours.”
Phil laughed then sobered, “I’m sorry, that’s not funny. Except that it is.” He started laughing again. When he stopped, I popped us back to my room. We looked at Melanie’s feet. She had the same tattoo but hers were shimmering white.
I popped us back outside. Phil was probably looking at me with the same expression I was looking at him. Eventually I shrugged. Phil sighed, “OH MY GOD! I can’t take this! I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS! All I have are theories and conjecture. I want answers. I was actually going with a theory that you were just tired.” Rude.
“That you actually did the light show because you’re a Fairy and she’s not. I thought you didn’t want to admit you were twice light bound to Melanie without talking to her about it. That was my prevailing theory. You were in denial about sharing your light, BUT NOOOO. My Luna is ACTUALLY Pikachu. PIKACHU!”
I frowned, “No she’s not. She’s a wolf…” Phil interrupted me, “Maybe whatever they did to her wolf somehow transferred different magic into her. Like clearly, they used some type of magic to do whatever they did to Freya.”
He theorized, “What if that had repercussions? Corbin is always talking about the Shadows saying magic has a price. What if whatever they did to Melanie created an actual, real wolf Pokémon. An electric wolf Pokémon to be exact.”
I groaned, “I hate this but that actually is a feasible theory.” Phil snorted, “WHAT ARE WE EVEN SAYING?! Hell, I’m the one who said it. Magical repercussions have turned your Werewolf Luna into a….” He trailed off then said, “I don’t know. An Electric Wolf that gives her mate and herself, tattoos.”
