“No not really,” Lily admitted. “Before all this I was a lab geek,” she added and the woman gave her a small smile. “You’re human… right?” Lily asked with curiosity. The woman laughed with a nod.
“Yes, don’t need to be a supernatural freak to know how to kick some ass,” she commented. “No offense,” she added quickly and now it was Lily that started to laugh. “Put that on and I will lead you to the garden where I can show you some things,” the woman stated handing her some clothing. This should be interesting, Lily thought as she went into the bathroom to change her clothes.
In the garden, Jessie suddenly charged at Lily, swinging a large knife at her, slicing easily through her arm. Lily gasped, clutching her arm and giving a glare to the woman before. “Get out of your head Lily, you’re a predator start acting like one,” Jessie scolded her. “In fact you are the sum of the two greatest hunters this world has seen, and I am a simple human! I shouldn’t be able to touch you,” she continued. Lily felt frustrated they had been sparring for an hour and she hadn’t been able to so much touch Jessie.
Lily pounded her fist into the ground with a growl then charged the human only to have Jessie easily avoid her and trip her as well. “Don’t get emotional, a fighter who fights with his rage is predictable and controllable,” Jessie lectured her. She groaned spitting out grass listening to Karya “boo” her as she pushed herself up. She was even more determined that before she left that place, she was going to knock Jessie to her ass at least once.
After two hours, Lily managed to not only knock Jessie to the ground but turn her own knife against her. “Very good Lily,” Jessie told her panting with a smile as Lily held the knife to her throat and she smile backing off so Jessie to get off the ground.
“Go hybrid, go hybrid, go hybrid,” Karya chanted.
“You do know I have a name right?” Lily asked her, but Karya ignored her and continued to chant.
“Remember every opponent is different, don’t be quick to go on the offensive, let them come to you first so you can see how they fight and their weaknesses,” Jessie explained and Lily nodded.
“Now for weapons training, since the freaky lycan has a variety of creatures working for him, I will give you a variety as well,” she started unstrapping a gun and showing it to her. “Silver bullets for the lycans,” she commented placing her gun back in its holder and then showed Lily a variety of sizes of stakes. “Good old wooden stakes for the vamps,” she went on then took out a long metallic stake. “Just in case you run up against any like yourself or one of his failed attempts, at least, a silver stake,” she finished. Lily licked her lips nervously as she eyed the stake.
“How do you know all of this?” She asked as Jessie led her to a different part of the garden.
“I’m a guardian of the Aequivalere,” Jessie stated. “Which basically means I and others like me take out any supernatural that refuses to follow the rules. So I know every single weak point of every single supernatural creature and have been trained to take advantage of them in a fight,” Jessie finished and Lily nodded impressed. They arrived at a small field. On the opposite side of the field were several bullseyes. “Let’s see how your aim is,” Jessie told her handing her a gun.
Lily found her strength wasn’t in firearms or anything that required aiming as Karya so happily pointed out. She was much better at hand to hand but after several tips, lectures, and scolding Lily was now able to, at least, hit her target. Once it was fully dark, she returned to her room for another shower and a fresh change of clothes. She wore a tight black t-shirt and another pair of black leggings and a pair of boots. She had the weapons Jessie had given her strapped on her legs and waist.
“Well don’t you clean up well,” Crocell said with a smile when Lily joined them in the entrance way and Uriel nodded in agreement. “I hope Jessie could be of some help to you,” the queen told her. Lily thanked her for the help politely and Queen Hazar smiled at her warmly then turned to Dorin. “Take care my son; it’s been good to see you after so many years. I am proud to be your maker,” she told him and Lily eyed Dorin with surprise, but his bowed his head ever so slightly and thanked her.
“Jessie, you have my orders. You know what to do when the time comes,” she told the brunette who nodded. Lily wondered if she should be worried by the cryptic nature of that.
“I’m going too Hazar, I haven’t seen action since sixteen hundred,” Karya said standing by Lily and swung her arm over her shoulder with a wink.
“Crocell, Uriel you can join the fight if you wish,” The Queen told them.
“Yeah… go out… and watch a bunch dogs and fangers tear each other apart… tempting but I think I’ll pass,” Crocell replied.
“Fighting really isn’t my thing, I more of a lover than a fighter,” Uriel said with a smile that seemed to brighten the whole room, but Crocell groaned with a look of disgust.
“I still have yet to see the proof of that one sweetheart,” Kayra told him with a wink.
“Maybe if you come back alive I just may give you that proof,” Uriel replied by with a sly smile.
“Back to business,” Queen Hazar jumped in. “Lily you have to succeed, remember at all cost it must be you and you alone,” she finished and Lily nodded mutely. They left the luxurious mansion there was a group of twenty supernaturals. Jessie harshly barked their orders and quickly they dived into two groups of ten getting into two black SUV’s.
Lily and Dorin got into his car joined by Jessie and Karya driving back towards their hotel. She was eager to hear what the Alpha Jerk off and the Pain in the Ass had learned while she was gone. When they finally arrived, Lily was surprised to find the hotel was buzzing with life. She saw Bianca’s flaming red hair first. “Lily your back,” Bianca greeted her with a fangy smile. “And looking hot,” she added her smile growing.
“What’s been going on here?” Lily asked pushing back her urge to stake the vampire right there.
“We found Xavier’s hide out but apparently he has learned from the past and has his little hideout guarded like Fort Knox. So the alpha is bringing in more lycans that he had planned originally,” the vampire told her and Lily saw the alpha, so she walked past the red head and towards him.
He noticed her and eyed her curiously. “I guess you don’t have a permit for that,” he stated with a half-smile looking at the gun at her hip. She shrugged with returning his half smile.
“I won’t tell if you won’t,” she told him teasingly. “Bianca tells me that you found Xavier. Dorin and I are bringing help from the Aequivalere. A group of twenty supernaturals, one badass human, and a punky dryad” Lily told him.
“I’m not punky… I got the rock-star style,” Karya complained.