The Guardian (12 page)

She decided to see how hard she could hit
him, so she started with a barrage of hits and kicks, each one a
little stronger than the one before; John in the beginning did well
with blocking and countering, but it was not to long until she
found his threshold and stayed there and kept through it at him at
that strength, but mixed up what attacks she gave him. He did his
best to block, duck and even counter some of her attacks, but the
force was more than he was used to. They went from one side of the
other and it was mainly Adela that was dishing out the attacks.
John more and more looked as if he had had it.

“
Come on! Damn it. Are you going to
just be my boxing bag?” She shouted at him.

John not knowing what to say was heaving for
breath; he felt as him he did not have an ounce of energy left as
he felt every inch of his body was screaming out in pain from the
beating it had just experienced.

“
Listen to me John; you need to learn
how to tap into your guardian powers more. There are going to be
others much faster and stronger than myself and I am not giving you
all I have,” she said as John was leaning with one arm on a tree
and was resting his head on his hand,” Whatever it is that makes
the guardian give you more energy and strength you need to learn to
call upon it. Are you ready?”

He was unsure about being able to carry on,
but he closed his eyes and thought about the one that he loved.
There loving memories, the things she says that makes him laugh and
smile and then he thought about the monsters that wanted to kill
them both and felt his strength gaining as he was reminding himself
that he needed to stop the ones who wanted to bring them harm.
Adela was pleasantly please when John turned towards her and his
eyes were glowing even more than before.

That a boy is what she thought as John
approached her. She gave him a moment for him to focus and said,”
Now John we are going at the same pace as before, but this time you
need to be attacking me too.”

She was surprised when she landed her first
blow right in the square of his chest and he just looked at her as
he brought his hand down to strike her arm away and they continued
to fight; John was dishing out as many attacks as her and hitting
way harder than before.

Adela had decided to up the game and give
him the hardest hit she had ever given anyone; keep in mind this
was by no far as hard as she could hit, but blew him off of his
feet and knocked him ten feet back into a tree sending a huge
spiraling crack up the massive tree that had to be centuries old.
Walking over to the tree that John at firmly been slammed into
motioning with her finger in the air to John not to attack.

With her hand caressing the tree realizing
that the crack ran deep she shook her head in disgust. Thinking
about how her pure friend was going to react; this was they tree
they had climbed as children and played hours on end in. She could
picture it as if it was yesterday. There laughter from before she
was turned. And they cruelly had him bitten in front of her,
telling her that they had given her friend as her first slave.
Baldemar had always been a sick bastard and enjoyed torturing Adela
even from the beginning.

“
Bernandas is going to pitch a fit
tonight,” she sighed before continuing,” because this was the very
tree he and I played on as children.” She sighed again,” His father
was one of my father’s servant and we grew up playing together
despite the social class difference.”

“
So you have known him your whole
life?”

“
Yeah, he has always been like family
to me and it broke my heart to see how he was turned.”

“
What do you mean?”

She patted and hugged the tree as if it was
an old friend before saying another word to John.

“
When my family was wiped out by
Baldamar and his coven, it was over this land that they wanted, he
decided to turn me and keep me as his trophy piece for this
victory. He always tried to control my heart and was infuriated
when he realized that even though I was turned I still had enough
love for Bernandas to not only hide him, but not to feed on him, so
he drug Bernandas down to the basement where he was now keeping his
prized werewolf and held him for the beast to take a bite out of my
dearest friend. I am hoping to see you rip out this man’s heart by
the way.”

She grabbed him by both of his shoulders and
rubbed deeply whispering in his ear,” Let’s call it for the day; we
don’t want to kill any more of his trees.” The walked to the fire
ring where Galechka was standing and Adela left John with his woman
telling Galechka to take care of him and to have him ready at the
crack of dusk for more training. Galechka was taken aback by the
changes that she noticed in Adela, how could she look so much
younger in all ways?

“
You need a shower,” she hit John as
she said this,” badly! Oh god! You have never smelt so bad
before.”

“
It’s been a rough day hun.” He said
as he was rubbing his face being completely worn out from the
training that had been dispatched by Adela,” Lets head home baby,
before he notices what we have done to one of his
trees.”

“
What tree?”

“
Adela flung me into their child hood
playground of a tree and I think wolf-boy is going to take it badly
by her reaction.”

“
Oh god, he is crazy about any tree
let alone something like that.” She grabbed his arm and started to
drag him back to their place of stay.

While he was taking a long, long hot shower
Galechka was preparing dinner for him, she knew he had to be
starving. Somehow some way he was sneaky and quiet enough to sneak
into the bed chamber and light a slew of candles, which took her by
surprise as she entered the room looking for him, finding not only
the flowers, but him sprawled out on the bed face down with only
his shorts on.

“
Today, was hard on you
sweetie?”

“
Yeah, Adela wants not only to get me
ready, but figure out her new strengths.”

“
What do you mean?”

“
Oh, you don’t know do
you?”

“
Know what?”
“She has become an ancient and has a lot of new abilities and has
no idea the strengths of her old ones.”

She climbed up onto his back sitting on her
buttocks so that she could massage his aching back,” So she is
going to fight them herself.”

“
No, we I mean she and I are going to
do it together; she is still way weaker than the others and
believes that I might just need a little help.

Galina in a fit rolled off of his back and
said,” Your food his getting cold go eat and get to sleep.” She did
the quote simple with her fingers,” You two have a lot of training
in the morning.”

“
Come on baby don’t be like
that.”

He reached out for her as he pleaded and she
just pulled her shoulder away as soon as he touched it and said
something rude in Russian; John not taking the hint tried for a few
moments before going out to the kitchen a lone and eating.

John was deeply disturbed with how quickly
she had these mood swings, not knowing how to react to them at all.
When he went back in she curled up with him and allowed him to hold
her, but was not allowing anything else that night. She would
signal this by wearing her under wear to bed. John knew as soon as
she put them on in bed it meant hands off.

When John got to the training grounds Adela
was already waiting with her back to him, except to day she was
prepared differently, her long jet black hair was tied back into a
pony tail, she was dressed in latex shorts, sports top, and
sneakers this time. She turned around while tapping her right
fingers on her cheek looking John up and down to see if he looked
up to what she wanted to do today.

“
Hope you’re ready, because today I am
going to hit you harder and faster than you have ever experienced.”
Proclaimed Adela; with a wink after wards.

Left him wondering: if she was being
playful, or really flirty with him. He wasn’t the person he
remembered at the castle, before she was sweet, but very serious
and not one to play around or flirt at all. He was at a loss for
what to make of this.

“
I just hope you brought your A game!”
He shouted back at her.

“
Feeling cocky today I
see.”

“
No more than usual.”

“
Let’s see you put your money where
your mouth is.” She laughed playfully as she said this.

Galechka was getting pissed seeing this from
the woods, she had found a little place that she could spy without
anyone noticing that she was anywhere around. She could feel her
blood boil as Adela flirted with John. Who was this woman? Her
character did not match Adela at all. Galechka was astounded and
shocked, after being close to Adela for so long, she had never seen
this side of her. Was this always there or something the change
brought on. Galechka always pictured the ancients maturing more at
the time of change not regressing into a teenager’s state of
mind.

John stamped his foot into the ground a few
times and cracked his neck trying to get ready for what was about
to happen. He was taken by surprise when he seen Adela start to do
warm up stretches and motioned for him to do the same, “Can’t have
you down and out from training do to you pulling something.”

John was thinking: What the hell? When did
vampires need to stretch? John was getting kind of turned on by
watching her stretch in front of him with her back turned to him.
God was her body perfect; he could not take his eyes off of his
rump. He loved Galechka, but every man looks a little. What he had
no clue was how pissed off Galechka was as she sat in the bushes
watching this go on. What she didn’t know is it made him think of
her stretching and doing a back bend in just her underwear and bra
in front of him; it had actually invoked memories of her stretching
in front of him.

With her fingers she motioned to John to
come her way. She waited until he was only about ten feet away and
ran towards him, John had no idea what was coming as she jumped
with both feet in the air and imploding onto his hardened abs
launching him through the air and leaving him to slide on his ass
about twenty feet. John jumped to his feet shaking it off as he ran
towards her, this time she also charged and as she jumped he fell
back and slid underneath her, spinning around to face her same as
she did to him with his hands planted on the ground preparing to
move in any direction he needed with great force and speed.

She smiled and laughed as she smacked the
ground with her right hand,” Ata boy John!” She shouted to him
before her next charge keeping herself low to the ground this time.
John charged back, but this time he leaped after her and in midair
spun around and grabbed her by the torso and as soon as his feet
hit the ground did a back bend slamming her off the ground even as
his feet were skidding across the earth. Reaching her hands up over
her head used them to propel John over her and rolled onto her feet
swinging at him repeatedly as he landed and tried to block the
incoming attack from her. He mostly blocked and then hunkering
around like a boxer rammed his rib cage into hers pushing her back
giving him space and time to react and try to get some hits in as
well.

You could see in both their eyes they were
loving the moment, this was fun for both of them. Now John was
moving quicker bobbing and ducking jabbing and hitting more like a
boxer; when John was young his friends’ dad, a Navy silver gloves
boxer, spent a lot of time working with the boys that were his
closest friends. She was kicking and hitting him and with a smirk
on her face. The speed at which they were moving would be hard for
a human to follow even just watching it.

Galechka was getting angrier and angrier
watching this; she was convinced that Adela was flirting with her
man. She was thinking: I should just leave him here and see how he
does without me. He is the lucky one.

Galechka always had high thoughts of herself
even though it was always someone else that gave her whatever she
had. When she was a human she lived off of her parents never
earning a cent and always having her hand out for more from her
parents, and as a vampire Adela had always took care of her. Now
that she had a man that loved her she was too spoilt to see what
she had and did not understand the worth of his love.

The battle got more and more feverish and
the attacks from Adela became more and more intense. There were
times when they were snapping trees in half by slamming each other
or tossing each other into them. It had really begun to look like a
battle field and not a forest training ground. Both of them were
pushing more and more, Adela was curious to how much he could
handle until she stepped over the mark. She grabbed him by the
shoulders facing him head on and flung herself over him while
keeping a hold and as soon as her feet touched down she dropped
down to her knees and hurled him towards the trees sending him
crashing into on snapping the tree in half.

Both of the girls hearts stopped for a
moment as they seen him lay there in a crumpled and broken state
covered in chunks of wood. They both seemed to bolt for him at the
same time Galechka being shockingly faster and slid the last few
feet on her knees lifting his head up onto her lap.

“
Baby boy, baby boy please open your
eyes.” Galechka cried as she held him.

“
My god, Galechka I am sorry I thought
he could handle it.”