Chapter 56: The Stubborn Lover

When familiars awakened for the couple, training was indeed a must for them since they both need to be able to manipulate the powers of their familiars. But before they could even use or summoned their familiars' powers they need to know what are those powers.

But it was not that easy.

Noises erupted at the training field at the created realm of Wilma who was alarmed from the sudden large vibration that the couple was causing inside her realm. The peaceful leaving of her saved creatures where now living in fright which made Wilma so pissed off.

"YOU TWO! I KNOW ITS YOUR TRAINING BUT NOT THAT KIND OF TRAINING! STOP DESTROYING THE PEACE HERE AND GET OUT!" Wilma shouted that made the couple jolted because the powerful voice from her was totally making the entire realm dark and crumbling in anger.

"FIND SOME PLACE TO DO THAT! NOW!!!" Wilma's eyes were glowing in such power that every creature in her realm went on their nest and waited for their tamer to calm down.

"Fine, let's go, Vica." Gwen just gave up and dragged Slavica out of Wilma's realm with just a snap from her fingertips.

As soon as they were out fo the sight, Wilma began on rearranged everything that those two caused in her realm with a heavy sigh. But at the same time she was smirking on how much the two of them grow in a very short period of time already.

When the couple left the created realm, Gwen was already used to where they were going to land outside the realm. She just smooth landed without a sweat and walked toward the training field while Slavica landed with her full body meeting the ground. She get up immediately as if her landing from the ceiling down the ground was nothing but it was totally painful fall.

"I better get used to it whenever I went there." Slavica muttered to herself as she tailed quickly her lovely girlfriend.

As the couple reached the training ground, everyone was preoccupied with their training schedules which some of them were already done and resting while the others were just finishing their last rounds.

"Hey, Slavica, are you okay? You're limping." one of the DIP member team leader like Slavica took notice on how she walked inside the training facility.

"I'm good. I just had a bad landing a while ago." Slavica just answered.

"So it was you that made some cluttering noises at the hall." another one commented with a teasing tone.

"Sshh, don't tell anyone about it." Slavica said as she went closer to her lover who was doing her stretching already.

Everyone who was in their lockers and sitting on the bench began on eyeing them since they were both doing their stretching.

"Slavica, are you here for training?" another team leader who just finished his training with his own team asked Slavica.

"Yeah, Sabina and I have to because of our familiars." Slavica nodded as she answered the reason for their sudden training again.

"Good luck, I could feel your mate has grown stronger than you." the same team leader whispered to her.

"Eh, not in my watch." Slavica grinned as she doesn't like to be defeated easily.

"Can we watch?" the other teams asked.

"Sure, watch when I beat her ass." Gwen was the one who answered when she heard that which made them whistle and teased Slavica.

"Yah! Babe, why do you have to tell them that?" Slavica rolled her eyes and went closer to her.

"Feel like it?" Gwen sounded innocent but she winked at her.

"Woah, I wanna bet!" one of the DIP members commented when they all saw their interaction with each other.

"Whoever loses in their training will pay the dinner." another one stated the bet.

"DEAL!" everyone agreed.

"HEY, GUYS WE'RE STILL HERE!" Slavica shouted at them because they could hear them.

"Slavica, all of us noticed that she's a good effect on you." one of the team leaders again pointed out to Slavica which everyone agreed.

"Yeah, we can now talk to you easily." another one added.

"Sorry…" Slavica apologized on her cold shoulders at them before she even met Gwen.

"No need, you have reasons and so are we. just go before she drags you out of here." somebody from them said to her and she nodded.

"Good luck!" another team leader wished her good luck since they all could sense great power coming from Gwen already.

"FREE DINNER!!!!" they all screamed in excitement which was the first time they all felt the rush toward something.

Gwen smiled at how her lover was now warming up to her colleagues then she turned her heels as she get ready inside the training field. Slavica followed her and did the same thing before she heard Gwen's comment about the other DIP members who decided to watch them train.

"They bet on us." Gwen said while smiling because she could sense the genuine admiration that they had for Slavica. They couldn't show or even speak to her due to her cold and blank facade before she came into her life.

"You started it." Slavica pouted and sounded like a whining kid.

"Did not." Gwen's ears twitched on hearing that.

"Did too!" Slavica countered.

"Did not!" she defended.

"Did too!" she pressed on.

"Shut the fuck up, babe, or you won't get what's yours." Gwen rolled her eyes and turned her back before she made a side wink for her lover.

"I'll get it, my love, because it's you." Slavica saw that and she began grinning in excitement.

"YAH!" Gwen shouted and Slavica quickly vanished from her spot.

"Gotcha!" Slavica said while smiling but Gwen already managed to block her invincible sword with her invincible strings around the area.

That was their first move against each other but when they decided to make a counter, their movement was totally cannot be seen at all. Gwen quickly did a backflip while she shoot different kinds of needles until Slavica was almost hit by a horn.

"Horn?" Slavica was totally surprised by the sudden appearance of a very sharp horn toward her face.

"Surprise?" Gwen teased and her lover smirked at her while nodding.

"I like it though." Slavica commented before she pierced her sword on the ground making a very fast eruption of blades from the ground.

Gwen quickly dodged them and Slavica took the opportunity to make a surprise attack on her every dodge. But Gwen was totally flexible which made another surprised reaction from her lover. Slavica began to test her flexibility and whenever Gwen performed them, she finally understood where she get them.

"She's using Bastet flexibility." Slavica mumbled which Gwen heard that made her grin but it was not just any grin because it was very taunting. It made Slavica shiver and the next thing her lover knew, she was already immobilized.

"What the fuck!" Slavica reacted since she forgot Gwen's bloody strings again.

"I told you, I'll kick your beautiful ass, again. So, kindly receive them, my love." Gwen teased and began shooting her back roundhouse kick that was about to hit Slavica's ass. But Slavica used her sword for defense.

"Do you think I am done, my love?" she teased Slavica.

"What the…" she reacted with wide eyes when Gwen began to glow up with such brightness that partially blinded her.

Then the next thing Slavica felt was being thrown drastically and pinned on the ground again. She was groaning as if some bones were broken again and started coughing. She was also dizzy which made Gwen go to her side and assisted her to take a break from the intense training.

"What just happened?" Slavica wondered as her sight was indeed swirling. Gwen noticed that and put her index finger at her temple. It was making Slavica relaxed.

"You forgot my natural ability and you didn't use you're familiars' ability." She answered her lover who was resting her head against the wall.

"How can you tell that I didn't?" she wondered as she was also calming herself because every time she looked around, things were spinning in front of her. It was the after-effect of the glow that Gwen did to her.

"The flow of their energy around you moved whenever you're using their ability but in your case, you didn't. I also could sense the power on your sword's strikes from the ground but it didn't manifest when trying to hit me." She explained briefly to her lover whose eyes were closed.

"Oh shit, you saw that." Slavica chuckled but ended up coughing.

"Look at my eyes and tell me what do you see?" Gwen sighed and cupped her face which made Slavica open her eyes and looked straight at hers.

"Their mixed up colors." She answered and Gwen smiled.

"And whenever they were mixed up, I'm also using my sight for the energy flows of my opponent and my surroundings." she explained and the more Slavica stared at them, her sight was not spinning anymore and her coughing stopped as well.

"Damn, you're getting stronger than me lately." Slavica commented but she was smiling proudly at her lover and with that though, she wanted to keep up with her.

"It's not about getting strong, Vica. You just forgot to be cautious about what I can do." She smiled as she flicked Slavica's forehead before slightly pinching the tip of her nose.

"Never underestimate your opponent." Slavica agreed and Gwen nodded as she didn't say anything anymore.

"Fine, I won't forget it." She chuckled but she stopped when she felt something. Gwen noticed the sudden stillness of her lover which made her worried.

Slavica was sensing something was about to happen and it was not around the DIP quarters but to somebody and she knew whenever she felt them, it was about her team. Team leaders of their team felt if there was something going on with one or the entire team was facing something troubling.

"Hm, what is it?" Gwen managed to voice out her worry to her mate.

"It's Yui and Tucker..." Slavica took out her earpiece from her watch and began hearing some connecting static until she heard mumbling voices from Yui and Tucker.

"Did they leave already?" she wondered.

"I think they do." Slavica shrugged her shoulders but still answered in a guess tone.

"And Irina?" she wondered but before Slavica could answer she began to hear something clearly.

"Wait, a second…yes, Tucker report." Slavica said when she began hearing Tucker's voice.

'Boss, sorry we didn't inform you about our early leaving since we couldn't find you. But the founders knew about it since Irina talked to them first before the three of us left.'

"Okay, I understand. Next." Slavica firmly said as Gwen stared at her while she was listening to their conversation through the waves that Bastet was getting from Slavica's earpiece.

'For our task, Yui and I were already at the scouting area and it was indeed a good place to branch out but some creatures were already wary about our presence here.'

"I see, just keep watching and always on your guard." Slavica nodded to Tucker's report but Yui added something that they need to consider.

'I think the founders need to think about having an underground facility so it won't too obvious because some humans were also looking at the lot thinking of what to business to build there.'

"I kinda like that idea." She agreed.

"Camouflage." Gwen agreed as well.

"Okay, keep us updated." She told the couple to keep them posted.

'Boss, Irina told us about her meeting at the Singarti but she did not disclose who she was going to meet there. She told us not to worry because her meeting was a safe zone among the packs around the Singarti.'

"Which pack she went then?" Slavica asked.

'I think it was the IrisMoon pack before she was going to pay a visit to the Stronghold Pack.'

"Noted, I'll check on her." she nodded in understanding.

'She also told us, not to bother her and just wait for her report.'

"Damn, she's always like that whenever she's in her zone. It's making worry about her status whenever she's on her task. She does it risky." She groaned in frustration as she get up from sitting on the ground and Gwen assisted her. She could not balance herself that much.

'Just trust her.'

"Update us whenever you got something or anything." Gwen suddenly interfere with their conversation since she was sensing the emotion from her lover was raising up.

'Roger that and out.'

When that was done, she assisted Slavica and just finished their short but intense training in the meantime because her lover's emotion was suddenly getting haywire. Gwen raised her hand just above her shoulder level and opened something that surprised everyone in the training facility.

"Excuse us guys. She needs a medic." Gwen smiled at them before passing the portal that she just suddenly managed to open.

Through the portal, Akasha and Alysia were totally surprised when Gwen forcefully let Slavica rest on the hospital bed. Slavica was trying to get off when Gwen glared at her. When she received her lover's glare, something began to wrap around her body and bind her to the bed.

"Don't you dare move or I'll make sure you'll be in a coma for the next couple of months." Gwen warned her lover firmly and with authority making the two DIP doctors speechless. Nobody dared showed authority around Slavica ever since they recruited her.

"Gwen please…" Slavica pouted like a kid.

"Vica, trust Irina." She pressed but Slavica was being a brat and not listening.

"I could feel something was about to happen in my team." Slavica still tried to get off the bed even though she was being bound there.

"Have you even thought that it could be you?" Gwen pointed that made her speechless and just pouted on the bed. She's sulking already.