Chapter 19

So maybe, just maybe playing against Casper was a mistake—scratch that—a terrible, horrible, horrendous mistake. I lost seven races to him and trust me when I say that he hasn't quite forgotten about it.

It's been three days and he still mocks me because he's a fucking child and and I tried not reacting to him but alpha Casper can be very annoying when he tries. So, I've spent my day hiding from that stupid man.

"You can't run away from dad", Javier says as I enter the kitchen.

I look around, "where is he by the way?"

"You're in luck cause he just left", he passes a plate of his famous peanut butter and jelly sandwich over to me.

"You're gonna be late for your first lesson with grandma Dakota?"

Grandma Dakota or rather,famous Oracle Dakota is former Luna Adrianna, Javier's mother's mother who I met yesterday and she's been kind to me. She is an Oracle and a witch. I decided to learn a thing or two about spells, potions and magic before I leave after the summer.

I hurry up with my sandwich and down a glass of water before going outside to avoid both Sebastian and alpha Casper. Grandma Dakota lives in alpha casper's estate but she lives far from the main house which takes about 20 minutes by walking.

"You're gonna turn wolf right?", Javier asks me as he visibly shakes with excitement.

"Well yes. Are you excited?", I say, "wait here", I run back inside the house with a red top and blue jeans. I hand it over to Javier and walk back a safe distance from him.

I stretch and move my neck from side to side while shaking my body to ease my body. I close my eyes and connect with my inner wolf before I feel and hear it. My bones breaking to shift to my wolf form, my senses being heightened, my claws coming out, the growth of fur and the feeling of standing on all fours.

"Cool", he exclaims and looks at me. I stand straighter with pride as my black wolf. I lower my head and Javier climbs to my back. He hold on tight and sandwiches the spare clothes in between him and my wolf and I take off. I run through the clear field and decide to show off to Javier on the way which he very much appreciated.

I finally see the familiar cabin with a forest behind it after seven minutes and grandma Dakota meditating a short distance from her cabin with her staff beside her. I lower my head and Javier slides down. I pick the clothes in my mouth and go behind her cabin and change.

"Ready for my next lesson"

"You're late", she simply says without opening her eyes or moving a muscle. Javier is already sitting beside her with his eyes closed.

I stand there awkwardly, "should I join you or —?"

She peeks at me with her right eye, "you can or you can just stand there and watch us meditate"

I choose joining and sit cross-legged like them and close my eye. After ten seconds I open my eyes and look around.

"I can't feel you meditating", she mutters.

"Sorry"

I move around for a bit and finally decide that I can't meditate, "is this the first lesson?"

She doesn't answer me, "how long is this going to take?'

"Can we start already?"

"Javier tell Odetta to meditate", he giggles and leans forward to look at me from the left side of grandma Dakota. "Ody you need to meditate"

"Really sorry for bothering you during meditation", I apologize.

She sighs and stands up, "I like you but learn when to speak"

She picks up her staff and looks at me, "I'm going to teach you how to meditate"

"No please I can't"

"Before I will be able to teach you anything else, you must first find your inner peace"

"Inner peace?", She sighs at me and rests her chin on her hands that are on her staff.

"How about I teach you meditation tomorrow but today, you and Javier will help arrange my shelf"

Oracle Dakota only has four rooms in her cabin. Her small library, her spell rooms, her bedroom and her toilet. She opens the window of the small library. They are only two tall shelves and a very old table and armchair.

"Be careful with the books. They are as old as the beginning"

I pick one out and trace the foreign words on it, "it's written in the ancient tongue"

"Do you know how to read it?"

"No, my father only taught me the basics", I reply.

She doesn't say anything but she goes over to the second book shelves and trace the spines of the books lined up before she picks out one. She blows on it and smiles before handing the book over to me.

"After my daughter died,they're was no one to teach it to. I was going to teach young Javier when he grew older but I won't be here by then"

I take the book from her and look at the book. "It's a book on how to speak the ancient tongue", she tells me and turns around to leave, "you can take it home after you've arranged my shelves and arranged this room"

"How do I arrange the book?", I call after her.

"You decide"

"I love looking at the books", Javier says and tries to reach for one. I get the book for him instead and hand it to him. He mutters a thank you before going to a corner and sitting on the floor to read.

I go to shelf one and carefully bring out all the cramped books there and place them on the floor. When I successfully pulled out all the books, I sit on the floor surrounded by them.

"Now how do I do this?"

I finally get the hang of it and arrange the books by category. I put books of the same languages together, books about werewolves together and others and soon enough I'm done. I keep the book oracle Dakota gave me on the old table when I spot a book that I must have overlooked before. I flip through it since it had no name to know what category I should put it with but this book is different. It is in English and has history of every supernatural creatures.

The only supernatural creatures I know daemons,angels,

mermaids and vampires. Vampires aren't extinct but they hide or blend with humans like we do and they are rare to find. Mermaids were almost extinct because of humans till they decided to go on the low, no one has heard or seen mermaids in over 200 years but we do know that there are still alive. Witches are extinct because they were burnt by humans and the rest that survived took human lives never using their sorcery. There are no records of naturally born witches, just other supernaturals that learn sorcery. Sorcery was banned to be learned by any other person except the oracles for werewolves so as to avoid abuse.

"Let's go home, it's almost four p.m", Javier tells me and I look at the book contemplating if I should ask oracle Dakota or just leave it for another day but I decide to ask to take the book.

I see her humming to herself as she comes back with a basket full of herbs which I suppose she picked from the forest.

"We want to go and apart from the book you gave me, i would like to take this one with me", I show her the book about supernatural creatures.

She smiles before she nods, "yes you can but do not let harm come to this book, it is very, very important"

"How could, I it's an Oracle book"

I give Javier the books to hold and go behind the cabin to strip before turning wolf. I pick the clothes in my mouth and strut back the front and drop it in front Javier. He picks it up and climbs to my back after I lower my head for him.

"Make sure you do read the books", Oracle Dakota calls out after us.