Chapter 6

ARGENTEA !!! Where are you baby girl !?"

My mother is always screaming for me, but I love to escape the little bit of home for a few hours and watch the hunters train.

They have their own arena, their own fighters and some really cool weapons!

I would love to grow fast and train with them and against, I know I am strong, my father Th'syra, which means skull, is one of them, a hunter skilled in stealth and fast killing without ever leaving a trace of himself.

My father was one of the first to arrive with his clan, they had to watch a hunt, the chiva, and then come out victorious and branded, but that day, that year was different from any other chiva past.

Many of the hunters who arrived that year, including my father, now live with their own mate who will be their partner forever.

When they arrived, a part of the world is not the same as they knew, here is a very strong, dark and cruel enemy who enjoys torturing and conquering what he likes best.

Our enemy is very strong ... this 'monster' is part of the royal family of our people, it is a women and she has always been attracted to the dark power and in order to want the throne she killed her parents by corrupting her brothers.

The throne did not get it, but that did not stop it, it continued to kill and to make many other peoples succumb at its feet until with a last war it did not return from the hole where it arrived.

The last war was fought for 100 years, with many losses until finally now peace reigns, but according to my father it will not last long, the enemy was not killed only wounded.

This victory was thanks to our warriors, hunters and sorcerers, the latter make use of alchemy to help in battles by healing their companions and partners.

We have three houses, all three strong and invincible, their supremacy and powers derive from their ancestors.

My mother herself is a sorceress and she helped in many battles.

They call themselves: The sentinels of the light , precisely because they fight the forces of darkness and the demonic shadows that corrupt peoples and civilizations.

It is not very easy to explain, what I know is that even the Yautji hunters once they find a mate destined for them, the hunters will also have the strength that his mate has.

Returning to the present, another 100 years have passed since the last war and peace still reigns and so they are with us too, the Yautji hunters, nothing has changed for them, they always have their hunts to do, tradition and culture, the only thing is that they now have equal women to fight with and spend life together, so I can't wait to grow up, to show my fighting potential, I know I can do it.

And then finally, who knows, I too will find a warrior or a yautjia hunter destined for me.

Lost in thoughts and admiring the hunters as they train and fight, I feel someone pull me up.

"You ran away from your refugee mother here again! Didn't I tell you not to come closer to this arena?"

"I know dad, but I want to train too! So I'm learning, I'm not doing anything wrong!" I answer my father in my turn with a confident voice, I know he is not angry, he just wants to keep me away from him.

He knows how to be very jealous, and for this I love him, he is so great, but deep down he is very attentive to family and needs, but the few times someone has made him angry ... well he did not hesitate to break his head to his enemy or anyone who disrespected him or the family.

"You are not ready for the Kv'var ( hunt ) yet, imagine a fight! You are still a pup and you must learn to follow the rules first of all!" While he was speaking his jaws could be seen moving quickly, I think he was a little irritated.

"OK, I UNDERSTAND! But now that I'm here, can we see this last fight? I beg you?" I tried to make the sweetest little voice and saddest eyes I ever could, I know he can't resist that way.

In fact... once he puts me down I hear a very loud, high pitched roar and I know for sure that another fight is about to begin.

There is a hunter who calls me to him, for my father as an age he is very young, but I believe he knows how to move very well.

He studies the movements of his enemy and always tries to find the weakest point so as to hit him where he can win without having to use all his strength and to be able to continue fighting for hours if not whole days.

The bell of the fight has begun, and he has not moved yet, he is just dodging and avoiding the blows of his enemy, who on the other hand is using all his strength in his arms and legs to be able to hit the other , but he has not yet understood that my future partner (yes future partner, at the very thought of it makes me smile), is just making him more angry until he gets tired and no longer has a clear mind.

As thought ... the enemy is getting tired of punching and moving continuously, in fact a punch arrives straight on the jaws making him stagger and then he gets a knee on the stomach and finally a victory roar!

The one who was beaten was double my future partner and had never been spread out on the carpet, except this time. 

As my father always says: big and thick doesn't always mean being invincible, and he's right, if you don't have a minimum of brains ... well you'll fall to the ground in no time.

The hunter that I am continually observing and admiring is called Sain'ja, which means warrior and I must say that it just fits him as a name.

As a hunter he has nothing particularly that can jump to the eyes, he is a very yautjia hunter who stands on his own, in silence and tranquility, but it is precisely that that attracts me to him, his character is so different from any other hunter and his hunting skills are very well taken care of.

Now that the fight is over I have to go home and expect a good lecture from my mother too ... well at least it was worth it.

I want to grow as fast as possible so I can compare myself with him and assert myself to be his 'Mate', hoping that other human girls or his species have not already tried.  Uh ...

My father obviously realized that my mood changed and so he picked me up and started purring, luckily he helped me relax my mind and be more positive until I noticed a strange girl.

The girl seems from another time, bewildered, certainly not from here and it seems that only I can see her, while she continues to look around, but no one seems to see her, not even my father. 

All the others seem to pierce her past her body ... she as if she were a ghost, but how does she do it?

I try to call her attention and I succeeded, she turned to me and seems to see myself but more when I grow up.

She greets me and I greet her, until she vanishes completely ... oh .. ok ... I guess this can be said I had some kind of vision?  I could ask my mother ...

"ARGENTEA!!!  WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU GONE?  YOU HAD TO STUDY NOT TO GO AROUND!"

" But mum ... I need to tell you, that I.."

" No excuses!  Now go to your room and start studying the book on alchemy, then when you do, we'll talk about whatever you have to tell me.  did we have deal?"

"Okay mom ..." defeated and resigned to my fate, I was about to enter the house, but not before looking back and catching a glimpse of the girl from before.

Nothing ... she is gone too.