Chapter 5: Chapter 5

Chrystal pov:

My name is Chrystal and I am a hybrid, part wolf and part witch. My grandmother tells me I am special and that I will learn how special when I come of age.

I found out I was a witch at the tender age of five when I got mad at my cat when it scratched me and I accidentally set his tail on fire, I didn't burn him to bad thanks to my granny. Since then my training began as a witch. Every year we go over sea's to some new country for my training. I not only learned about herbs and spells I also got in rolled in gymnastics. My granny says it will come in handy when my training starts in fighting. It sure has helped me climb trees better, I love to climb trees one of my favorite pass times.

I turned sixteen a couple of months ago that's when I got my wolf Kia, which in Hawaii means “protector”. Believe you me it hurt like heck. But now I have learned how to shift whenever I want to. I used to go down the mountain on weekends when my granny was busy with something or another and watch the wolves in training. Well really I was only watching one wolf. He is in my school and he is the soon to be alpha of his pack, needles to say I have the awfullest crush on him. I asked my granny one time how come we was not in a pack and she told me I have my own pack and they will come when I have all my powers.

In my travels with my granny I have learned a lot about herbs and how if you get the right ones you can mask your scent. So I would grab the herbs to mask my scent and sneak down and climb a tree closest to the field where they were training. It was not too hard to hide being the fog was always around until you stepped out of the tree line into the clearing, but I knew I could not take a chance that someone would walk by and catch my scent or the wind would carry it to them.

I used to always be afraid of walking to and from school. Until one day I learned no one would ever enter the woods where the fog starts. I learned that the hard way one day. Don't know why but ever since I started school this girl Chrissy has been after me.

One day she chased me to the edge of the woods. As I entered the fog I was thinking to myself how I had a long way to run up this mountain to my granny for protection, not that I need protection with all the training I have had but I always listen to my granny and she always told me not to let anyone know what I could do or who I was. But as I kept running I turned around and noticed how she stopped just outside the fog.

Now I know I can see her but I know she cannot see me. My granny told me she put a spell at the bottom of the mountain to keep unwanted visitors out. She says two girls alone without some kind of protection is not a good idea. Of course I tell her I will protect her when I get bigger. She just hugs me and smiles every time I tell her this. All though I am very serious, my granny is all I have left.

Both my parents are dead; they died when I was very young. Granny want tell me much just that they are not here and in due time I will meet them. Of course I wonder to myself how can I met them if they had died, but maybe she is talking about when it is my time to meet the mood goddess and I will also be reunited with them. After that she bought this mountain and the surrounding area to protect me and on the bottom part of the mountain she let the alpha of the Full Moon pack reside. Granny says she has a deal with the alpha that as long as they protect this mountain and us we will not use magic in their territory or on them. Then she cast the spell for the fog to go around the mountain for extra protection. My granny's the greatest.

As I am laying here in bed I hear my granny calling me down for breakfast and she would like to talk to me before I head to school. So I head to my bathroom to shower. I have my own bathroom off of my room with a big walk-in closet to match. I have a big a Jacuzzi tub and a walk in shower on the outside wall with a big window above the tub. I keep my candles on the window sills and around the tub for my night time soaks. Nothing like relaxing in a tub with the window open listening to Mother Nature outside. I usually have all my candles burning with the scents of lavender my favorite smell that and strawberries, I mean really who doesn't like strawberries?

I get out of the shower and towel dry myself and head to the closet to get my clothes on. It does not take me long to pick out what to wear being everything I wear when I am not on this mountain is way too big for me. The only thing that fits me is my hiking boots and belt; yes I need a belt to keep the pants up. Not that they are really that big but I am not taking any chances.

I start heading down stairs when I hear granny calling me again to make sure I am on my way. I yell “yea coming down now.”

I get into the kitchen and sit down at the bar on the stool. Don't know why we need this big of a cabin but granny says "you never know what the future may hold for us.” Sometimes when she says that I feel like there is more to it and she's not telling me. No sense in asking her she never gives me a straight answer to my questions if she does not want me to know yet. I have learned in time she fills in certain blanks and I notice it is usually when I am ready to hear the answers. So when she will not give me a straight answer to my question I know in time she will let me know.

Our cabin is three stories high with a full cellar, my granny keeps our food in for the winter. The main floor consists of living room, dining room, and kitchen with open floor plan. We have a circular fire place in the middle between living and dining room. There are three doors one in the front, the back door, and the door to the study for my granny to take care of her business or for me to go in and do my homework or research on the computer for school.

Off the dining room is a big picture window or looks like a window in reality you can slide the whole window open to let fresh air in or go out on the huge deck to barbeque . Off the deck a little ways in the clearing we have our fire pit where we celebrate our holidays to the moon goddess.

Upstairs we have five bedrooms with their own on suites. Granny and I have the largest rooms on the floor. On the third level is just what I call an attic cause we just keep junk up there right now, it also has an on suite up there.

My granny brings me out of my thoughts as she places bacon and eggs in front of me to eat. She just stares at me waiting.

I look at her and ask“what’s up”

“Please don't get mad but we need to head to head to Scotland in a couple of weeks" she replies.

I sit and think about this while I eat a little bit. I finally get up the nerve to ask her“do I have to graduate with my class or can you just get my diploma for me?”

“You do not want to walk down and get your diploma” she asks as she looks at me in surprise.

“No granny I feel out of place being the youngest one to graduate, would you be terribly upset if I do not do that” I ask keeping my head down. Nervously waiting for her answer, she does not know about Chrissy and her friends and I am afraid of what she may do to the wolves if she ever found out. They are not all bad just those three, well really one but the other two follow her and they do not do anything to stop her, all these years of abuse still has not brought me close to figuring out why they don't like me. I do my best to stay out of their way but they seem to find me. Knocking me around and calling me nasty names.

Granny brings me out of my thought's of Chrissy and her crew by asking me if I would rather finish this day out and then we can spend the last week here relaxing and getting ready for our trip.

I tell her that would be great. I finish my breakfast and head upstairs to grab my things for school, I do not have much to get but I do have some books to turn back into the library, and let's not forget my trusty walk-man, a oldie but goody, my body guard Thor had gotten it for me a year ago. I think it got it for me so I would leave his radio alone, I giggle at this thought about how he complains about my music.

I am excited to leave this mountain for a while and see my friends, yes I have friends. Off of this mountain and in another country I can be myself just a young girl growing up. I don’t really know why I cannot be myself here and granny says I will learn in time so I have no other choice but to trust in her.