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  Beauty in the Eyes of His Beast: The Pack

  By Natavia

  Copyright 2016 by Natavia

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  Ammon

  “What do you want me to do?” Saka asked.

  “I want you to get rid of her and that pup,” I said to him then he chuckled.

  “That is an evil thing to do, Ammon. I will shame my ancestors,” Saka spat. He walked around his small tent with paintings of snakes all over it. The snakes were black with red eyes.

  “All witches are evil,” I said to him.

  “You may think so, but you know not all snakes are evil. One must see a snake and show fear. Why is that? Not all snakes are poisonous. Not all witches are evil until they give their soul to a demon, and even then, you still can’t say they are evil. Greed and power can take over the best of us. It can make us someone we are not. Everyone battles demons, Ammon, even the purest soul. We all have something we want and will do anything for and you are one of those people who have many demons to fight,” Saka said. He grabbed a sheet of rock with drawings on it then handed it to me.

  I snatched it away from him. “What is this?” I asked as I read the drawings.

  “My daughter’s destiny. The man she is with is not you, Ammon. Why are you going through this? Why keep a woman who does not belong to you?” Saka asked.

  “A witch is supposed to take an offer to get one in return,” I said.

  “I’m not a greedy warlock. I don’t want anything from you,” he said.

  “I can offer you a life in Anubi with all the gold, diamonds, and gems. You will live a great life, instead of living in this shack,” I said to him.

  “I’m not a greedy warlock. I have all I want here. If I get rid of your pup and the jezebel you bedded with, that will change my daughter’s fate and keep her from finding her mate. Naobi needs to see the true warrior she fell in love with. The jezebel is fate, Ammon, and the pup she gave you is fate too. That is your destiny and you should not interfere,” Saka said.

  “Very well,” I said then walked out of his tent. I walked a few miles until I came across a village where a warlock named Musaf lived. The warriors in his village were cat shifters. They stayed away from Egypt. The cat shifters had their own territory and the wolves in Egypt had theirs.

  The warriors danced around a small fire with their faces painted. One of the females had just given birth and they were celebrating. When they saw me they stopped dancing. I was a wolf on their territory.

  “Who do you seek? You don’t belong here!” the warlock, Musaf, said. He had the skin of a lion’s head on top of his head. Two sharp lion teeth pierced his cheek. His face was painted white and he had a lot of markings on his body.

  “I seek Musaf,” I said.

  “I am Musaf, what do you want? You are far away from home. I can smell the gold on you,” Musaf said.

  “I come in peace. I need a favor,” I said to him. Musaf raised his stick up and the warriors continued to dance.

  “What favor do you want from me? You are Ammon who is in love with a witch. She can give you favors,” Musaf spat.

  “This favor I don’t want her to see. If she sees it, then she will leave me. I won’t be able to give her a pup. Tonight is the night I mate with her,” I told Musaf.

  “What do you offer?” Musaf asked.

  “I will offer you a life in Anubi when I go. I will take you with me if you shield Naobi’s vision of my doings,” I said to him.

  “Naobi is a strong witch. How do you know she doesn’t see?” Musaf asked.

  “She is strong but she is still a young witch. She has not practiced seeing visions yet, but I must do this before she does,” I said to Musaf.

  “Come in,” Musaf said. I followed him into his tent. He cut his wrist then dropped his blood into a cup. He started chanting then the blood boiled. After he was finished, the blood looked like wine.

  “You should give this wine to the jezebel then she will die,” he said to me.

  “What about the pup?” I asked Musaf.

  “The pup will live. The pup will be a great warrior. The pup will be shielded from Naobi’s vision but the jezebel shall die,” Musaf said then handed me the small, wooden cup.

  “Before I go I will need one more favor,” I said then dropped two red gems into his hand. Musaf held the gem up then smiled. He was a greedy warlock, the one Saka told me about.

  “What do you want?” he asked.

  “I must show a man that all snakes are evil,” I said to Musaf.

  “That portal will open soon,” one of the warriors said to me then left my feast room. He brought me out of my daydream. Baki walked in. “Are you sure you want to do this? There has to be another way that doesn’t involve Jalesa,” Baki said to me.

  “A great warrior follows his king. I have taught you that for many years,” I said to Baki.

  “Jalesa is a part of Anubi. Musaf is not a part of us and we should not give him Jalesa,” Baki said.

  “I need Dash to be stronger when I go through the portal. I can’t take you because you have to watch over Anubi until I get back. Musaf giving me a stronger Dash in exchange for Jalesa is the only way because you cannot leave Anubi. Dash knows Earth more than I. I will do whatever it takes to bring Naobi back,” I said to him.

  “Jalesa doesn’t deserve to mate with him!” Baki yelled.

  “Raise your voice at me again, and I will have your tongue,” I said to him.

  “I was going to ask Jalesa to be my mate before she went to Earth and now I have to watch her mate with an old witch?” Baki asked.

  “You were scared to talk to her. Who is at fault? After Musaf gets what he wants from her then you can mate with her,” I replied. Baki’s eyes turned yellow as he growled at me. He walked away angrily. The warriors came into the feast room. “We are going to bring Naobi back. Kill anything that gets in our way!” I shouted at my warriors. Kaira came into the feast room. I walked over to her, “What is it?” I asked her.

  “I’m carrying your pup,” she said to me.

  “I know and it’s a female. A female pup can’t rule Anubi or become a warrior. I have no use for her,” I said to Kaira.

  “You bedded with me!” Kaira screamed at me.

  “I’m bringing my mate back. You can’t offer me anything. Do you have magic? What can you give Anubi besides pups? I’m going to get my mate back, so stay clear of me,” I spat. Kaira growled at me then stormed out of the feast room.

  Naobi

  I paced back and forth in the basement in front of Keora’s cell.

  “When am I getting out of here?” she asked me.

  “Shut up!” I yelled at her.
She laughed.

  “You must have watched something on your globe that you didn’t like. If I were you, I would get rid of that thing,” she said. A long black snake crawled into her cage then wrapped around her body.

  “You make one more sound and it will swallow you like the filthy rat that you are,” I said to her. The snake’s red eyes glowed as it stuck its tongue out in front of her face.

  “Please make it disappear,” she said. I snapped my fingers and the snake disappeared.

  “What’s the matter, Keora? I thought you liked snakes,” I said.

  “Not that big,” she spat.

  “When I tell you to shut up that’s what I want you to do,” I said.

  “Ammon is going to find you. You might be powerful but you are outnumbered. The last time I checked, numbers don’t lie. If I were you I would take Garfield and go far away,” she said.

  “Garfield?” I asked.

  “He’s a feline just like your mate. How did you go from a black, strong beast to a prissy cat?” she asked me. I turned her into a deer. “You know my tiger is very greedy for meat,” I said then turned her back into a person. Tears rolled down her face. “You are evil just like your father,” she said.

  “I can be but only when someone tests me, my dear,” I said. I sat in my chair at my desk looking into the globe. Ammon was getting his warriors together to come back to Earth. Musaf was also a powerful witch. He wasn’t a big threat but he concerned me. Musaf knew me more than my father did. Musaf showed me a few voodoo spells when I was young. Musaf would be a big threat if he could see visions, which gave me the upper hand. Our magic was different in many ways, but him behind Ammon wasn’t good.

  “I can help you,” she said to me.

  “Help me do what? Your heart is just as black as Ammon’s beast. You are too selfish to help,” I said to her.

  “If I help you then maybe I will become pure again,” she said.

  “As much as I still love you, I can’t trust you,” I said.

  “I have been mastering my spells for centuries. I have been studying every trick in the old, ancient spell book. I know more than you think,” she said.

  I stood up then walked to her cage. “That’s what make me not trust you,” I said to her.

  “What do I have to do?” she asked.

  “Shut your mouth and let me think,” I said.

  “Musaf is going to open up the portal for Ammon and his pack. You and I both know that once that happens, Ammon and his pack can be trapped on Earth until he gets what he wants,” she said.

  “I won’t allow that to happen,” I said to her.

  “You are a very powerful witch but even you have a weakness. You are scared that you might have to kill Ammon,” she said. A tear slid out of the corner of my eye before I walked away. “Just give me the word, my queen!” she called after me as I walked up the basement stairs.

  Kumba was in the kitchen preparing dinner. He was shirtless with his tiger stripes embedded in his skin. His broad shoulders and tall structure awakened something inside me. He turned around then smiled. “What’s on your mind?” he asked me.

  “I’m worried about Ammon and his pack coming to Earth. I don’t want to hurt anyone from Anubi. We are all supposed to be like a family. Decades and Decades of traditions and caring for one another, and now it’s going downhill. I have to defeat people who are like family because of Ammon. The only way to stop it all is to kill Ammon and Musaf. If I kill Ammon, Akua will have to go to Anubi. If he goes to Anubi, his mate and pups will stay on Earth,” I said.

  “Why would Akua go and not his family?” he asked.

  “Usually when you go to Anubi, it’s because you lived for many years. It’s like a heaven without dying, and Akua would be forced to go because of his father. That’s the only way he can go before it’s his time. It’s not time for his mate or pups, yet and there aren’t any exceptions. If you are born in Anubi then you can stay in Anubi,” I said.

  “Your world is very different. I come from a small village in Africa that worshipped all species of cats and, somehow, I was born one. I came over here with my parents to live the human, American life and that’s it,” he said.

  “That small village which you lived in worshipped a man named Musaf. He was like a god to them and that’s why your people are the way they are. Musaf is your god and Ammon is the god of the Egyptian wolves,” I said.

  “I honestly don’t give a damn about any of it. I am who I am and live how I see fit,” he said then smiled. That’s what I loved about Kumba. He wasn’t into his tradition like the Egyptians. He lived carefree and I wanted to experience it all.

  “Ammon made a deal with a warlock. Musaf wants to mate with Jalesa. Jalesa is the only witch that can carry in her womb because she was once human. A warlock and a witch will make a very, very powerful offspring. Musaf wants Jalesa and Ammon will take her to him in return of having stronger warriors. Warriors as strong as my son, Akua,” I said.

  “Fuck, Ammon. He and I can battle right now! You are my mate and I hope he doesn’t think he can just come to Earth and take what doesn’t belong to him. You never belonged to him. I waited years, Naobi, and I mean years, and now I finally have you,” he said as his tiger eyes turned green.

  “I always had a thing for cats. I even made one of my witches a cat shifter. She can shift to any animal but her animal is really her Mua,” I said to him then he laughed. He picked me up then lifted me up in the air. “You are a giant,” I said then he bit me gently.

  “I love you,” he said to me.

  “I love you, too,” I responded.

  The doorbell rang and Kumba sat me down then went to answer it. Moments later, my son walked in with his mate and pups.

  “Look who arrived for dinner,” I said to them. I gave Akua a kiss on the cheek then gave Kanya a hug. I took the babies from her. “My heavens, aren’t they heavy,” I said.

  “Just like their daddy,” Akua answered.

  “How was your honeymoon to Africa?” I asked them.

  “It was great! It’s so beautiful there and the villagers are very different yet welcoming. Oh, and let’s not forget about Egypt, the sand is so pretty. I rode on a camel, and as soon as I hopped off, Goon tore into it like he was starving,” Kanya said.

  “I was hungry and I kept telling you that we didn’t need to ride on one,” Akua fussed then laughed.

  Kumba handed Akua a glass of brown liquid. “Seriously, Goon? You are going to drink in front of your mother?” Kanya asked then he growled at her.

  “I’m one-hundred-plus years old. I’m over grown,” he said to her then sipped the liquid.

  “What is that?” I asked him. I gave Kanya the twins back then reached for Akua’s cup. “This isn’t Anubi, Mother, one sip of that and you will be out. No amount of curse can get rid of that hangover,” he said to me. I didn’t quite understand him when he spoke but I sipped the liquid anyway. It burned my throat. “UGGHHHHH,” I said then sat it down.

  “Get me out of here!” Keora yelled from the basement.

  “That’s that bitch, isn’t it?” Kanya asked me.

  “She is locked away,” I said.

  “Good for her,” Kanya said.

  I should go down there and beat her evil ass, Kanya thought.

  “Let’s all just enjoy this time,” I said to her. Kanya took something out of her bag then laid it down on the floor.

  “Are you ready to study a spell?” I asked her then she laughed.

  “It’s a play mat for the twins. I lay them down on it and watch them lay on their stomach,” she answered. Kumba and Akua were talking and laughing about something. Kumba took to my son better than I imagined. Akua had an attitude like his father and could be very stubborn. After Kumba fixed our dinner plates, I took one down for Keora. She sat in the corner of the cage with her knees bent to her face.

  “Here is your dinner,” I said. I made it disappear then reappear inside the cage by her feet.

  “Just kill m
e and get it over with,” she said.

  “Adika is innocent. I created you two from the same spell. If you die, then so does she. What’s the matter? Can’t take a punishment that you created for yourself?” I asked.

  “She created it all on her own,” Kanya said from behind me. Keora stood up then walked to the bars.

  “My, my, my, look what the wind blew in. Isn’t it the prissy jackal,” Keora said. Kanya’s eyes turned gold then she charged into the cage. She reached through the bars to grab Keora’s cheek. Kanya’s long nails scratched Keora’s skin as she grabbed at her face.

  “ENOUGH!” I shouted then Kanya let her go. Keora fell down onto the floor. I blew into the cage to close Keora’s cheek that bled from deep scratches.

  “Her punishment is enough,” I said to Kanya. I looked at Keora. “You will never learn when to shut up, will you?” I asked her.

  “When you get me out of here then maybe I will,” she answered.