27 Blair Blackmoon

"Blair was what one would consider a special child, she was the first person to ever be able to control all four elements from a very young age. But it was how her power grew that had the people in her village sceptical about her. At age five she could make soft cold air come out of her hands, the wind element, at age seven she could make the water droplets on the rocks roll in any direction, the water element. At age eight she shifted soft sands, the earth element, and finally, on age ten, she approached the fire place one evening" Naledi took a sip of her beer, the three men listened closely as Koos had meat on the grill of the fire.

"Blair could feel the elements, their nature, how they worked, and on the night of her tenth birthday, it was as if the fire called to her" Naledi reached out to the fire they now sat around, giving a visual demonstration of what she said "She reached to the fire, and allowed her life force, or chi as the Japanese people call it, to reach out to the fire, the fire clung to her chi, and she held it in her hand. But as we all know, fire needs three things to burn, heat, oxygen and fuel, and since Blair's chi was very strong at her age, she couldn't stop the fire from spreading all over her body, since chi is the very force surrounding you from the inside out. My mother explained it to me like this" Naledi stood up and held her hand a few inches away from her hip "Your 'aura' flows around your body roughly this thick, its un seeable, but you can sometines feel it in another person, it might be a good vibe or a bad one, feeling someones aura might even save your life one day" Naledi took her beer and sat down again.

"Now the fire in Blair's hand, set fire to this aura surrounding her, it was the feul after all and similar to dry grass, it spread wildly. But it didn't burn Blair, in essence she became a fire elemental, put due to the sudden spread of the fire around her, and not knowing the destructive nature of fire, she panicked and ran, setting fire to atleast half the village until she finally dove into a tub of water"

Piet chuckled "Fok can you imagine that...? 'ooh so pretty' "WHOP!" 'Whaaa whaaa whaaa!' Whoosh fire everywere and the more she ran the more she burns shit down" He explained and the three men laughed, but Naledi remained quiet, frowning at them angrily.

"Sorry" Piet said swallowing.

"How do you think any ten year old girl would respond when you set her on fire?"

"But you said the fire didn't burn her it only burned her aura?"

"Yes, bit she thought she was going up in flames, naturally she ran to her mother first for help, which was her tent, but thats where the havoc started. When the villagers had the fire under control, they had a meeting. Blair was asleep because of her ordeal, the fire, like a lantern wic drew her chi out of her body, sapping her dry and making her pass out. But she woke up into an even worse nightmare than being on fire"

"Drowning?" Frits asked.

"No, her village had decided she was an abomination, or a witch, and needed to be killed"

"Bliksem, poor kid man!" Koos said.

Naledi opened another beer "Poor kid indeed, She ran as fast as she could, to the northen forests of Alaska, her tribe in pursuit with bows, spears and tomahawks"

"Tomahawks? So they were native American?"

Naledi nodded "The cold was overwhelming to her, she was barefoot and wasn't planning to go into the cold any time soon, but she had no choice. Blair walked until her feet were blue, hiperthermia was setting in, then a deep gorge opened up infront of her, she was trapped. All Blair could do was turn to her village and wait, somewere she knew they were coming, they were hunters, and good at tracking, they will find her eventually. Blair went to her knees and started begging with a bibbering voice 'Please, please don't hurt me' she wanted to cry, but felt her tears make ice crystals in her eyes, then something in front made her look up; a large, black wolf stood watching her, it didn't need to expose its fangs, or show aggression, it knew by instinct this girl was done for, and will soon be its next meal, But Blair didn't see a predator in front of her, her parents taught her to respect wolves, they were masters of the hunt, and her tribe would dance around fires, praying to wolves so they may gain strength from the wolf in order to better their own hunt. She reached out towards the wolf and asked it 'please help me' this got a response from it, it drew its ears back stepping forward once, the wolf knew this girl posed no threat to it, under no circumstance can she stand a chance against it. The wolf even knew she was young, sensing her inexperience, and weakness. But it didnt sense fear from her, not towards it as a wolf at least, it sensed she was afraid of something else, it twisted its ears then turned its head to the forest, it heard the footsteps of the hunters approaching. This made it clear to the wolf that this girl was being hunted, and it felt pity"

"How can a wolf, an animal feel pity?" Koos asked.

"Instinct Koos, it was a she wolf, and motherly instincts can make a female wolf the most dangerous thing on earth of you fuck with its pups. So this wolf, knowing this girl needed help, came right up to her, and licked her face to comfort her"

"Ek! Bekak myself!" Piet said. Making them all laugh.

"That needed bond the two created, the wolf caring for the girl, but also hungry for her flesh, and the girl, needing help against her tribe, and against the cold, entwined them. The wolf become a spirit, and posessed Blair, turning her into the first werewolf, but that time werewolves looked diffrent from today" She took another sip of her beer.

"How diffrent?" Frits asked making her smile.

"Lets just say, when the villagers caught up with her, they ran into a wolf standing as tall as a house, and big as a bus"

"Did she kill the Fokkers!?" Piet asked.

"Well, thats where the story went missing to me, some say she slaughtered them all on the edge of that cliff, some say she only scared them then ran off. All I know is that Blair lived out in the Alaskan mountains untill she became a woman, then she set off to form her pack. The very first one she made was a she wolf named Asena. Asena's duty was to help people like Blair, who was in need of the power of the wolf, a caring wolf just like the one who helped Blair. The next she made the wolf of vengeance to get back at those who hurt the innocent, his name was Fenrir. She then made guardians, one to watch for evil at night, Skoll, and one to watch for evil at day, Hati. She then made four guardians for each element. She started with fire, since she feared it so much, a large male called Cole Draufganger. Second for earth was a male called Canyon Browning. The wind elemental guardian a she wolf named Kamekaze Okami, and finally, the water elemental guardian, another she wolf named Alice Del Carchetore"

"So she had four wolves to attend to human matters, then four wolves to guard the elements, not a big pack at all for a wolf that was as powerful as she was" Frits said.

"No, her pack was bigger, it's just i don't know who the rest are, accept for Cleopatra"

"Where does she fit in?"

"For those who has been given the power of a wolf, who misuses it, Cleopatra was ordered to remove the wolf form through mummification, the person would be mummified as normal, only the brains won't be removed. The Lunar black sand surrounds the body and slowly draws the venom out of the blood stream into the muscles, where it is then broken up into normal proteins, this process takes about two weeks, when the person wakes up from the mummification hibernation, he or she would be back to normal"

"A cure for werewolves?" Frits asked and Naledi nodded.

"Blair could figure there might be someone out there who would use the werewolf for the wrong reasons"

"Ok, so why did Cleopatra go awol? Why is she doing what she's doing?"

"I dont know, her own selfish needs i suppose"

"But? Then where's Blair now? She wouldnt like this would she?"

"No i doubt it, but no one knows where she is, she created her pack, then sent them into the world to keep evil in check, but as time went by, they started misusing their power, and made packs of their own, thats why you get white wolves, black wolves and so forth, there were never supposed to be diffrent packs of wolves, only the one pack Blair made"

"So basically they all rebelled against her?"

"I cant say that, i know for a fact Cleopatra did, but i dont know the reason the other wolves misused their gift"

"Misused?"

"Only when a person is in a similar situation as what Blair was, may the gift of the wolf be given to him or her, under no other circumstance"

"Then what about if the person is a woman? And gives birth?" Frits asked.

"Im nor sure, to tell you the truth i dont know alot about what Blair's rules were, i dont even know who the first hyena was" She cleared her throat "If you want to know any more about wolves, you should ask a wolf"

Koos dished meat in a paper plate then handed them out, wilst thinking of any possible solution to their problem.

"So, are there any other members of Blair's original pack still roaming around accept for Cleopatra?"

"Not that i know of"

Piet chucked "It seems Naledi's deep well of knowledge has run dry"

Instead of finding offence in Piets words, Naledi smiled "I must admit, youre right"

"You don't maybe know when Akmah-ra was said to rise again hey?"

"Not for certain, but, i know its going to be a long time from now"

"Thats good right?"

"Yes... And no. Good because its going to be a long time, so there is time to prepare. Bad because the longer he sleeps the stronger he gets, and thus we don't know what to prepare for, and... He might not awaken in this generation, or the one after this, he might only wake up three generations from now, which means you three might not live long enough to see it"

"What!?" Koos yelled flying up "You mean our grand children will be the ones to suffer under that fokker!?"

Naledi nodded sadly.

"This is fokken bullshit!"

"Shit! That makes me hesitate about having kids in the first place, i dont want my kids to suffer" Frits said.

"Im sorry guys, thats why humans are not really supposed to know about us" Naledi said again.

"Not hey!? So we don't get a fair say in this matter!?" Koos bellowed, Naledi sat quietly, she had no words.

"Frits, youre the smart one, can you figure out if we can some how overcome this newest problem?" Koos asked.

"I've just been thinking of the same thing" Frits said "And there might be a way, but in order to find out for sure is to finish the Ratel's upgrades. I want to install a high end computer system and since its going to be high tech, i want it in a safe place, and what better than the inside of an armoured vehicle like the Ratel"

"Ok, if you install those computers, what else will you need after that?" Koos asked.

"All of Ezbar's research"

***

Quintin opened his eyes and squinted at the sun, somewhere during his ferocious sprint to get to Ezbar's labs he must have passed out, he could remember it happening as soon as he saw the sun. He was hungry and weak, and the desert sun wasn't going to help with his thirst aswell. he needed to get going before it got too hot, he startes walking, his feet dragged in the sand, he had absolutely no idea which way to go, but luckily a pickup approached him and Ezbar jumped out holding a blanket to cover his naked body.

"How did you find me?" Quintin asked as he climbed into the pickup.

"Its a test i conducted and it worked, i created a nano chip, the size of a bloodcell, only one is coursing through your veins, and it serves as a tracker"

"Whell thats good, i would have been done for in this heat, where's Naledi?"

"She left yesterday just after you"

"What!? Were to?"

"Dont know son, she gave me a vale of blood then left, its basically all i needed from her, im not her father you know she's a free person"

"Dammit!" Quintin slammed the dashboard.

"Whats wrong boy!?"

"Yesterday, or last night, we got ambushed by some other woman, i never saw her before but she effortlessly overpowered a werewolf alpha and a hyena Queen, she took them into some sort of shadow realm, and only Naledi would know exactly what happened"

Ezbar drove in silence, trying to make sense of what happened. They stopped at the lab and he jumped out, Quintin went to get new clothes whilst he went to page through his notes.

"Find anything?" Quintin asked comming in with a plate full of food.

"No, this shadow realm thing you speak of is new to me, it seems there are alot of things Cleopatra didn't tell the both of us"

The satellite phone Quintin got from Koos rang and he picked it up, knowing who it was.

"Koos?"

"Yes frikkie, we need to talk"