Chapter Nine
Erin
“Hey guys, remember we mentioned our other brother Kysen?” Harry says, suddenly.
We’re all pouring over the books from the library trying to find any sort of spell that could get us a way to locate Sage and the others but so far we’re having no luck.
If I’m being completely honest this is the first chance we’ve gotten to really sit down and try to research any way to help them.
I know that they aren’t dead because otherwise the warrior tattoo would tell us or something right?
Unless it has to be activated? I drag myself free from that line thinking and refocus.
It won’t do me any good to start panicking about what ifs.
As I was saying this is the first chance we’ve all gotten to look into how to locate them.
The Director wasn’t kidding, the work load here is demanding as fuck and not only is it academic stuff like you’d expect to find in a normal academy but it’s also the physical stuff that you’d expect from a military training academy.
It’s not easy especially when you throw in all the magic side of it as well.
Also there are uniforms! Freaking uniforms! At least they aren’t too awful I guess.
“Yeah. He’s late to start the semester because he had to do something before he arrived?” Dash replies.
“That’s the one.” Asher says not looking up from his book. He’s the final brother, they’re all pretty cool actually and we’ve sort of just clicked.
Them and Cole have especially gotten along well. Case in point, Ty walks into the main lounge of our room and immediately makes his way over to Cole kissing him lightly on the lips before turning to the rest of us.
Cole doesn’t only get kisses from Ty either and if I didn’t have my own gorgeous set of men I’d be incredibly jealous.
“What’s going on?” He asks.
“I think that Kysen is with Sage and the others!” Harry says impatiently.
“No way!” I exclaim jumping to my feet and forgetting that I was sat on Damon.
“Careful Ren, you’re going to damage important parts of me.”
“You’re fine.” I dismiss.
“He just accidentally sent something down the Bond link!” Harry replied again clearly the only who heard it.
“Wait you guys have a Bond link?” Jett says.
“Yeah we’ve always had it. Not important now.” Harry says before his eyes go slightly glazed.
His face pales and I start to get worried, Ty and Asher obviously do too because immediately they’re faces have the same expression as Harry.
“Fuck!” Ty exclaims.
“What?” I ask concerned, “What’s happening?”
“Levi’s gotten bitten by a furrure serpens canis viventem.” Harry says as he starts to urgently search through books.
“Don’t tell him that we’re with Erin and the guys.” Ty says suddenly.
“What why?” Dash replies.
“I don’t know but just not yet ok?”
“Ok dude.” He replies, we’ve built up enough trust over the last couple of days that we know he wouldn’t ask that if it wasn’t important.
“I’m so sorry guys.” Asher says sadly.
“No, he’s still alive I don’t fucking know how but he is. Sen put a stasis spell on the wound when he realised Levi didn’t immediately drop dead.” Ty says seriously for once.
“You didn’t mention that he was that powerful.” Cole mutters sounding seriously impressed.
“That’s because he isn’t. He’s stronger than average like the rest of us but he’s never been strong enough to pull off a stasis spell of that magnitude before.” Asher answers him sounding confused.
I have a feeling the goddess is at work here and in all honesty I would be incredibly surprised if Harry, Ty, Sen and Asher weren’t Cole’s Bonded mates.
The only thing giving me pause is that Cole hasn’t gotten a Soulmate Tattoo yet and the guys don’t have warrior tattoos either.
The only thing I can think is that for some reason they need to be all together for it to trigger even though that’s not how it usually goes.
“He wants the ingredients for the sana et munda spell.” Harry says jumping up and searching through the books. “It’s been a while since we’ve had to use it, I want to double check the ingredients.”
“What’s going on?” Nate asks.
“A bite from a furrure serpens canis viventem is deadly. Death usually occurs immediately.” I can’t help the gasp that escapes me but Asher carries on his explanation.
“Levi didn’t die, in fact it looks like he carried on fighting for a small amount of time before he collapsed.
Sen put a stasis spell on it meaning that he stopped the poison from spreading further.
No one that we know of has ever survived it but the best shot for him to survive now is the sana et munda salve.
Harry makes it but we haven’t used it for a while hence why he wants to make sure that he’s got all the ingredients right. ”
“Fucking hell!” I exclaim as I start to pace.
I wish I could be there for Sage, I can only imagine what she is going through not knowing if Levi is going to pull through. He has to though this whole thing can’t just be for nothing.
The room is plunged into tense silence as Harry finds the book he need and starts to tell Kysen how to prepare it and what to do through the Bond link.
“What I don’t understand is what the fuckers were doing so far from the mountains. Sen shared the route they were on and the creatures shouldn’t have been anywhere near there let alone that many of them.” Asher says into the silence.
“It’s probably got something to do with that creep we told you about.” Jett says.
“If he’s got enough power to control them then Kysen and the others are in even more danger than we imagined.” Asher replies.
“Why don’t we go to them?” Cole suggests.
“Not yet.” Ty says.
Cole looks up to him and studies his features before nodding in agreement.
“They aren’t too far from the next village so he sent all of them but Maverick to go and get the ingredients hopefully they won’t run into any trouble.” Harry says tuning back into the conversation.
“Now we’ve just got to wait.” Asher says, “he’s got the best chance of survival if he’s not dead already.”
“Asher!” Ty admonishes.
“Too blunt?” He says sheepishly.
“It’s fine, we’ve gotten used to it.” Jett says reassuringly.
Cole gets up and walks over to Asher pulling him into his arms and kissing him.
“Don’t worry.” He adds and Asher smirks.
“Well I guess we don’t need to research how to find them now.” I shrug. “I hope Levi’s ok.”
“Sen will let us know if his plan works or not.” Harry says.
I nod. The next couple of hours crawl by at a snails pace, after the first couple of times me and my guys asked how Levi was doing Harry pointed out that if he kept asking then Sen is going to know somethings up and Ty was very sure that he can’t know there’s a link between all of us yet.
So I spend the time pacing the room and chewing my fingers as my men watch me anxiously, they know better than to try to interfere when I’m like this.
After what seems like a century Harry finally speaks.
“Guys!” He says needlessly as all our attention is pretty much on them anyway. “He’s awake! I don’t fucking know how it’s possible but using the salve, Levi’s own obvious strength and Mavericks healing ability and then finally the Soulmate Bond he’s healed.”
“Thank fuck for that!” I exclaim falling back on to the sofa that just so happens to have my guys on.