{Alpha Tyler}

Watching Trinity train motivates me to train harder. That's because she trains as hard as she can, but she does have a tendency to push herself to the limit sometimes. Even though her Dad and General Alex have been monitoring her closely to make sure she doesn't push herself, she still manages to do it anyway.

Today watching Trinity train she was still working on her fighting stances and just learning how to fight in general.

"Your fighting stance is a bit off again," General Alex said.

Trinity paused. She was getting ready to land a hit when General Alex stepped in and blocked the attack. He corrected her fighting again for what seemed the tenth time during the practice fights and she did her best to mimic it. That seemed to be the issue she's been having trouble with when it comes down to sword fighting.

It's kind of a relief to know that someone who's a really strong fighter has a weak point that she needs to work on. I also think she needs to work on not pushing herself so much and let other people help her out with her problems.

She still needs to work on coming out of her shell and thanks to Sasha, Alpha Harry and Alpha Luke attacking her, she's gone back into her shell even more now. Every time I've tried to talk to her about what happened to her she shuts down on me. I get it, it's hard for someone to talk about what trauma they've been through but I'm her husband. She should feel safe talking to me about this right?

After Trinity got done with her training today I could tell she tried her hardest to push herself again. She put away her swords and staggered over to where I was sitting at the bleachers next to the training area.

I gave her a look of concern. "Are you okay?"

She nodded. I shook my head. "No, you're not okay. I can tell you pushed yourself again. Why do you keep doing that?"

"Because I have to get stronger," She said. "I can't protect my family if I'm not strong."

"Are you referring to-" I started.

She cut me off, "That's exactly what I'm referring to! I mean sure I can kill my enemies mercilessly but what can I do if I keep breaking the second rule of combat all the time?"

"Trinity, you were sleeping when you were kidnapped," I reasoned. "Not to mention you had a silver chain on you when you were being attacked. Even the strongest Alpha's are weak against silver!"

"But on that same note what I don't get is that I get a key to embed itself into my skin and not have much pain but when I get poisoned that's when silver affects me?" Trinity said. She started to cry and I picked her up and placed her in my arms.

I rubbed her back trying to console her as she cried.

"I don't understand…" She sobbed.

"You don't understand what?" I asked.

"Why am I so weak?" She cried.

I paused and my jaw dropped because I had no idea what to tell her. Her emotions were eating at her a lot worse than I thought. She thinks that just because she gets attacked the way she did that means she's weak?

You've got to be kidding me! Jacob growled. Our mate thinks she's weak! It's too bad I can't resurrect Sasha so I can kill her again!

It's safe to say Jacob was boiling in anger. I kind of was too but I kept a lid on my feelings because at the moment Trinity just needed a shoulder to cry on and as her husband I was more than willing to give her that.

She finally got done crying and I picked her up and carried to our room. When I laid her down on the bed she fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

Even though she's dead now I really REALLY wish I could resurrect her just so I could kill her again! Our mate feels weak when she's not! She was and still is every Alpha's dream mate! Jacob snarled.

Okay, Jacob calm down! Take a deep breath and calm yourself! I thought.

Despite my advice Jacob wouldn't calm down, so I figured it would be a good idea to summon Brandy to watch Trinity while I went to go train. I hoped through training that would calm Jacob down and if that didn't work I would have to get permission to go hunting and let him out to play.

Once I left the room after making sure Trinity would be looked after and safe I went over to the training area. When I saw Mr. Scott he smiled at me. "Let me guess, you're ready to rip a punching bag apart right aren't you?"

I nodded. "Yup! But I'd rather kill someone instead. I can't do that and get away with it so I'll settle for the punching bag."

He went from smiling to giving me a look of concern. "Damn, that's not good. What's wrong?"

I sighed, "Trinity seems to think she's weak."

His eyes went wide. "Wait… What! Trinity thinks she's weak? Why?"

I hesitated for a moment but then I said, "It's because of what happened when she got attacked. She feels that she keeps breaking the second rule of combat because of that. I don't know how to help her get her confidence back up, but at least I can offer her support. Jacob on the other hand is really pissed off about it and that I can understand. Which is exactly why I'm a little bit irritated at the moment."

"I see," Mr. Scott said. "Yeah I'm at a loss on how to help Trinity out. I keep trying to tell her not to doubt herself but I didn't realize that self doubt came from her feeling weak."

He had a gloomy look on his face. I could tell that he was just as upset as I was about how Trinity was feeling. Honestly, I'm stumped. I have no idea how to help my mate out.

"Well I think the only thing we can do together is help her build self esteem back up," Mr. Scott said. "As far as what you can do to help her out, you need to get her to come out of her shell as much as possible. If you can get her to talk to you about what happened, help her face her pain. Other than that I don't really have any other ideas on how to help her. It is not going to happen overnight. But we can at least try."

Strangely enough that statement seemed to calm Jacob down a bit. I paused.

"What?" Mr. Scott asked.

"Jacob seems to have calmed down a bit," I said. "I think he just needed an idea to help our mate out."

"Well I say we do a sparring match and then go hunting and that should help you and Jacob relax finally," He said.

I nodded and we did just that and I felt relaxed after that.

***

{Trinity}

I tossed and turned trying to sleep but I couldn't. I was having nightmares left and right lately and I was starting to feel restless because the Black Lotto Ceremony was coming up in two weeks!

I kept thinking that I need to get stronger than what I am so that way no one will attack me the way Sasha did again. I get it, I'm a Celestial but I still need to sleep blah, blah, blah. But that still doesn't make me feel any better about things. Ever since I got attacked I've had nothing but self doubt and even though Dad and Tyler have been encouraging me to come out of my shell, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.

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I was sitting in my room doing absolutely nothing. I wasn't even talking to Brandy at this point when someone knocked on the door.

"I got it!" Brandy jumped off the bed and ran to the door.

She opened the door and Grandma came in. I really didn't feel like talking to her either but I talked to her out of respect. But before I could say anything, Grandma ran up to me and gave a bear hug and practically picked me off the bed doing so.

"So how's my Granddaughter doing?" Grandma asked after she put me back down on the bed.

I shrugged. "I'm fine."

She sighed, "You're not fine. I can tell, talk to me."

I looked at her. "What's there to talk about? Tell me, can you understand anything that I've been through lately?"

She shook her head. "No I can't and I'm even going to pretend that I can because I can't. Please talk to me."

"Like I said, what is there to talk about?" I said. "This is my problem to deal with, not yours. Honestly, I should just go back to what I was doing before and keep my problems to myself. The less people know about them the better. The less people share in my problems the-"

"Okay Trinity, take a deep breath and calm down," Grandma said. "You can't hold everything in, you need help and you have people willing to help."

"But if they help, then they'll get hurt too!" I snapped. When I realized I snapped at her I backed off. "Sorry."

Grandma shook her head rapidly. "Oh, no, no, no! Don't ever feel bad about your feelings. I understand you're upset so of course you're going to snap every once and a while."

I sighed, "Alright fine."

"Come on, you can talk to me and you can talk to Tyler about it. He is your husband after all," Grandma said reassuringly.

I bit the inside of my cheek and debated on how to tell her how I felt. I decided to tell her about the fact that now I feel like a weak failure and I don't know if I'll be able to protect myself or my family anymore.

Grandma's jaw dropped after what I told her. "Listen Trinity, you aren't weak! If anything you're the strongest Celestial I know! You're stronger than I am!"

I rolled my eyes at that statement. "Yeah sure whatever you say Grandma. You're the Queen of the Celestial Kingdom, there's no way I'm stronger than you."

She shrugged. "Alright, believe whatever you want. I'm telling you that you're strong and not weak. The moment you stop believing that you're weak will be the moment you get strong again."

I paused. "Huh, I never thought of it that way before. I don't think it's that simple though."

She chuckled, "I know it's not. But try to at least take some steps in getting there."

I nodded. "I'm not making any promises but I'll try."

Grandma leaned over and hugged me again. After that she left the room and Brandy came back and replaced her. I went back to doing absolutely nothing.

***

Eventually I fell asleep and when I woke up I was in a space that reminded me of when I was trapped in Limbo. Only this time when I called out, I heard Danger reply, "In case you're wondering and I'm pretty sure you are wondering this is your realm."

I raised an eyebrow. "My realm?"

"Yup!" I heard Chad say before Danger could reply. "Consider this realm a safe haven for you. Think about this as your own private room where you can go but others can't without your say so. Every powerful Celestial has one of these places."

"So how do I get here?" I asked.

"That's an easy question," Charlotte said. "Teleportation spell! A specific teleportation spell for this realm only. And you can bring other people with you but only if you want to."

"How did I get here in my sleep?" I asked, "Or was I asleep and just teleported out of nowhere and if that was the case I hope I didn't scare the crap out Brandy! The-"

"Nope, Brandy's not freaking out and neither is Tyler. You're fine," Danger said. "As a matter of fact, the High Council Members have given you clearance to create this place and you somehow managed to do that in your sleep."

I paused. "High Council Members? What the heck is that?"

"They're a group that help pass laws and hand out punishment to different powerful gods and powerful Celestial's, and they also give clearance to do stuff like this if it's needed," Danger explained.

"I see," I said. "So why the hell am I getting a realm like this when I'm not that strong. Okay maybe in the past I would've accepted that statement, but now…"

Danger groaned, "Seriously? You really need to work on the whole 'victim complex' thing. You getting attacked like that wasn't your fault! You didn't break the second rule of combat because the second rule of combat doesn't apply when you're asleep! And I don't care if it gets on your nerves or not. I'm going to keep saying this until it knocks some sense into you."

Chad came up to me and patted me on the back. "Danger's right, you know. You have your family and you have us to help you through this. If your family doesn't knock some sense into you then we will!"

I laughed, "Okay then, whatever you say."

Danger perked up, "Hey now that we're here I say we decorate!"

I paused. "Decorate?"

"Well duh this is your realm, so you can do anything you want with it!" Charlotte exclaimed.

I thought about it, "The first thing I want to put in is a waterfall."

***

{Alpha Tyler}

I woke up to Trinity staring at me with a smile on her face. I thought it was good that she was smiling and I could tell from the mate bond that she was excited about something. I raised an eyebrow. "What are you smiling about?"

"I have something to show you!" Trinity said. She grabbed my hand and a bright flash of light happened and the next time I opened my eyes I looked around in awe.

Off to the left of me was a waterfall and in front of me was a nice clear forested area with a river going through it. Actually, looking around it seemed to be nothing but a forested area surrounding me.

"Isn't it wonderful?" Trinity said with excitement.

I tilted my head. "You brought us to a forest?"

"It's not just any forest, this is my realm! You can meet all of my spirit beings in here and you won't have to talk to them just through the mind link," Trinity said.

I paused and gave her a look of confusion. "Huh?"

"Yup! She's right, this is kind of like Grandma Sorceress's Realm!" I heard Danger say. I turned around and saw Danger in all her glory. I looked over at Trinity and was surprised to see Trinity and Danger standing side by side.

"Hey there, my name is Chad and I'm Trinity's Gate Wielder Being," I looked over to see a guy that looked like the male version of Trinity. He held out his hand and I shook it.

"And I'm Charlotte, I'm Trinity's shadow!" I looked to see standing next to Chad, a young woman that I swear could be Trinity's twin sister, identical twin sister except for the color of her eyes. This woman's eyes were green and Trinity's eyes were gray.

"And I'm here too!" I heard Jacob say.

I blinked when I turned around and saw Jacob standing there giving me a lazy smile. "What the hell?"

"I told you, this is my realm, and there's no need for a mindlink because you can talk to your other half in person," Trinity said. "But you can only come here if I say you can!"

"Why?" I asked.

She rolled her eyes. "Because this is my realm and not yours, duh! Haven't you been listening to a word I've been saying?"

Jacob rolled his eyes next. "Apparently not, don't mind Tyler he's still clueless!"

Trinity, Danger, Chad and Charlotte burst into laughter.

"Ha, ha, very funny," I said.

Trinity stopped laughing and smiled at me. I smiled back at her because it was great to see her smiling about something instead of being angry all the time.

"Do you want me to show you around?" Trinity asked. "Because I like the decorations we put in this place!"

"Yup!" Danger said proudly. "I encouraged her to put things in here that would help keep her calm, that way when she gets super angry then she can come here and calm down instead of taking her anger out on people."

I smirked. "Well that's good but I don't know how much it'll help considering her mood swings are so bad right now."

Chad shrugged. "Eh, we'll figure it out. I'm just surprised you haven't asked why Trinity's Gate Wielder Being is a guy and not a girl along with everyone else."

I paused. "Oh yeah why is that? That's weird."

Charlotte shook her head. "We have no idea. Maybe the Moon Goddess has a weird sense of humor that she used when she chose Trinity's spirit beings?"

"Yeah I might have to ask the Moon Goddess about that if I can see her again," Trinity said.

"I still can't believe you actually met her!" I said with a smile.

Trinity agreed, "You can say that again! If she hadn't showed up to rescue me from Limbo then I probably would've died completely."

"Wow," I said. At this point I couldn't stop smiling at the fact that Trinity was happy about something for a change!

Trinity looked at me. "What's that look for?"

"I'm just happy that you're smiling about something for a change instead of being pissed off at people all the time," I responded.

"Oh," She looked away when her face turned red.

"Aww you're cute when your face turns red like that," I teased.

Danger cleared her throat. "Anyway, Trinity, I think we should show Jacob and Tyler around, don't you think?"

Trinity nodded and when she showed me around her realm, I must say Danger made a good suggestion of adding in things that can make Trinity calm. Trinity's favorite place in her realm is the waterfall. I don't blame her for that, the waterfall has a pretty calming effect. That's a good thing because when Trinity's then I'm happy too.