{Alpha Tyler}

I frowned when I went outside the theater with Mary. She really looked disturbed about that memory she just had and I don't blame her.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

She rubbed the back of her neck and sighed, "I don't know exactly where to begin with this. But what happened back there I had a flashback of something that happened when I was young."

I nodded. "Okay. What happened?"

"Did Lauren tell you that I'm a witch?" Mary asked.

I nodded.

"Okay," said Mary, "in my flashback I casted my first spell that day. I was on a school bus going home from a field trip that day. We were on the highway when I smelled smoke. I tried to tell the bus driver about it and he didn't really notice anything until he saw the smoke. Then he pulled the bus over and the bus caught on fire and that's when I casted my first spell.

"I remember seeing this door appear out of nowhere behind me and I used my magic, grabbed everyone on the bus in it and pretty much tossed them out the door that I had summoned. I walked through the door last and that was right before the bus exploded. Apparently, I had a couple of injuries from casting that spell."

"What were your injuries?" I said.

"Smoke inhalation and a couple of broken ribs," Mary said. "I've been having flashbacks every other day since then. I told my mom about it and she always just shrugged it off and told me not to worry about it. I tried to go to a therapist, meditating, anything I could do to deal with it and nothing has worked. Especially meditating, I even had someone to help me with that and it just pissed me off and didn't work."

"Have you tried just talking to someone about it when it happens? It doesn't have to be a therapist. It could be a friend. You've already told me so you can talk to me when it happens if you want?" I suggested.

Mary nodded. "Sure, we can talk, that's fine."

I raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?"

She nodded again. "Yeah I'm sure honestly, I feel better just telling someone about this. Just don't tell anyone that I told you, okay?"

I nodded. "Sure that's fine. Your secret is safe with me. So is it okay if we're friends then? I'm not talking about any romantic involvement though. That's because your friend Sharry told me that you're relentless about not having a boyfriend yet."

Mary rolled her eyes. "Yes we can be friends. But it doesn't surprise me that Sharry would tell you that considering you're the guy she tried to set me up with. I know when Sharry pulls the whole 'there's someone I want you to meet' line on me she's trying to set me up with the guy."

"Huh," I said, "Why don't you want a boyfriend or girlfriend if you're gay?"

"Okay first of all, I'm not gay," Mary said. "Second now that I think about it I have no idea why I don't want a boyfriend at the moment. I just don't, I guess. Right now Sharry keeps telling me that I'm not a full blooded witch and I have no idea why because there's no way I'm a hybrid."

"What's so bad about being a hybrid? I'm a full blooded werewolf and it wouldn't bother me one bit if I was a hybrid!" I declared.

"Let me put it this way," Mary said, "how would you feel if you grew up thinking you're a full blooded werewolf and then suddenly people start telling you that you're half werewolf and half something else?"

I thought about it and then said, "Well now that you put it that way, that would be kind of hard to deal with."

Mary was getting ready to say something else when I jumped about a foot in the air when I heard Lauren say, "Hey what's going on? You guys missed the rest of the movie! And the ending was awesome! I'm going to go see it again sometime."

Mary gave a nervous chuckle, "It was that good huh?"

Lauren nodded. "Mhm. So what happened? Why'd you guys step out suddenly?"

I didn't want to say anything out loud because I didn't want Mary to be uncomfortable so I mindlinked to Lauren. Something happened that triggered a flashback for Mary at the scene where the bus crashed because the bad guy blew it up.

Oh okay does it have anything to do with that article we found on her saving all of those people on that school bus? Lauren thought.

Yup! That's one, just don't tell her that you know about that, okay? I thought.

Okay then I got it! Lauren thought. She turned to Mary. "Sorry about that, you don't have to tell me what happened if you don't want to, okay?"

Mary breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thanks because I don't want to talk about it anymore."

Lauren nodded. "Okay." She turned to me. "So where do you want to go next?"

"I say we just go home," I said. I looked around and Sasha was nowhere to be found. "Where did Sasha go?"

"Oh, she said she's going home with one of her friends so she'll meet up with us later," Lauren responded.

"Okay then," I said.

We headed to the entrance of the theater and got our driver to drive us home.

***

{Mary}

Later that night once again I couldn't sleep because of that stupid flashback. I sat up in bed in a cold sweat. Great! Perfect! Just perfect! That movie just had to have a scene where the bad guy blows up a bus! Damn it!

What are you going to do? Danger thought.

Well I could go for a run, but I need to figure out how to blow off some steam here. The mansion is huge and I wonder about the area around it. I thought.

Well it would be huge considering you're living amongst a werewolf pack! Maybe you should try and figure out where the boundaries are so you know where you can go and where you can't? Danger thought.

You know what Danger? That's not a bad idea! But you know how I'm going to have to do that right? I thought.

Danger groaned. Yeah I know, that stupid shadow of yours! Why the fuck do witches even hove those things?

I don't know, I thought, From what I was taught it has something to do with controlling a witch's magic and whatnot.

Yeah I know but I still hate it! Danger whined.

Whatever. I thought. I got out of bed and grabbed a pair of sweatpants, socks, gym shoes, and a sweatshirt. I got dressed and headed outside. I smiled because as soon as I got outside I stood underneath the porch light by the back door.

I put my hands together as if I was praying and said, "I call upon the darkness within me, my shadow!"

I couldn't help but smile again when I felt it. I felt my shadow which was basically an outline of me floating right behind me. It stepped out from behind me and smiled when it saw me. "You called master?"

I nodded. "I need you to help me fly so I can figure out where the borders are around here. That way I know where to go and where not to go."

My shadow nodded. "Alright then. You're going to have to attach to me and once you get into the air, you know what to do."

I nodded and grabbed my shadow's hand with my magic and said, "Let's fly!"

I did a running jump and I was up in the air. It had been months since I had used my shadow like this because of my job and whatnot. Once I was up in the air I didn't need my shadow anymore because I sustained my flying with my magic. I just needed my shadow to help me get it started.

I picked a spot on top of the tallest tree I could find and looked around. I can see very well at night because of my magic and I love that about me. I also love the fact of how strong my magic's gotten over the years and I feel like it's getting stronger by the day.

I cupped my hands as if I had a ball in them, a ball of light appeared and I tossed the ball up in the air. The ball spun in the air for a moment or two and then it helped gather the information I needed. I grabbed the ball and I looked into it. I found out where the North direction of the border was along with the South, West and East borders.

I nodded. Looks a lot like this area is huge! Just like I suspected!

The area where my guest was where I was staying was as big as fourteen football fields combined! At least I know where to go and where not to now. I nodded and released the spell I had casted but when I was getting ready to climb down from the tree a door appeared right in front of me. You've got to be fucking kidding me!

Before I could even move the door opened and I got sucked into it.

***

{Alpha Tyler}

I panicked when I saw that door appear in front of Mary. I panicked even more when I saw her get sucked into it. But somehow I was able to find out where she went after she got sucked in. That was the weird part. I know she's my mate and all but I haven't even marked her or declared her to be my Luna yet! So how the hell was I able to do that?

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Well there's no use trying to figure that out when I needed to go find Mary. I found her inside the guest house where she was staying at on the floor in the living room in the fetal position crying. I rushed to her side and my eyes went wide when I saw a lot of blood on the back of her shirt.

"Kill… me…" She whimpered.

"Shhh, I'm not going to do that Mary," I said. I gently rolled her on her side so I could see the wound on her back. I gasped when I lifted up her shirt a little bit and saw what looked like a deep cut on her back.

"Kill… me…" She whimpered again.

"Okay why do you want to die so much?" I asked.

"It hurts and this wasn't supposed to happen!" Mary shrieked. "I'm sorry I was just trying to figure out where I could go and where I couldn't, you know if I went on a jog or something like that. I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

I tried my best to console her but it was really hard to and I don't blame her. So I mind linked to Theo and told him to call the pack doctor over to the guest house.

Once the doctor got here I tried my best to explain what happened and of course it always helps to have video footage to show what happened.

"Oh goodness!" The doctor exclaimed. "Alright let me see what I can do."

I showed the doctor where the wound was.

"Mary," he said gently, "I'm going to have to roll you over a little bit so I can look at the wound on your back."

The doctor turned Mary over as gently as he could. He scrunched up his nose and when grabbed his scissors to cut Mary's shirt he gasped. "Look! I've never seen something like this before?"

"Huh?" I said. The doctor motioned for me to come closer and I gasped. When I saw the wound on Mary's back. There was a tattoo with two swords crossing over each other in the shape of an X. But one of the swords was on top of her back like it was getting to fall out of her back. As soon as I got a look at it the sword shrank down to the size it was before and went back into her back and became part of her tattoo again.

I blinked. "Okay… That was weird."

The doctor nodded. "Yeah but even so she has injuries underneath that tattoo that almost became a real sword."

"Like what?" I asked.

"Magic exhaustion is one thing, a deep cut on her back and thankfully it didn't hit an artery or she'd be bleeding out right now regardless of being a hybrid or not," the doctor answered. "And she also has a fracture on her left wrist from where she fell. Regardless, I need to see her at the hospital. Thankfully since she's half werewolf she'll heal pretty fast."

"Please just whatever you do, don't tell her that she's a hybrid," I said.

The doctor raised an eyebrow. "Why not?"

"She thinks she's a full blooded witch because of magic that her mom casted on her," I said. "I think she wants to accept the truth but because of the magic her mom casted on her, she won't accept it."

The doctor nodded. "Okay then, but either way I'll call an ambulance and we need to get her to the hospital as fast as possible!"

I nodded and the doctor made a call to the hospital and the ambulance came moments later.

***

I sat in the waiting room at the hospital waiting for the doctor to give me the green light so that I could go into her room and see how she was doing. Before the doctor came back Theo, Lauren, Mom and Dad came bursting into the waiting room in a panic.

"What the hell happened?" Mom said.

I was glad that I got what happened to Mary on camera so I took out my phone and showed everyone what happened.

Mom gasped. "Okay that is freaky! I didn't realize that Mary was that powerful that she could actually fly! But then again, she is half witch and all…"

"Whatever you do, please don't tell her that, she thinks she's a full blooded witch and I don't think she's going to accept the truth anytime soon," I said.

Mom and Dad nodded.

Then the doctor came out and said, "Okay Mary is stable for now and she'll probably be waking up soon. You can go visit her Alpha Tyler. But I suggest that only you be there. Mary might get overwhelmed if there's too many people in her room when she wakes up."

I nodded and followed the doctor to Mary's room. It was as if Mary could sense that I was there because the moment I got there she woke up. She looked around completely bewildered. "Uh why am I in a hospital?"

I frowned. "You don't remember what happened?"

She shook her head. "Not really."

"Okay," I said, "What's the last thing you remember?"

"Ah well I remember being on top of a tree and a door appearing in front of me out of nowhere and then I got sucked into it and that's pretty much it," Mary said.

"Okay then it's a good thing I have video footage of it," I said.

She paused. "Huh?"

"Here, take a look at this," I said. I handed her my phone and she watched the video footage in horror and I don't blame her.

"I did that?" Mary asked.

I nodded. "Yeah you did."

Mary sighed. "Shit. Why me?"

"Yeah, I know it's pretty hard to believe but I think your magic is stronger than you think it is," I said. "But I think I know of a way that I can help you with that."

"Huh?" She said.

"Yup well I know of someone who trains people that are supernatural's that can't control their magic," I explained. "And right now, seeing that you can summon a door out of nowhere, it stands to reason that you can't control your magic."

"Alright so when can I go see this person?" Mary said.

"As soon as you get out of the hospital and are recovered," I said.

She nodded. "Sounds good to me!"

***

{Mary}

Another week passed and I was cleared to leave the hospital. I didn't expect to be in there that long but okay. As soon as I got out of the hospital Tyler took me to see that person who can train supernatural's that can't control their powers. Yeah I'd say I need this because the last thing I need is to cast a spell that I can't control and put everyone that is around me in danger. I'm going to assume that since Tyler said he was a werewolf that the others who live with him who are his family at least are werewolves too.

Of course I could do without Danger screaming the word 'MATE!' inside my head like a schoolgirl that's around her first crush every I'm around Tyler now. I keep telling her to shut up but I think she does it on purpose just to get on my nerves.

Finally the day came that Tyler took me to go see the one who could help me control my magic or at least begin to. For some reason I wasn't surprised that whoever this person was that could help me lived in a mountain and all the way up at the top of it too.

Once we got to the cave we had to go very far back into the deepest darkness of the cave to get to where this lady was at. We finally reached a steel door and Tyler knocked on it.

"WHO IS IT? AND WHY THE HELL ARE YOU AT MY DOOR?!" A voice boomed from behind it.

Tyler took a step back and then composed himself, "Hey Marley it's me Alpha Tyler! I have someone who needs your help with controlling her powers."

I blinked. "Wait a minute, did you just say Alpha Tyler?"

He nodded. "Yeah why?"

"That pretty much means you're the leader of your werewolf pack-" I didn't get to finish my sentence because the steel door opened with a loud clanking noise.

"Well it's about damn time the Gate Wielder came here and here I thought I wasn't going to see this vision come true in my lifetime." I heard a elderly woman's voice say.

The woman looked old enough to be my grandma, how old she was exactly I had no idea. Her hair was all white and she had piercing green eyes. She was wearing a black robe with a gold sash tied around her waist. In her left hand was a black cane.

"Oh uh Mary this is-" Tyler started.

"I do believe that I can introduce myself wolf boy!" The woman said. She smiled at me. "I am the one who helps supernatural's such as yourself, Mary. Just call me Grandma Sorceress!"

I blinked and then nodded. "Uh okay then, sure."

"Well don't just stand there you two," Grandma Sorceress said, "Come on in!"

As soon as we set foot inside the place the steel door slammed shut behind us with a loud bang. I looked around the place in awe. The inside of the place looked like the inside of a mansion with the marble floors and gold plated railing on the stairs. In front of me was a statue of a man holding up a huge ball and he was dressed like a Greek god.

Grandma Sorceress chuckled, "Yeah I know the guy's pretty hot isn't he? That's why I keep him around."

I shook my head. "That's not what I was thinking, but okay then."

"Anyway, the place we're going is just up the stairs," Grandma Sorceress said.

My jaw dropped when I saw her take out a wand and she waved in a circle in the air. When she did that a door appeared in front of us. We walked into the door and on the other side was a white room. The walls in the room were painted white, and the table in the room was also painted white and the room had no windows whatsoever. I can't speak for Tyler but this room gave me the creeps.

Grandma Sorceress smiled. "Come in and sit down, don't worry I will summon enough chairs for all of us."

She flicked her wand and three chairs appeared out of thin air and she placed them around the table that was in the middle of the room. She motioned for us to sit down and when we did she said, "I can guess what you might be thinking why are we in this room, huh? Well this is my evaluation room. This place helps me see what's going wrong with your powers and figure out how to control them. Honestly I don't think I need to do much of an examination to know what's wrong with your powers and how to control them."

I nodded. "Okay. So what's wrong with my powers?"

"A few things are wrong," said Grandma Sorceress, "first thing, your chastity belt needs to be removed. It can only be removed by your mate or what witches call the soul bond."

"Uh, soul bond?" Tyler asked.

Grandma Sorceress nodded. "Mhm, it's more like the mating bonding but instead of just connecting your love for one another the soul bond literally bonds the souls of the true lovers together."

"Is there a chance that the soul bond can be broken?" Tyler asked, giving me a worried look.

Grandma Sorceress shook her head. "Nope! Not to mention the soul bond makes it so that you have to be faithful to your mate no matter what. And that goes for both parties involved, the wife and the husband. Fortunately, the soul bond can't be forced on anyone. It has to be a choice, true arranged marriages take place within the coven but they tend to fall apart as soon either the wife or the husband finds their soulmate.

"The other reason the chastity belt is a problem is because of the magic that parents weave into it before the belt is put on. The spell that I hate the most is the Self-Denial spell. That's one of the spells that's been woven into your chastity belt."

Before I could ask more questions about this Grandma Sorceress said, "Okay moving on to the next issue with your powers is that they're growing too strong so strong in fact that your shadow is having problems controlling it. The last problem with your powers is that your powers are so strong that it's summoning gates out of nowhere therefore putting you and possibly others around you in danger. The gates that you summon look like doors. Once your magic opens a door it's possible that whoever is around you at the moment can be sucked in and that includes yourself and who knows where you'll end up.

"Although, from what I've noticed so far, if your powers sense danger around you the door that's being summoned will drop you and whoever got sucked in to safety. But from the last one that you got sucked into dropped into an area that you got injured on. You weren't really in any danger at the time but I think what happened was that it was a power spike."

I paused. "A power spike?"

"Yup," said Grandma Sorceress, "a power spike. It's a spike in power, believe it or not werewolves have this too. But, it only happens when you shift into your wolf for the first time. However when it comes down to a witch their power spikes can happen when their magic gets too strong. Think of it as a circuit breaker blowing a fuse because there's too much electricity going through it so to speak."

I nodded. "I see, so how do I go about controlling my powers?"

"Well as far as the chastity belt goes you can have your, ahem mate take care of that," Grandma Sorceress said, making a motion towards Tyler. I tried not to laugh when I saw his face go beat red. She smiled at me and continued, "As far your power spikes go you need to learn how to channel your magic. You can do this by hand to hand combat training. You remember how you started training to learn how to connect with your magic and your shadow?"

I nodded. "Yes."

"It's similar to that but more advanced," said Grandma Sorceress. "And with your gates channeling your magic should help with that too. Not to mention adding your swords will help control it."

I paused. "Uh swords? What do you mean by that?"

Grandma Sorceress cleared her throat and flicked her wand. Out of thin appeared a mirror. She smiled. "Now spin around and have your back facing towards the mirror."

I did as she commanded and another mirror appeared in front of me so I could see what she was talking about. My eyes went wide when I saw the tattoo on my back that was floating outside my shirt. "Uh, okay? What the-"

"That 'tattoo' that you think is a tattoo on your back isn't a tattoo," said Grandma Sorceress. She smiled at me and said proudly, "Those swords signify that not only are you a Gate Wielder you are also a Double Knighted Wolf!"