The Guardian (4 page)

Everyone in the bar was looking at what had
just happened and others started to stand up from their tables,
taking turns looking at each other and in John’s direction. John
was thinking to himself: Damn it, how do I get into trouble on my
first day in town. Various men from different tables started to
make their way towards John. Some were cracking their knuckles, but
all had the intent of harm in their eyes. John was stepping
backwards realizing that there was no way out of this. The first
man lunged at John with a knife and he side stepped and used his
hand to guide the knife away while taking a hold of the man’s wrist
coming around the back of the man forcing his arm from behind the
man’s shoulder until his elbow met the man’s chin. In one swift
movement John went down onto his one knee forcing the man into a
strange back bend and used his knee away from the attackers elbow
using the hand on the wrist of the attacker to use his knee as a
lever against the elbow forcing the man to drop the knife. John
stood up and kicked the guy in the face, getting ready for the next
attacker. The man rolled onto his side grabbing his elbow in
extreme pain it seems John used enough force on it to cause actual
damage; this is not as John was taught. One after another men
attacked him and he would rather put them to the ground or use the
attacker’s body as a projectile into another attacker. John was
feeling different as this battle kept going a strange strength was
coming over him and a feeling that the girl in his dreams was
coming.

A white flash of light came before his eyes;
it was a response to the blinding force of the blow he had just
taken from behind. A man had picked up a chair and slammed John in
the back of the head with it smashing it to pieces. John turned
around completely engulfed in rage he hit the man left, right, left
and then and upper hook to the bottom of the man’s chin sending him
flying off his feet and into the wall that was over 5 feet behind
him. John was not himself, feeling power he had never felt before
and not knowing what to think. He spun around and began to beat on
the attacks throwing them like they were nothing until the bar keep
came out from around the bar and picked John up off his feet by his
neck. The bar keep’s eyes had changed yellow and John hit him in
the throat. The bar man let him go and John quickly with no
hesitation ran his right arm up and in between the bar keeps legs
standing up and spinning lifting him up of his feet and grabbing
him by his collar slammed him head first into the ground. He felt
someone else grab his should, but this time it was different he
could feel a strange feeling of power being transferred to the
other person. Galechka could also feel this strange surge of
electricity going between him. He knew it was she and she knew it
was him, suddenly John lost conscience.

Galechka quickly reacting using her vampire
strength flung him up onto her shoulder before he could hit the
ground. She stood fully erect with John laying limp on her
shoulder, helpless and completely at her whim. “What the hell
happened here!” she demanded. The bar keep up on one knee with his
hand resting on it looked at her, panting with blood dripping from
his skull,” some of the men attacked him, ”panting a little more,”
before I knew it, they all attacked him and he was ripping the
place apart with them. What is he, he out powered me.” Galechka
tapping the toes of her shoes in a sign of impatience, “Are you
telling me, a wolf could not handle a simple human?” Wiping his
face with his hand out of frustration he replied, “Human my ass! No
human his size could pick me up and slam me to the ground like
that.” Galechka looked in disbelief he is but a mere human. Clean
this up. And did any one notice anything?” The bar keep standing to
his feet, “No, nothing no one.” Galechka headed towards the door
with the almost lifeless body draped over her shoulder. She took
care in placing him in her passenger seat. She was so angry, as she
drove back to the castle. The anger over whelmed her: What was he
doing here? How did he find her? This was her life and how does he
keep ending up in it. Knowing she loved him deep down it angered
her she needed to be a free person with on one to hold her down.
Little did she know: The man in the seat next to her would give
everything he had including his life for her.

The main doors of the castle slammed open
with the wind gusting through the entrance way of the old castle.
The wind smelled of the Baltic Sea that was only a stone’s throw
away from the castle. Several on lookers were shocked to see
Galechka caring what seemed to be a lifeless body through the door
and up one side of the stair case the spiraled down on both sides
of great room attached to the entrance way. This connected the end
of the hallway to the second floor that had a hand rail that
allowed you to look down onto the elegant and old stone floors of
the great room. The room was for the most part a circular room and
each floor was over fifteen feet and the walls were all stone. This
room had only two stories and the ceiling had old wooden trusses
running across it that in turn had what seemed to be an ancient
chandelier that had the candles replaced with lights.

Galechka not knowing what to do took the
John into her room and laid him down on her bed. Carefully, to
placing his head softly on the pillow trying not to cause any
damage to him that he had already caused to himself. She already
knew that the castle was a buzz about her human that she had
drugged in, in the middle of the night. She sat at the far corner
of the bed looking at him, with her palm resting over her mouth and
nose thinking: What do I do with you? The others will want to kill
you and I cannot allow that. Why do I want to protect you? She
looked up at the ceiling of her room looking past the canopy on her
bed that was draped in white cotton, wishing she knew what to do.
She inched her way towards him, lightly caressing his face with her
small hands. “How did you slam a wolf of his size? Please tell me
why you are here,” she said softly.

She heard a rapping at the door before
seeing Adela open the door seeming to float in without needing to
take any steps. She moved so eloquently that it was as if she never
took a step under her long dresses. “The boys are all worked up
over your little guest,” Adela seemed happy as she was softly
speaking,” They said you brought your food home tonight.” Galechka
leaned her head looking at Adela with a look as to say: What can I
do. Adela ran her hand through Galechka’s hair trying to calm her;”
We have much to speak of young one. You did the right thing and
there is much I need to tell you.” Galechka looked up at her and
said,” Adela I do not know why this man haunts me.” Adela laughed
slightly,” He is going to drive you nuts my dear. He will love you
more than he loves anything else including himself. You will not
understand for a while,” Adela now smiling and rolling her eyes as
she held Galechka’s head in her chest,” You make him stronger and
better. I know you and you are a free spirit and you need to
understand that he will always want to protect you.” Galechka
pulling back from Adela trying to compose herself, “What do you
mean protect me? Almost died again, this is the second time I saved
him.” Adela walked towards John laid on the bed and sat down beside
him,” You will need to take care of him, while he gains strength.
He will have moments like this, when he will use up all his
strength and then he will get stronger. He is what we use to call a
Guardian and speaking of one is forbidden. You see there used to be
a few of them, they were rare, but each one belonged to a vampire
like a life mate. They are born to belong to a vampire and when
they meet the Guardian starts to gain strength. Sometimes the
vampire it belongs to gains strength too. The ancients ordered them
all killed in fear that as the guardian would gain strength it
might be able to kill an ancient. My guardian was the last one
known of.” Galechka looked puzzled by this,” What do you mean? Are
you saying he is my guardian? No one has ever or will ever control
me!” Adela not surprised by the defiant stance that Galechka took
stood up from John and looked sternly began to speak,” He is yours
and the name is just the name, because they will do anything it
takes to guard your life. If a guardian’s vampire dies, he dies
pretty shortly after of a broken heart. Each one has different
attributes and strengths a lot like we do. You need to protect him
when he is week and push him to grow. My dear I believed this whole
time that he was going to be drawn to you.”

A knock at the door came and Adela said,
“Come in Vitaliy.”

Vitaliy came through the door looking at the
body sprawled out on the bed, “So, is that what I think that is my
lady?” Adela winked at her faithful servant and winked,” Yes, it is
my dear friend.” Vitaliy clasped his hands together and paused for
a moment, “So, you’re telling our little Galechka has her own
guardian?” “I am right here in the room you know, “barked
Galechka,”Why are you two so happy about this?” Adela motioned for
Vitaliy to tell her why,” My dear child we have been waiting for a
long time to be out from under the thumb of the other covens,”
raising his hand to point at John on the bed with a long velvet
coat that was trimmed in lace and the cuffs and had silver cuff
links, “A guardian is the only thing that can give us a chance to
takeout the ancients and give us real freedom.” Adela butted in,
“They have always feared the guardians and that is why they were
hunted to extinction, until now; my dear your instincts took you
across the ocean to save him and his brought him back to you. Do
you not believe that this is something bigger than you can
understand?” The young female vampire had confusion in her eyes as
she looked down upon the man that had fell across her path once
again, wondering what to do about this. Adela spoke up,” We have
pressing issues and will leave you alone with him. Be kind to
him.”

After the two stepped out into the hallway
they began to speak in an ancient tongue that none of the younger
vampires knew to avoid them knowing what was being said.” Adela,
are you sure? Are you sure we can trust him with her?” “My old
friend, are you afraid that she will feed on him, or turn him?” “My
lady I know that we step upon glass in order not to offend her. We
are so careful not to enrage her anger, we both know she is
different and has her moments.” Adela sighed and took a moment,”
She is different, but the connection is undeniable between them.
She will probably rip his heart a lot with her confusing enchanting
ways, but he will grow stronger; in turn his guardian devotion to
her will drive her mad, but they will grow stronger together.”
Adela spun around in front of Vitaliy placing one hand on his
shoulder and one on his cheek patting his face softly, whispering:
“My old friend you need to trust me, because I alone know what the
bond is like.” Vitaliy smiled slightly and replied, “Yes, I
remember how you and yours were,” laughing softly, “You two were a
great team. Adela I hope you realize that we do have cause for
concern with Drakus’s concerns. I heard them talking about using
their connections to take out a younger coven that was out of
control and using their humans as the weapon. The spoke of saying
the coven were zombies caused by some unknown drug. My lady they
decided against it this time, but with them having this on the
plate we are all in a far more dangerous place than we believed.”
Adela did not look at all surprised and nodded with her hand cupped
over her mouth as she thought, “I believed this much could come to
be, meaning his arrival is perfect timing. We need to train him as
fast and quick as we can before they realize we have what they fear
the most.” Vitaliy’s eyes looking to his ladies in order for her to
see that he was with her, “Of course my lady. How will we handle
the training?” Adela with an evil smile upon her beautiful soft
pink lips whispered:” We will use the wolves to train him. Crawl
will be his trainer.” Vitaliy looked confused, “Why?” “Because they
are for sure never to warn the others of his existence, before we
can get him up to strength. We will then use our best hunters to
train him, “she sighed, “I pray that time is on our side, before
they find out about him and come hunting.”

Hours had past as the young female paced
back and forth on the old wooden floors, she was dressed in form
fitting black pants, a peach colored, woven shirt under the white
cotton turtle neck that she was wearing beneath it. Her mannerisms
were like non-other, her eyes were bewildering and you never really
understood where her focal point was at. She could mesmerize anyone
with her beautifully eccentric oddities to her mannerisms. She kept
pondering to herself: How could he have hurled and slammed Alex in
such away, a hundred and sixty five pound man tossing a two hundred
and sixty plus pound man like a rag doll. She cogitated what his
potential might be, could he actually be what Adela believed. These
were the questions that were racing throughout her mind as she
paced the called wooden floors of her bedroom in this ancient old
castle.

John started twitching on the bed catching
Galechka’s attention; she sprung over to his side and sat beside
him caressing him trying to calm down whatever nightmare might be
bothering the man that it seemed she was falling for. Behind the
rapidly shuddering eyes was a clear vision of what happened on that
night a long, long time ago. All four of them were taking a cruise
in Keith’s new lancer, blasting music and laughing as he wiped
around the corners. John’s girlfriend Kathy was sitting in the
front while John had taken the back with Tom. Kathy insisted that
she should get shot gun for this trip. All of them were cracking
the usual jokes to each other same as usual and then out of nowhere
as they screeched around the corner with the tires squawking, an
old lady appeared out of the blue; Keith grabbed his wheel yanking
it to the right to avoid her and then to the left trying to
correct, while over correcting the car began to tip. Frantic Keith
tried to do little corrections to his steering praying to gain
control. Every person in the car was holding their breath, hoping
for the best until the car began to flip off of its wheels, this is
when everyone began to scream; Kathy’s was more blood curdling than
anyone else’s. All bracing their hands onto the roof as the car
spun off of its wheels, the far tip of the driver’s side of the
hood was the first to make contact with the ground and then the
roof. The roof not only slammed into the road beneath it but
bounced off and back down three or four times as the cars rocketed
forward grinding and sliding across the pavement. Sliding
erratically until hitting a pot hole sending the car back up into
the air this time having the passenger side roof make contact with
the ground since it was not the side heading forward leading the
car to roll, flip and jump up from time to time until it slammed
into the side of the building, bouncing off and coming to a
standstill a few feet away from the wall. Glass was smashed and
flung throughout the car, the car resembled a crumpled up beer can
that was then ejected onto the city streets. They were all hanging
from their seat belts, Keith and Tom were out cold and Kathy was
screaming, kicking and thrashing about trying to get loose from her
suspended prison that was her seatbelt. John could feel the warm
blood running down his face unsure of how bad it was, but he was
too preoccupied with trying to calm down Kathy who was about to
lose her mind out of fear.