chapter Four

Keith was in his bedroom sitting on the floor often forgetting he has a tail now, and that would get caught often in doors closing behind him. Keith looked at Kirsten then pointed to the fridge, “Mm food?” Keith shook his head to say no, “No thank you then, I’m not thirsty”
Keith heaved his huge shoulders upwards to do a shrug accidentally bumping a book shelf, causing more then a few novels to fall to the ground, ignoring the mess Keith walked over to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water turning around as the door closed he felt a tug and realized he caught his tail in the fridge door, which unfortunately sealed like a safe. Tugging desperately with his free hand on his tail praying the fridge wont come with it he jerked forward’s stumbled and spilt his drink on Kirsten who thought this whole ordeal was funnier then what she was watching on t v.
Should I ask, I may as well The thoughts echoed to Keith they radiated from the woman which perked his attention “Am I going to become a werewolf?” Kirsten had worked out she can only ask Keith yes or no questions Keith shook his head to show he meant no. “Oh” Kirsten didn’t even try to hide her disappointment but revealed she wasn’t surprised by the answer.
“So are you always like this?” the woman asked shyly, as if not sure if it’s an appropriate question, Keith just looked back at her questionably “like a werewolf I mean” she continued, Keith shook his head to say no, and the woman wondered how long he’s been a werewolf but understood he couldn’t answer.
Keith wondered back to the window trying to block the woman’s thoughts from entering his head.

There was a sharp knock at the door to disturb Keith from his dream like state marching from the window towards the door he was greeted by a human dressed in servant uniform “Erm’ master Sutherland, Lady Prestor had requested your presence in the dojo.” The butler turned around and walked briskly towards the stairs.
As Keith stepped out the door he quickly looked back at Kirsten in a vain attempt to show he will come back, shutting the large oak door behind himself, mindful of his tail Keith looked for indication’s of some kind of dojo after walking around for what seemed an eternity he came across a gym, decorated with weapon’s and robes inside was Danielle and Logan, Danielle had a pair of double bladed axes she seemed to hold with ease they were only a foot long but the combined length of the blades was also almost a foot long and looked extremely heavy she took a swing at Logan with her right hand weapon, the lycan's large left hand fist stopped the axe blade at the base where Danielle was holding it at blinding speed, Danielle remained calm as she sent her right foot into Logan’s arm, with enough time to free her hand and make another swing for Logan’s neck, Logan ducked back narrowly avoiding the blade, Logan kicked out which hit Danielle squarely in the chest, the audible sound of the wind being knocked out of the woman could be heard echoing through the room, as Danielle flew through the air Logan was on his feet, out of his combat stance and breathing much easier.
“Ah, Logan you bested me again, and this is the only reason why I choose to keep you as a friend” she said with a laugh and there was a huffing noise as Logan laughed too.
“You can come in now Keith our match is over, Keith entered embarrassed he thought they were to busy to notice him there.
“In combat we are always mindful of our surroundings Keith, even where we feel safest” Danielle spoke like she had given these sorts of instructions before.
“Keith pay attention Logan will be your instructor today... I’m sorry.” before Danielle left she turned around and apologized with a grin plastered on her face, for what? Keith directed his thoughts too Danielle hoping to get her attention however she had already walked too far.
There wasn’t so much as a sound when he felt like his head was almost knocked off, his eyes shut as the room spun and stars flashed in his eyes, first thing Keith noticed was he was still standing, snarling he turned to face his assailant “that was a dirty shot, I wasn’t prepared!” Keith snapped through wolf teeth then Logan spoke.
“First rule: Always be prepared.” Keith was surprised he could understand the lycan tongue.
The second Logan stopped speaking the words that left his muzzle, he launched another attack at Keith using his left hand, he swiped towards Keith’s head again, Keith put his right arm and deflected the shot following through with his left hand aiming for Logan’s chest, to Keith’s surprise Logan had grabbed Keith’s right arm with his meaty left fist, the arm that Keith used to block and spun Keith in a anti-clockwise direction, taking Keith of his feet and sending him hard into the wall.
“Second rule: Always be mindful of an opening; never take your eyes of a single part of your opponent that will get you killed.”
Keith was furious now, he ran up to Logan and swung his left fist that Logan caught and tried to follow through with a left hand blow to Keiths muzzle, Keith bit the fist when it got close, he saw the shudder of pain echo through Logan’s body like shock waves in a pool of water.
Logan made the mistake of letting go of Keith’s hand, with his left arm free he swung again at Logan.
Keith anticipated the same dodge he used with Danielle, and spun about Logan so Keith was now at Logan’s back as Logan leant backwards, Keith brought his knee up into the back of Logan’s head with all the force he could muster sending the large beast face first into the ground in front of him.
Keith had already begun replaying his victory in his mind when he felt his leg’s get kicked out from under him.
“That was well executed but you forgot the second rule” Logan snarled as jumped to his feet, Keith did the same, Logan attacked at Keith again, swinging his right fist towards Keith’s chest Keith blocked it but was met by Logan’s large wolf paw like foot in his face, Logan had done it with such speed he disguised his kick behind his punch so it hit Keith while he was completely unprepared for it.
Sprawled on the ground again Keith looked up at Logan who was currently air born as he leapt through the air to deliver a devastated blow.
Keith rolled out of the way just in time as the fist slammed into the ground where he just was, Logan’s eyes didn’t move from the spot Keith had been lying but his left foot slammed into Keith again, and Logan was quicker this time, on his feet and chasing Keith as Keith fell through the air.
A feeling like a sledge hammer hit Keith in the stomach slamming him into the ground, Logan stood over him as he kicked Keith below the muzzle snapping his head back. “Okay pup you’ve had enough I’ll see you tomorrow and we’ll go over the basics, this was just to see the level you are at, it’s not bad from pup, but we can improve.” Logan turned and left the dojo with long easy going strides, he was the same size as Keith, and perhaps slightly stockier but his foot steps sounded so light and quiet, yet another puzzle.
“So how did it go?” Keith looked up at Danielle,
“He beat the shit out of me” Keith was also testing if Danielle would understand him, and not unsurprisingly she did.
“Well least he likes you.” Danielle said with a warm smile.
“Yeah? It didn’t feel like it when he was kicking the shit out of my head.” Keith retorted. Keith’s bruised ego took far longer to mend then the bruises brought on by swift well timed kicks and punches.
Danielle thought something Keith said was funny, she was laughing “he was holding back though!” she left while her laughter still echoed through the mansion.

“That took a while.” The human woman commented as Keith barged down the door, his angry mood radiating from him, he stormed to the fridge saw nothing in it he wanted and out of frustration slammed the fridge door, throwing the fridge back through the wall, letting out a angry growl at his accident, turned to sit heavily on the bed at the point he made contact the bed leg’s broke from the strain and it fell to the floor with a heavy thud. Cursing in his lycan tongue stormed out of the room with his bed under his arm’s and returned moments later with someone else’s. He carefully lay down on the bed it creaked and protested but did not give way, a few hours later someone yelled, from the dark recesses of the mansion’s hallways “who broke my bed?!”
Keith turned on the t v to watch the news Kirsten joined him, lying on the bed next to him she looked up “are you always going to be in your wolf form?” she spoke softly as she placed one arm behind her head so she could better see the t v. her eyes drifted over to Keith so she could see his answer, Keith turned his eyes towards Kirsten, he tried to say through expression he doesn’t know but his face was hard to read, since it was the face of a over sized wolf and not that of a mans.
“I guess you don’t know then.” She said slightly disappointed, and then she noticed Keith nodding enthusiastically, thus confirming her suspicion.
“It’s funny I don’t even know your name or what you look like, err’ well your human form anyway, but I feel like I know you.” Keith ignored the strange woman’s attempt to flirt it’s not that he wasn’t interested; far more important thing’s weighed heavily on his mind.
It was obvious to Kirsten the lycan had chosen to ignore her, and that suited apart of her just fine but the creature fascinated her and this made her more curious. Kirsten slid closer along the bed to Keith she grabbed one of his massive arm’s snuggling her face into his fur she commented how warm he felt and slowly dozed of to sleep, Keith chose to ignore Kirsten, and in turn let himself fall asleep, even in his dream state he somehow felt mindful not to squash the fragile woman lying next to him.

Keith had been living in this mansion for three month’s now, he had grown quite accustomed to the life style, meal’s were always prepared every want he had was fulfilled except the want to become human again, on site doctors had looked Keith over many times and decided it was nothing but an accident of nature, that he should return human any day now, which was little comfort Keith felt like he was trapped.
Kirsten had become a good friend to Keith someone whom he could listen to talk all day, perhaps the other lycan’s had a superiority complex but they always acted like they were better then Keith, Keith soon learned that Logan got similar treatment, from the other werewolves.
Keith was catching on quickly he learned that every lycan is created with a unique ability to their blood line Logan’s was foresight, which suggest that he was related to Danielle who also possessed unusual foresight, they will often see thing’s happen roughly fourteen seconds ahead of time, boarding on precognition, giving them the ability to react faster then any other’s of their kind.
However these ability’s don’t tend to manifest themselves until the lycan is exceptionally old close to a thousand years.