History - Ulisi

They walked and spoke for a long time. When they ended back at the camp, he kissed her cheek. "You have raised your daughters well, little wolf."

She kissed his cheek back and whispered. "Our daughters."

He touched her cheek softly and kissed her forehead. "Our daughters." He would always have a soft spot for the female wolf in front of him. But he would never come between her and her mate who she would find in the next few days. "You will find him when you least expect it, little wolf. And you will be whole very soon."

Tilting her head into his hand. "Thank you for giving me the greatest gift possible over those years. I don't think I would have managed without the first."

"I know. It was the only gift I could give you for the sacrifice you gave to have Eric and Maria together. But now, rest. I have to find Bear to make sure he is alright." he whispered.

She nodded a little. "Take care of him. We'll take care of the cub for him and I'll teach him the old ways like I did with the girls." She couldn't help but grin. "It should be fun looking after a son after so many daughters."

He chuckled and nodded. "I know you will be a great influence on him and give him everything he needs to become a man." Giving her a knowing smile which made her raise her brow. He kissed her forehead again before walking back into the forest and disappearing from sight.

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She had always enjoyed when her daughters were young. The fits of giggles they would come out with always made her smile. And now it was time again to have a child in her life, so she couldn't of been happier to offer babysitting for the young bear cub they named Jessie. Sometimes she even went to the point of sneaking away with him so it would give Maria and Eric time alone that they deserved as a newly mated couple. Before they left the reservation, she had already began to teach him the different herbs he would use when he was older. There was no time like the present to begin his teaching.

When the time came to leave and having the meeting set up to aid Bear in hunting the vampires that killed the bear shifters, she told the young ones that she would meet up with them after instead of going in straight away. She ended up fixing a large meal for the shifters along with placing bottles of blood out at room temperature for the vampires. That was one thing she never expected to ever do. Cater for vampires. But with Richard and Dee with them, she knew it wouldn't be to hard to change her cupboard and fridge space.

Once she was prepared, she headed to down to the meeting room floor and knocked quietly on the door before slipping inside. She took a deep breath as she looked around at the faces at the meeting and capturing their scents so she knew them as she walked over to Maria. But one scent claimed her attention and she looked towards where it was coming from. She felt a blush coming to her cheeks as she stared into the most wonderful eyes she had ever seen before looking down to Maria and whispering to her she would take Jessie to clean him up for dinner. She knew she had to get out of there. All she could think about was to walk over to him and present herself over the desk on her stomach. Her wolf was howling with her mind chanting, 'mine'.

She took one last look at the wolf that caught her attention as she picked the cub up. She only just heard Eric introducing her and she gave a quick nod before darting out of the room, feeling her heart pounding in her chest. Wolf's words came back to her, 'You will find him soon.' and she never expected this soon or actually in the meeting. Questions filled her mind and she knew as soon as Maria was away from the meeting she would begin the questioning of who her wolf mate was.

As soon as she got Jessie back to her apartment, she gave him something to eat then a bath afterwards straight away. Her mind was flooded with questions and couldn't wait for Maria to get back to her. She let her mind slip thinking about her soon to be mate. She knew he was a wolf but one of those European wolf lines. But she caught the scent of female wolf on him and couldn't help but let out a soft growl. No matter who the female was, she was going to claim her mate and no woman would stand in her way. She so wanted to sent a message to Eric mentally to find out who he was, but she didn't want to interrupt the meeting when it had nothing to do with the problem at hand. She could last a little while longer, she had waited this long for him.

By the time Eric had sent her a message that the meeting was finished, she had just put Jessie to bed and began to move the food onto the table for the shifters to help themselves to it. She opened her front door up and moved the door stopper so it remained opened for them to enter, then went back to work. Eric and Maria were first to arrive. Eric remained at the door as Maria went over to her to finish helping.

As soon as the other shifters entered, they walked over to the table of food and began to help themselves before moving around the apartment to find a spot to eat. They divided into small groups to talk and catch up while Maria and Ulisi moved to the side so she could begin to question her daughter of the wolf.

After twenty questions. Ulisi couldn't help but grin. So her mysterious mate was Thad, the local wolf Alpha. She couldn't help for a better mate. Strong in leadership along with family. She had always known the local pack was a strong pack. The female scent she picked up on him was his daughter so she couldn't be that jealous of her. But it seemed strange how he could have a daughter when she was his true mate, but she didn't dwell on it. She knew some males picked females just to be companions to make their rankings stronger so she guessed that had happened with her mate.

As soon as he entered her apartment, her eyes never left him. It seemed like there was no one else in the room except for herself and her mate, even though they hadn't spoken one word to each other. She was glad though, Gabriella had sent his daughter back to the pack compound so she wouldn't interfere with what she wanted to do with him. Her nerves began to increase even more when they split into groups. The women were in the kitchen cleaning up from the meal and the men were out on the balcony talking amongst themselves.

She could hear their laughter as Thad walked inside towards the fireplace. She watched him curiously then felt herself gasp when he picked up a log and walked down the hall towards her bedroom. She clutched the tea towel she was holding to her chest and watched him walk back past the women and back out to the men. The women stared at her and started to nudge her to move.

She looked out to the balcony and saw Wolf and Eric smiling, both giving her a small nod of approval, then she gave Thad a quick glance and could easily see he looked just as nervous as she was. Maria snapped her out of it when she whispered, "Go get him."

With shaking hands, she placed the tea towel down and walked down the hallway. She decided to quickly check on Jessie first before going to her bedroom door. She looked down at the small log and picked it up. She couldn't help but bring it up and sniff at it, letting out a small growl and mouthing the word, 'mine', before going back down and over to the fireplace. Placing the log on the carrier and lighting the single log. Watching it burn before going back to the women.

She could hear the men congratulating Thad on his claim and began blushing as the women congratulated her on accepting him. Then hearing from the balcony Eric wanted to take everyone up to his apartment for a celebration, taking Jessie with them and told Thad and Ulisi, they weren't welcomed to the party.

Once everyone had left and leaving herself and Thad behind closed doors. They stared at each other before small smiles came across their lips. They never spoke a word to each other, they knew who each other were and no words were needed. They closed the distance before allowing their emotions come out ten fold. Wrapping their bodies around each other and falling to the ground as they kissed. Letting clothes fly in all directions. They only thing they needed was skin on skin contact and allow pure ecstasy happen with the joining of true mates.

By the time they had finished, every room in the apartment had been used along with every positions known to man. They had mated in both forms, human and wolf. Both knowing how pleasurable each form was, even though it was Thad's first time with a wolf since his kind was the half man, half wolf type but it was Ulisi's first time with his kind as well. But the pleasure they gave each other, sent them into a frenzy.

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They weren't seen until it was time to go to his home. He had spoken about what the compound was like and how things were done there. But once she stepped out of the car and looked around. She couldn't believe what she saw. It was a lot better than what he described and couldn't help but look over to him and give him a soft smile of approval. She just noticed the looks on his peoples faces as she walked towards him. Nothing really mattered to her except for the wolf in front of her. She slipped her hand into his and followed the vampires inside along with his beta's so he could tell them what was going on.

Once the meeting was over and the betas had left and the other ancient vampires arrived. They group spoke how she and Maria would remain to protect the compound with the younger warriors. The younger warriors knew they would be the last line of defense if anyone got past Ulisi and Maria so they were told to stay in position. The ancients also told both wolves how to kill a vampire more quickly and to slow them down. They just needed to slow them down until the warriors arrived to aid them.

When the warriors had left, Ulisi and Maria went back inside to sit with the young vampires. Ulisi telling stories while planning silently with Maria so the others wouldn't be afraid with what could happen.

The stories went on until the vampires said they had incoming. The youngest of the vampires, Danny, went down to the shelter and passed on the message of incoming vampires and word soon got around to the others.

Ulisi and Maria gave Jessie a kiss and a hug for good luck and told everyone to remain inside. They were last lines of defense if the vampires got past them.

By the time they had left the house and had stripped. The enemy were standing there. Ulisi told Maria she was to follow. Maria already knew to follow her grandmothers orders. She had a lot more experience behind her so would do as she was told.

When the attack began both wolves went dire wolf and attacked without mercy. To begin with they only attacked to protect their family, Richard, Dee and Jessie. But it was made clear a few moments later that the wolves inside them counted the families of the compound as their family as well. They had to protect all of the wolves in the compound or would die trying. It was quickly clear with the added of the other families there, the fight was quick until it was just the leader of the enemy left to kill.

What neither wolf noticed until the vampire laughed was he had inside help. When Carrie came out with Jessie in her arms. Maria turned around and began to back up as Ulisi moved forward. Ulisi told Maria mentally that she was to keep her sights on Carrie as she would do on Andre. Maria only argued for a moment until Ulisi told her, Jessie was more important than anything. If she couldn't take down the enemy then Maria would have to finish the task.

When they got about half way towards Andre, Carrie let out a scream. Ulisi wanted to turn around but she didn't want to take her eyes off the real enemy, trusting Maria to do what was needed behind her. The next moment she heard Maria cry in her mind. 'Richard has Jessie. Kill the bastard!" And that was what Ulisi did.

The attack was quick and brutal. Not letting anything distract her. The bastard had ruined the lives of so many people and she wasn't going to let him do that again. During one of the breaks in her attacks, she noticed Maria had dragged Carrie near the house and was sitting on top of her and slowly she saw people surrounding the fight but not interfering on it. But knowing support was there didn't break her thoughts of the fight. The vampire had to be taken down and killed so he couldn't do it to anyone else.

Her thoughts were of blood and when he made the vital error of trying to run from her, she grabbed his leg and yanked him back. Pouncing him, pressing her claws against his chest and letting him feel the sharpness to them. Snarling and letting him see the true nature of the dire in her eyes. She let him see he was about to die.

A soft voice started to clear its way through the fog of the hunt then a soft touch which she knew was her mates. His voice began to clear the hunt from her mind and she looked to her mate but keeping her paw firmly against the vampires chest so he knew he couldn't move. As soon as Bear arrived at her side, she moved off the vampire and walked with her mate over to Maria and sat down next to him then watched the final blow to the enemy.

With soft pets, she pushed her head against Thad's chest and soaked his scent up to clear her mind fully. In a soft voice, he gave orders to his betas to place his daughter under arrest and take her away until her trial.

Once she was calm enough she shifted back to human. Maria stood beside her and handed her, her clothes and quickly dressed. Thad lead her inside his home and took her to bed so both of them could reassure their wolves and make their bond stronger now the fight was over. They weren't seen again for three days. The only way anyone knew they were still alive was when trays of food were left at their door and when they were collected the food was gone.

When they finally came out of their room. The trail for Carrie was set. Thad wanted to have her killed but the Elders decided to take Ulisi's advice by giving her a second chance. Over the month of Carrie's second chance, he watched his daughter grow as a person, something he never thought was possible. He could even see the respect his daughter was giving Ulisi when his mate began teaching Carrie the old ways of medicine between her training with the pups.

Over the months of Ulisi shifting into the compound, she had given his wolves something more to what they use to be like. Everyone loved his mate as if she had always been there. Even Eric and Richard had began showing up to train with his warriors, teaching them different ways of combat to make them more dangerous against any enemy that might come to hurt anyone linked with the city they called home.

They had even become closer to the vampires of the city along with the other spiritweres of the country. The elders of the eagles, cougars and coyotes visited along with Gabriella and Nikolai to speak to all of the spirits of allowing their warriors to join the council enforcers if any wished to try, which was something new because of how private they usually were.

During one of Ulisi's trips to the city to visit Maria, she stopped to visit one of the doctors who specialized in Others instead of just humans. Ulisi knew something was wrong with her and had only felt that way once in all of her life. Instead of waiting around for another month or two to get her own thoughts clarified, she went to see the doctor for answers. When he announced she was correct in her thoughts, she couldn't help but grin. She rubbed her hand lightly over her stomach as happiness filled her thoughts. She couldn't wait to have this child, she had loved when her first daughter was born. She had loved the pregnancy and now she could have that feeling again.

She started driving back to the compound, she couldn't wait to tell Thad the news. She knew he would be happy. When she got back to the compound, she found Thad with Eric and Richard, training with the warriors. She knew better than to drag him away and quickly pulled him aside and told him she needed to talk to him after the training was completed. Then she headed back to their home to wait for him.

As time went on waiting, she began to become inpatient. She paced back and forth waiting for him then Wolf appeared at the side of the room with a small sly smile across his lips. "Congratulations, little wolf."

She went over to him and gave him a hug. "Thank you Wolf, for everything."

He hugged her back and took a small step back. "I didn't do anything. This is all you."

"If it wasn't for our daughter, I wouldn't be here now to have another one. I don't think I would have survived without our daughters." She counted.

Stepping back towards her and resting his forehead against hers. "That makes two of us then. I will always watch over my children. This is your first of many to come. In the future, I might have another request for you. It won't be as hard as my first was."

Leaning back she looked up to him. "You know I'd do anything you ask."

Giving a slight nod. "I know you would. I wouldn't ask anyone else but you to take on this task. I just have to figure out what the visions mean first because they don't make any sense at the moment. So it might be a while until I make the full request."

Softly smiling. "When they do make sense I'll be here."

Placing a soft kiss on her forehead. "I know you will be. For now though, congratulations. I won't tell anyone until you speak first." Winking at her before stepping back and disappearing once more.

She couldn't help but smile. Wolf would always hold a special place in her heart of the past they shared. She would always hold him and Thad deep in her heart. Then she started pacing again, what would he need of her? And what could have him confused with the visions he sees, usually nothing could confuse him in trying to understand what he sees in them.

More questions began until she heard footsteps coming towards the house. She knew who they belonged to so quickly grabbing the book she began reading days beforehand and sat down on one of the chairs to look relaxed as Thad entered their home. She didn't look up to him as he asked to go for a run with him. Smiling to herself when she said no to him. She never usually said no to anything he asked her to do.

They then began a single word argument which she tried her best not to grin at but when he got to the point of anger, she asked him one single question to why a female wolf wouldn't shift, as she stood up and took a step towards him as he rambled the answers.

As he got to the right answer, she just grinned at him. He rushed towards her and fell to his knees, holding her hips in front of her. She ran her fingers lightly through his hair as he kissed her stomach. He let out a long howl, letting the other wolves of the compound know that they were expecting a child and she couldn't stop the tears after that.

Five months later, Ulisi and Thad were in bed. He was resting against the headboard and she was laying between his legs and resting against his chest. In her arms in a little bundle was their daughter they named Bethany. The baby girl looked like her first daughter from all those years ago but she had his eyes.

The doctor allowed visitors in a while later and Wolf, Eric and Maria were first to meet the new addition to their pack. They spoke and cooed over the baby as Maria and Eric held Bethany. Ulisi looked up to Wolf and watched him curiously. "Is something wrong?"

He blinked a few times. "I'll be back in a moment." Then disappeared.

Eric shook his head a little. "He's been doing that a lot lately. I'm not sure what's going on with him."

Ulisi nodded. "It's been longer than that. I don't think he understands fully of what's going on that's calling him."