Faith and Hope by KRB (classic novels for teens TXT) 📖

and we head downstairs to the basement.
We walked to the back wall and Max found the lever and the wall swung inwards to allow us to enter our weaponry. It’s not the first time I’ve been in here, but its breath taking. Seeing all the weapons. There are swords, daggers, throwing stars, bows and arrows, spears, and anything else you can imagine. This is the moment I’ve been training for, to finally get to be here and not just with dad or Max! I ran straight to my weapons of choice, the blades! I fiddled with a few before I found two twin swords that were made for me. One is black and the other is white. They were edged with silver and the hilts are in the shape of a phoenix being reborn of the ashes. I twirled them around before sliding them back into their sheaths on my back.
I head over to the daggers and throwing stars, strapping on a thigh sheath. I grab a dagger that has a gold blade but silver tipped. I grab some throwing stars and hook them to a belt and strap it on. I double check and make sure I’m all set. I turn around and watch as Max grabs a dark forest green compound bow, and a quiver full of silver and wooden tipped arrows. He glances over at me to see if I’m ready and all he does is smile. “What are you smiling at, Max?” I ask looking myself over again to make sure I didn’t have anything on me. “Nothing sis, you just look so grown up” He chuckles. I smile, “Well I wasn’t going to be a baby forever! So are we going to go or are we going to stand around and continue talking about how grown up I look?” He rolls his eyes and sighs. “Lets go Fai, they are waiting for us anyways” and with that said we headed out of the house to meet the others.
There were about 15 people waiting in front of the training arena around father. I could hear the rumble of his voice so I knew they were already talking strategy. I was so excited and nervous at the same time I had to keep myself in check so I wouldn’t run up to the group. As we neared the group father looked up and broke away from the group to approach us. He looked at me and smiled, “My daughter you look so grown up,” all of a sudden I am enveloped in a huge bear hug, “I am so proud of you Faith; you have become a very strong woman.” I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him tightly. “I just hope I don’t disappoint you tonight” I whisper in his ear. “You could never disappoint me, Faith”
With that said he pulls back and holds me at arms length and stares down at me and smiles. We begin to walk towards the group to talk strategy, when all of a sudden one of our scouts burst through the trees and runs straight up to father. “There is a pack of maybe 30 werewolves headed this way!” The man is gasping for breath I could hardly understand what he was saying. But I caught what he said, and at that moment my blood ran cold in my veins. I must have started shaking because Max put his arm around my shoulders and pulled me close to him. “It’ll be ok Faith” he whispers in my ears. How can he say it’ll be ok when we have a pack of werewolves heading our way! Faith how could you have ever thought you were ready for something like this?! I silently scolded my self.
Father made a plan and we were to split up into groups of three. “Hunter, Max, and Faith you are in a group. You will follow the path to the river and get around them. Damon and Shawn will go with you, stay put till I give the order” He looks at Max and out of the corner of my eyes I catch his quick nod. “Go…. Now” We begin to head into the woods. Heading towards the river. I glance around the forest because I get the feeling that someone is watching me, and then I look at Hunter and realize that he is staring at me. He has a weird look in his eyes and it is unnerving. What is his problem is he still upset about earlier?! I silently ask myself.
When we hit the river, I hear an ear piercing howl shatter the quiet of the night. At the sound of this I freeze up and stop moving. Max slides to a stop behind me, grabs my arm and pulls me back into motion, “We have to keep moving Faith.” I give a quick nod and keep moving deeper into the trees. We ran in a huge ark around the pack, and then Max pulled me to a stop. We crouched down behind two huge oaks. I looked into the dark forest but I couldn’t see anything. I was about to turn to Max and tell him I couldn’t see anything, when something moved and it caught my eye. I strained my eyes to see what had just moved, when it suddenly moved out of the shadows and I got a good look at it.
It was a huge brindle colored wolf; after that one emerged several others did to. I had never seen wolves so big; they were the size of a full grown horse. There was one that caught my eye; it was pitch black with a white patch on the tip of his left ear. He had Blue eyes that reminded me of a crystal clear lake in the dead of winter.

Chapter 3
As I stare at the wolf mesmerized by the beauty of the odd coloring, I’m not paying attention to anything around me. Out of no where I hear a blood curdling howl of pain. I turn and stare at Max wide eyed, that’s when I noticed the wicked gleam in his eyes. As he grins at me, I try to suppress a shiver. At that moment I realize what that look in his eyes meant. “It’s time” Max whispers as he squeezes my shoulder reassuringly. You can do this girl; you have been training for this moment. I gave Max a weak smile and nodded my head, “Let’s do this.”
Max looked at the others, “Let’s go guys!” He stood up and took off. The men followed my brother into the battle. The black wolf let loose a vicious snarl as he leapt at Max. I stood rooted to the spot as I watched them clash. Oh my god! What have you gotten yourself into?! I was screaming at myself in my head. Let’s do this Faith, go help the guys. This is why you have been training.
Before I could build up the courage to join the fight, something slammed into me. I went flying threw the air and crashed into a tree. I jumped up and scanned the forest. Did one of the wolves get by Max and the others? I couldn’t see anything. What the fuck just hit me?! I see a flash of movement out of the corner of my eye. I whip my head around but no one was there. Okay this is really pissing me off!
“What’s wrong Faith, you don’t like my game?” a familiar voice asks. I squint into the darkness, and a figure starts to walk towards me. “Hunter” I growl. He laughs and stops a few feet in front of me. “What do you want, Hunter?” I continue to glare at him.
I faintly hear the battle in the distance, when suddenly I hear a cry of pain and a tree crushing on impact. MAX!!!! I start running towards where the noise came from. Max please be okay, if you die I will find a way to resurrect you and kill you again myself!
A hand comes out of no where and wraps around my neck and throws me to the ground. I land hard on my back gasping for breath. I roll on to my stomach and push myself onto my feet. As I look at Hunter he has that evil glint in his eyes again. “What do you want Hunter?!” I spit out. “Just some pay back, you humiliated me in front of everybody” He grins and takes a step towards me. “Aww poor Hunter, did getting beat by a girl wound your ego? It’s okay you have to much as it is” I can’t help it, I crack up. He just stands there glaring at me.
He draws his sword, “You won’t be laughing after I get done with you.” I grin at him as I reach back and unsheathe my swords. I twirl them around as I get into a fighting stance. “You think you can beat me the second round?” I can’t help but chuckle, “I’d like to see you try.”
“You’d like to see me try? Then you will die!” At that he charged at me with his sword held high. Holy hell he is really going to attack me? I take a deep breath and smile. Well then let’s show him why people don’t mess with me. Bringing my swords up I block his attack.
I get my foot up and kick him in the abdomen sending him flying into a tree. He pushes himself up, and begins to circle me. I follow him with my eyes and slowly begin to shadow his movements so he is nowhere near my back. I hear another howl of pain followed by a cry from Max. I did something I was taught never to do; I turned my back to the opponent. He charged at me, I turned around with barley enough time to block his attack. Shit Faith what are you doing, Max will be fine, get your head in this fight or you will not make it. He put enough power behind his attack that my arms were shaking.
I deflected his attack and ran at him, he struck out and I twirled around avoiding his attack. As I twirled I thrust one of my swords out and sliced a gash in his arm. He whirled around and swung at my neck, I ducked and swung upwards disarming him. I glared up at him; “It’s over Hunter” I stood up and backed away. I sheathed my swords, and walked over to his sword and picked it up.
“It’s not over until I finish what I started!” He yelled and charged at me. I saw a flash of something in his hand, it was too late for me to block his attack or move out of the way. He plunged a dagger deep into my gut.
Searing pain shot from the point of entry through out my whole body. My legs gave way and I collapsed to the ground. Hunter stepped back and stared down at me, he had this evil glint in his eyes. All I could do was glare at him, as I pulled the dagger out of my stomach with an audible gasp. Shit this hurts like a bitch. I was about to throw the dagger to the ground when the color of the blade caught my attention. My eyes widened as I took in the blade, it was a copper blade with three claw marks etched in the blade. “No!” I whispered in shock.
“I’m sorry Faith but you will die shortly. Just like your mother did” He threw his head back and laughed. “As you can see that is the lámina del dragón, or as most people call it the Dragon