Tales of a Shifter (B1) - The Meeting
Book by: CrimsonPetals
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Their meeting will be the first dominoes in an epic saga that branches through not only time, but blood as well. Broken Bonds will come too light. A new Bond will form in the stillness of the night. And trapped beneath the cogs of fate will be Brandon and Ezekiel. Two beings that were never supposed to meet.
Brandon is lost in misery....running from shadows.
Ezekiel is intrigued by Brandon's darkness...and his sorrowful beauty....but are they destined to be? Will the shadows at Brandon's heels become real and tear them apart before they ever get the chance to try?
BROKEN BONDS BOOK ONE ( PART ONE) - THE MEETING
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - His End
CHAPTER 1
(The gossamer moon was the only sentinel to witness or tenuous beginnings.)
-Unknown
Brandon burst past a clump of tr... Read Chapter
Chapter 2 - New Smell
Chapter 2- New Smell
Ezekiel didn't know what exactly called him off the beaten path that night....but on instinct he had followed th... Read Chapter
Chapter 3 - Death
Chapter 3 - Death
With a snarl, more beast then man, Ezekiel charged into the mortal.
He clamped his hands around the mortal's sm... Read Chapter
Chapter 4 - Taking Stock
Chapter 4- Taking Stock
"....What do I do with you now?" Ezekiel asked himself.
In the deathly silent moments that passed after t... Read Chapter
Chapter 5 - Brothers
Chapter 6 - Brothers
Ezekiel could sense the eyes within the darkness as he neared the path that would take him out of the pine fores... Read Chapter
Chapter 6 - Power Play
Chapter Seven - Power Play
Ezekiel wasn't sure what to expect after his harsh words....but he should have known that there would be s... Read Chapter
Chapter 7 - Die Now Die Later
Chapter Eight - Die Now, Die Later
"Fine, if this is to be the path you've chosen, then I do not see any of us persuading ... Read Chapter
Chapter 8 - Follow Through
Chapter 8- Follow Through
"Mom...You have to promise not to scream...." Ezekiel whispered walking his mother up from the spiral stair... Read Chapter
Chapter 9 - This Is Bad
Chapter 9 - This is Bad
Realizing that it was almost three am Ezekiel allowed her the necessary time to emerge from her sleep be... Read Chapter
Chapter 10 - Team Work
Chapter 10 - Team Work
All three of Ezekiels brothers shared anxious unsure looks.
Then all of then leveled their eyes at hi... Read Chapter
Chapter 11- Hell
Chapter 11
Someone was touching him.
Brandon felt it all over his skin, no he sensed it. Eyes. Hands. Something wet and slimy spr... Read Chapter
Chapter 12- Disrespect
Chapter 12 - Disrespect
"Dad wait..." Ezekiel began.
Mantilo walked forward, snarled and pushed Ezekiel aside.
Ezekiel s... Read Chapter
Chapter 13 - Off The Hook
Chapter 13 - Off The Hook
"Haa ha.. No one can cut through the bullshit like mom." Nate breathed out happily with a bemused smil... Read Chapter
Chapter 14 - Guardians
Chapter 14 - Guardians
Mantilo watched his youngest son steadily and let him stew in silence for a few seconds.
Ezekiel like... Read Chapter
Chapter 15 - His Pain
Chapter 15 - His Pain
So he dreamed. Brandon couldn't move. He couldn't hardly breathe. He felt a great agony pounding at the ba... Read Chapter
Chapter 16 - Unknown Agony
Chapter 16 - Unknown Agony
Glen struggled to ignore the intruder's screams as she moved along the hall walking away from his roo... Read Chapter
Chapter 17 - No Hurt
Chapter 17 - No Hurt
Sometime later...
Ezekiel mounted the front porch steps panting harshly. His lungs begging for more air... Read Chapter
Chapter 18 - Hanging By A Thread
Chapter 18 - Hanging by a Thread
Perhaps his touch had distracted the mortal.
Perhaps his words had broken through the fever... Read Chapter
Chapter 19 - Curiosity
Chapter 19 - Curiosity
Ezekiel trudged home much much.....much later. The sharp cool night hurried him along one of the dirt pat... Read Chapter
Chapter 20 - Confusion
Chapter 21 - Confusion
Soft heavy breaths in the darkness stimulated him. The strong smell of pine, like a sharp soap or lotion pulle... Read Chapter
Chapter 21 - Chase
Chapter 21 - Chase
Soft warm light hit him and suddenly he was standing in a hallway. A burgundy hallway, filled with soothing c... Read Chapter
Chapter 22 - Frying Pot to Fire
Chapter 23 - Frying Pot to Fire
Damn!
Ezekiel panted to himself. He wasn't tired, but the adrenaline crawling all along his heart... Read Chapter
Chapter 23 - Diffuse
At that moment Ezekiels mother steeped between them, her deep green eyes slit and glowing like a cats in the night. "Stop this both of yo... Read Chapter
Chapter 24 - Frustration
Ezekiel swallowed dryly as he realized his father's gaze was on him. His eyes burning through the back of his head. Ezekiel wanted to jus... Read Chapter
Chapter 25 - No Co-operation
Brandon fought to ignore this new, painful world that he had woken up into.
He felt out of place here with its hulking men, glowing e... Read Chapter
Chapter 26 - No Strength
It was only in the silence that Brandon allowed himself to acknowledge his racing heartbeat and the fear. And it was only in t... Read Chapter
Chapter 27 - Uneasy
Glen stalked behind Mantilo all the way to the bottom floor of their home.
A soft warmth crawled all along her arms, and brushed her ... Read Chapter
Chapter 29 - Try Again
Ezekiel walked back through the front door to their mansion with determination.
Almost two days had passed since he had gotten caught... Read Chapter
Chapter 29 - Subdue
The panic that tried to grip him in that moment was so sudden and so unwanted that Ezekiel shoved the grip it tried to take on him away i... Read Chapter
Chapter 30 - Butting Heads
The stranger grabbed him and Ezekiel couldent understand or quite deny the sharp acr of soft electric awareness that caressed him all ove... Read Chapter
Chapter 31 - Willingness
Brandon kept his mouth tightly clenched, and his body still as he watched the Shifter turn away from him and threw the door open to the h... Read Chapter
Chapter 32 - Listen
The water was soothing to his skin and Glen proved to be every bit the caring Healer that her sons professed her to be. She st... Read Chapter
Chapter 33 - Q & A
Sometime later found Brandon alone. Clean, exhausted beyond words, a soft throb of pain on every inch of his body, and tucked back into b... Read Chapter
Chapter 34 - Lost Luxury
The moment Brandon saw the precious garments he tried to snatch them away.
But Ezekiel was too fast for him. He jerked them out of... Read Chapter
Chapter 36 - New Life
Ezekiel traversed the darkness at a steady sprint behind the rest of his brothers and his father that lead the way. The supple grass pull... Read Chapter
Chapter 37 - Threat In Darkness
The moon sat like a bloated dot in the balmy night sky as the party of seven finally crested the steep hills locate... Read Chapter
Chapter 38 - Out Of Time
Two hours later Ezekiel and his brothers had to admit, even to each other that the trail had gone dead cold.
Ezekiel knew ... Read Chapter
Chapter 39 - The Horse Killer
Mantilo caught sight of the house in the distance sometime later.
After jogging in the night beside his sons, chasing shad... Read Chapter
Chapter 40 - Final Outcome
Mantilo returned from the horse ranch feeling decidedly heavy with possibilities and a fledgling plan of action for the coming morning.
... Read Chapter
Chapter 41 - Report
And so his fourth night of sleeplessness and now empty sheets passed him by.
Figuring that he wasn't doing anything worthw... Read Chapter
Chapter 42 - Moving Forwards
Ezekiel purposely turned from the door, ignored the stairs that lead not only to his , but also to the Mortals bed room. He ch... Read Chapter
Chapter 43 - Open Up
Brandon turned his face up into the warm water as his hands scratched at his scalp. It pooled in the crevices of his eyes and dripped pas... Read Chapter
Chapter 44 - Scars
Brandon waited for Ezekiel to speak, but for the longest time the Shifter only examined his wound, so when he did finally speak again Bra... Read Chapter
Chapter 45 - Flame
Alone I blanketed the Darkness, and Alone I held it at bay
-Unknown
Brandon sat still for a long time after he left. His body, hi... Read Chapter
Chapter 46 - Kail
Once the dream descended, Brandon would always open his eyes to a beautiful sight.
The sun rising was far out and beyond him. Starbur... Read Chapter
Chapter 47 - Thirst
Chapter 48
The moment Ezekiel, walked into the room and touched him he felt the strange, but increasingly familiar burn beginning. He... Read Chapter
Chapter 48 - Popped Stitches
Chapter 49
Minding his speed so as not to intensify Brandons pain Ezekiel surely and patiently led the man in the direction of ... Read Chapter
Chapter 49 - Say It Again
The moment Ezekiels presence and voice faded out of the room, Brandon found it harder not to focus on the pain.
Brandon sank his teet... Read Chapter
Chapter 50 - Wild Aggressions
Chapter 51
There wasn't anything to think about.
Brandon slammed his forehead into the Shifters face as fast and as hard as he co... Read Chapter
Chapter 51 - HOW DARE YOU
Brandon would have described the feeling coming over him in the next few moment as fear.....if he was ever tortured into admitting it.
... Read Chapter
Chapter 52 - Reaver
Information, and facts.....Brandon thrived on knowledge he gained on a day by day basis. From the first book and words he had ever learne... Read Chapter
Chapter 53 - Erin
Chapter 54
Leaving the Mortal in the kitchen Ezekiel made his way to the front door just as the second knock sounded. He opened the d... Read Chapter
Chapter 54 - Weak & Warm
Chapter 55
Brandon kept his breathing shallow, tried to listen only to his heart beat and the bodies in the room. He wanted to focus ... Read Chapter
Chapter 55 - The Great Loss
Brandon stopped Erin with a soft question.
"Wait. Sacred Laws?" He questioned her, then he shared a look with Ezekiel. "What Laws are... Read Chapter
Chapter 56 - Boredom
Life continued on in the mansion with the Leopards for Brandon, but he felt more like a plague victim instead of a guest as the days pass... Read Chapter
Chapter 57 - New Day
It was on once Brandon had walked outside into the air that he realized how early in the morning it really was.
He quickly... Read Chapter
Chapter 58 - Responsibilities
It didn't take Ezekiel long to lead Brandon down to the farm. And the scenery wasn't much more the Brandon had expected to see. Three lar... Read Chapter
Chapter 59 - Playful Mistakes
The hay bales were much harder going. But as the next two hours trickled by Brandon was impressed to find that he and Ezekiel managed to ... Read Chapter
Chapter 60 - Urge to Protect
Ezekiel sat, with a hand full of wet clothing, staring at the stairs that Brandon had just fled up and disappeared from onto the second f... Read Chapter
Chapter 61 - The Band
After an awkward hour of more work and hay spreading the sun was in the middle of the sky and surprisingly most if not all of ... Read Chapter
Chapter 62 - Nightmare
The Drums that Ezekiel had led Brandon to were seven giant cylindrical towers that climbed at least six feet into the air, covered in cle... Read Chapter
Chapter 63 - Labor
The next three days they returned to the horse farm. It seemed to Brandon that tending the Band of horses was Ezekiel main con... Read Chapter
Chapter 64 - Complications
Half an hour later Ezekiel was shaking his head.
"Dammit, I knew this was going to happen!" He growled, a flash of bright ... Read Chapter
Chapter 65 - Complications
Half an hour later Ezekiel was shaking his head.
"Dammit, I knew this was going to happen!" He growled, a flash of bright light chasi... Read Chapter
Chapter 66 - Billy
After showering, Ezekiel separated from Brandon and met up with his father and brothers in the field.
Having personally decided to le... Read Chapter
Chapter 67 - Connected
Ezekiel dreamed seldom...and when he did....it was often just a confusing dream that he would forget within minutes of waking up....
... Read Chapter
Chapter 68 - Unspoken
The jagged ill-fitting puzzle pieces of his mind came together by the next morning...so that no one would know Brandons struggles in the ... Read Chapter
Chapter 69 - How To Talk
For another two days after the Guardians returned Brandon was determined to stay in his room. Electing to skip out on patrols with Ezekie... Read Chapter
Chapter 70 - Prey
They were hungry...but they had already ate a feast of flesh.
The beasts sat in the shadows....their thoughts not far from the darkne... Read Chapter
Chapter 71 - Death & Anger
Chapter 71 - Death & Anger
Ezekiel had fought many fights over the course of his life as a Guardian. Both physical and mental. Some l... Read Chapter
Chapter 72 - Ghouls
In the aftermath of the attack, nearly five minutes passed where Ezekiel and his brothers simply took the time to regroup and compare all... Read Chapter
Chapter 73 - Rat
Suddenly three new Shifters appeared in the door way of the day room.
It didn't take long for Mantilo to notice, and with a smile, a ... Read Chapter
Chapter 74 - Divergent Needs
On the other side, Brandon shared their silence not because he have insight into the Ghouls motives, but because their motives were all t... Read Chapter
Chapter 75 - Good Intentions
Ezekiel suddenly heard Brandon breathing behind him, tight sharp gasps.....like he couldn't quite catch his breath.
Taking a moment t... Read Chapter
Chapter 76 - Undeserving
Against Ezekiel's will, the Leopard inside urged him to follow Brandon.
Ezekiel simply clocked his exit instead, watching until Brand... Read Chapter
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