Twin Nights

By James Aa. Keister

two young families strive to find a safe place to belong and one finds they must move over and over before they are accepted and can live safely the weather changes drastically from moment to moment as the moon moves to cover the sun and cause an eclipse which will make dramatic changes children lose magical powers many are given a choice to change to human or remain wolf and many lost years ago rise from the waters free from their abduction the dead rise from their graves and walk the earth searching but not finding kenti returns to the planatary place to search for answers to the changing weather and returns unaware that the soob he once imprisoned there is no longer behind the icy door

• Language: English
• Publisher: James Aa. Keister
• Release date: Jul 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476496870

James Aa. Keister

James Aa. Keister, was born and lives in Monroe, Michigan. An artist in both the arts and music. Letting this strong sense of talent flourish over into his writings. With an imaginative endorsement of realism that brings forth an ever flowing twist to his novels.

Book preview

Chapter One

"Darkened shadows casting claws, spreading across the lands. A time is coming, planets align and bring forth a new trouble. How sweet it is when some piece of our lives go hay wire. We raise a fist to the heavens and blame the stars. Casting our troubles on some omen gone wrong. Superstitions that were supposed to be put in place for our own protection. The witchery of simple spells gone a miss as shards of our lives flash past our minds eye in vivid colors of black and white. The borders of shaded grays. Such is this new life of the Wolventhrope.

Now that it's been well over five hundred years since the great turning, when humans had caught the lycan virus and have now turned to one type of wolf or another. Wars have been waged, generations spilled like tainted crimson into the next. Ripping away the years like flesh from bone. New found secrets have been forged and discovered as the blood shed begins. No one wanting to lose the ways of old while the new ways rise to try and replace that which...once was. Both the old and new wondering if there is an end, neither willing to give in. Yet the storms of an unsure future lay just ahead on the horizon of a new day dawning. The blackened sun is on the rise while the white washed moon continues it's waltz with a world destined to change.

Chapter Two

She did her best to keep up, but his pace was more than she could handle. Please...I need rest! She cried as her aching limbs were about to give out. He had run her hard, but their lives depended on it. And right now they had a substantial lead on the pack of Fury fangs that were trying to chase them down. They had to leave their little safe haven of a village that lay abandoned just to try and get back home. Their goal lay far to the north through some of the most dangerous lands any wolf could ever encounter. Through out the last few decades, the Fury fangs had been hunted and killed...chased to the south of the three known lands. That of the Feather fang, Fairy fang and the Forest fang village that lay to the far south and east. So the Fury fangs and all their danger have made their dens to the far south and west, near the old abandoned Felon fang village.

We need to keep going. He said as he put his nose to the winds to try and catch scent of any appending dangers. Smelling none, he let her stop and sit down. Then helped the little one from off his back. He had taken up the slack and was carrying their pup child who he had wrapped into a pack on his back. The pup neither cried nor whimpered the whole way. Of course, having a full little belly and a little sleep, helped.

Only a moment longer, then we need to move.

Oh please! She whimpered.

No complaining! He told her. We've only got another ten or so miles to the village.

How do we even know if they'll accept us back into the clan? Kenti has probably told them what we did.

We don't know that! After all, it was Kenti who changed us back. Giving us a chance. Otherwise, we'd be dead by now. So come, get up and let's go! He pulled her to her feet then placed the pack full of his pup back onto his shoulders and they changed to their lycan forms as they sprinted off. He stuck close to the Morning lake's shore line, following an old human trail that snaked along the shores of shiny glistening waters edge as the sun finally made it fully above the horizon and began it's way up over the sky. He continued to glance back over his shoulder to both check on his mate and the child he carried upon his back. She was keeping pace with his and now and then he would catch her gaze as he tried to remember not to run too fast. He was sure the Fury pack had broken off their chase, but that did not mean they could not run into another pack of Fury. He just needed to get his family as close to the Fairy fang village as possible. He grunted with a nod of his head to let her know that he was about to change course and as he pulled to his right she was right behind him. He could hear her breathing hard and showing wear. So he slowed his pace. He began to see old broken down human huts that lay caved in and ruined. He knew they were close so he made way for one of the old huts he had been to before. Then stopped.

She was relieved and let out a deep sigh of relief. He turned to his human form and smiled over at her. She growled a little then turned to her human self as she helped to remove their precious cargo from off his back and unwrapped the little sleeping bundle. He began to stir with the gentle touch of his mother's hands. She lifted the wee pup and cradled him to her breast so he could feed. Then smiled up at her mate who stood proudly, staring down at his little family.

How far now Mag? She asked.

Not very. We should be safe here. These huts are well within the Fairy fang lands. The Fury shouldn't be this far north. But we'll stay alert just in case.

I'm hungry too! she informed him.

Soon as you fill his belly, we can find our own food. There's long ears near here and a large berry patch if I remember right. He told her.

How do you know? She asked.

I used to play down here as a child. I used to fantasize about building my own city here, like that of the Human city. But for wolves. He grinned. She could only stare up into his sea green eyes. She had never knew this side of him. She heard her pup hiccup and looked down at him. She pulled her nipple from his mouth and rolled him over to help burp him.

Nadya...are you about ready? We don't have to run, but we should keep moving. Magus told her. She looked up and nodded. They waited until the little one had both let out the built up air and a little spittle as he smiled at the sight of his father. Magus laughed at his cute little face. Then took the child and lay him back into the pack so that he could be carried. Magus helped Nadya to her feet and they paced off to find some of the berries Magus mentioned along the way.

Chapter Three

What's it been now? Munch asked his old friend Kenti.

What...since the war of the White tooth?

Yeah...a few months...a year? Munch queried.

Just about a year and a half. Maybe closer to two, why? Kenti wanted to know.

It's just that, Munch paused. Karmis gave me this here book. And. He stopped as he flipped open it's pages. See here...It's a time table of some sort, from what your son tells me. He wanted you to be aware of it. Munch stood staring as Kenti pinched his brows together and began studying the pages of the book.

And where did my son come to find this book? Kenti asked.

He said he found it in some old human book hut. A liber...something! Munch told him.

A library. Kenti corrected. It's a place where the humans kept books of written accounts and stories of their lives before the great turning. This must be one written about the stars. Says here that an aligning of the moon and sun will happen soon. Hmm! Kenti said as he let his hand slide slowly across his chin in thought. He took the book and began flipping the pages back. He was searching for something from the near past. He turned as he panned over the words until he had found what he was searching for. He turned back through the pages where he found a colored glossy illustration of how the nine known planets had aligned in a straight line. Sending some celestial force of power through the alignment, ending with the planet earth. But it made no mention of what was supposed to happen during the aligning of the stars. Nor did it mention anything about the aligning of the moon and sun. Just a date and an approximate time. And what part of the world it could be best seen from. From what Kenti could figure...it would be soon.

Then as he became more curious...he leafed ahead through the book's pages to see if and what may be coming in the near future. But what he found was nothing more than a planet passing in front of the great sun which could be seen as a black dot. And nothing for at least another thousand years into the future. Kenti closed the book and handed it back to Munch.

Thank you. But there is nothing more in this that I need see. Give it back to my son. Let him know that I have read it. Kenti said then turned toward