A Mysterious She-wolf

Kavi's POV [Layla's POV]

I was back to my realm but couldn't stop thinking about the luscious man I met back at the earth. How didn't I never come across him all these years? Was this called Destiny? Whatever!

I decided not to go to the castle because my brain needs some time to pull myself together. I spotted the rows of trees outside my castle and I knew what to do. I can't let his little gift perish within days. But I can give life to it. I used my powers to create a pond in the middle of the empty land. I kissed the lotus and let it into the water which instantly formed roots and a few branches formed in the next few seconds. I adored them thinking about the person gave this to me with a big smile on my face.

I teleported to the Hallway and nodded at the guards bowing for me while making my way to the Meeting Hall. Aadhira and Kathir will report me every evening to update me with what was happening around and to take my advice and instruction for the things to be done. I will meet my second level heads every fortnight to discuss my ideas with them and solve the issues if any. And I will meet my people once a month on the throne. I will go over visit to other planets too and it will make my time flew very soon. Yet I love to spend considerable time in the earth.

"... you should at least tell her, Idiot. How would she know unless you tell her? I am going to tell her if you don't have guts to tell her."

I heard Aadhira was in some serious argument with her brother when I get close to the door. Was Kathir in love? Who is that “she?

"Don't you dare, Aadhira. You know this is not simple. Many people have been attracted to her but SHE has to choose what she wants and the way she looked at him spellbound... I realised I have no chance for my love. We can't change destiny.”

He said in frustration. I held my hand to the guard to stop him from opening the door for me and listened to them. He can ask me if he needs any help. I should assure him after the meeting. After I felt the silence between the siblings, I nodded my head at the guard and he opened the door which chimed with the small bells adorned on its top.

I found both of them composed in a matter of seconds. They bowed and smiled at me widely. I always love the way my people's eyes lit upon seeing me. It shows I am doing the right thing and they don't feel pressurised and it shows their never-dying love and devotion to me. I smiled at them and asked them to sit down on the rock carvings I made especially for the three of us and we started discussing the daily affairs as usual. I changed my decision to ask Kathir about his problem. I have the power to look into the mind of someone. But I know Kathir would never do something stupid and he is capable of handling things on his own. So I let him be for the moment. If I feel he needs my help in future, I will be always ready to do.

I teleported to my room after that and found they have changed the dark blue curtains into cherry- red cloth weaved with golden silk. My mind directed me towards the handsome wizard I ran into today. His eyes! Damn!

I decided to focus my mind and sat on my favourite spot near the window which has the entire landscape view of my realm. I closed my eyes and tried to establish my connection with celestial. Instead of stars, a perfect row of teeth with a dashing smile of the bearded guy appeared before me. I sighed and opened my eyes knowing this wasn't gonna work. A small smile appeared on my face on thinking that I found a person who could sweetly torture my soul even without getting to know him.

I used my spiritual power to focus on him and found him back in his village and meditating on the rock facing the Sun. The evening breeze was caring his black locks and making him look so angelic. Oh! He disturbed my peace of mind but doing his meditation peacefully. I don't know how long I have been looking at him. The sunshade vanished and the bright moon was now illuminating his face. A small figure came next to him and softly stroked his head. I could tell from the gesture, she was his mother. He opened his eyes and smiled at her. As if it was the usual occurrence, she went back and he followed her trails to their home.

I opened my eyes and sighed dreamily. I shouldn't do this. I have the responsibility for all these people who had been looking upon me for everything they do. I am not an epitome of how a person should live but I can't be a bad example as well. I looked at the fruits and a glass of pineapple juice kept near the bedside table for my supper.

The night passed while I spent my time on my library to note down the things I wanted to. The library has the scrolls from dried thick leaves which I have written from my memory since my birth and saving them to use them in future. The room has the volcanic rock seats and slab to sit and write or read. Aadhira and Kathir were the only people allowed here to use them and to keep the records related to the realm.

I love nights as it let me caress the creatures on the earth and help them get their time to regenerate their energy. My physical body might be limited within the size of human but I am spiritually present everywhere and most precisely wherever the darkness present.

I visited the volcanic pits next day and asked Aadhira to overlook the work of a few as they seem punishing the souls more intensely than it should be done. I visited the training chamber and quite impressed with the way they are developing themselves. They are so natural as the realm gives them strength and authority.

I made my way slowly to the castle overlooking everything and my legs froze on the sight of the pond I created yesterday. I went there and found a few full blossoming flowers and a few buds. The divinity powers within me made them flourished. I smiled and realised it's almost the same time I met him yesterday. It wasn't even a complete day yet he was the one beautiful distraction who occupied my mind most of the time.

I used my powers to see what he was doing and found him walking in the forest towards the river. My heart skipped a beat on realising he was on the way towards where we met yesterday. Was he feel the same way as I do? With a very clear knowledge of what I am getting into was wrong, I teleported there and made myself invisible. I found him searching around the place. I felt my heart doing a somersault in happiness. I took the same form as yesterday and went to him from backwards with a naughty smile. I could scare him this way. When I was in my last step, I felt his body tensing and he let out a sigh.

"I knew you would come!”

His smooth voice made me halt in my steps and I raised my eyebrow in amusement. He turned around and looked at me. I waved my hand at him. He nodded his head and bend down to pick me up and placed me in the branch of the nearby tree. I fisted my small palm as his touch was making my skin burn in desire and bit my inner lip to stop myself from doing anything stupid. He kept his hand on both sides of me; kind of caging me.

"Who are you? You have a unique eye colour!"

He questioned me with slight frustration.

Ah-Haa! The pretty wizard was inquiring me.

"Everybody knows me and see me every day! I am just one among you. Why are you asking?"

I replied in an unaffected manner. I enjoyed the closeness and wondered why he was hiding half of his handsome face behind the thick beard. He narrowed his eyes at my reply and yanked my arm towards him.

"I don't know who you are. But if I feel threatened by your visits or if you have any intention to harm any of us, I won't hesitate to break that delicate neck of yours. Do you understand me?"

He warned me. But I was not in the state to listen to any of his words as I was concentrating on his fruity breath that caressing my skin, with him being just a mere inch away from me. His manly fingers were draped around my little hands. My skin heated up and he should have felt the same and he let me go with a shake of his head.

I instantly miss his warmth and finally, his words sink in me. He was really a brave man but should be careful before making promises he couldn't keep up. I voiced my thoughts.

"Don't promise something you can't keep up. And never underestimate your opponent. An ant may look tiny but it can kill an elephant if it enters the elephant's ear.”

His eyes widened at my words and his suspicion was confirmed that I wasn't a normal human. Because a small girl like me can't challenge this well-built man, that too a wizard. I smirked at him and hopped down and took off to the forest escaping his attempt to catch me.

When I teleported back to my realm, I started laughing loudly remembering my wizard's cute face of confusion and frustration. I didn't notice people around me and they joined in my laughter as it was contagious. The sight was so funny and it made me laugh hard and the sound of laughter in my realm musically echoed in my ears. Also, it reminded me that these souls had sacrificed their life to serve me by rejecting the other options. My attraction should not distract me from my prime responsibility. I made a decision to stay away from him. It's not that difficult. I should just avoid visiting the place he lives in. I knew very well whatever between us can't escalate. loo

*Seven months had passed*

It was early in the morning. I was in the middle of a mountain and sitting with a quiver of Black cobras. Snakes had my attention from the start of their evolution. Beautiful but venomous and dangerous. Similar to me! The humans have given me the symbol of the same. People draw a circle with a few lines and call it as the sun and a crescent shape was called as the moon. But I have no idea why they have come up with the idea of a cloud symbol that partially hides a snake to represent me. Their symbol was accepted by us as their love was more valuable.

I felt a movement near me. I was sitting on a rock and the cobras were lying around the bottom of the rock and a few were resting across the branches nearby. A pregnant cobra moved near me and prayed to me to let her see the sunrise with me. I smiled and carefully raised her on my lap. The male snake crawled near me to keep an eye on his female. I stroked his head softly for his affection for his family. I suddenly felt a slight ache in my heart while seeing the sunrise. I rubbed my chest trying to ease it away. The similar ache brought me close to a handsome wizard. Is this indicate that I gonna meet him again? I closed my eyes with a deep breath. I shouldn't think about him

A sense of caution engulfed my body as a reflex of some danger. I sensed an arrow was coming in the way of the male snake next to me. I caught it before it could touch him and looked around to find a shadow of someone. I saw him raising his hand for another shot. I couldn't see properly with the density of leaves and branches around me

"Don't! They mean no harm!"

I warned the intruder. The male snake hissed at him in caution as he sensed the danger and his hiss woke up the quiver.

"Are you insane? Put the snake down! They are venomous. And what the fuck are you doing with those snakes?"

The offending words didn't mean anything to me when I recognized the voice of the person worrying about my wellbeing. It's him. I slowly kept the female near her male and looked up at him. He managed to make a few steps forward. He extended his arm towards me from the slant muddy surface. I smiled and moved aside the branch that hiding my face from him. I am curious to see him. How the heck he found me in the middle of dense mountain forest which was miles away from his tribe?

My eyes met him and I noticed how his eyes blinked slowly taking in my form. He licked his lips on seeing my exposed curves and stopped at my eyes. A look of recognition passed through his eyes but a hiss from his mouth made me panic and I went near him. I totally forgot to calm down the hissing cobras. One of the cobras on the trees had bitten him near his eyebrow. I scolded the cobra for hurting him and loudly announced he won't hurt them anymore. He was loosing his conscious sooner than I expected. The hisses reduced and the cobra who bitten him apologized me. I smiled at the snake and teleported the semi-conscious man to an open area nearby to the side of a mountain lake.

My fingers shivered in anticipation to touch him for the first time. I made him lie his head on my lap and removed the venom from his body with my powers. He looked very exhausted and it tells the reason for him to faint too quickly. I slightly stroked his head while admiring him. He looks more manly than before; rougher and lavish. I controlled myself from running my fingers across his skin and tried to calm my body getting hot.

Why he has so much effect on me?

I found his eyeballs moving within the closed eyelids and composed myself. But his red orbs never failed to make me stunned. He looked around and saw me. His red orbs stared into my purple pair. He extended his hand and cupped my cheek making my heart race. He tilted his head and his thumb moved to and fro feeling my skin. I took in a deep breath and closed my eyes for a moment. Suddenly he pulled his hand away and scooted away from me.

"This isn't a dream!"

He stated to himself. He looked around and touched his forehead and felt the two punctured holes. "You are the woman sitting among the snakes! *

He decided to himself and breathed out.

"Do you normally speak with all animals or only the snakes?"

I smiled at his statement. He should have sub-consciously listened to me scolding the serpents. No one spoke to me like he does. There was no restriction for him to speak to me freely and I love it. "Speak up for the god sake!"

He shouted in frustration as I wasn't answering any of his questions. Before I could speak, he cut me off.

"Oh my God! You look very similar to the small girl I met before seven months. Same eyes and features! Who are you?"

He gasped out and pulled some flimsy wooden wand and stood up defensively. He mentioned “seven months’. Either he has a good memory or he was somehow affected by my presence and still do remember me. I could feel the swelling of happiness within me.

"What do you think?"

I questioned him back and stood up. His eyes raked over my body and he licked his lips again subconsciously.

'He was attracted to me.’

I smirked internally and looked at him.

"I'm Layla. Everybody knows me and see me every day! I am just one among you."

I repeated the same words from that day and he did recognize it.

"Was she your sister? I heard her telling the same words."

"You could tell!"

I lied. He relaxed and tucked his wand to the cloth he tied across his hip. And I noticed a small cloth with things was tied to his back across his hip.

"What are you doing alone in this forest? It's not safe here.”

He said with a concerned frown.

"I am very familiar here and nothing will hurt me here. What are you doing here?"

Yeah! The earth was very familiar to me. He thought for a minute but his features loosened up.

"I'm Maayan. I was born with some powers. Don't panic! I have magical powers and I was trying to develop it. My father had met Sun God and got the boon. However, I need to learn things being more powerful as firstborn and I should teach my siblings. I came here to study the medicinal plants here and to collect things to make potion trials.”

A unique name that suits him well. He explained me softly with pride of his father had met a God. But this sweet idiot didn't know I am Goddess. And I like his hard work and determination.

"That's great. But you feel so exhausted. Get some food and sleep for sometime before continuing your search”

I said to him with a smile.

"Wait! I remember a cobra biting me. How come I was normal?"

Uh-oh!

"Does he always asks too many questions?”

I loudly exclaimed to myself. He let out a manly laughter but his eyes were determined to get his answer out of me.

"I used some Ophiorrhiza root to heal you."

I lied but that root really helps to treat snake bites.

"You know about herbs?"

He wondered with wide eyes. I could see what was coming my way. I nodded my head and his smile widened.

"Can you help me learn about plants? I was familiar with the plants around our native. But I heard this mountain has more unique plants. And I hope you can teach me about them. This is very important to me."

He didn't give me chance to reject and decided it himself. I too want to get to know him to see why my soul was yearning for him.

"I will help you when I get free time. There was an abandoned hut across the lake. I think you can use that. The man lived there recently moved to the next forest.”

I used my power to build a habitable hut near the lake for him before he could notice and pointed him out.

"Thank you. I was worried about building a new one. Where do you stay? I knew you are different from normal humans!"

He asked me. He really was full of questions.

"I will tell you when the time comes. Get comfortable in the place. I have something to do today. We can start our search from tomorrow."

I told him when I got a telepathic reminder from Kathir about my meeting with Sun and Moon after an hour. Maayan nodded his head and thanked me again.

I ogled his hard muscles flexing when he walked towards his new home. I walked into the woods and teleported to my realm.

Time to go to the Meeting!

[To be continued...]