The Witches White Leopard

I hadn’t had a hunt like this in years! I couldn’t find this girl....its like she fell of the face of the earth when she was 12. Kasy Ravenswood, her name sounded so sweet but from her profile she was likely anything but. She had lived a hard life being the last of her family having survived the attack that killed her parents. That will mess a kid up. No matter how well their Foster family raise them. You can’t stop trauma like that. I should know. I jumped down from my roof onto my balcony and went into my room from there. Being a shifter has its perks. I slammed the door In frustration and growled as it just bounced open again, like it was mocking me too! I have never not found one of my targets. My boss the head of the BRUTASHKA Brotherhood called Raziel relied on my tracking skills. They were unrivalled. I’d never failed to find them! Even if the target had been missing for 30 years from a baby, I was still able to find them. This was frustrating and damn right f*****g me off! I left my room, slamming that door too, heading to the theatre room of my house. So I could get online with my fellow brothers, rant and relax. Play some games or watch a film, whichever one they are doing tonight. My fellow brothers were the only ones who knew what I was and the same went for them too. Raziel let us have this connection to each other or we would spend our very long lives just fighting back the evil of this world and having no human contact. It had taken me a long time to build the life I had, my vast estate in Somerset was breath-taking. I had achieved all I could in the human world when I became a BRUTASHKA, it had been time for a change. Its not like I had a pack anymore to attend too. They had kicked me out when I first shifted and they finally saw what a monster I was. I’m double the size of a normal werewolf, werecat, I’m a white leopard and it lead to my father the Alpha accusing my mother of infidelity. My mother hadn’t cheated on him, she’d never so much as looked at another man! My dad was her mate and that’s for life. Come the end my dad believed my mum, but decided that he couldn’t live in the same pack as me. I was a threat apparently. So they chucked me out! Every scar I have is a road map to where I am now. Every step from living on the streets at 13 and shifting with no control, to making myself a billionaire with my face all over the TV as the city’s hottest bachelor. I’d never found my mate, sure I had human women flocking and flaunting their assets in my face. But no mate. I had killed my entire pack when I had got older, or rather my leopard counter part did. His name is Zada and he’s not a normal leopard. The moon goddess blessed us with some amazing powers, my pack didn’t see it that way though. Now I think she is punishing me for the crime and slaughter I did. But they had tortured me and my parents watched! So once we grew into a man and had learnt to control our power Zada had ripped control from me one night and slaughtered them all for what they had done. He showed no mercy on the ones who had tortured us. We left the rest for dead and after 170 years we haven’t met another Leopard werecat. I hold a tight leash on Zada from that day, I found how dangerous it can be to allow him to take control. He doesn’t think as a human and I had been naive to think he could. Being a BRUTASHKA is the hardest challenge yet, to resist the darkness and fight for the light is a forever battle. I slumped in the over sized theatre chair, logged on and put my headset on. “CJ logging in” “Hey man” “what’s up bro” My brothers from all around the world checked in, well the ones that were awake did anyway. They had some action flick on, I partook in the usual ritual of shouting at the screen and arguing with the others about how the character should of finished the fight. “Should of been a headbutt” “No way man! A flying kick to the head” “Humans can’t do that Calvin” “Well they sure as s**t can’t do what they did on the screen either!” I fell asleep as I usually do, covered in popcorn and with a crink in my neck, normally until Ben my PA found me in the morning. But I wasn’t asleep for long tonight, I just couldn’t shake this case off. Kasy Ravenswood, the last Witch of the true spirit original family. This girl was something special alright, Raziel was sure she was alive. I went to the lower level gym, if I couldn’t sleep then working out would ease some of the tension. Ben liked to call my house a man pad mansion, the kid would actually live here if I let him. I pass the mirror and stare at myself, cold calculating eyes, check. Shoulders the size of boulders, double check. Scars and tattoo’s running along my body, yeah they were still there alright. Towering over any normal person and making them uncomfortable, check. I had to have this house built with extra high ceilings or I would bump my head. Or end up with a hunch back! Not a good look. I started my work out after half hour of running I hit the weights, after an hour of weights I was in the sauna. I would go for a swim but the workout had the desired effect and I could feel myself becoming tired in the sauna! Not the best place to fall asleep that’s for sure. I slumped against the wall, I made my home here cause no one would look for me here. You don’t look at me estate and think ahhhh demon hunter lives here! No you think an Earl or Duke live here. I thought about inviting the brothers over, just to stop the boredom for a few hours. To hear laughter in this house once more would be nice. Instead of me and my thoughts all the time. Apart from when Ben was here. In the Brotherhood they call me CJ as a winde up, they know I hate it. You can’t be sensitive around those lot, they continuously take the piss outta each other. I do my fair share too, it passes the time. If you took the Banta seriously you’d be a crying wreck on the floor in 30 minutes! Looking at the ceiling of the sauna I ask the moon goddess not for the first time.... “Why me? Am I not worthy of a mate? Just all this power to fight evil?” It was a question I asked often of her, yet I hadn’t got a response. My path didn’t make sense to me yet. But that’s the gods for you. I was a loner, it’s true. I didn’t let people in. I was waiting for that special person. No matter how bleak it got and yeah sure I slept about sometimes when the loneliness got the better of me. Even Ben didn’t know he was related to me! It was way to late to tell him now too! It’s like when you forget someone’s name and then your to late to ask without it being well awkward! Thinking back to how Ben came into my life, I had kept an eye on my bloodline of course. You can’t be around family though when you become a BRUTASHKA as they will notice you don’t age. Ben’s family was human, the werecat gene was long gone from their family tree. I was on a mission and the target had found out about them. The demons had held them to ransom, it didn’t help them of course. I’d never be blackmailed and I knew they would kill them as soon as they got the chance anyway, which they did. I had gone into Ben’s house to see his parents just taking their last breaths, even as I had played along with their little game. Pretending I had acquired the amulet they were after. It ended with Ben’s parents dying and the demons soon after as I took all my frustration and pain for the happy family out on those who had killed them. I let Zada out to take control then too, this had required his personal touch for revenge. I left their house covered in blood and carrying a small Ben in my arms. I set him up with a Foster parent and they looked after him in the house I bought for him and on the salary I paid them. I kept him close this time, making sure he didn’t stray to far. But as he got older and he started to work for me, the eccentric billionaire that was on TV. He grew apart from them and stayed with me more. Ben had come to view the house with me when we were first buying it and it was all old Manor and no swag! The estate agent had called the different areas of the house the east wing and west wing. I told him I didn’t own a f*****g compass and Ben’s face went bright red. It’s still my favourite pastime to make Ben blush! Though he doesn’t do it as much now. I emerged from the sauna looking like a mash up between a tomato and prune gone wrong. I made my way to my room, feeling like I weighed a million pounds. I had definitely worked all the frustration out. But I just couldn’t work out why this case was effecting me so bad. All my cases were important, so what was it about Miss Kasy Ravenswood that had me so riled up. The inner need to find her was overwhelming. That was it I had to find her, it felt personal though in sure I had never seen the girl in my life! I flopped on my bed, the massive 4 poster queen sized bed was the epitome of luxury. I wasn’t one for being flash, but when it came to my sleep I liked the best. I looked out a window and into the trees that concealed my house, they were starting to change colour with the season. I had flown these trees in to surround the house, they merged With the woods out the back and gave me some privacy so i could run as Zada and not be worried about being seen. I had a witch erect a magical sensor around the property line, like a ward. With many spells of concealment and one to make humans just turn around and forget what they were doing there. I had a state of the art. Stolen from MI5 security system. Nothing was getting through my barriers I made sure of it. I sprawled out some more and let sleep claim me. But my dreams were haunted by a much older Kasy begging me to find her and it was nearly too late to save her!