.''I am more than you think''.

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Max's pov:

I took a while to get out of bed this morning, not because of tiredness or anything, I was enjoying the fact that my head was snuggled against Alexis' boobies a bit too much.

I looked up at her face, she was holding up her head up on one hand with her eyes closed, most likely in that weird meditation sleep state she can be in, I love my bed I can't imagine barely using it.

I sat up and went to the bathroom, one of her eyes following me the second I moved, it's practical to be able to enter and leave that state whenever she wants too.

I quickly showered and went out, pulling on a T-shirt and shorts as it was a training day but it was to be special so I didn't know if I should put my old stuff on.

I looked at the mark on my neck, a bite mark that showed you weren't mateless, it was still actually sore a bit but I guess it is because of her fangs, they are not too long but neither short, it also left a bruise that was a bit rare but not unseen.

"I'm sorry." Looking to the side I saw she was right behind me; I wasn't even surprised anymore.

"It's okay it's nothing you didn't hurt me."

"I actually did." She brought my left arm up and I was surprised to see a dark hand shaped bruise on it.

"It is nothing."

"Nothing?" She pushed the waist of my shorts down and bit to reveal other marks before fixing it and then pulling up right leg of the shorts for yet another hand mark I missed. "I'm a hazard to your health." I turned around and hugged her, not actually caring she was topless.

"I'm fine Alexis, it's an accident it happened once."

"The problem IS that it happened and I can do it again just as easily and I might make it much worst next time, I can so easily hurt you when I promised I wouldn't." I took her face in my hands and made her look at me, rubbing my thumb over her cheek.

"Alexis stop I don't care; a few bruises were worth yesterday night alright? I do not care, I'll heal by lunch if not earlier and it will be gone by tonight."

"..... Fine but I don't want to hurt you."

"It was accidental; all is okay."

"Okay."

Alexis' pov:

I don't know how to feel, I was dressed in my boots, usual low waisted pants, a tank top and my fingerless gloves and standing in a field with not only the younger training group but the older, well only I was standing while they were sitting in a large circle around me like young children would.

"So as you all know Halim or otherwise known as Cain has been reported by our spy to be recruiting all the enemies of mine and the pack to attack us, Cain is someone like me so a really dangerous being, we are mostly on par with each other I'd say in strength and speed so in this war techniques, knowledge and the gifts will be the decisive point...... To quickly summarize his gift again, he can read your thoughts as many hours as seconds he looked in your eyes, he can control basic emotions you feel in that time too, unfortunately for you only I can counter his gift with mine and he's gift never turns off while I can control that for mine, from what I know he also developed a power similar to my own, an imperfect copycat..... To explain what is altering present memories.... now about what present memories are.... please everyone close their eyes and imagine an apple, a red one, filled with juice and firm." I was walking around the circle while talking, people closing their eyes.

"You all see that image? Just there ready to be grabbed? That my friends are.... Not a present memory...... Now open your eyes and all look at that house, soak in all the details you can, the red roof, the crooked chimney, that is a present memory because you are creating it while you see it, his evolved gift lets him control those memories and make that house vanish from your eyes as long meaning he can vanish just like I can vanish, for that reason and the mind control you must never look into his eyes understood? For those wondering how he did that, it's the same evolution my gift went through to affect paper documents and machines as well as controlling how much of my presence is erased...... Oh and I don't care, make him feel egocentric, annoyed, insane, bored or even mocking but never..... NEVER.... Never ever make him feel angry and have the misfortune of having met his gaze.... I will need a volunteer."

A boy looking a bit older than how I look stood up and I held eye contact.

"You see people this boy is already lost, my gift isn't instantaneous like Cain's but he held my gaze for three seconds now I can control his perception, if it was this easy for me it will be easier for Cain." Suddenly the boy went into fighting stance. "And as you see in less than a second he has lost complete sight of me, I'm invisible to his eyes but kept enough of my presence for him to remember me." I said while walking around him. "This is exactly what his powers can cause, luckily once the mind reading died out in a few hours he will have no control over you but my gift works in a way that once you looked long enough my gift with have a hold on you as long as you live, some of you already are under it from the time I first came here, in one single thought I could make you forget everything you learned about me after I joined the pack again and not see me or I can choose what you forget, this makes my gift as dangerous as his for certain things..... He would have no chance." I tapped the boy who jumped before looking at me as he could see me again.

"Another important thing I wish all to know, you felt how my voice can over shadow your alpha's one, he could have done the same thing if he wasn't against me, the closer we get to each other the more that power gets cancelled out, if we were to fight you do not need to worry about that nor will I be able to order you to do things unless I specifically talk to you and only you, he could do that too and I know he knows this already.... I want all of you to fight me one on one without looking at my eyes and trying to hold out despite our differences in strength and speed, I will not go easy on you, if you look at my eyes you have lost as right now I had the time to cast almost all of you under my gift.... Let's get started." I clapped my hands together with a smirk.