Bette smirked at her achievement but that was short lived when I tackled her and we both went tumbling down.

"Ugh," Bette whined as I sat on top of her victoriously.

"Nice hussle," I laughed.

Dana stood up and said, "now that you’re on your toes. Let’s do it again."

For hours we sparred. As time went by, Shane, Carmen, and Bette became stronger and faster. We only took breaks to hunt some animals for blood supply. We used a regular human knife, that wouldn’t harm us, as a prop to see if we could avoid attacks.

It was the third and final night of training before we would go in search of Helena who had already sent bounties because of the discovery of the witch I killed.

Now other witches were hunting for us as well, but if I could kill Helena or at least get her to give up, then they would stop searching for us. We were practicing counter attacks when we sensed a witch nearby.

We all crouched down into defensive positions waiting as she approached fast.

When it turned out to be Alice, Bette, Dana, and I relaxed. We explained to Carmen and Shane who she was and they relaxed as well.

"So I’ve told Helena to meet you at the forest arena," Alice said. Evidently Dana had been talking to her over the past three days. There is so much tension between them it was affecting Bette and I to the point where we got used to having sex in front of them.

We were normally resting when Shane and Carmen went at it, so that didn’t stir us up too much.

"It will be a private fight," Alice said, "Just us, and her girlfriend Dylan."

"The healer?" Dana asked.

"Yes, the healer, Dylan says she’ll heal anyone who’s injured on your side, but behind Helena’s back," Alice said.

"It’s good to know we have an ally," I smiled, "thanks Alice."

"Well, it’s my thanks for not biting me," Alice said, "that’s a painful death I wouldn’t wish on anyone."

"Hey, you’re the strongest witch after Helena right?" Bette asked suddenly.

I looked at her curiously wondering where she was going with the line of questioning. Alice looked confused as well as she answered, "yeah."