I am so sorry this took this long to come out but I hope it is worth the wait. This is about 6000 words longer than Ch.01 and 7500 more than Ch.02, I hope you enjoy it :D.
After stopping off at Eric's apartment to drop of the bags they headed back out again. Once again walking on the streets Eric turned to the girls,
"Okay, I have to go to the hockey clinic I run now. IF you guys want to come and help me with the kids or meet the parents you can, but you are going to have to go there anyway because that's where the game is."
After thinking for a second Bella said, "I'll go with you I always liked kids anyway."
Christy added, "ME TO I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM!! THEY'RE GOING TO BE SO ADORABLE!"
Lilith than said, "Calm down Christy, don't make a scene, I'll come too and help where I can."
"Great, we're about 2 blocks away from the rink. It's about 3:30 now so the kids will start to arrive soon, the clinic itself starts at 4:40."
When they made it to the rink Eric retrieved his stored gear from the manager, Rick. Rick was an older man, mid-fifties and happily married. He had gray eyes and white hair that was slowly receding up his head. He took one look at Eric and immediately said,
"You got laid didn't you?"
Eric smiled and motioned for him to look out of the window of his office. Sitting on a bench were the girls, chattering away happily at one thing or another. his eyes opened wide when he saw them and he blurted out,
"For fucks sake that's a hell of an accomplishment if I do say so myself. Sheesh, beauties the lot of em."
"You better be talking about me you fat oaf." the voice of his wife Mary carried through an open door. She strode into the office from another door and saw what her husband truly was talking about. Mary was a strong woman that aged well, she had hair almost as white as Lilith's and like her husband had gray eyes as well. When she saw the girls she looked directly at Eric,
"Finally, about time you got laid."
Eric groaned, "Jesus Mary is this such a surprise? You too Rick."
Mary replied, "Well ever since your parents this has been the only place other than your apartment that you could be found. And apparently screwing those three girls out there got you out of your funk. I should go thank them."
And then she promptly left the office and began talking to the three of them. After a while she nudged her way in between Lilith and Christy and they all chattered away about girl things.
"Take your shit and get ready, the kids will be arriving soon."
Eric smiled and retrieved his bag of equipment he walked out the door and grabbed his stick along the way calling out over his shoulder, "Thanks Rick, and I have a good feeling about tonight. So root for us."
"Good luck. You're gonna need it"
Eric saw one of his best friends, Dmitri walking down the hallway in the opposite direction. Eric was a pretty big guy, but Dmitri was huge compared to him. At just under 7 feet, and with blonde hair and blue eyes he was the stereo-typical Norseman. He was an exchange student from Russia and Eric had met his parents on several occasions and they were just as intimidating as Dmitri is. He spoke with heavily accented English and frequently reverted back to Russian without thinking. Eric called over the girls and introduced them to him after a while Dmitri had to ask in his powerful voice,
"You fucked all of them right?"
"Dmitri shut up, we don't want any of the little kids hearing you say that."
"Whatever you're lucky cause I know you did. I have to go know, I'll see you at the game this year we're actually gonna win I can feel it."
Eric grabbed his friends shoulder and turned him back around. "Before you go I'd like to apologize, I must have been a dick to you over the past month."
"Don't fucking get sappy with me, I don't blame you, now get your shit together, coach these kids, and then get ready for the game."
"Alright man, cya." Eric said with a smile.
After he walked away Lilith piped up, "He seems nice."
"He's the best friend I could ever ask for. And you should see him on the ice, I don't mean in hockey. It's a secret so don't tell anyone but that guy can figure skate at Olympic level, like it's unbelievable. He always wanted to do partners but he never found someone who could match him."
Suddenly excited Lilith said, "OH MY GOD I KNOW THE PERFECT GIRL FOR HIM!!!"
"Who?" Christy asked.
Without hesitation Bella responded, "Freya"
"You know it sister." Lilith proclaimed.
"What? Freya?"
"She used to be human, but then she met the queen of the northern wilds. The queen was a dryad, ice spirit.... hybrid of sorts, but let's just says the northern atmosphere got to her. Freya was the only human ever to stand up to her and she felt that Freya should inherit her power when she died, which is exactly what happened."
"Wow, sounds like someone that Dmitri would be into. So get ready for some summoning or whatever you call it because we're bringing some new monster girls here soon. I have to go get ready now; I'll see you girls later."
They all smiled and walked back down the hall. Eric walked down a hallway to one of the locker rooms that Rick had assigned to them and put his stuff down. He took off his jeans and put on his team jumpsuit. He laced up his skates and walked out the door. He saw some parents walking in with their kids and walked over to say hello.
The parents also seemed to notice the change that had come over Eric since the last time they had seen him. He greeted them and helped them herd their overly hyper kids to the locker room so they could get dressed.
Eric stepped onto the ice and skated around, waiting for the kids to trickle onto the ice. On a good day there were maybe 20 kids on the ice with him and today seemed to be one of those judging from the amount of parents in the stands. He took a few practice shots and he realized that with the new benefits from his bond, his shot was a good deal harder and extremely accurate. He could snipe corners easily from the blue line and managed to get a good amount of slap-shots to do the same. He was definitely faster and he could stickhandle better than he ever could before.
He passed a few pucks to the kids who got onto the ice and they fooled around as much as they could, the older ones started a game of 3 v 3 on one end and the younger ones tried to set up a game but they weren't very good so it ended up just being a swarm of 5 and 6 year olds around the puck that never really got anywhere.