I wake the next morning as normal, freshly showered and dressed in boxers. I shake my head at the fun Morpheus seems to be having overnight while I sleep and don’t keep tabs on him. I smile as I feel the new addition to our family. It isn’t completely there as Jade has marked him and then completed the mating. Once he is changed and marks her in return, he will become an official member of our pack.
I smile, get up off the bed, and walk into the closet. I pull on my training pants and a plain black t-shirt. I then make my way out of the room and downstairs, I grab a piece of toast from the dining table and then walk out the back.
I head straight to the training fields. I stop and look over the area. I am proud of what I see, males and females all running through the obstacle course as well as in the sparring rings. I then make my way down onto the training field and, without a word or a misstep from me or them, I join in with the exercises, slowly moving ar
As per tradition, about 2 hours before dawn, I climb back down the tree I was sitting in and let out a loud howl calling my pack to me. Once everyone is in attendance, Morpheus shifts back into his wolf and lets out another loud,“HOWL!”“Hhhoowwll!” the rest of the pack replies and joins in.Once the howls die down, I then take off running. Zaire, Farris, Charles and Jade all fall in, flanking me and the rest of the pack falls in behind me. We run the territory until the first rays of the morning light the sky. I then lead everyone back to the packhouse, ready for the day of rest.I, however, can’t rest. No matter how much I try, I can not sleep or rest the same as everyone else anymore, and after watching Zaire with Farris and now Jade with Charles, I miss Yasmine even more. I miss her fire; I miss her fight; I miss the way she would fight against me and then once I got my hands on her; I miss the way she would melt into my touch. Most of all, I miss loving her and holding her in my
I strip as soon as I reach the treeline, shift and go for a run. Morpheus is still resting, so this is all me and it feels good. It feels free… I am playing, swapping between chasing a rabbit and a squirrel. I then sense the presence of something slightly larger and go on the hunt, but still with no intention of actually killing it. I am taken a little by surprise by the sound of her soft voice in my head and nearly lose my footing as I jump over a downed tree and skid to a stop as I land.. "Zachariah?" It has been a little while since we actually talked. Wondering what's happened to make her contact me, I ask, "Yasmine... What's wrong?" "I just met my mother. She told me that my father was killed trying to protect her from a group of hunters..." I breathe a sigh of relief when she tells me that. I had a feeling that there was more to her mother's story than what she was being told and the only one that could tell her was her mother. I just wish that I could have introduced th
As I reach the treeline, I strip and shift. I grab my clothes in my mouth and then start running; it is a day to PowerMoon territory and then once we meet up with our teams; it is another day's run to each of the locations we have marked on the map. Hopefully, Charles's tracker within Yasmine's arm will give us a better and more accurate location. As it slowly gets dark, I nearly trip again as I come to a skidding stop when I hear her sweet, soft, pained voice in my head once more. "Zachariah?" I know she is trying to cover and Lorelei and Zelda are helping as much as they can, but she is still scared and in pain. Unfortunately, all I can do is reassure her that I am with her and that I am not going to leave or give up on her. "I'm here." "They are about to sedate me and move me to the breeding camp. You should be able to activate or follow the tracker as soon as they take me out of the barrier you should be able to follow." Her words are shaky and full of emotions that I kn
-- PRE BATTLE -- Zaire and Farris walk in the opposite direction as Zachariah enters the strategy tent to make his phone call. Farris places his hand on Zaire's cheek and pulls him into a hard, passionate, dominant kiss. Zaire returns the kiss with a dominant one of his own. They don't say much to each other knowing that these small stolen minutes within each other's arms could be the last they spend together. With Zaire always being part of a pack and Farris originally being from a pack and then going rogue, they both know that as with any battle or fight, anything can happen and there is always a chance that one of them will not come back from this battle. They share one last kiss before breaking apart and going their separate ways, heading to where their warrior teams are waiting for them to join and then infiltrate the territory they stand at the border of. Now, Charles was a little surprised that Alpha Zachariah gave him his own team to be in charge of. That he trusted him
-- BATTLE --The extra warriors, including Alpha Ryan, had joined Zaire about 15 minutes before Zachariah had given the all-clear to enter the PowerMoon pack territory. Zaire had informed Alpha Ryan of everything that was happening and by the time he had finished explaining, Alpha Ryan was ready to enter PowerMoon territory without Zachariah’s all-clear.Alpha Ryan, however, knew that this team of the mission was run by Zaire, so even with being an Alpha, no one moved without Zaire’s say-so. Zaire sighs in relief when he received the order from Zachariah as quickly as he did, allowing him to give the order to his warriors.They enter over the border and the first patrol they come across takes one look at them and walks the other way. Zaire smiles, as they must be a pair of Delta Lucas's warriors.However, as they got closer to the location of the suspected camp, one of Zaire's scouts comes running up to
--- BATTLE CONTINUES ---Farris then faces the other two. They were actually quite good, not allowing him to get close enough to do more than scrape the tips of his claws over their skin. What they didn’t realise was that he was making more than one cut at a time, so with every small cut that their healing healed 2 to 3 more would continue to bleed slowly, weakening them both.Farris keeps this up until one of the warriors makes a misstep allowing him to get close enough to grab his throat, digging his claws in either side and then ripping his hand and claws forward. The Lycan warrior slumps to the ground as Farris then opens his hand allowing the chunk of flesh to fall to the ground.The final Lycan warrior steps back and holds up his hands, falling to his knees as he looks at the three laying on the ground around him. Farris straightens and takes the two steps that are separating them and says,“Is there a reason for me to l
--- BATTLE CONTINUES --- **Meanwhile** Alpha Zachariah moves out in front of his team and crosses over the border and into PowerMoon territory. It isn’t long before he is joined by 3 sets of patrols; he nods to them as they fall in with the warriors behind him. Zachariah was only about half a mile from the border when he came across the first warrior camp. It was only an average camp with only low-level warriors within it. Morpheus stirred within Zachariah. He frowned but did what Morpheus wanted and used his new Royal Alpha tone, spreading it throughout just the small camp. “Those who are under Alpha command to fight and protect, I release you… Stand down!” Zachariah is only a little surprised when 95% of the warriors in the small camp relax their stance and then sit on the ground. The other 5% continued with their fighting stance. Zachariah smiled and said, “So… You are the ones here by choice. Come on, let's see what you have…” Zachariah is then surrounded by around a doze
--- BATTLE CONTINUES ---Valentino instructs his warriors to get to their positions protecting the camp, the females inside and him. Valentino is however surprised when he hears someone approaching from the opposite direction. He turns around and lets out a sigh of relief, walking over to meet Delta Lucas as he enters the camp.“Lucas, what are you doing here?”“I heard that we had a border breach. I was taking my team to check it out…”Valentino then looks behind him at his warriors, noticing that a few of them already have injuries. He frowns and looks back at Lucas.“Okay…”Valentino turns to walk away and then turns back as he frowns and continues,“Um… Lucas, if you are just heading to the border, why are some of your warriors already injured?”Delta Lucas lifted his hand and placed it on the back of his neck and looked down at the ground as he rubbed it back and forth as he said,“Yeah… Well… We sort of ran into some trouble…”Valentino knew something wasn’t right as soon as Del