The Luna Game

Melissa’s POV I opened my eyes wide and happy when I woke up this morning, It was supposed to be the best day of my life, the day I finally clock eighteen and I will finally meet my mate. Luka. Luka is my boyfriend, we have both known that we are going to be each other's mates. You know that feeling you get when you turn sixteen about a potential mate? When you already start to see traces and feelings. I would say that is the major reason we even became close and started dating in the first place, the connection. My parents are the Alpha and Luna of the Lucent Pack, and even though I look a little bit older than my age because of the way my body is proportioned, slender figure and full in the right places, I'm still very precious to them. I am an only child so that explains it all. I have had pack members my age or even older, gossip about the way I look and always emphasize on the way my full breasts and curly brown hair, full lips, and high cheekbones will only give me more reasons to steal their boyfriends. They always conclude that I was a s**t and that I try to take the attention of their boys away from them. They never dared to say it in front of me though. As I said, it’s only gossip so it never bothered me. I know what jealousy can do to people. “Madam Melissa, The alpha and the luna want your presence in the living room” My personal maid Isabel said as she pushed her head inside my room to call out to me. The announcement felt like music to my ears, the only thing I noticed was that she was not smiling when she made the announcement. I pushed it behind me, she is probably going through something more personal than what was happening. Isabel is like my friend, a friend I never got to have with any of the nobles in the pack. I'm sure if something was wrong she would have told me. “Uhm” I grunted and I smiled silently to myself, I know exactly why I was being called so early. I can't help but think it's definitely the dress shopping my mother had promised me for my eighteenth birthday. Then I can finally go without a chaperone, just as she had promised. Although I don't know what I would expect myself yet but I'm sure it is going to be as beautiful as getting my own freedom. But maybe I could take Isabel with me, she knows how to keep her mouth shut. But If there was anyone I trust to handle my shopping behind me. It would be my mother. “Come in for a minute” I called Isabel who was trying to escape back out. Her right leg had not even stayed one minute and she was already leaving me to go. There was something wrong, but it definitely was not with me. “Princess” She murmured, holding her two hands together below her belly. “I need help picking clothes to wear to see Luka today, I want you to pick the best of everything. From the panties to my bag and jewelry. Damn! I need to look my best! Today I will be seeing him as my mate, not just my boyfriend. Those pack sluts prying eyes would eventually leave us alone. We will finally be able to hold hands in front of everyone. When he marks me as his own today. . . “ I paused because I didn't want to give too much information. “. . . Don't worry, I will tell you all about it” I finished dreamingly. I have been waiting for this day my entire life. It was finally happening. I looked at Isabel, she didn't look too interested in what I was saying, as if something else occupied her mind. “Is something wrong with you?” I asked, bringing her back to reality for a little bit. “Princess, err, something is wrong. . . But not exactly to me,” she said, hesitantly. I stood up from my bed now, panic surging through me. “Who? Is your mother alright? Do you need more money for her clinic treatment?” I asked away. “No!” she replied, waving her hands hurriedly in front of me. “My mother is well, you have done more than enough for us already. That's not it” “Then what?” I asked again, this time my fear presided, so I placed myself back on my bed. “I think you should see your mother first. I don't think I should be the one to tell you” I didn't like the sound of that. I grabbed my robe and made my way to the living room, while Isabel trailed behind me. But we didn't need to walk further because my mother was already on her way to me in the hallway. “Elisa, you have been summoned!” she announced with a big smile plastered over her face proudly. “What do you mean, mother? Ain't you at least going to wish me a happy birthday?” I queried, whatever announcement she has should not be more important than her daughter’s birthday. This is not the first time we have gotten a summon, and today will definitely not be the last. “Oh my princess, I am sorry. Happy birthday” She hugged me, her five foot five standing beside my five foot seven. Makes me feel like I'm the mom sometimes, and her tenderness baffles me. “I am sure your father is waiting to wish you too, but he had a meeting this morning about the quest for the alpha supreme” she announced happily. “Oh, I thought you guys would cancel all appointments this morning” I replied grumpily. “Oh yes, we thought that would be it. I mean your father canceled everything, this particular just came as a surprise. Your father is more than happy, you have made him proud, and you have made the pack proud, I am happy my princess” she said, beaming again. “Mother? Would you tell me what's going on? How am I making you proud? I have not done anything” I asked, utterly confused. I looked over at Isabel, but she took her eyes off mine. “You have been chosen to grace the Luna quest for the Alpha Supreme” She announced, passing the letter to me. I looked down at it, still confused. “I don't understand. Why would I have this? I didn't apply for it” I probed the letter. But what I meant to say was why would I have applied to be the luna of the most crazed alpha supreme of all time? No one has really seen him but I'm sure to my bones that those rumors were no lies. Every young lady, middle age woman, and older women who want their daughter to be in the alpha supreme’s graces has gone over the roof lately. That is practically the only thing they have managed to talk about. That is the only interesting topic in the society today. No one is considering how far away is the alpha supreme’s territory. They just want to be royalty, they all want to apply and be picked but not me. I have no business leaving my pack, and that involves never going for a stupid completion that holds every ten years for the reigning alpha to find him a Luna. “Didn't you apply?” My mother asked, the smile disappearing from her face seeing how I was or excited about the news. “No, I didn't. I didn't. Why does this have my name on it?” I questioned, panicking. I know what this means more than anyone. I have heard stories, even directly from my father and mother. Once in ten years, they say, except if the Alpha supreme is still the same person. But why does the alpha supreme have to hold a competition to find himself a luna? The new alpha supreme had become alpha about four years ago and everyone knew that it would be a matter of time now before the luna quest would begin. I was panicking, my eyes were now having the evidence of tears. I began to think of how I can wriggle my way out of it. I thought hard but I didn't see a way. Every girl in the neighboring pack would die to have this, why would I be chosen when I don't even want it? “Mother, can we give this to someone who really needs it? Uh?” I pleaded “Princess, I wish. But we are the leaders of the pack. We should always lead by example, and besides everyone will be looking out for your decision now when it gets out that you have been chosen. Besides, it will do us proud! We have never been chosen before” my mom beamed again “Oh, mother! It's easy for you to say. I am the one leaving you to go to the alpha Supreme’s pack” I replied out of frustration. I saw Isabel trying to wiggle her way out of the scene silently, but I caught her before she did. “Don’t you dare move!” I snapped. I was angry. Angry was an understatement, I have my whole life planned. . . Maybe not my whole life but I have plans with Luka! Today was supposed to be the beginning of our beautiful love story together. Call it unrealistic, it was love to me. Luka is my only love. “Don’t worry Elisa” Elisa, like my mother, likes to call me, “You will have a companion with you. Someone has been chosen to go with you!” my mother announced. But all of that does not matter to me. “No mother! Don't talk as if this is finalized, don't talk as if I have agreed to it. I will tell father when he comes, he will do something about this“ I threatened, but it didn't carry any weight at all on my mother’s conscience. “We should remember our place and show respect to the Alpha Supreme. Your father already approved. You shall leave in three days. Not everyone can get picked and you should feel lucky.” Lucky? This just makes me feel sick.