Midnight Visitor

4. Eventful run

We are running through the forest, jumping and I have to say playing a little bit. Mom is not playing with us but me and my brothers are jumping over each other and nibbling on each other's legs. We run to the famous field where the teenagers all hang out and I even hung out at one point in my teenage years.

Alright we ran we played let’s get mom home.

I look at Sebastian.

Stop being such a chicken! This is my territory and we are safe and if something happens then I have seen mom take down our biggest warriors, she does not need your protection. 

We both look at mom but she is just licking the ear of Fredrick and I have to say I burst out laughing and Melody snickered a little. Mom, smaller than Fredrick but still looking kickass, is licking the side of her son's face just like a mom. 

Hey mom when you are done bathing him your other son wants a bath

I mindlink them and I have to say I laugh so hard. Sebastian growls a little at me but Fredrick just stands tall.

Don't tease your brothers Ariel.

I look back at mom and this overwhelming feeling that there she is, my mom, my real mom, not the broken torn down person I have seen for so long. I walk to her and Melody rubs her head against her and she rubs back. 

I am sorry, mom I won't

We stand there for a little while just enjoying this moment. 

So how about running up the mountain and getting a little work out?

Melody rubs her paws in the dirt, she wants to run, she wants to let out a little steam. However before anyone answers Fredrick starts running and he is fast. We yell through the mindlink that he is a cheater but then the race is on! We are running as fast as we can up the mountain that we have in our backyard. 

This was a great idea Ariel.

Thank you Melody. 

We pick up the pace and pass Fredrick on the way up, we run and run until we get to the top, there is a tree with claw marks. This is the place where we would turn around and run down but we catch our breath. We walk to the edge of the mountain and I look over my lands with pride. I take a deep breath but oh s**t. 

I smell rouges.

All of their ears jump up into a straight line. I look back over my lands and breathe in again deep through my nose, I can smell where they are. 

Mom go home, I will have someone meet you on the way, boys wanna go hunt?

Frederick took a step closer to me saying that he will come with me. 

You are really going to leave mom on her own?

I look at Sebastian. Mamasboy.

The rogues are in the west, mom will go in the other way and to be honest she will be home in three minutes if she goes straight home. 

He started to argue with me but mom stepped in.

I am the former Luna from this pack son, I can get home on my own. 

With those words she jumps to it and starts running down the mountain, we start running after her but start to lean the other way. We run for about fifteen minutes following the scent until all of a sudden Fredrick picks up the pace and runs like a wild wolf. We keep up with him but then we jump into a fight, three of my pack members trying to hold my border and fighting off this attack. There were about twenty or twenty five wolves here, all smaller than the gammas and maybe even smaller than the omegas. I do not waste any time, I just jump on the other end of the fight to get them away from the border. I rip into the first one on the neck straight for the kill, then I grab one from the back leg and swung him at the next tree, breaking his spine. I let Melody totally take over but what snapped me back to pay attention is the fact that when I was about to bite into one when Fredrick jumps on me and growls loudly and furiously at me. I don't have time to understand what is happening because I got bit in the back leg because of this distraction.

We finish off the group except for this one wolf that Fredrick had his paw on and holding down. I walk to him and while I am doing that I shift back. I don't bother to think about my nakedness. 

“SHIFT” I snap.

They both shift but I can see him trying to hide her body from the other ones around. That makes a light go on.

SHE IS HIS MATE! 

My little brother found his mate! Before me though. I bend down and take the shirt off my leg and hand it over to them.

“Explain” 

“She is my mate, there is nothing more to it Alpha” 

I want to roll my eyes.

“That is not what I am talking about Fredrick, I am talking about the attack” 

I am trying so hard to hold down how happy I am to hear his voice. 

“Give her a break Alpha, I will take her home, get all the information and then let you know” 

I look past him at the girl, she looks like a small child, her hair is blond and long, she is flat as a board all around and by the way she is standing I can still see that she is very short. I am not trying to judge her but she must just have shifted this year. 

“Are you sure she wants to come with you? We will not force her!” 

Realisation sets in his face and he looks back at her.

“Do you want to come with me or do you want to go with someone else?” 

He asks in this gentle and sweet voice that I have never heard him use. It really is a wonder to see how much effect the matebond has on people. 

“Mate, I want to be with mate” she whispers. 

I nod my head and walk closer to them, I see Fredrick move her a little closer to him and I feel a little hurt that my baby brother thinks that I would do anything to his mate. 

"As Alpha of the Blood Howlers I accept you as our guest on our lands, Do you promise not to bring any harm to the pack?" 

"Yes Alpha" 

"You promise to obey the orders the Alpha will give you?"

"Yes Alpha" 

I feel her connect to my pack and I feel her wolf submit to me. I nod my head and I nod my head to the warriors behind them.

“Go and have those injured checked, I already have others to come and replace you” 

They nod their heads still in wolf form but turn around and walk away. I see in the corner of my eye Sebastian walk a little too close to the girl and Fredrick growls at him. Sebastian keeps his distance but I can see him smell her a little more. Frederick picks her up and starts to walk with her away. Sebastian shifts back and is standing by my side watching them walk away, I have to say she looks even smaller in his huge ass arms. 

“Do you think she is safe?” he asks.

I know he is not used to share his twin brother like this but we all have mates out there and maybe this will get him off his ass being such a mama's boys. 

“We have to trust that he will take care of her”

He was about to say something but I got an alert in my mind. 

“ALPHA! THE WITCH IS IN YOUR MOTHERS HOUSE” 

Without even saying another word I shift and run as fast I can over to my mothers house. It takes me about fifteen minutes because I have never run this fast before. I stop in the treeline where my guard is. 

“What is happening?” 

“We picked up her scent around her house, we tried to mindlink her but she is not responding but we did not want to burst inside if that would make the witch scared and kill her” 

I nod my head. 

“I am going in” I say while putting on a shirt that we keep by one of the trees. There are clothes all over this treeline. 

“Hold back my brother at all costs, lie to him, hold him, I don't care just hold him back, I will not have him spook the witch and she kills my mother” I say and then run towards the house. 

I make no sound while walking up to the house, I am coming from the back and I see the window in the guest room is open. I bend down and put my ear to the open window but I can not hear anything. I slowly and quietly open the window even more so I could slip inside. I watch not to make any sound and I walk over to the door. It is closed but I lay my ear on it but again I don't hear anything even with my super wolf hearing. You can not see this door from the living room but it can makes some noise while opening but I have to take that chance. I open the door very slowly and as quiet as I can. 

“Hello Ariel, want to join us old friends?”