Chapter 4 Blessing In Disguise

Fred, Beta Jude, Beta Andrew, on their way back to Alpha Fred's room.

"The one with a feather." Jude says, and repeats over and over again.

"And what about him?" Fred asks, bemusedly.

Andrew shrugs, and taps Jude on his shoulder.

"Did you see anything about Kenneth?" Andrew asks Jude but he doesn't respond. Instead, he shakes his head and spits out. He spits at Alpha Fred, and apologizes the next minute.

"Alpha Fred, it won't work that way." Jude suddenly tells him. "Don't bother looking for Emilia."

"And why?" Andrew and Fred ask at same time. Jude responds by rolling his eyes at both of them, and then walking out.

"Come on, did moon goddess show you anything?" Fred asks in his haggard tone. "Hey, don't be like this!"

Jude doesn't respond, he only sniffles and heads to the rest room at the back of the pack house.

"Let's summon the oracle." Andrew says, and Fred nods.

"Sure." He adds, and as he tries to move, Fred stops him by holding onto his hands.

"Don't go, mind link him instead. Jude is acting strange, he might meet you on your way and kill you with his wolf."

"Though he can't but thank you." He retorts, and his eyes go blank at first. Then it deepens into a mixed color of magenta and light blue as he starts to mind link one of the members through the pack's mind link, not his personal's.

"Please, we need your attention right here." He mind links the head of the summoning team, but he doesn't respond in time.

"Hey, Beta Andrew needs you in the office." Andrew hears one of the pack members say to the head of the summoning team. Andrew returns to his normal self and someone comes knocking on the door immediately.

Alpha Fred shudders, hearing the sudden knock leading to rattling the doorknob like some sort of asshole.

"Shall we enter, my Lord?" The head's right here.

"Sure!" Alpha Fred says, and motions to Andrew to open the door. He does, as quick as he can, and the head of the team with his co-warriors enter and walk up to the Alpha.

"We greet the Alpha!" He bows his head, and other warriors do. "I should have come earlier, I got a notification from moon goddess early this morning."

Alpha Fred and Andrew adjust their sitting positions, and gulp down saliva.

"What is it?" Fred asks, and pushes a stool to the head. He sits, and his members squat.

"The moon goddess gave your daughter a mate already." He says, and smiles. "We should be happy that after everything, at age 20, your daughter is finally getting mated!"

The expression on Fred's and Andrew's face clear the smile away from the head's team. His name is Justin.

"Can I ask if any Alpha with the sweet smell of fragrance came in here?" Justin asks, and Fred sighs.

"Two Alphas came here, actually. They both came for violence; one, loud violence while the other was a silent violence."

"Did anyone claim her as his mate?" Justin asks again.

"Alpha Kenneth did." He clips.

"We are in trouble." Justin suddenly starts to shiver. "Alpha Kenneth is more cruel than Alpha Max is."

Andrew gulps, and hiccups. "I don't understand you, sir?"

"We are in danger, and the only thing that can save us is to release your child peacefully to Alpha Kenneth or else we are doomed."

"Besides, Alpha Max is here to annihilate this pack tomorrow morning, afternoon, or evening." Andrew adds, and clicks his tongue.

"Oops, what did you say?" Justin asks, staring at Andrew.

"You heard me clearly, we are getting under a pack!" Andrew yells back at him.

"I don't think it's his fault. Did you tell him?" Fred cuts in. "Let's get to know who the moon goddess chose for Emilia before she arrives here tomorrow morning."

"The Alpha with the smell of fragrance." Justin says, rising to his feet, in view of walking out anytime from now on.

"How do we know that?" Fred stands up; Andrew does, too.

"Smells like flowers, like bananas, like apples...?" Andrew adds, losing his patience bit by bit due to Justin's silence.

"Moon goddess didn't tell me how." Justin says. "See you later." And then, he walks out on them and shuts the door behind him after his warriors have gone ahead of him. Both Andrew and Fred stare at themselves, and drop the sheets in their hands that they were using to sketch how to bring Emilia home. Then, Jude walks in.

"Boss, I'm sorry for the other time but moon goddess really gave me a hard time."

"Don't be. Just sit." Alpha Fred says. "We are going outside the pack now to bring Emilia home tonight. So, please, cooperate."

"The only thing I need is your cooperation." He adds. "Good to go?"

They wink at one another and in few minutes, they are all dressed, each clutching a backpack onto himself, should they have any reason to shift; they will put on another clothes since they would be naked after shifting back. Then, secretly, they go behind the pack, that's the backyard, and they creep out of the house. They finally jump down after being on the fence for a long time, everywhere too dark for them to see. They have to order their wolves for vision but it would come out with shrieks, and they won't want to alert anyone.

"There's a hunter in the forest." Jude suddenly shudders, pointing his pinky finger at the forest where an object is creeping about. "... I'm sure it's a hunter."

"Well, let's move there and tell our intention to him." Fred says, and jumps down. Others do, too and they tiptoe until they get beside the object moving about the forest.

"Who is it!?!" Fred yells, perceiving it's not their assumption. "I say, who is it?!"

"It's just a hunter, Fred." Jude remarks, brushing past Fred.

The object stops moving, and hums.

"Who is it?" Andrew yells on top of his voice.

"Hey!" Jude covers his mouth with a blow. "Don't alert anyone."

Fred then tiptoes with creepy steps and making light thuds, as he clears away the fallen trees and shards out of the way. The more he moves, the more the object seems farther and scarier and the more his Betas stay rooted to the ground, aiming to give their wolves the control immediately.

Fred moves near, and near, and near.

With an unexpectedly wolf's whines, the object lifts itself off of the ground and sends Fred to the ground with repeated squelching and snapping of bones. This unties his Betas from their fixed positions as they give their wolves the control with same whines but with shrieks. Before Jude shifts, he taps Andrew to turn off the pack's mind link and he does, much faster with the rush of his human adrenaline. The object groans and shrieks as it targets Fred's eyes to claw it out. Finally, Fred's wolf begins to take control of his body, bones popping out of their sockets and hair sprouting and filming over his skin, totally. He groans as he transforms into his monster wolf. He dashes the object blows and the object flies off of him, landing onto the ground again with a very loud thud. Now, Andrew and Jude are already in their wolves, so they join Fred in attacking what's not called the object but a rogue.

Exhaling sharply, all in their wolves form, the object attacks with grins and gnashes of teeth as it cuddles wickedly against Fred, his target is just Fred. And to claw out his eyes.

Andrew and Jude don't give it a second thought, they, unexpectedly for the rogue, scratches him off of Fred's and he zooms into the thin air, landing on the ground with a loud and distant thud.

"Alpha Fred, are you alright?" Jude asks, as Andrew sniffs around this area.

"I got this." Fred gives Jude a flower that looks more like a ring. "From the rogue."

He coughs out his lungs again, and Andrew warns Jude about a thing.

"Those sounds would have informed the wolves. Don't you think we should move away from here?" He suggests, and Jude moves Fred to a more distant place. After taking the last step to get beside a waterfall, Fred notices all his pack members searching through the area they have shifted from.

"Move me faster, the members got us." Alpha Fred says, and as Jude drops him much nearer the waterfall, thuds and heavy breathing sighs are being heard. Jude realizes it isn't from him, not from Andrew, neither from Fred!

Trying to stoop low and make the position of him and Fred even, an object clutches onto his throat immediately without notice. Fred jerks up immediately, and fights the object from behind.

And with twitching of hands and bleeding from eyes, Emilia approaches and seizes the rogue with her power.

She's a wolf but who knows what power she's got while she traveled?

The rogue drops to the ground, and rolls around in pain as blood starts to ooze out of all parts of his body.

Fred doesn't see Emilia's face well, he only knows that only a witch can do this.

"Father!!" Emilia cries out, noticing Fred. He runs towards him, and Fred runs towards her too. Andrews and Jude smile and become shocked as they approach Emilia.

"Emilia, you back!?" Fred says with quavering lips, and he hugs her tightly. "You are back, for real!"

Emilia nods her head repeatedly, and winks at his Betas.

"Let's go, quick! Alpha! The moon goddess has given us the victory. Let's go!" Jude repeats, over and over again. Fred only responds few minutes later, since he's still wondering how he has met his daughter without stress. He calls it a such a blessing in disguise, getting to meet Emilia safe and sound after defeating a wolf rogue.

"Yes, we can now go." He says, and they turn their backs to the groaning object, the rogue. They then head straight back into the palace.

"Stop right there." Alpha Kenneth instructs, suddenly and in their front. "You're all caught up."