We sat down and Liam and Cory walked in. I spoke first, “I’d like you guys to report on what happened in our territory the day of Jason and Addison’s mating ceremony.” Cory instantly questioned, “Did you know your mate can link the pack? Because I wasn’t invited to her pack joining ceremony. Melanie yelled out loud at us to get to her, but it went through the pack link too.”
I sighed ordering, “Make sure we keep that in the pack. Melanie has some ability to link members of a pack. Any pack.” Liam snorted, “We already took care of that.” I smiled, “Thank you. We don’t know how Mel’s doing it.” Liam laughed, “Fairy weirdness, I’m sure.”
Cory frowned saying, “She’s a Wolf, not a Fairy.” Liam nodded saying, “But she is mated to a powerful partial Fairy.” Cory shrugged. I knew my cousin didn’t believe it was me anymore than I did. Cory continued, “Once your mate divided us, she ordered her Demon friend not to let anything happen to her mom or you.”
“When they shimmered out, she asked for our best trackers. Melanie gave them this spray that they said made the holoports visible. Which worked, to everyone’s surprise, but I think itshould’ve been obvious. Melanie wouldn’t have given them something that wasn’t going to work.”
EJ interrupted, “I’m sorry. What? Visible how?” Cory threw the spray to us. Cayden portaled in then stopped short when he saw we were in a meeting. My brother in law simply nodded and took a seat. Cory continued, “Melanie told them to spray that to find holoports. Like I said, they didn’t honestly expect it to work.”
“They scouted the area she told them and sprayed where they felt were good spots. When someone found one, they said once a drop hit the right spot it just spread out. It began to pulse a green color and didn’t stop until the whole holoport was glowing.”
“Once they found one, it was easier to find the other two. I assume the Muffin Luna worked with the Witch Luna of Red Run since the Witch Luna of Red Run is the one who made it stop glowing. They are terrifyingly, yet amazingly, smart.”
Cayden snorted, “That does sound like something Ash would come up with. I mean Melanie. Goddammit!” I bit my lip. EJ reasoned, “It will just take a few more times of messing it up, Cayden. You’ve been saying her name for what? Five years now?” Cayden sighed, “Yes.”
I got us back on track and told Cory, “Continue.” Cory nodded, “Melanie assigned Warriors to guard the trackers. She told them not to let anyone through any holoports they found. Your mate told the rest of us to spread out and kill any rogues we found, but to be quiet.”
“Melanie said that the fight would come in waves. She told me to split out a group to go in with her. Fowler, KJ, and Chason wanted in that group to guard her. I assigned myself as well. Melanie’s just so damn fast.”
My cousin paused then added, “Melanie is a hell of a shot with a gun too. The second we were shimmered in, which was an experience, she ordered Lux to get down. Your mate took out asniper and ordered the non-fighters of Alpha Theo’s pack to get to safety.”
“She saved Alpha Theo’s Luna and pup. I’m sure Luna Anne didn’t shift because she was carrying Mae. Shifting and then getting Mae on her back would’ve cost them seconds they didn’t have. The Muffin Luna was across the field at the freaking speed of light to save them.”
“Luna Anne ordered Mae to run. A rogue chased Mae down as Harrison picked up Anne and ran. The rogue was going for Mae’s throat when Melanie dove and got her arm in the way. That’s how she got hurt before she killed the rogue.”
“Your mate ordered the packs like a pro. No one, even the Alpha’s around, questioned it or got upset. Dylan Frost isn’t wrong, our Muffin Luna is interesting. Dad and I even talked later to debrief. We should’ve taken charge in the yard, but we didn’t. It wasn’t even a question, or a thought at the time.”
Cory was right. Melanie was my mate, but they were the experienced Warriors and leaders here. Cayden added, “Melanie’s done that though for years. Even before she was the Lead Female Warrior in Black Path. In times of crisis, since she was kidnapped from Red Run, people listen to her.”
“Even the Hunters honestly. Dante should’ve ordered her to be quiet when she met Micah. I mean he did, but she didn’t listen. That’s as far as it went as she saved Micah from having to kill them all. She spoke and people listened, even though Mel was incredibly insulting and rude to them. Accurate but to someone in charge that should’ve had more than a shut up offered to it.”
My dad said, “It is interesting. Especially since most of Black Path didn’t know her wolf was suppressed.” Cayden snorted, “She’s never needed one from what I’ve seen. Melanie can take down anyone, even ranked wolves. It’s impressive.” It was.
I asked Cayden, “Did you help improve her skills?” Cayden considered my question before answering, “We taught her moves she didn’t know, and how to use some weapons; however, she already had a lot of her moves and was impressive before we showed her anything.” I nodded, “Thank you Cory and Liam. I appreciate the report.” They left the office together.
EJ sighed and rubbed his head asking, “So, Ladybug has a spray that makes holoports visible?” I shrugged, “Apparently she does.” My Uncle Jackson laughed saying, “Get the woman a lab coat, and let her see the lab facility you built, Eric. She’d probably geek out and excitedly start experimenting on new things.”
My dad smiled, “I’m sure it will come up at some point. I want to see how Melanie managed to do that. I particularly want to know about Laxenread and the wolf counteragent she has. I’ll bet my daughter in law has one for the Hood with a Mintor scratch.”
After several moments of gaping at my dad, who simply smirked at us without saying more. I linked, “Oden?” Oden replied, “Freya didn’t say, but I didn’t ask.” Ok then. I asked EJ, “Can we check on the Luna disputes now?”
My dad smiled, “Your mate will be fine, Alexander. Melanie is just listening in today, and your mother is there.” I snorted, “Angela said things will be fun today.” My dad conceded, “Fair point.” EJ pulled up the cameras, and I focused on Melanie’s face.
Uncle Harold snorted, “They have a dispute about the wrong colored flower? You have GOT to be kidding me.” EJ chuckled, “Elise feels as you do uncle, and Melanie’s face says she does too.” The pack member in question, Bradford, insisted Melanie decide his case even though she told him that was a bad idea.
My dad admitted, “I see why Angela thought this would be fun. This is going to be good.” Melanie began her speech,and Bradford’s face immediately fell. EJ laughed, “He couldn't possibly think based on her demeanor this was going his way.” Cayden rationalized, “I’m sure Bradford felt since she is a Warrior, he’d get preferential treatment from her because Melanie is one too. Everyone knows now that Melanie alias was Ashley Griffen for the past several years. Which means as a former Female Lead Warrior, in his mind, she could lean towards him in the decision.”
My dad laughed, “If he’d looked at her face, he would’ve known that wasn’t true.” EJ grinned saying, “Angela was right, this is fun. This is the most direct, ‘you’re an idiot’ dispute conversation that has ever been had. Ladybug practically said it directly too.”
Melanie asked a few clarifying questions, but they didn’t matter. This was an absurd dispute. I couldn’t have been prouder of my mate when she began to educate Bradford on a Luna’s job, and how things should work. We all stiffened when she pointed out his attitude is how you get to where Black Path was with their ways.
You’d have to get an Alpha like that, but we did need to stop that mentality. I would not be associated with Black Path’s former ways in any way, shape, or form. I growled, “If any Warrior let an Omega get attacked here, they would no longer be a Warrior.” EJ agreed, “No, they would not.”
We listened to my mate continue her decision. I growled, “If Bradford challenges her, I’ll take him down after she does.” Cayden snorted, “If he can get up. Which I would have serious doubts about the man in question being able to do without a visit to the hospital. Melanie’s had to prove a lot of points to Warriors without a wolf. She’s not exactly nice about them.”
EJ sighed, “I mean she couldn't be. Melanie needed to be respected as their Female Lead Warrior whether they liked heror not. Since she didn’t have a wolf there would’ve been so many more challenges to her authority and position than normal.”
“She made history with the age she took over on top of being wolf less. Does that actually count though? Ladybug wasn’t wolf less? Technically speaking. Gosh, that’s all so complicated because it was an alias and she’d been kidnapped.”
