The royal members were at the front line, and the others arranged themselves in rows behind them according to their classes.
However, all the kids were in the row after the royals for protection after everyone had shifted to their wolves except for those who were yet to shift, yet they slowly marched to the woods.
They marched until they came to a hill that was clear of trees, and from there, the moon would be clearly seen. Led by their alpha, they started howling at the moon.
The howls were full of sadness and bitterness after they finished, they all headed back to the packhouse, and each went to their houses, and Darrell told Clive and Isabella to remain behind. He also told the third in command that he could join them also.
As he led the group to his office, he mind-linked his parents to meet him in his office, which was located in the highest room in the building.
From his office's large window, he could see most of the activities that were going on in the other part of the pack. In his office, he had a small hall where he could conduct a meeting that was confidential.
Everyone entered the hall and sat around the table as they waited for Darrell to tell them why he had called them.
After everyone had settled, he cleared his throat and started,
"I have an important message I have to pass. Earlier today, when we came out to war with the hunters, I went to see Katherine, and when I held her hands, I was summoned to the spiritual realm where I met my grandmother. If you think that we have had enough problems caused by the hunters, then you are in for a treat. According to the moon goddess and the guardians, who apparently are the gods for the hunters, we have a big problem on the way, and we have to unite and fight against it together with the hunters," Darrell let the cat out of the bag.
There was the scraping of a chair on the floor as Basil suddenly stood up, making the chair hit the glass wall behind it.
"We are not going to unite with any hunter! Over my dead body, that can never happen. We are strong as a pack, and nothing can shake us if we stand together as a pack! So the gods and goddesses can keep their advice to themselves. We don't care what they have to say anyway." Basil angrily said.
From when he was rejected by a hunter causing him to become more animal than human, he was lucky to have Meryl by his side because she helped him come out of his depressed state though he could not forget what sorrow the huntress had caused him.
Meryl knew why her mate was so disturbed by the thought of uniting with the huntress she had been there when he was rejected.
She was there when he turned savage and killed any rouge that dared to cross the pack borders.
She sat by his side when he stayed as a wolf for five straight months. So yes, she understood his grief.
She stood up slowly and placed her hand on her troubled mate shoulder
"Concentrate on my voice and scent, Basil," Meryl told her mate.
Upon hearing his mate's soft voice, Basil calmed down a little and pulled the chair he had pushed behind and sat again.
"And then, as if that is not painful enough, they all said that I am linked to Cyrene, which apparently my second mate. If I kill her, then I die alongside her and vice versa." Darrell explained further.
This time it was his mother that was outraged
"Wait, when was this information given to you?" His angry mother asked.
"Right before Katherine died," Darrell answered his mother.
"Look, son, your father was rejected by Mrs. Arawn, who is the mother to this huntress, and I don't think that her daughter is any better. I also wonder how you are going to get the hunters who have been hunting us for centuries to work with us. To make matters worse, you are holding the leader of the hunters in one of our dungeons. I am with your father on this one. Let us deal with the doom ourselves." Meryl told his son.
After a lot of discussions, they came to the conclusion that since they did not want to defy the order of their goddess, they would strike a deal with the hunters.
They will release Cyrene's parents as long as she agrees to be the mate of Darrell, and also, Meryl did not want to see her son go through what her mate went through.
But also, as for the hunters, they had to promise to stop hunting the werewolves.