The brothers lay in bed dead tired in their wolf forms so as to fasten the healing process. Wounds inflicted by themselves took a while to heal and since the fight the previous night was a fight for dominance, they hadn't gone easy on each other.
In the woods far from the central plains, three wolves were racing aganist time to catch on what had them on tenterhooks. The Luna had got information on how her sons had fought to the extent of killing themselves. She was so troubled that she found herself running over to check on her boys along with the Beta female and the best warrior the Alpha had in his pack. He had wanted to be the one to go but with the constant cries of his mate, he relented and let her be the one to go but gave her an ultimatum to return within two days or he'd be coming for her.
The Female Beta insisted to come along as she was like the second mother of the boys. She too had to come up with excuses upon excuses to have her mate let her follow the Luna.
After running for about five hours at full speed, they made their way to the Capital not bothering to turn back into their human forms. The magical creatures noticed the presence of the wolves as they ran through the city and without a doubt these wolves were high ranking wolves. But why were they here? Is it because of the full moon? Did something happen inside the capital palace?
Reaching the gates, the Luna and her entourage were denied access as they hadn't been permitted by the council. It was prohibited for kings or queen's to come over to see their children and it was only in dire situations.
"I'm here to see my sons!" The Luna growled glaring hard at the Fae guard. The beta female had to move forward and hold back the Luna before she tore the poor guard to shreds.
"Please wait as we let the council know of your visit!" The guard apologised and his colleague ran off to notify the higher ups.
Not long, a man clad in black outfit with a cloak sheilding him from the sun came, he was part of the higher ups who had been present during the battle yesterday. A Vampire.
"Glad to have you come over Luna!" he bowed in respect to which the Luna smiled kindly. "How are my son's?" she asked immediately.
With a small laugh. "Why don't we first get you settled in and we can talk about this further." he requested as he escorted them inside to which the three followed behind.
"You see, Luna Queen, what happened last night took us by suprise aswell." He started as they went through the grand halls.
"I apologize!" The Luna said looking at the vampire who in turn gave a harmless smile.
"The boys are going to stay here for a year and if this keeps going on, we are afraid the other kinds could get hurt." He continued to explain what had been discussed about
"I'm going to talk to them and get to know the reason." She said to which he nodded
"Please do. We will surely appreciate that since your boys refused to say a word about it" he replied as he led her to the boys wing.
Inside the Prince's chambers
With one deep sniff, Caleb caught up on a scent he wasn't expecting to smell here. "Mother?"
His ears perked up and he opened his hazel eyes. Not long, all the other wolf Prince's perked up their snouts catching that familiar honey scent. They looked amongest themselves as their tails swung in ecstasy. A confirmation that they weren't hallucinating. They simultaneously jumped off their beds as the door drew open to reveal their mother and Beta mom.
Howling to the heavens, they leapt over to the two women and lapped at their faces in joy their bushy tails dancing and sweeping across the floor.
When the Luna saw that her sons were doing fine, she couldn't help feeling alot more relaxed as she enjoyed being lapped at. She laughed seeing that her sons were still the naughty pups they are despite turning so big.
"You boys gave me a heart attack!" she whined walking in elegantly. The council member excused himself and left the family to themselves.
The Beta female and the warrior also made their way in closing the door for some privacy.
"You all transform back..we need to talk!" She said taking her seat in one of the couch in the room along with the beta female.
The seven brothers transformed back into their human forms turning out that their clothes were shredded to the core. "Go put on some clothes!" the Luna exclaimed not really up to seeing her son's on a show down! With laughs, the boys went to collect pants that they threw on and came back to their mother.
"So, can you guys explain to me what really happened?" she asked as concern mirrored her beautiful features.
The boys one by one showed the slight change in their hair. Their hair colour had begun to become distinctive from the original midnight black. The Luna was appalled seeing their colours which were not visible in their wolf forms since it sunk in their fur. Her eyes glowed with both joy and sadness.
"My boys have found their mates!!" she exclaimed with tears wrapping her arms around them altogether with a laugh. The boys smiled at their mother's cheekiness. Letting them go, she asked. "Have you seen them? Can you take me over to see your mates? How do they look like? To what kind do they belong to?!!! Ahhh, I'm. so excited!" she was literally bouncing in her seat.
Looking at the Beta female, the Luna grabbed her hand standing up. "Let's go see our son's females!"
"Ummm, mom?" Caleb was the one to call which earned him and his brothers a glare.
"What? Dress up already and let's go! Your father will be here if I don't get back to the pack in two days and I want to spend every single second with my son's mates!" she made an angry pout at her sons who were not making any effort to go see their mates.
"Mom...we haven't had the chance to meet our mates yet!" Caleb said looking at their brothers who also nodded.
"What? You haven't met them yet? Then how come you guys were..., I don't understand! You mean you have no idea who your mates are? How about your wolves....they might have caught their scents!" she frowned at this discovery.
"Our wolves have no recollection of any scent!" Jack spoke seriously
"Could it be a false alarm?" the queen pondered with a frown.
"Impossible! You see, yesterday after the welcome dinner, we chose to head back since it was a full moon and that's when we caught the changes. We don't know what happened but we had no control over our wolves and they started attacking eachother." Ian explained.
"Well...," the Beta female was also troubled and didn't know what to say as she assessed the whole situation. Their wolves were the spiritual beings in them and more prominent than the human soul in them. Naturally, they dominated the human souls unless the human soul was more dominating which was a rare case. So if even the wolf spirits in them failed to catch on the scent of their mates, they didn't know how to go about the whole situation.
"I'm going to have to stay a few days to try and salvage this whole phenomenon." The Luna said with concern to which all her sons unintentionally growled aganist that plan.
The Luna frowned at her sons wondering why they did that. "What was that for?" she asked wronged.
"Mother, you don't have to take our matters in your hands! Moreover, we are big men!" Morrison grumbled. The grumpy one.
"We have not even been here for long...won't you presence damage our reputation?" Collin spoke mindlessly.
"What?" The Luna was petrified.
"What I mean is that...this could happen every full moon. It won't make sense if you keep coming over for whenever what happened yesterday happens again. We will be nicknamed mum's boys." Collin complained
"Of course you are my boys!" The Luna looked at her sons as though they had lost their brains.
"Mother, what Collin is trying to say is that, we should take this matter into our hands and we shall inform you about it. Moreover, what happened yesterday has spread allover the palace already...."
"What if our mates are afraid of us!" Jack gasped in shock.
"Please don't start!" Morrison growled at Jack. He could feel his wolf getting antsy with just the thought.
"They won't reject us right?!" Brandon thought with fear.
"You don't even know who they are!" Caleb grumpily stated which had his brother look at him weirdly. He too was not sitting well with the thought of his mate rejecting him!
"Ok ok! I get it!" The Luna raised her arm to silence the grumpy wolves to which they all looked at her expectantly. "Look, I understand your concerns and I think you guys are right!. We shouldn't be running here whenever something happens. You are all independent and I understand and respect that." Looking at the Beta female, "We should let the boys handle this!" she said with a smile to which she nodded.
Caleb's wolf who was expecting some belly rubs from their second mom growled in displeasure. Hearing the growl, the Beta female stretched her hands out with a smile to Caleb inviting him over. He transformed into his wolf or better to say that his wolf sneakily took over and dashed to the beta female's embrace. Caleb on the other hand hated being petted but his wolf was the striking opposite...he was more of the cuddly big bad wolf!
.........
"I heard that the brothers are now in control." Belinda said as she organised Redpearl's bed.
"Mmm. I saw them being brought over this morning. They are enormous!" Redpearl said with disbelief.
"What? My lady! You saw them in their beast forms? Wow! Why didn't you wake us up!" Belinda felt like crying. They had only gotten to see the drawn images of the royals present and hadn't had a face to face encounter bit she was sure the young men were dead drop gorgeous!
"I'll make sure to keep that in mind in the future." Redpearl replied with a laugh. Today was day 2 of mingling and she was up for going as invincible as possible.