Guardian

PART 9

Mari, Sarah and Ally were tasked to train the younger girls of the clan basic strategies in fighting. For the past weeks there have been no news of any attack by the malignans. This was taken by the council as a sign that the malignans are now back with their old ways of attacking. The slow useless kind that does not make any dent to the population of lycans the flos agris protects.

The training started before the crack of dawn. Mari ,who hated waking up early and has difficulty parting with her pillows and warm bed, was very cranky and was in a very bad mood.

"LINE UP" Mari insructed without sparing a look at the young girls who would undergo training. This made the already afraid girls startled. "Choose a partner and stick with them until the end of the day."
Sarah watch Mari and pitied the trainees they will have a very tiring day ahead of them she thought to herself. This way the routine after every mission to avoid being stagnant. they all need to do something. she usually does the training for she is a warrior, Chloe used to teach kids, Anna goes to the hospital, Ally does various tasks and Mari usually does logistics and paper works. It was working for all of them but Apparently the elders thought otherwise and assigned the other two, Mari and Ally, new tasks. she scanned the room for Ally. Ally was sitting in the corner and was busy with god knows what. This ladies she thought both hated training other people, Mari hate interacting with the mass while Ally well ... just because Mari hates it, so Ally supported her bestfriend and hated it as well as she claims but Sarah thinks Ally is just being a lazy diva, off course she would not say that out loud.

After three hours of training Anna came in the room and called for Mari. Mari asked Sarah to take over the class. Sarah took over the training and everyone gave a sigh of relief, it made Sarah smirk confirming her earlier guess that everyone was afraid of Mari, not that it was a secret, in real life she could be as fierce as her Alpha but she considered the fact that she is handling new trainees so she opt to make their lives easier. she continued with the training but didn't torture the lot as much as Mari did.

Anna told Mari about the gathering that will happened in a month. The gathering is when the alphas from the strongest pack will come and meet and choose new "kings". based from what she knew from classes she took here, there should be twelve kings all over the world and based from the information Anna told her four of them had died in the span of twenty years so they need replacements. It has been two hundred and forty six years since the last gathering and only some of the elders have seen the proceedings. This made Mari excited and she looked forward to witness it. Once in a life time (for most of them it is) she thought. But she was confused.

"But I thought that they should not know about us?"

"Well according to my research only the kings know our existence and they are the ones who feeds us informs of the events in packs under them."

"So we aren't a secret group then?"

"Mari we are as I have said only the kings and some of their betas know, know their would be more werewolves that will know. If you ask me I think that is just right."

" what do you mean?"

"Dah?!?! We never get the credit for our heroism" Anna said while flexing her biceps. "But seriously most of the werewolves can't know we are protecting their kind, specially the ones with werewolf lineage."

It was buzzing in the dinning hall. The news of the gathering was the hot topic for most. Alphas would be coming to the palace and everyone is just excited, specially the young girls who has lycan lineage( which means they can be mated with werewolves). Mari watch them giggling and chatting animatedly hoping to meet their mate in a form of an Alpha.

Anna sat next to her."can you believe them? Ha! If only they know how painful it is...tsk tsk tsk"
Mari brushed it of and did not reply and just continued eating.

The gathering day has come and everyone was on their guard. There were too many werewolves to just ignore. An elder welcomed them and asked some helpers usher the guest to their distinctive rooms.

Mari has no intension of going out to mingle. She just stayed in her room reading a book about war strategies. After an hour her peaceful rest was interrupted by knocking Knock knock knock.

"Go away!" Mari said to who ever was outside her room but she is ninety percent sure is was Ally.
"No! Your grandmer is looking for you. And you know how scared I am of her" Ally said annoyingly. "She ordered me to fetch you, so come on now pleeeeeaaase!" Mari snorted but still did not move. But the constant banging at her door would not stop if she does not go in the palace.
"Ok!" Mari finally said. stood up and went to the door. "Just for a while. ok?" Ally smiled and nodded.

Mari entered the dinning hall next to Ally and went straight to their usual table and plomped herself on a chair. She doesn't want to be here. Though she liked the idea of the gathering and she thinks it is cool and awesome, having a ton of werewolves ,mated or not, around her makes her feel uneasy. Missions are different for they are undercover, out of there homes where people they care lives.

Honestly she was thinking of her mate, how if he is here? Fate would not give her a weak mate and she is sure he is an Alpha so there is fifty percent chance he is here. Fifty for not all the alphas are present, only the ones who have more than a one thousand or more pack member are allowed to join.

"I know what you are thinking" ally said while Mari was eating quietly. She looked at her friend and sighed.

After a few minutes the grand door opened allowing the visitors to enter. Mari looked up and locked eyes with goergeous and sexy Alpha's eyes. Mari was caught off guard and felt her heart skipped a bit.

The body whose eyes were attached to stared back at her and stood in the middle of the hall shock written on his face.