Guarded by waters [wriolette]

Chapter 1 - After all this time

Summary:

Neuvillette's about to open his mouth to reassure him when the Alpha's scent hits him. It silences Neuvillette before he speaks, his jaw clamping shut and his nostrils flaring. He trembles with the effort it takes not to immediately launch himself at the Alpha and curl around him protectively.

While Dragons may also have Alphas, Betas, and Omegas as Humans do, Dragons take only one mate. Their mate's very soul is bound to theirs in every life they will ever live, and Dragons can recognize these specially chosen mates immediately by scent.

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Omega Dragon Neuvillette is reunited with his Alpha Soulmate Wriothesley after he rescues him from an illegal Alpha fighting ring, and works to heal his beloved Wriothesley from the pain his past has brought him.
Notes:

Posting this to Anonymous only bc I'm nervous about it. I've never written A/B/O before, but you'd think I would have considering how much I love Monsterfuckery and this trope almost seems Monsterfuckery adjacent.
I'm sure the Wriolette Server will know who authored this. Just don't mention it in the comments, please. If I become comfortable enough one day to remove it from Anonymous then I will.

I don't how true to the "classic" A/B/O vibes this thing will be bc I'm definitely doing my own thing and just vibing along with it. Guess we'll just have to see what happens when a Monsterfucker writes A/B/O. Please enjoy!

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The stale air of the sub-basement reeks of warring Alpha pheromones, fear, sweat, and excrement.

Neuvillette steps primly through the dingy, dark basement space. A space the proprietors of the illegal Alpha fighting ring had thought had been hidden well enough. Just not from the experienced members of Neuvillette's Marechaussee Phantom, and that had been their downfall. A large portion of Neuvillette's specially chosen private investigative force is turning over the ring and entertainment lounge upstairs to gather evidence, while a few others are further ahead in the sub-basement cell block that Neuvillette now walks briskly through. Many of the fighting ring's mistreated Alpha captives have long been freed from their cages and taken to safety and to receive medical attention, but the worry is that there may be more.

Neuvillette is only down here himself even though the Marechaussee are incredibly capable because he'd been specifically called to the scene after a worrying discovery. His presence needed immediately to calm a near-feral Alpha. As an Omegan Dragon, his pheromones are especially potent to Humans and can calm even those who have nearly completely lost themselves.

Liath pops around the corner as she hears Neuvillette approach, waving the Chief Justice over. Neuvillette remains silent as he approaches the little Melusine.

"I advised the Human members to stay upstairs or to avoid this section entirely if they needed to return down here. Just in case their scents agitated the feral Alpha further." Liath begins when she notices him take a cursory glance around the abandoned section of the cell block, "Our terrified friend in the corner cell is less likely to lash out at me, after all. Poor thing. He seems to have been one of their prized fighters, Monsieur. Yet they've got him locked up in a solitary cell."

The information makes Neuvillette's lips thin further. No doubt, the combination of anger and fear he's feeling and amplifying is causing an incredibly violent and torrential downpour above the Court of Fontaine. Those who were kept down here have suffered greatly, and Neuvillette mourns that they had not become privy to the happenings here sooner. Wishes that they had connected the cases of missing Alphas to the illegal trafficking ring sooner, and had found this wretched place much faster.