Forged in Blood #Watty's 2017 [Being Re-uploaded]

Hangover

I opened my eyes slowly and instant noticed what was already wrong.

My mates weren't in bed, their scents hadn't been overlapped by itself like it would if they would have come to bed, there was no sign they'd come home at all. I felt hollow suddenly, my wolf's feelings of sadness and confusion mixing with my own. Why weren't my mates snuggled up with me? Why did I suddenly feel forgotten? Also, where could I get some aspirin because DAMN this was the start of a horrible morning already with the painful hangover.

Lydia was moping around in my head not saying a word every time I asked her if she felt them anywhere nearby, she didn't make a peep when I shifted outside asking her if she was hungry....she seemed mute but why?
We ran in our form in the woods making sure to not leave the pack's territory, since we still hadn't mated completely with Mike and Jake we were still Alpha/Luna of our own pack meaning if we were to walk into another pack's territory it could be a possible kick start of a pack war.

We hunted small game like rabbits or squirrels, catching a few in the process, and then made our way to my parents home. I shifted behind some trees and then walked up to their door knocking, a few minutes later I was greeted by my father's face, Chris was smiling as he let me walk in, pups were practically everywhere playing, running around, drawing, eating breakfast still, it was as if my parents were a pack daycare center. Some pups recognized me and stopped to just run up and ask me to join them in their activities, the royal pack's female pups kept asking me to help them play dolls and the young males asked if I would help them start training early, it was quite adorable really.

My mother smiled at me, with Chris attached to the hip as they watched me interact with the pups, something I'd watched my mother do when I myself was a pup, maybe it brought back memories for me watching my (as I know now as) uncle teaching the pups how the pack would work with the help of my father's and uncle's old beta. I missed that life but now I didn't depend much on my parents, I had my mates.....who were still missing and my betas and deltas, they were like family now for me.

I stayed at my parents house a few hours , my mother happily gave me the aspirins I needed for my headache watching as females came to pick their pups up and take them home, every time a mother came I asked the same question, if they'd seen my mates, every time it was the same answer.
"No Alpha, sorry, hope you find out where those two are hiding" or "No, I'm sorry Luna"
Soon enough mostly all the pups were gone and back home with their families while I was still here without my mates.

I went back to the castle soon enough, my heart feeling heavy as I started to walk up the steps towards the room I shared with the boys thinking how it would be to have my own pups to continue the king's line of alphas and my family's, when I reached the top of the large staircase I was stopped by seven people. Emma and Jane didn't seem to like the presence of so many people around themselves so they only seemed to be on my far right while the royal beta was in my far left who I now knew was named Buck thanks to Becky telling me of her twin, the royal delta closer to me on my left but Alice and Nathan who I was finally glad to see back in rank, not that Alice was a bad Delta but she got very nervous without her mate's help....just like me at the moment.

"Ah Lun-" Buck as I now knew from Becky started to say Luna but was stopped by Emma, "She's only a Luna when she mates with your Alpha, until then she's still and Alpha you twit" Jane stared surprised at her mate just as my deltas and I were, Emma hadn't shown this much anger since we were still young pups, she had to be extremely tense to snap like this.

"Emma care to explain your behavior to me NOW" She had snapped at another beta, my mates beta specifically, if it had been Greyson's beta I would understand because the two were siblings but now she was crossing the wrong wolf's territory, she wasn't on her own pack grounds anymore.

"Sorry Alpha but we-" she signaled to all the ranking wolves here next to her "-have come to take you to get ready for the branding ceremony" Emma looked ashamed and terrified, a branding ceremony meant taking places officially as a pack member. It was worse for Luna's since the female would be branded by every male and female over the age 18, it would be my while pack branding me and then the royal pack branding me as well, but even though I can't be an official Luna until finishing the mating process there was a small extra added to the ceremony in case the alpha and soon to be Luna hadn't mated which consisted in them both having inter course in front of the pack making sure their leaders were mated and assuring the next generation of heirs.

I stared at them for a few minutes before shaking my head. "Where are my mates, Buck?", An icy tone had taken place of my normal voice, " Getting ready Ma'am " , "Get me to them NOW".
Buck scurried off with me and the rest of the wolves following close behind