The huntress and his mate

The Challenge

Veronica
"Again." Ashleign stated. I whined at her.
"Do I have to?" She glares at me. Ever since I helped her situation with Zeke she has been a little softer to me, although her training is relentless.
"Do you wanna be the best damn Luna this pack has ever seen?" She shouts at me.
"Yes."
"Then shift!"
I groan and focus on pulling Sabhine from deep within my mind. She jumps around and happily takes over as I feel the firmilure breaking and remolding of bones as I whimper and cry at the pain. Soon enough I was a wolf and I shook my pelt.
I have been training ever since I first shifted so I can be the fastest, and strongest as I am going to be Luna. Still hard for me to wrap my head around.
Hard. Hehe Sabhine says cheekily
I know our mate is hot and all but could you keep your head out of the gutter so we can train. You don't want to be the worst Luna do you?
She growls at me.
"Ok we are done for today." I let out a happy yip( which would have been a WOOT if i had a human mouth) and shift back to human.
"Tomorrow bright and early." She says as she walks off, a little too happily. Probably to see her mate. Sabhine snickers something lewd in my head and I cant help but blush.
I hear screaming as I walk back to the pack house.
"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO US. TO THE PACK??" I flinch as I hear a crunch of bokes as a fist connects with a nose. I jog closer to James' voice, and see James holding a bloody nose. Ashleign was there as well as Jacob and Zeke. I stand by Ashleign and ask what happened. She flares her nose and her eyes are slited in anger.
"John has been the traitor the whole time." I gasp.
"The beta? But I thought..."
"Everybody thoought so too." She growls. I stand asd watch in awe as James throws another right hook at John, who dodges it. His face is stone hard.
"All my life I have been put down, and had to submit to you. You aren't even born to an Alpha family. You are still an omega in my eyes." He spat. I silently gasped as James let out a growl.
"I, John Lark challenge you as Alpha." He announced and silent tears started sliding down my cheeks. What I do know about a challenge for Alpha is that it ends in death. The pack will be taken over and the Luna can either be claimed by the victor or cast out. I let out a strangled sob. If he died, I would go into a deep depression.
James' set his jaw as his eyes meet mine.
"Ashleign get het to the pack house now." He says calmely, way to calm for someone who just got challenged. I let out another anguished sob as Ashleign picks me up and carries me to the pack house and I steel my heart for the loss of my mate.

James
I relax a little as I see Veronica being led to the pack house. As the pack members, my members, form a circle around us, John is rolling his shoulders and we both crouch and shift at the same time. He will not take over this pack I think as I tug on Stryker.
He is more than happy to help me shift quickley and effortlessley. He is too excited for a good fight.
John circles me in his wolf form and he lunges, going straight for my throat. Stupid wolf I think and side step him easily, hitting him hard enough across the head with my paw that he falls to the ground. He got up just as fast as he fell. He lets out a low growl and lunges at me again, nipping my foreleg. I growl and bite his muscle, shakeing it and makeing him yelp in pain. I throw him to the ground and again he gets up. This time as he lunges at me I scratch him deeply on the side with my claws and he growls, scratching my back. I feel the sting of the cut and growl puncing at him. He easily dodges me and cuts me on my stimach so deep I fall to the ground in pain.
Noooooooo. Me and Stryker yell at the same time but as I try to get up John holds me down with his paws, and takes my neck in his teeth, giving me one last chance to surrender.
Never. I say through my mind link. As I feel him about to snap his jaws shut, effectively breaking my neck, he stops abruptly, sniffing. He drops my neck and looks around to find the smell.
Big mistake Stryker howls in triumph and we pounce on John, takeing his jaw in my mouth and before anyone can blink snap his neck with out teeth. He slumps to the ground and as I look up there was a girl looking at me, them John's dead body. She looks about to tear up but faints instead.
Get her and put her in the infermary. She my well have been his mate. I yell at the pacm surrounding me, and I shift to human, and Zeke is next to me in a flash, carrying me to the infermary. My wounds were too deep to walk by myself and as the nurse checks me over, and tells me I will need stitches. I take a swig of the whiskey that the nurse always had on hand for situatiins like this. I hiss in pain as she starts stitching me up and when she is done, I lay down, knowing they will want to keep me for a few days and as sleep starts to take over I hear a light pitter patter of feet on the floor and relax as my mate's scent enters the room.
What John's mistake was that he had nothing to live for. I did. I had the pack, my mate, and hopefully soon, I will have pups. So when his mate poped up at the wrong time, distracting him I had no problem snapping his neck.
I sigh and relax as I feel Veronica climb into the hospital bed with me, and I cuddle her as I fall asleep.