Legend Of The Moon Princess
Episode 38

Melody’s POV

I woke up feeling sore, but happy. I was wearing someone’s shirt. By the smell of it, it was Jeremiah’s. I smiled as I remembered what happened last night. I got up and looked for the bathroom. It didn’t take long before I found it. I did my business, though I would have to wait until I got back to my room so I could brush my teeth properly. For now I just used some of Drake’s mouthwash that was in the bathroom, so I didn’t have terrible morning breath. I looked at my marks on my neck. Jeremiah’s mark turned into a gorgeous tattoo of a full b***d moon with his name written under it. He told me that when vampires mark their mates, that the bite mark turns into a tattoo mark.

I noticed then, that the b***d moon was not the only tattoo mark I got. In Drake’s bite mark there was a black bear paw print with his name under it. The bite marks were still visible. I looked closer at Luca’s mark, and just like with Drake’s… inside the silvery bite mark was a tattoo mark of a wolf howling to a blue moon with Luca’s name under it. I never heard of marks like this. ‘It is because we are now stronger that the bonds have formed.’ Artemis said. ‘Wow this is so cool.’ I told her ‘Yes it is, but during the next full moon, I need to get my marks too.’ Artemis told me.

‘Your marks? Like having Remus and the others mark you while we are in wolf form?’ I asked. ‘Yes. Once they have marked me and I mark them under the light of the full moon we will have the full alpha bond. Just like our parents.’ she said. I jumped when I felt arms wrap around me from behind. The scent of coffee and chocolate filling my nose. “Good morning, little mate.” Drake said as he kissed up my neck. “Good morning, but you startled me.” I playfully glare at him. He just chuckled deeply. “What made you so distracted that you couldn’t even sense me coming?” He asked.

“My marks. I was admiring them and then talking to Artemis.” I told him honestly. I turned around in his arms and l looked at his neck. My mark was the same as Luca’s mark. A tattoo of a wolf howling at the blue moon with my name written underneath it. I smiled at it. “Admiring your handy work, love?” Drake asked, but his voice was deeper and almost inhuman. I looked into his eyes and they were fully black. “Are you Drake’s bear?” I asked. He smiled and was happy that I could tell him and Drake apart. I giggled and closed my eyes to open a connection. I opened them to see that the four of us were now in the void. Drake and his bear seemed to be fighting a bit.

“Dude you can not just take control like that.” Drake was talking to his bear. He was a beautiful fully black bear and was huge, like the size of a pop up camper. “Well I wanted to spend some time with our mate too.” He grumbled. I giggled and Artemis let out a playful growl to get their attention. Drake then seemed to notice us. “What the-, Melody? How are you here?” He asked in disbelief. I giggled again. “This is our gift. Artemis and I can connect to any supernatural creature and speak directly with their inner soul.” I say while jestering to Artemis next to me.

Drake’s bear let out a low growl and I saw his eye trivial up and down Artemis. Artemis purred in response. “Wow you seemed to be purring a lot lately. You used to almost never do that.” I told her with a knowing smirk on my face. “Well I never had a reason to before, but being with all of our mates changes things. Don’t you think so?” she asked. I giggled and nodded. “So what is your name?” I asked Drake’s bear. With everything that happened yesterday I forgot to ask. “My name is Lance.” He said. I walked up to him and ran my fingers through his fur. It was as silky and soft as Artemis’s fur.

“Ok, let me go back to my room so I can get dressed and then we can go get something to eat.” I said looking back at Drake. “Of course little mate.” He said with a smile of his own. I broke the connection and our minds were back in reality. “That is a cool party trick. You should show the others sometime.” Drake said and kissed me. I giggled and kissed him back.

After that I dashed back to my room to get dressed, but as soon as I opened the door and stepped inside I was met with a grinning Star sitting on her bed and staring at me. “Doing the walk of shame on the first night?” She said with a raised eyebrow. I could tell by the tone in her voice that she was teasing me, but I could still feel my cheeks heat up. So while I was getting dressed I told Star everything. Star and Lilly were the closest thing I had to sisters so the three of us shared everything.

Star cried a bit when I told her about Tucker, but I told her to not bring it up unless he does. I just didn’t want her to accidentally say anything that could trigger him right now. Star and I made our way down to the dining room for breakfast. There were waffles, pancakes, eggs, bacon, and all different types of fruit and toppings. I saw Tucker forcing himself to eat a small stack of waffles with strawberries and whipped cream. I ran over to him and hugged him from behind. He turned to me and smiled. I could tell his smile wasn’t forced, but it wasn’t the same as before. His smile didn’t reach his eyes.

I hugged him tighter, then I scooped up some of the whipped cream off his plate and smeared it on his face, earning a laugh from him and everyone else at the table. Then I went over and sat between Drake and Luca. “Hey, your marks changed.” Luca said. I nodded and then looked at his marked neck. It was the same tattoo that Drake had. I looked at Jeremiah’s and his was the same as well. “I have never seen marks like that before.” EJ said. TJ nodded. “Artemis said it was because of our bond becoming stronger.” I said.

“So have you guys decided where you are going to live now?” Tony asked. I filled my plate with waffles, whipped cream and chocolate chips and bananas. “I left that up to the boys here.” I said, taking my first bite of food. “We did agree on a place yesterday a bit after you left.” Jeremiah said. “Really? Where?” I asked. “We decided in the forest area in McKenzie county, in North Dakota.” Drake said. “Oh that keeps you close to Raven Moon, so when you guys have free time you can drop by for a visit.” TJ said happily. I nodded. “Hey, could we stay at Raven Moon while our new home is being built?” I asked my mates.

“I see no problem with it, but we would have to go back to Royal Moon soon. So we can accept the title as king and queen from my parents.” Luca said. I wanted to mentally facepalm myself. ‘How could I forget that we still haven’t gone back to Luca’s pack to inform his parents about everything that has happened?’ I asked myself. ‘Well we had quite a bit happen in just the first couple months since replaceing Luca as our first mate.’ Artemis tried comforting me. “Then in that case, we should pack and head back to Raven Moon… get my parents… and then head to Royal Moon and meet with your parents about succession.” I said to Luca.

He thought for a moment and then smiled and nodded my way, since his mouth was full of bacon. After breakfast everyone got packed up and loaded their bags in the truck. Jessie and Drake were coming along with us. “So everyone got everything?” I asked, but before I got an answer… the ground started to shake and then huge thick vines bursted right through the concrete and wrapped around all of us like a python wrapping around its prey.

“What the hell is this?” Drake roared. “It is some kind of magic, but not what I have seen before.” Zezar answered. We all struggled against the vines, but nothing we could do would break them. “You won’t be able to break them. They are reinforced with the magic power I received from my master.” A sicking voice spoke. Jeremiah hissed and his fangs purtutied through his lips and his eyes turned a b***d red. “Uncle Lester, what a nice surprise.” Jeremiah/Logan said with sarcasm. The same smell of rotting flesh was present, but it was ten times stronger now. I wanted to puke as his scent suffocated me.

“What do you want?” I growled at him. He looked unamused. “It is not what I want, you little slut. It is what my master wants, and for some reason or another he wants you.” He said pointing in my face. I snapped and bit into his finger he helded in my face. He yelped and snarled as he clawed at me to let him go. His nails got me on my forehead over my right eye. I could feel the b***d flowing down my face. I could hear my mates snarling and growling as they fought to break the vines holding them.

“Maybe I should snap their necks, as punishment for biting me, you little bitch.” he hissed. His breath on my skin made my skin crawl in a disgusted way. He raised his hand towards my mates and the vines circled around their necks. “NO!” I screamed. Then as if in slow motion a fist came from behind me and met with this a*s hole’s face. He was sent flying back about 20 feet. 20 feet from just one punch? I thought to myself. I turned to see who the fist belonged to and it was a young boy, he couldn’t be no older than maybe 15.

He was pretty short for a boy. He had flaming red hair with a few streaks of white and bright red eyes. His clothes were something from an old ninja halloween costume, he even has a sword strapped to his back. He met my gaze and bowed his head to me. “No need to fear, M’lady. This annoyance will be taken care of in a moment.” He spoke as if he was an old servant, but I knew he was younger than me. ‘How is a kid like this so strong?’ Then another figure dropped in front of me. A girl about the same age as the boy behind me. She wore a kind smile. She had light pink hair and blue eyes. She was dressed the same as the boy behind me, except for her outfit being a bit more feminon. She also had a sword strapped to her back. “That seems to look uncomfortable, Mistress. Allow me.” she said as she took out a small knife from the small pouch strapped to her leg.

It was the same weird knife that I had brought back to the house yesterday. I looked closer at it and it began to glow. She quickly waved it around in a blink of an eye. Then the vine holding me broke away into perfectly cut pieces. Jeremiah’s uncle got back up and glared at the two kids. “You little brats!” He snarled as he thrusted his hand forward, sending more vines our way. Just before they could reach us, they were deflected and fell to the ground in pieces. The girl giggled as Lester couldn’t understand what was going on. The boy came and stood next to the girl and glared at Lester.

“You truly are an annoyance if you can’t manage these powers that were gifted to you, even if it was only temporary.” He said in a lecturing tone. “Like a brat like you could understand power like this!” Lester snapped. “These powers were given to me by my master and they come from his birthplace. There should be nothing in this world that could stand against it!” He screamed as he tried again to send more vines towards up, but they failed like the others. The girl started to giggle some more and it was just pissing Lester off. “You are right, nothing in ‘this world’ could rival them.” She said with a smile, as she emphasized the words ‘this world’. What did she mean by that? Then she opened her eyes and gave him a cold look.

“But my brother and I are not from this world, and you are far too weak to win against us.” Her voice sounded cold. “So we will do you a favor and end your life quickly.” Her brother added as he took the sword from his back and held it in his hands to his left side. He crouched down and closed his eyes. Gripping the hilt of his sword in his right hand. “Hah you little brats? Kill me? What a load of bull s**t!” Lester yelled as he ran straight for us. I felt the pressure around the young boy change. “Thunder breathing, first form… Thunderclap and flash!” He said as he was too quick for me to see. I didn’t even see him draw his blade, but he was on the other side of Lester’s body in the blink of an eye.

Lester looked just as stunned, but after the boy stood up straight again… Lester’s head fell clean off his shoulders, and his body began to disappear into ash. “H-h-how?” he corked out. The girl pulled out her sword from her back. It had a lovely light blue hue on the blade. “These swords are special. They are called Nichirin blades, or color changing katanas. They change color depending on the one who wields it.” She said while twirling her sword around in her hand before placing it back into its sheath. “They are used for killing demons in our world, but they would work on anything in this world. Have a nice time rotting in hell, bastard.” She said with the same smile as we watched the rest of his body and head to ashes.

I looked over to my mates and the vines that were holding them and everyone else, had started to wither away. Freeing them. I ran to my mates and hugged them. Then I turned back to the young boy and girl. “Who are you two?” I asked. The girl smiled as she bowed her head to me and the boy, who she said was her brother, still had a stone face but he bowed as well. “We are your guardians, Mistress.” The girl said. “We were born to protect and train you and your mates.” the boy answered. “Ok, but what I meant was… what are your names?” I asked more clearly. “Oh yes forgive us. My name is Riley Dragneel, and this is my elder twin brother Kai Dragneel.” Riley said.

*Reminder: Any terms and names I use from anime are not my own. I just used them into my story.*