The Unclaimed Human Luna
Chapter 80

El POV

Petal ripped right out of her the moment she was outside the packhouse, uncaring of who saw her, she could run faster in her Kitsune form than her human one. Then just raced with all the speed she had towards her grandma, could not only hear her inside their mind, but feel that pack connection she had felt with everyone inside the Willow Moon Pack. She was excited to meet her grandma as much as El was excited to meet her grandma’s Kitsune, herself.

Could hear her grandma chuckling now, likely could feel how quickly they were coming, though her grandma was still strolling along, at her own pace. ‘Did the Alpha freak out when I hit the pack?’ she sounded fully amused to El.

‘Shot to his feet and was all tensed up.’ El giggled right back ‘So I guess so.’

‘Good. I like it when they fear the unexpected.’ Sloan laughed heartily.

‘You’re in trouble grandma, not telling me anything all this time.’

‘Got laws sweetie, sorry. But with your grandfather being human, your father being human and your mother human, you had the gene, but it was very unlikely you would shift. So, with sadness, it was decided we wouldn’t tell you. I wanted to, as did Taro but…’

‘I understand.’ She did a little. If she’d never met Conner and he’d not known what she was to him, likely would still be human, no Petal for her. That’s how Aunt Juliana explained it to her anyway. They were racing through the western woods, and they could feel that Atlas and Conner were still at the packhouse, hadn’t followed. She’d thought he would. He’d not really let her go off by herself at all since he’d found her, was never more than on the other side of the room to her.

She let it go, she didn’t know what wolfen laws or protocols were around here, and he had to relinquish her at some point. She was still inside the pack and he knew she wasn’t running away from him. Just running off to meet her grandma, so likely he wasn’t at all worried about her running away from him. This was not like every other time she’d run away from him.

Petal came to a standstill right before her grandma’s Kitsune. Aunt Juliana had not been wrong, she was the exact opposite in colouring, all white with black tips on her tails. As big as her as well. She was bigger than Petal and by a lot. She’d wondered if she would grow to the same size as Aunt Julian’s kitsune and been told that Petal was fully grown and wouldn’t get any bigger.

‘Young one.’ She heard a gravelly voice, also higher in pitch like Petal’s, which seemed to be the distinct tone of a Kitsune, ‘Present yourself to me your Alpha Luna, Blade. A full display, young one.’

El had no idea what that meant. Aunt Juliana had not asked her to do that, but Petal seemed to know what it meant. Inherited knowledge passed on down like all shifters got. Petal shook herself out and then all her tails were up and fanned out, in much the same way that she had reacted to Aunt Juliana’s hand gesture. Though she took it one step further and sat herself down before Blade, all her tails displayed around her and then they were lifted up about her and the tips all drooped down and out.

El looked at what she could from behind Petal’s eyes and realised she actually looked like a flower right at that minute, saw Blade sit and do the exact same thing, ‘Wow you look like a daffodil,’ she gasped.

‘So do you,’ her grandma’s voice came right back to her, could hear the smile in her voice ‘Petal is aptly named, I see. I’ve never seen colouring like yours before, she is beautiful, though it makes me curious.’ She saw Blades head tilt slightly to the left as they sat looking at each other.

‘About?’ El asked right back.

‘If you had a twin that wasn’t viable, and so you got both her and your colouring. A blend of both.’ Blade stood up and Petal followed suit, they both shook themselves out and then they smelled each other before just standing and touching their heads together. She noticed it was in almost the same way Petal and Atlas did, a mark of love and respect she knew.

Then Blade walked on through the woods and Petal fell into step with her, were once again on the move, headed towards the pack’s centre. Was asked to lead the way to the packhouse, Petal seemed happy to do that.

‘Where is that Mate of yours? I thought his beast would be with you…Treating you like a princess, I hope.’

‘Yes, it’s kind of weird though. Conner went from being all snarky and rude to lovey, and is always asking me what I want. Giving me choices for everything. Completely different to how he was when I was here before.’

‘So, he well should.’ Heard her grandma sigh, ‘Though I heard from Juliana, you had to be Marked by force to attain your shift. Needed him to gain Petal.’

‘That does sound right.’

‘Lucky I was not there, would likely have killed him for it.’ heard her sigh ‘Though it seems to have worked out well.’

‘It has, still getting used to it, but he barely leaves my side. Everyone here knows I’m his Mate. And they all call me Luna, that’s weird to me still.’

‘You’ll get used to it. It’s a mark of respect within the pack. If one address’s you any less without permission, you have the right to punish them.’

‘What?’

‘It is the wolfen way, also our way, though Juliana is less strict on that matter, likes her pack calling her Aunty or by her first name.’

‘I did see that a lot, the kits all loved her. She’s really nice, I see you in her.’

Got chuckled at for that comment ‘You’re forgiven Kit, now did Conner know what you were, figure it out before he caught up with you in Italy? Juliana is stubbornly silent on the finer details. Told me to get my butt home if I wanted to know everything that is going on inside our pack.’

‘Why aren’t you there?’ El asked ‘And no, he thought I was a fox, but had no idea about the Kitsune at first.’

‘Good, I have one more question I want to ask. Did you run away from him back to the pack and he hunt you all the way there?’

‘No, he and his unit found me at the university. Gave me the option to talk to him at his hotel or in my pack. Took me to the pack when I asked him to.’

‘Good.’ Was all she said on the matter and El wondered if that had been important, kind of got the feeling it was to her grandma.

‘Grandma, why aren’t you in the Willow Moon Pack?’

‘Juliana doesn’t need me there, she is more than capable. I like my job here. Get to see the world, rid it of nasty pieces of work. Generally, work for the Alpha Council or Alpha’s here for one thing or another.’

‘What’s an Alpha Council?’ El asked. She’d not heard that term before.

‘A group of retired Alpha’s and Luna’s that help to try and maintain order, doesn’t always work. They mostly leave wolf packs to deal with their own things but, sometimes they have to get involved. They’re good for starting new packs. Punishing the worst of the worst. Spend a lot of time in the wolfen kingdom, a place I do not go.’

‘Oh, is it bad there?’

‘Not particularly. Just the king has a lot of witches, who are seers. Blade gets agitated around them, doesn’t like people prying into our thoughts, and that is their job. We came across one once out here in the wolfen world. That stupid seer latched on to me in human form without warning. It didn’t go down so well, that seer also did not survive. Which didn’t really go down so well with its coven leader, but once he realised what I was, he just stared at me and walked away.’

‘Witches don’t like you?’

‘Witches are a law unto themselves, kind of like us Kitsune, just stay out of their business and they’ll stay out of yours, for the most part.’

They stepped out of the forest and headed for the pack house. She could see Conner standing there smiling at them, could feel Atlas wanting to be with Petal and chuckled softly. She was amazed by all the children running and yelling Aunty Sloan and then were just all over Blade, laughed at the sight of her treating them to a little ride on her tails, almost looked like a swing ride at a carnival. As the children got lifted up into the air and spun around before being put back down. Certainly, it looked like the children enjoyed it. It did look fun.

‘Does that hurt you, your tails?’

Heard her grandma laugh ‘No Kit, I’m quite strong.’ Looked right at her ‘Petal might be able to do it one day, but she is quite small, might want to wait on that a few years. Like a hundred. Now let’s meet the wolf that dared to imprison my grandchild.’

‘He’s a surly grumpy one. Also, a control freak.’

‘I got that, though the aggression Conner put off was more than his father’s.’

El didn’t say anything to that. She didn’t know, had not actually seen any aggression in him with the exception of the day she’d told him she would leave. Atlas had not liked it at all, and mated the hell out of her for it. Though even that she’d enjoyed, he’d been all possession and aggressive about it, laying his claim on her, just the thought of her leaving him had set his possessive side off. From her understanding, he’d not even scented her then, just considered her his, because she could satisfy Conner and, apparently, that was not easily done.

Didn’t think there was ever a time when he’d not been sated by having s*x with her, she still thought it was crazy insane how much pleasure she derived from s*x. How much she wanted it, couldn’t get enough of it once they started. Was always up for it, even when she was tired his touch could make her hot and bothered, bring out a need in her to have him once more. It was completely crazy.

Petal looked up at him and he smiled right at her as they stopped in front of him, “I’ve got clothes coming for the two of you.” he stated simply, he didn’t sound at all concerned about her grandma standing next to her in front of him.

Though Blade looked at Conner, she walked right past him and up the stairs was headed for Logan. He was the current pack Alpha and likely the one she had a bone to pick with. Seemed happy that El was happy with Conner, his behaviour, it seemed, was excused, for the moment. Likely giving her choices to everything had saved him from her grandma.

Blade stood before Logan, her head lifted up to look at him, came up to his chest, was staring him down it seemed. She got to watch Logan bow his head slightly, saw Blade look at the man’s unit and they all also bowed to her. She wondered why she hadn’t made Conner and his unit do that? Just looked them over and passed by them all as though they were of no concern to her.

Saw a young girl come from the pack house, blink at the sight of Blade and then bow and step over to her “Clothing for you,” held out a dress to her, watched her grandma shift without a care in the world as to who saw her naked body take the offered dress and thank the girl with a smile. Slipped it on “Logan, we meet at last.” She commented “Where is Britteny? Should be standing by your side or do you control and restrict her movements as well?”

El was shifted back to herself, but she noted Conner and his unit surrounded her and protected her naked body from being seen by all. He was the only one facing her. All the others were facing out away from her. She slipped the dress on and smiled up at him. “Thank you,” she murmured; he knew she was not exactly comfortable with being naked in front of others.

Her attention returned to her grandma, who was now looking at her, saw her smile at what she’d seen, must have liked it, the way he’d not let anyone see her naked. “I’ll see Brittney, before you and I, Logan, get into the treatment of my Kit here.”

“I treated her like everyone else inside the pack.” He commented.

El wondered if that was true,.. watched her grandma turn and look right at him ‘I can smell a lie Logan, best you don’t do that, unless you want a fight. Think I’d win that, don’t you? This will be your only warning, for not just you, but your entire pack. Honesty is the only way to go with me.” Then she turned away from him. “Conner, you will take me to Brittney, I want to see about her condition, seeing as Logan states she’s in the hospital. I’ll do that on my own.” She shot over her shoulder at Logan. That must have been mentioned while she was being shifted back.

El had to turn away to hide the smile that touched her face. If Logan thought she was a handful, how was he going to deal with her grandma? Watched her walk down the stairs. “Give me a moment to talk to you as well boy.” Her grandma looked right at Conner as she headed towards them.