SEVEN

23:30....23:31....23:32...

Time is going and now it's almost midnight and we've just arrived at the Arena. The Arena is a fenced yard, a very large one at that. Ceremonies and festivals are usually held here, then it gets locked afterwards with a big silver lock. Every weekend, prisoners are released to clean the Arena under the supervision of the Alpha,Beta or Gamma or me.......in my dreams.

Everywhere is booming, there's music, food stands, game booths etc. The first time I actually paid attention in my history class, I learnt that the Full Moon was a night where people come together to celebrate the blessings showered on us by the goddess. But then it got to a point that people found their mates on the Full Moon. From then on people got mated on the Full Moon, double the celebration.

00:00

It's midnight.

I looked at the girls and see them sniffing the air in hopes of sniffing out their mates. "Hey girls, i think it'll be better if we scattered and moved around, we can meet tomorrow at twelve noon at our usual place. Good luck guyz." They wished me back and dispersed except Jackie. "Aren't you going?". She hugged me and walked away. I walked over to a group of children playing archery and stood behind watching them. I heard a growl behind me and turned. I looked at the direction he was growling at and saw a woman hugging man, suddenly she froze and slowly stepped away from the embrace of the guy she was hugging and turned around. Slowly she walked over to the guy growling....I turned back not wanting to see whatever they wanted to do.

3:00am

After walking around the Arena and greeting familiar faces, I decided to go home, besides, the ceremony is almost over and.....I'm still unmated. Sadly.

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"Hello ladies". I greeted the girls when I opened the Cabin's door. The Cabin is a gift from my grandfather to me on my sixteenth birthday. It has two big rooms like a suite, with a Jacuzzi, a shower and a toilet. It also has a small sitting room with a big flat screen TV and other things that make up a sitting room. The Cabin is bit close to the Arena.....okay not too close.

"How are you doing April?" Jackie asked. I smiled at her and said, "I'm good. So....let's hear it. Meghan?"

"Collins Whitestone". She said blushing. We congratulated her and hugged her.

"Dora?"

"Arnold Parker" Arnold? No wonder he was no where to be found this morning. I looked at Dora and saw her blushing. She started talking about it....ewww! I have to stop this.

"Theodora Annette Walsh! I don't want to hear anything about you and that stupid Arnold. Its really disgusting." I said to her and she just growled at me. "Don't growl at me bitch".

"Jackie?" She shook her head in disappointment. I stood up and walked over to her to hug her. "Me too Jackie, but it's alright, we have mates, even though we've not met them, we will definitely meet them. Okay?" She nodded

"Okay girls, let's go to the training ground. I'm sure people are there shifting and learning how to fight in their wolf form."

I was right, many people were there shifting and fighting. We stood there watching them. I turned to ask Dora something only to see her and my brother in an intense makeout.

"Knock it out jerk! Never in your disgusting life should you ever do that in front of me." I said dragging Dora with me. Stupid Arnold. I turned to Dora and checked to see if she was marked, she wasn't.

"Look who it is, April and friends. What are you guys doing here? Ah! I forgot, you came to watch me shift right? Don't worry as your Luna I'll save you a special place to watch clearly." Jackie told us about it, but hearing it from her seems so true. I looked at her as she kept on rambling and uttering out all sorts of nonsense from her mouth attracting the attention of people training. Looking around, people have gathered, watching and wondering what was going on.

"Shut up Natasha." I screamed at her. She turned to me in anger, "how dare you disrespect me April?" She turned and walked over to Steven a Palace guard. "You, take that stupid April to the dungeons immediately." I chuckled softly knowing that he won't do it.

"I am your Luna so you better do as you're told." She said to him placing her hand on her waist.

"But you have to pass all the tests and tasks given to you to become the Luna. I read it in the Library." A small boy of around nine years spoke to Natasha. She turned and glared at the boy.

"Why aren't you the Alpha's mate Aunt April? I wish you could be the Luna. I hate the Moon goddess." Samuel said. Samuel is a 5yr old boy I defended from bullies about two months ago on the training ground. I walked over to him and squatted to be on eye level with him.

"Samuel dear, the Moon goddess is not wicked alright? Don't hate her okay? Always remember that everything happens for a reason okay?" He nodded and hugged me.

"What is going on here?" Alpha Donatus voice. I looked up and saw The Alpha, Jordan, Collins, Richard and Arnold with my father and some elders, they walked over to where we are standing.

"Alpha Donatus, they started all this. April Parker and her friends were insulting me and calling me names. One of them even assaulted me." Natasha said sobbing. What an actress. My father looked at me and shook his head disapprovingly, I just smirked at him. Samuel left my side and walked up to Natasha and kicked her....I will say very hard because she fell down, which caused snickers from the people gathered. I just smirked.

"She's a liar Alpha Donatus. This woman came here and started calling herself our Luna. I'll be damned if she's the Luna." Samuel said before turning to Jordan, " I'm sorry Alpha Jordan but you can do better" with that he ran and hugged me before running away.

"April! What is this I'm hearing? Are you assaulting Natasha?" My father asked. With a smirk on my face, I went closer to where they stood. " Dad, if I were to assault Natasha dearest, she won't be alive to tell the story, don't tempt me." Arnold chuckled, earning a glare from Alpha Donatus.

"I challenge you April Parker to a fight....to the death." Okay that got my undivided attention. I heard gasps around. And people muttering things like....'is she nuts?' 'does she have a death wish'. I looked at her and she smirked at me. I looked at Arnold, he sighed.

"Look Natasha, we all know you have to pass tests and tasks before you are crowned Luna, but challenging April to a fight to the death is something I'll advice you to withdraw this minute and never think about." Arnold said in a bored tone.

"I'm not scared of her. I'll kill her before she can kill me." Meghan started laughing to that.

"Where do you want to be buried Natasha? Because I can see that you have a death wish." Dora asked.

"Silence!" Alpha Donatus growled. "To the Pack house this minute." He turned and walked away.

At the Pack house.....

"What is going on in my Pack? Miss David and Miss Parker?" He never calls me that. He must be really mad at me.

"I'm sorry, Alpha Donatus. I know I've disappointed you, it's just that Miss David here doesn't know how to mind her own business. Whenever she sees me and my girls, she always make promises of throwing us in jail when she becomes the Luna. And for this challenge of hers, I know nothing about it. But I'll have her know that if she really wants to die she can go ahead and kill herself. I'm not ready to be thrown out of the Pack." With that Natasha started laughing.

"Why don't you want to be thrown out? Because of Jordan right?" Jordan looked at her confused. "Oh! Jordan dearest don't look at me with so much confusion written on your face. April here has a huge and enormous crush on you, that's why she is scared of fighting with you because she knows that she won't be able to concentrate." Shit!

"That's not a lie, but that was then, when we were still kids." the lie just flows out smoothly and it looks like he bought the lie. I looked at Alpha Donatus and saw him smirking at me, I glared at him. That damned man of course he won't believe it.

"I'll like to fight with you one of these days April." Jordan said to me. I looked up to his face, wait a minute.....I don't know if it's just my eyes seeing things, could it be that he also has a crush on me? What was that in his eyes? Why did the color of his eyes change from deep blue to blood red?