Spurned Luna’s Return: On Your Knees, Alpha Chase

Rolandro scolded Dante telepathically before asking him to quickly put the gatekeeper down.

Dante harrumphed, “You’re lucky,” tossing the gatekeeper to the ground, he stormed in accompanied by the others. Rolandro apologized for his pack mate’s action before entering.

The gatekeeper rose from the ground and smoothened the creases on his clothes, wearing a frown as he rubbed his neck.

This hotel’s staff were all of wolf blood and for this period, all those who lodged since last week were of wolf blood. The gatekeeper was a sigma wolf that once belonged to an Alphaless pack called Triston Hound.

This pack lost their final competing chance and dissolved. He was lucky to catch the eye of the Delta of the first-ranked pack and he acknowledged himself as an outer member.

Then he was assigned to work here, and he took pride in his job. But today, these men had utterly humiliated him, just because they were of a higher wolf rank.

Having good memory, of course, he knew at least two of the men’s faces but these men had popped up looking like street rats.

They had no car or anything expensive on them either. He thought he could bully them for a bit and make them plead for him to let them in, but unexpectedly, one was a hothead. He was so unlucky today.

He felt they must be mad because their pack didn’t get to have an Alpha. Probably they even lost pack mates. They were originally eight, but look, only 5 of them returned, looking like beggars.

‘They deserve the tough luck!’ he thought in ire. Obviously, he hadn’t bothered to watch the stream. Alphaless packs and some other ranked packs had lodged this hotel. These men having no Alpha among them proved they were the former.

He belonged to the first ranked wolf pack and was assigned to serve here with monthly payment that was more than enough to go on a shopping spree for Omegas.

People from other packs, ranked or unranked, showed him respect but these five! They’re going to see what it means to anger a mere gatekeeper. Did they think he had no connections at all?

Sitting in his chair with legs crossed, he took out his phone from the pants pocket and made a call, stating the bad thing he had in mind smilingly to the receiver on the other end. But soon, his smile faltered, and his confident face got replaced with dread.

“How… How can this be?” he just couldn’t believe what he’d just heard. They actually have an Alpha? Not only that… the Alpha’s mate was a nine-tailed wolf who even a Lycan king cannot dare scold?

And he, Brian Drakeson, was foolishly planning against them? The person whom he called didn’t know what else happened after the stream disrupted. But this information was enough to make the once vengeful gatekeeper’s knees turn jelly.

‘If I see them again, I’ll apologize to them. I’m not freaking going to hug disaster by offending anyone of them. Yes, this I must do,’ he thought in resolution.

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Dante and co. headed to the reception and met the receptionist, a pretty female with short, curly blonde hair, wearing specs, and clad in a green sleeveless top and black pencil skirt.. Despite being stunned by their appearance, she quickly regained her calm.

“Hello,” she greeted in a friendly way.

The men also reciprocated with a smile. Rolandro then rested his hands on the counter, “So, um… we’ll be needing our rooms’ keys please,”

She nodded smilingly, “Okay. Rooms 1715, 1714, 1710, and you need the last one too?” she asked because the two females among them were the ones who occupied 1709.

She’d watched the stream in the small time that she wasn’t attending to guests and from the little she watched before it suddenly discontinued, she knew this group wasn’t one to be offended. If possible, she must get on their good side.

Among these men were two bachelors. She hadn’t found her mate, but the way things are, if any of them wants her, as even a bed warmer, she’ll accept coz she knew their pack, Blood Star would go heights, since they have that wolf sovereign in their midst.

“No need, the three keys are enough,” Mel said and she handed the keys to him, wearing a brighter smile.

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Meanwhile…Còntens bel0ngs to Nô(v)elDr/a/ma.Org

Antero laughed in triumph after breaking finally the annoying barrier. He looked at the trembling female and lifted her chin. “You are very beautiful. A pity you are an abomination,” he remarked.

Letting go of her chin, his hands created massive spheres of dark mist and combined them into one giant sphere, “Bye, lass,” he smilingly said, before pitching it at her.

However, when it came in contact with her forehead, the sphere got pushed back and even dissipated as the pink gemstone materialized. This stunned him. There was a being who could repel his killer mist?

Cephina wanted to go over to her host but these damned ten beasts wouldn’t let her, and Phoenix himself was in a bad state. Everything was in Lavana’s hand now.

Seeing that her gemstone appeared and was able to repel the damn mist sphere, she was inwardly relieved.

She can only keep busy with these translucent rune-turned beasts.

Unwilling to accept the fact staring at him, Antero levitated and began to launch several dark mist spheres at the tribrid from many angles but whenever they came near the female, they dissipated, much to his rage.

Taking out a black spear with a red tip from his spatial ring, he rushed at her, waiting to stab her, but he felt a force repel him away.

“Damn it!” he couldn’t help cursing through gritted teeth. He didn’t believe she was impossible to kill. There had to be some way, and then, he’ll get her powers and blood as compensatin for his troubles.

At that moment, Lavana’s eyes opened and she saw the pissed Antero holding a spear, and then, Cephina defending herself against the attacks of ten translucent rune-turned beasts.

The translucent dragon and Olmpha were still battling those demon-like shadow creatures.

“Old man, we really underestimated you,” Lavana stated as she rose.

Telepathically, she ordered Cephina to retreat, and although the latter didn’t respond, the translucent creatures she summoned vanished. Then Cephina appeared at Lavana’s side.

The ten translucent creatures headed back to Antero and took their different positions, waiting for command to attack, so did the shadow demon creatures. Lavana turned to see that some cursed, giant blue vines had nearly sunk her mate into the quicksand.

“Your target is me. Leave my mate out of this,” she growled.

“No,” Antero shook his head smilingly, “My main target was you, your mate is an added bonus,”

Harrumphing, Lavana’s feet left the ground, and dragon wings sprouted from her back. She headed in the direction of Phoenix, using her already elongated dragon claws to chop off as many vines as she could.

Eventually, grabbing Phoenix by his hands, she pulled him out of the cursed cage and put him over her right shoulder, launching fireballs at the vines. Antero sighed as he saw her attempt to completely burn his vines to ashes. As long as his eyes remained a mazarine blue, the vines would just keep sprouting and attacking.

Lavana turned to face Antero and noticed that indeed his eyes were different from before. Since the vines wouldn’t let her and her mate alone, better to go for the source.

Without warning, she teleported and reappeared at a far distance from the battle scene. She placed her mate under a large oak tree. Cephina also appeared beside her and she commanded the latter to watch over her mate.

After getting the battle assistant’s nod of agreement, she turned invisible before teleporting. The dark sorcerer wasn’t surprised that the tribrid could teleport, and he knew she would come back, so he made the runes disappear, along with those shadow creatures. At this juncture, he wanted to see how much physical strength this untrained tribrid has.

The one he was expecting appeared right in front of him, attempting to pierce his eyes with her right dragon claws, but a dark blue shield appeared, protecting him from harm.

He smiled when he saw her unhappy face, “Now that’s not the way to say hello after suddenly ghosting me, lass,” he said mockingly. His eyes turned back to his normal brown eyes.

“I’d like a physical brawl to the death with you, no magic included. If you win, you’re free to take my life in any way you want, I promise, I won’t fight back. But if I win…” he didn’t need to complete the sentence since the other party understood what he meant.

“I know better than to trust someone like you,” she replied, launching several ice chains at her opponent. Two caught his hands and he didn’t even bother to resist, making her unsettled.

“Girl, my eyes are normal and I’m not resisting,” he pointed out, “Or you aren’t confident that you can beat me without those bonus abilities that come with your tribrid self?” he questioned, looking amused.

“If it is hand-to-hand you want, let’s do it,” she made the ice chains vanish and cracked her knuckles.

“No turning invisible or teleporting. Just hands and legs. You can’t use your claws or any part of your tribrid self. View it as normal human fight,” he added.

“Ok. You’re not changing your eyes or summoning anything,” Lavana’s feet touched the ground, “No flying, no secret weapon,”

“When do we fight?” the smug Antero asked after putting away the black spear.

“Now,” she replied, charging at him.

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Phoenix had regained consciousness. He felt incredibly weak, to even lift a finger was a problem. He turned his head to the left and saw Cephina standing close to him.

“C-Cephina… Where’s my mate?” he queried with difficulty.

“She’s battling that Antero guy,” she replied.

“What?” his eyes widened and he tried to rise to no avail. Worriedly, he requested, “Cephina, please take me there,”

But much to his dismay, she shook her head, arms folded and faced him with her backview.

“I’m talking to you, Cephina!”

“She asked me to watch over you,”

“I was unconscious then,”

“You can only talk at the moment. If I bring you there, what can you do as assistance? Wouldn’t you just drag her down, or even worse, end up as bargaining chip?”

Phoenix sighed and took out a cerulean bottle from his spatial ring. He downed the contents in one go, not minding the horrible smell.

Soon enough, the effect was seen, as the man who couldn’t lift a finger, rose.

This wasn’t the time to care about how dirty he was from the quicksand. Without warning, he vanished and Cephina sighed. Also vanishing and appearing behind Lavana. She was stunned to see them engaging in a brutal wrestle. Antero’s mask was destroyed already.