The Alphas’ P**n Star Mate

I looked again at the flask, the gems no longer showing the wolf, then back up at Driana. "I swear, I thought I saw a wolf in those stones."

Driana smiled, a sudden gleam shining in purplish hues through her eyes. I felt it again. That magical pull, only it was to her and not Rodger this time. "What else do you see?"

I looked again at the flask, still lying on the bed.

"You have to pick it up, girl, or it won't show."

I hesitantly reached out, lifting the flask and cradling it in my hands. After a few seconds, the wolf appeared again, and then it started to really move. It was running, first going at a steady jog, then really sprinting, tall objects that had to be trees moving past it. Then, the trees bend and bow in the most unnatural ways. It was like the wolf was pushing them with some invisible force, making the tree bow as it passed.

The wolf continued sprinting, coming to a lake. The gemstone glimmered like the sun reflecting off the water. When the wolf didn't slow, I gasped, expecting the wolf to dive into the water. Instead, she soared across it, running on the water's surface and water shot up and danced around her.

I was in a trance, the moving picture taking up all of my vision, and all I could see were gemstones changing with the image of the wolf in front of me. It was like when Cortina was in control, and I was looking through her eyes at a scene before us. I had no power over the vision. It was being forced on me now.

The wolf cleared the water, her last steps making a whirlpool appear, sucking the lake into the earth with it. She was sprinting on rocky terrain now, the earth trembling beneath her paws. The rocks on the ground were getting bigger and bigger, becoming giant boulders intending the dry earth with their impending mass. The largest of boulders appeared before the wolf, but like before, she did not stop or lose speed. She stirred straight ahead, heading right for it. She bowed her head, and when her skull met the massive rock, as large as the pack house, it crumbled to dust. The dust fell in thick currents to the ground, like a murky blizzard.

My eyes grew wide in amazed horror when the dust settled on the ground and crimson stones burst forth like flames igniting on command as the wolf's paw pounded the ashes to the ground. Fiery footsteps were chasing her, their tongues of fire licking towards her heels. When they reached her, they clung to her feet, climbing up her paws and traveling over her coat until they reached her snout.

Opening her mouth wide, she consumed the flames, swallowing them down as her paws continued to set fire to the ground. Her eyes began to glow, a brilliant, vivid purple, the hint of flames dancing in her irises. She opened her mouth again, releasing the flames back into the air, only this time, they were a vivid purple, just like her eyes.

She leaped into the burning air, flying on the flames, and that was when violet streams of lightning cracked through the sky around her. Their violent streaks reflected in her stunning eyes, and then she howled.

Lifting her snout high in the sky, my ears rang as a chillingly beautiful howl left her wolfish lips, her ears pushed back flat on her head. Everything about her came into perfect view with that howl. Her thick, beautiful coat of fur, the angle of her snout, and the scarring marks on both sides of her neck.

It was Cortina. I was stunned.

"Beautiful," I gasped, my face burning hot as a tear rolled down my face. "She's so beautiful."

"Who?" Driana urged, bringing me back to the present.

I shook my head, dropping the flask back onto the bed as a searing current moved through my arms. I felt a rush of emotions coursing through me, along with this tingling pain, like a new vein was being mapped out through my entire body. It was alive, and I could feel a rush through it. It felt like that day with the red wolf. Only this time, I felt a minor sense of control.

"Who did you see?!" Driana asked again.

I looked around the room. Everyone was watching me with alarmed worry. Did they see it too? Did they see the wolf changing the world like I did?

"It was only you," Cortina told me. "It was just us in there. No one else saw."

I was glad somehow. It seemed so personal. Like a deep secret that had to be kept. At least kept to an extent. Towards the end, when her powers reached their peak, that didn't seem like the kind of thing you let others discover. It felt intimate, between me and my wolf.

"I.... I saw a wolf. The most beautiful wolf in the world," I smiled tearfully, feeling emotional all over again, remembering her howling into the electric sky.

"You already said you saw a wolf," Driana huffed, exuding exasperation. "What was the wolf doing?"

"Running," I whispered. "She was running through the woods."

"That's all?" Driana looked at me in disbelief. "She didn't do anything else? Nothing else happened."

"You have to offer her something," Cortina told me.

It all felt so personal though. For some reason, I didn't think I could tell it all to anyone. Or at least not anyone in this room.

"The trees were bending around her as she ran through the woods. It was like she could control them." That should be enough. Walking on water, crumpling boulders, setting fire to the earth and breathing it back out into the air as the sky exploded around me was my secret for now. I couldn't explain why. I just knew it was.

"Good. Good!" Driana smiled. "I can work with that. Now, pick back up that flask. Drink."

"Drink?!" I looked at the flask in horror. "What's inside of it?"

"Never mind that."

"Uh, I kinda mind. Considering what just holding the thing did to me, I want to know beforehand what drinking it will do."

Driana scoffed, rolling her eyes. "You're difficult as the water is wet."

"I like my water dry," Jamie snickered.

"Just like your women are," Cindy countered, earning a chuckle from Paulina.

Driana and I continued to stare each other down, and when I didn't budge to drink she broke eye contact first.

"Fine, child! It's just a little elixir to get your magic flowing right. Nothing to be scared of."

"Then why wouldn't you tell me that to begin with?" I grumbled.

"Because," she averted her gaze, and I grew suspicious again. "Oh, fine! It's going to get your magic flowing, but there will be some side effects. Those won't come until later, but you should be fine." She smirked. "You have two mates to help you through it for now." I eyed her suspiciously again, then when I didn't detect any falsehood, I slowly picked the flask back up, unscrewing the gemstone lid. I sniffed the contents and almost gagged.

"Oh," she smirked. "It tastes something awful too."

"Of course it does," Cortina snickered. "Bottoms up."