AWAKENING DREW

ROMAN, ZAIN, VICAH

Roman’s pov

I have had a long day of training and the inter-species tournament is in two weeks. Every bear shifter wants in. It will be held in the werewolf kingdom this year and everybody is going crazy, especially the ladies. Apparently, the werewolves are hotter than any other species out there and s*x gods, though I think fairies are hotter than them.

I smile, remembering my cousin Vicah, he is growing to be a handsome young man.

After my father found out I was into men he stopped talking to me, he wouldn’t let me help with the pack and it is killing me to see him this way. I’ve thought of running away and going to live with humans because I am sure I won’t be given a male mate, only the human world will be my freedom. My siblings and mother accept me the way I am, but my father is the difficult one.

I pray every day he will come to accept me for who I am. Until then, I will keep on training to be the best. My brother wants me to be his beta but I refused. I feel like there is something more for me out there. I can feel it in my bones.

I enter the pack house and it’s in full swing, it’s like a party is going on. The aroma of my favorite food hits me like a ton of bricks, making me stumble back and a smile creeps on my lips. What in all the kingdoms is mom up to? I know my birthday is not until the week of the tournament, so what’s with the special food?

I go to my room to wash away the day's workload off and relax before I head to dinner. I know something’s up. So I dress up and walk to the dining room and it’s my family only. I sigh knowing this is dad’s doing. Another dinner to talk to me to drop my gay phase. I feel like running away but my bear is cool, he is lying down rolling around on his imaginary grass not giving two f***s about what I’m feeling or what is about to happen. Goddess, this bear is slacking and the only thing we have in common is being gay. I take my seat next to my older brother and he smiles towards me.

We waited for father to come, everybody had a smile and looking at me with weird expressions. Well now I’m curious! Father walks in with all his grace, the mighty king Tray takes his seat at the head of the table. He clears his throat and begins,” as we all know, last night we had a meeting with all the kings and the moon Goddess. She was not happy with how I'd been treating Roman.

She made it clear that it’s not a phase but her precious creation. You Roman are chosen to start a new lineage together with your mates. That is all I can say for now. I am not going to reveal anything anymore, but know that the Goddess made you mates just like you. I am so sorry I have not been your father. Please find it in you to forgive me.” Father says in one breath and we are all looking at him like he lost it.

“ Did you say mates, h-how many? That’s not even important now, new lineage?” I asked, looking at him to clarify, but nothing! He serves his food and starts eating with a ghost of a smile on his lips. Wait! Is he happy for me? I always thought I was a disgrace to him. We are all still in shock but we start serving, absorbing all the news we were just hit with.

After a quiet dinner, we sat there looking at father and he just smiled. I had never seen him this happy. “ Apparently you are to share your mates with Zain and Vicah.” We all gasped,” they are triplets and the next in line royal betas. This has to stay among us, until the next king takes his rightful place. Nobody in the pack should get a hold of this information and as a family we are all bound to secrecy by a blood oath.” Father says all traces of joking gone.

We all nod and hold hands promising to keep this piece of information a secret. I, on the other hand, I’m overwhelmed with all this information. Mates! New lineage! Royal betas? I am happy, anxious and Kades ( my lazy ass bear) is not helping. He is growling at the thought of mates. This is the most action I’ve heard from that bear in years! So mates is all it took, huh.

Zain’s pov

I know I’m close, so I move slowly towards my lunch. It is yummy, fat and juicy. I know this is it, Zain Truce. Just pounce on it and snap it’s neck, then have your fill, but it’s so beautiful and I’m sure there is a baby gazelle somewhere waiting for his/her mom to come back home. The big bad panther is hungry and wants mama gazelle, but we can’t leave her kids orphans.

So I lay on the grass watching the gazelle eat grass and I was happy and content. I know you think that this panther is a sissy and weak, but it’s just my nature. Kades is my panther and he is so soft he can’t hurt a fly, but I am the opposite. I am a warrior and a protector. I am the most feared torturer. You want to break rogues, call me! I am your man. You want plans for war. I am you guy, I just love violence. It just brings me peace.

We are also gay and very proud of it. My father thinks it's a phase, but I know the goddess made me this way. I hear the crunching of leaves and a branch break, I shift back to my human form and hide low on the grass. “ Zain, I know you are here. Father wants to see you again. I think you have to give up on your dream of mating with a human man.” I rose up from my sleeping position and looked in my sister's direction. She smiles at me and turns to walk back home. “ So when are you going to kill Shelly ( the mother antelope I was hunting) and invite me to the feast?” She says chuckling. “ You know very well I have watched Shelly grow up since she showed up in our favorite spot and I love her so much, Kades and I can’t eat her. She reminds us of mom.” I told her, looking away from her.

Mom died after giving birth to me, being the youngest and the last born. My siblings love me dearly, but my father is another story; he used to love me. When I turned twelve, I started looking more like our mother. He became a monster with my training. He thought I looked like a girl with a weak body, so he put me through inhuman training and torture to try to change my body and physique. Well, he did try, but my body is just stubborn.

I stand at 6’5, with golden shoulder-length hair, a muscular body with a six-pack and lean nothing like my elder brother who is a body of muscles and huge. We walked back to the palace and I ran to my room to bath first before meeting with the king. After a hot shower, I got dressed in tight black jeans, a black t-shirt and a black leather jacket. I have to go meet with my favorite people after talking to the king.

I walked out and headed to his office. I enter without knocking and I find his office full with all my siblings and the council too. I have a bad feeling about this. Maybe it’s another mission. I walk and sit next to my sister Shelly ( I know, I named my antelope after her). She smiles at me and holds my hand under the table. I love that she supports me every time.

“I called you here to tell you some important news. Last night, the moon goddess summoned us for a meeting. She revealed some very shocking news, but the most shocking one that shook me to the bones was about Zain.” The king says looking at me and now everybody is looking at me. I just shrug and look towards the king, “ What do you mean your highness?” One of the council men asks.

“ Whatever I am about to tell you should remain in this room and keep it a secret until the new king is crowned.” Wow, he looks serious and scary, he is even choking us with his power and the council is cowering into submission. I chuckle and and shake my head in amusement. “ Zain!” He roars, “what your highness.” I say in a bored tone. “ You are gay and that’s how the goddess created you. She has blessed you with mates. You will meet them soon.” Everybody in the office gasped at this and they all turned to look at me. Now I am the man of the hour.

I am still absorbing this piece of information and finally I get it. I stood up, scrapping my chair and I started to pace around the office. “ She said, You will be sharing with Roman and Vicah, you will be bringing a new creation/ lineage to this world. Your mates will be royal betas. That means you will also be betas. So be prepared for the tournament, you will be attending.” He says, looking at me and waiting for me to argue with him, but I am way too happy to care.

A stray tear falls followed by another and another and I am now fully crying my eyes out. Shelly comes to my side and hugs me tight to her chest. I cry like a child who lost his most important toy. After my crying spree, my father continues, “ This meeting is over. I need my family here alone.” after saying this, the council leaves. The room is quiet but I can hear sniffles all around.

When I looked up, I saw my father in tears. Shelly helped me up and I walked towards dad. I sat on his lap and hugged him tight. “Oh my baby boy, I have been so wrong about your sexuality. I should have seen this earlier and warmed up to you. I love you so much, not just because you look so much like your mother, but because you are the most adorable baby I’ve ever seen. You are going to blow your mates' minds away.” We all laugh at this. “ Thank you for being my dad, you are the best, even if we’ve had a difficult past. I hope from now on we can have a better relationship.

I’ve always wanted to play dress up with you and not with Shelly, she applies too much blush on me.” They all laugh at my antics and hear dad's chest rumble with a chuckle. I feel at peace knowing dad is with me on this. “ Hey, we also want that family hug,” Shelly says as she joins our hug. Drake, Pete, Amanda and Lily join in on the hug.

After a few minutes, we break the hug and I say,” let’s all go for a run, a family run.” They all agree as we strip and jump out through the office window. We are huge, like horses, and I am the only black panther in the werecat community. The rest of my family are tigers with black and white stripes. We run around our territory feeling the wind in our furs and Kades is full on purring.

Vicah’s pov

“ Hey prince Vicah, the queen requests your presence in the throne room.” “ Okay, leave and don’t ever come back to my room or I will pluck your wings and burn them with dragon fire.” I told the half naked b***h in my room. This is my mother’s doing. She sends the kingdoms sluts my way to get myself acquainted to the female body. Yes, I’m gay and a beautiful one at that, and I’m proud of that.

I wake up from my bed and get dressed. I will be going out later with Zain and Roman to a human town to let loose. I put on some dark jeans, a white t-shirt and my favorite white leather jacket. I pick up my phone and the motorbike keys and put them in my pocket. I passed the kitchen on my way to the throne room and picked an apple. I love apples so much.

I enter the throne room and I’m met by ten pairs of eyes, my father, mother, my eldest brother and the twins. Well, it’s another family meeting about Vicah and his gay phase. I let out a long sigh and passed my hands through my long white hair. I took my seat next to the twins. “ My king, your highness, what’s the need for this meeting, again?” I asked them with a blank expression.

“ How dare you talk like that to your king and queen! You are not even worth it. Sitting at this table with us should be a privilege, you broken piece of s**t!” Ladies and gentlemen, my mother and the queen, just because I am not straight. She compares me with omega fairies. Well it doesn’t hurt anymore, I just don’t care, I assume her and ignore whatever she says.

“ ENOUGH! From today you will all show Vicah respect. The moon goddess summoned us last night and she is disappointed in all of us for treating Vicah the way we have all been doing. Son, I know that saying sorry will not take back all the pain we’ve caused you, especially, from your family.” I heard the queen scoff and the king let out a long sigh. My siblings are another story. They understand me and they’ve never hurt me.

So we are just looking at our parents with astonished looks, one is humbling himself, which is a rare sight. The other one has smoke coming out of her ears from anger. You wonder why? Well, because she can’t take it that the son she mothered is gay and blessed by the goddess. To hell with her, we all know our mother. She is a power-hungry fairy and a conniving b***h.

We all know she is the king's second chance mate. Dad’s true mate died before she was marked and mated and, apparently, she was our mom’s best friend. You see where I’m going with this, right? As her children, we don’t feel connected to her even though she birthed us and our father knows. We all have his true mate’s DNA. Don’t ask me how that happened. The moon goddess works in mysterious ways and we love her for that.

I guess that’s why she hates us. I mean all her children. “ Love, why don’t you go and prepare for the blue moon ceremony, I need to talk to these children about respecting you.” the king says in a soothing tone and we just sigh. After the queen left, the old man sighed and looked at all of us. “ Listen well my babies, I love you all so much. After the meeting with the goddess, my eyes were opened and I knew what kind of person your mother is. Vicah, you are a blessed child and you have mates and you will share with your cousins.” I looked at him with a shocked expression, “You mean I have mates, how many?” I asked with a smug look.

My father chuckles and shakes his head, “ You can’t tell any of this to your mother that woman is driving me crazy. I can’t feel the mate bond with her anymore, so we can’t trust her or alarm her. Let’s just treat her the way she loves as I investigate what happened that day my true mate died. I will go to meet with Malia, her and her pack of sirens will help me with the spell that’s been cast upon me all this time. Remember that you are my happiness and I love all of you so much. Now you will have to keep up with the acts that b***h has spies all around the palace.”

We all nod, Kades my fairy opens our link to our siblings and he says, ”Let’s add him to our little group so that he can contact us when he leaves.” The rest agree and we hold our hands together including our dad, “Welcome to our family link, father.” Reagan our eldest brother tells him through the link, he looks shocked because fairies cannot mind link. I think he forgot he is part of a triad, his blood brothers are different species. I bet we get our special abilities from them.

“ Father, we forgive you and we love you too. You can contact us via the link when you are away.” Reagan says and cuts the link. We all look at each other and we all nod once. Father turns into his fairy and leaves immediately. We look at one another and start laughing. We developed an inside language since we couldn’t interact with each other openly because of the queen.

She tried breaking our sibling bond many times by turning us against each other, but we are too bright for her stupid brain. “So baby brother you get mates, I am so happy for you Vicah.” Reagan says and the rest voice their happiness, the twins giggle and I smile at them. “ I’m still shocked with all this and Kades is quiet too.” I can’t wait to meet the boys tonight, I can’t believe we get mates and I get to share them with my best friends.

“Guys, I have to meet with the boys and celebrate. I will see you, lovely siblings, later.” I said as I left in a rush. I get on my bike and drive away towards the human town that we usually meet.

I speed up and my heart is jumping with excitement when I see identical bikes in front of me. After I joined them, we sped towards the town and stopped at our usual bar.

We didn’t enter the bar this time. We walked towards the woods to talk and howl our happiness to the moon goddess.

KADES is the goddess of war. As you've noticed, all their inner animals are named Kades.