The Rare Mate

Chapter Three

Magnolia’s pov

It wasn’t long before I could hear footsteps echoing through the cold stone dungeon. I looked up and saw the alpha and four of his guards.  My stomach turned when I realized what the punishment he had planned for me was. They each looked at me like I was some hunk of meat waiting to be eaten. 

“We have no chance at all, do we?” I asked my wolf.

“Not really, we have seen these men fight, they were trained by our father.” she huffed, I could feel how worried she was.

“What do we do?” I asked her.

“Fight the best that we can.” She said hopeful. 

Alpha Black turned to the four wolves and spoke, “as you know you all are allowed to do whatever you want with her, however you need to make sure she at some point gets the one hundred lashes I told you about.” I could feel the blood drain from my face as he handed one of them the key.

“One hundred lashes?” Mattea said to me in shock. “Isn’t that overkill?”  I knew she was right but I felt myself start to panic.

“Us against four, how in the hell am I supposed to fend off four well trained warriors? You said you wanted to fight, so your input is needed here.” I said, the door creaked open then slammed shut. 

“I don’t know, this space isn’t big enough to shift in.” she replied quickly, I could feel her panic setting in. “Just fight.”

I backed up further into the cell as they walked towards me. My stomach was turning, if I had any food in my stomach I would have already been puking. I could feel their eyes on my body one of them licked their lips then jumped me. I quickly moved to the side, successfully dodging him. I cursed myself when I realized my mistake, I had moved into a position where I was in the center of all of them. They began to surround me and I knew there was no getting out of this. I raised my fists up and swung out, successfully hitting one right on the nose. blood poured down his face. 

“You will pay for that one you bitch.” He growled as he tried to stand up again, I knew I had successfully broken his nose. I ran towards the cell door but was pushed back onto the ground. I stood up and tried to do a roundhouse kick on the one who stopped me. He grabbed me by the leg and threw me into the wall and I landed on the floor with a hard thud.

Black dots danced before my eyes and I could feel the pressure of someone climbing on top of me. I started to swing my arms blindly but someone else pinned them down. “What do you think, boys, all at once, or one at a time?” My heart sank knowing that no matter how hard I fought I was on the losing end. 

I tried to buck him off but thanks to the lack of food and training I wouldn’t be able to do anything against them. The man on top of me spoke next, “Alpha said we could do whatever we wanted with her as long as we are there to greet the future king alpha in the morning.”  He leaned down and nuzzled his face into my neck biting the skin roughly.

“So one at a time, give her the lashes slowly during the night?” The one with the broken nose said. “Alpha did say to make it as tortuous as possible. She had crossed him too many times.” 

One of them leaned in and spoke directly into my ear. “I think we should go one at a time then when we are done we each give her twenty five lashings.” He nipped my ear as the man on top of me ripped my shirt open revealing my bare breasts. 

I could feel them rubbing and squeezing my breasts roughly, I bit the inside of me cheek to keep from yelling out in pain. I felt one of them bite my n****e causing it to bleed. I couldn’t hold back a whimper from the pain, “get her to the table.” One of them said and the guy on top of me yanked me up and threw me roughly onto the table. I tried to back away from him but he dug his claws into my legs, ripping my pants off as he left long gashes in my skin. 

“Please stop.” I begged, I couldn’t hold back the tears in my eyes while my legs seared with pain. 

“Oh look at that boys, we have a cryer.” He nipped my neck where a mate's mark should be and all I felt was a wave of nausea course through me. I knew that talking wouldn’t do anything.

I felt someone’s arm wrap around my neck blocking my airway. I clawed at his massive arm but it didn’t help. Black dots swam through my vision again, “oh no darling, you don’t want to miss this, this is the best part.” He released my neck, allowing me to breathe again. I looked at the man in front of me and he was naked. His member was inches away from my entrance.I tried to squirm away but he grabbed my hips and held me down. 

“Why are you so scared? It’s not like you’re a virgin, we know you’ve slept with a dozen others. I formed a spitball in my mouth and spat it at him hitting him in the face. He wiped it off his face and wiped it onto his c**k, “I am going to enjoy this.” He growled.

He slammed into me as hard as he could. I screamed for him to stop, the sheer force of him hurt all the way up to my belly button. Tears were flowing down my cheeks from the pain. I was forced back onto the table as one of them forced my jaw open, I flung my head trying to get away when one of the other two ripped my head back smacking it against the cold metal table. Stars danced before my vision, after that I was in and out of it. I could feel everything they were doing, but my head hurt so bad that every time I tried to fight back it was like the room was spinning. 

After hours of them doing what they wanted I sighed in relief when I realized nobody was touching me. “Do you think they left?” I asked my wolf?” 

“I don’t know, everything hurts so bad I can’t tell.” I tried to open my eyes and this time the room didn’t spin, I looked down and could see all the bite marks and bruises as they formed on my naked body. I jumped when I heard a noise, to my right three of the four wolves stood there watching me. I tried to get up but the pain was excruciating. 

“Where do you think you’re going?” One of them asked mockingly. I didn’t answer but  managed to move enough to twist off the table. I heard footsteps as they neared me, ‘now, now, it’s not time to go yet, we still have some play time left.” I tried to throw my arms up but they felt like lead. He grabbed me by the hair and yanked me up as he started to drag me towards the chains. I lost my footing and he just let me fall. Another searing pain erupted across the side of my head as it hit the stone floor.

I could vaguley feel them moving me around, my wrists began to burn and I could feel myself being pulled up. I fell back into the darkness until the whippings started. The first whip was so excruciating it knocked the wind out of me, tears rolled down my eyes as I gasped for breath. The burning sensation told me it was the whip with the silver on the ends. I could hear footsteps coming down the hall mixed with what sounded like metal clanging around in a bag or something.

I looked up and through my tears I could see the alpha, “Here boys, I was saving this for a special occasion. Who better to use it on than the girl who was the reason our luna was killed?” He opened the door and handed the bag to one of the men. I looked up and yanked on the chains holding me from the ceiling, it was no use, I was just hurting my wrists more. “An old friend gave this to me, not too long ago.” 

He peered inside before a smile erupted on his face, “oh ho ho, boys the party's just beginning!” He put on a pair of tight fitting leather gloves when he pulled out something shiny. I knew it was silver, they wouldn’t get excited if it wasn’t. 

He stalked over towards me, and showed me what was in his hand. I gulped when I realized what it was, it looked like a large silver p***s. Only it had a weird bolt on the bottom of it, I wasn't sure how it was exactly used but I knew I would be the unlucky one to find out.

“Just remember boys,” the alpha said as he looked at his watch, “you have about four more hours before you have to be upstairs and getting ready.” He turned to walk away but quickly stopped, “make sure you all give yourself enough time to take showers, I don’t want you all bloodied up when they arrive.” 

A chorus of “yes alpha,” was heard echoing off the walls of the cell. The one holding it turned back to me.

“Do you know how this is used?” I shook my head, he placed it on my n****e and the burning sensation was intense. I screamed as the pain intensified and my energy depleted. “Have you ever heard of the pear of anguish?” I shook my head, tears still running down my face. He looked at the two guys on either side of me and nodded his head. 

They bent down and yanked my legs up, spreading them wide, “what you do is you gently place it in here.” He said as he slammed it into me as hard as he could, I let out a cry as the searing pain wracked my entire body. “Then you slowly spin the knob on the bottom, causing it to become bigger, and bigger, and bigger.” I screamed as the pain grew more and more intense. “Then we let it sit there for a while before,” he twisted it one more time, making me scream again. “Twist it again.” he finished his sentence. 

“Now, let’s finish your whippings.” Another one whispered into my ear. The man in front of me backed up and the other two dropped my legs. I cried as the whippings went on for what felt like ages.

I counted seventy-eight whippings and finally darkness was taking me over. Before I lost all consciousness I silently prayed to the moon goddess, “please let me die.” 

Zac’s pov 

My father started pacing back and forth as he spoke. “We can’t go against a dragon and an entire pack.” He growled. 

“We have an idea.” Endre said quickly as he took Asyra’s hand. “We are sending a dozen dragons with you, however they will be staying in a cabin a few miles outside of the pack. They could get to you guys rather quickly if something should happen.” 

“That’s a great idea, how will we communicate with them? They aren’t used to technology.” Ryken said.

“I got that covered.” I turned to see Tasha and Jeremy walking up to us. She handed us a bunch of purple and silver stones. “These are bewitched, if one person rubs it in their hand it will make all the other ones warm up no matter how far away they are from each other.” She picked up the stone and began to rub it in her hand. I smiled as my stone started to heat up, I couldn’t believe that actually worked.

I should have known it would work, she was trained by Sylvia after all. “Wow, that’s awesome.” Asyra said as she took the stone and began to rub it.

“They also change color. The closer you get the stones together the lighter the color becomes the more stones the richer the color. The further away you are the darker they become.” She said as she took a few steps back. The stone in Asyra’s hand slowly started to get darker. 

“That’s brilliant.” My dad said, then he looked at the watch on his wrist. “We need to head out, we will keep an eye out for Galvin. We also need to try and figure out what he is up to without him noticing.” 

“How are we supposed to do that?” I asked, a small headache growing. 

“I don’t know as of yet but we will figure it out.” He said.

“Okay, let’s get going.” Endre said, we all began to make our way out of the maze, when we emerged Margarete, Mom, Jace, Emerald, Isaiah and Marisol were all waiting for us. 

My dad lightly jogged over to my mother and wrapped her in his embrace. Margarete ran to Luca and he did the same to her. I smiled as I looked around at them. I loved how happy they all were, but I also envy them. I wish I knew where my mate was, who she is. I wish I could wrap my arms around her and never let go. Normally people find their mate within a couple years after turning eighteen. 

In some circumstances you can find your mate early. I am now twenty-two and I haven’t found my mate yet. I mean I could find her whenever but when it’s been this long it is quite possible that she died somehow or as time goes on she may choose to take a chosen mate. I walked past everyone who was saying goodbye and made my way towards the vehicles. 

When I got closer I saw James closing the trunk on one, “James, we need two more SUV’s.” 

He quickly turned around and looked at me shocked, “what? Why?” 

“I will explain later, right now I just need two more. We have another dozen people going.” I said as I dug my hands into my pockets. It was a bit chilly now that the hedges from the maze weren’t blocking the wind. 

“Please don’t tell me everyone else has decided they have to go with. Because if that’s the case I absolutely will not get us more vehicles.” He said quickly in a quiet voice. 

“No, it’s not that. I do need those vehicles though. Also see if there are a couple unmated male omega’s that would like to go.” He eyed me down, “I promise I will explain on the drive, okay?” He nodded his head then made his way towards the garage after grabbing another warrior. 

After another thirty minutes of getting everyone in the vehicles and then splitting up the dragons so that one of our guys was driving we were on our way. James quickly turned to me, “okay we are driving, now spill. Why do we have those extra people coming?” He quickly asked me.

Ryken, who took the first driving shift, laughed, and I quickly answered James. “We were given intel that Galvin was spotted at Blackmoon.” 

He looked at me shocked, “so we aren’t investigating anymore?” 

“We are still investigating, however we aren’t investigating the pack anymore. Well not exactly, if the alpha has made some kind of pact with him or is helping him the entire Black family will be denounced and a new alpha will be put in place. We could also potentially be heading into an ambush.” 

He looked around taking in what I just told him, and he smiled, “this is going to be fun.” He laughed as he bounced in his seat. 

“You have always loved a good fight James.” My dad said as he also laughed. 

“Yes I do, and I can’t wait to kick some dragon traitor ass.” I shook my head as I laughed along with them. Soon we will be at Blackmoon, then it will be time to figure out what the hell is going on. Who knows, maybe I will get lucky and even find my mate.

Endre’s pov

I walked over to Stephan, “hey, are all the men ready?” I asked him.

He nodded his head as he tossed the last bag into the thing they call an SUV. “Yeah, we would all rather fly there but I guess this would be better. We would be less noticeable.” He shrugged his shoulders. 

“You’re not too thrilled with all this technology are you?” I asked him.

“No, I don’t really like it. I feel like it’s all so strange.” He said as he tried to slam the trunk shut. A she wolf walked over when she saw that he was having issues.

“Here, let me help.” She walked up to the trunk moved a couple bags around then pushed a button on the inside of the vehicle before gently ushering us back. We watched in amazement when the door closed itself. 

“I didn’t know it could do that.” He said gruffly. 

She let out a small laugh, “it’s okay, that will be our secret.” She smiled at him and walked away. I knew then that this trip would be a long one for these guys.

I took a breath, “anyways, I need you guys to stay on high alert. We don’t know what Galvin has planned. We aren’t even sure if he is still in Blackmoon.” I said.

“I know, was Tony the one who informed you?” He asked.

I nodded my head, “yeah, that’s the other thing. I need you guys to do some digging around. Tony was supposed to check in yesterday and he never did.” His eyes grew wide, “I need you to find him. I am worried and if Galvin is working with Black there is a possibility they found a way to detain him.” 

He nodded his head, Stephan grew up with us, he looked up to Tony and I. “I will see what I can find. If I find Tony I will inform you right away. What do you want me to do if I find Galvin?” He asked me. 

I thought for a second, “if you find Galvin, it would be best to capture him alive for information and to find out what he is up to. However, if you don’t have the ability to do so, kill him.” 

He nodded his head. “Yes sir.” 

“Stephan, keep this on the down low, I haven’t told anyone that Tony missed his check in. He could just be in a spot where it’s too dangerous to do so. I don’t want to worry everyone until we have a reason to worry.” I told him and he bowed his head.

“Understood sir.” He turned to the SUV and looked at it curiously, “do you think the doors open on their own too?” He asked me.

I laughed and shrugged my shoulders, “I have no idea, you’re on your own there man.” He walked over to one of the front doors and started looking for a button. I watched as a wolf started to walk towards us. Oh boy, he was gonna get a talking to.