Willa

Chapter 19

The festival was in full swing.  After the opening ceremony, all the werewolves young and old gathered around to cheer on their favorite warrior.  There was a race down by the pond.  Over by the road was a relay race for the younger warrior wolves in training.  The older warriors were preparing for the last race of the day, the strong man.  That included all of the separate races together plus weight lifting and sparring.  Whomever finish first won the gold trophy and that pack was declared the strongest and best trained wolves.  There were five packs total and all were clamoring for the bragging rights that comes with the win.  Near the playground were a few she-wolves helping Mindy supervise the pups.  Included was face painting and small snacks for the pups to eat.  Clarissa walked over to sit beside Mindy as she drew a butterfly on a little girl's cheek.  "Wow, that is so pretty." she gushed as she smiled at the little pup.  The pup was especially adorable with bouncy golden curls and chocolate eyes.  Clarissa imagined that's what her daughter would look like.  After the little girl pranced away to show her friends, Mindy looked up.  "Care to try your hand at decorating?"  Clarissa shook her head and sat down to paint balloons on a sturdy little three year old male pup.  She then added a clown nose and star around his left eye.  He was so enamored with her work that he ran to show his older sister.  She walked over shyly and asked if Clarissa could do her face as well.  Soon Clarissa and Mindy had a line of pups waiting to get their face done.

After completing their task, they cleaned up their area and walked to the side to sit on a bench.  They watched an omega she wolf play a game of ring around the rosy with the pups.  Mindy happen to glance at Clarissa and catch a wistful look on her face.  "What's up Rissa?"  Clarissa just smiled.  "I was hoping I would meet my mate here.  I just assumed my mate would be a warrior or a Beta.  Unfortunately, none have approached me."  she frowned.  Mindy put her arm around her friend.  "Well, you only just turned 17 a few months ago.  Maybe your mate is younger than you."  Clarissa frowned, "But probably by a few months...or maybe he is not part of the packs here but another pack."  Mindy hastily added.  "Or, maybe he is dead, or worse, a rogue who I will never meet!" said Clarissa.  She got a little teary eyed at the thought.  "Don't think like that.  The moon goddess knows how much you want a mate.  He is not here, but I'm sure you will meet him soon."  Mindy encouraged her friend.  As the two girls shared a hug; Clarissa noticed her brother walking around the pack ground.  Every now and then, Sam would stop and take a deep sniff in the air.  "Sam! come here!" called Clarissa.  Sam walked over with a frown.  "What's up?" he asked distractedly.  "I noticed you are walking around sniffling as if you have a runny nose.  Are you sick?"  Sam looked at his sister.  "No, I'm not sniffling.  I'm sniffing.  I keep smelling last night's dessert of raspberries.  Someone must have saved it to eat today.  It smells so good.  Wish I got one before they disappeared." he grumbled as he walked away.  Mindy turned to Clarissa "Rissa...we did not make any desserts with raspberries yesterday."  She watched as Clarissa's eyes widened.  "Do you think?.."  Mindy shook her head excitedly "Yes! Yes! He is smelling his mate! OMG Clarissa this is epic!!" she screamed.  Clarissa wore a big cheesy grin.  She was happy for two reasons.  Now her brother could find happiness with his mate and she and Sam could start mending their relationship and secondly, he will finally forget about Willa.  She considered Willa the proverbial 'thorn in my side' but if she was honest with herself; she really missed her friend.  Willa was the only one who let her vent and not pass judgement.  'What's done is done.  You refused to apologize and now its too late.  I hope you can live with the outcome.' stated Katya her wolf.  Clarissa mentally rolled her eyes. "And what does that mean?" she asked but her wolf retreated behind her wall and stayed silent.

After a full day of events, the various packs retreated near evening to prepare for the closing ceremony and grand party to signal the end of the full moon festival.  The older wolves would reminisce  how the festival would last for weeks.  As time marched on, due to more and more humans populating the surrounding areas, the werewolves had to reduce the celebration so as not to arouse suspicion and to keep them from investigating a week long party.  Even with ten thousand acres, the Pine tree pack had to be careful of being exposed.  They had to  look out for drones that would sometimes turn up on their land.  Alpha Michael developed a program through his father security and surveillance company, that scrambles the visual of any drone that tries  to take pictures or videos of their land.  It keeps humans from accidently seeing a werewolf in mid transformation.  Alpha also instructed all pack members to shift before going out to open land.  His great-grandfather planted plenty of trees to protect the pack members when outside their home.  It gives them peace of mind to run freely in their wolf form.  

Sam was enjoying that freedom right now.  It felt good to let Simba run around and chase small creatures.  He wasn't hungry, after feasting on a mid-size deer earlier.  Sam felt he was going a little crazy.  Between the activities, the unmated she wolves and that scent of raspberries, he did not know what to think.  'I smelled it too.  I thought it was mate' agreed Simba.  " If so, then where?  Every unmated wolf was not her.  Am I losing my mind Simba?  I miss Willa that much that I'm conjuring up a mate?" asked Sam frustrated.  Simba laughed at his human as he pounced on a scared rabbit, then watched it run away.  Suddenly he stopped and sniffed the air.  There it was again, the smell of raspberries! Simba yelled 'mate!' and took off running towards the boarder of the southside.  Out the corner of his eye he saw a blur racing towards the lake.  He took off running, vibrations of his thunderous paws were shaking the ground in his eagerness to catch up.  Now this was what he lived for!  Heart pounding in excitement as he saw her tail when she cut a sharp left.  Simba sailed over a log in the attempt to jump on her but she was quicker and stopped short.  Simba looked in surprise as he sailed over her head when she bent down.  It wasn't until he crashed into a tree that he realized why she stopped!  After crashing into the tree and almost knocking himself out, Simba rolled over and lied down  on his back, dazed.  After opening and closing his eyes a few times, he encountered a beautiful brown she wolf with golden eyes that were shaped like almonds.  She nuzzled and licked his snout to see if he was okay.  Simba gave a low growl of delight and quickly turned over.  After sniffing each other and licking each other's snout, the ran further into the woods away from the watchful eyes of boarder patrol.  When they reached far enough, the flirty she wolf flicked her tail in his face.  Simba smiled a wolf grin and gave a small howl of pleasure.  Not wanting to waste time by relinquishing his control, he quickly mounted the she wolf. "No Simba! We don't know if she.." Simba threw up a mind block shutting out Sam.  He was not losing this opportunity to mate with her!  Humans always want to make things complicated.  Its was so simple: meet your mate, chase, mount, love happily ever after.  The moment Simba sunk  his enormous p***s in her, they both let out a low growl of satisfaction.  Sam was so angry with his wolf but he could do nothing but helplessly watch as they mated for the next two hours.  He could feel everything that his wolf did and though it was pleasing, he was furious that his wolf did not let him meet and speak to her before completing the mating part.  He could tell she was an omega but what if she was already spoken for? He wanted to know why he could not find her earlier.  Hell, he didn't even know her name.  While he was pouting in the back of Simba's mind, he noticed that they finally finished.  She turned around and licked his snout after he dismounted and turned to run off.  Simba gave a short bark to get her to stay but she turned her head with a warning growl and bounded off further into the woods.  Finally Simba let down his wall. "What the f**k Simba! You mount her, f**k the s**t out of her for two hours and then let her go?" He watched as Simba rolled around on the ground where the two spent what he felt was quality time. 'Relax human, she is our mate. We can find her again and she will have our scent on her this time.  No other wolf would dare to touch the mate of an Alpha. Plus, you know you enjoyed it.  Best s*x ever!' he yipped while rolling around in grass, full of delirious joy.  Sam just shook his head and rolled his eyes.  He had to admit, that was some good p***y.  " Well, can I have control now? I would like to go home and take a shower.  Simba gave over control and watched as Sam shifted back to his human form.  For the next twenty minutes that it took to walk back to the pack house he had to listen to Simba recount how beautiful she was and how good she felt.  By the time he made it to his room, he was over listening to the replay of every thing the two wolves did to each other.  "Ok Simba! I get it! you enjoyed yourself, now can I shower and get some sleep?  I'm exhausted and we still have to get ready for the closing ceremony tonight."  Simba laughed with delight. Finally Sam decided to shut him up with a reality check.  " You are so excited but have no idea what she looks like in her human form. You don't even know her name for f**k's sake! 'yes I do' replied Simba smugly. Sam stopped short before turning on the shower head.  " What is it?" He could feel Simba giving a sarcastic look. 'mate.' he replied like it was so obvious. Uugghhh!! Sam yelled as he turned on the shower while he listened to his silly wolf howl with laughter.