The Dragons' Mates

Mates Meet pt. 1

Ch. 3 Mates Meet pt. 1

Gem POV

My wolf is restless. I have been looking for my mate for the past two years, while not as long as my brother and Devon, but long enough. I walk through the door to the right. I catch a scent. It is amazing, it draws me in. I follow the scent fresh rain and fresh-cut grass. I feel my wolf, Jewel, getting antsy, ‘what is it Jewel,’ ‘He’s here, mate is here. I feel him. He smells amazing’ Jewel purrs out. I just giggle at her; my wolf is purring. Continuing on, I reach a room where many people seem to be gathered. I inch my way in, the smell is stronger in here. I am not paying attention to what people are saying, I hear a few words that catch my attention though. “Dragon Prince,” ‘Dragon Prince, what does that mean?’ I think. I continue to push through the crowd until I am grabbed by someone and spun around. I am staring into the eyes of none other than Beta Darrin. “What do you want Beta Darrin?” I ask him in disgust. “Oh, come on, I know you came here for me. Come on, you don’t need to be around these people, they are beneath you and we need to discuss our mating ceremony,” he states and grabs my hand and starts to pull me towards the exit. I pull away from him and growl out, “I am not your mate, I will not be your mate, and I will not just sit around like a lap dog that you want.” A feeling of relief and excitement washes over me as a loud roar breaks through the chatter and the room goes silent. I hear loud footsteps behind me and then, “Get your hands off of my mate,” in a low deathly growl. I turn around and I am mesmerized by emerald green eyes.

MJ POV

Once we entered the main hall, we decided to separate to scout out the place and mingle with others. Father and I go to the right. We walk in silence until we reach what seems to be a meeting room. All eyes turn to us. “Greetings, I am Dragon King Maximus and this is my son Prince Maximus Junior, or MJ for short,” my father greets them. I nod to them all. We are herded further into the room and questions start coming at us. “What do you mean Dragon king?” says one man, I assume an Alpha. “I am the king of the dragons,” my father responds. There are gasps. “Dragons, they are extinct,” scoffs another man. I look at him and he is eyeing us with suspicion. I respond to him, “Yes, dragons. We are very much alive. We have been in hiding for the last 300 years. We were tired of being hunted for our strength and blood by witches and hunters.” The man looks taken aback. He seems to be deep in thought then surprises me. “I am sorry for what my ancestors have done to your kind,” he states. “I am Kent, leader of the Strike Force Hunters, and I would like to discuss some things with you, and of course have questions about the past,” he introduces himself. Father and I nod at him. I am about to say asks him if he would like to sit down later today when I am suddenly hit with the most intoxicating scent, honey and roses, my mate! I start to look around. She must be here. I hear from behind me, “Oh come on, I know you came here for me. Come on, you don’t need to be around these people, they are beneath you and we need to discuss our mating ceremony.” I turn around and see some man pulling on the arm of a woman that has long strawberry blonde hair. The scent is coming from her. She has her back to me so I cannot see her face. I roar in anger at the man that is pulling on my mate. “Get your hands off of my mate,” I growl out as I stomp towards the scene. He pales at my actions and I internally snicker, ‘weak’ Storm says. I do not respond; I just glare at the man. My mate turns around and I am met with beautiful light green eyes. The world seems to stop as I stare into her eyes. The eyes from my dream. I hold out my hand to her, “Hello, I am Prince Maximus Junior, but I would like for you to call me MJ,” I say in hopes she will take my hand. She smiles at me and my heart stops. Wow! What an amazing smile. She places her hand in mine and I feel sparks ignite. That feels amazing. I close my hand gently around her tiny one and pull her towards me. “I would like to go somewhere a little more private if that is OK with you,” I tell her. She nods at me. Before we can make our way towards the door, my father calls to me, “Son, I will need you to be back in one hour. We have meetings to attend. Enjoy your time with your mate, I look forward to meeting her later.” I knew he did that to just announce to the others that she was mine. He didn’t want me to have anymore problems with getting out of the room. I turn to look at my father and nod. I look at Kent and say, “I apologize, but can we meet at a later time, I would like to get to know my mate?” He nods in understanding, “of course, Have fun you two,” he laughs and winks. I look at my beautiful mate and she smiles and pulls me towards the door and down a hallway to the back exit.

We get outside and she leads me towards a bench on the edge of some woods. Before she was able to sit down, I pulled her towards me and wrapped my arms around her waist. She was perfect. She stood about 5’8”, perfect for my 6’5” self. I leaned my head down and nuzzled into the crook of her neck and took in her delightful scent. Storm rumbled in pleasure. I lift my head back up and look into my mate’s beautiful eyes, I could get lost in those. I smile at her and take in the rest of her. She has a heart shaped face with a tiny, cute nose, and plump pink lips that are begging to be kissed. She has fair skin that compliments her strawberry blond hair and light green eyes. She is toned and I can see the definition in her arms. ‘Mate is perfect and beautiful. We will have beautiful whelps.’ Storm tells me. I can’t help but agree with him. She smiles and asks, “do you like what you see? By the way, my name is Gem.”

Gem POV

As I look into his emerald green eyes, I am captivated. I hear him introduce himself as Prince Maximus Junior but he wanted me to call him MJ. I liked that. He asks if we can go somewhere more private. I am all for that. H addresses his father and someone else and turns back to me. I smile and lead him out of the room and to the back yard. There shouldn’t be any one there. I look towards the woods and see a bench. That should be good. It is not to close to the mansion that people that look out won’t hear us. I lead him over to it and am about to sit down when I am wrapped in his arms and his head is in the crook of my neck. I instinctively close my eyes and lean into him placing my nose on the skin of his neck. He smells so good. Jewel starts purring as I hear a rumble come from his chest. I smile to myself and then remember to link my brother. ‘Jace, I found my mate. We are in the back yard. It is just him and I. I only saw him and his father in the room I was in and I did not smell the scent you described to me. I will let you know when we are headed back in so you can meet him. Also, Jace, they are saying that they are Dragons, at least that is what I heard before Darrin grabbed me and tried to pull me with him.’ With that, I close the link.

MJ looks at me and I can see he is checking me out. I smirk at him. “Do you like what you see? By the way, my name is Gem,” I tell him. He smiles at me. We sit down holding hands. I love the way my hand feels in his, like it was made to be in his, then I remembered that it was. The Moon Goddess made us for each other. “Umm, I don’t know where to start. I am 20, I am from the Black Diamond pack. My brother is Alpha Jace. I have been training to be a warrior since I was 12. I don’t want to be a lap dog or a trophy wife,” I tell him. He smiles at me, “I like that, I wouldn’t want someone that could not take care of themselves. I like how you handled yourself against the guy that had a hold of you, although I wanted to rip his arm off for touching you. I really had to reign my dragon in. He really wants to meet you, he won’t stop talking in my head,” he tells me. I sigh in relief. I didn’t want to be some trophy wife that would always be required to hide if we were attacked and to just keep the house and look after the pups. I smiled thinking about pups. ‘Our pups will be beautiful and strong,’ Jewel says. ‘I agree,’ I reply. “So, tell me about yourself MJ, are you really a dragon?” I ask. He looks at me intently, “Yes, does that bother you,” he replies. I can hear the worry in his voice. He thinks that I will not to be with a dragon, honestly, I never thought about it. I thought dragons were extinct. I didn’t know anything about dragons. ‘It doesn’t bother me,’ Jewel tells me. I smile at him and place my hand on his cheek, “it doesn’t bother me, you are my mate. That is all that matters to me. Does it bother you that I am a wolf and not a dragon?” I respond to him. He smiles in relief, “no, just as you said, you are my mate and that is all that matters” he says.

I hear Jace yelling in my link, ‘Gem, dad is heading your way. I am trying to stop him but he is insistent on meeting your mate right now. I have not told him about the dragon part. He is about to go out the door now!’ I hear the back door slam open and my dad bellowing for me. “Gem Anne Black! I want to meet this mate of yours right now!” I look at MJ with wide eyes, this is so embarrassing. He just looks at me and smiles. He stands up and offers me his hand to help me up. I take it and pulls me up and places his hand on my back. What he does next surprises my dad. He extends his hand towards my dad as he reaches us and says, “Hello sir, my name is Maximus Redheart Junior, prince of the dragons. Please, call me MJ. It is a pleasure to meet you.” My dad looks surprised but takes his outstretched hand and says, “I am Robert Black, former alpha of the Black Diamond pack. I apologize for my surprise, I thought that the dragons were extinct and have certainly never heard of a wolf being mated to a dragon.”

MJ POV

Her name is Gem. What a beautiful name for a beautiful woman. It fit her well. Was all I could think sitting there looking at her. We talked for a little bit. I liked that she was strong and trained to fight. I never wanted her to feel that she was a trophy. She asked me about myself and if I was really a dragon. My first thought was that she wouldn’t accept me, but I was who I was. I confirmed that I was and sighed in relief when she said all that mattered was that I was her mate. Man is she amazing. She asked if I was disappointed that she was a wolf. I told her no, that it only mattered that she was my mate.

We continued to talk when all of a sudden, the back door slams open and a well-built man comes out the door yelling for Gem and that he wanted to meet me now. ‘This must be her father,’ Storm says. ‘Yes, he is only doing exactly what our father would do if this were Mina. He wants to know who we are and is aware that there are new people here,’ I respond to him. After assisting Gem off of the bench and placing one hand on her back, I extend my other to the man coming towards me. I also notice that there is another man behind him that looks a lot like him only a little taller. Must be his son Alpha Jace I think is what Gem said her brother’s name was. “Hello sir, my name is Maximus Redheart Junior, prince of the dragons. Please call me MJ. It is a pleasure to meet you,” I say as I introduce myself. He looks somewhat surprised. What was he expecting, to intimidate me and make me run away from his daughter? ‘Probably, we will do the same thing with our daughter, especially if she looks like mate,’ I hear Storm say. He’s right. He takes my hand in a firm grip, “I am Robert Black, former alpha of the Black Diamond pack. I apologize for my surprise, I thought that the dragons were extinct and have certainly never heard of a wolf being mated to a dragon.” “Straight to the point. I like that sir. Yes, I am a dragon and the next dragon king. We have been in hiding for 300 years. My grandfather was tired of our kind being hunted so he hid us away and made it seem we went extinct. I myself am not sure that was the best plan, but it was his. To my knowledge there has never been a dragon mated to anyone that was not a dragon, but times are changing and the Moon Goddess must want to mix things up. I am happy to be Gem’s mate and believe that she will be an excellent queen,” I explain to him. He looks at me a little surprised again, “Yes, well, we will have to have a longer get-to-know-you session and talk about everything, but that does not have to be right now. I just wanted to meet you and see if you were worthy of my daughter. So far, I approve,” He says.

He gives me a nod and Gem a smile and heads back to the mansion. The man that was standing behind Robert speaks up, “I apologize, I tried to stop him. He is just protective of Gem. I am Jace Black, alpha of the Black Diamond pack. I am glad that Gem has found her mate.” “No worries, it is nice to meet you Jace, please call me MJ,” I answer. Jace shakes my hand but it looks like he has something else to say but seems to be holding back. “Umm, I don’t want to take up anymore of your time with Gem before the meeting starts but, I thought that I scented my mate in your group. Do you think it is possible that one of the women in your group could be my mate?” He blurts out. I raise my eyebrows in a bit of a surprise. “I suppose it’s possible. I mean I am your sister’s mate and that has never happened before. What did she smell like, we only have three women with us at the moment?” I answer him. I see his face light up a bit at my answer, “she smelled of lilac and mint,” he says hopefully.

I couldn’t help it, I started to laugh. Both Gem and Jace looked at me like I was crazy. “I’m sorry, it’s just a little funny to me,” I say and then get myself under control. “That particular scent belongs to Mina. I can link her and tell her you are looking for her if you would like,” I say. He nods with hope in his eyes. ‘Hey sis, where are you?’ ‘I am on the second floor in the library with Cara and Ember. Why?’ ‘Just curious. I’ll see you in a little bit. I have found my mate and am getting to know her. I will introduce her to you later.’ ‘Lucky.’ Was all I heard before she closed her link. “Mina, Ember, and Cara are all in the library on the second floor,” I tell him and he is off like a flash.