Stuck With Four Alphas

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Juhi led them all inside as they followed her silently in a line.

Each had their own problems to think of. Their own questions that needed answers. And their own explanations and Hypotheses of the events they were going through.

Juhi entered the living area and settled on a single sofa in the middle of the room, making the four men scatter around her.

Arin found himself another single sofa to her left as Kata chose a small cane stool and dragged it to her right. Vagus chose to cross his arms and lean slightly on the door frame, facing the three sitting in the room. Devgan chose to walk around, hands in the pockets of his golden sherwani, as he leaned back comfortably on the wall, from where he could see the proceedings and take part without being too involved.

Juhi sighed.

They were all too silent for people who had promised answers. She decided she had to be the first one to talk.

"My dad died a week ago. It was his funeral the day before the accident. I never knew my mom, she died while giving birth to me. My older brother had died in a car accident last year. My landlord decided to evict me. My clinic closed because I had taken a person as a patient who was an enemy of some powerful people and had chosen to keep the patient's secrets as his doctor. They almost got my license revoked. The last straw was when I found my best friend in bed with my boyfriend of two years. That's when I had chosen to drive out of town for good that night." Juhi spoke like she was reading a plain newspaper. Having cried and almost gotten herself killed and now quite possibly stuck as Devgan had put it, in a space-time bubble, she hadn't had much energy to be sad anymore.

Everyone took a hot minute to digest this new information.

It was clear that she had had her fair share of pain and troubles. So she definitely wasn't there as punishment. But that still didn't solve the riddle of her presence there. And now, it was their turn to come clean.

"I am the Water Alpha of the East Continent. It's the smallest continent in surface area. As you just saw, the Moon Goddess blessed me with the elemental ability to manipulate water and all liquids." Kata spoke.

She had every logic in her head ringing all alarms of red flags and trouble and signs of lies. But she could not refute what her own eyes had unbelievingly witnessed just a few minutes ago.

"I am the Earth Alpha of the Southern Continent. It is the 2nd largest in surface area and shares land mass with another Continent. I have been granted the ability to manipulate land and nearly all solids, more or less." Arin spoke from her left. He had deliberately left out the name of the Continent his land shared borders with.

But geography was not as important to her as was all the new knowledge being dumped on her.

Next, it was Vagus' turn, "I am the Air Alpha of the West Continent, the third largest Continent. You are smart enough to guess that I got the gift of manipulation of gases."

She looked up at Devgan who seemed to be in no rush to explain, though it was quite obvious after the first three, what he was going to say.

Instead, he looked straight into her eyes, and spoke, "You are from a different planet than us. We as a species are alien to each other. But we are all here for a reason. This is a prison and either you are the Key, some component of it, or simply a hint to what and where the key is."

"What key?"

Juhi found herself otherwise tongue-tied.

Aliens, who looked like humans, talked and acted that way too, but also had supernatural powers, were the concepts that were proving too much for her concussed brain.

The other three Alphas wanted to meddle and prove that Devgan was wrong but his theory made sense and the doctor had already fainted twice, they couldn't risk another brawl affecting her health.

She was precious.

"The key to get me back to my world, my planet, where my people are, and they need me." Devgan explained. This was the longest conversation he had had with anyone in a while.

"Us! He means Us." The three quickly corrected the Fire Alpha who simply rolled his eyes unbothered by excluding everyone else.

"Okay, so you weren't kidding when you spoke about your Moon Lady?" Juhi asked Kata who smiled and nodded benevolently, "Mood Goddess. Our Mother and the mighty one who nurtures our world, chooses Alphas and Lunas and makes all the rules for us."

"If I hadn't seen what I had, I'd say it sounds a lot like ramblings of a madman." She muttered and then added to herself, "Did I even see what I think I saw?"

Devgan snapped his fingers and a hot perfect fire lit up instantly in the classic stone fireplace, making Juhi jump in her seat and stare at the Fire and then at the one who had created it with a snap of his fingers.

"Am I dead? Is this the afterlife?" She asked full of an innocent confusion, that made her look adorably irresistible in the eyes of every male looking at her at that time.

"Did you really expect to find yourself in a heaven of hot and powerful men when you died?" Devgan smirked making her blush and then enjoying that reaction.

The rest of the three saw the interaction with mixed feelings.

It was the first time the Fire Alpha had attempted to flirt even in the slightest since the last accident that happened with him. He had also chosen to include every one of them in the compliment, which was strange coming from the man who had openly confessed to wanting to get back first like the rest of them didn't even matter.

"If I am the key, then where is the lock?" Juhi asked changing the topic, not used to being on the receiving end of such teasing, especially coming from such an attractive man.