The Tribrid's Mate

Chapter 1: Mates!

Hopelynn's POV:

Today is my birthday, Today is also Independence Day. Today's date is July 4th, 2016. Sixteen years ago, my brother, my twin, took his first and last breath. I am the surviving child of a set of twins. My brother, Isaiah Lane was alive for about an hour and a half, he had a hole in his heart. It was so big that it was beyond repair. "He was a fighter from conception all the way to birth," everyone says. He literally fought for his life and lost. Unfortunately, he had to pass away and go to the Moon goddess, Artemis. My parents really wanted their son to live. My mother gave birth during a rogue attack. She tried to be quiet, but she was heard by my father and a rogue. My father saved me, but the rogue had killed my mother and brother. Then my father had no choice but to kill the rogue. My father was devastated. My father, Kent Smithers, didn't show much love for me growing up. A few years after the attack that caused my mother and brother's deaths, my father married his chosen mate. Her name is Karina and I call her mom, yet I am not her child by blood. I am one of a kind, literally and figuratively. I am a Hybrid meaning I am a werewolf and a vampire combined. My mother was a vampire and a werewolf when she met my father who is a full-blood werewolf, or so we thought. My father soon after getting married to my mother and saving me found out I helped keep us safe. My father went to an elder wolf who discovered that his werewolf blood is mixed with sorcerer blood. With the sorcerer blood, the vampire blood, and the werewolf blood that makes me a one of a kind. My parents have gone all out for me (they are trying to make up for my miserable childhood). Everything was extremely extravagant. I have been getting ready for about three hours now. First, I got my hair done after my shower then I put on my beautiful dress. My dress was a very beautiful royal blue evening gown. (This picture below is what it looked like in the back and the picture below that is the front. Both pictures are of the same dress and can be found on google!)

After I got my dress on, I got my nails and makeup done. Then after all that fiasco, my mother had left me so she could go pick up her dress from the dry cleaners. Since I became an only child, not by choice, and I had gotten older, I have got more spoiled. In other words, I get just about everything I want and that I ask for. But I have things bought for other people over me first. I think that qualifies me as a selfless person. My party is going to be very big because when a werewolf turns sixteen years of age, that time is usually when they find their mate. My parents want me to have the party of my dreams because it may be the last party with my family before I meet my mate and my parents want Henry, my boyfriend to be my mate. Fast forward two hours...I have my pretty midnight-blue dress on. My hair was done in a very beautiful hair crown.

(Her hair looks like the picture above! This picture also comes from Google.) My makeup was done to look like it was all-natural. I have black hair with blue highlights. I have turquoise blue-green eyes. I am very tan. I never get sunburned while I am in the sun for a very long time. I am very beautiful according to my parents, but they are biased. They say I am beautiful because I look like my mother. My father said I had my mother's fair skin and raven black hair. I have blue eyes rather than her chocolate brown eyes. With my eyes, I take after my mother. I may not have known her but she is still dear to me and very much missed by me. Oh, how I wish I could have gotten to know her, and she got to know me. She and my brother should be here today and alive. But a dumb Rogue got the better of them. Almost got me too, according to my dad. Ever since I was able to speak and walk, my father has trained me to be the best warrior, other than him, in the pack. He wants me to be the best of the best since I will one day become Alpha. Usually, I am always wearing pants and a t-shirt, but since it was my birthday, I decided to get a dress, a new pair of black laced high heels, have my hair and makeup done, plus my toenails and fingernails done.

I walk out of my bedroom to the top of our staircase that leads down to the ballroom, where my party is going to be. I could hear the music loud and clearly from up here. It made me happy because I love music. I put a huge s**t-eating grin on my face as I started walking down the stairs to the door that leads to the ballroom.

Music is playing. The song that was on, was "Fly from the inside" by Shinedown. I like rock music mostly. But I also enjoy other kinds/genres of music as well. I am at the ballroom doors when I hear the cue to go in. My cue to go was a song to play during my grand entrance. My song that will play when I get my grand entrance will be "IDGAF" by Dua Lipa. After about three minutes, it was my time to make my entrance.

"Hey, Everyone! Welcome to the grand old ball of what they call my birthday party! How is everyone tonight?? I am doing well and I hope you all are too! Today is a bittersweet day for me and this pack. It is bitter because of what happened when I was born. The Rogue who killed my brother and my mother then turned back on little old me. But he wasn't to do anything because my father, our fearless Alpha came to rescue me and kill the Rogue. Just because they died, doesn't mean they died in vain. My mother fought to protect me since my brother was actually stillborn. But the Rogue was too strong. Let's say a little prayer to Artemis, the Moon Goddess, and have her pass on a message to our brave Luna that is my mother. I hope to become Alpha one day and if I meet my mate before I become Alpha and he isn't a part of this pack, I hope he is an Alpha, so I could become a strong and brave Luna like my mom was. So, happy birthday to me, and thanks to my mom and dad, I am here today celebrating my sixteenth year of life!" I yell out to the crowd. I hear a lot of whistles and a lot of "woohoos" going on. Then I used my werewolf sense of hearing and heard something that I did not expect yet.

"Mate!" a strong, deeply masculine voice had said. I search the room trying to locate the voice of my supposed mate. My eyes land on James Lee Jones, Alpha of the McLaren-Hillside Pack. His father knew my mother and father. His father was supposed to be married to my mother because she was the princess of both species: vampires and werewolves. Her father, my grandfather was the King and he had set up this arranged marriage. My mother wanted no part of it, she was so infuriated that she killed her father, her stepmother, my uncles, and everyone who worked in the Palace. To this day, the Palace still exists. It's abandoned but it's still afoot. But the day, that his father came to claim my mother and well, my father just found out that my mother was his mate. Percy, James' father wouldn't take no for answer. He fought my dad until dad was almost dead. My mother came out of the Palace to see what chaos was happening, what she saw is what she didn't like, so she shifted for the first time and killed Percy. Then she commanded his pack that was all around them to go and take what body part was still in tack and flee this territory. Mother told them to never come back and to leave mom and dad's pack alone. I heard versions of this story from my father and my mother's mother, Grandma Robyn.

Up until about three years ago, my father still kept my mother's command in tack. He didn't want to go against her wishes. That was before he met Karina. Karina and he got together, mated, and married within a week. Karina was the one who made him go against my mother's wishes. Karina is also the one who hasn't been able to stay pregnant for her to produce an heir for my father. Apparently, in her eyes, I am not an heir. She gets pregnant and stays pregnant for like two months before miscarrying. She has been pregnant five times since my father and her wedding night. But I am the one who is still an only child. I am the apple to my father's eye. I am also the one who makes her not be to stay pregnant. I let her enjoy it for a bit before I do a spell for her to miscarry. My grandma Robyn has shown me to sorcerer friend who has taught me to be really good with magic. Karina wanted to be a b***h and thought I was a b***h. Well, she got her thoughts to come true! Karma is nasty like that!

"Oh, for the love of God, not now! Why, Moon Goddess? Why now?" I say back. I began walking away. But before I was out of the room, my boyfriend had found me.

"Happy birthday, baby!" Henry says before trying to kiss me. I thought we were alone, I was wrong, my mate followed us because before our lips touched, Henry was thrown across the room and he crashed into my birthday cake. Rest in peace, dear birthday cake! Now, I was pissed. I needed to calm or I was gonna shift and then all hell will break loose. A wolf pissed is no good. A vampire pissed is no good. A sorcerer or sorceress pissed is no good. But try having all three combined in your being like me. It could get deadly.

"MINE!" the deep, masculine voice yelled, trying to make his point clear. Then he took my hand and started to take me away from here.

"No, she is not yours!" Henry says as he got up and began to walk over to where my mate was standing. Henry was now very angry. This wasn't going to end well. I was very pissed now because two almost grown wolves were fighting over me. Instead of getting into the middle and possibly getting hurt or worse, I just shook my head and went to go get my father. When we come back, the two men are still arguing over me.

"Well, according to the Moon Goddess, she is mine!" The masculine voice continued.

"ENOUGH!!!" My father screamed. "Henry and James break it up! NOW!" That was when I knew I was right about who my mate was.

"Thank you, dad!" I say gratefully. I force the anger away for later. I wasn't going to let Henry get away with being an ass at MY birthday party. I just smiled with an evil smile and daggers for eyes. I faced those daggers towards Henry.

"Yes, thank you, Alpha!!" Henry buts in. "This James guy just waltzed in and is now trying to steal my girlfriend."

"Technically, she's not your girlfriend anymore!! She is his mate! So, back off of her. She needs to be able to have a chance with him now!"

"But, Alpha..." Henry whines. He should've known better. He isn't an Alpha and went up against an Alpha and provoked him when he had no need to. James punched Henry's nose to shut up his whining. His nose was also broke because of the 'fight' he had with James. Then I felt bad and so I went to ask my father a difficult question even though, I already knew the answer to that. "Can you do something about this or stop this from happening?" I heard him ask my father. My father just shook his head. Then I looked at Henry, I can tell his nose had snapped. Too bad, so sad. He should've never interfered. I never loved Henry. Plus, all he wanted to do was to have s*x or at least try to have s*x and he was power-hungry. He thought I was his way to the 'Alpha' title. He wanted to become Alpha and use me as his personal s*x slave and I was like ok in speech, but I knew damn well, I did not want to have s*x with him then and not even in the future. He thought he could be my first like he was for several other girls. But I am not like several other girls, I am a well-respected Alpha's daughter. I have morals and self-control. I thought I want s*x with him if I never met my mate. But then I met my mate. Oh well, he is never gonna get that title now. He just lost it for good. I am glad he lost it though. He never deserved it. I have a new mate and I know only a little about him because he never wanted to be friends. Whenever he came over to visit, he would spend time with my father and his father. He wanted nothing to do with me. Now, we are mates!

"Don't 'but' me, I didn't think she would meet her mate this soon in the party. I had hoped it would've been a little later in the party. But not now." My father replies, disappointed. He was disappointed that I met my mate two years early. Met him at my birthday party of all places.

Henry then walks out of the ballroom clearly pissed off. But not before whispering something in both my ears and my mate's ears. I didn't hear what he said in my mate's ear.

"You haven't seen the last of me, sweetheart! I will get revenge." Henry told me. "I will come back for you sweetheart if it is the last thing that I do!!"

My heart broke for Henry because he's a sad sack for his father. His father is a good person even though, Henry is not.

James' POV:

I never knew that Hopelynn Smithers was going to be my mate. I was always rude and mean to her when we were younger. It felt so right at the time, but now not so much. I can't believe that we are mates. I wonder if she remembers who I am. Anyway, she has grown up to be a very beautiful person. I was going to consider on being an asshole to her again. But, I don't think I could do that. I can feel some sort of something working. It is making me want to reconsider it. In fact, I have decided to be nice to her. She doesn't deserve someone who is mean and rude to her.

Back to Hopelynn's POV:

"Hello, my name is Hopelynn Marie Smithers, just in case you have forgotten." I said nearly a rambling mess because of how nervous I was and because I have never really spoken to James. I never really spoke to James because of the History of our parents. Bad past history and not getting over it could get messy for your present and future to come.

"Hello, Hopelynn. No, I haven't forgotten the beautiful young girl who would try her best to be kind to an arrogant asshole like me. But, now I know why. Because you were trying to be my friend. I know what happened with your mother and my father or almost happened thanks to your grandfather, but please trust me when I say I am nothing like my father. He was out of line. He may have been Alpha of our pack, but that doesn't mean you sleep around on your mate or marry more than one person. Trust me I am not going to be that way around you. When it is time for us to get married, I want to be the only one you marry and sleep with. I promise you that! And I want you to be my only wife and the only person I sleep with. I was an arrogant asshole before I met you, but now that we have met, I am gonna change"

"What do you mean by that?" I sadly profoundly confused.

"Oh, my dear Hopelynn, I mean from this day forth, I will try not to be an arrogant asshole to you and my family. It may take me awhile to do that to our pack though." James replied. Then he inched his head toward mine. He made his lips briefly touched mine. Then once he gave the first tender kiss, I went in for a second kiss. This time I put in a little bit of passion into the kiss. It was slow and sensible. After a few minutes, I made my tongue enter James's mouth. Then James plunges his tongue into my mouth. Our tongues did the tango for a few minutes before we have to break the connection. When we broke the connection, we were both breathing heavily.

"What was that for???" I asked.

"I am getting ready to leave. But that was something for you to remember me by. I hope you didn't mind." He says with his shy smile slowly appearing on his face. Ladies and Gents, my mate! Man, he is so lucky he is handsome looking. I really hope he doesn't mind having a virgin for a mate. I was saving myself for my mate. Makes me wonder if he did the same.