His Sweet Little Mate by Obticeo Decatect

As they hoped, when the sun almost disappeared, Alpha Samuel joined the searching party led jointly by Dax and Mirella when they were about half way down this deep valley, the bottom of which was still out of their sight.

Seeing the alpha arrive with his warriors, Dax immediately shifted back to his human form and filled him in on the situation along with the witch.

"Because of the dense vegetation around here, it is quite hard to pick their scents." The royal gamma was clearly frustrated when he expressed that he couldn't reach Micah at all. "I don't know how, but I can't contact him through the mindlink, either."

"Okay, let's not give chance for anything to discourage us, we will find them." Alpha Samuel reassured him.

The royal gamma's fear was not something unwarranted, because it was almost a day since Micah and Abby went missing at a time like this, when a dark sorcerer like Calpin was running rampant with the rogues no more than puppets in his hands.

"We can not let them fall into the enemies' hands!"

Just like protecting the kingdom and its people's welfare was the King's duty, protecting their sovereign was the topmost priority of the royal warriors. Everyone has their own role to fulfill!

Only Dax couldn't help but dread the thought of what would happen if they failed like the last time, where Calpin managed to corner the king and lady Abby right in front of their eyes before hurting them gravely...

"This is driving me crazy," Dax admitted. "But I won't stop until I bring them both back safely."

He was normally a carefree soul, with easy going nature and a goofy personality, but once he set his mind on something, it was hard for anyone to change his mind.

"And we will make sure you do!" The alpha squeezed Dax's shoulder, silently telling him that they shared the same goal.

The witch was silent as the royal gamma explained further to Samuel how they couldn't find a single trace of them along their way down here. "But it's hard to confirm where exactly they fell, so we are searching every inch down their possible trajectory."

"Mirella, do you have any way to locate them?" Alpha Samuel looked at the witch, pulling her out of her thoughts.

"Yes, I do and I'm sure I'll be able to trace them immediately if it works," Mirella said, folding her hands across her chest.

Since the shifters couldn't trace their scents, she came up with an idea to locate them, but it was not as simple as she stated.

"Queen Abby is the focal point of this method." Mirella didn't know if they could understand her words. But she went ahead and explained her idea to them briefly anyway. "She has to use her fire magic." She then explained how magic would always leave traces behind, no matter how small, and Dax and Samuel didn't know if it would be a good thing or bad thing for Abby to use magic.

"She would use it if only a special circumstance arises!" Dax tightened his jaw.

"But it will lead me to her equally quickly," Mirella pointed out, even though she understood why they didn't feel this method was ideal.

meant she and the king were in

was all very

possibility," Alpha Samuel said, hoping things wouldn't turn even more complicated

didn't use her magic until now, so it means they were fine,

head, hoping he was right. Because they could also be in a position where they couldn't do anything. But she didn't open her mouth, lest her speculation dampened

intensify our search

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make Micah gulp any water down. With him being unconscious, it was pretty hard to pour water

the chilly air around, if he got dehydrated as well, his condition might

let drop after drop into his slightly ajar lips. She hoped if he drank some water, out of instinct, when his

she saw his throat work, even though

would be better to put this water to some other use, as

her luck too much. Even though she felt quite exhausted, apart from silently pleading for Micah to stay with her, she wasn't interested in

to save her energy in case they encountered any wild beasts or rogues, since energy

bit of her energy to keep Micah warm, though, or when she needed to make trips

kept challenging her system. Only she knew how many times she roughly wiped at her tears, which kept spilling from her eyes every now and then, even

have fallen asleep at some point of the night, because, the next thing she knew, paws thumping heavily on

the brightness around them, it seemed almost noon again, as leaves rustled in the wind that carri

with her exhaustion, she couldn't really guess who was making their way here and her heart thudded painfully in her ribcage at the endless

could be anyone, rogues or the royal warriors, or even

don't let it be rogues,

her heart repeatedly as she kept looking across the path

many rogues, because they always attacked in groups, but wild animals would at least

saw a huge head appearing high over the rocky structure to her right, looking scarily similar to a wolf's head, her heart almost skidded to a screeching halt... She immediately got ready to hurl her fireballs at it, deciding to

snuffed her fire, because she saw another yet familiar wolf looking down the rock, followed by a lithe figure of a woman. "Dax?! Mirella?!" Immediately, Dax's wolf jumped down a few feet from her and Abby almost collapsed from relief. But she still staggered back, prompting

him, she could see that he could tell how bad

Abby sobbed silently as hiccups raked her body, while more warriors

as the warriors carried Micah out of the rocky structure with the royal gamma leading the queen, she could see several more beasts rushing there. "We are going back now." Dax informed Alpha Samuel, behind him were the group of Red River pack warriors that followed

understand," the alpha nodded, as he immediately called his pack's warriors, so that they could leave ahead. "I'm

to return first, just to avoid trouble. They could also eliminate

sending the Silver Moon pack warriors

Abby reassured the witch. She then asked her why it took them so long to