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.

it meant she

all

have limited options, let's just keep our eyes and ears open for every possibility,"

use her magic until now, so it means they were

say so," Mirella nodded her 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

our search then."

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

lost so much blood, and with the chilly air around, if he got dehydrated as well, his condition might worsen even further,

on keeping his throat from going dry completely, as she let drop after drop into his slightly ajar lips. She hoped if he drank some water, out of instinct,

her chest in relief, when she saw his throat work, even though quite minimally, finally letting some water into his

at his bloody face and arms, she decided it would be better to put this water to some other use, as she rushed back to the stream and brought more

she stayed where she was, guarding her sleeping mate, not wanting to try her luck too much. Even though she felt quite exhausted, apart from silently pleading for Micah to

wanted to save her energy in case they encountered any wild beasts or rogues, since energy was what she needed to fight

expended some of the last bit of her energy to keep Micah warm, though, or when she needed to make

there were still no signs of her mate waking up, Abby felt her whole body turning numb from the emotional wreckage that kept challenging her system. Only she knew how many times she roughly wiped at her tears, which kept spilling from her eyes every

dark and depressing place, was taking a toll on her. But she seemed to have fallen asleep at some point of the night, because, the next thing she knew, paws thumping heavily on the ground startled

by the brightness around them, it seemed almost noon again, as leaves rustled in the

mention her weak composition, coupled with her exhaustion, she couldn't really guess who

the royal warriors, or even a false alarm by

don't let it be rogues, don't let it

in her heart repeatedly as she kept looking across the path and then above her head, willing the worst possibilities from

current condition, she didn't think she would be able to fend off too many rogues, because they always attacked in groups, but wild animals would at least find

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

second, she stopped and 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

look at him, she could see that he

her body, while more

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

understand," the alpha nodded, as he immediately called his pack's warriors, so that they could

he came incognito, it would be best for him to return first, just to avoid trouble. They could also eliminate any obstacles on

Moon pack warriors away, before she hurriedly

but still in one piece!" Abby reassured the witch. She then asked her why it