Alpha Tane’s Guardian

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Lorenna is a bounty hunter searching for monsters across the country. On a night out with her friend, everything changes when she has a one night stand with a werewolf, Tane, who turns out to imprint on her, making her his mate. On the night of their first date, she is chased by four vampires into the wolves territory where they help to take down three of the vampires. When the fourth vampire disappears, Lorenna races back to meet her date who unbeknownst to her was one of the wolves who helped her. After a successful first date, she continues her work of looking for a target in the area and finds herself in trouble when she falls through some ice and can’t get out. Tane however, has been following her and rushes to her rescue, saving her and then assisting the doctors in nursing her back to health. When she wakes up, she realises that he was the wolf that rescued her and is unfazed by the revelation which makes him question her background. She reveals she has magic but refuses to disclose more at that time. The missing vampire comes back with a large group to get revenge for the death of their clan and attack the wolves scouting the perimeter. Hearing the wolves call for help on the mindlink, Tane and others go to help, leaving Lorenna at the house. They fight hard but there are more vampires than expected, making it more difficult to overpower them. Lorenna appears and attacks the vampires easily, taking them out one by one. With a few left, her eyes begin to glow and she transforms into a wolf and attack the remaining vampires alongside the pack. Tane becomes excited that his mate is really a wolf but she explains to him that it’s just magic, although it was something she’d never done before. Seeing that they each had their secrets and enjoying that they could be themselves around each other, they continue to date while Lorenna searches for the bounty that she has now lost track of. At a party together, someone mentions how they are the perfect mate which causes Lorenna to panic. The realisation that he thought more of her than a date or even a girlfriend is more than she can handle and so she makes the decision to be friends with him. Not wanting to lead him on and waste his time. Tane finds it nearly impossible to be her friend but persists with the hope that she will one day change her mind. When it becomes too difficult to be around him without being with him, she decides to leave and to go look for her target to collect her bounty. Lorenna welcomes the time to clear her head. The werewolf king alpha calls for an alpha meeting to discuss attacks happening to packs around the country and to other species. While at the meeting, the betas who are standing guard outside are attacked by orcs under the order of an unknown higher power. When beta Jason is caught and about to be executed in front of the alphas (who have come to their aide), Lorenna appears and uses her Angel wings to block the attack like a shield. Everyone is shocked. She doesn’t wait for a reaction and immediately leaps into battle and helps the wolves to kill ever last orc. The alpha king is threatened by her and attempts to intimidate her but the other alphas disagree with him and convince him to leave her alone, wanting to keep her on their side. Having seen Tane in danger and missing him while she was away makes Lorenna realise that she doesn’t want to leave him and decides to tell him everything. Tane welcomes her back and revels in the fact that she is an angel, and therefore sent to him by the moon goddess herself. Lorennas best friend and witch Lucina visits her and beta Jason discovers that she is his mate. Lucina is more accepting of the mate bond and is thrilled to have finally found her soul mate, and even happier that it means she can be around her friend more. For a while everything seems to be going well. Lorenna has temporarily given up her hunting to be with the man that she loves and is enjoying being in a pack that makes her feel like she has a family. As s result, she decides to accept the mate bond and to be Tanes Luna. The attacks on other packs continue until one day Lorenna receives a visit from another angel, one much higher up and stronger than her named Possy. Also known as Poseidon. He believes she should be his mate, as her father had promised her to him when she was born. She refuses and renounces her connection to her father as he abandoned her as a child. Possy attacks her and easily beats her, threatening to come back with an army if she doesn’t change her mind. Lorenna tells Tane about the meeting and he tries to comfort her by guaranteeing the wolves to protect her, but she knows it won’t be enough. A few days pass by and the have a ceremony for their new Luna, where she is welcomed by everyone and Tane gives her a key to his/ their home together. They worry about Possy but decide it’s best to begin preparations for the attack tomorrow and be together tonight. That night in bed, Lorenna experiences excruciating pain and is unable to move. Her screams can be hard far and wide and nothing can seem to comfort her or lessen the pain. Over the next few day, her wings begin to grow and become sharp as knives as she evolves into a higher angel, granting her more strength and power. Once she has recovered, they begin to prepare for battle despite Lorenna wanting to fight alone. By the time they’re through, wolves from other packs and Lucina’s witches have joined her, creating a small army. Although they know it will not be as large as Possy’s. When the battle arrives, Possy stays out of the way, and just watches. Lorenna uses the opportunity to help take out some of his army knowing that the wolves and witches wouldn’t survive fighting Possy one on one, so he would take her full attention when he did join. This doesn’t take long and he soon targets her. This time she is faster and stronger, but he is more experienced so he has the advantage. She puts up a fight but soon starts to lose which catches Tanes attention who bounds towards her in an attempt to rescue her. Before he gets there, Lorenna stabs her sword into the ground and her eyes glow brighter than ever before, as her wings wrap around her in a metallic shield. The wolves start to grow larger, their fur turns razor sharp like knives, their claws are huge and poisonous and their eyes turn black as night. They are now monstrous and deadly. A single swipe killing anything in their way. Suddenly they have the advantage and are destroying they army. But Possy is attacking Lorenna’s shield, breaking her wings in an attempt to get to her. Tane attacks him and they fight viciously, taking chunks out of each other. Lorenna can’t bare it any longer, knowing that everyone is getting hurt because of her. The power inside of her begins to grow hurt and explodes out uncontrollably. Standing unsteadily to her feet, she directs the power which becomes fire in her hands and she pours it on to Possy relentlessly as he stands over the injured Tane. His own power allows him to resist, stepping closer and closer to her until he is able to plunge his dagger into her stomach. The fire stops. The wolves shrink back to their old form. Lorenna pulls the dagger out and staggers on her feet in shock. Her own blood drips from the blade. She analyses it for just a moment before screaming “run” in a mind link to the wolves and witches a like. They look confused but the majority do as they are told. Tane drags himself to his feet and refuses to leave her. Although it pains her to sacrifice him, she knows she can’t wait any longer, not if she wanted the others to stand a chance if survival. She turns the dagger and shoved it straight into Possys shoulder just as she teleports herself over to Tane and wraps him in her wings. The two angels blood combines and creates a huge explosion, killing the orca and knocking down the trees. Tane wakes up to Jason shaking him. He’s screaming but Tane can’t hear him, his ears are still ringing from the explosion. He turns his head to see Lorenna lying lifeless next to him with Lucina trying desperately to wake her up. Although they’ve won the battle, a lot of the witches and wolves died or are injured. Lorenna survived but is very injured and unconscious, they can’t be sure when or if she’ll ever wake up. Tane recovers from his injuries but it takes a long time. Without Lorenna, he is lost and decides to focus on healing himself and his pack while he waits for her to return to him. Possy’s body is never found. Is he dead or just injured and in hiding? Either way, the wolf packs need to rebuild and prepare for what the future might bring.