The All Kinds Pack: The All Kinds Saga Book 1

by Ragnar Drabinski

  “Where to Boss?”

  “The morgue....” Dominic replied flatly, “Nick and Diane have been found dead in their plane.”

  Stacy swallowed hard and tried to steady her thoughts, What The Fuck?

  Nick and Diane had left just after the dinner with the Panthers to visit Diane's family in Ireland, it was common for them not to check in and they weren't due back for weeks, it turned out that they didn't even get their plane off the damned ground before they were killed.

  Stacy stayed silent the whole journey and Dominic made calls to other packs, ones that had friendly connections to Nick and Diane to get them to 'Dig Around' and see what info they could find, the five mile drive from the compound to the town morgue seemed to take hours, but once they arrived Stacy stayed at Dominic's side, through the cold lobby down the dank staircase and into the coroners office, there was a young woman there sat at a small glass desk, she was tending to medical notes of some kind, Stacy couldn't quite make them out, they were written in cursive, the type of cursive that only well-trained Doctors could read, she wasn't a beautiful woman but she was pretty, in the smart, professional kind of way, she had dark brown hair and alabaster skin, a pair of thin framed glasses were perched across the bridge of her nose and she smelt, she smelt like a fucking Succubus, Stacy gagged in her thoughts, Succubi are usually gorgeous, they feed on sexual energy and therefore need to attract people to fuck, they rarely had jobs because they could have sugar-daddies, they never looked like they had been hiding in a dungeon for the past ten years.

  “Ah, you must be Mr Kane,” that's when Stacy realised, this Succubus didn't need to be gorgeous, her voice was like silk, it was the most beautiful thing she had ever heard.

  “Yes, this is my assistant Stacy,”

  Stacy pulled herself out of her daze and added, “You must be the Succubi.... coroner.” no one fell for the correction but the Succubus simply shrugged it off as she did every day,

  “Dr Grace Gumm, please follow me, I have the unfortunate victims through here, you will need to confirm their identities before we can perform the autopsies,”

  Stacy interjected at this point, “Autopsy? Why?”

  “Well we are not sure what killed them, as yet I can find no puncture marks, cuts, defensive wounds or obvious signs of poisoning,”

  The Doctor lead the Wolves into a smaller room with two gurneys in the centre, the walls were tiled white and it stank of a mix of disinfectant and formaldehyde, the Doctor pulled back the blue sheets that were covering the bodies, all of a sudden it was real, Dominic nodded and left the room while Stacy stood in shock, it was them, it was really them.

  “Would you like a minute with your friends?” Grace asked,

  Stacy nodded, and the Doctor left the room to meet Dominic at her desk, Stacy moved towards the deceased female and lifted her hand, it was ice cold and as pale as the walls,

  “Rest well and may the goddess welcome you and your Wolf back with open arms, may you find Nick and live forever together,” Stacy left and returned to Dominic's side as he was signing the authorization papers for the autopsy,

  “What do we tell everyone?” Stacy asked as she approached her Alpha,

  “For now, we tell them nothing, we don't know what happened, we will have to tell the enforcers and Mal but that is all, I don't want to start a panic,”

  Stacy nodded her agreement and turned to Grace, “As soon as you know what happened...”

  “I will contact you immediately, I know losing a pack mate is hard but to lose two of them must be devastating, I will do everything I can to get you the answers you need,”

  Stacy smiled in thanks and the Wolves departed, once they returned to the compound Dominic gathered the enforcers and Mal in the conference room which still had a faint smell of blood from when Valaria dripped Alexey's fluids on the floor, Dominic took his place at Valaria's side and told the enforcers what had happened, as with any pack there was uproar and speculation, mostly pointed at the Panthers, and who could blame them, all that they had been taught is that Panthers are self-obsessed manipulative and deceitful creatures who would do anything to keep their way of life intact, Valaria on the other hand blamed one person, herself, if she hadn't found her soulmate none of this would have happened, but she was also a strong believer in fate, the Goddess clearly had a plan for her and Dominic and she wasn't about to let her father or Lucian get in the way of that plan, she would do whatever needed to be done to protect her new family, even if it meant killing The King.

  Chapter 9

  This day was the day she would get her questions answered, on this day she would finally get what she had been working towards, Stacy paced back and forth outside Dominic's office as the two males spoke inside, she was actually nervous, her palms were clammy and her heart was pounding in her chest, Mal wasn't here to comfort her, he returned to Predtech to analyse a blood sample that Dr Gumm sent over, in this moment she was alone, Dominic's door swung open and Tyrone exited, he didn't even make eye contact with her, Really dude?

  “Stacy! Get in here!” Dominic barked,

  Stacy edged her way into the room which was filled with his scent, his new scent, the one that defined him as a mated wolf, and to Stacy, it was quite pleasant, Dominic eyed Stacy for a moment before speaking,

  “I have spoken with Tyrone,” his words filled with disappointment which transferred as easily to her as a coffee stain to paper,

  “We have come to a decision, you are to be named Beta tonight at the Mating ceremony,”

  Stacy's face went from one of dismay to one of a joyous school girl, she was finally getting her rank within the Pack, not just that she would be Head enforcer like she thought but to be the Alpha couples right hand? and on such an important day as her Alpha's Mating ceremony?

  “Oh my goddess, really? Tonight? Oh fuck, what am I going to wear?”

  Dominic interrupted before his new Second in command went into a blind panic,

  “You will wear what the rest of us will be wearing, absolutely nothing, we are following our ancestral roots, the ceremony will take place, I will name you Beta, then the entire Pack will run together,”

  Stacy nodded gleefully, “Sure thing Boss,”

  “Oh and Stacy, don't call me Boss any more, you are my Beta, call me by my name,”

  Stacy paused for a second trying to get her head around calling him Dominic, “Sure thing Dominic,” She enjoyed saying his name, it was like they were equals, and in Dominic's eyes they were, he didn't see the Alpha position as one of singular power but one that is shared between him, his mate and their chosen Betas,

  Valaria had picked Amber to be her Beta, the conversation went much the same as this one, but there was a lot more girlish screaming.

  When Amber told Tyrone about her appointment, he was confused at first, he thought Valaria would pick Kacy or Laura, a panther by her side, or even a Dominant wolf but Amber was none of these things, she wasn’t exactly submissive but she was not dominant ether, not in the way that Stacy or even any of the enforcers were, Amber was quite neutral really, which is exactly why Valaria chose her, Amber wasn’t aggressive unless it was called for, she was diplomatic and kind, things that this pack would need in the future if all goes well.

  Eleven PM, the time that all mating ceremonies should take place, one hour before the witching hour on the night of a full moon, a silly tradition but one the Dominic and Valaria are happy to uphold, according to tradition the entire pack as well as friends of the pack, in this case being Laura, Kacy, Mal, Mikhail and a few choice members from a pack that shall not be named, lets just say their Alpha’s are a male that nearly goes feral every time he shifts and a female who everybody thought couldn’t shift, we will leave it at that, all the attendees would be completely naked apart from a robe of some kind, the two to be mated would stand in the centre whilst a circle is created around them, a handfasting of sorts would take place and then the pack would shift and run together consummating the mating, this was going t
o go slightly differently.

  “Thank you all for being here tonight,” Dominic said as he looked around at his pack and the guests, “I am truly honoured that each and everyone of you is here, but before we have our awaited ceremony, we have an announcement to make.”

  “She’s Pregnant!” Bellowed Mal with a cocky grin.

  “No! I am not pregnant, but now I feel fat, thanks for that Mal,” Valaria replied in jest, “We have picked our Beta’s, as you all know Nick and Diane were only ever a cover, that cover is now well and truly blown, so we have each picked a Beta to serve as our right hands,”

  Dominic stepped forward and removed his necklace which is supposedly made of the teeth of Fenrir, the wolf God,

  “My Beta will be Stacy, she has proven herself more than worthy and she will wear the Fenrisian Tooth and act as my second,”

  Stacy stepped forward and kneeled before Dominic,

  “I have made a different choice, whilst my mate has most definitely picked a strong wolf to be by his side I have picked a clever one, one that is always there when we need them, Amber,”

  Amber too stepped forward and kneeled, Dominic placed the necklace around Stacy’s neck and Valaria wrapped a leather bracer around Amber’s wrist, then together the Alpha’s said,

  “With this token I charge you to be my Beta, until such time as you are unable or unwilling.”

  The two Beta’s stood to a cheering pack and took their places at the sides of their respective Alpha’s.

  “Wendy, you may now begin the ceremony,” Dominic said as he dropped his robe, Valaria still twitched internally when she saw his cock, every other wolf followed suit and Valaria was last to disrobe, as she dropped her covering she exposed a new tattoo, it was a wolf and a panther intertwined like a yin and yang on her shoulder, Dominic smiled and his wolf most definitely approved.

  Wendy was a local Witch, she had worked at Predtech as a human relations officer, a hard job when the entire company was founded upon the preservation of preternatural, but she was also a high priestess of her coven and in that role she was trained to perform mating ceremonies for all the preternatural, though she had never thought she would be marrying a Wolf to a Panther.

  “We are gathered this eve’ under Luna to bear witness to the bond shared between these souls,” Wendy held her hands out to Dominic and Valaria, each of them surrendered a hand to the witch, “Cu aceasta legare iti cheam la sufletul tau interior” which loosely translated means ‘with this binding I call upon your inner soul’ these words being spoken cause the surrendered hand to shift to their animal states, Wendy then placed the paws together and wrapped them with a silk rope, a symbolic gesture of the Mating bond that links the souls together, once the rope was tied Wendy spoke once again in Romanian, “legat impreuna, acum si pentru totdeauna.” This time the rope faded away and the couples hands returned to the human form, each smiled at each-other as the gathered friends and family either howled at the moon or cheered in celebration, Dominic leaned towards Wendy and whispered,

  “Thank you, you are more than welcome to rest here tonight,”

  The witch smiled and nodded her thanks letting the two shift and commence their ceremonious run with the rest of the pack, those who were not shifters dressed and made their way to the pack house where Amber had laid out a feast for them to dine on.

  It wasn’t until the males of the pack who had been acting like frat boys on spring break and the females who had been looking for a male to lay with had all retired to their beds that it happened, every being at the compound that night knew it was going to happen, they just wished it wasn’t on this night, at two am the perimeter security alarm sounded.

  Lucian and The King had arrived

  Chapter 10

  Valaria woke with a screeching siren blaring in her head, she could hear her pack running about the halls collecting themselves and finding places for the elderly members to hide, she could feel their panic and fear, she didn’t feel scared or fearful, this was the night that she bound herself to her Soulmate, so fear wasn’t even a passing thought, she did feel something, something that she was about to unleash upon whoever has disturbed this night of hers, anger, no, anger was not the right word, pure animalistic rage was what was surging through her, she stood from her bed and opened the bedroom door, stood there still naked with scatterings of mud and foliage from the run she roared, it was so loud that everyone in the complex halted in their step, she then used her bond with the pack to relay her feelings to them, it shifted their fear and replaced it with respect, respect for their Alpha who now was walking through the halls to meet her mate who had already made it to the driveway, along the way she met with Stacy and Mal, by the time they reached the elevator they were twenty strong, Wolves, Panthers, Vampires and a Demon ready to face down whatever awaited them above, none of them spoke, they knew their roles and they knew they could win this, there was no need for words, not until Valaria dropped to her knees,

  “DOMINIC!” she screamed, Stacy felt it too, but before anyone could react Valaria had shifted and clawed open the doors to the elevator, between floors the She-panther tore herself out of the confining box and bolted out towards the driveway, she could smell the blood, her mates blood, she could also smell a male panther, then in a flash she could see him, standing over Dominic’s body, her instincts took hold and in her Ursal form she ran with such speed that even Mal couldn’t view her clearly, she was a blur and then the male panther had a claw punched through his back and up through his throat, his bloody gargles were muted by the deafening roar of Valaria’s Panther, then there was silence, she dropped the lifeless body into a pile of its own blood and turned to face the scent she knew to be her father,

  “You’re Next” she growled as Mal dragged Dominic into the garage to administer medical attention.

  “I see you have learned why I have kept the species separate,” said William as he looked on at the abomination his daughter had become.

  “So you can continue to rule over all preternatural, like the coward you are,” Stacy quipped as she took her place beside her Alpha female.

  “Oh sweet child, you are nothing more than a mutt!” William gestured to one of the white panthers who leaped towards the young wolf, Stacy didn’t even shift, she shoulder barged the panther in mid jump sending him to a heap on the floor, as Stacy rounded on her prey, she kept her eyes on the king, to prove a point she held the panthers head up as her claws dragged across his neck and tore out his throat.

  “This Mutt! Just took down your loyal Fucking pet, now shall we get this over with?”

  William didn’t flinch at her actions, he nodded and allowed his entire male pride to shift and pounce towards the small assembled group not knowing what plans this cunning Wolf pack had put into motion.

  “Now!” growled Stacy as the over confident Panthers came within the kill zone that had been planned out weeks in advance, from behind parked cars and around corners wolves already shifted pounced into combat, each wolf chose a target and went about dispatching them, the front of the compound was a sea of preternatural creatures tearing into each other, the stronger dominant wolves took on the white panther enforcers while the less dominant took on the standard pride members, all the while King William and Lucian stood at the side-lines unwilling to dirty their claws, like politicians sending the poor to fight an unjust war.

  Kacy was such a majestic panther, her eyes were the brightest shade of jade but deep as the ocean itself, she had found herself up against a young panther Male called Thomas, a cocky, halfwit who, like most Male Panthers believed that being Male made you superior, Kacy was more than happy to prove him wrong as she used her smaller frame to her advantage, he was faster and much stronger, but being small let to Kacy being able to sink below him twist to lay on her back and tear her claws through his chest and down towards his seemingly under developed unmentionables.

  “C'mon then you little Bitch!” the white panther said as he stayed in his human form squaring up t
o Stacy,

  “I may be a bitch, but I’m not yours!” she replied as she pounced and shifted mid flight, her front paws landed on his throat as her hind legs kicked at his abdomen, she felt one of his organs burst under the pressure, she assumed it was his bladder as by the time she had removed her claws from his torn out throat his blue Jean’s were soaked from the waist down.

  Valaria took no notice of any panther that dared to come near her, her pack was dealing with the soldiers, she wanted the general, she wanted the Kings head on her wall, she stayed In her Ursal form as she navigated the highly strategic assault her wolf family were delivering but before she made it to her father Lucian stepped into her path,

  “Valaria, stop this, no more wolves have to die" he said but Valaria had felt no deaths on her side, even her mate was still breathing, though he was very weak,

  “Lucian, call off the Pride, I have found my soulmate, our rules forbid you to try to claim me, all I want is my father,”

  Lucian shook his head, “He told me that the wolf had kidnapped you, that you mated with him so you could escape,”

  Valaria spat “Of course he did, The King lies to everyone, about everything, why should his daughters mating be any different, call off your men, bring me my father, you still have a Pride, don’t let innocent Panthers die for his lies,” Valaria wasn't one to plead but Lucian could hear the truth in her words, with a simple call in his native tongue all of Lucian's Panthers halted their attack, William's enforcers were all dead so the driveway was once again silent.

  “What the hell are you doing Lucian, kill those mutts! I command it!”

  Lucian turned to face William, “I’m sorry,” he said sarcastically, “All I see are proud wolves who fight for their Alpha, who is mated by our laws.”