As they started on the road they found out that there was one more with them then when they had arrived at town. "So are you going to stay with us for the rest of the way?" David asks Starry. She looks at him and smiles before saying "I think I will stay till we get to the outskirts of Torrieton. Is that fine with you?"
They say it is fine. She had helped them get to the boss. As the road goes on. They make small talk about the weather and other things to make time pass. As the group makes it to a campsite about a day’s ride from that town. They set up the site and make preparations for the night and choose who will take the shifts for the watch. Dinner was made and eaten. Then Annoce took first watch. Sunny with him.
Once the others were asleep. Sunny asked him “What kind of wedding would you like?” He looks at her and smiles before saying, "I would love to see you in a beautiful dress and have all our friends in the middle of our town."
"That sounds wonderful. Should we plan to hold it a week or two after we are done and have returned?" She asks. "I would enjoy that my dear." Annoce nods and smiles at her before kissing her lips softly. They smile softly and chat about the wedding plans as the night goes on. As it nears the end of their watch a small noise catches Annoces attention. He motions for Sunny to go to David in case he is needed.
Annoce goes to see what the noise was. He takes to the trees in case there is something or someone wrong. As he gets closer to where the noise was he sees three figures waiting behind trees just out of sight. Annoce makes an owl hooting sound to let Sunny know to wake the others.
Upon hearing this noise she covers the dwarfs mouth and nose, waking him silently. Starry looks out of her tent seeing that Sunny is waking David and she ducks back to get ready. David looks up to see who has disturbed his sleep. Seeing Sunny he nods and she removes her hand and moves one figure to her lips. He nods again and wakes the damn kender silently as she moves to wake the werewolves up.
Once they are all awake they get ready to move on how many attackers there are. Sunny does an owl hoot to let Annoce know they are awake and ready. He lets out three hoots to let them know the number that they will be facing. Starry lets them know in a whisper that not all of the bosses' men or things were at the house where they had found him.
Knowing that they could be facing werewolves or dragon-shifters or even dark elves they headed toward Annoce as quietly as possible. Once Sunny spots him in the trees she heads up into them as well. The others stop behind the trees just before the clearing. Sunny sees the three that Annoce points out. Nodding she signs for David to throw a rock. He does so Sunny has her bow out and at the ready. Annoce has a dagger drawn out and at the ready. She lets the arrow fly and it hits the farthest target from them.
The other two targets jump out and start to look around to see where the arrow had come from. When one of them walks under the tree Annoce is in he jumps down putting the dagger into his target's throat. Silencing him before he could make a sound. Jess and Zack take the last one down with teeth and claws. They left him alive to get information out of him.
Once they had deposed the other bodies and tied him up they headed back to the campsite. They drop him down by the fire. Before they sit by watching him as he slowly comes around. Growling he comes back to consciousness. Jess gets in his face at that noise. Growling at each other they stare down waiting for the other to look away. Showing which one of them is weaker. The tied up one looks away first knowing that he is facing an alpha. “Why the hell are you with this weird ass group if you’re an alpha?” he asked Jess. She laughs and smiles before Zack wraps his arms around her glaring at that male.
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“What is your name pup and why are you here?” Zack asks. The male just looks at them before sighing. “I am here because I was asked by a gold dragoness to find her egg. It was stolen from her by a demon.” The group looks at one another before David asks. “What colour is the egg and how many were taken?”
He shrugs his shoulders as best he can. “The colour is a black with sparkles of silver all over it. That is the one she is truly wanting back. I think she said there were about four hundred and fifty eggs stolen in total from the group. The dragons have started to group together because of the eggs being taken. My pack has always had an understanding with the dragons. We help them out when asked to.”
Jess thinks for a minute before saying, “Most packs do not have understanding with dragons. It only happens when a werewolf and dragon become mates. I take it that either your alpha or beta are mated to a dragon?” the wolf nods his head yes at that. “We do not go around saying it because then the pack becomes a target for others. As for my name it is Angor. Can you please untie me? I give you my word that I Angor of Whitesnow pack will not attack unless I am in threat of being killed with a silver dagger.” he says this, eyeing the dwarf.
Laughing David undoes the kenders handy work. Jess is watching him stretch out his kinks. “Did you say Whitesnow? They are known for being able to sneak up on anyone. Why did Annoce hear you?”
Angor flinches at the comment and sighs. “The elders sent pups in training for this with me. But they had to go back to the pack and I joined one of the other groups searching. This group had two dragon shifters in it. Annoce more than likely heard one of those two. I am in shock that your group was able to take them down that easily.” Sunny shakes her head. “I have been training for 50 years to take down anything that threatens me.” Angor looks at her in shock. “Elf or half elf? No human lives that long. Not even the bitten live more than 100 years. You don’t look old enough to be that old.” Annoce glares at him. David just laughs and shakes his head.
“I am a half elf and will live for more than ten thousand years. I am in your terms still a pup.” Sunny says. Jess laughs at that comment. “You are no more a pup than I am. Sunny, you keep this group together and not at one another's throats.” “And how do you know about the egg I seek? I would like to be able to hand it back to her.” Angor says. They look at one another before David pulls the blanket covered egg from his bag. Slowly he unwraps it.
Angor watches and smiles seeing the unwrapped egg is the one he was looking for. Sighing softly, “Thank the gods you have it. What do you want for me to take it back to her? I know finding or even getting one is a feat in itself.” Latsol grumps and whines saying that it is his egg and why should he have to give up what he had won. Angor watches as Sunny smacks the back of the little fellows head hard and she growls out, “Do you think that your wife would want one of your children to be used in a fucking poker game? Think with your fucking head and not with the part that makes you want to keep everything shiny you find. Damn fucking kender.” Hearing the word kender Angor tenses up.
David sees this and chuckles, “Do not worry when we found out he had the egg we took it and have kept it safe and sound.” Angor nods and sighs. “what does he mean he won it? Are the eggs being used as a bet in games?” David nods and says “We found out about that little detail yesterday. There is a group of thieves using the eggs to bet in poker games and a few other things are right out selling them to wizards. The leader of that group is dead and lets say he is without his skin before he died.” Sunny pales but does not say anything.
Angor nods and is trying to calm down having received this news. He knew the news would upset the dragons. “I am going to let my alpha know what you have said and let him know that you are friends and not the ones doing this. As well as that you have taken care of part of the group doing this.” He takes a few minutes to let Alpha Efren know what has happened by mindlink. He let Angor know that he and the Beta and Delta were coming to him.
Angor turns to the group and lets them know of the group from his pack coming and tells them that they will be here in half an hour. Sunny nods and looks at Annoce “Please go hunt and bring back two deer. This way we have enough food to feed them. We know how much they can eat and still be hungry.” Annoce nods and kisses her before heading out to hunt. Sunny gets the fire up and going to be ready to cook.
Sunny sighs and shakes her head, putting the pot of water on to boil. She looks at the sky and knows that they will be moving again in a few hours. As the time goes by Annoce comes back with both deer cleaned for cooking. He sets them down on a table David had set up for butchering. He gets to work cutting the deer up and making it easier for Sunny to cook. When the food is halfway cooked alpha Efren, his beta Nicoles, and Delta Ram show up. Ram sees the egg and smiles softly. That tells Jess who the one mated to the dragon is. Ram goes to the egg and cuddles it to his chest. Jess clears her throat. Making the three newcomers look at her. Alpha Efren growls softly. Jess Growls back louder and glares at him.