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The four stopped their performance and three of them applauded Lavana.
"Big sis, you were amazing! Your voice is the best I've ever heard." Beatrix praised as she held her big sister's right hand.
"Thanks." Lavana smiled and stroked the little one with the other free hand.
Peter walked to Lavana. "You impressed me. By the way, how do you know this song? My drum symbol's even lit up."
"Um… I just felt the need to sing. It kinda felt like I've always known it." Lavana replied.
"Really?" Peter asked in doubt. This song was a healing song of the mermaid clan especially sung by the sirens. He knew this Lavana here to be an Omega endowed with powers and able to hold his scepter without any backlash.
"Yeah, Peter." she nodded, still wearing a smile.
"But…" Peter got interrupted by a certain's someone clearing his throat.
"You're being too nosy, Peter," Phoenix said as he put his arm around Lavana's waist, pulling her closer.
Peter wanted to roll his eyes.
'Phoenix, I already know she's your mate. You don't have to make it so obvious. Besides, if she were the only female left in the universe, I'd rather remain single.' he thought as he retreated. Beatrix stuck out her tongue at him and he shook his head at her antics.
"Alright, everyone did a great job and Peter, thank you for forgiving Beatrix." Phoenix gave Peter a thumbs up.
"Yeah, big brother. Thank you for pardoning me. I won't do such a thing next time." Beatrix said with her palms pressed together.
"We're family. And I know how impish you can be." Peter kept his drum back in his spatial ring.
"But you don't hate me, right?" a curious Beatrix questioned.
"I'd never, ok?" Peter reassured.
"Thank you, big brother." Beatrix hugged his leg and he bent down to raise her and carry her in his right arm.
"Big brother. Take this as my present." she pecked his right cheek.
"Thank you, my dear. And this is for you, Riri," he took out a small yellow box from his pocket and handed it to her.
"Thank you, big brother." she kept the gift in her ring. She would look at it later.
"Don't mention it. How about we go ahead and prepare your room for a sleepover," he whispered.
"You're right." Beatrix turned to face the couple and announced. "Big sis, Eldest brother, me and Peter will go ahead."
"Alright then. We'll join you guys in no time." Lavana waved.
Peter sat on his scepter with his little sis seated on his lap, "See you later, Phoenix, sister-in-law." the scepter flew him and Beatrix away speedily.
Seeing that the two were gone, Phoenix took out 2 chairs from his storage ring and made his mate sit on one. Then he sat opposite her.
"There's something I want to tell you about the competition."
"Alright. Shoot!" Lavana urged. This competition was crucial to her getting revenge.
"Likely your ex-mate, being an Alpha will be present. He will be able to smell you even though he's rejected you. You are stronger than him now but the competition's ground is not a place to challenge him and for safety reasons, you will have to wear 2 masks,"
"On my face?" Lavana asked. She didn't like the concept of wearing masks.
"The masks are actually perfumes. The first one's use is to conceal your scent. The other one gives you a heliotrope scent."
"Eh? There's something like that? Do you have it? Please let me see."
"You agree to make use of both?"
"Um...Can't I just use one, particularly the first one?"
"No, dear." Phoenix shook his head.
"Why, Sullivan?" she asked in confusion.
"As a werewolf, you must have a scent even a vampire does. All shifter creatures and magical beings do."
"I know that."
"Now you're going to an all-werewolf competition and you don't have a scent; aren't you bringing unneeded attention to yourself?"
"I see." She nodded her head in understanding.
Phoenix then continued. "And if you decide not to use the first one and then go for the second one, it will make you smell like a rogue instead."
"That serious?" she asked in shock and her mate nodded.
"Yes, Lavie. That serious. So..."
"I agree to use both then. Will the perfumes be sprayed on my skin directly or just my clothes?" she asked.
"The first will be directly on your skin and the other will be on your clothes. They have no side effects. I'll only give my Lavie the best of the best.” Phoenix replied with a smile.
"Thanks." she rose from her seat and sat on the armrest of his chair. She then lowered her head to give him a peck on his forehead.
"Mate, you just gave me that as a reward?" he asked with a pouty face.
"Eish! That doesn't suit you."
"What if I cry?"
"My dragon wings are ready to take me elsewhere till you act mature."
"Geez. That's too cruel," he complained.
"Never be greedy. Alright, it's late. Time to meet Beatrix." she rose and Phoenix sighed.
"You don't wanna take me there?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I want to but I lack the strength. My mate refused to plant a kiss on my lips." he lamented while wearing a sorrowful face.
"Alright then. Keep lamenting. I'll just teleport to the palace."
"Hey, you're gonna invite trouble to yourself. There is an array at the entrance of the kingdom and what if you teleport to the wrong wiz kingdom. There are two you know. In the other, resides the vicious black wizards." Phoenix quickly rose and put the chairs back into the storage ring.
He held her right hand and light covered both of them. They soon vanished.
…
They reappeared at a cliff. Beneath she could see water.
“Why are we here?” she asked.
She thought they would reappear at the wiz palace why were they here then?
“I told you there’s an array. It’s invisible.” Phoenix took out a jade plaque and raised it upwards. Immediately the view before her changed as an opening appeared revealing a road.
“Come let’s get in. It won’t be nice if we linger here too long and someone sees us.” Phoenix walked in through the opening with her following behind. Now that they’d arrived safely on the other side, the opening closed and Lavana looked amazed.
“This is nothing compared to the vortex that leads to that island.” He said before walking ahead.
“No one will sense that a non-wiz blood is in the kingdom?” she asked in a whisper after she caught up to him.
“No. Let’s go to Beatrix’s residence.
“She has her own residence? Isn’t she too young for that?”
“She had one from age two. That’s the rule. And trusted guards are with her. My parents also do sleepovers if they want.”
“Oh! If there’s danger that the guards can’t handle…”
“My parents will know before the great danger can get to her.” He replied with hands in his pockets.
“How far from here to the residence?
“Well, we are in the ordinary wiz-blood territory. The palace is about 13 hours away.”
“What? Why are we strolling then?” if they continued at this pace even by dawn they wouldn’t have arrived there.
“You want a ride?”
“Ride?” she asked with furrowed eyebrows.
“On my scepter.” He clarified.
“You have a scepter too?” she asked in shock. Since she met him she’d never seen him take it out. And she also had assumed that since he was not a wizard but a sorcerer which was higher than the former, he didn't need one.
“Um, the wiz king had one made for me. I rarely use it since I can fly on my own.”
“How long will it take to arrive at the palace with it?” she inquired.
“Um.. about 10 minutes.”
“10 minutes? Then why does walking from here to the palace take 13 hours?”
“You’ll know in the future. Here, it’s pretty much faster by flying. We only walk when it’s very necessary.” He took out a gigantic grey scepter and helped her sit on it. Then he sat beside her.
“So when is it gonna take us to our destination?”
“Hug me.” he requested.
“Okay? So what next?” she asked after hugging him.
“We move.’ He chuckled as the scepter levitated and then flew forward at a super high speed.
“OMG! This is amazing.”
“You want it?”
“But I have my dragon wings already…”
“Shh! Just say yes and it will become yours after we land.”
“Um… I don’t have a storage ring…”
“I have in possession another storage ring.”
“Um… No. I prefer you keep it.”
“Okay, dear but if you change your mind…”
“I won’t Sullivan.”
“I heard you. Enzo, faster.” He ordered and the scepter increased its speed, causing her to hug him tighter.
“You named your scepter?”
“Yup. All wiz-bloods name their scepters from day one. I received this at 13. Dad gave it to me in the most unideal place.”
“Oh? Where?” she asked.
“You really wanna know?”
She nodded her head vigorously.
“He gave it to me when I was in the bathroom. That day I noticed some changes in my teenage body and was examining it, especially my crotch area. I thought that there was a parasite living in it and was terrified. Then boom! My adoptive dad appeared holding this gigantic staff.”
“Why did he choose such a place?”
“Um… one thing… all of us receive our scepters without clothes on.”
“Oh, really!”
He nodded and continued. “I was embarrassed that day and also afraid that if he sees the state my third leg was in he’d cut it off and then I’d have to bend to pee like those eunuchs.”
“There are eunuchs in your kingdom?”
“They are criminals who got it as a punishment and then became the lowest of servants but depending on their good behavior they can be promoted and if they accumulated a lot of merits they can get to visit the oldest potion maker in the kingdom to get back their thing.”
“Oh,” she nodded in understanding. “So what did you do then?”
“I wanted to hide behind the curtain but I slipped and fell.
He rushed over to help me but I kept covering my crotch. I begged him not to make me a eunuch that I’ll be a very good boy.”
At this point Lavana laughed.
“Good boy? You turned out to be opposite.”
“Well…he told me that the changes were normal and nothing to be ashamed off and had to reassure me lots of times that I wouldn’t become a eunuch. Thinking back I feel both happy and embarrassed. Mom uses that to blackmail me sometimes.”
“She wouldn’t do that if you were the good boy you promised to be. I suddenly want to meet her.”
“Mate, you won’t be meeting either of my adoptive parents until after the competition. If my mom sees you, she’s not gonna let you go anywhere.”
“Phoenix, I was just joking. Beatrix is waiting for me.”
“We’re close to our destination.”
“Oh, great.”
2 minutes later, they got down from the scepter and Phoenix kept it back in his spatial ring. Then he held her right hand and led her to Beatrix’s residence.
Lavana was amazed by how magnificent the palace was. And the air here was so fresh!
Beatrix’s residence was quite big. A story building to be precise and Phoenix flew with her to the little girl’s window.
“Here we are. Go in and have a good night's rest. I’ll come to pick you up tomorrow by 6 am.”
“6?”
“I want us to catch up with the Bloodstar warriors and it’s also respect to them too. I want to change their impression of me.”
“Okay.”
“So where is my reward?” he asked but she simply smiled before flying into the room and turning invisible.”
He shook his head and left after waving. He knew she was still at the spot she landed, looking at him with a victory smile.
“Boy, I like our mate more now. She has all that meat. “
“Hey, River. Don’t think that way yet, ok? We have a lot on our plate. After she’s rejected that scum then we’ll be accepted by her.”
“I know. I’m just stating what I feel. Phoenix, our mate is hot!”
“River!”
“Ok, I’ll go into slumber now.” his wolf did as he said after chuckling. Phoenix sighed. His wolf can be so annoying at times.
Lavana closed the window of the room and then walked towards the bed, making herself visible again.
Beatrix had just come out from the changing room dressed in pink and white striped pyjamas and pink rabbit ear flip-flops.
“Big sis!” she happily ran to hug Lavana. “You’re here.”
“Yup. I wouldn’t fail my little sis. Let me take a bath and then I’ll join you.”
“Ok. There’s another towel in the bathroom, never used. And Peter helped me get some nice clothes for you. They are in the changing room.”
“That’s nice of him. I will thank him before I leave.” Lavana headed into the bathroom.
30 minutes later, she walked out covered in a white towel and then headed to the dressing room. Some minutes later, she walked out dressed in a blue nightgown that stopped above her knees and white rabbit ear flip-flops.
“Big sis, you look so beautiful.”
“Thanks, honey. And I see the effort you made to arrange your room for me. Thanks!”
“I didn’t really do much. I just asked the servants to do it.”
“You made an effort honey. It doesn’t change. Alright…” she got onto the bed and covered half of her body with the blanket.
“Let’s talk a little and then sleep.”
“Okay. I’ll begin…”
…
An hour later, Phoenix appeared in the room and planted a kiss on his mate’s forehead and patted his little sister’s hair.
“Goodnight, angels. See you tomorrow.”
White light covered him from head to toe and he vanished. Not long after, Lavana’s eyes opened.
“Goodnight, my dear Phoenix.” She muttered before closing her eyes to sleep again.