"Give me Serena and Selena. You sit down and eat while I feed them."

"It is more important you get nutrition too." Brett said.

"I ate already when I was preparing the food." Then I sat down in the rocking chair we had moved by the table and fed the girls while they ate. They still leaned over and kept giving me bites off their plates.

As we all finished eating we heard a knock on the door. Brett got up to go answer the door. It was Meri's mom, Luna Donna Mae and Meri's sisters. He shut the door and had them go into the great room and Bryan and Meri walked in there with the babies.  Then another knock on the door. He turned around and walked back to the door and it was his mom, Emily with all his sisters and sister-in-law.

"What is going on? Why are you all here this early. It is only 7:30am"

"We are having a girl spa day and going to help Meri get her and the girls ready. Your dad and brothers are going to meet you at the Alpha's house for a guy's day. They have planned a day of fishing and picnic at the lake. Just to relax and have fun before the ceremony tonight too.

Then there was another knock. Emily said, "I will get it. You go grab your brother and go." She opens the door and it is Luna Angelini.  "Hello, I am so glad you could come and join us." She turns around and sees Brett still standing there with his mouth opened. "You're still here? I told you grab your brother and get to the Alpha's house. They will be waiting for you."

She  grabs Luna's arm and guides her into the great room where everyone is standing around talking.

Brett and Bryan give their mate and babies a kiss. "Guess we will see you later." As they are walking to the door there is another knock.

They answer the door, "hello aunt Charmain and Claire. They are all in the great room."

As we close the door we hear Claire announce, "now that I am here we can get this party started."

We look out and see a bus and there are 10 warriors standing around it. They nod as we walk by and try not to laugh when Brett says, "we are sorry. We don't know what Claire has planned but all those girls and women." We head toward the alpha's house.

Back inside the house. Luna Donna says, "before we leave since she did not know we were coming Meri needs to go shower. All you girls go clean up the kitchen and dining room. Luna, Claire, Charmaine, Emily and I will go get the babies ready and pack their diaper bags. We will meet in the bus in 30 minutes."

I look at her and say, "mom what bus?"

"The one parked out front that your father arranged for us. Now go get ready. It is warm outside so just wear a casual sundress and sandals."

In 40 minutes we were all on the bus. Claire stands up and says, "let us make sure we all are here. Everyone stand up and when I say your name sit down." Everyone stood up. "Meri, Serena, Selena, Luna Donna, Luna Angelini, Beta Emily, Char, Sophia, Anabelle, Isabelle, Tabitha, and myself Claire. Plus we have the bus driver and 10 warriors." She then hands the list to one of the warrior. "Since your suppose to watch us today you can be in charge of the list."

"Mom, what about Missy and Sunny?" She then sits down and the bus takes off and stops in front of the pack house where Missy and Sunny are waiting.

"I though of them. I figured you want your best friend since preschool with you."

The warrior looks at the list and pencils in Missy and Sunny. Then hands the list to the bus driver and then takes a seat."

When we get to the spa Claire and one warrior go inside. She checks us all in. Then one at a time a different spa employee comes out to get each of us. The warriors watch us go inside. She brings me into a room and hands me a robe. "My name is Celeste and I will be taking care of you today. I heard you just had pups recently and are getting the new mother spa package. This package includes a massage, facial, manicure, pedicure, and hair cut and style and makeup. Many times we also start off with a mud bath and steam shower before we do a massage. What we do is actually rub the mud all over your body and it will stay on you for 15 minutes once we complete the rub. Then you step into a steam shower and it rinses the mud away.  After that you lay down for a one hour massage. When you need to they will bring your pups in and you can feed them."

"This sounds like a great way to spend my day. I fed them just before we came in so they should not need fed for about another 2-1/2 hours." Then my day of pampering began. When it was time to do my nails I decided on a French manicure. I decided to go with a teased French twist hair style. They they did my makeup with a natural look and used green eye shadow.  Then mom and Emily came into the dressing room when I was getting ready to put back on my sundress. "No, we brought your dress for today. You will get changed into it now. Celeste will help you put it on. We are going to go get dressed ourselves. Then she shows me the dress and pulls out two matching infant dresses. We will wait until we are back to dress them.  (Dresses are shown at the top. It is a matching chiffon and tulle dress that is halter top and mid-thigh length. It had a silk flower on the side. The baby outfit includes a matching head band. Plus ruffle socks and white shoes.  The mother's outfit includes a pearl necklace and earrings. Plus white sandals.) I then looked down and my sleeping girls and noticed they had their nails were painted. Serena was pastel pink and Selena was pastel purple.

We then all were escorted to the bus. You see a couple of sad girls get on the bus and I do mean they do look sad. Luna Donna looks at them, "what is wrong girls?"

"Mom why did you let dad pick these dresses. They make us look short and dumpy like an old grandma on that tv show we watched last night."

Emily looked at her daughter, "your fathers the wonderful Alpha and Beta, they ordered these dresses. They were so proud they found dresses that would not make the boys want to take a second look at you. Now put a smile on your face and let me take a photo to send to your dads." The girls gave more of a grimace than a smile as she took the photo.

One dress was a pepto  bismol color, the other was a light brown and another was olive green with bright purple ribbon. The collar was circled up to the neck. The arm sleeves were poofy.. there was layer petticoats under the lower half that made them look huge. They were sad girls and none of us could blame them. Everyone on the bus even the guards felt bad for the girls.

She then looks at Luna. "How about you tell them. I cannot stand their sad faces."

Luna says, "girls go to the back of the bus and check what we placed behind the curtain, but I want to take a picture to send to your fathers before you do." They let their moms take a picture. The girls walk all forlorn to the back and pull aside the curtains and you hear howls of delight and yelling.

"Thank you mom." Then the curtain closes and you hear zippers going down and giggles.

"I guess they liked our choices better."

Claire then announces, "Now that we have happy girls. I want to share what we are doing next. We are going to the English Tea House for a nice formal afternoon tea. We are all dressed up for the occasion. The owners are my aunts so they have a special tea they planned for us. They will even demonstrate and share with us Tea Ettiquette. Then at the end offer us some wine and since a private dining room if the moms approve those under 21 can be served the wine from their mothers or sparkling water from the staff."

"Well tell them we will serve the wine, but to have the sparkling water ready for them," Luna Donna says.

"Warriors  and our driver they have even set up a buffet outside our private room for you. So you can eat and still be on duty."

Once we were done with our tea we headed back to the bus and drove back to the territory.  When we got to  our territory the bus drove us to the amphitheater where the ceremony was going to be.  The driver stood up and said, "ladies, I was asked to keep you on the bus until your announced to come up."

I then took this time to fed the babies. Changed their diaper and put them in their ceremony outfits. Claire then said, "give the babies to Anabelle and Isabelle. They will be the ones who carry the babies up to the front for ceremony. The warriors and the bus driver here will be the ones to escort each of you to your seats. However, we do not get off the bus until they call our names. We all are the guest of honor today.

Luna Angelini will you please come and sit in the first seat. As the guest of honor and speaker you will be the first name they announce. One of our warriors will escort each of you up.

Luna Donna you will be second as the mother of the Alpha and in-law of the Beta.

Emily you will be next as mother of the Betas.

Then they will announce the aunt- So that will be you Char

Then it will be Sophia

Followed by Tabitha

Anabelle you will be carrying Selena. When you get to the front you hand the baby over to Brett. Then you go to your seat.

Isabelle you will be carrying Serena. When you get to the front you hand the baby over to Bryan. Then you go to your seat.

Last will be the Betas' mate, Meri. You will be escorted up by the driver and remaining guards.

Luna said, "Claire you planned this whole day and ceremony you should be announced too."

"Missy and Sunny you are not family to be announced. However, I have arranged two escorts for you and they will bring you to your reserved seats ahead of the family. This way you can see it all. So come on up and get your escorts." They leave the bus with two warriors in training who are a year older.

"I will be back here checking on stuff for the reception just to make sure nothing was forgotten. Elder Alpha will make an announcement right before first dance. Now do last minute primping. Alpha just linked to say 3 minutes he will be walking out on stage to start the announcements."

Alpha Ezra walked out into the stage. He was wearing a Lauren Ralph dark grey suit with a white shirt and red tie. "Good evening tonight I am here to begin a new era for our pack. I want to welcome many distinguished guest to our territory. The last 24 years I have been your alpha, but tonight we bring in the next generation. I have one more official duty as your alpha I am honored to..." The whole pack starts to howl and they all kneel down to pay tribute to their alpha. He stops talking and steps forward and bows to them in respect and honor. They all stop howling in surprised when they see their alpha bow to them.

Jacob walks into the stage, "dad this is for you. Will everyone please stand up." They all stand. "Dad your last official act as alpha was your tribute to the pack with the bow. I am happy to announce that tonight we have two distinguished visitors in our pack who will MC tonight: Alpha Bartholomew and Luna Angelini. These two are the Deans of the Wearwolf Leaders Training Camp. They have proudly lead many leaders for over 50 years. They have distinguished themselves amongst majority of the packs in both the Unites States and many countries. Alpha Bartholomew will you please step forward and relieve dad, our alpha of the MC duty."

He stands up and walks over gives Jacob a pat on the back, "good job young man. I heard in a year you will be attending the school." He then looks out over the pack, "It is my honor to be here tonight. Alpha Ezra please go stand by where your mate will sit." He walks over and stands there. Then Bartholomew  continues, "I would love for everyone to turn and face the center row. I am very happy to announce my mate, Luna Angelini." Everyone turns and Angelini steps off the bus wearing a lovely royal blue gown, and one of the warriors escorts her to her husband. The warrior then goes stands in front of the stage.

The Luna gets to the front and speaks, "I am deeply honored to say I spent the day with the leader she-wolves, friends and family. I will be announcing them. I got to know each person today and feel I have made great friends. It is my honor to announce Luna Donna Mae Woods." You see Donna climb off the bus wearing a stunning red dress and is escorted to the front row of seats. The wolves offer their neck as she approaches them and her eyes tears up. She then stands by her mate. He takes her hand and kisses it. Her escort moves to stand in front of the stage.  She then announced each person as they get off the bus and are escorted to the front.

"I would also like to give a special shoutout to your wonderful party planner, Claire. She is the one who put together this gathering. When you see her tonight at the ball please be sure to thank her for the wonderful job she did. The decorations look spectacular and I heard that the dinner menu is extra special. Now I am going to turn this over to my mate."

"Earlier it was mentioned that I have been running the leadership training for over 50 years. It will be 57 years come this fall that I took over the Werewolf  Academy. I taught there for 22 years before that. In all the years I have been dean there we have only had 4 Alphas and 2 Beta trainees do what your Alpha and Betas have done. Plus we have had only 1 other Luna trainee do what she has done. None of them have all come from the same pack, but tonight we have four of your members who made honors.

Will Alpha candidate, Issac Woods please step forward. You see Issac stand up and walk to the center of the stage. "Will Beta candidates, Brett and Bryan Timberwood please step forward. Will Beta mate candidate Meredith Woods please step forward.

These four wolves normally would not be promoted up for a couple more years. However, we believe at Wolf Academy exceptional trainees should be rewarded. It was decided 48 years ago that any wolf candidate who maintained a straight "A" in all their studies would be offered a special reward of promotion effective immediately upon their graduation.

These 4 candidates standing before you all made straight "A's, but they did something even more special two of them tied as Valedictorian with 100% and the other two tied at 99.8%. The average for these studies is normally low to mid 80's. This tell your how fantastic these young members are." All the sudden you hear one wolf start a howl and soon everyone joins in. This startled the pups and you hear Serena and Selena start to cry because it woke them up. The dad's start patting them on their back to calm them down. Just as the howls calm down you hear a loud burp from one of the babies. Then they both stop crying. You hear some laughter.

"I would like to ask my granddaughter, Lucinda to please bring forth the ceremonial knife. She walks from behind the bus and walks down the aisle holding the knife in her palms. As she walks by with the knife all the wolves start to kneel and tilt their heads to the side. She is surprised since this had not happened to her before.

She gets to the front and starts to hands the knife to the alpha candidate and looks up and makes eye contact with Issac. He calls out, "MATE"!!! He then pulled her into his arms and kissed her and then he marked her. Brett handed the baby to me and he grabbed the knife before someone got accidentally stabbed.

Alpha Bartholomew spoke up and used his alpha dean voice, "Issac and Lucinda stand down." They both broke a part.  "Let us finish this ceremony and then you two can get to know each other. As his mate you will take your place next to him."

Angelini walks over and takes the knife from Brett. "This knife has been used for thousands of celebrations through the ages to keep packs linked to the past. Alpha and Luna Woods will you please step forward. Through their blood links the past.  Issac please strand beside me." She nod to one of  the warriors and he brings her two ceremonial cups. She hand one to the Luna. Issac takes the knife and cuts his fathers forearm.  The Luna catches his blood in the cup. The arm heals quick. She then hands the cup to her mate. Issac slices his mom's arm and the alpha catches her blood into the cup. He hands the cup to Luna Angelini. "This blood is filled with ancestral Alpha and Luna's that go back to the very first."  I take the knife from Issac. "Do you Issac promise to uphold the family Alpha pride and strive to always protect your pack?"

Issac says, "I do."

"Lucinda as future Luna of this pack will you strive to nurture and protect this pack? Will you strive to support your Alpha mate?"

"I do," Lucinda says.

"Do you Alpha Ezra and Luna Donna Mae freely relinquished your control of the pack to Issac and his mate? Will you strive to support and offer words of wisdom as Elders?"

They say together, "we do."

Alpha Bartholomew walks over and holds the cup up in the air, "Moon Goddess we ask that you bless this family and guide them as they begin their new adventure." He then hands the cup to Issac, "drink and accept your ancestral passage." He takes the cup and drinks. He then turns toward his Luna and holds the cup up to her mouth. She takes a drink. "Please join me in welcoming your new Alpha and Luna." Howls are started.  You can feel their power increase. Issac feels his power even bypass his fathers. Issac steps forward and brings his mate with him. Everyone on stage steps back and lets him take control.

"Today a new era begins. I am not only the new Alpha I also have found my Luna. Lucinda do you accept me as your mate?"

"Yes, I do. I have been looking for you amongst the various packs since I first turned. I am happy and please to accept you."

"Do you accept my pack members as yours?"

"Yes, I do."

"I also accept you as my Luna and she-wolf alpha. I promise to do my best to keep you safe." He then turns toward the pack. "Now pack do you promise to accept and keep your new Luna safe as long as you are in this pack?"

You hear the pack say, "we do."

"Does anyone object to my new Luna?" It is quiet and no one speaks."

"Alpha Bartholomew and Luna Angelina my territory is open to you and your family for a visit or a place to live. We feel you are like an honorary aunt and uncle.'Do you accept me as part of your family?"

"We do," they say.

"Dad will you step forward and as your first duty as an Elder induct the Betas?"

He looks surprised and then steps forward. He picks up the knife and the same cup he used earlier.

"As many of you know my mother had a gift. She could read dreams. Through out the years I would have occasional dreams. I had a dream last night. It was my son found his mate, but I was not expecting it to be today. Him and his mate  had a son. In that dream I saw the Betas and their mate had another daughter. His name was called Dagian and her name was Farra. Which means Dawn and Sunset. These two are destined to be mates. Today my mate and I are adding a drop of our blood into the cup. Our future great grand pup will have the dim of the power of her ancestry in her in her from birth." He leans over and cuts his mate and her blood drops into the cup. Then she takes the knife and cuts him and his blood drops into the cup. He looks at his beta and says, "we have been leaders together and grew up side by side. We took our oaths together back then. Today we begin a new phase of our lives as Elders. Do you freely step down as beta and pass it on to your sons?"

"I do." He then steps up and cuts his hand and his blood is added to the cup. Then the she-wolf beta, Emily steps forward and she takes the knife and slices her hand and her blood goes into the cup.

Then Elder Alpha hands the cup to his son. Him and his mate bless the cup. They bow to the new Elders and hand back the cup. The walks off the stage. They sit down in their chairs.  They let this be their beta's moment. The new elder alpha holds the cup up in the air, "Moon goddess we ask that you bless this passage and look out over them as they do your duty." He then turn toward Brett, "do you Brett Timberwood accept your position as Co-Beta. Do you promise to do your best to protect the pack?"

Brett smiles, "I do." He is handed the cup and takes a sip. Then gives it back to his alpha.

He walks to Bryan, "as Co-Beta leader do you accept your position and promise to protect the pack?"

Bryan looking serious says, "yes, I do." He takes the cup and takes a sip. Then hands it back to his alpha.

The alpha hands the cup to his father. "I feel it is only right you do this to their mate since she is your daughter too."

The elder alpha steps up, "my princess. Since the day you were born I knew you were headed to great things. You have never disappointed. I am honored to ask as the new Beta-Female do you accept your position and promise to protect the pack?"

"I do."

Then the Elder Beta and his mate walks up to the Alpha Issac and offer their necks. Then they turn and start to walk off the stage. Alpha Issac says, "stop." They stop and turn toward their new alpha. "Before you leave the stage I want a tribute made to you also in appreciation for all you did to get Brett, Bryan and myself where we are today. He looks at his new betas and all three of them howl and the pack joins in. When it stops they elder beta and his mate go and join Elder Alpha and Elder Luna in the front row. They all have tears.

Issac then turns to Brett and Bryan. "Since we were pups in diapers we have been friends. We had many adventures together as we grew up. I know you both will always have my back as I will have yours. Do you two pledge to take on the role of Beta and all its duties?

"We do." Then they each hold one hand out while the other hand holds their babies. Alpha Issac cuts both their palms and their drops of blood goes into the cup.

Then Meri steps up. "Do you pledge as Beta She-Wolf to support both myself, your Luna, mates and pack?"

"I do," and Issac cuts her palm. The blood drops down.

He then holds the cup up in the air and says, "moon goddess please bless the betas and guide them as they are needed." he then takes a sip and his Luna takes a sip. He then gives a sip to the betas and his sister. The pack could feel their bond grow and see their new leaders become stronger. The pack then let's out a howl in celebration of the next generation leadership.

Then Alpha Bartholomew steps forward. "As MC of tonight's event I am honored to invite you all to a special dinner that is being catered. The new Alpha and Betas along with their mates and pups may leave the stage." Issac takes his mate's hand and they walk off the stage toward a catering tent set up off to the side. Meri gets in the middle of her mates and pups. They follow their new Alpha. At the tents entrance they stop and greet their pack and guest as they enter. There was a great family photo taken of both families all group together that would be blown up and placed above the mantle at the pack house. Plus a great family photo taken of Brett, Bryan, Meri, Selena and Serena that they placed above their mantle at their home One of Issac and Lucinda together they placed in the hall of all past alphas.

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