501: WARRIORS FOR THE LUNA

WARRIORS FOR THE LUNA

Even an alpha like Cane only had two personal warriors, all the alpha mostly only had two and for their mate, they would appoint guards to escort the women, if that woman was favored enough by their mates, they would only get one warrior. 

But for Cane to assign seven warriors for her disposal was… too much. 

"All of you?!" Iris was stunned. 

"Yes, luna," Dyne replied this time. "The alpha looks so worried…" he trailed off and scratched his nose. "Actually, he will assign more people, but he can only find seven of us for the meantime."

Iris was flabbergasted and even more when she realized how people stared at her, because there was no way this small entourage didn't get attention from them.

"Let me introduce the other five, luna…" Dyne said awkwardly to see Iris was too shock to say anything. "This is Asher, Otis, Reed, Kian and Zephyr." Dyne introduced them one by one from left to right. 

Iris tried to remember their name. She would make sure to talk with Cane about this. "Hm. Nice to meet you." She felt so silly, since she didn't know what to say and the way people stared at her make it uncomfortable. 

"It's a pleasure to meet you, luna," they said and nodded politely to her. 

There was an awkward silence, since they waited for what she was going to say or what order she would give to them. 

"I want to look for Haco," Iris finally said. 

"The sorcerer is in the third tent, luna," Eron replied. "Come, I will escort you there." He looked fine after taking a rest for a while, he and Dyne also acted normal after they learned about the lycan. 

Eron and Dyne then flanked her, while the other five walked behind them. It was really uncomfortable for Iris, she was fine with Eron and Dyne, since she had known them ever since they went to the capital city, but the other five were someone new to her. 

"Wait." Iris stopped walking, since she couldn't handle it anymore. They were inside the pack house and there were a lot of warriors around as well, it was a little bit too much to have this small entourage following her, while the other needed a helping hand. 

Once Iris stopped walking, all of them stopped as well. 

"Why don't you go and help the other? It will not do anything good to follow me around. We are in dire situation, it will be a waste of energy to simply escort me." 

"We can't leave you alone, luna," Eron retorted. 

Iris shook her head. "You and Dyne can come with me, while the other can find something else to do to help the injured warriors or strengthen the pack. I think it will be useful that way."

"The alpha gave us a strict order not to leave you." The other warrior named Zephyr spoke, he had a shoulder length hair that he tied behind his nape and a pair of calm brown eyes. 

"It's not you are leaving me, but it will bore you to death if you are simply following me around. You will not like the task either, right?" Iris could see she had voiced out what they thought. "So, let's help each other. It will be good for you to find something more useful to do, especially at time like this. It's not like I will vanish into thin air."

In the end, Iris managed to dismiss the other five warriors, as they helped the other pack member, but they didn't go too far from the third tent, while Eron and Dyne came with her. 

"I thought she will overjoy with the affection the alpha gives her by sending us to be her personal guard." Kian scratched his head, staring at Iris's back, as she entered the second tent. 

What she said was right. They really wanted to complain with the task the alpha was given to them, but they didn't have the nerve to do so, especially when it was the direct order from the alpha. 

"She is only trying to look nice," Otis replied, as he went away to help the other.

"It's good she has common sense to tell us to do something more useful," Asher added. 

The five newly appointed warriors didn't find it in them to be excited with this new assignment from the alpha, as they had a mix feeling about this situation. They did not necessarily hate Iris as their luna, but the provocation from the royal warriors in the other night, completely irked them.

They would rather not to associate with her. 

Meanwhile, inside the third tent, Iris found Haco sitting at the corner, picking herb leaves. He looked so old and wrinkles on his face became even more apparent. Was it because he was too tired from what happened hours ago?

"Haco, shouldn't you use the stem instead of the leaves for this herb plant?" Iris pointed out at the stem he had been throwing and kept the leaves instead. She knew a little bit about it, because she had been reading a book about medicine months ago. 

"Heaven!" Haco slapped his forehead to see his mistake. "I must be too tired and became senile now," he grumbled. 

Iris squatted down in front of the sorcerer to help him. 

"There is something I want to talk with you," Iris said in small voice. "Can we talk somewhere?" She didn't want anyone to hear this conversation, especially when all the people inside this tent were shifters, who was known to have a good hearing ability.  1

"Later, Iris. I am very tired. I know what do you want to talk about, it must be something related to Serafim, right?"

Iris nodded. 

"Help me here, so I can get some rest quickly, after that, we can have a conversation. I am so tired to even think what I want to eat."

"Have you eaten?" Iris looked worried, this old sorcerer looked haggard. 

"At this point, I will rather to have a nap than eating something."

Iris frowned. "You can't do that. It will ruin your health." She then asked Eron to get some food for Haco. "I will finish this, but you can't sleep without eating first."

"Okay, okay…" Haco nodded absentmindedly. He then leaned his head against the pole. "I will just close my eyes."

Iris felt bad to see Haco like this. "You will hurt your back if you sleep like that." But, Haco was snoring instead. "You said, you will only close your eyes…" She was fascinated by how fast Haco fell asleep. 

Probably, he was very tired after he exhausted his energy and a lot of magic stones, even the lycan was so drained. 

"Dyne, can you put him on the empty bed over there?" Iris pointed a bed across from where they were sitting. "Is it alright for you to carry him?"

"No problem, luna. This old sorcerer literally only has skin and bones." Dyne grinned, but then he smiled sheepishly when Iris threw him a look. "I am going to move him." He immediately carried Haco to the empty bed. He was right. This old man only had skin and bones left, even monster wouldn't want to eat him. 

Spring almost ended and autumn would come soon, as the air became a little bit hotter now when the night came. At time like this, heat waves and drought would be another problem they had to think of. 

Iris forced herself to help with whatever she could, but she didn't see Hanna anywhere. 

"She is with Will right now. I am thinking not to call her, because Will is a little bit weird, so I let him to be with her in his bedroom," Amee explained to Iris when she asked. "Do you want me to call her?"

"No. No." Iris raised both of her hands. "Let them be. They need it."

Amee smiled gently at her. "It is alpha Cane luck to have you as his luna."

Iris blushed, she stared at the herb plant in front of her. "It is my luck to have him as my mate," she mumbled sheepishly and Amee chuckled to see how the luna became like a normal woman with the mention of their mate. 

"Luna, are you, okay?" Amee frowned when she saw Iris furrowed her brows. "You look so pale."

It was already evening again and with that, Iris had not yet slept for so long. One could say this was the longest period of time for her not to sleep. If it was not for Grace's tonic that she concocted for different purpose, she would have collapsed long time ago. 

"It's already evening, you have been here since afternoon, it will not good if you fall sick too." Amee put her hand against her forehead, but her skin was very cold. "You need to rest, luna, I will concoct something and deliver it to you."

Iris felt she was reaching her limit too, thus she agreed to leave the tent. Eron and Dyne followed her to the bedroom, where she met with Maria, who just came out of the luna's bedroom, she must have been tending to Sofia. 

However, Iris was too tired and she didn't have anything to say to the other person, more so, Maria immediately scurried away with the sight of her. 

"If you need anything, we will be outside, luna," Eron said. 

Iris only nodded when she heard that and then went into the bedroom. Yet, when she just closed the door and took a few steps toward the bed, her body collapsed to the floor…

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