Hell Hounds

             The group left the dining room quickly once they’d finished their breakfast. Once they found their meeting’s conference room, inside, they found only the back of the room available. Yolanda looked at the people already there. Ambassadors and staff, military, and someone from almost every branch of the pack’s command structure.

             “What’s going on? I don’t see Edith or Allen. That mage dude isn’t here either.” Ian leaned over and quietly asked Yolanda.

             “I don’t know, but the Dragon ambassador isn’t here either. The bears are. Maybe they’re just late for the meeting.” As she finished saying this, a screen rolled down and a mage, she didn’t know, cast several images there. Images of several people, including those they’d just discussed. Gregory stepped forward and appeared to be taking a mental note in attendance of who should be here. “Not late, just not here. Guess there’s news.”

             “Hm… it’s still weird how mages do that. Why don’t they just portal people where they’re needed?”

             “Power consumption. It’s traceable and portals are power hogs. They’re afraid the Fae will track that consumption to us.”

             “Well, that makes a weird form of sense. Portals are emergency only.”

             “I’m sure there’s a time limit to how long portals can be open and who can open them. Seriously, I don’t understand magic, but the Fae change the entire playing field, and power structure. The less the Fae know about us, the better if you ask me.” Someone sitting ahead of them grunted in agreement with her words.

             “If that’s the case, why don’t they use technology to communicate, then? Facetime and Zoom and such?”

unnecessary things. They will monitor all communications and possibly record them when possible. It’s just

             “You sound so

     “No, realistic. Oh, I think

information like this quiet. A discovery of something came to us recently. It took several days to verify the information. After that, a physical discovery of something else within the area came to our attention. Because of the nature of these discoveries, we felt the need for secrecy and a need to move on to secure them. We didn’t want to lose

in the investigation and then I will let the Mage Ambassador explain his findings and their planned actions pertaining to these discoveries.” Allan stood in the foreground, with Edith in the background on part of the screen. “We apologize about not involving everyone in the beginning, but once we’ve explained, you can understand that we did not see this as something important until we could confirm and gather all the information. I don’t bring this news forward easily and it’s far from complete. We are still open to further investigation by other factions.” Allan paused and took a sip of water before he continued to

the man and knew he wasn’t thirsty. He drank to let people keep up and react. “Now, we could discount the first vision as a dream. Because we couldn’t pinpoint it to a location or time of a real-time event, even with the extreme detail of it. But if you consider the vision of his mate, changes this

the time she found herself pulled into the Dream Realm. She doesn’t believe her body went there, but she felt pulled into unconsciousness and drawn to where this being spoke to her. The concerning part is this person referenced abstractly the Alpha’s vision. The being also mentioned that she wasn’t ‘allowed to speak about certain things directly. However, she didn’t refer to who restricted them. As you can see, there are many holes still within this investigation. This being also claimed all creatures created by the Fae as hers. The Fae created

past, present, or future. The location is search for now. This report isn’t over at this point. Please bear with me for a little more. This pack recently absorbed the failing pack of the Luna’s, which included the lands. On those lands is a mine, while surveying it for the possibility to reopen it. They found a sealed chamber containing the third portal. A portal oozing wild magic, not something we want anywhere near anyone. For now, I will hand over this presentation to my esteemed Mage Ambassador, followed by my esteemed

        “Thank you. Now we’ve placed several on examining the possible information received through these visions, with the express purpose of locating the third portal. We’ve also sent the information to all other councils worldwide to ensure they look

places where they could tap into wild magic. Wells, or batteries they can pull wild magic from. Sadly, when they left

   “We know they are hiding within this very region, and we know their estimated numbers. However, the search is still finding out whether there are more locations they are hiding within. The Fae are attacking places within Europe currently with random attacks here. The current belief is they will continue to attack old places of power while they search for a source of wild magic. This is where the portal we’ve acquired will help attract them into a trap once we figure out what that will look like. Currently, the pack who discovered the portal has learnt about their protective detail, just in case the Fae come after them looking for the portal. The Fae haven’t looked closely at the human population, yet, and the few

“The packets within the most current briefing report should help explain our plans from now on with these issues. That includes, but is not limited to, sneak attacks on locations they linger in, and using the portal to attract them away from human and supernatural populations. We ask that any race or creature that can cast any type of magic restrict their use of it currently, as this will send out a beacon to the Fae. Starving them out is currently the only way to make the other side of these portals more attractive to them, and this portal tells us that there is another place where they are better

“We are researching other options currently, but they are not ready for discussion. I’ll turn this over to my esteemed colleague,