"I am so excited" Devon's cheerful voice makes Devilin chuckle as the duo walks inside of the meeting to be held in a few minutes where probably everyone was waiting on them.

"I can see" Devilin makes the comment as he wraps his arms around his brother who was extremely excited so much so that he was jumping all the way as this was his official first meeting regarding saving the were world.

"You think I can land some job in here?" he asks next just as they take a turn.

"You are invited in the meeting as one of the members who will answer directly to the council and it does not take any genius to tell you that they will give you some job as you refer to do, so chill"

"Awesome, this will be my very first task. I do not want to mess this chance up"

"Hey, I have got your back" Devilin pats his brother's shoulder in assurance with a smile.

"And I got yours" Devon smiles as they both finally enter the hall and take their respective seats.

*******

All of the people attending the meeting get up at once out of respect as the members of the council walks into the room one by one and take their respective seats before the meeting begins.

As to the request of the council Chris and Gio steps out of their seats before they put their report out in front for everyone to hear. They share the images of the dead bodies of the new mandrakes that they found while trying to hunt down Thomas's whereabouts.

After the shown images are closed, they explain that they were able to find few mandrakes that they could bring in alive; the room listens silently as the saved mandrakes walk inside of the room.

With Gio's request Devilin steps out of his seat and with the power he has, he has have control over the mandrakes, he asks them to talk about what exactly happened and if they know anything regarding Thomas's plans.

Everyone in the room is in awe as the mandrakes step in front to talk about how Thomas slaughtered each of their friends when they refused to aid him in doing the things he wanted as now they have a new master and not some one who was just a substitute.

They explain that the reason why there are so many of them is because they were sons and daughters of Thomas, who mated with some of the mandrakes and that is the reason why he could change his appearance.

"Can you show us how he can change his appearance?" one of the Alphas asks from the crowd.

"It's only him who can change his appearance" the mandrake replies looking straight to the Alpha.

"How?" the same Alpha questions but the mandrakes just hiss not wanting to give away the vital information.

"We only answer to master" the mandrakes speak at once and the murmurs start to go on in the crowd bringing all the attention and accusations to Devilin.

Among everyone, few of the men in the crowd brave enough to question what they heard and the murmurs turn into roars of disagreements.

"The mandrakes say they only answer to their master, I would like to ask Dante the leader of the council what are the chances that this is not some plan and plot of yours to keep us under control?"

"What is that supposed to mean?" Dante narrows his eyes at them.

"It is clear that your son is their new master and as we all saw how they answer to your son we are not sure if we should even participate in this meeting...

Is it not clear that your son is the one who can manipulate them and it seems you have been using the case of Thomas and pulling it for far too long when the real culprit may be your son?"

"Are you accusing that all of the attacks that have been on going is my son's doing?"

"Who knows? The fact you have twins and you hide the fact that he can play games with our brains erasing a few things we are not sure if we can trust you and now we all heard from the mandrakes themselves that one of your blood controls them"

"Not until recent" Dante growls at that.

"What are the chances that only we got to know about it recently, you could have hidden the fact from us as we know that the council does not let all of the information out for everyone...

Dante, do you not have some visions sometimes, can we trust you that you never saw this coming that your elder son would one day be master to these creatures? Are you telling us you never knew anything about it?"

"I do not have any control on what visions I see, they keep changing time and again"

"What are the chances of your visions being changed, has their ever been one?"

*******

Dante stays silent holding on to his seat, as he wants to jump from his seat and punch the man in his face but he cannot as even if he has power and authority, he cannot misuse it every time someone disagrees with him or goes against him.

"No, I have never gotten any visions regarding the whereabouts of mandrakes or about my son being their master...

And no, never have any of my visions gone wrong, they are accurate most of the times"

"And what was the last vision you saw?" the man grins as if he knew something.

A sudden tense fills in the room as the question is out about his last vision, Dante tries hard not to stare over his son's way who he knows was as tight as a string at the question; he can smell the tension that was in his son's body.

"I do not think my visions..."

"Let's hear it out Dante, not all of us hold such special power, share it with us, we would like to hear about the vision you saw" another man speaks from the crowd and a few of them support wanting to know the vision.

"If my son mates his first child that is born will be the reason of his mate's death along with ours" he grits it out through his teeth.

"Well now we know what we need to stop first" the men chuckles as they eye Devilin.

"We should not let the boy mate" he finalizes as if he had the right to.

"I will tear you apart if you even dare go near her," Devilin vows as he glares at the man who just smirks.

"Threats won't do you any good boy, it seems most of the harm will come from you and that mate of yours to us rather than Thomas"

Devon holds his brother's arm, pulls him back down in his seat, as Devilin growls, trying to reply to the man, whom they know, will not favor them.

"That's enough Kroc; we all know you had a good acquaintance with Thomas so no need to harass the boy...

He will not think twice, to rip you apart if you talked on the topic not related to you, each of us know that none of us has any right to speak on the matters between mates, it is up to them what they want to do"

*******

Rom speaks defending Devilin as he can see the boy was loosing his temper and that was not something they need right now.

"But we will have a say if that mating will bring harm to our kind" Kroc shouts as he bangs his hands on the table.

"No you do not, that's my daughter you are talking about Kroc and if you speak even a word on this matter I will personally skin you alive" Adrian's booming voice makes the man flinch as every eye in the room turns to the door to find him standing there.

"Adrian" Kroc nods as he finally sits down.

"Kroc, everyone, I am sorry I am late yet on time somehow. Adriana Raine Rain Miracle Martin is my youngest daughter and very precious to me...

By now, most of you have known that fact if you did not, well now you do. The reason why I left the membership of council is she and why I am back to see all of your ugly fucking faces, is she again...

Now, let me make this clear once and for all, no one has a say on what happens between Devilin and my daughter not even me and if you do have one I would like my fist to answer your mouth personally...

You will be dealing with one very angry Alpha and each of the warriors that ever trained under me and who adores my little baby girl if you dared go against her, now we are here to terminate this little nuisance named Thomas and let's focus on it, shall we?" Adrian commands as he stares at each of the men in the room who nods their head in agreement as they have more respect for Adrian not just as the former council or their friend but a savior and a warrior.

*******

"Pheww, is all of these meetings as intense as this one?" Devon whistles as he walks out of the room along with his brother.

"Kind of" Devilin grumbles as he types on his phone.

"Hey, come on now, some of them were just being a douche and anyway damn our father-in-law he is the bomb...

Thank god I am not the only one who is afraid of him but fuck he is scary" Devon chuckles as he tries to lighten his brother's mood.

"Yeah, you should see him when he trains us" Devilin mindlessly replies too busy typing hastily on his phone.

"What are you exactly doing?" Devon asks as he tries to read what his brother was typing on his phone.

"Nothing" Devilin hides his phone so his brother will not read his text messages he was replying to his mate.

"I bet it is your mate" Devon grins before he leaves his brother alone.

Devilin smiles as he gets back to the text he was sending his mate, he looks around before finding a corner to sit and text her back.

She had been messaging him all through their meeting but he was not replying even if his hands itched to open his phone and check her messages, which he is glad he did not, because if he did he definitely would have died with laughter.

Dialing her number he waits as the rings goes before a smile crept on his face hearing her voice.

"By God the man finally replies" she exclaims.

"I was in a meeting" he chuckles hearing her answer.

"I can hear it now, so are you done with your secret superheroes meeting?" she asks typing on her keyboard.

"Not really, we are taking a break"

"Oh, so what are you all discussing about?" she asks innocently.

"About our love life" he sighs rubbing his face before he turns around to see the break was over and Devon was calling him.

"Oh" is all Raine replies, as they both stay silent.

"I have to go now," he whispers softly even if he did not want to cut the call.

"You should go and tell those assholes that it is none of their damn business," she states before they both count to three and cut the call at once.

*******

"Devilin," Dante shouts out his name as he goes to take his seat making him halt.

The boy frowns as he turns towards his father who was calling him so making his way to the middle of the room he stands waiting for what his father was going to say.

"Everyone here needs to see how Thomas can change his appearance and for that we need these mandrakes co-operation...

They only listen to you, you understand?" Dante asks as he looks around the room where everyone was listening to them in an alert manner.

Devilin nods his head before he turns to face the mandrakes that were in the room once again in front of everyone, he walks up to them before ordering them to reveal Thomas's secrets as well as answer the questions the council asks them of.

The mandrakes nod their consent before Devilin holds both of their hands and step aside.

Between the two mandrakes, one of them suddenly starts to hiss and everyone watches in awe as the mandrake slowly peels the skin off his body, before he stands in front of them holding his old skin.

"The mandrakes are made from a mixture of different blood, one of them is snake and you all may know that snakes can change their skin...

Even if the mandrakes can change their skin giving them a new one, which is more powerful and holds much better protection for them...

Thomas does the same with his skin, the only difference is he can change appearances like a second skin, none of the mandrakes has the power to change their appearance but Thomas does...

Having mated with the mandrake, he has the ability to change his skin but it seems with the help of some witchery he can change into anyone he wants to. He has mastered the art of changing his skin and turned it into something more wicked and dangerous" Devilin finishes explaining what he could find from touching the mandrakes and looking deep into their mind.

*******

A silent hush falls inside of the room as they all take in the information they all got, Devilin nods towards the mandrakes silently ordering them to leave.

Dante clears his throat to get everyone's attention, as he stands tall from his place; he sweeps his eyes around the room once and starts.

"No one knows where he is now nor do we know what face he is hiding behind, it can be anyone inside of this room or out, so I requested each of you to be present for this meeting for your co-operation...

As we, all know the end we heard and saw of the summer's pack, it was all his doing, so to stop the same fate from happening or for the history to repeat again I want and need you all to aid us in hunting the bastard down...

It is no longer just about my son and his mate but now the danger lies between all of us...

The mere reason why I never focused anyone of your attentions towards Thomas was not because I was hiding the fact regarding my sons or Raine, but it was my mistake to think of him as just a low-life vampire we could defeat him easily and therein lies in my grave mistake...

It was my mistake in judgment to think he was not so dangerous well not until we found he was the sole reason for the downfall of the summer's pack and now...

As I stand here as the chosen leader through you of the council, I see him as one enemy one whose capabilities are not known to anyone of us...

One who may be sitting next to us but none of us have any clue, one who knows the in's and out's of our world but we have no idea of his...

Therefore, I ask you not as the leader but as a friend to lend me your hand in destroying the man who has caused far too damage not just to my family but also to our world...

Please" Dante requests as he finishes speaking and takes his seat back.

*******

"Where are you going?" Gio's words halts Devilin's next step.

He turns with a smile to face his friend before he replies to Gio.

"I will be back soon" he replies as he goes to turn around once again.

"Going to meet your mate before the mission?" Gio chuckles catching up to Devilin who nods in reply.

"You know it will be better if you don't, even if I want to see my Angel I know if I see her face it will be damn hard for me to leave her"

"Still"

"Are you going to tell her about the mission?" Gio asks next as they come to stand in front of their respective cars.

"No"

"Then?"

"I will catch up to you soon" Devilin answers as he pats Gio's arm before he lets his wings out and flies away before Gio could question him some more.

Devilin sets his target flying directly towards the main ground of HP where he knows his mate was, he thinks back to the meeting, which ended up on a good note.

The vulnerability his father showed for the first time in front of everyone had done an excellent job as everyone agreed to hunt down Thomas before the man does some more damage and now each of the men who agreed were on their own mission.

Even if he promised he would not leave his mate's side and take on missions for a while he has to. To get hold of Thomas he was their only hope, as he knows that to get hold of Thomas's whereabouts he has to get a hold on to the mandrakes that were now trapped with Thomas.

It is true he was now their master along with his mate, but still few of them could not help but to obey Thomas's order for the sake of the child and mate's Thomas had captured.

Just as them, even those mandrakes have their family to protect and think of and no one knows better than Devilin, how it feels when one of them is hurt.

Now, all he has to do is test his new bond and power he got to get hold of those mandrakes, as for Thomas, it seems he was using every trick he has up his sleeve to stop Thomas and to pin point the man.

Mating with a mandrake may have been a good idea for Thomas, but it also gave Devilin an upper hand as somehow Thomas was bound to him but if only he could know where he was.

He has been trying to get hold of Thomas but so far, he could not find the man's whereabouts it seems someone is helping him someone who is powerful enough to even stop Devilin's bond with Thomas.

Devilin halts as he reaches near the building before landing down above the building, he hides his scent before plucking one of the feathers from his wings.

He let the feather fly as he whispers his mate's name in it and watches as it flies in search of his mate. Closing his eyes he waits for the feather to do its job and find his mate, a smile gathers in his face as it finds the one it was searching.

Devilin feels guilt surrounding him, as he knows his mate will be upset when his mate will find out he had disappeared without a word but he cannot face her now.

As he knows, she will not let him leave; he was far too weak when it came to her and just one word of her plea and he would never leave her side, the same side he needs to leave for a while so he can have a better and safe future with her.

Devilin stiffens as his mate turns around and frowns as she sees the flying feather, he gulps when she steps out of her seat and tries to get hold of the feather he sent.

"Dev" her whisper brings soreness to his heart and just as she touches the feather the words leaves his mouth to her ear.

"I love you" before he disappears leaving her alone with the feather.