Chapter 36: What do you mean...Scent?
A/N: Shout out to dolly_.roma for the first gift of my first novel on Webnovel (･◡･) \(･◡･)/
"How?! How?! How??" Echoed around the table.
Ciara chuckled again at their enthusiasm and teased them a little by grabbing a glass of water to wet her parched throat, all the while knowing the expectant gazes on their faces.
"Honey". Aloha Justin chuckled. "Just tell them before they bend the whole table over."
"Okay..." Smilingly, she put down the cup and face them.
"When you get a Kitsune to transform to their true fox form, you can kill them by striking a silver object through their head. That's where their heart's located."
Horror and disgust fell on their faces.
"So…was that how you defeated them?"
"No….the Iñari ordered a treaty to be signed between us and they just…left…" Shrugging, she began eating, smiling at her husband who began putting some more food on her plate.
That was it? They all thought as they waited for Ciara to resume.
As if Stacey could read their minds, she said,
"That's what our grandparents told us and we stuck to it since the creatures didn't bother us anymore after that. It's been so many years ago. Infact we believe they're extinct."
"But…." Jephthah suddenly said and Talia kept eating while her ears was ready to grasp what he was saying. She couldn't risk turning to him like the others. He might begin to stutter. "...I just think it was too easy. Their queen who was being controlled by her own subjects suddenly makes an order to sign a treaty with their natural enemies and they do that without hesitation and disappear, almost to the point of acting extinct."
There was silence on the table as they returned their gazes to the adults. Even Koan knew his question was smartly and well put together. But no one had an answer to the question.
Suddenly Daniel asked another disturbing question,
"How can a werewolf sense when there's a Kitsune in the room for instance, especially when they've shape shifted into someone else?"
Naomi froze on hearing the question and realized he could be asking it on her behalf.
The other adults chuckled (EXCEPT KOAN. He NEVER laughs or smiles)
"Honey. A werewolf can't sense a Kitsune in human form."
It was as if there was a stand still silence in the room. No one spoke or moved except the adults who casually moved their fork around, into their mouth and back at their food.
"That was really impossible in those days so it was the witches who could sense them by practicing some cleansing around the place. It was a simple process. When there's an Alpha in his werewolf form in the prescence of a Kitsune, they tend to act very uncomfortable and revealed their true form in no time…" Marcy narrated.
".... It's either that or nothing else" Lebanon finalizes, already bored with the topic, half-wondering why the young ones were so interested in the topic.
"So…what other ways can a werewolf sense a Kitsune." John stammered.
It wasn't clear to them. Naomi had clearly sensed that the impostor today wasn't a werewolf and it's not like they used the other method. Daniel wasn't officially an Alpha and wasn't even in his wolf form…so what other option?
"There's no other way. It's either that or the werewolf has to have a Kitsune gene to do that." Koan replied nonchalantly, focusing on his food.
It was as if the god of silence descended in the room again.
The scent of Citrus and Chocolate liqueur drifted into his nostrils and that's when he realized Naomi was close and had probably heard it all. He hadn't noticed her prescence because he was too engrossed in the story.
But now…
He didn't know how to feel. He just felt like he had swallowed a cube of ice and it was hitched up in his throat, dissolving slowly.
Suddenly her scent began fading as she drifted farther away from him and soon he heard the kitchen door swing open with a bang.
Where was she going?
Without thinking, he scraped his chair backwards in an unpleasant noise which made Ciara and Stacey shut their ears, and ran after her.
Barton and Brittany exchanged looks before running out the dining, wondering where their cousin was running off to.
The others just exchanged glances as one thing ran in their mind.
That Omega they saw earlier was obviously not a werewolf or If she was, she had a Kitsune gene in her.
No one had the mind and audacity to confess to the adults what they had seen. They felt sorry for the poor girl. She probably didn't even know who she was. They could all sense her confusion when she had arrived at the fields today.
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Tears began pooling in her eyes as she ran. She was running again but time she wasn't chasing anything. She was just running away.
When she arrived at the cemetery which was not far off from the Alpha's mansion, she ran inside.
Normally anyone would be scared going into the pack cemetery at such a late time at night but she didn't care. She wanted to find something out. Something which would shatter her if she was proven right.
Daniel's eyes widened when he saw her run into the cemetery. What was she up to? His breath was ragged and so were his cousins when they stoped beside him, their hands on their knees as their chest heaved up and down at their fast pace.
Daniel looked back in shock, not realizing they had followed him here.
"Why… why… are you here?" Briattuny breathlessly asked still puffing from her run.
"I…" He starts moving into the cemetery but stops when Barton grabs him. "Naomi's in there."
The twins looked at each other before looking at him like he was mad or something.
"Are you being serious, right now?" Barton asked.
"You expect me to believe Naomi of all people is in a ceretermy at this time of the night?"
"I saw her and I followed her here with her scent." He pulled his arm from Barton's hold and began walking inside, his feet moving at Incredible speed while he glanced around like he was looking for someone.
The twins followed with Brittany hanging onto Barton's arm.
"Her what?"
"Scent"
"What do you mean scent". Brittany further asked but Daniel suddenly turned left and they turned to see Naomi huddled up Infront of a grave, crying with a shovel by her side.
"Naomi" Brittany gasped, letting go of Barton to bend down to her height on the ground and hold her.
Naomi looked up. Her other features were hidden by a blood red mask but her blue eyes were rimmed red and puffy from crying. Her forehead was red and her hair was a total mess, her eyes only visible through the cracks of the hair that fell over her face.
"Naomi what are you doing here!!! What's all this about!!!" Danile suddenly yelled at her. He couldn't tell what she was being tearful about. He should be the one breaking down. The high and mighty moon goddess had chosen him the perfect mate.
A Kitsune.
What did she think she was doing in a cemetery?!
Naomi flinched under the tone of his voice.
"Daniel," Brittany got up and faced him squarely. "Don't you dare shout at her like that!!!"
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