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Battle clapped him on his shoulder. “Sure, I will.” He looked at the kings, “Later dudes,” and with that he hurried off too much laughter.

As they were laughing, Hades and Zeus appeared in front of them.

Frederick smiled at his mate and pulled him into his arms, kissing him hello.

“If you’re looking for Battle, Lord Zeus, he went that way a few moments ago,” Mateo pointed towards the new pack lands.

“Perfect, thank you, Mateo. See you all later,” and with that he vanished.

Puff leant against Mateo. I’ll be sure to tell Atticus you fell dramatically.

Mateo laughed and dropped a kiss on the side of his head. “Thank you.”

Finally, Frederick and Hades drew apart.

“I’m glad you’ve arrived. Tudor had a good thought earlier. He wondered if Barnabus would try to release demons out of Tartarus.”

Hades stilled for a moment. “Good thinking, Tudor. I’m off to make sure that doesn’t happen.” He looked at Frederick and held his hand out “Want to come with me?”

Frederick took his hand. “Yep.” He looked at the others. “Be back later.”

“Have fun,” Mateo said, and just that quickly Hades and Frederick vanished.

It must be dinnertime about now. Who fancies food? Puff asked.

CHAPTER 4

The four of them walked into the kitchen and saw Oz creating dinner.

“Perfect timing,” Mateo said.

“It is, and I’ve put the call out to the others,” Oz replied as people started walking into the kitchen.

“Oz, this looks amazing,” Ashton said, walking in with Paris. “Thanks for this.”

Oz laughed. “Just a little something I threw together.”

Just then, Atticus walked in and smiled as he spied Puff and Mateo. “How’re my amazing mates?”

Puff silently chuckled, and Mateo laughed.

“We all heard Puff call you that,” Oz added. He looked at Puff. “I’m sure you didn’t mean to send that via the pack link.”

Puff shook his head. No, it was supposed to be just to Tudor.

Mateo looked at Atticus. “Puff distracted me, and Battle managed to land a spinning kick to my chest,” he said, rubbing his chest.

Atticus walked closer. “Were you injured?”

“Only a little,” he said pathetically.

You should have seen our poor guardian; he fell to the floor dramatically. Puff told him, trying not to laugh

“Getting easily distracted,” Ash said, shaking his head at Mateo. “Wait until Martha finds out.”

“Frederick has already said he’s adding that to the training,” Gentzen told them, grinning.

Atticus touched Mateo’s arm. “Better luck next time.”