Triplet Alphas Gifted Luna novel Chapter 86

Triplet Alphas Gifted Luna Chapter 86

Postmortem

Thea and the triplets went to the oath room. Delta team and Alpha Ulric were waiting for them. It was becoming their unofficial meeting room. No one else used it, and it was special to them.

Someone had brought in a big dry erase board.

“Seems like we’re going to be having meetings like this on a regular basis,” Alaric said. “Maybe we should get this room set up officially?”

“Agreed,” Liam said. “I’ll see to it, Alpha.”

Once everyone settled, Thea looked at Liam. “Would you?” Thea said.

“Yes, Luna,” Liam said. He stood up and went to the front of the room. “What all do we need to cover today?”

“The girls,” Thea said.

“Defense against retaliation,” Maverick said.

“Let’s add Thea’s training to the list,” Alaric said.

“Thea’s gift,” Kai said.

“Last night’s op,” Conri said.

Liam wrote down each subject on the whiteboard.

“Anything else?” The room was silent. “Let’s start with a postmortem on the op itself.”

Sounds of agreement.

“Things ran smoothly,” Liam said. “Execution was pitch perfect excepting the end when we lost the Luna. Putting a pin in that, logistics were good. Communication was clear. Coordination good. Each pickup was where and when it was supposed to be. The crowd control weapons were great.”

“The pick up from Cold Moon, Eclipse, and Far Side went off without a hitch,” Owen said. “Storm Moon was fine because the Luna was able to take out the patrolman who caught the group.

Crescent Moon was where we had trouble.”

“I don’t know if Crescent Moon had more patrolmen than the other packs or if they already have a problem with people trying to escape, or if they were just unlucky with their timing,” Thea said.

“Delta team handled the situation perfectly,” Alaric said. “You took out all the patrolmen without lethal force, and we got all the refugees.”

“Delta team is a well-oiled machine,” Conri said. “We could probably use some practice with you guys if we’re doing more ops together.” He motioned to the triplets and Thea.

“Especially if I’m using my gift. I need to figure out what’s useful,” Thea said.

“It was useful when you told us what you sensed,” Liam said. “ Luna, will you take us through everything you did with your gift last night? Start with what you did to us at the beginning.”

Thea nodded. “Before we left, I pulled energy up from the Earth and funneled it into everyone to boost our senses, energy levels, focus.”

“That was nice,” Maverick said.

“It made a difference,” Liam said.

“Anytime you need something like that, just let me know,” Thea said. “It’s not difficult.”

“You were able to tell us where people were and if they were good or bad,” Liam said. “Tell us more about that.”

“I can sense life. Trees feel different from insects, feel different from animals, and so on. I could sense the people in the woods each time. On the second to last pickup, I sensed the group had stopped. They weren’t moving, and they were scared. Strong emotions like that are easier to pick up on. I isolated the one guy that wasn’t scared, just confused. I figured he was the patrolman. He caught them and questioned them. Just like funneling energy into you guys, I can drain it from others. I did that to him, but it didn’t do enough to let them escape. I felt into his brain and manipulated the brainwaves to put him to sleep. I felt him fall to the ground. Then the group ran.”

“You can put people to sleep?” Logan said.

“Looks that way,” Thea said.

“Will you show us?” Jonah said.

“Anyone willing to demonstrate?” Thea said.

Several Delta team members raised their hands. Thea remembered the sleeping brain wave pattern, reached into Maverick’s mind, and synced them up. Maverick slumped over onto Landon, who was sitting next to him.

“Woah,” Landon said. “He’s out.”

Thea felt into Landon’s brain and synced Maverick’s waves to

Landon’s. He woke up and shook his head.

“That was something,” Maverick said.

“What else can you sense? What can you do?” someone said. Thea thought for a moment and remembered his name was Ryker.

“I don’t know. I need to practice and experiment,” Thea said. “On the last pickup, I sensed the people running, scared, and other people chasing, not scared. I drained the patrolmen, and it slowed them a bit, and some of them stumbled and fell. It made them clumsy. I could feel where everyone was. I could sense the borders of the pack lands. When everyone was busy fighting, patrolmen caught the three girls. They started dragging them back. I felt their fear. That’s when I ran into the woods.”

“I don’t like how you ran off by yourself,” Conri said.

Thea sensed agreement from everyone in the room.

“I know. I won’t do it again,” Thea said.

“Why didn’t you just put them to sleep?” Kai said.

“I don’t know,” Thea said. “I didn’t think of it. I felt the girls’ fear, and I acted on instinct. I only just figured out how to put people to sleep. It’s not instinct yet.”

“Someone needs to stay on Thea at all times during ops,” Conri said. “So she can’t go off alone.”

Thea side-eyed Conri.

“If we had to kill someone, or one of us got killed, that could have taken you down,” Conri said. “We wouldn’t know where you were. You’d be defenseless. We don’t know enough about your gift yet. There needs to be someone with you all the time.”

“Someone is with me all the time,” Thea said.

“Not in an op situation,” Kai said. “No one was assigned to keep an eye on you, which is why you were able to slip away, and no one noticed. It’s different than your regular guard detail.”

“Alright,” Thea said. “I should have someone assigned to babysit me during ops.”

The room could tell they needed to work that out amongst themselves then let Thea know later.

“We should figure out how best to utilize Thea,” Alaric said. “If she can sense things at a distance, she may function best calling out what needs to be done.”

“Your gift should be priority number one,” Liam said. “You read the field, tell us where to go, where we’re needed. Like a watchtower. Play crowd control from afar. You get into the

fighting as a last resort. There are enough of us that we shouldn’t need you for that. Even though you’re one of our best fighters.

Your gift makes us all better.”

“I understand,” Thea said. “I need to practice what I should be doing. Maybe the old me would’ve known better what I should do, but I don’t have the experience. If we practice together, maybe you can tell me things to try with my gift, things that would be useful. See what all I can do.”

“We can devote time to it in training,” Kai said.

Everyone nodded.

“Speaking of training,” Alaric said. “We think it’s time for Thea to resume daily training. Since she shifted, her health seems fine.

She’s ready. Since she doesn’t remember anything, I’d feel better if she got back to it.”

“It’s also time to start training in her wolf form,” Alpha Ulric said. “All of you should be training in wolf form now. I know we’ve put some things on the back burner as Thea was healing.”

“Now we can get back to it,” Kai said.

“I need to practice using my gift too,” Thea said. “I know I need to relearn the physical fighting stuff, but I also need to devote time to the gift.”

Everyone nodded, thinking.

“Should we plan on resuming early morning training tomorrow?” Alaric said.

“Yes,” Kai, Conri, and Thea said.

“We’ll have four Delta team members with you each morning.

We’ll rotate through. Owen, would you get a schedule set up for that?” Liam said.

Owen nodded.

“We’ll start with physical stuff, then gift stuff, then work in ops training and everything else,” Liam said.

Everyone nodded.

“Keep in mind, after we graduate, we’ll have more time for practice,” Conri said.

“We’ll hit it hard after that,” Kai said.

“Anything else about the op itself?”

The room was silent.

“Update on the three girls,” Thea said. “I don’t know if they’re oracles, witches, gifted, or what, but they feel different from everyone else. Maybe I could feel into them while they’re having a vision, like I did with Mr. Garrity while he was thinking about work.”

“Tangent. Could you do that with us too?” Chase said. He was one of the guards on duty when Thea worked on Mr. Garrity. “Like while we’re tracking, you see what parts of our brain are involved, and then you boost them?”

“I don’t see why not,” Thea said. “Let’s get that worked into our schedule, yeah?”

Liam nodded, writing down notes.

“The girls are already predicting things,” Thea said. “This morning, they told me nothing would happen today, but I wouldn’t like Friday, and some future Alpha needs help. They’re kids, so their language is limited. It’s all very cryptic.”

“There’s nothing quite as creepy as kid prophets, is there?” Maverick said. A few of the men nodded in agreement.

“From what they’ve said, it’s clear the Alpha from Crescent Moon was using them,” Thea said. “He’s going to want them back. This is where my total lack of memory comes into play. What can we expect, and how do we prepare?”

“If Alpha Jett of Crescent Moon is serious enough, and he hears about the other packs that have slaves and omegas missing, he may try to form an alliance,” Landon said.

“I don’t think many would join him,” Maverick said. “I don’t think anyone else lost oracles. They probably wouldn’t think it was

worth it to attack. All our pack members have basic training, and we have ten times the numbers as any one pack. Our warriors are the best, and we basically have six Alpha-level wolves who fight. The odds are not in their favor.”

“Plus, we have alliances with other packs,” Alaric said. “We’re not alone.”

“And there are packs that would do anything to get in an alliance with us,” Kai said.

“That’s actually something else to consider,” Alpha Ulric said. “ They could attack our allies to get to us.”

That took Thea off guard.

“What can we do to protect our allies?” Thea said.

“Warn them,” Alpha Ulric said. “Send warriors to reinforce theirs. Try to head it off with diplomacy.”

“Worst case scenario, ” Thea said. “All six packs that lost members band together. What are the possibilities? What could or would they do?”