Hi guys! I know, it's been a really long time since I last updated, I honestly am sorry about that. I promised to update soon, that went out the window. My focus shifted 100% to the stories on Wattpad, I wanted to finish the series there first before coming back here, but obviously that didn't work.

Not only did I lose motivation to write on Fanfiction, to write Benlos, Kogan and Jarlos, I also lost motivation to finish the stories in Wattpad. That added with the whole new schedule and the fact that I can't stay up past 9 anymore because I get sleepy easily makes it so much harder.

To tell everyone the truth…

I was planning on giving up writing all together just a few days ago, though I was contemplating it at the time, until a notification came up on my phone. A Gmail notification.

I checked it and saw a few new reviews for Auradon's Magic, and honestly, it just made me that much happier. There were only like 2 new reviews, but what made me happy was that peoples actually like to read this.

I've been doubting myself for quite some time now, even when I started, but seeing those reviews just… It made my day.

Not that I was having a bad one.

I was motivationless up to the point where forcing myself to write new chapters just didn't work anymore, and I really didn't want to disappoint anyone, but I also didn't want to keep doing something I don't want to, up to a point where I had to force myself to do something that even I don't know the worth of.

Anyways, thank you so much DoNote3 and 8669 for your reviews, I really appreciate it.

I almost ever check my Gmail, so I didn't really notice the new favs and follows, I'd also like to thank all of you. I've gained a bit of my motivation back, enough to push this new chapter out, and all credit goes to all of you for bringing writing life back into me again, so once again,

Thank you.


Chapter 10 =Mate?=

Carlos' POV

"Hey pup." Ben greeted as he entered our bedroom, "Hii." I replied lazily with a smile, it's been about a week since the whole Octopus King fight and everyone's seemed to heal up.

It has also been quite a boring week. I mean in the first two days it was hard to move around with so much pain, but afterwards, things seemed to be back to normal.

Normal as in no more magic bolts flying around and stuff.

Part of me wanted to keep battling, another part wanted to just study, then spend time with Ben. "You seem happy." He pointed out as he climbed onto the bed, I maneuvered to his back and gave him a quick shoulder massage, feeling his muscles relax.

I know how tired he's been lately with the whole King Meeting thing, I insisted on going with him, but he always declines saying 'It's better for you to stay here.' Or 'I'll be really boring.'

I really don't mind though, least' I get more time with him. "Sorry for not being around lately." He said as he laid down on my lap, smiling apologetically.

"It's fine Ben, the kingdom is more important. Plus, I've also been busy with studying lately." I lied, a frown grew on his face. "You know that's not true, Carlos." He said, leaning upwards then pulling me into a snuggling position.

"You're much, much more important to me." He said with a smile filled with so much adoration, if this was around my first week of being with him, I'd be crying. Instead, I smiled back and added, "You can't abandon the kingdom for me." I said as I laid my head on his shoulder.

That's how the rest of the day went by, and honestly, I couldn't have asked for anything else. I miss spending alone time with him like this.

-That Night…-

As soon as I turn off the light on the nightstand, Ben pulled me onto his chest and clung onto me tight. "G'night." He whispered with a smile.

With a chuckle and a similar smile, "G'night to you too." I whisper back to him.

-The Next Day…-

I managed to wake up earlier than Ben today so I quickly got up and showered, then picked out decent clothes. "Well you're up early." He said as he yawned and stretched. "I'm going to that meeting with you today." I said with a big grin, "You can't say no either because one, I have nothing to do, two, I've already showered and dressed for it." I added with the same grin.

He let out a sigh, "Fiinneee. Don't complain to me if it's boring." He said with a big smile before quickly placing a kiss on my forehead, "I'm gonna go shower." He said before walking away.

Knocks came from the door while he was showering, "Wait." I yelled before rushing towards the door. "You're well dressed." Doug commented once I open the door. "Oh uh, yeah. What's up?" I asked as he glanced at the empty bed behind me.

"I was wondering if you and Ben wanna come with us today and test out the new equipment? Since it's Saturday and stuff and we finally get some time off." He explained with a small smile, an apologetic smile grew on my face, "So sorry Doug, Ben has a meeting today. Again. I'm coming with him this time, I wanna see what they discuss about today." I apologized.

He nodded with an understanding smile, "Alright, tell Ben I said hi." He said with a smile before I nodded then closed the door with a smile as well. "Who was that?" Ben asked in a deep whisper voice, causing me to squeal in fright as I turn around, seeing him in his naked and slightly wet glory.

"B-B-Ben!" I stuttered, scowling at him. A smirk grew on his face as he attacked my lips, I Kissed back with just as much passion and heat. "B-Ben, n-not n-now." I stuttered, placing both hands on his firm chests, "W-We've a m-meeting…" I added, hopefully I'll be able to get him out of his heated state.

As much as I'd love to have him make love to me right now, it would make us late for the meeting, which could bring Ben's name down. "I love you so much." He said with a big smile as he placed a kiss on my forehead, "You're just perfect, Carlos." He continued, I was a bit surprised it actually worked.

"I'm not perfect." I said, looking into his beautiful brown eyes with a sad sigh. "But you are." He added, giving me a chaste kiss before walking away with a small smile. "I just wanted to say we've like 5 minutes left anyways." He added with a wink, walking towards his wardrobe and pulling out clothes that matched mine.

"What?!" I yelled in disbelief as he put on his clothes, "Yep." He added with a mischievous grin. "Oh we're not gonna be late." I said with a big frown, swooping Ben up into my arms, effectively startling him, then shifting to my Yellow Werewolf form. "What-" Before he could say anything, I took off with no warning, warping through the wall and running as fast as I possibly could to the castle.

"Carlos!" He yelled as I made an abrupt stop in-front of the giant castle doors, "Halt!" The guards yelled in defense as I stopped. "Don't attack!" Ben quickly yelled as I put him down, morphing back to my previous state.

"We're not gonna be late to anything, especially a meeting." I said with a scowl, scolding him. He let out a chuckle, "I guess." He said before entering then led me to the meeting room.

"I was afraid you'd be absent today." King Beast said with a sigh, looking at Ben with disbelief. "Why are you here, honey?" Queen Belle asked curiously as I stood next to Ben, looking around the room. The rest of the seats were filled with the current Kings, like King Charming, King Aladdin and so.

"C'mon pup." Ben said with a warm smile as he took my hand and led me to our seat.

"Alright so Kings, and children-" Ben glared at his father who seemed to ignore him, "-we've gathered yet again today to discuss about the attack that's been going on recently." I lifted a brow at Ben, who shrugged at me.

"Is this what you guys have been discussing for god knows how long?" I asked, looking at Ben in curiosity. He nodded before turning his head towards the table, which now had a 3D hologram on it. "Alright so the red marks are the previous attack routes, the yellow ones are what happened last night." King Beast continued as he drew the paths on the hologram, the rest of the kings studied the holo-map intently.

"Is it me or is it forming a pattern?" Ben whispered, pointing at the recent and old routes.

I nodded, studying while the others discussed.

A few of the older attack routes were messy, but I could see how it was used to cover up the four main ones. "They're headed towards the school?" I asked Ben, pointing at the 3 previous attacks and the one recent attack. "Look, they're split up and all headed for the school. The rest of them are just there to cover it up."

Ben nodded, staring at the holo-map. "You're right!" He exclaimed with a big smile, giving me a full on kiss after earning everyone's attention. "Dad, they're headed for the school. Look, these ones are just cover ups-" He pointed towards the old routes, "While these four ones are the ones headed for the school." He continued with a big proud grin, "Carlos discovered it." He said, pulling me close and smiling proudly.

"You're very right there." King Beast stated, we came up with a plan for countering the attackers. Honestly, nobody told us what we were up against.

-That Night…-

"Alright guys, get ready." I told the rest of the team through mind link. We split up into a few groups around the school, there were quite a few possibilities for the location of the next attack, so we couldn't just pick one place to guard.

Out of the dark-blue, howls came from multiple places, "They're coming." King Beast warned us through our small communication devices, immediately Ben and I prepared ourselves for a fight, with the glowing golden sword in his hand.

Creatures began emerging from behind the trees of the forest in-front of us, "A-Are those werewolves?!" Ben exclaimed in disbelief as werewolves emerged from behind the trees.

They weren't your regular white, grey nor black werewolves, no. The ones coming from behind the trees were either red, crimson red, yellow as in dark-gold yellow or blue as in midnight ocean blue.

"Uh pup…" Ben said cautiously, "They kinda look like you when you're in your wolf form." He pointed out, holding my hand a bit more tightly. "Doesn't really matter though." I shrugged it off, I knew I'm not the only one whose like this.

"Really?" Ben asked in slight disbelief, I smiled slightly and gave him a quick peck, "Hell, even if they're my 'real' family, I probably wouldn't care." I said, putting air-quotes on the word 'real'.

-Approximately 20 seconds later…-

"Well that was easy." I commented with a shrug, taking down the last of the wolves. "Except for that one." Ben pointed at one of the wolves hiding behind a tree, who growled once our attentions were on him. "Are you gonna come out or what?" I asked, both arms on my waist.

Out of the dark-blue, said wolf let out a loud howl, eyes straight up at the moon, which wasn't a full moon by the way. "What the hell?" Ben asked out loud when suddenly, the wolves from the other groups appeared in-front of us.

"There's more?!" I exclaimed in disbelief, scanning the area. Seems like the one we just took down is only ¼ of the original pack.

"Finally we've found him!" One of the wolves emerged, only he had white fur. Snow white.

"My mate." He declared with a smirk, causing my jaw to drop onto the ground and Ben to let out an insane growl. "Excuse me?" I asked in disbelief, this white-furred werewolf is my mate?

"Finally I've found you after searching for so long, why are you in this pathetic form, love?" The snowy wolf continued. I heard Ben let out another growl, then saw his grip tighten on his sword. "Uh, I don't know who the hell you are, but you are not my mate. In fact, I've already found my mate." I explained, holding Ben's hand.

"But we're destined to be together!" He exclaimed in fury, "Not you and that pathetic c-" I didn't even let him finish, I conjured a substitute hand and just slapped him, earning gasps from the others, "Call him pathetic again and I'll bury you myself." I growled, not even sure where all this anger is coming from.

"If you were my mate, you would've found me 17 years ago. Or at least earlier than this." I stated with a big frown. "If I have to knock some senses into you, then so be it." He said before disappearing, "I'll deal with this." I told Ben, who nodded with a warm smile. "Knock some senses into him will ya? You're mine." He said with a smirk.

I rolled my eyes but couldn't help but smile, "I will." I said before spotting the wolf whose name I've yet to learn using my Invisible Eye.

I managed to stop him before he could get close to Ben, "This is between you and me." I warned, sending both of us further away from Ben using teleportation. I morphed to my wolf form, I expected to morph into one of the three colors, but what I got was a tri-colored fur. The rest of my body was light gold, my paws were flames red, my stomach and the outside of my eyes were sea blue, each color mixing well with the other.

I couldn't land a hit on snowy, but he couldn't land a hit on me either. We were on par with strength and speed. As for magic, he wasn't able to use magic, but he was able to dodge mine. Somehow.

A pillar of flame I conjured finally hit him, a relieved smile grew on my face once I realize that I can land a hit on him. "When will you understand, darling?" The cocky wolf asked with a smirk, "My fur is made of anti-magic essence." He paused for a bit before looking behind me, "Now I'll give you two options. One, come with me and be my mate, in addition, be the alpha of our pack, or Two, I'll take you by force and kill your 'boyfriend' at the same time." He said, pointing towards Ben, who at the moment was having trouble against the rest of the wolves.

I watched as one of the wolves clawed on his skin, ripping his clothes and causing blood to trickle out. It looked like it was painful enough to leave a permanent mark, based on his expression.

Adrenaline immediately filled my blood, and let me tell you, there was already a lot before. I watched as Ben clutched over in pain, dropping the golden sword in his hand. I felt my left eye twitch along with my fist as blind rage took over.

My vision slowly became red as my body acted on its own, both of my fists glowing a crimson red color. The wolf close to Ben began floating, once they were high enough, loud bone crushing noises were heard.

I had twisted their body hard enough to break their bones.

That thought flew out my window as I began on a mad dash towards Ben, who was still recovering from the earlier blow. The wolves who tried to stop me died right there on the spot, either their bones twisted or their heads just got cut off by some invisible force.

I returned to my original self once I was next to Ben, holding his hand and immediately placing a kiss on him. His body began glowing a light blue color and I realized the wound healed, but it left a mark. Or rather, 5 marks.

"You worried me there." I said with a small smile, tears forming in my face. "I would've survived it anyways." Ben smiled warmly before kissing my forehead, everyone else became quiet. "Let's continue, yeah?" Ben asked as I picked up his sword, handing it to him with a smile.

This time, it was his turn to make the first move, and boy was I surprised by it.

I watched as thousands of pitch black magic swords conjured out of thin air around us before flying towards the wolves. Said swords landed on quite a lot of them, but instead of cutting their limbs off or causing bleeding, the swords warped them into non-existence.

"Well… At least there's less blood." I said with a small shrug, I could see the snowy wolf was furious. "He is my mate!" The wolf growled, immediately Ben started levitating and dropped his sword.

He was being chocked through telekinesis, I was wrong about the snow wolf not being able to use magic. I'm not letting him hurt Ben again, so in the blink of an eye, I was behind said werewolf.

With both palms on his back, I growled, "Nobody hurts any of my friends." Causing his eyes to blow wide and he dropped Ben onto the grass, an orb of ice formed behind him which entered his body, a few seconds later, his limbs all turned into ice.

"I would kill you, but these wolves need their leaders. Leave. Now." I warned, then I spotted something glowing in his left hand. I honestly had no idea how the hell I missed that earlier, but I knew full well what that was.

I took the gem from him, "I'll be taking this." I said.

"But you are my mate!" The wolf exclaimed furiously. "Well sorry your highness, but I've already found my mate. I'm your mate but you're not mine." I said with a frown, teleporting next to Ben again. I watched as the snowy wolf frowned sadly as the blue-furred wolves moved next to him and began melting the ice with their magic.

I also watched as the rest of the wolves nodded at him, then slowly retreating into the forest until they were all gone, except for snow-wolf.

He moved next to me, but I could tell he had no ill intention this time. "I guess I've been beaten by you." He frowned sadly, "You would've made a great addition to the pack, Carlos." The wolf continued, shaking his head.

Ben smiled, "You should stop by some time, surely we could form an alliance with whatever pack you're ruling." He said, earning a jaw-drop from me and a surprised look from the wolf. The wolf smiled afterwards, and I have to say, it was quite beautiful. "I see why you've chosen him over me, forgive me for my rash actions. I was too excited to see my mate…" he trailed off, I had a hard time believing this is the same living creature that attacked us just a few minutes ago.

"I suppose I should introduce myself before leaving." He said with that same smile. "I am Evnett Zender, alpha of the Full Moon pack." He said, extending a hand which Ben shook. I carefully observed him, even though his aura told me he had no ill intention, I was still wary. If you're good at using magic, you could easily disguise your aura.

"I'm sorry about this, alpha. I'm not your true mate. You'll find it him one day, I'm sure about that." I said in a gentle voice and a smile, seeing his eye twinkle the same way Ben's would afterwards. Another smile grew on his face, "I shall be leaving. We'll discuss about an alliance soon, once I find my true mate." The wolf continued before running into the forest and disappearing.

"Well that was a huge turn of events." Ben pointed out with a sigh once everyone was gone and somehow the area was clean of corpses. He took off his shirt afterwards, revealing his glorious body now adorned with 5 claw scars.

"How do I look?" He asked, running his fingers down the scars. "I think you look sexier." I said with a teasing lip-lick. He chuckled before picking up his sword, which returned to its charm-state.

"Hey Fairy Godmother." I contacted the Fairy Godmother through mind-linking, "How did it go?" She asked in a worried tone. "Take a guess." I said with a small smile, teleporting the new gem to wherever she currently was.

"Oh, well, congratulations then. I guess everything went perfect." She said, obviously happy. "Ben and I will be out here for a bit longer." I simply told her before cutting the link and looking at Ben, who sat on the grassy ground and stared at the starry sky.

"We should go back to the enchanted lake sometime." He commented after snuggling me. I nodded, it has been quite some time since we visited that place.

We continued talking and spending some alone time under the stars for about 35 more minutes until I saw Ben stifle a yawn. "We should go back." I said with a sigh, I really didn't want this moment to end. "Can't we stay?" Ben asked, his small frown hinted disappointment.

"I saw that yawn, so nope." I shook my head with a small grin, teleporting both of us back to Ben's room. "I guess we should go to sleep now." Ben yawned after saying that, I nodded.

"G'night love." He said with a smile evident in his voice, "G'night to you too, love." I replied. It didn't take long for him to fall asleep, but it took a bit longer for me.

I couldn't help but think, was I really Evnett's mate? Or at least was I supposed to be?

Honestly, it doesn't matter anymore. Ben's mine and I'm his, and that's final. I am wondering though, will he propose to me any time soon?

Actually, never mind that. It's far too soon for that.