The Royal Mark-Chapter 135: Oath as Luna

Elsa woke up sore, as always, just like every time she wakes up for the last five days. And today marks the end of their mating ritual. For the first time, she opened up her eyes with her husband right beside her sleeping and not burning his energy off while waiting for her to wake up and get inside her again.

She turned to her side and faced Chris who was peacefully sleeping. She just realized that this was also the first time she had seen him sleeping at all. He would always wake up before her, or does he even sleep at all? But for now, she would just enjoy the sight of him so peaceful in dreamland.

’So handsome...’ she thought, as she traced his lips, nose, and eyes.

"If that’s your way of waking up your husband, you better add some kiss too," Chris jested. "Good morning, my beautiful wife."

Elsa gave him a kiss before greeting him back, "Good Morning, my handsome husband. Are you going to teach me how to close off my link to you and others?"

"Yes, I will, after we take a bath. How do you feel?" He then ran his hand on Elsa’s inner thigh, "Does this feel sore?"

Elsa laughed, knowing what was on his mind. "Oh my God! I thought your horniness ended last night but I guess not. Tell me is the mating ritual real or it was just an excuse to lock me up in this villa for five days?"

Chris chuckled at her thoughts, "My love I would really love that idea. Locking you up for days just to be with you doesn’t require an excuse. I will surely do that when we get our kingdom back. I will lock ourselves up for weeks and we will do nothing but just fuck each other’s brains out. What do you say?" He then waggles his eyebrows and bit his lower lip, waiting for Elsa’s reply.

"Sounds good to me. Let’s do that. But I want Rylie’s healing water by then."

"Speaking of healing water, the tub is ready. They went here at dawn to prepare it. Hoven was even nagging me to take you back to the castle as soon as we woke up. So, let’s go!"

"Ah!~"

Elsa shrieked when Chris suddenly scooped her from the bed to bring her to the tub.

Outside the villa, the rest are waiting for the couple to escort them back to do the Luna ritual for Elsa where she will be officially coronated as Arcanis’ Crown Princess and Luna of the Crimson Moon Pack or at least to the citizens of Arcanis who still believes that Chris is the rightful heir of the throne.

"Arla, I, and the priestess need to go first to finish the preparation. Can you handle it from here?" Hoven said.

"Of course, I can. This is our land, Hoven, we know this better than anyone. Besides, we have Laureen, Lexi, and the dogs. They will be able to sense any danger that us humans can’t."

"We’ll be going then... Lexi inform me when you leave the villa so we can get ready for the ritual." Lexi nodded before Hoven mounted his horse and left.

Arla paced back and forth in front of the villa gate and was getting impatient food the sun was already shining bright and Elsa and Chris still hadn’t come out of the house. "What is taking them so long? Are you sure Hoven told Chris that the ceremony is in the morning and not at night?" She asked Laureen.

"Oh, come on, Arla. Those two just got married, so do you really have to ask what are they doing in there? You know that we werewolves have higher sex drives than humans. Right, Lexi?"

Everyone looked at Lexi who instantly turned red after seeing Baahu look at her too.

"R-Right... We do..." Lexi replied shyly, as she lowered her head.

After a few more minutes Chris and Elsa emerged from the villa and her dogs happily greeted them.

[Thank God, it’s over. I thought we were never gonna see you again.] Gaia said licking Elsa’s face.

[Did that beast hurt you? Are you ok?] Nile asked making Elsa chuckle.

’No, he was very caring,’ she answered before looking at Nuri who was not as enthusiastic as the others.

"Nuri, come," she commanded but Nuri stayed in place.

[Let her be. She’s just sulking about you, taking a while to master your fire element.] Ciel said.

’Don’t worry Nuri, after the ceremony I’ll get right on it,’ Elsa said.

[You promise?] Nuri asked while finally slowly walking to Elsa.

’Yes, I do. Now let’s go back to the castle,’ Elsa then took Chris’ extended hand to help her mount their horse.

"Tomorrow, your first assignment is to learn how to ride a horse," Chris said before prompting the horse to gallop.

"You don’t want to ride with me anymore, husband?" Elsa joked causing Chris to laugh.

"Not that I don’t want to especially if we can take a detour again," Chris said with a smirk and squeezed Elsa’s thigh.

"Don’t you dare, Mr. Jorgensen!"

Chris laughed out loud after feeling the panic within her while her heart beat faster causing Lauren and Lexi to look at them.

’Can you not flirt with your wife in front of us? Be considerate of single people like us,’ Lexi said via their link causing Chris to laugh more.

’You surely are happy,’ Elsa commented through their link after seeing Chris in that blissful mood.

’Because you make me happy, Elsa. I never thought that I would actually meet my mate and be happy like this. Before, I thought that being a fair ruler and marrying Hera would be enough. But then you came and my life couldn’t be more perfect,’ Chris replied.

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Elsa’s coronation as Luna took place in the great hall of Rügengard Castle. Her ladies-in-waiting did not waste any moment of dressing her up for the event. They made her wear a white gown with a white fur cloak.

"That’s our queen’s ceremonial cloak. Similar to the Prince’s fur cloak," Lexi said.

"So, she’s a wife wolf. I bet she’s very beautiful," Elsa said while admiring herself and the cloak in the mirror.

"She was. She looks exactly like Princess Neia, while the prince looks like his father and his uncle," Laureen said whose face turned sour after mentioning the word uncle.

"Now, let’s go. Your Alpha is waiting downstairs and so are the other werewolves," Laureen added.

All of them headed to the great hall and Elsa was overwhelmed with the number of werewolves present in the hall. It was more than what she saw in the camps for their number even overflowed outside the doors of the hall.

"Why are there so many people?" she asked Laureen.

"All the alphas are here even those on the battlefield went here for a while, just for this occasion. And a lot of refugees who are not fighting went here just to see you and submit themselves to you as their Luna," Laureen explained.

Elsa jolted when Chris took her hand. She was lost in the moment and staring at the crowd before her with unshed tears in her eyes.

"Are you ready, love?" Chris asked, rubbing her back to make her relax.

"I guess. It is now or never. Let’s do this."

"Okay. First, close off your link just like what we practiced in the bath chamber earlier. Because if not, their congratulations will flood in later and that will be overwhelming and could possibly make you dizzy," Chris said.

Elsa immediately shut off her mind link and walked with Chris toward the priestess who also performed the mating ritual.

When they reached the priestess, she took Elsa’s hand and gestured for Chris to stand on the opposite side before taking his hand as well. She started chanting the ceremonial verses and made Elsa repeat after her on taking her oath as Luna.

After the oath-taking, the priestess took a knife and cut on Chris’ palm. Chris clenched his fist making the blood flow and drip into a golden cup. Once done, the priestess took Elsa’s hand but she hesitated and had a pained expression on her face.

"It’s ok, my love. Take my hand," Chris offered his hand and Elsa took it. She frowned when the priestess cut through her palm not because it was painful but because she did not feel any pain.

She looked at Chris and saw tiny black veins on his neck, indicating that he was taking her pain.

Chris saw the worry in her eyes and said, "Piece of cake. Does not hurt at all."

Elsa smiled back knowing that it was really not that painful for a werewolf like him. She then clenched her fist letting her blood drop into the golden cup.

The priestess uttered more words before handing the cup to Chris. He took a drink and handed it to Elsa, who did the same.

"Chris... I don’t feel good... Ahh!" Elsa touched the mark on her neck. She then looked at Chris who had a surprised look on his face.

"Y-Your mating mark is glowing," Chris uttered before they heard the other werewolves also groaning in pain.