"Then show them you're not their enemy." He said calmly, leaning forward and kissed her forehead lovingly, his hand slipping down covering her bump as he purred just as affectionately, his icy eyes having a warmth to them. "If they don't like you...Well as Pierce would say they can go 'hit the bricks' you'll be fine." He said holding her close against his powerful chest, his entire body radiating heat before letting her go.
"It's almost five, they'll be here soon alright? Be yourself yeah?" He mused ruffling her hair with a crooked grin.
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Donder had shifted into wolf form, sitting on his rocky ledge among the wolves, most turned forms their pelts all sorts of different earthy colors, some with spots, saddles, socks, masks, and the like of their patterns, some solid like Donder minus the grey speckling his snout and bits around his pelt. As they seemed to be...Listening or talking to Donder, their ears and tail twitching as the majority watched their alpha, they stole a few glances at the vampire over by the house.
A white wolf, almost as big as Donder came from behind the house casually and laid down a few feet away from Alyssa looking bored as ever, keeping watch in case anyone had objected to Alyssa's presence. Pierce was stark white, furry on her legs and ruff around her neck but she was leaner, built for speed rather than power unlike her father, a more elegant yet still as deadly as she rested her head on her paws.
Donder made his exit with a good portion of the pack as they ran off into the woods for patrol, others stayed within and as he said before there were pairs of wolves around the border of the massive clearing keeping watch. Everyone else stayed in the clearing, some younger ones not shifted doing homework or playing a video game, reading and the like, talking amongst themselves and enjoying the food she had prepared and that Donder laid out before. Those not shifted laid with those who were, some laying on blankets in the grass over all it looked like a picnic, everything like normal...Minus the massive wolves laying and walking in the clearing, some younger ones sparring playfully.
And then came the pups Donder warned her about. About as tall as his knee, some larger than Kanto ran to Pierce, tackling the wolf biting her ears and scruff as she simply laid there with a grumpy look across her maw as they tore at her. She shot Alyssa a look that could read 'this is why I'm not a kid person.'
Soon however, they noticed Alyssa and let go of their beta and bumbled off to her, some tripping on their paws but getting up to greet her, sniffing and pawing at her, some looking up and turning their heads in question.
"They say you smell funny." A deep but kind voice said from behind her, a large bearded man dressed in flannel and jeans who looked like a lumberjack walked over to her and waved, a friendly, and somewhat adorable crooked smile across his face as he held out his hand, shooing some of the pups off with his foot. "I'm Curtis by the way, you must be Alyssa."