Chosen by Fate, Rejected by the Alpha

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Trinity

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It had been relatively quick to get all the magic users here for the meeting. There were far less of them than there was of anyone else. Now though, I needed to bring in all the shifters. However, there was no way in hell that I was going to fit all of them into the castle at once. It was big but there were a lot of shifters in the world.

Just the wolf shifters of the world made up for like a third of the world's population. Yeah, I was only bringing in the Alphas and Prime Betas, but still, I needed to meet with them all. For that matter, I thought I would get the wolves done first since they would take the longest. I was going to bring in all the Prime Betas and small pack Alphas first. They would receive their information and ranks as the Ancillary Nobles. Following them I would call in the future Central Noble wolves and then finally the High Noble wolves.

These meetings would happen slowly over the course of about a week. I would most likely have them all here for one night, two at max. That would give me time to talk to them, explain things to them, and then assign them their rank and duties.

When I called them all, mentally of course, they were shocked to say the least. I did it as a one way conversation where they could only listen to me and not respond at all. Once again, Noah and Gabriel prepared transportation for them all to get to us and they were given no more than twenty-four hours to get here.

I have to admit, feeling the shock that they felt when I spoke to them and imagining the stunned looks on their faces was actually pretty funny. I have seen first hand what a person's face looks like when they hear me talk to them inside their head for the first time. And imagining a few hundred of those faces happening all over the world at the same time was hilarious.

I was happy, all in all, with how the meetings with the wolves went. It had actually taken me a week and a half because there were so many of them all scattered all over the world. Not to mention, I was really glad I spoke multiple languages. It helped me a lot when I was trying to contact them all.

In the end though, all the ranks had been assigned and the future duties had been briefly discussed. The things about the nobles, especially when it came to the wolves, was that they all couldn't come to the meetings that I had planned to do quarterly. So, instead I would send the High Nobles to go and see the others, or have them visit the High Nobles. During those visits the High Nobles would gather information about what had been going on for the last few months and then report it all to me when they came for the meeting. This would also happen with the other species as well. I simply couldn't house them all in my castle at once. I would need to grow it from forty thousand square meters to four hundred thousand square meters just to do that, and even then it might be too small. And that would actually make it the largest building in the world, even bigger than the Boeing factory. That one is only three hundred and ninety-eight thousand square meters.

Though, if I added that much square footage and it was all Noble guest rooms I would be able to put approximately four thousand three hundred more rooms, give or take a little. Perhaps I could build one of those customizable spaces out behind the castle. It would look small on the outside but it would be the largest building in the world on the inside. That could work, possibly. It would only need to be used during the big visits. Hmm, it was something to think about. Then again, if I did that then my castle chefs would have to cook for all of them as well and I don't really think that would be fair to them.

Nope, I am sticking with the High Nobles only coming here. That would be way more than enough to burden the staff with considering that there were still going to be a good chunk of them as well.

After the wolves had their turn I called in the Felines, who already had both their council members chosen, and then the Bears who also already had their members chosen. I was making this as simple for me as possible in the beginning. I didn't want to tell any of these people that they could be on the council since their seats had been chosen in advance.

Oh, and there are so few Feline and Bear packs that I was able to call all of their Alphas to the castle at once. They weren't oppositional to me at all since Landon and Trevor had laid the groundwork for me before they were called in. It was easier with them because they knew what to expect. 

I called in the Avians, or bird shifters after the bears. I have dealt with them before and so it made things a little easier as well. Well, I have dealt with one pack of them anyway. There were less bird shifters than either of the groups that I had called already. And I hadn't chosen any of them to fill in the council at all.

I had worked with Noir before, she was the Alpha of the birds that were closest to us. She and her people had fought with us in the Battle of Edmond, or so everyone had come to call it. She was a capable person but she liked to keep to herself. She was the only person that I could think of to put on the council so far. And considering that there were only nineteen bird clans or packs worldwide she was probably one of the best options as well. Though, I would need to speak to them all first.

That group was also very quick to go through. And sure enough, Noir was the first bird shifter to join the council. The other bird to join us was an eagle shifter by the name of Arno Darvell.

Now that those shifter groups were done, it was time to call in all the others. And these were the groups that I have never even met someone from. This was going to be very interesting if you ask me.

Still, this was my responsibility and I would see it through. I wasn't about to shirk my duties or turn my back on it because I had never dealt with a sea shifter or reptilian shifter before. Nope, that was still my domain, they were still my people. And, for better or worse, I was going to have to lead them just as much as the others.

The kicker here though, was that none of them knew about me yet. Most of the mammal shifters tended to stick to their own and the same went with the non mammal shifters.. We didn't have much communication with them all that often if ever.