My eyes were already wide open when the toll bell chimes loudly, too loudly for my sensitive ears signaling of, course the end of the night and the beginning of a new day I was not at all grateful for .It was the day I was supposed to leave for the Blood moon pack . "Dang it! Must it always be this loud?" I muttered still feeling groggy . I groaned and tossed in my sheets refusing to leave the comfort of my bed. I was so exhausted, but then again I got tired easily especially whenever I used my telekinetic or telepathic abilities. Granted I have always been a little different even from birth. Mama says it's because I am special , born to two true pure bred wolves . Our pack is the second largest in the West and like I said earlier rivalled only by the Blood moon pack. Actually no pack on earth could ever come close to it . They had the largest wolf army along with many healers and witches , supernatural beings rare to find anywhere else especially in our time,but that pack had an army of them , loyal to the core, ready to fight , to give their lives to defend the pack. I've always had the theory that maybe just maybe some great old powerful witch had cast a spell on them to keep them obedient and subservient forever and they just didn't know it . Reason why they were so freakishly loyal to such a cruel alpha. "Anyways not my problem " I thought as long as I benefitted from that protection and loyalty I was good.
Truth be told , it really wasn't easy growing up in the were wolf world, having to hide from the humans, always having to bend in . Sure I had some human friends, only three really , who were as real as real could get and they still didn't even know what I was. It was hard , having to keep a part of me locked up. Still I had to doubt that even if they knew they would still love me a d accept me as I am .
Times were changing, tides were rising. I could feel it although I still couldn't exactly pinpoint what exactly was wrong. I couldn't quite get the hang of it as lately I had been having some problems with my visions. They weren't always accurate and lately I just had this terrible feeling that wouldn't go away no matter how hard I tried . Call it a gut feeling or something but I just couldn't seem to shake it off. I had a terrible feeling that something bad was coming or someone. It had gotten especially worse this morning and I wondered if it had anything to do with my leaving tonight. I was probably just been excessively paranoid as always.
I knew I had to go see Sade the seer as we often called her. She's an old member of our pack who has fought many battles along side my mother and father . She's a witch although she does not like to be called that . She prefers the term "healer" even though she does far more than just healing and is able to cast spells and unleash curses . Back in her day she was known as Sade the terrible. Methodical, cruel and a warrior she helped us in one of the most vicious battles our pack had ever experienced. The battle with the rogues. Ever since she lost her family in that battle , Sade has been more of an outcast among those of her kind and isn't very fun of the wizarding world or her counterparts. Since the moment I turned 16 and discovered my telepathic abilities, she's been showing me how to control them as well as use them . She has also been telling me stories and old lores even forbidden topics not mentioned in the pack. I've learnt quite a lot about my world through her .
They say the eye is a window through which one's soul can be viewed or looked into . In the werewolf world, the color of the eye of one's wolf told a lot of things. Like alphas were supposed to have red eyes .Lunas too but with the alpha's it was said that the more carnage and destruction they caused the redder their wolf's eye got thing with the more kills an alpha made . The color of a betas wolf was supposed to be blue, a step down from the vicious red of an alpha. The gammas wolf had green eyes while the rest of the wolves just had normal brown eyes. But of course there's always an exception to every rule made and in this case the rogues were the exception. Sade often said that it was because they often had no pack, no bond, no humanity left in them often being more animal than human that was why more often than not they killed to a point that their eyes became a pool of soulless dark orbs .
Another valuable information I got from Sade was about the rogues. They were a source of constant threat to the peace pact treaty signed eons of years ago with the humans. They were basically werewolves who had been exiled or abandoned by their pack. Some just willingly walked away from their pack all by themselves. . They were also known to be mentally unstable and that was why their blood lust Increased. They just had an insatiable urge to kill and maim. Often going on rampages.
As for the wolf hunters they crafted a fancy name for themselves known as the Drakkar but really they were just a band of humans who arose and became wolf hunters . The Drakkar actually went as far back as near the existence of us wolves. Their existence were known only to a select few even among the humans. They were like a secret cult and their code was " we hunt those who hunt us ". But I call bullshit on that their motto or whatever. I especially thought of them as radicals , extremists, and looney bins who found any excuse to hunt down wolves even small harmless pups.
It was said that they first came to know about the existence of wolves through the carelessness and mistake of one of our own . It all began when one of our own Kaia fell in love with Idris a human many many years ago. Idris was already a hunter who hunted and killed anything in the forest just for the sheer pleasure of it . He enjoyed the thrill hunting gave him , the quest for blood, the hunger for it. He came to kaia's pack because he'd heard the rumours that they were supernatural beings there . He was good looking tall , muscular and I great shape physically. He met Kaia through chance . His great charm and charisma had her head over heels for him in no time . He had to put in great effort so as to obtain the information he needed while Kaia blinded by love revealed what she was and told him everything there was to know about wolves, our strengths as well as our weakness and he informed his family as well as some other humans . One night , they stormed her pack , with wolves bane, bullets ,made of silver , bombs and grenade killing everyone and every thing they saw and then setting fire to the pack house. Kaia managed to escape but she paid a terrible price for her love. It cost her her home, village, pack as well as her friends and family. In a fit of range she single handedly stormed his family home and killed everyone there but unluckily for her Idris wasn't home. When he returned and found out what had happened he joined forces with a small group of like minded humans and took an oath to kill every wolf found. In essence " hunt those who hunt us." They even made a blood oath. What he didn't know until later was that Kaia was pregnant with his child Adrian. His first born son.
Nature has a very funny way of working because little did he know that his son was part wolf the very thing he took a blood oath to destroy.
Adrian grew up with his mother living as rogues
Together they developed a great hate against humans killing any who crossed their way .
Ultimately it was Adrian who killed his father Idris
He bit him , tortured him and left him to bleed on some cold dark mountain. It was indeed terrible what had happened, a love story gone wrong. How tragic that was!
Sighing I made a mental note to go see Sade before departing . Next up was finally getting up from bed and making it to breakfast calmly with my mom and dad without getting hysterical or doing something crazy like running away and boy did I consider it. I spent most of the day packing my clothes and some of my favourite books and then a little time saying goodbye to some close friends in the pack.
My father even arranged a littleow key party to celebrate my departure as well as our union with the strongest pack ever ... The Blood moon pack . I deliberately decided to miss the party because for starters I wasn't particularly happy about the whole arrangement and decided to go see Sade instead .
I put on some cloak and made my way slowly through the forest. As if sharing my plight there was no moon or star in sight just plain darkness and an owl hooting .
I still had this bad feeling. It was getting so intense making me extremely nauseous. I knew then that something was wrong. My ability to sense things had never affected me physically. My head was spinning and I could barely see straight . Below me a pretty little colourful butterfly fluttered up from a patch of a tall dead grass and danced dangerously close to my face just before disappearing into the dark. Still I should have know , should have sensed it , what with my senses going haywire all day but I didn't not until it was too late ,until those damn wolf hunters the Drakkar came after me, hunting me down with their silver bullets and arrows like I was a goddamn dog..
The next thing I heard was the sound of a gunshot "boom " and then chaos ensued.