Chapter:-4

“Oh my god, Sebestian!” Sam shouted as he noticed his alpha in the corner. He ran over to lift an arm around his shoulder so he could support him.

Sebestian lifted his head as best he could, “I’ll be okay everyone. Just need some time to heal.”

He found himself surrounded by his pack mates trying to help treat his injuries. “Please… I promise I will be okay… Honest, being with all of you is already helping. I can feel myself healing faster.”

It took about an hour for the group to get re-oriented. They stashed some extra clothing nearby with some medical supplies. Once everyone was clothed and wounds wrapped they focused their attentions back to getting to the camp.

Sebestian could hear the trapped wolf snarling in the corner. His pack had him trapped against a large tree with nowhere to go. “Has he calmed down at all yet?”

“No, Alpha. He won’t even shift back, I’ve been trying to reason with it for an hour now. I’m starting to think we should just kill it,” Pink grumbled as she narrowed her eyes at the wolf.

Sebestian approached the wolf slowly and glowed his eyes red causing the wolf to whimper, “Now, now Pink. You know how convincing I can be.”

“We don’t want to hurt you, I think enough blood has been spilled tonight. We do however want to see your camp to ensure that the rest of your pack has been dealt with,” Sebestian explains.

He crouches in front of him in order to get on a more even level. “Kelly tells me that you backed away from her instead of engaging her in a fight. Why don’t you shift so that we can have a real conversation about how to proceed, perhaps there is a way to get through this that doesn’t involve your death.”

The wolf’s ears no doubt perked up when Sebestian had mentioned he would not be getting slaughter just yet. He quickly transformed back into his human form.

He was a plain looking man with long brown hair and definitely looked to be living in the woods for a prolonged period of time. “Please, alpha. Please… don’t kill me. I had only been with this pack for a couple of years. I was still a low ranked beta, I didn’t have any hand in the decisions being made.”

Sebestian lifted his eyebrows at the new information. “If I let you live and took you in under a trial basis, would you be willing to show us where your camp is?”

The man shook his head in agreement, eyes widened to the thought of joining a new pack.

“What is your name?”

“It’s Rufus, Alpha. Our camp is this way, a couple miles ahead. There is no one else left there, I swear I’m telling you the truth.”

Sebestian gestured for the group to head in the direction stated, “Well I would like to see that for myself, Rufus, so please join us.”

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The camp was closer than they thought, there was a large fire pit in the middle of the camp that was still smoldering. There were several tents surrounding the pit of varying sizes where the wolves must have slept.

Overall the camp looked fairly normal, but if you looked closely enough it slowly turned into something else, something that made Sebestian stomach turn sour.

In a corner, laid a pile of bones built up as tall as a tree. There was a wooden frame covered in scratch marks that appeared to have ropes attached to it in which someone could be tied up in all different types of positions, and there was a large metal brand glowing red in the fire.

“Well this is all sufficiently terrifying,” Sebestian stated to the group.

“Sebestian, I sense another heartbeat,” Kelly added and everyone’s head turned in different directions trying to locate the source. It was faint but definitely another person’s.

Sebestian walked over to Rufus who was being led by Sam and Pink and pushed his clawed hand against his chest. “I thought you said everyone was gone. How many more are you?” he asked as he dug his claws into his skin.

“Ah... please don’t. It’s…it’s… just an omega, a bitch wolf. I promise nobody of importance is left, Alpha,” Rufus groaned.

“Excuse me?” Sebestian asked, shocked that another person would be described in such a manner.

Rufus nodded and let a deep breath out, “I haven’t seen him in a while, he got in trouble sneaking food a couple of weeks ago and the last I saw he was being moved into the alpha’s tent… He um…well I…”

His eyes darted back and forth as if he wasn’t sure if he should say anything more. But Sebestian intended to gain the full story of what he was dealing with, “And? What else?”

“Well… I still heard him for a while, he was whimpering and barking constantly. It was actually really annoying, the alpha would continue punishing him throughout the night when we were trying to sleep and it kept waking me up. But in the last few days, it’s been mostly silent.”

Sebestian squeezed his eyes shut, he hated the images that were passing through his mind. He could only imagine what this omega had been through and hoped that it wasn’t nearly as bad as he was thinking.

“Which tent is he in? Now!” Sebestian shouted as he lost his patience with the man cowering before him.

“That one, Alpha,” as he pointed to the tent closest to the pile of bones.

Sebestian immediately moved to head towards the tent when he felt fingers wrap around his arm. “Hold on, Sebestian. Let me come with you, I’ll bring the medical supplies,” Kelly suggested.

He was instantly relieved that his beta was here with him. He was beginning to panic inside and it was nice to have the support of his friend. She was an amazing healer and always took the best care of everyone.

As they got closer to the tent they could sense that the heart was slowly beating, too slow for a werewolf and the poor thing was breathing heavy and fast.

“Hello,” Sebestian muttered as they entered the tent. He felt stupid announcing himself in such a human way but he also didn’t want to startle the wolf either. He was concerned that the heartbeat didn’t seem to react at all to the noise.

“He must be unconscious,” Kelly said as she looked around the room for the source.

Sebestian walked over to the bed first hoping to find the wolf but it was empty. The bed was messy, streaks of dirt and blood filled the frame, along with a mix of unpleasant scents.

“Sebestian!” Kelly shrieked from the other corner. “He’s over here.”

He took a deep breath in trying to prepare him for what he might find. In a small black dog cage laid a severely emaciated white wolf across the bottom. He was curled up into himself as tight as he could be.

Omega usually had a very sweet smelling scent, but all that was left here was the scent of pain and fear. The wolf’s coat was matted with blood, there were several injuries that Sebestian could see right away and some that must be hidden among the fur.

“I think he’s dying Sebestian. I can’t seem to arouse him,” Kelly said with tears in her eyes.

Sebestian kneeled down next to her, “Their has to be something we can do.”

Kelly grabbed the medical bag and pulled out a bag of IV fluid. “I’m going to try and get a line in him and give him some fluid but there isn’t much I can do here. We need to get him back to the pack house.”

Sebestian nodded and went to pull the omega into his arms.

“No, Sebestian!” Kelly shouted.

He instantly dropped his hands away.

“He is much too weak to move right now.,” she explained.

“Wait, you want to leave him in…in this cage?”

“Of course not, but right now we don’t have a choice. He won’t make it if we move him.”

Sebestian tried to remain calm and rational. Kelly was able to get an IV into the wolf and they each took a side of the cage and lifted it up as gently as they could. They walked in tandem as steady as possible as not to rattle the poor omega.

As soon as they turned the corner, his pack ran to their sides to help lift the cage.

“Holy shit, what happened to him?” Sam asked stunned at what he saw laying in front of him.

Sebestian sighed and wiped his brow with the back of his hand, “I think the correct question is what didn’t happen to him, Sam.”

The sun was beginning to come up over the hill causing Sebestian to huff, this had been quite the ordeal. “Come on everyone. We need to get him back to the house as soon as we can for more treatment.”

The group not holding the cage moved to run ahead as the rest stayed behind walking as steadily as possible.

Rose had a strange look on her face, “He smells familiar for some reason. But I don’t get it, I’ve never met another omega besides May.”

“It’s probably just the sweet omega scent, Rose. Nothing to worry yourself over,” Seth suggested as they kept on towards the house.