Elsa’s POV
Lightning struck through the dark sky as rain pattered on the ground. “Run, Elsa, run!” I could hear my mother scream in the midst of the confusion. The flashes of thunder let me see the carnage as dead bodies laid on the ground. The Heads of wolves decapitated from their bodies, littered the ground. My father knelt some distance away with an enormous wolf, swiping his head from his shoulders. My mother's calls came once more. “Elsa, run!” I turned in her direction, watching as they dragged her away from me. The sound of horses sounded from my back just as a flash of lightning lit up the sky. I turned around to face a swinging paw, knocking me into a swiveling darkness. I woke up screaming with my hands flailing into the sky. “Another nightmare,” I muttered to myself as I dropped the sheets from my body. I was soaked in my sweat as I stepped out, feeling the chilly wind of the night. “Elsa!” Damian called out as he burst into my room. I wrapped my clothes around my body, as I had expected no one to step into my room. “Don’t you know this is a woman’s room?” He stopped, stuttering as it seemed it had skipped his mind. “I heard.. you scream... screaming,” he stuttered, dropping his head to the ground. “And I thought you were in trouble.” I heaved a deep breath as I stared at the lad. He was a ruddy boy, the same age as I was, but seemed to keep to himself. “I’m fine now. It was just a nightmare,” I said, inhaling deeper. “You should know I am here for you at any time,” he said with a smile. “Doesn’t mean you’d have to barge into my room like that.” “I’m sorry, but I genuinely thought you were in trouble.” “It’s fine,” I muttered, rubbing my hand across my face, eager to change the topic. “What do we have to do for the night? It seems the pack is rowdy.” He looked outside the door as flames flickered in the hallway. “We have run out of food supplies and have to make a run for some more. Meat supplies, at least to keep us for the coming winter. We are werewolves and need meat.” “Can't we just raise these animals ourselves?” I asked as I picked out clothes for myself to wear. “You should know we do not have the time to raise animals by ourselves as they could give us out to both humans and werewolves. Hence our need for raids in the human settlement,” he said as he turned around, letting me dress up. “Do we have to raid human settlements for food?” I asked. I could hear him breathe deeply before he answered. “They are the easiest people we can pick on before we can have something to eat.” “And then they have to retaliate, coming at us with wooden stakes and pitchforks,” I said as I slipped on the hood. “At least they haven’t caught one of us yet,” he said as he turned around to face me. I stared at him with slitted eyes. “I did not tell you to turn.” “I turned even when you never asked, but right now you are fully dressed,” he said, turning backwards once more. “I’ll let you know when to turn,” I said as I turned towards the mirror, checking how I looked in its reflection. A knock sounded at my door as we spoke, with a lad entering my room. “I knew you would be in her room if you weren’t in yours.” “What’s the matter?” I asked as I turned to face the newcomer in my room. “Not anybody important, but I’ll need to take your boyfriend for a minute,” the lad said as he grabbed Damian’s hand. A blush formed on my face as I stood from the chair. “Well, you can take him for as long as you want,” I said as I walked towards the both of them. “And please, let the rumors stop. We have nothing in common.” “Yeah, right?” The lad said as he looked at me from my head to my feet. “Still do not know what he is doing with you.” “That’s enough. Let’s go,” Damian said as he pushed the person away. “I’ll come back for you whenever we finish whatever it is they are calling me for,” he said to me before dropping the curtain over my doorway. I sighed as I flopped on my bed, but I could still over hear their voices. “What do you see in a girl who we consider a human? No one has seen her transform into a wolf ever,” the lad said as they stood outside. “Even if she is human, she has never given us up for a day,” Damian replied. “She is definitely a human until I can see her transform. Until then, I say you stay away from her like the rest of us.” Damian sighed as his silhouette pointed as he was staring at my room. “We can leave for whatever it is you called me for.” They nodded their heads, walking away from my room while I sat still. It was nothing for me, as I could feel their stares whenever I came out in their midst. “What do I do?” I said to myself as I walked to my window. I knew I was a werewolf like all of us here, but there was something inhibiting me from transforming. I sighed as I stared at the full moon shining through the cloudy sky. It felt like there was going to be a downpour tonight. A perfect time for them to do what they wanted to do, as humans tended to lock themselves inside whenever there was a downpour. “Nothing,” I muttered after thinking for a while. Outside felt like it was a Fiesta as everyone was outside, standing with smiles on their faces until they saw me. “Don’t get lost with some humans when we get to their territory,” a guy said as he walked past me. “Let her be,” a girl standing next to him said as the guys laughed. “It’s fine. I’m used to it,” I said as I walked past them, standing in a spot I knew no one would disturb me. At least I wouldn’t be a hindrance to anyone until after the raid.Damian’s POV I stood inside the room with all the supposed leaders of our supposed pack. Each of them had a look of seriousness on their face as I came inside. “Are we leaving now?” I asked as I looked around the room. A boy with red hair grunted as he stood with the flame flickering from his movements. “Not yet, as we are waiting for when it is closest for the rain to pour. That is the moment humans stay inside more.” “But that isn’t the reason you called me here, Dennis,” I said, realizing even before them of their plan. “You are the only one who associates with her,” He said, looking around the room like everyone inside had the discussion already. “She helped us escape when the humans attacked our former hideout two years ago, yet we all ostracized her because she has never transformed,” I said, gritting my teeth. Dennis heaved a sigh. “She is not one of us until she transforms, Damian. Even she would slow us down when we try to escape.” “You should have her stay behind wi
Elsa’s POV The rain poured through our dilapidated castle, even as we huddled together to ward off the cold. I couldn’t say much for myself as I stood outside, listening to the thunder roll. My first transformation had me overcoming the fear of my dreams with a fear more palpable and in front of me.“I killed a human,” I said as I stared into the distance.“It was your first time,” Damian said, like he meant to comfort me.I heaved a deep breath as I could see eyes staring at me. My little ragtag group of werewolves accepted me more. They believed I was more of a wolf than a human after what they saw when Damian brought me home. We barely escaped whatever those human had for us, trudging under the rain back to our hideout to escape.“What’s happening?” I asked as howls sounded, with people stepping out. The rain faded with growls sounding behind me and in front of me. “Elsa,” Damian called as he moved towards me, dragging me behind the line.The people came out with a male leadin
Elsa’s POV Days passed by quickly, with everyone trying to adjust to our continuous raid to stock on our food supplies.“How is the new werewolf managing her powers?” Damian asked as he entered my room.I sighed as I walked closer to him. “How many times do I have to tell you about entering my room without announcing your presence? Ever heard of a knock on the door or the side?”He turned away, tapping his feet on the ground. “I’m sorry. I was just excited to see you this morning after everything. It happened so fast, from the raid at the human place to how those rival groups tracked us to our place.”I smiled, patting him on the shoulder before I walked away from him. “It just feels different now,” I said.“You will need training; if you want to get into shape with your abilities,” he said as he raised his head to look at me.“I have trained with almost everyone in this place,” I whined, feeling my body sore from trying to transform and actually transforming.He chuckled as he hande
Caspian’s POV.Our retreat was hasty, as we had lost most of our fighters with them.“I can’t believe this,” I muttered as we trekked to the pack.“Do we go back and ambush them?” Someone asked, almost like he was mirroring the thought of the rest of the men present as they murmured their assent.I turned to him with glowing eyes. “We barely survived their attack and you want us to go there? To do what? Die when we could call for reinforcements.”He lowered his head as all of them stopped behind me. “Going back to the alpha is the same thing.”I sighed as I realized his words were true. Alpha Hector never took defeat lightly, and punished those who failed accordingly. “We will take whatever punishment he gives to us.” They murmured at my answers but none of them disobeyed, following behind me until we got to the castle.I walked into the throne room. My knees, knocking together as I stood in front of him — alpha Hector. “What are the reports from your journey?” He asked from his thro
Elsa’s POV Dennis gathered us into the large hall in the castle with a grim look on his face. It looked like we took more than we wanted to bite on with the number in the hall.“Can I get everyone’s attention?” Dennis said, raising his hand at the group with the noise dying down.I moved closer to Damian, watching him smile. I was okay knowing he was by my side, taking it as the best thing to have ever happened to me.“It looks like we’ve gotten ourselves in a bit of a pinch with a neighboring pack,” he said as he stood in the center, staring at all of us.“We told you we did not need to save these people with problems we have on ourselves,” someone said from one side of the hall.That was when I realized we were segregated, and I was the only one with Damian sitting with the new people.“There is no time for us to talk about things that we should have done or do. We have them in our hands right now, and we can not cast them out of our midst,” Dennis answered as he looked around.One
Damian’s POV.“They have to stay,” Elsa said, giving her answer to Dennis concerning the issue.I had nodded at her when he agreed to give to her the silver dagger. A symbol of leadership passed on from former leaders, or taken by those who deemed themselves fit. For the first time since we runaways banded together — it was in the hands of someone who had alpha blood running through her veins.“I will pass the information to the pack, but we would need to do more if we want to keep this number of people here without starving.She turned to him, “we have some of our people raiding far distance villages for meat, haven’t we?”“That doesn’t determine they would come with more loots for us to manage. It is only a matter of fact we have going for us,” Dennis answered as he picked a scroll, pushing it open on a table.We walked together to him, staring at the scroll. It was a map of the place, crudely done but was able to identify where we were and important places.“Hope is enough to keep
Elsa’s POV“Wake up!” I opened my eyes with my arms flailing in the darkness. It was the same nightmare again, even as I got closer to my place of origin.“You were having another nightmare again,” Damian said as he sat closer to me, wrapping a blanket over my body.I sighed as I looked at the three of them sitting next to me over the crackle of the fire. “I’m sorry if I startled you.”“It’s fine. We were awake already,” Dennis said as he took a wood from the fire, throwing it into the distance.“Are you okay?” Damian asked.I nodded my head, rubbing my hand across my face. Since I could transform; the nightmare had stopped for a while until I began this journey. “I’m fine. Are we ready to continue the journey?”“If the Luna would agree to us leaving, but I recommend you rest for a bit,” Dennis said.I shook my head as I pushed myself to my feet. “We are closer to the place right now, aren’t we?” I asked Camille.She nodded her head, but I could sense another feeling underneath her l
Elsa’s POV“I agree to be your luna, but I cannot have us stay here,” I said as I looked around.“What would you have us do, Luna?” The old man asked as everyone stood. “This is the only place we have known as home. We come back here no matter how many times we get attacked, hoping someone from his blood will come.”“I am here now, and I would not want you to remain here in perpetual danger.” I said as I looked at the surrounding people.“I hope you aren’t doing the very thing I think?” Dennis asked, stepping closer to me.I turned to him, watching the people from the corners of my eyes. “They cannot stay here.”“Neither can they join with our increasing number at the castle,” he pointed out. “We have over two hundred people waiting for us, and we are yet to add another two hundred mouth when we can not feed those at home.”“I appreciate your insight, Dennis, but with more hands. We can protect ourselves better,” I said as I turned to them.“More hands, equal more mouth.”I nodded as