*THEO*Theo decided it was best not to interrupt Sebastian and Charles during breakfast. They needed time alone to bond and understand each other. Tensions were high anyway as both fought their nature to kill each other, if there were two wolves while Charles was tense it could cause issues. So, Theo decided to brave a walk around the small hunter town. Everyone knew who he was, they knew that some werewolves were going to be visiting town to help search for their beloved Blaire, but seeing one so close that wasn't an enemy was shocking to most. He watched people avoid him, or glare. Children stared at him wide-eyed with a wonder that only a child can possess. Tending to one of the horses he saw a beautiful woman. She had long black hair and caramel skin, native american he believed. He couldn't help but stop is walk to look at her. To admire every curve of her body. She was obviously very active because she was in great shape. He wasn't sure what he liked looking at most
**TRIGGER WARNING-This book contains adult content, including rape, sex, torture, and violence, among other things. PROLOGUE (ORIGINS-IN THE PAST) JUNE 1ST, 2050 "There is no understanding on exactly what it is that is happening right now. The CDC and other infection control agencies are not responding to any of our inquiries thus far. All we know is that this virus, or whatever it is, is extremely contagious and extremely dangerous. It so far has an extremely high mortality rate." the reporter said, sounding as stressed as he looked. "This is very bad, very bad." Nancy said, shaking her head as she turned away from the TV. She looked up at her husband, who looked at her solemnly. "Jasmine is going to grow up in this. Do you think she will make it to adulthood? With the way this virus is going?" "Yes, honey. We are figuring it out. You just stay in the house. The house is nice and secure, William and Marcia are on their way to stay with you just in case. My team and I are wo
YEAR 3555 *CHARLES* "Oh, come on, Charles." Jessica whined, Why is Blaire always first choice? Because she's your daughter?" "She is my first choice because she is a better hunter than any of you. She's killed more than any of you, and she hasn't even been branded with our crest yet. And she's the best because she is my daughter." Charles stared down at the entire hunter council that he presided over. "She is a raiser. Do you want a history lesson on what that name means?" "No. Charles, we just... we don't know where she is right now. She should be branded before she is sent off on such an important hunt." Mark said, looking at each person while he spoke. Charles was a monster of a man. You could see how pure hunter blood ran through him. He was the size of most alpha werewolves. He stood six foot six inches with massive muscular arms and chest. He looked like a tank. "You can't find her? My daughter? You can't find Blaire?" Charles' face was getting red with anger, "how can
*SEBASTIAN* "Where is the Raiser family?" Alpha Sebastian asked his beta, Theo. "They're a few hours south of Ashford. They're having a lot of really bad sand storms down there right now. I know the Raiser daughter is in Ashford right now, as well as a member of another hunter family. Don't know which one." "Find out. Do you know if they know about us yet?" "I believe they do, sir." "Which means they'll come after us hard." "Not necessarily. The human that owns the bar down in Ashford, Sammy, said that another hunter was loudly talking about the branding and ceremony of the Raiser daughter and that she would be sent after you." "Ha, a little girl? Really?" "She's twenty-five, sir. And she has a reputation that matches yours. No offense. She is extremely tough. Very strong. Though very small, she is... she shouldn't be underestimated." "I guess I can't laugh too hard now, can I? She is a Raiser after all. If you're comparing her reputation to mine as equals, well, now
*BLAIRE* Blaire woke up earlier than Marlow did. He had his arm wrapped around her waist, laying close to her. She rolled her big green eyes, grabbed his arm, and dropped it off beside her before climbing out of bed. "Seriously Blaire?" Marlow said sleepily. Tossing his arm off of her woke him, and not in the best way. "What? We're not together, Marlow, no cuddling. That was a rule we agreed on." She snapped back. "Come on, Blaire. We've been doing this forever. Can't you even accept that maybe there is something here between us, more than just great sex?" Marlow said, sitting up and moving to the edge of the bed. Even as he was trying to convince her to be together, he couldn't help but admire her amazing naked body. She stood in the doorway of the bathroom leaning against the door jam. "Jesus no...Listen, if you're going to continue down this path of trying to be together or some shit... It's just not going to happen." "I'm in love with you." He blurted out as if that was
*JASON RAISER* The scientists tried to mimic Jason's mutations, but couldn't prevail for the longest time. They're only hope was that he could reproduce. They gathered a dozen women who passed all the physical and mental health tests and fertilized their eggs with Jason's sperm. Eight women survived birth, and only two babies lived. Among testing what had happened, they found the two surviving babies shared certain DNA markers the others did not. Through the sequencing they realized to make new hunters they needed very specific women with specific markers. They were only able to successfully inject three fetuses with Jason's virus and it create hunters like him, though to find out not as strong or powerful. This is when Jason came up with the mapping of DNA to allow the hunter genes to go on without inbreeding. "Jason, it's ascension day." Daniel said to his son. He mustered up a smile, the only time he could smile was when seeing his surviving, thri
*BLAIRE* "Oh God Blaire thank God you're back." An older woman gushed hurrying over to her, barely giving a glance to her travel companion. "Yes, I always return Elda." Blaire rolled her eyes and continued to walk. "Blaire! Blaire!" Three little kids screamed running to her excitedly. She knelt down and looked at all of them with a smile. "Did you kill a vampire?" One asked. "Or werewolf?" "A werepire?" The eldest, about seven years old, asked. All of them looked at her with eyes sparkling with excitement. She was their gaurdian, the person they aspired to be. "I killed some vampires. I haven't come across any werepires yet Wes, but you'll be the first one I tell if I ever do." They all gathered around to hug her tightly with excitement until the boom of her father's voice scared them off. "Blaire!" He shouted from their mansion's front steps, as it looked out over the rest of the small family village of hunters. "Yes, c
*CHARLES* TWENTY DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE ASCENSION OF BLAIRE RAISER Blaire was so powerful, even at her young age. She'd learned to walk by four months old, to talk fluently by eight months. She was climbing and jumping on things like the agile little warrior she was by a year and a half. She'd progressed faster than anyone any of the family, of any family, had ever known in hand to hand combat, swordsmanship and archery. She could use throwing knives and combat knives better than just about anyone. By the time she was five she'd grown in to what seemed almost like an adult. She was sure of herself, analytical of the choices she made, quick witted and brave. She stood up for her beliefs even then and all these traits strengthened and solidified within her more and more as she got older. The families respected her as a Raiser, but as she aged, the didn't respect her for her name, they respected her for her abilities. They respected her for the person she was. She could enter a room and
*THEO*Theo decided it was best not to interrupt Sebastian and Charles during breakfast. They needed time alone to bond and understand each other. Tensions were high anyway as both fought their nature to kill each other, if there were two wolves while Charles was tense it could cause issues. So, Theo decided to brave a walk around the small hunter town. Everyone knew who he was, they knew that some werewolves were going to be visiting town to help search for their beloved Blaire, but seeing one so close that wasn't an enemy was shocking to most. He watched people avoid him, or glare. Children stared at him wide-eyed with a wonder that only a child can possess. Tending to one of the horses he saw a beautiful woman. She had long black hair and caramel skin, native american he believed. He couldn't help but stop is walk to look at her. To admire every curve of her body. She was obviously very active because she was in great shape. He wasn't sure what he liked looking at most
*SEBASTIAN* It was early the following morning after Sebastian and a few of his lycans had arrived. Charles and Sebastian had woken up early and ran into each other in the kitchen. "Are you hungry?" Charles asked him, despite being on the same team and having the same goal things were awkward and a bit tense. They were natural enemies, hunters were created to destroy lycans and vampires, that is their only purpose for existing. "I am yes." "Eggs and bacon alright?" "Yes that will be fine. Thank you." "And would you like coffee?" "I would table a cup if it's no trouble." "I was making myself some anyway." Their voices were monotone and cordial, both knew they needed to stay calm and polite so that they could accurately work together to get back Blaire. Charles began to cook the bacon while the coffee was being made. Neither man spoke until the coffee had finished. "Milk? Sugar?" "No it's alright." "There you go." Charles said pushing a black coffee mug toward Sebastian before
*MARLOW* "The father and the lycan have joined forces, this is a problem." The Old Man said the Cecilia, "they're getting desperate." "Yes they are, we need to break up their little party." Cecilia said, "I know Charles, he hates werewolves even more so than he does vampires. All we have to do is place a little doubt in his head and the alliance will desolve." "What do you have in mind?" "Marlow. He is a fantastic hunter, he will go there... sneak into the camp and kill one of the lycans and plant evidence in Charles' house. Then that will begin causing termoil. Naturally the alpha will confront Charles and they'll fight about it and it will only lead to more strife. If we have to, we can send Marlow a few times to kill hunters and lycans, just enough for the two leaders to give up." "Fantastic idea." The Old Man said with much pride. "Marlow, what do you think of this idea?" As they spoke he realized this was the exact oppurtunity he needed to do what needed to be done.
*CHARLES* "Sir, not to sound heartless, but don't you think it's about time to admit she is probably dead?" Charles whipped his head around and scanned the council members. "You know as well as I do that if she were dead they would make an example out of her body. And if my ex-wife is involved, they would be sure to do where I could see it. So no, she isn't dead. And again as for those bullshit rumors that she is helping the Society, it needs to stop. The Society is real and they stole my daughter and slaughtered that alpha lycan." "Sir... That lycan isn't dead." "I want to go to him. We have much to discuss." "Charles?" Xavia said fearfully. The pregnancy had made her more sensitive. "If he loves her like everyone says he does, he won't harm me." "Will you harm him?" Mark asked. "I do not have any intentions of harming him. Only if he tries to start a fight with me. But I need his help. I think it's time we join together to find her." "How do you even know he is still lookin
*CHARLES* He sat at his desk looking over reports from his hunters, and looking over the map where they kept marking off known locations. Locations that led to one dead end after another. It was late at night and he knew he needed to shower and take some time to think without the distraction of everything else surrounding him. He knew his wife would be sleeping so he slowly and silently made his way up the stairs and was surprised to see a light on in his bedroom. He peeked in through the partially open door and saw Xavia rubbing her stomach softly, affectionately. "It's okay little one. Daddy will love you, he's just sad your big sister is missing. But we will find her and be a happy family. He's a good daddy, he'll love you so much." Charles stood there frozen for a second and pushed the door open lightly. He stood silently in the door way and Xavia looked shocked and horrified. "Charles I..." He held up his hand to silence her and she closed her mouth. "You're pregnant?
*CHARLES* He paced back and forth waiting for his scouts to return to the base he'd set up, waiting for their reports. His anger flowed off of him like heat waves the longer they took. Just outside of the base line Xavia was vomiting up anything and everything, he wanted to comfort her, but his presence right now just made her feel sicker. This isn't how their marriage was supposed to me. They should be having crazy amounts of amazing sex, popping out kids and enjoying the fact they can freely be together like they's always wanted, instead they were spending their marriage searching for his daughter who had been kidnapped and who knows what else. His now ex-wife had never shown back up and the longer she was away the more sure he became that she had something to do with it. Blaire was a daddy's girl by far, so he knew her and her mother weren't in on whatever was happening together. He looked at Xavia feeling guilty that she had been so violently ill the past few days and he wasn't
*THEO* He knew when Blaire ascended, wolves always know when hunters ascend. They feel the power being drawn from the moon the same way they did when they are forced to transform for the first time. He couldn't imagine what they were capable of doing to her after seeing what they had done to his alpha. Her ascension however felt weird. It didn't feel like all other hunter ascensions. He couldn't explain it, but he felt like he shouldn't leave Sebastian alone in the ground while his mate went through that. The moon was high above them, but so big it looked as if it could crush them at any moment. He stepped outside and began to walk to the grave, and as he looked around he saw other pack members walking that way as well. What the hell was happening? The pack began to surround Sebastian's grave unsure of why they were there, just that they needed to be. Theo kept waiting for his ascension to alpha status to finally start since it hadn't yet. "Do you guys hear that?" Moira asked and
*BLAIRE* NINE DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE ASCENSION OF BLAIRE RAISER She hung from the rafters by the chains around her wrists. Her body was naked, though covered in burns from being sprayed down over and over with ice cold water and then boiling water. She could feel herself growing stronger inside, knowing it meant it was getting closer and closer to her ascension. They had a tube shoved down her nose and into her stomach where they pumped food into her from something in the ceiling and that was it. The only interaction she was having with people was the few minutes they were in there spraying her down and then leaving. She was completely incontinent right now, she held her bladder and bowels for as long as she could before she no longer could. The spraying her down multiple times a day as torture, is also what would keep her cleaned up. It had been about a week since she had arrived there and she was exhausted. They barely ever gave her food through the tube and none for her to eat by mo
*Theo* He took a deep breath, as he exhaled it was shakey and he swallowed a hard lump in his throat. His stomach ached and twisted threatening to make him vomit as he stared at Sebastian. His blood was nearly dried in the hot sun, it was obvious his beheading was recent. He could smell the faint scent of Blaire in the air, and he growled deep in his chest. That bitch killed him. After all that, she killed him. It was probably easy for her because he couldn't nor he wouldn't fight back. But upon further examination, he saw the blood under his still extended claws and looked over the other person who'd been ripped to shreds. It must not have been Blaire, or perhaps she got help. Theo wasn't sure what the hell had happened, but he knew Blaire was involved somehow that lead to death of their alpha. The few wolves beside him looked beyond disappointed, disheartened. Heartbroken was a good word for what they were feeling. "Alright...Gather him up. Becareful, leav