6

New Truths

My whole life flashed before my eyes. This can’t be how I’ll die. I haven’t even kissed a guy yet, I haven’t been to San Francisco, I haven’t sky dived yet. There’s a lot I haven’t done yet. Come on Claud, wake up. Protect me. Please? I’ll buy you all the ice cream you want if I survive. Just as she was about to stab me with her nails, Claud came from nowhere and speared her away from me. You know, the kind of spear wrestlers do when they want to dispatch their opponent quickly.

“What’s wrong with you, Claud?” His mom asked. “Has all that time you spent dead make you forget that you don’t stand a chance against me?”

“I know you’re stronger, faster and maybe even smell better than me currently.” Claud said. Weird choice of words but if it saves my life, who am I to complain.

“But…?” Mrs. Tara asked obviously expecting his speech to end better than that

“Nah, that’s it.”

“You were never good at motivational speeches.” Mrs. Tara said. “But I would not want to send you back to the dead so give me one good reason why I should spare her life.”

“Because she’s cute?”

“I said ‘a good reason’.”

“Because she’s my mate, okay?”

Immediately Mrs. Tara heard that statement from Claud, just like magic, her claws started retracting and her canines, returning back to normal size.

“My son really likes you,” Mrs. Tara said while offering her hand to help me off the ground. It took me some time to accept her hand because I was still shocked by the whole thing. “And for that, I’ll spare your life, but I would love to talk to my son for some time. Alone.”

“Sure,” I said while leaving the room. My heart, still in my stomach. I stopped walking the moment I got outside and placed my ear on the door. Surprisingly I was able to hear their conversation. Quite clearly.

“So, what did you want to talk to me about?” Claud inquired.

“It’s about the forest wolves.”

“We didn’t win the war?”

“We won actually, but we couldn’t kill all of them so the ones that escaped, regrouped, strategized, and started kidnapping our females. You know we can’t move in a pack anymore now that the planet is very advanced. We can’t risk detection by humans again. “ Mrs. Tori started. “We’ve been able to go under the radar again. No human knows we exist, so that thing that happened last time won’t happen again. They’re mating with our females and creating hybrids.”

“Hybrids?” Claud asked. “Just like me?”

“Yes, exactly.” His mom replied. “Just imagine an army of werewolves with both the power of controlling the natural forest elements of water, fire, earth and air combined with the mountain wolves power of super speed, super hearing, super strength, coercion and claws going up against us.”

“They’d be unstoppable.”

“Precisely.” His mom said. “They’ve not been able to create an hybrid like you yet though.”

“How do you know all this?” Claud asked. “And aren’t all hybrids the same? How can they be different from me?”

“Firstly, I know these because we have fought with the forest clan even after the war. They are not yet up to our level so we dispatched them successfully. They were harder to beat this time because of the few hybrids they had on their side. Hybrids that they groomed. That’s why I’m bothered, they’re getting stronger.” His mom started. “Secondly, they’re not like you because your father was a different type of forest werewolf. Unlike all other forest werewolves that had only one of the four elements of nature coupled with only their fangs, your dad was born with all four. He could control all the four elements. That’s why you’re different, because you have the potential to control all four elements coupled with my own physical related mountain powers. You spent all your life with me that’s why only your mountain powers have been unlocked. You have to spend time with a forest werewolf to unlock your element powers. Once you unlock one element, the others will come to you easily. That’s how it happened with your dad.”

“So, what’s your plan to stop the forest wolves?”

“I want to make hybrids of my own.”

“So that you’ll be fighting fire with fire.”

“Fighting hybrids with hybrids. Smart. Was that why you withdrew when I told you that Stacie was my mate?”

“No, not at all.” His mom said. “I’m just curious to know what type of baby hybrid will emerge when a hybrid wolf mates with a human female.” “You’re sick mom. Using me as an experiment.”

“But one female will not be enough to create our army of hybrids. We’re not in our primal form so one of us can only birth one or two children in a year.” His mom started. “You must mate with every female member of our pack and get them pregnant. Since you’re the only one with forest were wolf blood in your veins, it can only be you. We have to start grooming our army now. The War is inevitable.”

“Mom, you can’t be serious.” Claud said. “Wait, just how many females are there in our pack?”

“About two hundred and five.”

“Mom, you can’t seriously expect me to have sex with two hundred and five people constantly until they get pregnant.” Claud said. “There’s no time for that.”

“Then you better get started.”

“Having sex with even just one person can make a man very tired.”

“You have super strength. You’ll cope. Next excuse now.”

“Will they even allow me? It is called rope when u have sex with someone without permission. I learnt that from a TV show I watched.”

“It’s actually called rape not rope and it will not be rape because I’ve already discussed this topic with everyone in our pack telling them how essential the grooming of a hybrid army of our own is to our survival.” His mom replied. “Next excuse now.”

“What about their mates?” Claud kept manufacturing reasons why he couldn’t go with his mother’s plan. This conversation between Claud and his mom was really funny. I’m glad I decided to stay and eavesdrop. They’d be heartbroken if they found out their companion has be fucking someone else.”

“None of them have mates.” His mom said. “Majority of our males died in our battles against the forest clan. The few that survived fled. You know there are always only a few males in a pack. So we don’t have an alpha currently. Next excuse now,”

“Fine, you win.” Claud finally ran out of excuses. “I’ll do it.”

“Splendid. Wait a minute.” His mom said and suddenly everywhere went silent. Then she kicked open the door. I flew from where I was standing and hit my back on the wall. I’ve finally been caught. I’m even surprised it took them this long to catch me. You know, ‘cos there were two creatures in that room that had super hearing.

“Get out.” Mrs. Tara said these two words with so much hostility that even without her raising her voice, I knew that if I dared disobey, she would send me to my ancestors and even Claud that I thought was powerful, won’t be able to save me, So I got up and ran away from her as fast as I could.