Chapter 3

The large wolf stared me down like I was his prey. The ripped flesh that hung down from his strong jaw taunted me, it made me know that the end was near.

The vicious growls emitting from it's mouth was enough to tell me that this was a situation I did not want to be in. All I was was a weak human, I couldn't shift. I was powerless.

His massive jaws began to widen, about to gulp me down like I was a piece of meat. He didn't. Because my pack got in the way.

My parents, my alpha, Dustin, my friends, everyone. Everyone was here to protect me.

And they all died. . .

The vicious rogue ripped through them, killing them all instantly. There was no one left to hear my screams.

The screams that ran through the thick tension that carried the air around us as the wolf stalked over to me, eyeing me up.

It was time to die.

My last thought was that I would see my loved ones up in heaven. It was my last thought before the beast lunged at me, snapping my weak human neck.

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I woke shock still, panting heavily at the dream that I had every night. Not a day went by where my dream wouldn't haunt my sleep.

It was always there, lingering in the back of my mind.

I knew what it meant. On the inside I would always be just a weak human. But I didn't want that. I refused to be the girl I used to be. On the outside I was terrifying, my story was told to young children to keep them from going out into the woods alone.

I was feared by many. Known as a demon. And who could love a demon?

Packs feared me most of all, I was their biggest threat. They either wanted to be my alley, who wouldn't want the protection of the strongest pack known to wolf?

If I was still in my old pack I knew that they sure as heck would. Other packs stayed away. Didn't want anything to do with us.

Who would want to be even acquainted with a demon? Not me, not that I had a choice in the matter.

It was rare that we would see other packs. When we attacked we did it quickly, we didn't want to stay behind to see the aftermath of our attack.

We left to go back to our land. We were efficient. But most of all vicious. We were the most vicious pack.

Occasionally we would be attacked by a pack, wanting to take revenge for an allied pack that we had destroyed. I had never lost a battle in my life and I wasn't about to start.

It started with the steady thud of wolves paws, slinking through the treeline, waiting to attack. I listened carefully.

"Stay in the treeline until one of them shows their devil face!" An alpha hissed through a mind link.

Moonshine pack. I would recognise the alpha's voice anywhere.

"Prepare for attack, hold the defences. Stay in the tree's, don't let them see you, they're in the treeline" I spoke calmly and with authority to every wolf in the pack through the mindlink.

My mind was abuzz with the thoughts of my pack members, they were as excited as I was. It was rare that we ever got this much action other than in training.

I found Sky quickly and silently, and we made our way out to the very back of the treeline through our underground tunnels.

Nobody messes with my pack and gets to make the first move. Once in the tree's, we shimmied up the tall structures and jumped from branch to branch, each one of us landing quietly, barely a noise to be heard.

Soon enough the entire pack was hidden amongst the greenery, high up in the branches. At the ground, the pack was looking confused, no pack would simply not notice an attack, especially mine.

Why would none of us be out even if we hadn't noticed?

Slowly the rage inside of me began to boil up, how terrible it must be not to bother enough to train your pack to so much as look up!

After about a quarter of an hour, finally a wolf looked up, a simple wolf with no rank, but before it had time to react I had twisted my hand out and with a sick crunch, the wolfs neck broke.

The other wolves looked around in shock. How could a wolf, right in the middle of the pack, have just broken it's neck, without so much as a noise?

I was certain it hadn't had time to alert it's pack. But it wasn't long until another wolf looked up, again I snapped it's neck.

5 dead wolves later and the alpha seemed to realise what was going on.

"Don't look up!" He roared through the mind link, "If you look up your neck snaps!"

Naturally about half the pack just couldn't resist the urge to look up and so, without us even being on the ground, we managed to wipe out half a pack.

"Stay here." I commanded through the mind link for our own pack.

I moved a few tree's along until I was almost perfectly above the alpha.

"Well well, look who is on my land." I spoke through the moonshine's mind link.

"WHO ARE YOU?" The alpha roared.

"Well you're on my land, shouldn't you know who I am?"

"HOW ARE YOU IN OUR HEADS!" He demanded.

"How are you on my land?"

"SHOW YOURSELF YOU BITCH!" He screamed.

I let myself drop to the ground, landing right behind him.

"Tsk tsk tsk." I spoke out loud. "Language. . ."

He whipped around, growling at me.

"Oh, I wouldn't do that if I was you."

He lunged at me and I dodged. Without me needing to tell my pack, they all jumped from the tree's, shifting mid air and landing on the pack's backs.

The alpha had no idea, he wasn't facing them, he was too busy trying to kill me.

My pack silently retreated, leaving no wolf behind.

I cleared my throat, "Might wanna take a look at your pack if I were you."

He turned, gasping as he saw 60 dead wolves on the ground—Everyone from his pack.

"Yeah," I said, and sprung into action, capturing the giant wolf in a headlock before pinning him to the ground.

His cries of pain and efforts to get away were useless, I was unstoppable.

I was a demon. I would not show this man mercy.

I planted a booted foot on his back and with a loud snap, crushed his spine under my foot as he howled in pain.

"This will teach you for messing with my pack!" I screamed, and pulled his leg right out of it's socket before I whipped a gun out of my boot and shot him through the head.

I had just wiped out an entire pack. Again.

"Holy shit!" a voice said from behind me.

I spun to face the intruder, another alpha. I held the gun out in front of me, poised and ready to shoot.

The man was an absolute god. Golden shimmering hair, cut short, it contrasted with his deep brown eyes. He was dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, and from the limbs on show he definitely worked out a heck of a lot more than the alpha of the moonshine pack.

He stared at me in shock, he barely spared a glance at the gun in my hand, his eyes were only on me.

And it wasn't long until my wolf told me why. . .

Mate!