Chapter 6 - Flashback

As a human she had very little control over her life and now as a werewolf even less so. But now her life is forever changed, and not by her choice nor even her own actions, but by the actions and choices of others who claimed to know what they thought was best for her. 

This left Alexa completely unprepared for the world she was thrust head-first into without so much as a lifeguard to keep her head afloat from the crushing pressure she suddenly found herself under. 

But to fully understand the events that had led up to this moment one has to go back to the night that changed everything … that life-altering night six months ago…

Rewinding the clock back six months brings us back to the very same woods, only this time, its once peaceful tranquility was disturbed by rippling power and a lone mournful howl tearing through the night air. 

The warmth of summer turned into the chill of winter. The green of the earth was replaced by powdered white snow. And the very woods themselves seemed to come alive after, almost as if the trees themselves were filled with excitement as something that had been lost was finally returned. 

Time seemed to both stand still and move far too quickly all at once and the once quiet woods were ablaze with activity as wolves and humans of all shapes, sizes, and colors raced through the frozen wonderland, frantically searching for the being that started it all.

But even with hundreds of eyes, many of them supernaturally enhanced, the object of their search slipped past them with a coat of pure snow, allowing it to blend in with the wintery wonderland that had become Black Pines Forest, located near a small, sleepy little town, and home to one of the largest and most powerful werewolf packs on the Earth. 

And for the past three years, home to one nineteen-year-old Alexa Winters, and her family of four. Life for this broken little family had irreversibly changed when a harmless family camping trip resulted in the introduction of the supernatural world, or one could say a reintroduction for those born to this new and mysterious world but shielded from its existence since birth. 

Alexa found herself having to adjust to this bizarre supernatural world and just when she thought she got the hang of things, her world turned upside down… again, leading us to this frigid winter night with a pack of werewolves, witches, and humans searching for a single white wolf trying to get itself lost from the pack. 

This feral game of hide and seek continued for the rest of the night until the sun peaked out from lazy clouds, bringing color to the endless darkness of night that had been lit only by the silver rays of the, ironically, full moon which had provided the wolf in question with the cover it needed to escape the curious and frantic eyes of the pack, like a lover secreting away their paramour from the world’s watchful gaze. 

When the cover of darkness no longer provided sanctuary for the wolf covered with fur as pure white as the snow blanketing the earth it revealed a slender, toned, and speedy figure that slipped between the trees with what seemed to be practiced ease. 

And finally with the break of dawn came relief to the frustration of the pack as they finally tracked the she-wolf down to the most unlikely of places, for she had returned to the place her life as a mere human had ended and her reign as a powerful she-wolf had begun.