Punishment 1

Serenity's POV

Statham dragged me down to cells after my mother yelled at me.

"Why the fuck do you have to be so fucking stupid for?" Statham growls as he pushes me down the stairs.

I tumble down the stairs hitting my shoulder hard at one point, till I hit the floor hard at the bottom.

I sit up groaning as pain shoots through my shoulder. I'm pretty sure that there is now a fracture in my shoulder blade, adding to the busted lip and my left shoulder that is pulled out of the socket, I'm doing pretty good tonight. Not to mention the healing injuries I had before this happened.

Statham pulls me up off the floor and walks through the dungeons.

"Statham, I honestly didn't know I wasn't allowed there, no one ever told me there were places in our territory that were forbidden to pack members or forbidden to me" I say while walking to my cell.

"Maybe you should of just stayed inside out of sight where you belong. None of us want to see your pathetic face, we all hate you Serenity." Statham sneers at me.

"Oh, believe me I know how much everyone hates me, you know the multiple beatings I get daily, the bullying, the name calling. I didn't think it was because I was the most popular wolf in the pack" I reply sarcastically.

"Watch your tone wrench, if you keep mouthing off I will need to teach you a lesson." Statham growls

"Sorry Statham, it won't happen again" I say lowering my head.

He grabs me by my sore arm and throws me into the cell at the end of the dungeons, throwing me in hard enough for me to hit the wall at the back of the cell face first. I hit my forehead hard on the stone wall of the cell causing my forehead to split on my right temple.

I crumble to the floor groaning and holding my forehead.

"You deserve it bitch and so much more. Have fun tomorrow" Statham laughs manically before locking the cell door and leaving me alone in the cold, wet, musty cell.

I slowly make my way over to the corner of the cell, sitting down on the floor. I'm in so much pain from my shoulders and head, and I was finding it hard to stay conscious.

Tears are silently running down my cheeks, as my mind plays havoc with my emotions.

'Why can't they just let me leave, why must I endure this maltreatment for just because my parents couldn't accept that I wasn't a boy, why did my gran have to biocan and die for, why has the moon goodness forgotten about me.'

"She hasn't forgotten you Ren, she's not happy about how they treat you but your not forgotten. Also they won't let you leave as a pack is most strongest with its true Alpha, meaning that if you leave by your own volition, being the future Alpha, means that the pack becomes weaker. If you were to leave due to finding a mate outside of the pack or because you have died, the title of Alpha automatically transfes to Statham and the pack won't be come weaker as the title changed due to circumstances outside your own volition" Artemis tells me.

Wiping my face I curiously ask Artemis "What happens if I decide to step down from the role of Alpha and hand it to Statham?"

"If you were to step down, it's the same as leaving the pack of your volition because you are willingly giving up your title" Artemis replies sadly.

" Honestly Artemis I don't know how much more I can take of this bullshit. It's becoming harder and harder each day to hold back from attacking them, of speaking my mind and putting up with all the shit that happens" I respond

"Hold on just a little longer princess, we are 18 in less than a month then we can leave this pack forever and never look back" Artemis replies.

" I will try my best but I can't promise I won't eventually break. Goodnight Artemis" I reply

"Goodnight" I hear my wolf say as I slowly lose myself to unconsciousness.

The next morning I awake to the sound of the dungeon door being slammed open and heavy footsteps coming down the stairs.

I slowly sit up, noticing that Artemis has healed me quite a bit while I slept. Not that it's gonna help much due to the beating I am about to receive.

The footsteps stop in front of my cell, I slowly look up to see my brother Sutton standing there with a sadistic grin on face.

"Rise and shine wench! Time to face the music" Sutton laughed manically.

I get up from the cold floor and walk over to where my psychotic brother is standing. When I reach him he grabs my forearm and drags me with him out of the dungeons.

When we get outside the sun momentarily blinds me. I blink my eyes a few times to get them adjusted to the brightness of outside.

Once my eyes are adjusted I realise that Sutton is leading me to the gathering circle.

My stomach drops as the only reason our pack uses the gathering circle is for pack meetings, big announcements and severe punishments. I have been here 2 times before for punishments.

Fear is building in me as I am not sure if I am going to walk away from this punishment.

"Scared little bitch? You should be, I honestly don't know why they have kept your worthless ass alive so long. They should of killed you the day you were born. Just so you know I have always hated you, even before mother and father started turning us all against you. I HATED YOU. Even though it was negative attention you always had everyone's attention on you, gran and gramps had taken you and raised you and they never had alot of time for the rest of us. No matter what I did I never got acknowledged, all anyone saw was their hated for you. When gramps and gran died I hoped it would change but it didn't it got worse because they started this shit with you. So I just wanted to let you know that I've always hated you incase you don't survive today" Sutton tells me.

I don't reply to him and just lower my head till we finally get to the gathering circle.

When we stop I look up to see what's in store for me. I know straight away whatever my mother has planned isn't good.

The whole pack seems to be gathered. In the middle of the circle is a silver chain attached to a metal stake in the ground which has a silver collar and silver cuffs attached to it. I turn my head to the right and see my so called family standing there waiting for me.

Sutton leads me forward and throws me to the ground infront of the chains. He leans down, with gloves on that I have no clue where he got them from, picks up the cuffs and puts them on my wrists and then grabs the collar and puts it around my neck.

Straightaway I feel the burn of then silver on my skin. I mask my pain with a stoic expression. I will not let anyone see how much I am affected by silver.

"This will be a brutal punishment I will try protect and heal you as much as I can" Artemis tells me.

Once I've been chained and my brother moves away from me Alpha Lucan walks forward "Deadly Nightshade pack you are called here this morning to witness the punishment of Serenity due to her showing disrespect to the Luna and her attempted attack on the Luna aswell." Alpha says.

My mother walks forward to stand next to my father and you can see she has been attacked. She has bruises on her face and arms, superficial cuts on her arms and 3 claw marks down her left cheek.

My rage builds up so fast that they are trying to say I did this that I don't think before I yell out " Are you fucking kidding me! I never attacked the Luna, last night I got in trouble for trespassing on the Luna's sanctuary. Your making up bullshit to make this punishment harsher than what I supposedly deserve. This is absolute bullshit."

"Are you saying I'm a liar girl? Huh. Yes you are getting punished for trespassing aswell as the attack on your Luna. After we told you that you were in the wrong last night you attacked your mother and clawed her face as you shifted into your wolf. I had to Alpha command you to back down or you would of killed her if I hadn't." my father angrily replies to me.

I must really have lost it as I keep arguing with my father" Mother! She isn't my mother, she refuses to see my as anything but dirt beneath her feet. She refused to care for me, raise me or do anything maternal for me. Gran raised me. I have no mother, the 1 time I called her mother she beat me while telling me she was not and never would be my mother also If I shifted like you say I did, what colour is my wolf then father, as not one person here has ever seen me shift, you included. The only people that ever saw me shift have died." I reply sarcastically.

" ENOUGH!!!" My father yells

" This is your punishment for the crimes you have committed towards your Luna, You are to receive 150 lashes of the whip dipped in wolfsbane and nightshade. For challenging your Alpha you will receive an extra 10 lashes and will be put in the dungeon for 2 months were you will receive 20 lashes every 2 days of a normal whip. " my father in forms me.