Chapter 8

On the night of the full moon, the entire pack gathered at the door of the pack house for the feast. Every full moon, they do the same. They ate, drank, celebrated, and then, they ran through the forest, and hunted.

Dylan decided to make Ryan's official in the pack that night. He also wanted to see Ryan's wolf, as it was a rarity for a werewolf to change so early in life.

When everyone has eaten and drunk, Dylan gets up and motions to Kevin, who hands him a glass and knife.

- everyone knows Ryan. He wants to be our brother and run under the blessing of the Moon Goddess as a member of the great Darkmoon Silver Guardians Pack. Does anyone have anything to say against him?

Ryan looks around nervously and all the members stay silent.

- Ryan, came near and repeated after me: I, Ryan, accept to belong to the Darkmoon Silver Guardians Pack….

Ryan repeats:

- I, Ryan, accept to belong to the Darkmoon Silver Guardians Pack….

- I promise to help the pack and its members with everything I can, even at the risk of my life…

- I promise to help the pack and its members with everything I can, even at the risk of my life…

- I promise to obey the Alpha and the Luna and all his commanders...

- I promise to obey the Alpha and the Luna and all his commanders...

- I promise to treat all my brothers in the pack with respect...

- I promise to treat all my brothers in the pack with respect...

- I make this promise of my own free will, under the divine power and wisdom of the Moon Goddess.

- I make this promise of my own free will, under the divine power and wisdom of the Moon Goddess.

Dylan takes the knife and cuts his hand, and before the cut heals, he lets blood fall into the cup, then gives the cup to the Luna, who does the same, followed by the Beta, Gamma and Delta .

Turning the cup in his hand so that the blood mixes, he passes the cup to Ryan for him to drink.

All around Ryon, everyone else was yelling and clapping and howling.

“Now you're one of us”, “Congratulations Ryan”, “welcome to the family, Ryan”, hears Ryan through mental link. He's never felt the power of a mental link before, and he's overwhelmed with so many voices inside his head.

Kevin puts a hand on his shoulder, saying:

- You will learn to control the mental link. It's easy to do it, you can individualize them or even turn them off. - Kevin says.

- Time to run.

With the exception of the pups and the pregnant, everyone takes off their clothes. Kevin nods to Ryan and Ryan takes off his clothes too, despite feeling embarrassed.

Ryan knew that everyone wanted to see his wolf, and Ice was jumping on Ryam's head, happy to show himself and be able to run.

With the familiar crack of bones, Ryan shifted, and, where once Ryan stood, a large white wolf with black ears and golden eyes appeared, leaving everyone in complete astonishment.

- Ice, you are so beautiful - Kevin says in admiration.

Ice shakes his fur and rolls around proudly.

Then everyone shifts and, as the Alpha howls, everyone starts running after the Alphha and the Luna. Ice, wanting to show off, runs right behind the alpha.

All night the wolves ran and hunted, bringing many deer and wild boar to the door of the pack house.

With Ryan's encouragement, Ice hunted 3 large boars.

“I was thinking you only hunt bunnies”, Kavin teased him through the mental link.

Ryan laughs happily. He felt happy and at home, and hoped that his mother, who had departed to the Moon Goddess kingdom, would be watching and blessing him.

When the sun threatened to rise, everyone returned to the pack house. A group of women was already arranging the meat and filling the refrigerated chests. The night had been good, and they were going to have meat for weeks to come.

The werewolves, some in human form, others in feral form, return to their homes and rooms.

Ice only changes when he's near the bedroom door. Ryan went straight to the shower and 5 minutes later he was fast asleep.

After 2 hours, Kevin knocks on Ryan's door, waking him up.

- Get up slippy head. Now that you belong to the pack, you have to train.

- Kevin, I just got into bed - Ryan complains.

- You and everyone else, get up.

- Yes Beta - replies with a pout.

Kevin Chuckles.

Ryan goes to the bathroom, does his business, takes a quick shower, puts on shorts and a t-shirt and heads downstairs towards the kitchen.

- Good morning Ryan – say the Alpha – ​​everyone is already at their jobs. Come, sit down and eat. Kavin will take you to the training camp.

Ryan drinks a coffee and puts scrambled eggs inside a bun, and goes out looking for Kevin, while chewing.

When he finds the Beta, he takes him to the training field and introduces him to the head warrior, the strongest wolf in the pack, who, to Ryan's amazement, was a shewolf.

- Amanda, this is Ryan, the new member of the pack. Since you were on patrol yesterday, you didn't see the ceremony.

- I didn't see the ceremony, but my mate told me everything through mental link. Welcome to the family, Ryan - Amanda says with a smile. – Tell me Ryan, have you ever trained?

- Yes, when I was younger. My mother was very strong and she has trained me since I was seven. I stopped training when my mother died, but for the next few years, I tried to exercise as much as possible. But I'm very weak, next to your students. They are true warriors.

- Let's see how much you're worth. You there – he shouts, pointing to a boy who should be Ryan's age – you two are going to fight.

Both boys go to the middle of the training ground, and look at each other. They fight for several minutes and Ryan ends up defeated.

- You fight well for someone who doesn't have training – says the winner, stretching his hand and helping Ryan to get up from the ground.

He shakes dust off the clothes and looks at Amanda, who nods with a smile.

- Not bad at all. You're tired from yesterday and out of shape, but your mother gave you a good education. She must have been a great warrior.

Ryan says nothing. He didn't know what to say, and Amanda, realizing her mistake, immediately changed the subject.

- now its time to start the real training. 50 laps around the training ground.

Everyone whimpers.

- Damn, I did not think you guys wanted more laps. 100 laps around the training ground. Starting now.

The young warriors mumbled among themselves and started running.