Annie is our queen.
The words reverbarate around in my head, but no matter how hard I try I can not make them make sense.
The chancellor in on his feet, still looking me in the eyes. He taps Matteo and Daryl on the shoulders, they both stand and all three bow to me together.
"I don't underdstand... What does that mean? I ... I can't be a queen, we don't have a queen. And besides my father is a beta, how could I be the queen?" I say, not trying to call him a liar, but also needing proof.
"Well, we had a King and a Queen, centuries ago. In each new generation was born a female werewolf who was destined to be the queen. Then, about 500 years ago, no one knows why, but the new queen was never born. Or never found. We can't be sure. What we do know is that since that time we have not had a queen. Since werewolves as a whole are much stronger when we do have a queen, the council has been on the look out for the nex
Now I hear not only Micheal behind me, but Ansel, and Julian as well. Julian may be new to the group, but he is also upset at a man challenging a woman half his size. But I don't mind, because if I loose it won't matter to me much, since I am a girl, and half his size. However if I win... He would never be able to live it down. My eyes narrow on Chad. "Alright." I say. "I accept your challenge. Standard council challenge rules." I tell him. Standard rules state that we fight until one of us is unable to continue, either the loser dies, or is knocked unconsious. We do not stop the fight for injury, and forfeiture is not allowed. Since Chad is an alpha (at least for now) if he was to lose the challenge to another male, that male would be able to claim Chad's pack, and take over as alpha. However, as a female, even if i win I will not be able to claim his rank as my prize. It doesn't really matter to me tho, since I know that I wi
A few of the warriors step farward to object to me giving orders to Chad, whom they still think is their future alpha."Stop!" I call to them, then I add to Chad in a carrying voice "As the Queen, I hereby strip you of your rank as alpha. Chad, you will now and forever be a rogue wolf, never again able to join a pack or hold a rank of any kind."As soon as the words leave my mouth Chad's scent change's, leaving no doubt that I am in fact the queen that I claim to be.I address the crowd in a loud clear voice. "I know that everyone has a lot of questions, and I promise that we will make a time to have a pack meeting to answer all of your questions. For right now I will say this, I am not here to harm your pack. I give you my word that I am here as a friend. Chad is guilty of demoting a pack member to Omega. He then hid this omega here in your pac house. As the queen I sentenced him to demotion for this and other crimes. This matter is now closed
The party is in full swing, people are dancing, eating, and having fun. On Miss Frankie's suggestion I hired a group of teen's, their garage band is playing now, a mix of country, rock, emo, and pop music, the pack seems to be loving it. The council walks in, in their robes, looking intimidating. They all sit together, not talking to the pack members. I would say it is rude, but they are the council, and this is sorta just how they are. After a few minutes I notice that Matteo is not among the council members, since he is staying here to help me adjust he is dressed in regular clothes now, blending into the crowd. I am not sure this plan will work, since anyone here can smell the council rank on him, but at least it has a chance of tricking the witch if she is watching. I wonder if we should light the bonfire? I turn to Ansel, to ask him for a lighter, but before I can get the words out Julian walks over with two warriors. They light the fir
I pace around the hospital waiting room, the doctors have been working on the girl for over an hour. Her mother walks in, tears streaming from her eyes. I wrap my arms around her and pull her close, letting her cry on my shoulder."I know baby, I know" I keep repeating these words, as I stroke her back. It is another 30 minutes before the nurses come out to update us."She is alive, but she lost a lot of blood, do either of you know your blood type? She is going to need a transfusion, and we are VERY low on blood, we dont have any in her type..." The nurse tells us."I am a universal donor, O negative blood type, take what you need." I answer."Okay, follow me. Megan, you can go and see Molly now, just... hold her hand, try not to move her or touch anything else, she is still very raw." The nurse adds.I follow the nurse into the room next to Molly's, here she hooks me up to have my blood drawn. I agree to give 2 units
Micheal returns followed by Miss Frankie, who is dressed in her night things."Oh no! I didn't realize how late it got miss frankie, I am so sorry! Unfortunatly this can't wait, I need to ask you a few questions... I trust you, so I want your account of what has been happening here in your pack, and with your pack. What has changed for you in the last 2 years?" I ask her.She considers me for a long moment before she answers "Well, in the last couple of years there have been a lot of changes. I am sorry to say that I knew about the Omega... found out about 3 months ago. I was filling in doing laundry while some of the girls where out sick. They are all young, none of them knew what the smell was, thought it was just sour milk or something... they had no idea, never having smelt an omega before. I only knew because my mother made it a point to educate all 8 of her children on things like that so we would never be complicate in the suffering of others. When I found out I
Miss Frankie doesn't have much more to say. "The only other thing I have noticed change, well, I those of us who work in the kitchens, or other service positions around the pack, we have not been being paid like we before. Some have had their pay cut by as much as half, some have only been paid every other month, and when we tried to see the alpha about it the beta stopped us, ordered us back to work and threatened to demote us all to Omega if we ever slacked on our work, at the time I was sure that it was an empty threat, but that was 8 months ago, and smelled that omega only 3 months ago." She finishes with her head down in a look of shame. I know what she is feeling, she is wishing that she had done more to help the Omega while he was still trapped. "Thank you for being honest with us Miss Frankie, you can go back to bed now. And, just for the record, there was nothing you could have done to help the Omega, and trying would have put both of your
As we are helping clean up the aftermath of the council's going away party, I look over to see my father and mother. They are seated next to each other, but they look distant. Neither has spoken to the other all night, they do not look at each other. Thinking back to my childhood I can not reember a time when they acted like this. My father was always doting on my mother, he held her hand anytime they were near each other. To see them acting like this, like they are strangers is odd.Suddenly my father is on his feet, running across the dance floor towards a girl, I think she said her name was Molly. The trash bag she was filling up split in half, before anyone else could react my father was on the girl. His claws extended, he raked his claws down her face, and across her stomach. He tears the girl to shreds. I am caught completely off guard, I never would have thought my father would react like this... I don't know what to do now.Before I can think of what to d
I watch as Ri'elle place's the spell on the cage my father is in. It seems to have worked. At least I think it worked, I don't know that much about magic, but I can smell that he definitly did some magic.Ri'elle needs to go meet up with Annie, she called him to the hospital a while ago, but I want to sit here a while longer."Father?" I say in a loud clear voice, he shows no reaction. I want him to give me answers, but I am starting to think that maybe the only way that will happen is if we break the spell first. He was acting so much more normal the first few days after the witch was here, I am thinking that she will be back soon, to redo whatever magic she has over him.I pace back and forth in front of his cell for some time before an idea strikes me. I can take over the pack, without anyone knowing. Now that I am the king to be my aura has changed, I have a stronger aura than my father already, so if I take his alpha position with no witne
I turn to Ansel, not sure what to do about this vampire who has tried to kill me multiple times suddenly claiming to give me his alegence. *Give him an order, say a few orders out loud, but only put your authority into one, maybe that will help us know if he is lying..?* Ansel tells me through the mind link. I nod, then I turn to this vampire king to give my orders "Stand on your feet, spin around, tell me your name, touch your nose" Only a werewolf, vampire, witch, or other person magicly bound to me would be able to tell which one of these orders was the one with power behind it. But, as I speak the vampire does rise to his feet, he is slow to follow my second command, I can see he is thinking it through. The moment I give the order for him to tell me his name he follows the order without hesitation. "I am Samuel Keith Singer, King of the Vampires." He tells us. Before I can say anything else Ri'elle rushes out into the hall, he takes in the scene around him, his fingers are twi
Many in the pack are against the idea of a pack member adopting a child who is not a werewolf. They do not say so directly to me, but I can feel the stare's as I walk around with Nicky trailing behind me. I think that if I was anyone else besides the queen they would be much more vocal about their disapproval, or maybe it is because they can sense that Nicky is not human, so they figure he will not pose as much of a threat to the pack that a normal human would. Either way, I have decided to address the pack at dinner tonight. I want everyone to know that Nicky saved my life, but I also need them to know that he is MY child, and if anyone tries to hurt him they will have to go through me. Once everyone has taken their seats I call them to attention and introduce Nicky to the pack as my child. Ansel stands to his feet and addresses the pack. "He is OUR child. I know that a lot of you are going to find this odd... adopting a child from outside the pack is... uncommon to say the lea
I quickly untie the ropes from my legs, but I stay where I am on the ground, knowing my legs will be to shaky to hold me up. My Ansel suddenly apears, jumping over the limo, taking the vampire king down to the ground in one move. Then he takes the kings head off in one bite. The rest of my warriors are here now, fighting vampires on all sides. I watch in horror as one of my warriors move in, to attack Nixie, I jump to my feet and place myself inbetween Nixie and the warriors. The warriors stop dead in their tracks, tilting their wolfish heads at me, tying to understand why I am stopping them from saving me. "No, he is with me... He saved me... He is just a baby..." I pant out. The warriors nod and turn back to the vampires to finish killing the last of them. Nixie trasforms again, this time he is a pure white horse. He walks over to me and nudges his head under my arm, helping me stay on my feet. With Nixie's help I climb onto his back, and I ride on his
Over the next two days the whole pack pulls together to help the towns around us. We work our way down the street from the pack castle into the town, once we reach the edge of town each house that we pass we check for people in need of help. There was a lot of flooding in this area so we make is a point to check every house for the injured or trapped people. Most people evacuated the area before the storm hit, so many of the houses are empty, but we search them all anyways. This storm was predected to be more on the mild side, so people expected to be gone from their homes for only a few days, because the roads are not passable people can not return. We find some pets in houses alone, when we find a pet in an empty house we leave a note with a phone number and we take the pet back to the castle to be fed and taken care of until their families return. I want to lead the pack as we clear the roads, but the warriors of the pack insist on keeping me surrounde
It takes the whole pack working together for three days to get the whole castle and grounds cleaned up. Thanks to the warriors and other pack members who boarded them up, most of the windows are fine. But a lot of trees came down, and a few of them landed on some of the buildings on the grounds. The larger brick buildings are largely okay, a couple of them need new roofs put in. It is the smaller wooden buildings that took the most damage, a couple of them will need to be completely demolished, and a few others will need some major renovations to be usable again. I spend my days cutting the fallen trees into logs, so they can be moved out of the way of the rest of the clean up efforts. Once that is done I split the logs into fire wood. My back and shoulders are killing me after a two whole days of splitting and stacking logs. Ansel spends his days loading our dump trucks with pieces of the broken buildings, the warriors dump the debry from the trucks in one big
I know that I already agreed to help Ri'elle with his spell, and I will, but the thing is... After the regular spell work part of it...Ri'elle says in order to seal the magic I need to kiss Ansel. I have never done a spell that requires love kiss in order to seal the magic, but he says that this spell needs it. I know he would not lie to me, and I will do the magic he needs me to, the thing is that I think this spell maybe too advanced for me. I wish that Ri'elle was well enough to work the spell himself. Ansel walks with me in silence to our room, I am thankful that he lets me walk without talking because I need the time to sort out my feelings about this spell, and also to work up the courage to try this spell since I am not a full witch and my not have enough experience to work this spell.Once we make it to our room I ask Ansel to sit on the bed quietly so I can make myself ready for the spell. I change into a pure white dress, then I cleanse the space by burning sage. I finish s
"Micheal, thank you for meeting me here. I didn't want to leave her alone while she is still asleep...Something strange happened last night, and it wasn't the first time... There is something wrong with her..." I tell him in a low voice. "Okay, slow down and start from the beginning." Micheal tells me. "Okay, well... You know when we marked each other, tight?' I ask him, he nods and I go on. "Well, then on the first night we stayed in this room she made a big deal out of having sex, like it was the first time. And then she marked me again, and she had the same reactions to the marking as the first time." I tell him, then I pause and take a deep breath, I hate that I have to talk to Micheal about our sex life. "Okay, but that was 2 nights ago, so what happened last night that made you call me here so early in the morning..?" Micheal asks me. "She did the same thing, she initiated sex and then acted like it was the first time again. At
I follow Micheal as he takes me on a tour of the worst of the wounded. There are only a few people who got hurt badly enough to need to see a doctor, a few warriors where on the stairs when they passed out and as a result they fell down the stairs. One older man fell onto his tool box giving himself a concusion, and a few other fell in similar way. There is a total of 8 broken bone's and 3 concusions. Plus the 5 mothers who went into labor as a result of the stress from passing out the way they did. There was a total of 544 pack memebers effected by the spell, and only 18 people where hurt or effected badly enough to need to seek medical attention right away. The other 526 people have been givin the order to report to the hospital wing within the next 2 days, refusal to do so will result in punishment. I hate the idea of threatening the pack members, but this is how things are done, and everyone knows that I hate doing it, so they know to really listen when I do make t
I rush to the west tower, I have a bad feeling that something went wrong on Ri'elle's end. I race up the stairs and burst into the room, I find Ri'elle in the center of the room, spiritual energy fills the room, he is covered in his own blood, it looks as though the spirits are trying to rip him apart limb from limb. I know that if I siply rush to him the connection will be broken and his spell will backfire onto him completely. Right now I am thinking that maybe the spirits simply do not like the offering that he used. I skirt around the edges of the room, being carefull not to touch any of the silks. I make my way over to the rabbits in their cages, I reach in and take out one, I slit its throa and coat myself in its blood, saying a quick cleansing ritual as I do. Then I take a few cautious steps towards Ri'elle, then the door bursts open again and I see Ansel with some warriors right behind him. "STOP!" I order. "Leave, go check on the pack, if you touch any