"Trade those crops in the township, not significant from the Kingdom of Tulinda."
My mom's expression had been in my brain since she was on the lawn with my father, who takes hard to earn a living. It was hard for us to be reaching and live in the dream I wished when we were just poor, favored being the lowest positions of werewolves here in the kingdom. Our jobs revolve only around some low thought jobs, but for me, farming was not that low.
I don't know who the hell leveled those jobs as low.
And if we wanted to have another job, we need to marry a person or at least be mated to a higher positioned werewolves so our lives will move up.
I get the basket full of crops and others, which will send to the town of Secoya. Just a small town, next to the woodlands. I can see the heaviness of the basket in how I carried it when the formation of my body had been curved, which almost made my other grip was low.
It has not leveled to the other hand of mine.
"Goodbye!" I shouted, waving a hand to my parents.
They stopped from working, from bending the knees, straightening as they waved their hand as they were holding something. Formations of their mouth gave me an idea that they were telling me something.
But I could hear it. I knew what they would tell me, and it was to be careful from the timbers as they knew it was dangerous for a weak werewolf like me to pass the lumbers. Though, I passed the woods several times.
It was not horrifying, bright when the sun was still above and what deemed it dangerous was the villains from the other kingdoms were going there to fight for some trespass they saw, passing from the lands that were never there. It is considered their land as they marked it and put a level that no one can ever interfere.
That only leads to a fight.
I walked, bringing all the baskets and some plastic with something I needed to sell. Then, I stopped walking, stopping at the front of the considered entrance.
"No one can harm me amid the woods." Making myself better, not letting my inner self be worried. "No need to be worried."
I was tapping my shoulder, causing me to feel like something was comforting me.
My left foot had been stepped in front, driving my walk, which the cold air is welcoming inside the forest.
A few minutes I was walking, I had already reached the middle of the woodlands. Tall trees around, many ferns had been at the side of the tiny road that could only pass through it.
I know in the minutes, I will be arriving in the town. But as I went on to move, a signal came from inner me that was making me nervous. That told me that danger would push me into trouble. Damn, I do not want to be worried enough, and if I continue to be concerned, I will not arrive at the town.
"Attack!" A shout came from the male's voice; it seemed to be the voice of a guard from the kingdom. I was not sure which domain it was happened to be the guard. But what I can tell is that it was the guard.
Then, I stood and froze from where I stood as I saw that there were a lot of fighting werewolves guards who were running towards me.
My eyes had been widened in shock, making me put the crops away from my hand. It was not better for me to consider first the produce rather than myself that the werewolves have attacked.
Wait. Am I right from what I am seeing right now?
Seeing many of them running towards me made me think that I hallucinated about what I was seeing. I tried to blink a couple of times and what I saw in front was not yet changed.
It was real and wasn't unreal from what I saw in front of me.
I have already started to run and do not want to stay from where I am staying.
"Damn!" I said.
I started running fast, and my adrenaline taught me that I should now leave my position. I just ignored the crops I was carrying rather than die in the middle of a fight of werewolves.
I knew an opponent was running as well, or maybe I was the only opponent they considered to have set foot in the so-called territory. To my knowledge, no one yet owns the land on which I stand. Or I think it's still part of the kingdom of Tulinda even though the woods are still outside the main entrance.
I continued my run no matter what part of the woods, no longer going my run back to the kingdom I was in.
I no longer knew where I was going.
Whether I'm going north or even south, I don't know where exactly because I can no longer see the sun in the sky because it is well covered by the clouds above.
"I am not included in the fight!" I shouted that at them. "Maybe you're just mistaken in what you're looking for!"
"We're not mistaken," replied a werewolf that was still in a human form, that was running faster than me.
I ran even faster, and I think I also ran faster than them. But I know I'm still weaker in their eyes, even though I know I should stop because I'm not an opponent.
I even tried to look behind me and saw two men a few years older than me, as if they were even younger. I can no longer look at them, for I fall to the ground.
But in my dreaded part, I suddenly fell and fell to the ground, signaling for me to stop and immediately feel the tight grip on my hand by a guard who I thought was from another kingdom.
I was gasping for breath sitting on the ground, and I couldn't even stand up because I felt my knees weak. I also didn't have the strength to stand for a long time. These were the signals for me to surrender to them as I heard other Werewolves fighting well not far from me. The werewolves in human form suddenly became Werewolf form when they jumped to attack another werewolf.
I turned my gaze back to the werewolf standing in front of me. Moments later, I suddenly felt a sharp nail of his.
"The woman in front of you, Beta Roger, has a smell from the Tulinda Kingdom. She is considered an enemy who needs to be killed even if she passes by."
"Right," Beta called out as a man sharpened their teeth, and his eye changed as well, as did Beta's eye that turned blue. "You have to die."
"I-"
"No matter what you say, that's what our Alpha King is saying. The other werewolf that we don't breed that can be seen in the woods is the one who should be killed," Beta Roger said.
"I agreed,"
Although I agree that I am an opponent, I'm afraid I also have to disagree that they will kill me. I am innocent of everything, and it is only difficult for them to be killed immediately. Only my blood was the sin and one reason why they called me an enemy.
Moments later, I felt Beta's hand. If one called his hand, he touched my hair, signaling me to look at him.
"Please,"
"No. You need to be killed,"
I closed my eyes because that was the signal for me to feel that his sharp nails were on my neck as if any time I would wait. That was the reason why I was going to die.
If I only knew that I would die too, I wish I could at least say goodbye to my parents. For them to be ready, I will return the corpse to our house.
But a moment later, I felt like a werewolf with what he called Beta immediately said, and he said something.
"Wait. I feel like he's weird, and there's blood like that an Alpha needs," said the other guy, made me about to open my eyes.
"Really?"
"Yes, I am sure. The Alpha needs her. We should send her to the kingdom and let the Alpha sense it. He is the one who can tell it,"
"Fine. Let us bring her to the Alpha and let the Alpha decide whether to make her his enslaved person or worst, being killed."
2.
The surroundings around me were completely different where I did not know where I had entered since I was blindfolded entering the enemies' kingdom. They are still werewolves, but against the rules that our Alpha King tells, thus they moved out from the domain and created another that they can call them.
Roaming around the kingdom, I could tell it was different from ours. It was a bit new, and there were many statues of the moon goddess at the side of the king's throne.
"Kneel," Beta Roger released me from his holdings, and that made me fall from the floor clumsily. Like I don't have any strength to do it on my own.
But seeing his face would tell me that I need to obey what they intend me to do before I get killed.
From what I have heard from them, when we are still going here in the palace, I heard they talked about the 'breeder' thing for an Alpha.
It was not my first time hearing such, but it was strange to talk with them. Like they are referring to the 'breeder' like me, or perhaps talking to someone else, I am just pretentious that it was me.
Whatever.
Looking back in front, I saw their Alpha King, who was sitting on the throne, while two guards were standing at the side, holding an arrow. They are like a statue, and I believe they were not until they blinked for me to feel it was not a statue anymore.
The king had a crown he had worn, but he was not that typical king who was wearing some universal dress code that needed to be worn by the king. He was wearing a suit-all black.
Did someone die before I entered the kingdom, or perhaps that was their dress code?
It made me nod when I witnessed that the Beta who brought me here, as well as the others, were wearing black suit attire, including their shoes. Perhaps, the underwear they wore was also black?
Blinking, I was already kneeling, even if my knees hurt. Even if the king was not yet turning his head to me, for the king was still reading something in the documents, I am about to stand. But the hand of the Beta Roger was already at my shoulder, pertaining me not to stand.
He did not say something, but I knew it was what he was about to refer to tell me.
"Your highness, Alpha King Damon," Beta Roger bow to the Alpha King.
No one told me to bow, so I did not know. Why would I?
"Alpha King looks like he was not interested, not was in the mood. Thus, release me instead," I uttered, making sure that only Beta Roger could hear it.
"Shut up bitch," Beta Roger replied. Looking at me in the eye using his wolf eyes made me shut, and I would not want to say anything else.
"Fine,"
"If that will not pique my interest, kill that person immediately. I know you have encountered someone, might perhaps from the other kingdom," said Damon. I heard the Alpha King's name while still reading the documents.
Well, since the Alpha King Damon was already told me about those, I should not be happy for the punishment said by Damon was death. Come on, how do they kill someone who does not have anything have to do to them? I do not need them either. I know them too.
My nervousness was already made my heart palpitate faster as it could, making my lips to be so pale as the color of what I was wearing.
"But Alpha King, the girl in front of you was not an ordinary enemy. She had the mark, and you shall need to see what kind of mark she had for you to be sure," Beta Roger explained further.
"It is not important. Go out," replied Damon with his husky voice and tone with authority. No one dares to tell a joke to him.
"It is." Still, Beta Roger insisted that it was interesting.
It made the king put the documents at the side of him, which was the table. Then, that was also when I saw the face of the Alpha. He had a perfectly carved face, reminding me of some Gods and Goddess statues I have seen. A long nose, blue eyes, and perhaps I think what was the color of his eyes when he was in his wolf form. In short, he was handsome and looked cold and strict, which is a perfect aura for a king.
What am I thinking? That he was perfect? No. He was still an enemy and considered to be nothing to me. Of course, they perhaps will kill me, as what they thought they should have done.
The Alpha was already rolling his gaze at me. I was also staring at him at first, but later on, I had realized I should not have looked into his eyes as I felt electricity had flowed into my eyes down to my whole system.
"Having special blood means you are coming from a rich family. Am I correct?" The Alpha king had asked me.
I blinked, about to look at his eyes, but I could not do it. For me to look at his feet which I saw, he stood from his seat, approaching to where I was kneeling.
I am also about to say something unrelated to what he has asked me, but the Beta already opened a mouth to answer.
"From what I have seen, she was not coming from an elite family. She was living her life simply as she was about to sell crops in the town, next to the woods," Beta explained.
Since I have seen that the Alpha King was into my front, based only on the trouser and TikTak shoes he was wearing, then I explained to him that it was true and it needed me to have sold it to have some money for my enrollment in the next few months. I am already a fourth-year college student.
There was a university in our kingdom that was teaching something related to humans. One of our professors was human and managed to coordinate with the civilization to access our learning module.
Then, I showed the king my tears to let her know that our situation was complicated. But Damon just smirked. I almost laughed to what I had done, even if there was no need for him to do it.
"Please, let me back from my home. In the Kingdom," I said, still the tears had been flowing into my eyes.
A hand was already reaching from my hair, as I think it was the hand of the Beta, but as I was already facing Damon's face, I have witnessed that it was his hand that was holding me. It was not the hand of others.
He keeps in staring me in the eyes; then, after that, he stared at my neck, which he touched the left part. It seems that he sees something of what they have called a mark there.
"There is a mark, I have told you that, Alpha,"
Damon smiled at me let his face go near me.
"You are exceptional. No need to cry since you are safe in my kingdom," he said to me, but in a cruel way, whom I do not have any assurance of what he had told me.
I know he lied. He is trying to tease me nor trying to get my attention for me to stay. And that would not happen to me.
He then smelled me. Werewolves had been strong senses, including the Alpha, whom they could sense if we were lying nor if we didn't believe what they told. The same goes with this situation.
"You seems like you do not trust me as your enemy," repeated Damon and stood adequately in front of me.
"Who can trust you? I told you I do not have any special something you see me. You might perhaps have mistaken my identity, for I do not have any blood coming from any special or even elite family!"
"Even if how many times you explained, the mark is already telling me that you are-"
"Like what? Tell me what I am? If it is also possible to transfer that mark to the other, then do it! I do not have any interest in that mark!"
"A breeder,"
"I...Am I a breeder? You mean of what they are called the Alpha's Breeder?" I was nervously asked him to clarify it.
Even if I am scared, I still want to be strong.
Damon did not nod nor agree to what I had said. But I know it was just the same. The silence means yes.
"Take those silence as a yes," Beta Roger had said at my back. "It was evident. You have a slow mind bitch."
Damon stared at me once, with a severe eye on me. "You are mine now. You are already my breeder," Alpha said with authority.
"What?"
Shoot. I am not prepared for this. The whole happenings recalled in my brain, and it was like flashed faster. Damn.
"Bring her to the room we have been prepared to where the Alpha's Breeder needs to stay,"
Walking towards the Palace, going to the room they have told me was a bit scary for I have a scent of being a citizen of the Kingdom of Tulinda. This is why the others that we have been passed were already sensing an enemy to approach them, and that was also why they were preparing all of their guns or arrows and bows to kill me. Still, Beta Roger explains that I am not an enemy to hunt or even destroy.
The Beta held me so tight that he was scared that I would escape. That is what I did. I have tried to do my best to escape from the kingdom, no matter how many were staring at me. All that I thought was my parents who left on the farm digging in the lands to plant crops, as it was already rainy season.
Even if I am done telling them that my family needs me, I still recall it again and again until the Beta had already mad at me. Insisting on killing myself even if the Alpha King ordered no one could hurt me while I stayed in the Kingdom.
From what I have also heard from the talking in the Palace, near from the King, they talked about to tell all the pack that they have found the Breeder. The Alpha King promised them to do the right thing for all the group respected the decision for the moon Goddess have given.
Afterward, I did not hear anything from them and worried while I stayed here. It was best for me to trust Damon, the Alpha King, as what the Beta Roger had promised that he was the man of his words and promised that the Alpha King protected the Breeder.
"Sleep and relax in the room. The Alpha King will visit you here and talk, perhaps this evening or already in the morning for some important talks," said the Beta and about to close the door.
The room was good. All I thought it was like a prison, but it was not. They were designed to have a woman stay. They must be prepared and predicted that I was about to be near or come here.
Rolling back, I stared at the Beta, who gave me a stare of assurance that I would be fine.
"And lastly, there was someone who helped you here. It was not possible for a guy like me can assist you," Beta Roger said again and about to close the door.
"Do not close the door yet," I said, making the Beta to stopped.
"What?"
"Is there any chance that I can still be back from the kingdom I belonged to?" I asked, still hoping he would answer me 'yes.'
But based on what he had looked at me, he was unsure what I had asked. It seems that he does not need to answer it, and I already get it.
"Fine. I know it was a no, so better go." There will be no need for me to him and the other 'Thank you since I did not tell them to send me here in the room.
The door had been closed, and I was roaming around the room to see if there was any possible door or even windows that I could escape with. Searching from the bathroom but saw that there was no window in there. There was only one window, and it was tightly put on any railings to avoid me from escaping.
Even if it looks like a room, it is still considered a prison. I will be locked here for how long? Forever? It should never happen.
No one needs to be locked forever.
I sat at the side of the bed, surrendering from escaping. The door was locked. There was no other way to flee since it also had tight security out there. My scent was strong as an enemy here. Thus, I will be killed if I will also run since I am considered to be an enemy.
Better I should stay in the room to be safe and wait for Damon to visit me here in the room, hoping that he will not come to the thing that the Alpha did to the breeder. This means that he will impregnate me and let me give birth to the future werewolves in his Kingdom. Damn, I will never let my womb give birth and let her enter his sword into my cave.
Hours have passed, and I assumed it was night since outside was dark, making my room here to be darkened. I stood, made my way to the switch, and opened the light. It was an old-style fluorescent design like candles lighted above, even if not.
Then, my stomach had been aching. No one sent me food inside and made me wonder if the breeder would be starved. If I am their breeder, they should keep me healthy to give birth to healthy werewolves soon.
Whatever. I do not want to be a breeder and want to be starved. In that case, the Alpha will replace me with another breeder she had found.
Suddenly, the door had bangs open made me shocked and came back from my senses. I started to the door, which led me to see Damon and Roger and the other girl bringing a tray and a portion of food in it.
Keeping to stand made my foot ache; thus, I sat at the side of the bed, does not want to see them staring at me.
"The food was on the small table. You can start to eat now," said a cute voice coming from a teenage girl. Perhaps he was eighteen or nineteen of age.
Then, after serving the food, she left with trembling hands; perhaps she had been scolded by Damon, nor was she just afraid of them. Not me. I am not scared of him. Do I not?
"I should have left too, Alpha. I will give the two of you privacy to talk." the voice of the Beta.
The door had slammed again, making me think the two had left, only us, Alpha, and I went here who needed to talk something. I wanted to slap their king to get them that I Was so strong but could not do it. In my mind, I am done beating him already.
"You should not bring me food. I am not hungry, and if I would, I will be starved,"
"You do not need to tell me that, Agatha," said the Alpha with a calm voice, making me stare at her for calling me by my name.
I did not tell them what my name was. No name tags that I have bought nor have put on what I have been wearing.
"Why do you know my name?" I asked as my inner wolf told me they have perhaps hurt my parents, which is why they knew my name.
"It was a long story to tell," he said, walking to the small table.
He got the food and brought it to where I was sitting. I wanted to avoid the tray he gave to me, but he forced me to accept it. The foods in the tray made me get it as it felt like they were waving at me and wanted to enter my stomach to feel complete.
"Eat," he said. "I will not tell you something if you do not want to obey me."
"I will not-" I did not continue what I was about to tell when his eyes transformed to wolf form eyes, becoming red and were reminding me of a wild wolf who will kill me if I disobey all of the orders he made.
"You wanted to eat, or I will eat you?" He said.
"What?!" I was shocked by what he said.
What was in my mind was a dirty thing that he would taste my cave and enter the sword of life to my cave. I know it was cloudy, but I could not think of it.
"Yes. What was on your mind was right," he is saying it.
That word made me cough in fake. If I already have eaten, I have already been choked by all of the foods I have eaten.
I blinked and decided to eat. Thus, I got all the spoons and fork, eating all the pork chop that had been on the plate. As I ate, my peripheral view saw that he was staring at me. At least he was cold, but he also had a heart for him to feed me.
"That's good that you have finished all of the foods on the plate," he said. "The future werewolves in the kingdom will be as beautiful and handsome as me."
"Stop saying anything about a breeder. First, I ate because I am hungry, not because of your future thing to have told me. Second, you can leave now and do not talk to me, Damon," I said as I tapped my mouth for calling him 'Damon.'
"My bad. I should not have called you by name, but call you like a King who want me to be slut,"
He stared at me calmly, but there was the bitterness of his stare. Like he was about to transform into a wolf form due to his angriness at me but stopped it.
He then stepped closer to me and bent a little bit so that our eyes would be leveled; his nose was almost reaching the tip of my nose too. My heart was beating too fast right now.
"No one told you were acting like a slut here in my kingdom. I don't need a slut. As I have said, I need a breeder. Keep that in your mind."
I did not nod as a sign of protest. "Tell that to the trashcan. It seems the trashcan was also interested in listening to all your lies," I said too, making myself strong despite my body, who felt weak about his stares.
"You little brat," he murmured. "Do I need to kiss you? Tease you to prove my intention to you was serious?"