That - Lost Wolf

It's 1am. All warriors in the pack are asleep. The only wolves awake are the ten white security wolves, hired to scare rogues to death. Leo Kellie creeps out of her bedsheets, and creaks the door open. She's right in front of her door now, she breathes in for few seconds and then with her heart pounding, she goes downstairs towards the sitting room. She saunters down the staircases, making sure the thuds her feet make on the tiles are light.

Light enough not to distract her father, Charles Leo, her mother, Kimberly Leo and the yet-to-come pup.Taking the last step to get to the living room, she stops moving, abruptly. She gasps, almost making a loud sound and sliding. She cuddles herself behind the colored blank sheets. In this house, sheets with attractively painted colors are always spread across the staircases, and that's to show that someone's birth day is near. She muffles, and her breath seizes. She struggles not to say anything but that doesn't seem to work now. She has seen what she should not have seen. She disobeyed, and now she will bear the consequences, all by herself."Please.... Moon goddess. I am..." She clasps her hands, and pleads with the moon goddess through her family's mind link. She doesn't have a mind link yet, that's until she is eighteen, and that is tomorrow.Not tomorrow, today! It's the dead of the night already. Goosebumps creep up her skin as she slowly tilts her head and turns back. First, she doesn't see anyone so she tries to go away from her hiding place or at least, ring her dad's doorbell, for some help since their house is right here in the pack. It is a very big pack house that comprise ten thousands of warriors, one and only Luna, seventy two Betas, three hundred and twelve Gammas, four hundred and fifty six Zetas. Her father isn't an Alpha of the pack, he is the thirty second Beta. Of this pack. Association of Wolves' pack, normally termed as AoW pack."Do not try to hide." An haggard voice speaks. "I caught you already."She senses such has shifted to his human already, since he could converse with her. A part of her wants to show up and surrender to him but a second part of her wants to play along and keep hiding."Kellie..." His voice is now becoming more aggressive. That's to say, he's shifting back into his wolf. Not able to hold it any longer, Kellie shrieks and feels a sharp pain in her body - today is her 18th birthday after all, her wolf might be new but strong. Who can tell?Since the intruder is in his wolf, he ensures she relocates into the wolf world. Don't get me wrong, Kellie shrieks but it all comes down to settle in the mind link. In other words, the intruder mutes her outward words, and allows any noise from her pass through her family's mind link."No matter how you shout..." He moves creepily close to her, half shifted. "... you're coming with me. You're mine." His tail swirls as he approaches her, and as he lifts the sheets, the door to the sitting room forcefully opens. This distracts the intruder but he tries his best to hold Kellie captive before he would face those who barged into the living room. He pulls her out of the sheets, and shifts fully into his human. Then, they head downstairs through the stair cases. Kellie was almost done with the staircases, remember? So, it doesn't take time, they get to the living room and to their surprise, no one is in. But the door is wide open. "Leave me alone. Please. Leave me alone." Kellie pleads. "Please, leave me."She tries to break off from the grip the stalker is holding her with, but she can't. Then, she surrenders."Shut the door tight. Let's talk." The stalker tells one of the warriors moping around the house. "Hey, are you nuts?""Alright, Beta..." The warrior responds but the stalker immediately shushes him, deliberately hiding his intention, his agenda, and his whatnot from Kellie. Maybe temporarily though. The warrior shuts it tight with his power; and it is then that it is noticed that he is the eleventh white security wolf, just that he isn't on duty tonight. "Now, sit there." The stalker lets go, and she staggers, her legs kicking the walls unintentionally. "And let's talk."Having no other option, she sits on the sofa but with her head bowed, and with her silently sniffling. "Kellie Leo, look at me." The stalker commands in his Beta tone. "Alpha Festus has sent us right from America to bring you to him so you'll be a Luna."Kellie's countenance changes immediately. She lifts her head, creepily and suddenly. Then with a disgusting gaze directed at the Beta stalker, she starts to mutter words. "I know this will happen. I should have stayed in my room. Charles warned me strictly, my bad." She rants and sighs. "I was just so interested in the preparations they have for me. I should still remain locked in my room. I knew all this would happen!""Stop!" The Beta stalker growls, and appeases his wolf thereafter. "There is a big pack in America. Right there in Houston, and if it might interest you to know, that is where your mate is."She glares at him in a more deadly way, she has always been interested in being mated but if there's anything she's scared of, it's being mated to the wolf that wasn't chosen for her by the moon goddess. "How sure are you? And who are you?" She scoffs. "Alpha Festus' main Beta." He chuckles as he says.It cracks her up till it gets to her belly. She tilts her head and when she looks at him again, she stifles giggles which he interprets as being laughed at in derision. The stalker plasters a smirk on his face, and watch her disgustingly. "Whatever you think, whatever you do, you're going with me. You're not celebrating your eighteenth day here." The stalker commands, and furiously jams his clenched fists on a table near him since she wouldn't stop laughing.As Kellie concludes her moment of laughter, she responds, "I'm Kellie Leo by the way. I'm a special warrior in this pack. No one can tamper with me." "I'm glad you said - no one. I'm not included. I'm not a nobody." He justifies himself. "I said - no one. You're the first person included." She asserts. "My pack has been sending you warning in different ways - fire message, rogues, and whatnot. I have been in this pack as a spy for a few days now and no one discovered. Is this the pack you want to remain in?" His eyes widen abruptly and he moves closer to her. "But if you insist, I'll ensure I reduce you to an Omega or human, and I'll kill your mate right in this pack."Kellie hisses. "So you are the one stalking around my businesses all this while. Charles must hear this. Anyways, you can take your leave. I need to get some rest." She feigns some confidence.Kellie rather hisses at his statement, "now I know - you're the criminal behind that act. You've been a spy here. Well, today brings your work to an end. Charles will surely know about this. You can take your leave, I give you another option now." He smirks again, "fine, I'll leave. But do not say I didn't warn you ahead. And note, I'm still in the pack. I will grapple you when you least think about it." "Is this a threat or something?" Kellie asks. He rises to his feet and walks to the door to creep out as Kellie's gazes remain fixed at him. "Do not tell one single soul about this." He commands in his Beta tone. He forcefully swings the door ajar, as he speeds out of the living room and shuts it behind him. Kellie shakily sighs, also wondering how fast he got out of here. Could he be a white wolf as well? Though she hasn't met with her mate but she's the curious one, always exploring the world of wolves. She notices the door is left on latch so she locks it with the keys and returns to her room. But as she elegantly ascends the staircase, her father's door creaks open, revealing a protruding leg. Charles, her father, suddenly hugs her from behind, "why aren't you sleeping, princess?" "I will not follow you!" She screams, trying to pull out of the hug. "Follow who?" Charles conceenedly asks, hugging her more tightly. Kellie gasps at the realization that she mentioned that in her dad's presence but Charles is cool, to her. "Mind a check-up by the pack doctor?" Charles inquires. "Anyway, do not let Kimberly know about this - your mum worries about you so quickly." Kellie rather remains quiet - at the moment, she's totally short of words. If she forces any word, she'd be letting the cat out of the bag. She muffles under her breath, "I'll return to my room now." "I didn't forget those words. Who were you opposing, not to follow? Did you have a nightmare?" Charles inquires but she pulls herself from the hug at once. Charles sighs, "little princess, any word for dad?" "No word." Kellie boldly responds and returns to her room. But midway getting there, she catches the sight of an object flickering past her door. She seizes her breath, and releases it, so Charles won't be bothered. When he notices that she doesn't say anymore word, Charles opens his door but Kellie stops him from entering. "Hold on!" She lightly screams. He smiles widely, "any word now?" "A lot." Kellie stammers and scoots over to his side. She presses her palms against her ears, to suppress the sound coming from her room, which no one else can hear."Come on." Charles beckons to her and she gets in, while she reveals what she saw.

"Alpha Festus, I swear to God, I'll return and be your Beta or Zeta, any one!" George pleads, his hands still bound with chains. "Please, she is my mate. It has been confirmed, let me find her today. Now. Please."

Alpha Festus adjusts his sitting position on his official throne, staring wickedly at George who is prostrating and bound with chains.

"Those are just chains. You can cut them off with your wolf power." He says, and the most important seven Betas stifle giggles, sighing deeply afterwards.

"This is no joke, Alpha. She is my mate. My rightful one." George repeats.

"Then go get her." Festus smirks. "Use your wolf power to control me."

"Association of Wolves." George mutters under his breath. "I'm coming."

"They are waiting for you." Moon goddess mind links him. "You're ripe to be mated, you're 22, go ahead, and meet your mate."

George smiles after getting the warm message from the moon goddess. It's such an heavenly feeling, and greeting. He has never tried to use his wolf power to break his chains since it's obvious that it won't work.

"Anything yet?" Festus rises to his feet, and points at one of his Betas. "Come with me, let's summon the moon goddess."

"For what, Alpha?" One of the Betas reply but he gets a hard hit on his chin in response.

"Let's know how Beta Albert is faring. Has he been able to use the wolf's bane on Kellie?"

George sighs, and exhales deeply, unintentionally letting out scared sighs of his nostrils.

"Mind link him instead." Another Beta suggests.

Alpha Festus sits on his throne again.

"Beta Albert, how is it going?" Festus uses his personal mind link. "Captured her yet? May I send the bus to convey you from airport?"

All George and his Betas could see is the bright light shining from his eyes, they can't hear anyone's personal mind link, not even the Alpha's.

"There's a problem, sir." Albert retorts with his voice breaking.

"What is it? Huh?" He asks repeatedly.

"I need someone to assist me here." He muffles. "I can't do this alone. I would be caught. I'm the only one here in London, you're all there in Houston, enjoying and merrying."

"Don't be rude. I would send six of my seven Betas, one would remain here. What about that?" Festus clears his throat.

"Sure, Alpha. I would be expecting them before daybreak so we would know how to capture her and escape with her." He replies in his mind link.

"Mind you, don't tell anyone you have the white wolf ability. Don't even let anyone guess, don't open any door a white wolf closes so anyone won't suspect, okay?" Festus warns him. "You're the only white Wolf of the American Teenage Wolf pack. Please, be wary. I'll send them over to you now."

"Sure, Alpha." Albert replies. "Are you sending her mate alongside?"

"George?"

"Yes."

"Fuck you."

"Fuck you too." Then, Albert cuts the mind link, and hisses, tucking himself inside the cave, hiding there and waiting for his other Betas to run away with Kellie. (-UK-)

"Such an idiot." Festus says, dusting his shirt with his palms. "Nonsense." (-USA-)

"What did he say? Why did you take long?" His Betas inquire but he only rolls his eyes at them.

"Bind this wastoid." He points at George. "Then, come back for your orders."

Three of the Betas move up to George to bind him up while the other four stay behind.

"Are you nuts?" Festus fumes at the other four. "Join them and tie him up properly!"

They join the three, and the seven of them lift George up easily, heading to the locking room.

Alpha Festus sniffs around the corner, and warns more sternly. "Fast! Tie him up!"

But, it's too late. Despite the fact that the Betas want to get him inside the locking room, despite the fact that the Betas have great powers, despite the Alpha's skills, George frees himself off of the Betas and drops to the ground with the loudest thud. Not a human thud, obviously and that is what stops the Betas and Festus himself from acting immediately. George stands up in his human form, half shifting into his wolf again, and then he walks up to Alpha Festus.

"Let me go." He deadpans but Festus shakes his head in disagreement. Then his Betas walk up to him, and few inches away to drag him, he loses control of his body as he gives the loudest yell followed with all kind of strange whines and woofs. His wolf taking control, hair films all over his skin, and he growls to a fault. Now in his brown wolf form, the Betas start to give their wolves the form too. Festus runs away from the throne like such cowardice Alpha he's been, he enters a chamber and alerts the pack house. He alerts the security wolves as well.

"Don't let anyone in or out." He repeats. "Do you copy?"

"Do you copy?!!" He repeats with frustration in his voice. "Answer, you damn assholes."

"Yes, I copy." A voice replies. "We are not assholes, we are not sleeping, that's why you could reach us easily."

"Do not let anyone in." He says, finally and gets out of the chamber. He stops in his tracks, seeing four of his Betas wincing in pain and oozing out blood while the three wolves are grunting and howling, preparing to fight the big brown wolf, George.

Noticing the Alpha, George howls and flaps his claws as he breaks through the walls. Storming out, his three okay Betas follow him behind in their wolves' form. The bricks broken in bits from the broken walls fall into Festus' eyes and he sends them out through his power.

"Alpha Festus...." One of his four groaning Betas now in their human forms, call him.

"Shift, and follow them." Another says. Festus acts as though he would but no, he runs with his physical energy down to the gate since he can't shift.

Alpha Festus can't shift until moon goddess extracts some power from Beta Albert. He runs and gasps, almost getting to the main gate. Getting there now, he meets with the security wolves and his other three Betas.

"Alpha Festus, he escaped." The man who replied him in his mind link, whispers to him.

"He did what?!" He yells at his three Betas which are now in their human forms.

"You could have shifted and helped." One of the Betas protests. Festus screws that, and rants on.

"We are doomed." He wails. "George escaped? How?"

Then, his other four Betas come behind him in their human forms.

"Thank goodness you're here." Festus comments.

"Our wolves healed us real quick. Where is George? Where has he been caged?" They each say, except one.

"I had wanted to tell you! Albert needs you in London!" He yells, ranting in haste.

"He needs you! Go straight to the pack. Association of Wolves in London, England. Make sure George doesn't enter the pack before you do!!!"

"That's not reasonable enough." Richard, one of his Betas say. "That strong wolf? He would have gotten there."

"You are nuts." Fred retorts. "Get the hell out of this pack and find him! Follow hard after George!!"

They all shift into their wolves' form except Richard. Then, with the gate still shut, they fly above and growl as they hurry, pursuing George who has gone ten minutes before now.

"Scumbags! Any ways, I needed someone beside me. So, you, Richard, should fill that gap." He gulps and coughs out his lungs.

"Always chill. Don't die yet." One of the security says, his other members dozing off.

"Thank you, Moron." Festus replies, and heads straight into his chamber with Richard.

"Make sure the mind links are available. Active I mean!" He barks at Richard, and Richard slightly nods. Then they both jerk the door to his room open, and the walls fall flat.

"This is trash." Alpha Fred comments, breathing out and nuzzling Richard. "In my own personal room?"

Richard sighs, and goes straight to the chamber Alpha Festus went to. He activates the mind link, and he can hear grunts and howls of wolves.

"Idiot! Come on, transform into your wolf and hear what they have to say!" Festus barks at him. Only in their wolves' form can they hear other wolves' talking. Not in their human forms.

"No, I don't want to shift." He says, and walks out on him. Festus yelps at him strongly this time, he stops in his tracks and stares back.

"Alpha Festus, shift to your wolf form and hear what your Beta has to say!" Richard yells back.

Dark.

He knows Alpha Festus can't shift, yet he asks him too. Festus would have been breaking down if only he knows that Richard is aware he can't shift.

"Just do this as a Beta! Fuck!" Festus cusses. Richard agrees, not wanting him to suspect that he's aware of his inability to shift. Changing into his wolf form silently, he sticks his ears to the mind link in the chamber.

"We are here behind him. He doesn't know we are here. He's trying to barge into the pack house but he's lurking around though, not wanting some sort of suspects." The voice rants in the mind link. "We will update you as time goes on. We will bring Kellie safe over there in America."

"Hooray! It's finally your day."

It's 6am. Kimberly Leo, Kellie's mother creaks her door open and proceeds to Kellie's room. She rattles the doorknob and it becomes loose, the door opens itself to her surprise. Kellie wouldn't leave her door open, not even when she's flaunted her new age to her, the previous evening.

"Kellie?" She calls out, shallowly. "Kellie?"

She moves up to her bed but can't find her there.

"She must be somewhere downstairs." Kimberly tells herself, and heads downstairs but Charles grabs hold of her after quickly jerking the door open.

"Come over here." He tells her, and pecks her chin. "She must be downright the main gate."

"Main gate? Why? Why did you let her go?" Kimberly rants, and takes to her heels.

Confused, Charles asks. "Anything wrong?"

"Everything wrong! Quick, follow me behind." Kimberly barks at him and her heart starts to pound.

"She told me she has something to say. So, I let her in." Charles gesticulates and soliloquizes to himself. "She dozed off and pleaded with me to be back. I told her to be careful and she nodded. That's just few minutes ago."

He slips in his sandals and runs after Kimberly.

"I swear, she will be safe." Charles screams after her. "You know you're pregnant with our pup."

"Being the only reason you can catch up with me." She says, gasping for breath. They finally get to the main gate. The security men bow their heads in respect and ask what they needed.

"Kellie... Kellie." Kimberly could only whisper, she's running out of breath. The guards seem confused so they don't say anything.

"Kellie!" Charles yells rather too loudly. "Where is she?"

"Kellie didn't come here." One of them says, and scoffs.

"What!" Charles remark but Kimberly goes silent, her gasping coming to an end, her eyes wide open and her ears twitching. She couldn't believe what she's hearing.

"She brushed past here though, and told us she wanted to say "hi" to her mate."

"She said she smelt her wolf's scent, and couldn't resist going to meet him."

"What!!!!" Charles and Kimberly sharply exhales. "And you couldn't ssss...." They stutter, and their eyes dart forward and backward around this corner.

"At the back of her room." Another says, silently.

Getting a tip, they both run back into their house. Kimberly pants a lot, needing Charles' support. They both get inside their house once again. Charles shuts the door tight and places his mate on the sofa as he himself runs up the stairs to check her room. Getting there, he sees Kellie jumping happily.

"Kellie!" He screams her name, and Kimberly helps herself up, coming towards the room.

Kellie looks back but unfortunately, that's her last jump. She jumps off from the window into a wolf's hand. Kimberly crawls inside the room, and Charles helps her up. They both fix their gazes on Kellie.

"Kellie!" Kimberly giggles. "It's mum!"

Kellie waves back but George, her mate whom she jumped off to meet, cages her into himself, cuddling entirely! Then he wants to enter the pack. George shifts fully back into his human form, and heads straight to the main gate.

"Kellie! Kellie!" Charles yells. "Where are you heading to? Who is that?"

"We are coming over there, sir!!" George smiles broadly, yelling back, and waving his hands. Kimberly giggles and Charles smiles as their eyes move with the two of them.

(Kellie jumped from her room down to outside the gate - Note)

George garners all his attention to Kellie as he carries her on his back and heads to the main gate. Charles and Kimberly keep smiling, and hoping to see Kellie and her mate coming inside their house. Their eyes follow them still, their eyes would conveniently follow them to the main gate, so their minds are relaxed.

But midway getting to the gate, suddenly!

Suddenly!

The Six Betas of Alpha Festus approach, in their human forms. They smirk and move to meet him.

"Good Day. Miss Kellie and her mate, Brother George." Beta Alfred says, joining them and increasing the number to seven."

"Stay here while I watch." Kimberly grumbles. "Order warriors to help save Kellie. She's being stopped by some thugs."

"Thugs, you say?" Charles replies. "These are strong wolves from another kingdom. And besides, they don't seem harmful."

"Just do what I told you to!!!!" Kimberly yells but slightly. Charles doesn't respond, he rather stays with her and twitches his ears to hear what Greg and the Betas of Festus are saying.

"I shouldn't have been mated to this strong headed beast." Kimberly snickers.

"Wait. When I hear what they are discussing, I would decide." Charles tells her, and his eyes flap, listening to them.

George shudders, sighting the Betas approaching him.

"Who... Who are you?" He stutters, releasing Kellie from his back.

"You don't need to say or ask anything! You runaway scandal!" Alfred slightly yells, still approaching him cunningly. Note, it's between the pace George can't flee from, especially with his back hunched by Kellie.

"Come over here, you bastard." One of the Betas growl at Kellie. Kellie shudders, and screams as they draw near.

"Beta Alfred, please do your job." Henry, one of the extra six Betas call Alfred and his face reflects in Kellie's.

"Isn't that you, Beta?" Kellie shudders, pointing at Alfred.

"Do you know him?" Greg whispers, guiding Kellie jealously.

"Seems like an attack." Charles whispers with quavering lips, and Kimberly gulps down her throat, almost slumping.

Charles escapes from the room and runs downstairs in nanoseconds.

7am ticks. Thirty minutes more for all warriors to resume their works.

Charles gets out and runs towards the main gate.

"Hey, help!!" He yells at the security men.

"How?!!" They yell back at him. He jerks the gate open, and catches the sight of the Betas and Kellie with George.

"No! No! No!" He muffles, trying hard not to shout and alarm them. Two of the security wolves follow him behind, and they all run, ensuring they are not being noticed.

As Alfred tries to drag Kellie, George shifts into his wolf form, and others too shift, except Alfred.

George takes Kellie to his tail but others surround him and jump over him to bring Kellie down. George in his wolf form jumps up and down, resisting their attacks.

"Let Kellie down." Alfred mutters, smirking and turning around to take off Kellie. Kellie's hair swirl up and down as George keeps her safe with his back and tail, from the six wolves and Alfred trying to take her.

Then, as Charles and the other two wolves approach them, their eyes glisten, and they transform immediately into their wolf forms.

Three (Charles with two security wolves) and George making four in number now join and cooperate as they tackle the six wolves and Alfred.

Alfred changes into his wolf form but becomes human again, he's a white wolf, he doesn't want to be noticed so he remains in his human form, leaves the scene and watches the fight from a distance.

"Kellie!!" Kimberly yells, having run away from the house. "Come over here, Baby."

She sniffles, and waves at her.

Charles winks at George, the other Security Wolves do, too. George, with Kellie in his back and tail still, swirls Kellie up and she rolls up and gets down, hoping to get down to Kimberly's stretched-out hands but No.

She lands somewhere entirely different from this pack, the opposite of her pack. She rolls on the ground and wanders in the bush.

Kimberly stands, statuesque.

"Whhaattt....happened?" She stutters, her gazes directed at Alfred already-scared eyes.

"Holly molly! Where did my daughter land at?" Charles wails, all of the wolves having shifted back into their human forms. Their attention now diverted from who will collect Kellie to how to rescue Kellie. George runs towards them, panting. Others come running but slowly, the betas.

They start to blame themselves.

"You caused this shit!" Kimberly cusses. "You caused this!" She grabs Charles' shirt, and spits at him.

"Look for my mate!!" George yells. "Else, I'd kill you."

The two Security Wolves head straight to the main gate without looking back.

"You brats! You caused this! You didn't alert us on time!!!" Charles yells, still being held firm by Kimberly.

Alfred goes silent and stops the other Betas from coming over to the scene; he walks up to them instead, and they all gather together to think of the next line of action.

"Kellie is lost!" Kimberly shudders, wailing with all her little might. Charles frees himself off of her grip and she lands on the ground.

"I told you to alert the securities on time. Even if cops!!" Kimberly wails, even when dumped on the ground.

George drops to the ground, knowing how arduous (if possible though) to break through the strong wall and save Kellie.

"This was how Cassandra from Los Angeles got there, and died. She wasn't saved. Her body was only found at a waterfall!" Kimberly wails.

Charles tries to climb up the very tall and strong wall, the barrier between the pack and wasteland.

It's called WASTELAND. A place even moon goddess takes time to save wolves from. It only takes luck to get wolves out of there.

"We got a plan." Alfred and his Betas approach and tell Charles, Kimberly, and George.

"What...what is it?" They all (except George knowing their hidden agenda) cooperate, believing they have to, since the present situation calls for it. Urgently.

"Let's go." They all run through the north direction, leaves rustling as they take to their heels, wanting their plan to turn up on time.

"THE WARRIORS ARE AWAKE! WHERE ARE YOU ALL HEADING TO?" Alpha Martin yells but Kimberly replies in distance with her middle finger.

"I'm sorry. We gotta do this." Charles encourages his pregnant MATE - Kimberly. She nods, and they keep running to a direction. Then they stop suddenly.

"Gotten there now?" Kimberly asks, gasping.

"No."

"How?"

No response. A door creaks open, and they all get inside the hut.