Ann's little body ached as she sat up on the bed and they day has fully broke.
She cleaned her eyes opened with the back of her palms, rubbing it and wondering which room she was, as she had a terrible dream the previous night, and it looked so real and still frightened her.
Ann saw her parents killed by three black wolves and the one with white fur at it tail, had turned to her with green glowing eyes and next she saw the three wolves engaged in a ruthless battle, tearing eachother aparts and howling loudly.
Ann remembered, her mother used to told her why they never travelled back to her mother's village, The Greshood village as the village was surrounded by thick black forest and her mother also told her folktale about humans that could shapeshifted into wolves, also known as werewolves.
Ann sat up on the bed and stretched, and staring around the big dark room as her eyes finally flung opened, fear gripped her, and she immediately jumped down from the bed, wondering where she was.
''Where am I?'' Little Ann asked herself, as she stared around the big dark room, and her eyes also came in contact with a bony skeleton head behind her on a table, making her to screamed out "Ah!."
Jason Tristan was outside of their mansion, when he heard Ann's screamed and his sister and mother immediately stared to him wondering where the sound came from.
"What was that Jason?" Chloe asked her son.
"Nothing mom. I will be back," Jason shifted away and like a flash, darted back into the two storey building mansion and he made his way upstairs to the third floor, where his multiple rooms was.
They were rich and Greshood packs was farther separated away from the city, and there they formed their packs where the werewolves lived happily, As his father, Alpha Eli was the current Alpha, and as he was young, he was the next in line to become the next Alpha of Greshood packs.
They plot on taking down the humans world, as the humans never believed in their existence, as they secretly kidnapped and feed on some humans. But he plotted to end that when he became the next Alpha of Greshood.
Their kingdom was beautiful as they never lacked anything and they shapeshifted freely, without having to bothered about the humans discovering them, as the humans was totally unaware of them.
Some hunters had tried to discovered them and their kingdom, and even killed some of them in their wolves form, but once the hunters were caught and captured, they were killed.
Jason was only 12-years old, when he went farther away from Greshood packs, wanting to hunt with his two best friends, Evan George and Max Weston, whom were both his age, As it had been long they hunt, and he was hungry and eager for that.
Although sometimes they travelled to the humans world to shop for all they needed, As the humans were the main dealers and distributors of all kinds of product, wears and accessories and Jason wished, he could just grabbed one of the humans there and fed on the humans flesh.
His father, Eli Tristan one of the strongest Alpha had warned him never to leave Greshood packs again, as he had almost shapeshifted on a broad daylight to devoured a little girl, he saw in Gold city palace, when they travelled to Gold city kingdom to visited the ruler.
The little girl was as yellow as the girl he saw in the car with her parents, and his blood boiled hot and hungry to feed on her yellow flesh.
She was chubby with round cute face and blue sparkling eyes, As she stared at him in shocked when Evan and Max had attacked her parents, with horror clearly written in her eyes, and as they were in their wolves forms hunting, and hungry to ate her raw.
He had telepathic to Evan and Max not to ate her up, but he didn't trusted them, as they would revealed his secret of wanting to brrought a human into their werewolf kingdom. As they didn't brought the humans, except humans that were turned into werewolves like them, As they shapeshifted freely both day and at night.
The humans, hunt for them, and some werewolves too had been killed in their wolves form.
Jason quickly made his way upstairs to the third floor and arriving his chamber door, he slowly pushed his chamber door opened after removing the padlock, to revealed the frightening little human female standing to his view.
He could have tied her little mouth shut, to prevented her screams as she almost alerted his parents, and they could heard from afar as she was a human. And humans were forbidden to kept in their wolf pack, to avoided exposing their shapeshifting secret.
Ann shivered and moved backwards away in fear as Jason walked into his dark room and shut the room door closed behind him.
"Who are you?" Little Ann asked, in her shaking voice, and staring at the black boy with long curly black hair that was standing in front of her, As she has never seen a boy with black long hair before, and his chest was bare with him wearing brown skirt.
Ann stared down to his waistline and seeing him wearing brown skirt, Ann bursted out laughing, but Jason dark face, matching with the dark room, was non-smiling to her..
Jason stared to his little prey and he wanted to tore her little body apart, as she laughed and looked so cute in his eyes making him to remained silent and not laughing with her, As he slowly pushed the door to locked behind him, locking his room door properly and he sauntered to meet her, making Ann to took some steps backwards.
"Why're you wearing skirt?" Ann blurted out,
"And why's this room, so dark?" She asked Jason, as she stammered, making Jason to paused, and he chuckled out darkly and walked to his bed, and he climbed on it and stood there like an animal on his four limbs and staring to Ann like his prey, whom was shaking and staring at his dark image, as little light illuminated in the slightly dark room, thru the little space on the closed windows.
"Do you remember me?" Jason finally asked her, and Ann shivered, not knowing him, and not remembering whom he was as she couldn't even saw his face clearly.
"I don't know you. Who are you? And open the window at once!" Ann commanded him and Jason's nerved flinched as his green eyes immediately glowed at her and narrowed, Making making his sharp claws fingersnails to grew out longer and he jumped down from his bed, to Ann, making Ann to screamed out, "Ah!."
Ann fell backwards to her buttocks as the black boy looked like those three wolves that had killed her parents, only that he was a human but he was scaring the life out of her.
"You don't command me next time!. Am not your servant but you're my prey and I will eat you up, when you have grown bigger" Jason spoked, and Ann shivered, not understanding what he meant by eat her up.
Ann kept staring at him as he stood on his four limbs, placing his hands and knees to the floor, and he crawled up to meet her, like a dog, while she stayed on the floor, and he approached her shaky body and stared to her round cute face that was beneath him, as he towered over her and walked round her in a circle.
Jason paused and he finally stood upright on his legs and he walked back to the door and in a blink, he unlocked his door and exit his room.
Ann sat up back on the floor and she thought probably she was still dreaming, but she subtly pinched her little body to woke up from the terrifying nightmare, and to ran back into her mother's arms for her mother to console her.
Ann missed her elder brother, Samuel Maverick whom was 11-years old and her younger sister, Mia Maverick whom was 6-years old, and she curled up to a corner in the slightly dark room and sobbed as it was no dream and her parents were attacked by the wild dogs that looked like wolves, and she didn't also knew how she got into the house, and whom the black boy was.
"Where's mama?" Ann cried out, as she couldn't stood up to escaped. As she was young and was also frightened by the boy that behaved like a wolf, rightly in her viewed and reminding her of the three wild wolves that had broke her father's car glasses and dragged them out.
Ann stared to her underarm and she saw the scratched marks there, from the claws scratches and she knew it was no dreams. But how did she got into the house?.
Ann was frightened and she waited for her savior to come rescue her from the horrible reality that she was into.
Her stomach grumbles out loudly in hunger as she sat on the tiled floor crying and she didn't knew what to do next.
Jason stepped out from his room and he remembered Ann laughing at him, as he wore a brown short skirt.
They were wolves and only when they wanted to visited the humans world that they mostly dressed like the humans.
She was cute in his eyes and he wasn't going to kill her yet, nor released as she was his special food that he had hunt for.
He killed Evan and Max, his two best friends and he knew their parents would soon came in searching for them and reported the matter to his father whom was the Alpha, but he killed them, so as not to leaked his secret of wanting to kept the human in their packs, as his pet and to nurtured her to grew up and became as his personal meal.
He was angered at Max, whom scratched her arms and dragged her roughly after eating her mother, and Evan also ate her father, but the moment he saw her, he lost interest in her parent and was only focused on taking her away.
Jason walked out from his rooms on the third floor, and made his way downstairs to the first floor. And like he knew it, Evan and Max fathers had both showed up in their grand hall downstairs, to saw his father.
"Alpha! Our kids didn't returned back home last night, and Evan clearly told me, he was going to see Jason!" Evan's father, Beta Nathan George pointed to Jason, while Max's father remained silently as the rest of the elders started walking into the grand hall, and the howling cries of the late wolves mother was heard from afar, as they ran faster in their wolves forms to Alpha Eli's mansion.
Jason slowly walked downstairs to the hall and stopped rightly in front of his father whom was quiet and still staring to him while the other chiefs in grand hall that heard Beta Nathan's statement started disagreeing amongst themselves.
"Are you trying to say that Jason knew about your sons wherabout? What if they left this village and went to the city and got killed?" One of the elders questioned out, but Beta Nathan like he knew it, quickly disagreed.
"No!.. I know my son. Evan cannot leave this village and disobeyed me. He clearly told me he was going to see Jason and to play with Jason. And I warned him not to cross the boundaries or leave our village pack either!" Beta Nathan roared out with gritted teethes as he stared to Jason angrily, while Alpha Eli was still silent all thru.
"Alpha, what do you have to say about this?.. Ain't you asking Jason about his two best friends disappearance?" One of the Chiefs in grand hall asked.
Just then the chief priest walked in and he was assumed to be the husband to the moon goddess, as he had no mate and had lived for hundreds of years.
"Greetings wise one!" All the chiefs in the grand hall stood up to welcomed him as he walked in, and his wolf form was white even as he was in his human form, he still had white long hair on his head and he was the only fair in complexion werewolf in their kingdom, as they were all dark skinned and they never grew old.
Wise one Austin, like he was called, hit his long brown rod with wolf head to the floor as he walked into the grand hall and walking to front to meet Jason's father that also stood up to welcome him too.
"Welcome, Wise one Austin" Alpha Eli spoked, while Jason brows furrowed as he hated Wise one Austin right from his birth and when he started to knew a thing.
Wise one Austin had no mate and Jason stared to him irritably as he approached.
Jason remembered that he had asked his mother, why Wise one Austin hated him so much and his mother said, "Only the wise one knows.."
"Alpha Eli! Your son has to be punished!" Wise one Austin roared as the cries of the female wolves was heard from outside their mansion, as the she-wolves couldn't walked into the gathering of the male-wolves, except during festive seasons like mating ceremony.
"What has he done?" Alpha Eli pretended and asked, with head slightly bowed, As even as he was the Alpha, once he refused to choose the right path of decision, Wise one Austin would appeared out of no where and reveal the truth to all. As Wise one Austin was like his nemesis and just then the eyes on the wolf head on the brown rod in Wise one Austin's hand shone brightly red.
"Alpha Eli, your son killed his two best friends for a food that he should have shared between them, and Jason knew the customary law of the Greshood packs and yet he killed them to have the meal alone!" Wise one Austin roared out and the elders in the hall gasped, "What!"
Alpha Eli immediately fell to his knees and pleaded, knowing the grave consequences Jason had committed and he begged, "You cannot kill him wise one, What will become of our clans?."
"Silence!" Wise one Austin thundered as he inhaled and exhaled deeply.
"The three of them made a terrible mistake by killing the humans ruler and his wife . And now, our kinds would be in great danger as the humans would hunt down for us and kill us all as their revenge!" Wise one Austin roared in anger while the brown rod wolf head eyes, continued to shone redder in anger too.
"Beta Nathan and Gamma Kai, you both would have to bare the lost of your sons, As the three of them foolishly sneaked out from the borders to attack the humans. And to protect our clans, a huge walls would be newly built around to prevent the humans from entering into our kingdom freely or spying on us. As our packs need to be protected at all cost and that's just it!" Wise one Austin said as the grand hall fell into murmuring again.
"Silence! Am not done talking and you don't talk while I speak, Alpha Eli, you knew the law and because your son killed his kindred, you thought you could hid it and protected him. He would be punished and that's the greatest punishment for him as he killed not just one wolf, but two for a meal that he could have shared with them, And yet he didn't ate the meal, where's it?!" Wise one Austin roared out in a louder voice as he turned to face Jason whole didn't shook afraid, even as the elders in the hall all shook afraid as their yellow eyes fell on Jason
"Jason, Where's the meal that made you killed your two friends? Where had you kept it?" Wise one Austin questioned Jason, as he couldn't visioned passed that and he slowly sauntered to meet Jason whom moved away too.
"The ruler and his wife was killed and eaten by Evan and Max, but there was another little human with them, And I cannot see whom that human was, but Jason took that human away and he hasn't eaten her yet!" Wise one Austin announced.
"What!" The whole elders in the hall screamed out, as they were all ready to tore Jason aparts, including the angry youths male wolves that had entered into the hall to found out why the female wolves were crying.
"Where's the meal Jason, Speak!" Alpha Eli commanded his son, but Jason rather stared away from his father and refused to spoke, while Wise one Austin pointed his brown rod staff to Jason.
"He's a rogue! and he would kill even his own kindred just for a stupid meal, as the werewolves don't kill their kinds, but he would kill any just to protect that meal!" Wise one Austin roared as his rod staff eyes shone brighter redder and the wolf head grew bigger in anger too.
"He shall be cursed and he will be on the call to protect all his packs. The humans would arise and he would be at the fore front to fight and protect his clans, as he shall have no mate and no heir would arise from him as he shall remain cursed" Wise one Austin cursed.
"No Austin, you cannot do this to him" Alpha Eli fell to Wise one Austin feet while the rest of the elders remained in silence, but Jason never took the curse seriously, As he took it that Wise one Austin was only blabbing and he remained mute as he wouldn't gave out his personal meal yet.
"Then would you die in his place and take over his curse? As Jason shall be killed by the very own meal, he's protecting!" Wise one Austin roared.
"Liar!" Jason finally screamed out and transformed into his black wolf, But as Jason wanted to turned rogue and like a flash, the brown staff in Wise one Austin's hand too, changed into a brown wolf and attacked Jason, biting him on his neck to held him down.
"I told you right from his birth that he was doom and would bring destruction to us, but you refused to kill him, now we will all have to face the consequences of your failed action. You only thought of protecting your son, how about the rest of our packs, you're obviously are like him, Alpha Eli, but only soft in heart, while Jason is dangerous and ruthless and he would kill his own blood for a worthless meal."
Wise one Austin stretched out his hand and the brown wolf stopped attacking Jason and shapeshifted back into a brown rod, Which magnetized back to his hand, And Wise one Austin walked out from the hall with the rest of the elders starting to leave the grand hall too, as the judgment was over.
Alpha Eli couldn't cried as he stared to his only son in irritation. He had two daughters aside from Jason and his blood boiled hot, as he knew it was more difficult for the female wolves to conceived, unlike the humans. As the humans only carried their babies in their womb for nine months, while the she-wolves carried their babies for 1-year plus before birth, And it took many mating night before the she-wolf could conceived.
Wise one Austin walked out and stared to the crying wolves mothers and he ignored them as he made his way to his house, as he had spoken to Alpha Eli, about the fencing of Greshood packs, which needed to be done before the humans would came searching for them.
They stayed hidden and Wise one Austin thought, rebuilding their packs to looked more appealing and also, like the humans would be their next target.
Chloe Tristan immediately rushed into the hall with her older daughter Penelope, and they both rushed to Jason side, seeing his father didn't even cared to checked up on him as Alpha Eli stood staring away.
"Jason, Are you okay?" Chloe rushed to Jason on the floor and scoop him up as she didn't wanted to lost her only son. He was the next Alpha whether their Wise one liked her son or not, she didn't cared, but she heard Jason growling and screaming out in pain, when he was attacked in the hall and his father stood doing nothing about it.
"Are you okay son?" Chloe asked, lifting Jason up.
"Mom, he's bleeding!" Penelope cried out, and Chloe replied, "let's take him to the clinic first to dress his wound."
Chloe and her first daughter Penelope whom was three years older than Jason puts hands together and carried Jason out, as they ran out together from their house, as they didn't used cars in their packs because they didn't wanted the humans to be aware of them.
And there was no possible way of running with Jason in her arms, in her Wolf form as Jason had lost so much blood.
"Mom, let me transform so you ride on my back, let us take Jason quickly to the clinic. I don't want him to die" Penelope cried out and in a flash, she transformed quickly into her wolf form, even as the sun burns hotter, while Chloe carefully sat on her daughter's back as their wolf form was stronger, and Penelope ran faster to the clinic with her mother holding Jason closer to her chest and riding on her back.
Chloe took Jason into the clinic as they arrived.
"Good morning ma" The nurse on duty ran to Chloe side and collected Jason from her hand, and the nurse also asked, "Did he got into a fight?."
Chloe ignored answering to the nurse direct questioned and Chloe yelled, "Attend to him first! And don't let him die!."
Chloe cried, while Penelope transformed back into her human form and she walked into the clinic to meet her mother..
"Jason won't die mother. Brother is strong and will survive.." Penelope consoled.
"I hope so.." Chloe sniffed and few hours later, Chloe spoked, "Penelope, Why not go home and stay with Ava?. I don't want her leaving the house, and going out to play, especially now that we ain't home."
"No mother, Ava won't play outside as, she was inside sleeping before we left, and I doubt she will want to leave home without me around" Penelope replied.
"Hmm.. That's why you should go back home to meet her" Chloe stated.
"No mother, I need to find out how Jason is doing first" Penelope insisted, And just then Doctor Brown stepped out and washed his hands, and he stared to Chloe and her 15-years old daughter (Penelope).
"How's he doctor?" Chloe and Penelope both questioned Doctor Brown and he breathed out heavily and replied, "He was severely injured, but he will be fine and heal, as his blood is different from ours."
"Are you sure he will heal doctor?" Chloe asked worriedly, as she heard when Wise one Austin cursed her son, and she feared it might affected his healing nature too.
"Why do you asked that? He's the next Alpha, so he will heal. Only that, the wounds are deep, so he might not be going home today, as the wounds will still need us to clean it and ensure it heals before discharging him" Doctor Brown said.
"Can we go in now to see him now?" Chloe asked.
"No ma'am. He's still sleeping as I gave him some herbs to make him rest, seeing he's still growling in pain.." Doctor Brown replied.
"Thank you Doctor, I hope Jason will be alright" Chloe spoked, and the elderly doctor replied, "Off course he will."
The elderly doctor wondered whom could had dared to attacked Alpha Eli's son, as he knew how dangerous Alpha Eli was in his younger days..
"Mom, let's just go in to see Jason first, to be sure he's alright" Penelope insisted and Chloe nodded, While they both walked into the private ward to saw Jason.
Chloe stared to her handsome son sleeping on the bed, and it broke her heart to pieces and knowing that Jason was now cursed, never to had a mate and to also be the guardian keeper to their packs, Especially when the humans eventually avenge their late Ruler's death. And she wondered how Jason would be abled to protected them all.
Jason was only 12-years old and she wondered how he would be abled to fought with the humans that might be armed with dangerous weapons?.
Chloe slowly wiped off the corners of her eyes as she saw Jason's hand moved, like he knew of her presence and wanted to consoled her.
Chloe quickly moved backwards away, to stepped out from the private ward and not to disturbed him. As it seemed Jason was aware of her presence in the private ward, and she knew how he hated to saw her cried.
"Let's go Pene.." Chloe turned and exited the ward with Penelope, leaving only Jason in the room, as they spoked to Doctor Brown Wilfred, for a while before they left for home, walking down their packs street.
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Ava woke up and like usual made her way out from her room on the second floor and she went upstairs to her elder brother's room on the third floor to find Jason.
Ava was 7-years old and she saw when Jason previously left the house, the previous day with his two best friends and when Jason returned back in the midnight, Jason was hiding something away from her reached.
Something she could perceived as delicious, As her stomach grumbles out loudly in hunger at the sweet delicious aroma of the meat that she was perceiving, as the aroma seemed to pulled her upstairs to Jason's room door again.
Ava clicked on the door handle to opened, but discovered the door was locked and not opening.
"Jason.. Jason.." Ava slowly called her elder brother's name, to opened up the door, but none answered to her.
And so Ava wondered where Jason might had gone too again.
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Ann was inside the room in the second innermost room as she wasn't chained, but her hands couldn't reached to opened the windows, As she didn't knew how to unlock it either.
Ann was a princess in Gold City kingdom and had many maids and servants attending to her needs, as her father was the ruler of Gold City kingdom, and they were rich as she lacked nothing, not even clothes nor shoes, As she was fully pampered with her younger sister, Mia.
Ann heard the subtly knocking on the door and her heart beat rose to her lungs, as she didn't knew whom was there mumbling out low words.
Hearing a little girl's voice like hers, Ann wondered if she should responded or just ignored the girl's voice, and she feared why the black boy had locked the door too.
Ann walked up to the door slowly and reached to unlock the door, but it wasn't opening as the door was locked from outside rather.
Ann thought to asked, 'Who's there?' But just as Ann wanted to asked, She heard the person roared out like a lion, making her to stiffened, as she immediately felt goosebumps all over, wondering whom was the animal there.
Ann wanted to screamed out in fret remembering the wolves that had attacked her parents, but hearing the forcibly banging on the room door, Ann feared for her little life, and for the room door not to broke down, to revealed the roaring animal there.
And so Ann quickly ran back into the innermost rooms to hid, as fear gripped her and she believed probably that was why the black boy had hide her inside the room, to protected her.
Ann was breathing heavily and she tried to kept her racing heart calmed as she heard another loud voice, which she immediately recognized to be a woman's voice too.
"Ava!, What are you doing there? Go away from Jason's room door?" Ann heard the second voice spoked and she shivered, hiding beneath the bed as she heard the lady's voiced.
"But there's food in there sister. I can perceive it and is very delicious" The young girl's voice said, and Ann ended up peeing on her pant, as she wondered whom they were?.
"I cannot perceive any meat Ava, And Jason is not home" Penelope sniffed and grabbed hold of Ava's little hand.
"Really, where's Jason? He came back yesterday night and he told me to go away as I saw him dragging something upstairs.." Little Ava said.
"What was that?" Penelope asked, and Ann visibly shivered in the room, as she almost fainted wondering, if she was the meat they were talking about.
Ann remembered how the wild wolves had ate her parents.
{Did that meant the black boy too.. with long curly hair .. Is a wolf.} Ann subtly wondered silently.
"Are they werewolves, are they real?" Ann asked herself as her little body shuddered and she immediately fainted in the room, As realization dawn on her, that she was in the Werewolves den, And the story that her mother had told her with her siblings, about the werewolves existence to be true.
"What was that?" Penelope asked Ava with wide-eyes opened, as she heard the sound of something fallen in her brother's room.
"Come let's go Ava, lunch is ready" Penelope began dragging little Ava away, but Ava refused.
"No . There's a sweeter meal in the room" Ava protested.
"Shut up Ava! And if you speak of such again, I will knock your head. Now come with me," Penelope forcefully dragged Ava away, and took Ava back downstairs as she personally locked the passage door that lead into the third floor above as they went downstairs for their dinner.
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Jason finally woke up feeling hurt in his neck and he remembered Wise one Austin staff had attacked him, as he hadn't thought of the stick to transformed into a brown wolf and he tried to sat up wondering where he was.
Their packs was built like the humans city and likewise their homes too, but it was built deeply in the forest as they feed on humans and animals too.
Jason sat up on the bed and felt the stinging burning pain on his neck, and he touched his neck and felt his open wound.
When they were injured in their wolf form, transforming back into their humans form was much difficult as that would revealed their secrets to the humans, Except for him and his father as they were the Alpha and protector to their kinds.
To kept their packs safe, it was the cursed by Wise one Austin that if a werewolf was shot dead in it Wolf form by any human, it would remain so and if killed in the human form, it would also remained so too and never shapeshifted back into human form in the humans presence. Except the Alpha, so Jason believed Wise one Austin was only blabbing about cursing him, as curses didn't affected the Alpha.
Jason remembered his personal meal at home, and he stood up from the bed to leave the ward, even as his neck was badly hurting him, but just then, Doctor Brown opened the door and stepped in and stared to Jason in shocked.