Chapter 12.The Past ( a few centuries ago)
“Aooooooo!”
***distant howling***
That’s a lone wolf. Ryan exclaimed. He and his boys had been out in the northern mountains. Partying. Basically celebrating his takeover as the new Alpha of the Moonlight Pack.
“I have never seen a lone wolf!’
Beck was only ten years old when Ryan took over but he was his glue from day one. “Neither did I! ”
There were about five, six of them. All drunk and intoxicated.
They did not care that they were trespassing on the lands of the Scarlet Pack.
“Let’s go hunt that b*tch down!” Two of them were up on their hind legs, already morphing. “Everybody stand down!”
Ryan’s voice was hard and cold. The boys did not understand his sudden change in tone. “This one is mine! ”
He smirked at them, leaping into his wolf form. The boys yelled and screamed in the background, hyping him up.
Ryan closed the distance between them in the split of a moment.
It was the first time his eyes landed on that lovely maiden. A rustic beauty, Sherizad.
She pointed her Wolf nose up in the air, sniffing as Ryan took each step towards her carefully. Her fur was white as snow, with highlights of red here and there.
She startled circling around him. Deeply interested.
Ryan took the opportunity to show off.
He went ahead to let out his Alpha’s roar at which Sherizad backed off.
She immediately ran behind a big boulder. Morphing back into a human, she yielded her blade at his neck!
“You are from the Moonlight pack! Correction. Alpha of the Moonlight Pack, caught in an attempt to trespass illegally over Scarlett’s Land.” She cupped her hands around her mouth making that announcement,” Hhhmm, what a lovely topic for gossip!”
Ryan traced the sharp edge of the blade with his fingers!
Did your father not teach you not to roam around alone at night? The shadows might bite your tender a*s! ”
Ryan snapped at her, brushing his hand softly against her back.
She straightened up then went ahead and left a gnash as the back of his neck.
“How dare you talk about my father with that dirty, low born mouth of yours?
We are respected people, unlike yourself. Bloody born from a wh* re of a mother. ”
She touched Ryan where it hurt the most. She didn’t stop there, she continued.
“Nobody really knew if you were your father’s child, until your Alpha mark appeared! You think nobody knows that? You got the nerves mocking others…”
She didn’t get to finish her sentence.
Something came at her out of nowhere.
Definitely looked like a Wolf but neither of them had detected its smell.
It was way bigger than a normal one in size. Ryan was able to pull Sherizad away at the nick of time.
It was definitely attacking. Its target was her head. It had intended to rip her skull open. It looked at them and got ready to jump at them for the second time.
Ryan roared at it as he changed into his beast self. He locked it with his jaws right at its mouth. Then from beyond the horizon, they heard more howls.
Definitely comrades of the one they were tackling.
Sherizad looked at Ryan, nodded and then barged at their formation. All alone.
Ryan watched her from the side of his eye, still locked in his tackle with the first one.
Everything turned to slow motion as he watched the girl break neatly inside the formation of the giant wolves.
There were seven, eight of them. Their furs are gray, covered with layers of snow. It meant they were traveling from lands further up North.
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The girl looked like a toy between their clanking claws. He whistled three times, loud and hard. Sherizad slid under one of the Wolves, causing severe injury to its hind legs and lower abdomen. She jumped over one, grabbing it by its mane. Then toppling it over with force.
Its teeth flew here and there.
But that was it. The third one took this opportunity to grab her by the neck.
It hurt but she didn’t scream. It’s fangs digging inside her flesh. Blood trickling down, tainting the snow White fur.
Had it not been for Ryan’s boys she would definitely had become a ‘ past’ thing
The one that led the attack shoved Ryan off. He lost a portion of his lips in the process.
They were of course not expecting an entire army, waiting to ambush them. They
disappeared as trackless as they had
appeared.
Sherizad held the spot where she was bleeding, bowing and thanking the lads.
“Let me take a look! ”
Ryan pulled her beside and gently moved her finger. Blood started gushing.
It was not normal for a Wolf’s wound to heal at that rate. It wasn’t healing at all.
“This is strange. I think you need to get this wound checked with your pack doctor immediately. Let me take you there!”
He lifted her up without even waiting for her approval.
“Show me the way!”
Sherizad pointed eastwards with her eyes. “Scout the area for any possible clue about those rogue Wolves. Get back to the Pack. I will meet you all there!”
“Where are you going Alpha?”
Only Beck could question Ryan like that and get away.
“To the Scarlet Pack. Now begone!”
He darted off with the lady in her arms,
vanishing within seconds.
The boys at the back went
“Aweeee! Yeeeeeeah!”
Cheering their Alpha like he was in some race. “I thought the Eastern fringes of these lands were inhabited only by the royalties amongst the Scarlets and Moors! ‘
He asked as he neared an enclosed perimeter. “That’s right! I am the daughter of Alpha Shell from the Scarlet Pack and my mother is a Moors princess!”
Sherizad batted her eyelids at fifty bats per second.
Ryan could not help but feel a little something knock at the gates of his icy heart.
Love was in the air.