COMING TO THE HIDDEN CITY

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INTRODUCTION - COMING TO THE HIDDEN CITY The blood and dirt covered woman drags a young boy through the streets toward the docks in Dillingham Alaska. His wrists are red, and getting raw because she has been gripping him so hard while dragging him. Please, oh please, Goddess let the boat still be there! Mama, mama, please carry me ! The eight year old boy whines! My legs can not go any faster! Mama! You're dragging me! Jason! Hurry please! We can not miss that boat! If we get left here we will die here! Mama! My hands! You're hurting my hands! She hears him, but she does not dare let him go! Letting him go here will be sending him to his death. She has not traveled so far just to let him die now. His little wrists will heal, they will heal faster than a normal little boy’s would. As the only pup, a son of the last known white wolf he has to get into the boat. His descendants will bring forth another white wolf. A wolf of great power that will bring the the wolves back together in the world, and off the island of The Hidden City. As she drags him down the street they pass horrific scenes of people dragging half changed shifters on leashes, a truck has child shifters in a cage, a man grabs young female shifter, and slams her head into a concrete brick wall. A man zapping the teenage male shifter, with a stick. Humans and shifters alike are screaming and yelling. Big wolves are running through the streets ripping humans to shreds. “Jason Forest Alexander! I will leave you in this street, if you do not hurry along!” The mama yells at the boy. Desperate to make him go even a little bit faster. Where’s daddy mama? Is he already on the boat? How much further mama? Marie is exhausted; she has raced non stop from Mississippi. The only home she has ever known. She has no time to answer the boy’s questions. She just wishes he will be quiet, and not draw any attention to them! Someone around Tennessee had told her about boats leaving from here to go to an island where all wolf shifters would be welcome, and safe. A heaven for the wolves. Where no humans would be able to reach them. An escape from the world as they now know it. Marie is the last known Royal Wolf. The last of the whites. But she never gained any Royal power. She was not born with any black marking on her. Her mate had wanted her because she was a white wolf. She knew he wanted her powers, that she did not have. His wolf was black, and he was her fated mate. She hoped that if they mated that her powers would come. However, her powers did not come. His hate for her grew daily. He did everything he could think of from taking her to a witch, to trying to cause her pain to set off the powers. But nothing worked. She was a powerless white wolf. A Royal not meant to lead. When he got tired of waiting on her powers, he left her. You are useless! I should have known better than to spend so many years waiting on your powers! What!?! I gave you a male pup! I spent just as many years in this bond as you! Not saying a word when you cheated on me! Not saying anything while you beat me for no reason! HA! What do I need a pup for! He shoves her to the ground. Her head hitting a sharp rock and making her see black spots. She slowly stands back to her feet. I needed your royal powers to be an Alpha! You knew the whole time that’s what I wanted, and you knew you would never have your powers! Then you try to trap me with a pup! Uugghh well you can keep that pup! I Malcolm Miles Alexander reject you Marie Christine Alexander as a mate! I reject Jason Forest Alexander as my pup! Marie drops to her knees and grabs at her chest trying to ease the pain of her mate bond ripping into tiny pieces. The pain is unbearable. Daphine, Marie’s wolf howls in her head. No! No mate! Mate no reject! The loss of a mate is devastating to a wolf. Some wolves even die from rejection, leaving the human to go mad. Once a human goes mad they have to be put down. If they are not put down they go bloodthirsty and start killing any living thing they come across. He smirks at her and turns and walks away as if he feels nothing, ( his wolf Exavier whimpering in his head ) never to be seen again. A few days after that some shifters thought it would be a good idea to come out to the humans. Turns out it was not. Top Alpha Leonardo Francisco Dane went on television and introduced humans to the werewolves. He told the history of shifters. He even shifted on television. He scared a security officer so badly that the officer shot him on the show! That then showed that bullets will not do much damage to wolves and showed how fast wolves heal. Then shortly after that a video was made of Samuel Pardens, a feral wolf killing a human. This was the last straw. This was the point where the government stepped in. No one would listen to any explanation that the wolves gave. The government required that all shifters report and receive a special mark. All wolves no matter the age or the ability to change. The mark had to be made by a witch so that it would stay permanently. The mark a small w under the left ear. Some wolves were taken to government facilities as soon as marked. The taken ones never came home. Rumors ran about the horrible experiments being performed on the wolves. The taking of blood, to taking body parts, being just some of the stories. Stories of killed wolves being burnt in a building behind the government buildings. So many died that each building had its own building just to get rid of the dead wolves. The last year has been hell on earth! Humans attacking shifters, shifters attacking back. Shifters being taken for experiments. When the government said that wolf blood could heal all cancers, and other diseases humans went crazy! Now regular civilians were taking wolves. Trying to cure a loved one either by the wolf biting them or taking the bad body part and replacing it with a wolfs! No matter the reason, the kidnapped wolf always ended up dead. Marie managed to keep her and Jason unmarked and safe by traveling non stop. They were both exhausted and starving, but she could see the boat now and nothing was going to stop her! Jason! Look son! See that blue boat! Yes mama! That’s the boat son! That’s where we are going. The blue … a man grabs Marie by her hair and yanks her up. Where do you think you are going b***h! Blood coming from her scalp, running down her dirty face. Run! Jason run! Go to the boat son! Jason looks at his mama. He does not want to leave her. No mama! You have to come with me! Just as the man reaches out his other hand for the boy, the boy disappears. Another woman runs past in a flash and grabs Jason. He starts screaming and trying to kick himself free, but the woman keeps running. Mama! Mama! Let me go, I want my mama! She stops at the boat and hands the kicking and screaming boy to a man on the boat. That’s it, his mamas gone, go now the humans are coming! What about you? Are you not coming? No, there’s too many shifters in trouble, I have to try to help! The man leaves the dock and heads for the island. That’s it. The last to go. He has taken twenty five boat loads to the island in the last three days. One hundred and fifty wolves and five witches. As soon as this load arrives the witches will hide the city. Goddess save the Wolves! CHAPTER ONE - 400 Years Later Thomas pulls away from the dock at the mainland. Only four of the ten wolves showed up to go back to the Hidden City. Every year the Elders send out ten unmated males into the human world for one year. Very few return. The idea is to see how humans and wolves are doing, get a feel for any new inventions, and to find females to bring back. A good year is when they return with females and the females survive the change. It takes about an hour and a half before Thomas drives the boat slowly through the veil that protects the city. Only wolf shifters can pass through the witches' veil. Even his strong wolf Dixon whimpers every day as they go in and out of the city. If a body without a wolf tries to go through the veil it dies immediately. So when a female is being brought back Thomas has to call in to have a witch lift the veil, while the boat comes through. Thomas pulls up to his spot on the dock where two warriors are waiting to escort the males to medical then they go to the report station. Thomas nods to the warriors when the males are off to let them know that’s all. He ties his boat up. Then he walks through the boat to make sure it is clean and ready for the next trip to the human mainland at Dillingham Alaska. The wolves have been returning to the same dock for the last 400 years. They say they are waiting for the world to be safe once again, but the world has been safe again for at least 300 years. Thomas Leon Shannon has been a boat driver since he was 18 years of age. Now 58 he has always been an omega. He has always had a good life here, other than being unmated. They hold an Introduction Ball every year for eighteen year olds. He went the first ten years as required. But never met his mate. Then he did his year in the human world, and also did not find a mate there. When he came back he did another four years of the Introduction Ball then at age 33 he decided that he would just accept that he was not to be blessed by the Goddess with a mate. A lot have asked him why he came back if it is safe out there. Truth be told, it is cheaper to live here in the city. The city provides him with everything he needs for free. If he was ever to find a mate he would take his mate and move away from the city for sure! Thomas lives in the outer forest in an unmated male cabin provided by the city. The cabin is a small one bedroom, one bath with a small kitchen and a table with two chairs. A sitting area with a soft chair and a bookcase. There was a time that the unmated males had a little yard with their cabin, but the more cabins that had to be built, the less yard each got. In the unmated ring the cabins are so close they look like human apartments. Backed up right next to each other. They have the same as the cabin Thomas has but are two stories to take up less room. Thomas remembers the time they tore down all the cabins to rebuild like that. Male wolves and everything they owned stuffed into little tents while they rebuilt their homes. During that time there were more cases of unmated wolves going mad and having to be put down. The leaders did not care; after all that was less males to house! Thomas has added a tv, but he rarely watches it. He likes to read so he does have the bookcase full of books. He has one picture of his parents, and a picture of him on his boat, on the book shelves. Being unmated and cub-less he does not need much. He takes his pay and puts it in a human bank. One day he plans to live in the human world. But for now he is happy in the hidden city. He knows many wolves that save their pay and keep it outside of the city. Very few keep their money in the city bank. All of them with hope of one day not living in the city. He knows that a lot of females also take their pay in cash, but he does not know where they keep it. It is very rare for a female to ever leave the city. If a female does leave it usually means she has done something terrible, or something terrible has been done to her. When that happens the female is “prepared” for the human world. Thomas is also the boat driver for the wolves that have been prepared. They jokingly call him the Taxi Driver. On his walk to his cabin he sees a few males that he nods at. Familiar faces, but not really friends. He sees his friend Alder and waves. They used to stop and chat a while, but Alder's mate is with cub now so he rushes home to be with his mate. Hey Alder! Hey Thomas! Gota get home to Lexi! Catch you later! Alder James Parrish, age 29, waves as he passes Thomas. He walks over the bridge and past the beach to get to his home. Alder, an omega, works at the back dock with the fishing boats. He is what they call a net wrangler. He untangles the nets and gets them ready for the next time the boats go out. His mate Lexi is pregnant with their first cub. He spends all his free time with her. He will not be allowed to leave work for the birth, so he hopes it comes while he is off. An omegas work is too important to take time off. Even for the birth of a cub. If he does not go into work then another net wrangler will have to do his job. An Omega is the lowest power held in the pack. In the city they are treated just as well as any other, mostly. However, they receive the lowest pay. They rarely have days off. The only fun function that they get to go to that is held by the leaders, is the Introduction Ball. If they are invited to anything else it is usually because they are needed to work the event. However, they create their own things to do, and have their own parties. So it is not so bad. In the older days before the Hidden City, it is said that the Omegas were treated badly. Usually starved and beaten by the whole pack. But back then there were a lot less Omegas. The jobs that a lot of the Omegas do here now, back then would of been accepted as jobs of the Common Members. The ones next to the Omegas on the seniority list. Alder lives in the fifth ring. The first is the harbor and a forest, the next is the unmated males, then a river that goes all the way around the island, then some beaches, a forest, then the ring with the family homes. The family homes are nice and provided by the city. They are usually three bedrooms with three bathrooms, a kitchen, dining room, and a sitting area. A lot come with a small yard for a garden, or just enough grass for a pup to play. As he arrives, Lexi is also just coming in from her clothing store. The next ring in is all stores selling anything you could want, and a few eating places for hungry shoppers. Wolves are always hungry so they do well. Are you just now getting home? Yes! Jana never came in so I had to stay! What the hell! Doesn't she know you are with pup! Ahhh I think it’s a little hard to miss! They both giggle as he holds the gate open for Lexi and she waddles through. Goddess she’s even more beautiful carrying my pup! His wolf Damion says as she waddles past. After the store ring is another river then a forest. After that is the ring with the one that has the leaders, the medical, and the training grounds. Then in the middle is the female dorms , the female school, the male dorms, and the male school. In the very center is a beautiful round garden. This is where the Introduction Ball is held every year. The city is divided up into different rings to keep things safer for everyone. The unmated males tend to sometimes be violent around females or cubs. In the Hidden City females are very precious and rare. Once it was known that fewer and fewer females were being born, the leaders divided the island into rings to keep space between the males and females. The rings worked for hundreds of years, but now the males are being crowded. Even with not many coming back some males are having to build cabins in the outermost forest. There are rumors that the leaders are wanting to try to put the males two to a cabin. The males are not very happy about it. But there is not much they can do. They might build their cabins, but the supplies are provided by the city, and they live in the cabins at no cost to them.
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