Adina.
Our pack was a small pack. Just under fifty of us. My father, Darrien was our leader at the time . We resided in a small town just off the west of SaddleRiver, New Jersey . We were fed well, we were strong and with our powers we laid low and stuck with modern times .
Darrien was the strongest man I knew , in addition to him being my father that was a plus . I loved my father deeply with all my heart, my mother was a runaway. She ran away from the pack quickly after having me - so I don’t know much about her . I wish I knew her , my father tells me I look so much like her . With hazel eyes and jet black hair .
“You’re beautiful Adina .. don’t ever forget that” my father voice echoed in my ears, deep and husky, a strong man for admiration, he continued “you’re at the age now to marry .. you should begin to look, that would be -“
“Father .. I do not wish to marry now, I wish to be strong like you. To be the Alpha.” My fathers deep brown eyes lit up with enjoyment , ofcourse he wanted me to follow into his foot steps . It was the right thing to to do. We stayed in a building complex shared with the rest of the pack, whom had their own apartments in the building . Five floors were perfect for us but when ever we had meetings, we’d go off to a near by woods and shape shift into our wolf forms . It was peaceful and amazing to just think we all had powers . One day, my father Darrien decided to have a meeting .. the subject was based around food and what we can and cannot eat at the local super markets . A political meeting that some of the older omegas and betas wanted to discuss . We all stood in our human forms, not shape shifting yet. “Adina.. pssst.. Adina!” A voice from the third row behind me whispered my name, a young pack member who admired me the first day she laid eyes on me, we called her ‘Yellow’ due to her yellow colored eyes and brassy red hair . She was beautiful to me and no older than the age of ten, I whispered back at her, “ Yellow im busy , what’s wrong?”, her eyes softened and became gloomy “I wish to be like you one day Adina .. we all do.” Her last words struck me when my eyes panned behind her to see the other pack children smiling and shaking their heads “yes”. All I can do is smile before becoming the first to transform in my wolf state . The others followed and so did my father. We were all more at peace when transformed into our wolf forms . My father began to telepathically speak to us, “As we know, winter will be here and we must figure out what to eat from the markets as wild life can become sparse to us.. In order to -“ “ INTRUDERS!!!”
As Quickly an omega yelled from the back of the pack, a swarm of enemies known as the “Parox” clan surrounded us .
“Stand ground and stand tall! Women and children must escape at all costs !” My gut was in knots when my father spoke these words, that meant life or death in battle and that I must take cover as well, being that I’m woman as well” .
Some how, yellow was farther towards the middle of our surrounded pack, she was shaking, being taunted by the intruders of parox, from the twenty feet distance I can see that she’d wet herself and her brassy color ears were down with her tail between her legs. She was afraid. “Yellow!” I shouted telepathically trying to get her attention, “yellow, I will protect you, do not fear !”
“Oh… so you don’t fear?” A parox member had spoken from far, our eyes had met, a wolf with all black fur and eyes the color of the Maldivian sea, ten times bigger than the other parox members . “You’ll be the first to die!.. KILL THEM ALL!!!” And at the feet of his command were a mixture of wolfs and humans . An arrow being the first blow, as fast as I seen it, atleast topping a speed of 20 miles , it had struck yellow right in her head. Rapidly, she’d change back to her human form, “ yellow !!!! ..” I sprinted as fast as I could .
“Didn’t I say you’d be the first to die ?!” The parox wolf whom must’ve been the alpha opened his mouth revealing his canines, I followed behind him, trying to go for his neck, to cripple him at all costs. “Not while I’m still alive!” My father came in between us, bitting down on top of this parox alpha ear and eye, “Do not join this battle Adina, as you are not alpha!” In the mist of the two biting and snarling, his words had shaken my body, pulling the omega characteristics out of me, that had been buried so long ago. “Y-You’re right!” Swiftly I turned tail to help the others that were In battle, the woman were fighting but most were omegas, they’d be bitten and struck with arrows and sprayed by bullets . I was the strongest woman of the clan. I spotted a human male reloading his gun, “There ..Will.. Be … Blood!” My mouth clasped onto this man torso, his bodily fluids shooting onto my tongue and the roof of my mouth. The taste of iron and vomit filled my mouth, as I shooked his body violently . “For yellow!… For the fallen” I took this man life, my first kill in my entire life . I released him, gasping for air, regurgitating his blood, I can fill my human half wish to be let out, but the animalistic instincts in me kept that part at bay.
This fight felt long and wasted as more and more of my pack members had fallen. The children were deceased, the men were injured and the woman were either deceased or placed back into their human forms where they were dragged deeper into the forest by the enemy human men. Their screams haunting my soul, filling the air while we all continued to fight, felt as though no one can be saved. “Get the Alphas daughter !” From my peripheral vision, a wolf jumped into the air, lunging for my throat, a few humans coming at me towards the front. I was surrounded, swiftly I used my hind legs to kick the grey wolf before he can get to my neck. “Shoot men, Shoot!” Bullets began to fly, I yelped as one struck me in my thigh, forcing me to limp.
“Father! I have been hit !!” I screamed, hoping he could hear my voice - when there was no response I looked behind me to where my father and the other alpha was fighting. “Looks like he took you’re place.. to die first” spoke the alpha male with ocean like eyes . “No! What do you mean?!..Father !” I limped toward where I can see his silhouette, fighting pass the enemies, my body, swelling with soreness..burning from within . My human half pleading to take form, screaming at the canine within me . My fur began to shed off my body, the feel of the soil and bloodshed inbetween my toes. My human arms reached towards my father, and in the view of my eyes, I clutched onto his canine body. His body never transforming back to human form, he was dead, gone before my eyes, I gently trailed my hands around his lifeless face as I would do if I were a child. Tears blurred my vision, burning my face as the streaks came down my cheeks - he must pay. I boiled with anger. Revenge on my mind.
Almost instantly a headache emerged in the back of my head, followed by a sharp pain and a wave full of dizziness. I’ve been struck, darkness covered my eyes, while my hearing was unfazed, “Take her, she’ll be a slave…guess you won’t die today princess, tuh” He spat on me before I let the dizziness rock me to sleep.
One year later ..
“MOOOVE!!!”
We were gathered together… chained neck and hands, lined vertical, a modern day slavery deep in the woods . The bloodshed of my pack shortly after became unnoticed and unfazed as I was the only one to survive the attack that day . My feet dragged in the mud, on this rainy day, my hair drenched, freezing while smoke from the air came out of my mouth . Other packs from all over whom were enslaved, men, woman, and children all chained.. All chosen Alphas .
We were the new modern slaves, weightloss and death by sickness was evident. We were hardly fed, hardly groomed and watched heavily.
“Adinaaaa!!! Move . Your. f*****g. Feet !!”
A guard yelled at me, my pride bigger than his voice once our eyes met . He noticed this, he noticed the hatred my eyes held for the Parox pack. I want my revenge, I snarled at him which made him chuckle through his nose. He backed out a lengthy whip, lashing it at my chest and arms beginning to beat me with the whip . I yelped and winced at the sharp pains the whip bestowed upon me, bringing me down to my knees causing a dent into the vertical line of slaves .
“ENOUGH Jerald!!”
That voice, that dreadful deep voice that haunted my dreams at night became a reality to my vision. It was the Alpha with the Maldivian ocean colored eyes … his name Paxton. The one that killed my father. He was in human form, skin the color of sand in the Sahara desert, taller than most of the pack members , maybe seven feet tall, his hands were twice the size of a size six shoe size. Both his human forms and alpha form were huge . Our eyes locked, a small smile carried over his face, this man is attractive as they come but the amount of hatred I have towards him grew bigger say by day specially on days like these . He knelt down before me, becoming eye level with me - “Adina .. do you hate me this much ? .. you don’t know what your father did to most of these people in my pack and others . You have no clue” taking offense, the bit of saliva I had gathered in my mouth came forth, making contact on his left cheek. I was struck down immediately by his massive hand, landing a smack that left a crackling sound on my cheek. He stood immediately before me.
“Take her to my home … Now get back to f*****g work!!”
Only on rainy days, I would be taken to his home, unchained and left for freedom but was always met by him standing at the entrance way .
“My good girl Adina.. tonight there is something special for you” Paxton had changed into comfortable clothes, his voice much softer than usual, I was left with the same attire, muddy and smelled of wet dog but that did not change his demeanor or force a change in facial expression in this man. On days like this, we spoke, formal towards each other.. the first few nights were rough for me . To just “sit and chat” with this man, the only thought I could have back then were the fact my father never got a proper burial, he was left that way purposely on the other side of Jersey woods . This man, Paxton, spoke to me the first few nights calmly as if he weren’t my fathers murderer. The first few nights I was chained and aggressive, my trauma getting the best of me. I would stay in his home, chained to a wall, weakened by thoughts . I couldn’t fight back, violent dreams would abrupt my mind while I slept on the floor, screaming in pain every night this happened. Until one night , I screamed in agony, calling for my father and surprisingly my mother, “Father … Mother why’d you leave me ?” It was a gut wrenching scream, I just wanted my pack back… I needed my father back .
Arms wrapped around my weakened tired body, which I tried to fight back my tears and this figure in the darkness as well. “Sshhh, it is okay Love .. they’re gone but I’m here” I wanted to fight this struggle as I came to realize it was Paxton himself . Coddling me with his arms around my shoulders and rocking my body. From days on out, I began to go to his home and speak with him, my hatred would arrise from with in me every now and then but he would remain calm and explain to me why he attacked . Why he let me survive . But never as to why I became a slave . The more I questioned, the more he would answer honestly. But the more I was in denial by his answers, the more I became intrigued as to why he wouldn’t lie to me .
“I have something special for you tonight Adina” he spoke taken me out of my daydreaming if the past, “what is it ?” I questioned , he smirked before answering “Well a bit of payback for the spitting on me… tonight we make love …” his chuckling caught me off guard, I was a 25 year old virgin and I’m sure nobody knew this . Or did they ?