Reject Me, Lycan

Trailing.In.The.Shadows

The Gammas and Omegas saw to it that the amount of fire that spread around the Fronters was quenched. Just as it was taken care of, the pack members gathered outside, sadly looking at the remains of the entire building.

The pack warriors and guards around cautioned people from passing through to the Fronters. A yellow boundary was set across as a restriction that an investigation was being made on what happened to the Fronters.

I closed my eyes to think, just as I looked at the midnight black stains outside the building. Broken windows with ashes on the floor. And cinders, falling hopelessly from the sky.

“I can’t believe this is happening,” Leila lazily purred out.

I stretched my hands directly above a shard of cinder. The sooner it hit my hand, I crunched it, clenching my teeth in anger at who had the guts to do this.

It was a setup because there was simply no way any form of fire was used during training. So where would it come from?

My eyes scanned every pack member. I sighed.

My heart was scared for Dad. The Lycan King’s stay was prolonged. In a way, my desires were granted but he was on the verge of losing his pack.

This made me wonder more about who stood a chance in doing this and what the person gained.

Who would go as far as burning a sacred place, as the Fronters? It was more like the heart of our pack. That one place is written in the heart of everyone.

Every resident of Blood Moon Pack respected the Fronters.

Hayden and Hunter walked just beside me. They both wore a frown on each other’s faces. A serious expression formed around mine,

“The Fronters is gone,” Hayden pouted.

“And our pack would soon be gone too,” Hunter answered.

“Isn’t it just so sad Katniss? Why have bad things been happening to us lately?” Hayden let out. I nodded my head in reply.

“Or someone cast an evil eye on us?” Hunter suggested. His hair tousled widely and his eyes suddenly lit up at that possible mystery. As someone with an innovative mind, he was quite illogical with that statement.

Since when did we even become superstitious?

“Maybe it’s no evil eye. Maybe the evil is around us and we just can’t see it.” I retorted with my eyes narrowing at Kate in the distance. She was talking to my dead friend’s girlfriend, Jennifer.

A wave of flashback flipped harshly inside my head immediately. Her red hair, angry tears, and her chapped lips. The imprints of vengeance that had been in her eye that day. That I had witnessed and observed like a predator, from her.

“I want my revenge on the Lycan King.” she had whispered.

“Even if it will cost my life, I will take the risk.” she had added.

Everything looked too easy but it was safe to double-check.

“Seems like we’ve got some work to do, Leila.” To my wolf, I said, cracking some bones.

I waited for some hours as everything settled. I kept a close eye on Jennifer and her doings. The people she talked to and her every move. In a cover for that, I talked to random people and that included my friend, Gabby.

“How about we just like, you know buy a giant pepperoni pizza and we never have to run out of food ever again?” she said, with a goofy expression. She was that kind of funny and verbose friend.

Could say her thick-rimmed glasses and short obsidian black hair suited the kind of personality she was. I hung around her because she had a sincere heart that reminded me that there was still good in the world.

“Then what happens to the people starving?” I retorted, with my eyes on Jennifer. He was still hanging out with some pack guys.

“They could join us to eat and we would be like one big family. No one would have time to think about burning the Fronters or causing harm to the pack,” she replied.

Standing up from the rickety old car we were sitting on, she stretched with a loud yawn. Her knickers stretched all around her butts with a part in between them. With two fingers, she yanked it out.

I laughed at the sight immediately.

“The world would have been better, if everyone saw things from her point of view,” Leila snickered consciously. I sighed at her.

“Your eccentricity amazes me,” I said with a grin.

“That’s the reason you might get to love me, Katniss.” she let out, with a wolfish smile and a wink.

“Keep dreaming, Gabby.” I sarcastically replied. Of course, I did love her. I mean, who didn’t? She was the most genuine creature I had laid my eyes on.

“Grandma would be looking for me now. I have to go now. I will see you later, Kat, bye.”

She lived with her grandma just beside the water unit. I waved as she disappeared through the woods.

“Yeah…” I trailed out.

“You forgot your chips!” I called out to her but she was already long gone.

“Well, I guess it’s all for me then.” I spelled out to myself, taking a mouthful. I welcomed the crunchiness, with my taste buds. So, this was what she saw in it.

“Not bad,” I muttered, having more in my mouth.

…

Jennifer was done with the guys and they soon retired. I trailed her movement, following her home. I knew I needed to know what else she was up to.

But first things first, I had to know if she was responsible for this.

She got to a deserted and lonely part of the road. With a determined look, I followed her.

“Now, Katniss!” Leila said.

Just as I moved to step out from the shadows, her sudden voice made me know that her years of training were not in vain.

“Come out Kat, I know you’re there,” she stated, pressing against a street wall. It had some graffiti on it, from the mulishness of pack teens.

My boot came out from the shadows. I advanced towards her in haste.

“You’re pretty good in this too,” I said, about how exactly she knew I had been following her.

“Your smell gave you out. Earthly and dangerous,” she retorted.

I immediately pressed her against the wall, pinning her on it. She moved to defend herself, but she was already trapped.

“What are you doing? You’d never act this way when Ezekiel was still around.” she seethed.

“Now is different, Jennifer. Don’t act like you don’t know why I’m here.” I told her.

“Why are—” she immediately stopped in her tracks at the realization.

“Don’t tell me you think I burnt the Fronters?” she asked, with a startled and wild look on her face.

“Well, did you? You seem to be the first thing I could think of,” I muttered.

“Of course, I didn’t, I know what it means to everyone in the pack. I’m real, I’ll never do that as part of my revenge tactics,” she said.

“Why in the world would I even do that? How would burning our sacred Fronters help me in attaining my goal?” Narrowing her eyes, she asked this time.

“Perhaps to keep the Lycan King around for your plans to become possible,” I remarked.

“I wanted to keep the Lycan King around but that certainly wasn’t my plan. Believe me, I felt so creeped out when that happened,” she told me.

I let her go that instant.

It was already beginning to get dark.

“Okay, point taken. Please try to not do suspicious things.” I warned. I immediately retreated in the shadows, with my Lycan speed.

…

I got back to the pack around 7 pm and it was almost dinner. So, I freshened up, before I came downstairs. I walked in the hallway back at the pack house, with my bare legs creaking on the floor.

Since it was night, I wore a loose blue nightgown. I had put on a robe on it though, because of the chilling weather.

Kate directed the Omegas and Gammas around again. With obvious bad blood between us, I watched her from a distance.

Suddenly, a mind link was summoned in my head. I searched for who it was and discovered it was coming from her. I found myself in the white room and we were both clothed in snowy white.

I stared at her, fuming in anger.

“Why did you call me here?” I asked.

“Like my most recent gift?” she remarked. I sighed her words off. It took some seconds to take in what she said before I suspected the meaning of her words.

“What gift? What do you mean Katherine?” with an arched brow, I asked her.

“The Fronters, I mean,” she answered. Her face wore a sleek smile so did her mouth twist in a ‘c’ shape.

“You burnt down the Fronters.”

It was more of a statement, not a question. I knew the kind of person Kate was. She went to extreme and brutal measures when she wanted something.

“Ditto! Now, I know why we are blood relations, smartness runs in our veins for sure,” she exclaimed.

“Of all things, why would you burn the Fronters? There are a lot of units in this pack, yet you chose the Fronters, why?” I questioned.

And, to think I just went at Jennifer, accusing her of this made me want to puke.

“Because I was humiliated, sister. You have no idea how that could Lycan King scowled at the sight of my nudity.” she breathed out crazily.

“He made me feel worthless. And no one treats me like that, so he has to pay.”

My eyes shone in amazement at the amount of people he had offended. It used to be just I and Jennifer.

Now, we were three.