THE TALE OF A LONE WOLF

CH 4- GREATEST TRAGEDIES OF HISTORY

MIA'S POV

There was nothing better than knowing I had the chance of playing in the games and it was Dylan who was more exhilarated for it than me.

“I can't wait to see your skills in the games girl” he gave me a high five and I couldn’t help than smile at his jolly attitude. He really was a great man like his dad. It was as if I had got back what I had been looking for years.

“mom now that I have my personal body guard can I go and see around the arena?” he pleaded the alpha.

“Dylan, how could you even think about going out of the mansion when you know that your life’s in danger?” she coldly refused him.

“how can you be so sure that the attack was for him?” I blurted out suddenly and her face was displeased to hear the question.

“that’s a good question. How come you say it was for me? They might have wanted anyone. So how can you keep me here on that excuse”?I was joined by Dylan who caught up the point and was not easily let his mother make him a prisoner in the house.

“be it for anyone, I don’t want you to be a prey for the other pack’s enmity. You know that very well. And if you really want to go you will have to take the guards with you” she had no other way than to let him go but her condition had badly hurt Dylan’s ego.

“sending guards with the son of the great late alpha will be the greatest insult you will give dad mother” Dylan told her in a serious note and I had become the pawn in the mother son clash.

“Dylan, mind your words. Iam doing this for your safety” she screamed at him in front of me. I wanted to help them put a stop to it but then felt I had no right to interfere their talk hence kept silent.

“you should first stop treating me like a child then. I am a well-trained and for you to remember the second-best compactor after brother in our pack. So, you must not degrade me in front of our pack by sending guards with me” he sounded just like his father and it blew my mind.

“stop it Dylan. How dare you talk to your mother like this for such silly things” she was seriously affected by his words.

“the let me go freely. Nothing will happen to me. I can take care of myself and start treating me like a real wolf from now on” he kept the ultimatum in front of her and she had no way than accepting her son’s demands.

She didn’t react and I thought I was invisible for them as they were not aware, I was witnessing their war. Dylan too didn't speak anything anymore and asked me to go with him to the arena and I did it.

Once we were outside their mansion, I noticed Dylan was still angry on what had happened. To calm him down I tried to distract him.

“you were a real wolf while reacting like that to your mother” I praised him and he realized the fact of me witnessing everything.

“she was always like this after the tragedies that happened with the packs. Since then, I was the one who was controlled by everyone” he expressed his feeling to me in a terrible emotional state. I knew he was shaken from inside but never thought that he would remember the past.

“tragedies?” I asked in a curious tone and he looked at me with a shock.

“don't tell me you don’t know about the forest tragedies” he looked at me with pity and I acted the way he understood me.

“I know those stories but I never believe in stories. So, I don’t know whether I should believe in those or not” I answered him in a serious tone building up walls against rumors.

“I feel to go for a run” his pretty little eyes glowed with the desire and I was helpless. But the wolf in me was ready to go to any extend to bring back the lost smile in this man’s face. It was a well-known fact that a wolf could heal quickly but the wounds of a wolf bane take time and mine was a real serious one. Still I made up my mind.

I confidently stood signing him to carry me on his in his wolf form for the run.

“don’t you think about doing it” he gulped down being afraid to see me take the next step and I gave him my wicked smile.

Seeing my confidence, his blood boiled with both guilt and enthusiasm. I looked at him and the handsome man turned into an enormous brown wolf and I got on him. The next moment, I was clanged to him as he ran I the top most speed of his. It had been the most unexpected meet in my life and I had to enjoy it the maximum.

“to the cliff” I telepathically told him the location with great difficulty as the wind was making me lose my balance with one hand. It was a matter of minutes and we reached the spot.

I got down and laid to get a breath and he too did the same till he was able to get his breath. I wanted to give my body complete rest and relaxation so I laid still. We rested our bodies against 2 big rocks in the cliff.

I looked around myself and my heart stooped for a minute. The spot. How was I able to let the place miss my mind? It was the place that had my soul. Our memories. My body was filled with numbness when I slipped into a world of memories. Out of nowhere I got a knock on my head and it brought me back to my senses.

“ouch” I whined and looked at Dylan as he was the one who did it and he burst into a laughter seeing me whine.

“are you done” I was embarrassed to be a prey for him.

“you really make me laugh my heart out girl” he still didn’t get his breath from his laughter and carried on with it.

“now what I became your personal joker from a guardian huh” I too felt to laugh but to save, my attituded badass image I sounded serious to him. He again sunk into laughter and that was all that was needed to make me happy, to make him happy. After sometime he came back from it but by then his eyes had teared up.

“what happened to you now?” now I really became myself when he quickly made a mood change.

“nothing. I never really had friends after the tragedies and it had really changed my life. Now I feel different being with you. You are my first friend in after them” he looked at me in with his emotional eyes and I just wanted to skip the moment. I hated emotional confrontations.

“after whom?” I knew who he was going to talk about and I did want to hear it from him.

“the 3 people who had made a part of my childhood the most memorable one and gave me the only happy memories to live my life through years of imprisonment in the mansion” he was sinking into a world of memories like me and I only wished for him skip it only to save him from the pain he felt at the end of remembering those. And he proved me wrong by sounding strong and it was the biggest proof he could give me that those memories weren't his pain but his actual strength....

“those 3 were the real heirs of the 3 packs. The one to begin is with the eldest of all of us. Brother Zayn, heir of red mile pack” the euphoria his face expressed on saying that name was astonishing to me.

“He was the toughest and strongest of us and the most handsome of us 3” he giggled pointing it out.

“brother Zyan was well trained for his strength as a wolf and leadership as an alpha. He was our main pillar of strength. A man of honor he was. He used to be very attitude and serious boy but had the kindest of hearts. Whatever pranks and craziness we 3 did, he used to save us from the elders by taking the blame on himself. He really did love us like his own. During those days we used to call him our alpha as more than any lycan in the world it was we who wished to see him take up the position of alpha of the alphas when he turned into a fully grown wolf” Dylan didn’t look at me at all and the whole time he kept staring at the view from the cliff. I knew that while remembering those beautiful days of his childhood, he could have been embarrassed to shed tears in front of a girl.

“next on list is my brother`. The great Jayden Michael Hyman, known for his fierce attacking skills and defense. He is strong like metal and can deal with a large army by himself. He has a great intelligence about things which even we aren't aware of and the best thing about him is that can sense the danger around him too easily. In our childhood, everyone used to say that we were exact copy of each other because we were of same nature, the carefree kids who went troubling others the most especially brother the most” Dylan laughed to himself and I too joined him. These guys were precious souls of the lycan world and I was growing eager to hear more from him.

The last but not the least is our Vivian whom we called V, the heir of grey flame pack. She was the naughtiest and bravest of us all. Her skills and brains and antics were the best amongst us. A fearless girl who was ready to get to any extend to save her loved ones and used to go around vowing that she would protect us and keeps the packs united always. And also, the purest soul that could be found on earth. She was everyone's favorite because she was one-of-a-kind girls. None of the other female wolfs had the skills like her non was any percent near to her. The most unique one. That was the main reason our elders used to say that she would be the most powerful Luna when she was married off” he smiled at me as him he saw Vivian in me.

“what the heck!!!” I squealed in horror hearing his last words. He was surprised by my reaction and raised his eyes in doubt.

“nothing, the poor girl enjoyed her life utmost and you guys planned to make her a luna?” I reasoned my reaction which was still not convincing for him.

“how come you react just like her?” he grew more like Sherlock Holmes and tried to investigate more.

“great minds think alike you know” I gave him a wicked smile and his eyes turned out to be expecting something.

“V” he looked at me with unbelievable eyes and I stared into it. He really wanted her too much and his eyes were the evidence.

“Mia” I corrected him and held him and gave him a pat to bring him back from his imaginative world. I didn't want him to sink into that world.

“next on the list were you right?” I asked him and he came back to his mood quickly brushing off his suspicions on me.

“hmm. I was elder to her by one year but I was second on the list of heirs” he replied and we stood up to take a walk. he didn’t even feel a bit of sadness not being an heir but was really proud to a part of the family.

“how come you were not on the list?” I acted curious and he didn’t even look at me.

“brother Jayden’s mother had died when he was 3 years of age and then my father married my mother to take care of brother. After that I was born. The younger ones were second on list so it really didn’t matter too much to us” we strolled through the forest back to the fest arena.

“siblings? Did the heirs have siblings?” I wished to hear about them.

“yes, we all had siblings. Brother Zayn had a sister. Her name was Sanem. She was very weak from birth so he was the one who had taken full responsibility to make his sister strong. She was the youngest of us all. Vivian had a sister named Tasha and she was much like her sister but she was nothing like her sister. The cutes and chubbiest girl I had ever seen” he blushed saying that.

I noticed it and couldn't hide my smile. did he like her? Or was he hiding something deep inside his innocent heart?

“why are you blushing dude?” I teased him and he blushed more and ended up rubbing the back of his hairs and it blew my heart. Gosh he had grown too much into such a handsome looking man he had been liking the same girl for all these years. He was a true man by this time.

We kept on strolling and then reached the arena and he was mesmerized seeing it. His face lit up like a 1000W bulb, as if he had longed to see the arena.

“why do you look like that? Haven't you seen the arena ever?” I asked him in a contempt tone. He was like a king of expression, in just a snap one could change into another without any alert.

“something like that. It has been years since I came to this place. The forest incident that happened 2 years ago had again made the head quarter to change very much” the eyes which were sunk in beautiful memories was overpowered by a shower of pains. I gave him a sign towards my room and he agreed to go to my room

“what are you talking about? what happened 2 years ago?” I had no idea what he was talking about. The incident, it was well aware by everyone in the lycan world but I was completely unaware with what had happened after that in the headquarters. Something way beyond anyone’s imagination had occurred....