"Uncle, uncle, uncle Neo." He screams with a wailing voice. His voice was already faint, he had run all the way to his uncle who was at the border to get him.
He went close to him and held him.
"Mum. Dad, they are dead." He manages to say. Neo left the innocent boy, he was furious, his brother has been a good and caring Alpha. His emotion was mixed with revenge and sorrow, they just came back from a delayed meeting just to meet his death. He changed to his wolf form, James could hear bone cracking and poundling. He carried James after he was completely in his wolf form and ran to the pack house. Everywhere was empty, except from the old woman who was wailing. Mourning their loved ones.
Tears fell from his eyes like a flowing ocean when he saw his brother's head far away from his body and the late Luna sleeping lifeless in her pool of blood.
"I pronounce myself as the acting Alpha, till the Alpha prince is old enough to find his Luna and take over." He growls with tears loudly. Every member of the pack that was still alive was stunned, they could walk toward him. They were surprised he had announced that just a few minutes after his late brother the late Alpha. He was known to have loved his brother dearly.
"The pack cannot be left without an Alpha, and I won't want anyone to take what belongs to my brother's son. Anyone that wants to dare me can come forward. And if not, I will like us to accept everything that happens as fate but this will never happen again in this pack I promise. It was so hurtful I lost my brother, and his Luna in cold death. I want every dead body to be buried royally. And we will never have anything to do with the wicked pack. Not even mating at their pub." He declares and everyone looks at one another. They could not say anything. They just lost their lost one, their head could not process what was going on.
"As you said Alpha Neo." The former beta of the late pack said.
"You remain the beta unless James will like to change it when he becomes the Alpha." He said and excused himself.
James was stunned. He had gone to meet his uncle for protection but his sudden announcement was shocking to him. He tries comprehending everything he has just heard but they make no sense to him. Even though it is for his sake, he did not care about that right now. His parents die before his eyes.
He remembered his sister was still in the hiding ground. He ran there to see if she was safe.
"Charlotte, Charlotte. Are you there?" He screamed but he could not hear her voice. He tries holding the tear that forms in his eyes. He did not want to believe his sister was gone. He jumped inside the hole and saw her sister unconscious. He growls. Screaming for help. His hand was still fragile. He could not lift his two years old sister. He tried checking her pulse and noticed she was still breathing. He has learned that from his dad.
"Please help " he screamed on top of his voice.
Mary their maid heard him and ran inside the room
"Where are you?" She screamed.
"Right here." He growls. She searches for them before she locates the underground.
She stretches her hand to him and he drags her sister's hand to touch hers. She pulled her up and gave him another hand to help him up too.
"Go get the pack doctor." She yelled, feeling her pulse. She was weeping beside the dying girl before James came back with the pack doctor.
"You need to calm down." He said while attending to the young girl. James was pacing to and fro.
"She will be fine soon, she is only resting now. She suffocated due to inner heat." The pack doctor said before excusing himself.
"Thanks," Mary said after he left.
"You both need to be careful now, you can't trust anyone, try and protect your sister," Mary said before leaving.
He held his sister's hand, he lost his parents at a tender age awaiting what the future wanted to bring.
Uncle Neo has always been nice to him, but who knows what he will become, power and money are always what every Alpha is after like his dad used to say.
Present Time (thirteen years after.)
James POV
I woke up to the annoying voice of my uncle.
"Useless son, you want to be an Alpha but you are not ready to work for it. I want to see what will become of you if you find your mate." He yelled at me. I quickly stand up stretching as I face today's trauma. It has been thirteen years since my parents died. My uncle who claims to take care of me changes after a month.
The most painful part was that he has molested my innocent sister countless times, anytime he need to pass his stupid argument he call for her. A bruise is all over her body. There has not been a single day he called for her that he won't leave her with a deep wound. He calls it satisfaction.
I have vowed to my sister that once at sixteen and my wolf appears I will go in search of my mate for me to save her and revenge. But I have clocked sixteen for the past two weeks and my wolf has not yet appeared. I have thought countless times that maybe I'm not a wolf. Maybe a vampire or even a lowly and fragile creature human.
I saw my uncle sipping coffee with Charlotte massaging his body. Hatred and anger filled the room. I vow to protect her but I failed. Mary, our personal maid before everything happened, never left us, she secretly gave us good food, she is now the Alpha butler.
"And did I need to remind you before you go get wood for the maid to prepare my food?" He yelled at me immediately when he saw me.
"Insolent, idiot." He yelled.
"And you, will you do that properly? I need to release that substance before I start my daily work." He yelled at Charlotte who was feeling bad just by looking at me.
I wish I had not gone to call my uncle the day my parents died or he should have been dead either. In the type of life, I live now even a slave should not be treated that way.
I have begged the moon goddess countless times to help me find my mate even if I am not a wolf but she did not yield to my plea.
"I wish I was able to grab that golden sword. It will have been the best thing that happened that day." I heard my uncle whisper to himself. I could not believe my parent's death was a good thing for him. I doubt if he doesn't know about their death, it may be his planned work.
I was glad Mary asked me not to trust anyone the day my parents died, there is something she is hiding from me, maybe it is not the right time for me to know I guess. I had kept the golden sword safe in the underground hole and covered it properly.
I saw the tremendous work before me as I get to the garden, a lot of logs was there for me to file into piece, I picked up the axe, I don't have time for thinking about anything unless I will end of scolded and even starve if I did not finish it by evening.
"I will help you." I heard an unfamiliar voice say. I look around but can really get who was talking. Everyone was facing their work.