Wolves Of Eclipse

Hel Like every other day, I look outside the window, gazing at the sky and the clouds, and wonder how something can be so bright and beautiful. "Looks like Hel froze," hits my ear, accompanied by a familiar cacophony of laughs. Now I am staring at a yellow wall with my hands raised above my head. The wall is so smooth, it makes my brain itch, exactly like every other day. I walk back home from school, people pushing me "accidentally", some giving me sneering looks, some just passing by me not even acknowledging my presence. Then I see him, Ethan. The person I hate the most. No, the person who hates me the most. For as long as I can remember Ethan has tormented me. He had made sure that my life is an absolute living hell, according to him where I belong. He stops right in front of me, towering over me, I can feel his eyes on my head, while I just stand still with my eyes fixed on his shoes. He leans close to my ears and as if he can hear my thoughts, he whispers, "Are you enjoying the hell I created for you?" It has been 17 years, but still his harsh words make me feel helpless. I just keep looking at his shoes, and one boy comes from behind me, drags me by my hair and throws me on the ground, other one comes and kicks me in the stomach. Ethan just looks at void of any emotion, not a smile, not a smirk, not even a frown or disgust, just a blank face. After I am kicked in the stomach again. Ethan yells, "That's enough, keep moving I will catch up with you." He keeps standing above me while I lay on the ground clutching my abdomen, finally after fifteen minutes, I somehow managed to stand back up and pick my bag, he steps aside and I can feel his eyes on the back of my head. When I reach outside the school gate I turn around and look at him. He looks at me for a second and then turns to go away like every other day I would have not ceased to survive, but I have because I have hope. I have a hope to get out of this mess, to lead a normal life, to gain respect and live with my own people with acceptance. Just one month and I will be 18 and then I will finally be able to become a wolf and I will work hard to be powerful and then they will see that I am not cursed and that I can do good, that I don't bring death and destruction even if my name is Hel. I walk back home, and I am greeted by a slap on my face, like every other day. "The dishes were not done", my mom yells. "I was getting late for scho.." before I can complete my sentence I feel another sharp sting on my face. "Sorry, I will do it right now", I reply and walk over to the kitchen. I splash some water on my face and start doing the dishes. I need to endure this just for a month and then it will be better. I know it probably won't get all good and normal, but right now I am hoping for anything that's not worse. After quickly doing my dishes, I run up to my room. I have exactly three hours before I need to be done for helping with dinner. I need to make use of my time. I quickly jump out my window, as a wolf there are two things I will need the most, is speed and agility. I start running towards the forest, I increase my speed running faster through the forest jumping over fallen logs and muddy ditches. I purposely try to take long jumps to increase my flexibility. After two hours of running I quickly start training for the second thing I need the most, strength. Honestly, my human form needs this strength more, getting kicked everyday in the stomach is not something everyone can endure. I quickly wrap a huge cloth around my stomach and place a huge log on top of it and start doing dips. I would like to work more on my arms and legs as they are more important for a wolf, but inorder to survive this hell. I need to first protect my abdomen. I have been getting this hellish treatment since past 8 years, since Ethan decide apparently that I should be kicked everyday. I complete my training and quickly rush back home and climb back to my window. I step inside and look at the clock, great ten minutes late. I walk down the stair wondering if there is an exercise that would make slapping hurt less, probably will have to look it up. I reach the kitchen and like every other day, slap stings my face. I start cooking dinner. It doesn't feel much now but I think it has been over 6 years and I have not said the word mom or dad. Probably because nobody talks to be outside and my parents keep slapping me at home. I quietly make dinner and take my dinner to my room. I keep my dinner and open my laptop. I have only two things I look forward to. One of which is coding. I absolutely love it and apparently I am good at it. I have joined various community online where people ask each other about their doubts. Everyone loves me there and I have lot of friends online. They persuaded me to apply for a scholarship to study computers outside my town. It is hard and I probably won't get selected, but even if I do, I am not allowed too. A wolf is never to leave its territory and always protect its pack. I will need to give my contribution even if it's not of any significance. I go through the chat discussion and when I don't find anything interesting, I shut it down. I start eating my dinner, because the other thing that I always look forward to is meeting Harvey Hati, the current alpha of our pack and Ethan's dad. As much as Ethan hates me, his dad loves me. I don't think he knows that, but once a month after 12 am, his dad comes out to the woods to meet me, to check the progress of my strength and to give me more tips. The day I was born, prophecy was made that I will be the death of this pack and nothing good would come out of it, my own parents wanted to kill me, but Harvey protected me. Our pack had a very important fight that very night and they lost, we had to give up most of our lands, even then Harvey protected me. He had to face a lot of backlash and I know that when the time comes, I need to make him proud, I need to make sure he doesn't regret his decision. Ethan also had to face backlash and maybe that is the reason he hates me. But it wasn't long before Harvey gained people's trust and things got easier for Ethan, the only one left to suffer was me. Still, any human contact is nice, so I patiently wait for it to be 12 and I quietly climb out my window and go down. I quickly run through the woods to the spot where I meet Harvey, usually he is there before me, but today no sign. I wait patiently for half an hour, but still no sign, feeling confused and a little sad. I start walking back to my house, when I hear the howling, the emergency howling. Something has happened and everyone is supposed to report, except me because curse and what not, but still I need to rush back. I can't be seen here in the middle of the night. I quickly start to rush towards my home, dodging trees and hiding from the wolves running towards the alpha cave. Halfway back I hear a low howl, like a wolf in so much pain that he can't even scream and the sound kept moving farther away. I quickly start running in the direction of the sound, because I know the sound, because I know it's Ethan and because I know he needs help. Now this doesn't happen every other day.