From The Moon Goddess

Chapter Two

- Chase's P.O.V -

"you need to choose your mate Chase the pack is concerned that when you become the Alpha you will be without a Luna and their has never been an Alpha to run this pack without his Luna and i will not let you become the first" bellowed my father for the third time this month, he had been busting my chops over this whole mating thing i know that i needed a mate before i had the honer of becoming the leader of our pack also known as the Alpha, the red moon pack is the second largest pack in the world their use to be an Alpha king but his line died out and now the entire werewolf race was run by a council of Alpha's also known among us as the C.O.A the C.O.A was formed over 200 years ago when the last Alpha king took the power the moon goddess had given him and tried to take over the world by exterminating the humans city by city a large group of the alpha's didn't agree with this course and was executed to show the kings power the moon goddess tried to fix the issue by sending a human as the kings mate which he tried to reject her but as she was not of our race she didn't know that she had to reject him as well in order for the mating bond to be destroyed he kept her locked in the dungeons of the castle and used her for his own pleasure when he finally accepted her she had learnt of the actions of the alpha king and rejected him from the help of the red moon's pack alpha a descendant of mine who didn't agree with the killing of humans but refused to voice it in fear of the destruction of his pack they say that the loss of his Luna Queen had drove the king insane and the pain eventually killed him with no hair to the throne the kings legacy died and thus began the C.O.A.

"are you even listening to me Chase?" bellowed my fathers voice once more braking my train of thought "yes father i heard you find my Luna or i wont be the Alpha of our pack, i know father but if she doesn't wish to be fount how can i find her? " i asked this very question every time he decided to bring up my lack of a Luna " then choose one Chase their are many eligible females in our pack that would love to have the honer of being your mate and Luna-to-be just give them a chance" sighed my father trying to rein in his temper my father was never usually so stern unless it came to pack business or me " father you know i can not do that yet, i have to give my mate a chance and the moon goddess would not like it if i just chose anyone you know this father that is why she created mates for us so that we had our perfect match..... look if she hasn't arrived into my life by the time you are ready to step down as alpha i will choose another and say it is the mood goddesses wish for it to be this way but until that day i can not nor will i just choose a woman at random dad please i have only just turned 18 their is time yet " i pleaded with him hoping he would agree at least for a while.

my father sat thinking for a while surrounded by his books and maps and odds and ends " fine but you have to choose by your next birthday i grow older every day and i always wanted to spend out the remainder of my days spending my days with your mother traveling the world visiting other packs and friends" agreed my father as he stood and patted my shoulder " but that is only six months away" i wined almost sounding like a child then the next alpha-to-be then i suggest you get a move on and start looking for her" smirked my father all i could do was chuckle as i stood and exited his office, " has your father been whining about your mate again my darling boy?" said a sweet voice from the living room door way i couldn't help but smile whenever i see my mother my mother was an exact opposite of my father in personality and looks my mother had dark hair and hazel eyes with her slim build where as my father had sandy blond hair and steely blue eyes and a athletic body my mother was warm and kind whee my father was stern and hard faced the only time you will see light and softness in my father was whenever he would look at my mother then he would turn into a puddle of mush " yeah but i know he is only wanting me to take over with a Luna you know how dad can be when it comes to pack business and being the first alpha in red moon history to take over without a luna is not going to start with me apparently" i said as i gave my mother a hug and headed for the front door of our home " ill catch you later mother i need to run off some steam " i smiled as i left the house only to spot April a girl the same age as me who had been hunting the position of Luna since we was children, i had no time for her today so i quickly slipped around the side of the house and into the woods behind the house.

As i walked into the woods i slipped behind a tree and started to stripp off my cloths once i was naked a attached the cloths loosely to my leg with a piece of rope and easily shifted into my wolf max i had always enjoyed how the black fur seemed to sprout from all of my pour as i my bones popped and reformed to that of a large wolf my mouth elongating to form my snout and my teeth falling out to make way for my canine teeth and the popping and stretching of my coxis into my tail as it swishes left and right once the transformation had finished no longer was i a young man i was a huge black wolf with two white front paws when i was just a pup my mother used to call me socks because of them which was still an endearment in her eyes but was an annoyance in mine but i never voiced it to her out of love and respect as i stood their i stretched out my stiff limbs hearing some of my spine popping slightly as the knots worked out shaking myself once finished i began trotting further into the woods wanting to check the perimeter while i was out on my run in no time i had picked up speed and was zig zagging threw the trees and the under brush making my way to the border keeping my eyes and ears open as i went the stress of finding my mate melted away the more i ran and soon enough i had forgotten my fathers demands.

- Ella's P.O.V -

it had been three weeks since i arrived hear in this hell hole of a town i had learned quite quickly that Emerson very rarely stayed in at night he was always out hunting some poor animal or another he would often come home in the morning has the light broke the sky with a rabbit or two or a pheasant or deer i quickly learned to not to ask questions or voice my opinions when it came to the animals he brought in with him or where he had been to catch them sometimes Henry would go with him and they would come back bone tiered and full of scratches and bruises but i never asked i hated living hear Emerson and Henry seemed to think that i would cook and clean for them and couldn't understand that i could only make toast and hard boiled eggs it wasn't true of course i use to spend a lot of time in the kitchen back home with the chef learning to cook all different types of wonderful food i just figured they wouldn't enjoy my style of cooking because non of the recipes i knew was stew or deep fried and i refused to clean anything other then my own cloths and room out of principle i wasn't their last time i checked to take care of them but the other way around Emerson was my guardian, currently Emerson and henry was sleeping after they had been out until well past dawn i had been awake when they came in and heard their hushed voices as they bickered about an animal they had failed to kill i was glad in a way because it means it got to live another day even if it was a wolf why they would kill a wolf is beyond me as far as i knew they wasn't edible and everything emerson killed was to be cooked or cured in some manner.

i was allowed to do pretty much anything that i wanted to do as far as emerson was concerned so long as i followed his one rule 'stay out of the basement' not like i would of gone down their anyway if he hadn't of said anything to me but obviously now that i was told not to go down their i wanted to know what was down their ( i'm a teenager of course i'm going to do something im told not to duhh! ) so hear i am stood in front of the basement door listening to the house as Emerson and Henry slept upstairs i could hear Henry's snoring as i reached for the handle of the basement and turned it gently the door opened up without much protest i help my breath as i listened once more before quietly as possible began my descent to the room below, each step i stood on gave a little groan and i halted to listen for movement from above as i reached the basement floor i let out the breath i had been holding and dug my cell out of my pocket and turned on the torch not wanting to risk turning the light above on incase it drew attention as i held up my cell to light up the room a could make out what seemed like some gym equipment and a rack of something shiny on the wall.... wait they wanted me to stay out of their gym.... seriously..! i reached out to the wall and found the switch and turned on the light.

what i saw when the light flickered on shocked me it was a home gym but on the far wall hung all manners of weapons from swords to guns and a lot of things in between i slowly walked over to them and looked closer there was a lot of daggers, swords, spears some strange round blades bows with quivers full of arrows and an assortment of guns and rifles " what are you doing down here" boomed a voice from behind me i froze with my hand outstretched towards a set of daggers i had only seen in movies " i told you to never come down hear Ella do you not listen at all ! " he continued his voice becoming louder and angrier i dropped my hand and slowly turned to face Emerson my eyes cast down at his shoes " i'm sorry i was just curious" i replied not looking up i knew he was mad i could tell from his voice so i had no intention of looking at his face " why do you have so many weapons Emerson?" i asked when i never responded again he remained quiet and i thought he had left so i peeked up only to see him scowling at me " they.... they are my collection.. yes i collect weapons from around the world" he replied at last nodding his head we heard foot fall on the stairs as Henry came down " what's with all the yelling da..... Ella why are you down hear, dad i told you i won't hunt if she is with us she will get in the way" asked Henry as he played ping pong with his head "Henry shut up now!" scolded Emerson i looked around again seeing all the gym equipment and the punch bag and my hands balled into fists as i itched to punch it to release some pent up stress, before coming hear i was a spoilt little rich kid who had a flair for kickboxing and how i missed it.

" can i use the gym equipment Emerson i promise not to touch your weapons just the gym stuff" i blurted out without thinking on it to much " yeah right as if you know how to even use half of this stuff Ella your a girl won't you break a nail or something" Henry snided at me as he walked further into the basement taking the wraps from the side and started wrapping his hands up nodding with his head he continued while Emerson just stood their stern faced and i looked at him with what i hoped was a blank expression " this is called a p.u.n.c.h.i.n.g b.a.g you don't carry it around you hit it he said slowly as if i was an i***t " huh i bet i could kick your ass if given the chance, i'm not some stupid blonde as my hair colour might suggest to you" i remarked starting to her really annoyed by Henry's attitude towards me since i had arrived hear he had done nothing but call me princess and acting like a complete ass towards me "okay" came a voice from behind Henry " lets see what you can do if you can make Henry tapout you can use the gym if were not but if Henry makes you tapout you have to do all the chores for a month ... deal?" continued Emerson looking somewhat entertained "deal" i nodded eager to get my muscles burning "but dad..." complained Henry "Henry if you tapout you do the cleaning for a month" smirked Emerson "fine" was all the reply Henry gave i looked down and saw my jeans, tank top and boots and realized i couldn't fight in these " can i have a minuet to get changed into shorts and trainers?" i asked looking around Henry's broad shoulders towards Emerson a nod was all the reply i needed as i ran around Henry and ran up towards my bedroom it only took me a minuet to find my old gym gear and my wraps and dashed into the bathroom to tie my hair back in a braid and get changed i peeked in the mirror when i was finished and saw a smile on my face i was sure it was the first smile that had reached my lips since before my parents died "Ella hurry up before i change my mind" yelled up Emerson braking me from my thoughts.