When Lunar Wolves Rule

The Last Lunar Wolf I can remember the cold chill of winter air, the grunting of my mother as she speeds through the forest with a wounded front leg. She stops in front of the tallest tree I'd ever seen. She morphs back into her human form, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes. “Stay safe my little shooting star,” she says, her voice breaking “You are the last of our kind.” Then I hear shouting, and in a flash my mother is gone. She howls at the people, and speeds in the opposite direction of me. Then silence. I am alone. Every one of my kind was wiped out of existence. I am now…The Last Lunar Wolf! I fell asleep almost immediately, and that's when I heard a rustle in the bushes. I squirmed, still too young to fend for myself or understand what was happening. Then a man appeared, his eyes were soft and kind. “So… what is such a small child doing out here all alone?” the man says, with a smile. He scoops me up and a letter flutters out of my bearskin blanket. “Lilac Princeton Amary, real pretty name. Well I suppose I can't just leave you here can I, I’ll take ya home. Perhaps I could do you some good. How’s that sound luv?” He asked me with an accent I hadn't noticed before. I just giggled, not sure who this man was. When we got to his home, I took a moment to take everything in, it was huge. The sitting area is as big as an entire regular house would be. There were crystal lamps everywhere, and a big couch with a TV. There were books everywhere. But that was all I could see. Then a little boy ran up to us and grabbed the man's leg. “Woah! Careful lad don’t want to knock me over now do you?” He says bending down on his knees. For the first time, I could see the boy's face. He had hair so black it was almost purple, green eyes, and looked about 5 years old. “What's that?” the boy asked with a curious look on his face. “Not what, who? This is your new baby sister.” The man said. The boy's face lit up. I could tell he was happy, for one he started smiling like crazy, and for another, he started yelling stuff like “I'M GOING TO BE A BIG BROTHER, WOOHOO!!” Then the man said “If you go wash your hands and sit on the couch, I’ll let you hold Lilac. How does that sound, Nico?” In less than a minute, he was at the sink, then on the couch. His hands were warm. He didn’t say anything but I could tell what he was thinking. He had been waiting for this, now here I was. The man went into what I assumed was the kitchen and came out with a bottle. The boy fed me it carefully. Then he jumped up and ran upstairs. The man followed, knowing that his son would be careful with me. He took me into a room where a very beautiful woman lay. When she saw me and Nico, she smiled and said “Now how did you and your father get such a child?” Nico just climbed next to her and handed me to her. She rocked me slowly. “Well, that is surprising. Moonela warned me she had a child but… I never thought she would survive." The man walked over and sat next to Nico. “Darling, you know if anything happens to her, the world will be in big trouble, and keeping her is the best and only choice we have.” he said. She nodded and soon enough they were all asleep. I lay there feeling sleepy. I looked at all those new faces. Are these people my family now? Are they just using me? No. No, they care about me. I can sense it. But why? I was too sleepy and too young to figure it out, but I would, sooner than I thought.