Hunters Awakening

Becoming a warrior

the next few months passed in a blur of weapons training, hand-to-hand combat and reading the history of her family and the werewolves she was destined to hunt and kill. It all came easy to Cara, her favourite part by far was learning about and growing her powers. She could freeze people, now she was so strong they didn't know it had even happened. Her strength and speed were unreal, she finally managed to beat dad in a race. All in all, things were going well, mum and dad were proud. As she left the training hall that night exhausted from her hard work dad told her to get a good sleep tonight as tomorrow was a big day. 

Cara stood in front of the large mirror in what was now her room, she liked the changes she saw. Her stomach was hard and flat, she was all strong and defined looking. The training was hard, but it certainly had its perks, she did and twirl and laughed. she looked hot as f**k. 

Cara awoke early the next morning and ran downstairs to the training hall, curious about what was so important. Surely not more suprises. her life really couldn't get more strange. Her mum and dad were already there,  pretty sure they slept in here. She had never managed to get there first no matter how early. 

"Morning honey, grab some food and we will get started" Cara helped herself to a plate and filled it with bacon, eggs, sausage and mushrooms. then she buttered some toast. Training to be a warrior was hungry work.

"Today you get your strongest weapon yet and we will show you all the information we have on the Alpha King and his pack" dad said as she sat down. He walked to the other side of the room and came back holding a laptop and a large box. He handed Cara the box and inside she found a sword, it was beautiful. She tenderly lifted it out and stood to do a few swings expecting it to feel awkward it was much bigger than the practice ones shed used so far. But it felt perfect, the weight, the balance it was like it was made for her. " this is so badass" she squealed "I love it, now let's get the info on the demons I am going to wipe off the face of the earth"

Cara sat back on the floor, with her sword which according to the script on it was called Edme, which from her lessons Cara knew meant protector. Perfect as she would use the sword and herself to protect humanity from the demonic Alpha King and his abominations.

Dad opened the laptop and entered a password. They sat for ages going over what was known about where the Alpha King and his pack lived. Which wasnt really alot, it was somewhere in Scotland and had multiple protections to stop it from being easily found. But Cara wasn't worried, she was confident they couldn't keep hiding from her. Her mum listed again all the reasons the king and his pack had to be destroyed. The crimes against humanity, stealing human women to mate and give them young to build and strengthen the pack. Robbery, murder. The list was endless. " Any questions honey?" her mum asked 

"how do they get away with it all? Why are there not flags to lead you to them before now? surely there will be reports of missing women? Unsolved kidnappings and murders?" Her mum smiled and said she was glad Cara was thinking like this and went on to explain that the pack and alpha king use their powers to either frame humans for their crimes or so the missing women are no longer missed. "now the interesting part, we have some new images of some of the pack and a picture came in last night of the alpha king himself. It's not clear but it will give you an idea of his build, first this is the lead warrior for the pack. he is heartless and brutal and shows no remorse for any of his kills or kidnapping, he is mated to a human and she has given him 2 sons who will grow to be just as evil and worthless as their father. The human became a member of the pack 6 years ago, we have never been able t find a missing person report to match her. She is being held as his s*x slave purely their for his perverted needs and to bear him children" As her dad spoke he opened a picture on his screen. The man in the picture was huge and muscular, he had a proud arrogant look to his eyes. But Cara was shocked, he was handsome, sexy as f**k in fact. She had expected him to be hideous, he was an abomination after all. All the images she had seen were hand-drawn half man half wolf and twisted and evil looking. She studied the image and tried to picture him as a r****t and murderer. The next picture was the same man with a small blonde woman "look how possessively he holds her near him to prevent escape" her mum hissed with pure venom in her voice. But that wasnt how Cara saw it, he had his arm over her shoulders but appeared to just be lightly touching her arm with his fingers, it looked tender and she was staring at him with no fear or repulsion but love and adoration. Like she thought he hung the moon and stars just for her. In this picture, he was smiling at someone out of shot, and the arrogance on his face was gone, he looked relaxed and happy and handsome. Strong and sure of his place in the world. Was this part of their magic? Was it an image? Was the woman under some spell? So many questions, but did her mum and dad know the answers? they hadn't mentioned disguises or magic to trick the kidnapped humans. All they talked about was the r**e and torture of their poor helpless prisoners. 

"look" her dad whispered angrily "look at the fear on the poor womans face, this is why we do what we do. We must save them all. These monsters, these abominations need stopped" Cara studied the picture, again she couldnt see fear, maybe mum and dad saw what they wanted to see. Maybe Cara was being niave because he was hot doesnt mean he cant be evil. But she couldnt shake the feeling she was missing something. They slowly ran through other pictures of other warriors, the Beta to the Alpha King, his second in comand. He had no mate as yet. He looked intimidating and scary, but still no obvouis evil. Lastly came a blurry shot of a tall, really tall, well built man with dark hair. He was frowning, but she couldnt see his features well. the oicture was grainy and too dark.

"You will set off tomorrow to start your hunt, you are ready. We have nothing more to teach you. Use your last night here wisely" with that both her parents stood, hugged her, and left the training room. Cara made a decision, she would spend her last night in the library trying to get as much history on both the hunters and the werewolves as she could. Something didn't seem right, it all seemed to clear cut good and evil. If she was going to annihilate an entire species she would make sure it was the right thing and not just because she was told to do it. 

With that decided to walked to the library off Dad's office and looked for the books she wanted. firstly the history of her people, the hunters. Then the few she could find on the werewolves, hoping to get an insight into where they came from.

Reading her people's history was bloody, they painted the werewolves as ugly twisted half-humans with no control and constant blood lust. The hunters were efficient and soon had the wolves down to the one pack. this was apparently the most powerful and protected by deep evil and the hunters had spent the past 200 yrs trying to find them with no success. There were things hinted at in the histories. Kidnap of wolf cubs, possible attempts to breed with them to try and gain their powers. But it was never clearly stated that the hunters did anything wrong. But there were a few mentions of failed breeding attempts and prisoners dying. Cara poured over everything and still no definite answers, everything she found was all one-sided. She needed more information on the wolves. She wanted to decide for herself what needs to be done. 

She was not going on a hunt just yet, she was going to find them and gather information. She wanted to trust her parents, but the blood lust they hated so in the wolves was just as apparent in her parents and everything she could find about past hunters.