The Last of the Shifters

Lucious POV: The Pack

It's been a week since that night I seen her up on the wall. A week since my last hunt. A week since I’ve allowed Lucious out. He has been more and more unmanageable since that night. I can’t shift due to fear of him trying to climb the wall to find her. He paces back and forth in my mind. He thinks we found our mate. 

Mates were only hopes and dreams since the war. The moon goddess stranded us and shifters like myself were no longer being born. What was left of us joined together into our own little make shift pack. We are a rag tag group, wolves, lions, pumas, hyenas, and foxes. Selkies took to the sea after the war, to live as they’re intended and in true form. The only one left with any Alpha blood was me, my father was the alpha of the largest wolf pack before the war. Which means that I was the appointed leader when the dust settled. I was barely a child at the time, had not even shifted for the first time. My father's Beta who kept me safe during the war acted as the Alpha up until a few years ago after I first shifted.  

I knew I had to shift; I knew I had to let Lucious hunt for the pack. I left my cabin, walked into the woods, and let Lucious take control. My bones started to snap and rearrange as my body went from human to wolf.  

The feeling of the moist grass under my paws was heaven after of being in human form. I started to walk waiting to hear or see movement and for the hunt to begin. Within minute a deer walked into sight and the chase began. I ran half way into the forest before lunging and taking it down. This one wasn’t as small as the last and took more effort to take down. Once it stopped moving, I began to drag it back to the small town where my pack resides.  

I was with in 100 feet of the pack area when my muscles tighten and I couldn’t move any further. The wind blew through my fur, and the scent hit me again, peaches and honeysuckle. I mind linked with one of the other wolves in my pack explaining the location of the deer before darting off in the direction of the intoxicating scent. I pushed myself to run harder than ever before. I needed to see her again.