The Unexpected Heir

Chapter 2: found

too easy. we managed to capture the alpha and his predecesor.who was on his last legs. malnurished and suffering from something simular to demetia in humans. to pack doctors will look at him once i get him back to america. his son is older looking, looks like mid 50s makes him about 130 or so. our intelegence was way off.no betas left 6 omegas they managed to get a whif of our scent and escaped the gorge but we tracked them to some seemingly abandonded ruins. what we found there.....

i shiver involentarily, and my mind wanders to the young woman we found.

flashback

"beta"

i heard the mind link.

"what is it?"

" we secured the prisoners sir. but we have 3 in silver chains and one.....im not sure how to describe."

"ill be right there."

i followed my nose tracking my mens scent to an area that looked like it was meant to house prisoners. 3 cells.2 males one female.

bear shifters. two men approached me.

"keep the chains, transport them with the others, keep them separate. they could be innocent." they both nodded and began taking one of the males to weak to fight.

"show me this special case." i linked the LT i brought with as part of the special ops team.

he came from around the corner and motioned for me to follow him. down further we traveled. his arm shot out to stop me before i walked off the floor and almost impaled myself on a booby trap. looked like one of my guards wasn't so luck judging by the fresh blood.

"dont worry not silver but jeremy is gonna need morphine." he said. we stepped down and weaved around the spikes.

other end of the corridor he pushed a button and the big stone circular door slowly rolled out of the way.inside a giant circular room and in the center....horror.

red streams of fabric everey where all connected to the center. a young girl bare of clothing, her eyes wide in horror, she had brown hair and one blue eye and one green.her arms pulled back painfully at an akward position with her wrists bound together. she was in a sitting postion on her knees with them splayed open,also bound, covered from head to toe in dirt and both dried and freash blood trikling out of orfaces that it shouldnt be. what confused me was what bound her.simple red fabric. looked frail enough almost as bad as her. she was thin, sickly so. i inhaled she was some sort of wolf shifter. she smelled strange. like no shifter id ever smelled before. her eyes were wide but her eyes didnt move, it seemed like the lights were on but no one was home.

"transition her to silver chains we are taking her with us. and bring the fabric as well." he had his orders. and i had mine.

end flash back

i shook my head 2 days of travel by privet jet had us back home.we had our seer look into the bear shifters. 2 innocent were set free the third was wanted for killing an entire village in the south. seems these despicable creatures were trying to persuade him to join their pack. he declined by slaughtering 50 of his men one was his last beta before he was restrained and drained. bear shifters were susceptible to silver but if you dont drain their blood all it does is irratate them. drained daily of at least half of their blood and after starving them for 6 month they are to weak to break the chains then.

then theres the girl she hadnt woken up since we have been back it been 3 days. the doctors took xrays and they couldnt give her I.V. fluids because the needles wouldnt peirce her skin. they have orders to move her to the dungeons today.

ive thought of having our seer see if she cant figure out who she is. but its easier if the subjects awake so they can allow her access to their memories awake its harder to contain ones thoughts. but the subconcious is a vast ocean with no land insight. it could take years to figure it out.

damn what a muddling mess.

"sir, shes is in her cell and shes awake." the doctor links me.

"ill be down." i reply. i get up from my desk and start the decent down the stairs.and out the door. the pack cells is at the edge of our town disguised as a jail.despite the big pack, alpha likes to keep to the smaller towns to live. it takes about 10 min to get there. so i drove.

my thoughts wander to the girl again. shes very pretty from what i could see under the gunk and rats nest. no doubt shes been abused. after the state we found her in, no doubt.

i arrive at the jail and bypass the sherrif. going straight down to the cells. the entrance is behind the sherifs book case we keep our magical crimanals seperate from humans but still in the same general location. the cells down below were constructed of pure silver gates and chains with a special room designed to be sound proof for when we were at war and torture is necessary. 3 guards accompanied me to her cell. she was clean atleast, her brown locks brushed out in waves all around her face down past her hips.

she was in a dark blue tank top and jean shorts courtousy of our lost and found the cloths were much to big though. she seemed to breath in pants. like she was outta breath.she opened her eyes and froze when she saw me.

"name?"i stated.she rolled her eyes.

"i...." she tried nothing came out past that it crackled. she grabbed her throat.and winced.must have a dry throat, then the most unexpected thing happened.she stopped and looked at her wrists....and face palms.

"water please." i hear in my head

" how are you mindlinking me?"

" oh i can link with any one i want no matter the distance.so long as ive met them."

i looked puzzled.thats an odd gift.i grabbed a laddle and dipped it in the water pail outside of the cell, and i had a guard open her cage due to the silver. he was equipped with gloves.i crouched infront of her.

"ill give you water if you give me your name." i reasoned with her. she eye balled me.

"look im greatfull for the rescue but i dont know you or trust you so no. your not getting my name." she glared at me. i moved the laddle away from her and dumped it.

" then no water."i turned. and the laddle yanked free of my hands of its own volition. it floated for a second. and bonked me on the head repetedly .i sputtered, embarresed. before it dipped its self back into the pail outside of the cell and brought itself to her lips.she gargled and spat.and then drank greedliy.next thing i know here comes the whole pail.bonked me in the face before slowly lifting to her lips.

telepathy, another gift. this girls full of suprises one gift is abnormal for a shifter, to have a gift and be a shifter is rare enough. shes got 2 gifts, even more so.

she stopped drinking, and laughed.

"dont get me wrong. nice try, any one else and it would have worked. now that ive had a drink do your worst."

she spoke and slupmed against the wall. we had her wrists suspeneded by silver chains so she relaxed them and closed her eyes.

her voice was velvety with an accent. from where i havent the slightest clue. then it dawned on me. shes expecting to be tortured.

"yea im not torturing you for your name.i just wanted to call you somthing other than "the girl."" i locked onto her gaze. it was hard, the look she was giving me, for some reason under her gaze i felt like i was...for lack of a better word small . as a being of magic and a beta to boot i had my own power, presence and aura, and i felt small in her presence.i was un sure as to why. i still held fast with her gaze. she then sighed.

"you can call me sandy."

"well sandy ill be keeping you down here till i figure out if ur innocent or not." i stated.he lifted her head back and cackled.

" ok 2 things. first and for most..hahahahahahah you? keep me here? thats a good one.im humering you by still being in this cell." she bellowed and ended her sentence in a dead pan look."second, innocent of what? ive been a prisoner forthe last 550 years or so. so yeet your self right off a cliff and leave me be." she snaped that last part, her patience must be thin.

" sorry let me rephrase. i have to keep you here till i make sure you werent imprisoned without reason and let loose to harm the masses. we do have small pups i am resposible for," she visbly relaxed and i narrowed my eyes on her," and what do you mean your humoring us?" i raised my eye brow in a pointed question.

"well i can prove that im humoring you, but i want your word and that of your guards, that ill not be punished for proving it, and in exchange ill give my word not to harm any one without reason." she landed me with a pointed look, same one i leveled on her earlier. i stared at her.trying to read her intentions.if shes lying its a bold one and i painted her into a corner.if shes not i have a serious problem. i have no way of containing her. so if it turns out later that she poses a threat its going to be both our heads on the chopping block.

" very well. men no harm is to come to her unless i say understood?"

" yes, beta." they saluted me and stood at atention at the order. she lifted her eye brow.

"beta huh." she wispered.she stood up and slowly walked forward. she placed one thumb under her right wrist.

and pulled.

it snapped like paper the chain now slack against the walls. she did the same with her left wrist and both ankles. she was free. i dont understand those were silver chains she shouldnt be able to move much less break them. after looking at her wrists i was flabber ghasted.no burn marks. silver burned any shift and with wolves and lycans it drained their strength. she shouldnt be able to walk. i backed out of her cell and the door was slammed shut.

"remember your word." she reminded me. i gulped and nodded. she proceeded to walk forward. she wedged her fingers between the metal at the top of the cell she smirked.i coudl hear the metal complain as it was wedged open enough for her fingers. i watched with my mouth open as she gripped the top of the cell door.ripping it down in one swift motion the sound of metal shredding filling the room. she made it seem effortless.

"thats not all hold on." she said as a matter of factly like she had some grand finale planned. she walked back into her cell and yanked all 4 chains of the wall and began mushing them together. like it was aluminiom.when she was done she had 4 perfectly round flawless silver balls. she took out two one in each hand about the size of a soft ball. she tossed the a little up and down in her hand to get a feel for them.

at the end of the corridor was a giant silver door that let out into the surrounding woods.it was for transporting magical prisoneres in and out so as to not arouse the suspicions of humans living in the town. she held a ball out to a guard.

" here hold this." she said casually tossing it to him with one hand. it was like somthing out of a comic he caught it with both hands and was immidiatly drug to the floor. his hands slipped and a loud smack was heard where the ball dropped. it broke the stones under it.

"thats a gift. compressed silver fairly effective throwing wepon against shifters."she said smirking like she tossed a paper ball at him.

she spun around and threw the other one it crashed into the silver door at the end of the corridor. when the dust settled the door was completly gone and so were several trees behind it.my mouth was agape.then it dawned on me.the door, what was stopping her from simply leaving? she smirked and walke 5 feet and stopped turned around and motioned for one of the guards to open the cell next to hers.

"i dont understand." i said. nodding to a guard to open it, "why would you willingly return to a cage?"

" i told you, i gave you my word, no harm to those who do me no harm. escape at this time would get ur gaurds dead. and i have no intentions of hurting those who give me no cause.ill wait till im deemed safe and leave then." she stated and went back into her cell. she stopped mid door way and i held my breath like she had changer her mind about being detained.

"how do you deem someone a nonthreat?" she turned her head and looked at the floor.i paused. not sure if it was safe to answer her.

"we have a seer that checks ur heritaige and reads your life." i simply stated might as well tell her, she was going to find out eventually. she visibly tensed.

"a word of warning." she started," dont look at my morthers side. for some reason when one tries to look at her side of my tree the seers eyes and their mouth bursts into blue flame. they die a horrible death. i dont wish to see any more innocent seers die."

" then why dont you just tell me about her?" i asked. thats not normal.

" i cant i dont know who she is." she said and went into her cell the door clicked shut and locked. she slumped against the wall. progress.. and i looked at the exit, and setbacks.i turned to leave, what was i going to do? out of no where i hear male cakling.

"you making a mistake taking those pretty red ribbons off of her. ur gonna regret that decision.tell ya what why dont u let me out and have her before its to late." that bear shifter hollared in between laughs.he licked his lips like he was hungry staring at sandy. she flipped him off. i shake my head, hes bound for the councils chopping block.i left.