Reclaimed By The crippled ALPHA

Chapter 2

"Marse, have you ever gone on a hunt before?" Amelia asked, her face masked with seriousness that Marlise couldn't recognize. She then sat down besides her.

"I mean, I did go on rabbit hunting with grandfather a year ago. He would also take me in the woods and taught me the basics of warewolf trapping. You know he did that to just make me feel better with my theory that warewolves exist", she replied with a hint of sarcasm on the last part.

Theo chimed in, "Except it's not just a theory, Marlise. Warewolves do actually exist-"

"What?", she cut him off mid sentence surprise. How much has she been treated for a fool?

She sat upright so that she can process everything she was going to hear next.

Amelia begun, "What's up with the expression, I thought you wanted me to believe you? Well here is the actual truth. Kid, your family is really f****d up."

“Ouch!" Marlise flinched, what the hell of an intro.

“For years we have been hunting warewolves but its neither an option nor a choice. My Greatest grandfather made a deal with the government by then the monarch of this country.

It is said that these creatures that can transform into man and back into wolf had become the bane of human existence, they would raid us.

And by raid, I mean reap fresh the hell out of a human's skeleton. It was their slogan and it still is, 'Leave no fresh nor blood, only the bones behind'

Hence, to insure the protection and survival of his people, a good and empathetic ruler they claim he was. The king approached the greatest hunter in all the land at the time, Merri Bean, my Greatest grandfather.

He has a short history of how he drove the warewolves to inhabitant land but still, he remains a legend. For it is by him that wolfsbane, the Rowan tree and many more other plants were discovered. Plants that could kill a warewolves and sometimes ill them, if one is lucky.

However, the tension grew more intense when Merri Bean was killed, ripped in half by the warewolves. Therefore, forming a unforfeitable bond of enmity.

And for the years to came the warewolves when attached, they would also reciprocate in a ways formidable than the humans anticipated.

Their skills evolved together with the weapons being used at them. But with today's technology, the introduction of more developed weapons as helped us to take out a number of them.

Have you ever wondered why your parents forbids you from coming here?

Back then, every household had a family heirloom to represent them, it could be an ivory comb or bracelet, Chinese traditional embroided plates, something that is of an object.

However, before his death Merri Bean believed that his family heirloom is of special possession. His descendants whether born rich or poor they were to inherit his hunter skills and continue what he had started.

As I said earlier, it's neither an option nor a choice, as long as your last name is Bean, it's essential that you take part in it. Everyone has their role to play and here comes your moment.

It's good that the old man taught you the basics of warewolf trapping, today you have your first real hunt and I'm to teach you the second phase.

Just like the human government, the warewolves also have an organizational hierarchy structure depending on how much a clan or pack carries itself.

The most assholeing one of them all is the Bruem-ring pack now under the leadership of a crippled Alpha, Alpha Alphie Adornavonte.

Some say that as a cripple, he slacks off his duties and responsibilities and he is incompetent to his alter.

However, despite his bad character, the Bruem-ring has still maintained untamed defensive skills to protect them from the human attacks.

And this is where you now come in. Every year, a selection of young ladies, the she-wolves are debuted to be ladies-in-waitings for the cripple.

But due to his, impeccable temperament, the procedure has lessened from months to weaks. As of tomorrow, there's a selection and you are going to debute.

Don't worry about getting discovered as a humanbeing because they are not allowed to shift and are currently forced to maintain the human form despite it being the full moon tomorrow night.

I know that you have a lot of questions to ask but save them for later. We'll come up with a plan of how we are going to place you in there.

As for now, it's time that we unleash the phase 2 I mentioned earlier. You are coming with us to tonight's hunt", She completed are outline her face still as serious as it were before.

Marlise knew her Aunt calling her here sounding sick was an escape route from her parents. But she did not see herself running into something like this. This is duty, it is neither negotiable nor does one have a choice just like she had mentioned earlier.

She still had a lot to process, a lot of questions to ask but the eyes looking at her screamed that she had no time to waste. " Can you give me a moment?", she begged.

By this time, she was already out of bed only dressed in night wear pajamas and begun pacing about the room despite the presence of the brothers.

"There is no moment dear, it's either you're in this or your not yet ready-"

"I'm definitely in! I mean I want to know if what you just told me is real or not. I want to see for myself ", she spat as fast as she could.

"There it is, the marse that you are", she replied with a smile but serious enough for the other to grasp the sarcasm in it. "Get changed, we leave in ten minutes", she added then they all made their way out.

Marlise took in two huge breaths before she begun going through my clothes as fast as she could to find something suitable for a night hunt if you've ever been to one.

After putting on comfortable clothes, she made her way to find the others. But what surprised me is that instead of going through the woods on the left side they embarked on to the forest.

She followed closely behind Martin who happened to notice her hesitation.

"Are you scared, Marse?", he asked while he slowed his pace for her to catch up with him.

"Who wouldn't be? I have always been curious of how this place looks like in the inside but now all I see is a bunch of thick trees surrounded by total darkness".

"Do you know how to use those", he pointed at the spears in her hands. "One of my favorite hobbies, of course I do", she admitted honestly.

“Ms Bean talks a lot about you, she says that you are more of an explorer. Well, during the day it is a sight quite suitable for one."

"Really, I hope so", by the time she realized it, they had now caught up with Amelia and Theo. Unlike Martin, Theo is more of an introverted person, he talks less aside maintaining a approachable deaminor.

Meanwhile, Martin on the other hand is much of a talk, he would make someone feel comfortable as if it wasn't even their first encounter.

"You two, enough with the talk let's get to business!", Amelia turned back towards them..

Marlise leaned in to whisper something into Martin's ear, "I never knew that she could be this intimidating".

"Trust me you know her less than you believe so", he whispered back.

She took down her small bag pack with all the necessity she had Carrie behind. Following the instructions, she took a small bottle of spray with no label on it.

"First phase, conceal the human scent", Amelia sprayed it on her herself.

The former also followed suit to how her Aunt had done it and didn't smell anything at first, but a few seconds later, the scent hit her nostrils. It was the smell of dead wolf.