BINDA The Werewolf Orphan

WAR!. “Alpha! they are coming! We need to hurry!” Julian's voice filled the room with tension as he entered hurriedly breathing very fast and sweating profusely from the race he had just undergone after shifting back to a human being from his Werewolf form. Binda's Father Drocco looked puzzled with eyeballs raised and squeezed together. “Who is coming?” Drocco asked with a hollow but threatening tone. Julian whimpers slightly and says: ‘’It's the half brothers, they now partner with strangers from Claytown and are coming to use deadly weapons to fight us, they have killed Anjo and … and some...”. Drocco gave out an angry Loud growl which mind-linked all members of the pack informing them of the danger, “Julian, go and get others ready! we will teach those fools a lesson!” Julian nodded and stepped out with the other wolves in the room. “Clifford!, go fetch the Luna immediately!”, Drocco ordered as he left the room with two other werewolves. Lisbon came running with Binda in Sansa’s hand, juggling the crying child…, “My love, what's going on?”, she asked with fright in her voice, Lisbon has been Drocco’s Human-Luna from a young age and both have shared a lot of things in common, she wasn't a werewolf like other members of Drocco's pack but she was courageous and commands respect even being a human. Some of the werewolves sometimes think her descendants might also have been a wolf in one lifetime or the other. Drocco’s voice filled the room with anger and rage, “Am killing those bastards today”, Lisbon’s lips clung shakingly with her hands trembling with fear and eyes wide open. She stood there mute and could not utter a word, she didn't know if to beg her husband to stay, run or fight. “I have been tolerating them for over a decade!, now they choose to betray me and Daytown. Never!, I won’t let this go scot-free”, Drocco continued, putting on his combat pendant as the Alpha of the pack. “My Alpha, My lover, the coolness of the flowing river that flows through the tides… please be calm”, Lisbon interjected. “not every action should be settled with war… try and dialogue with them” Lisbon summoned the courage and tried to persuade and calm him down. “Clifford and Sansa! Stay with the Luna! We will be back”.Drocco said, before stepping out aggressively, Clifford nodded affirmably and Sansa tried to shove the feeding bottle in Binda's mouth to stop her from crying. Lisbon's legs couldn't hold the grip on the floor as she quickly sat on the bed in the room, not knowing what to do for a moment. she remembered how her lover Drocco would always tell her that when they go for a fight or if there is a war going on in the pack she should be brave and make sure she always gets her things together in one form and try to always seek refuge as he knows that she is human and not like the rest of them. She immediately arranged everywhere and packed her little things and that of her baby. “Sansa, Please bring Binda over”. Lisbon grabbed Binda from Sansa and juggled her, looking into her 1-year-old baby's eyes, just like that of her father, she was a bit calm but grumbled mildly with the pendant which her father wore on her at birth, swingling in front of her chest. ***************** Drocco, Leads the wolf pack, which had every one of them shape-shifted into their wolves, increasing and letting their inner wolves take over completely running towards the army of the invaders and the half brothers’ werewolf pack. Julian gave a long jump on one of the invaders with his huge canine piercing directly to his neck, ripping off its jaw like a predator who finally caught up with his prey, as he was about to move his neck away from the dead Invader, he felt a sudden weight hit him by his body and was rolling over. Julian looked quickly after gaining his fit back on the ground to know what had hit him, it was Larry, one of the alpha half brothers, who is also in his all black wolf form. His paws mark a bigger print on the floor than Jillian's wolf. Julian fenced his mouth dripping with blood and ready to take on Larry. Larry was the duo-Alpha of Lane, the half brothers, Lane was stronger but Larry was ruthless and both had always wanted to eliminate Drocco, The brothers were always seeking more power and they had always wanted to expand into Drocco's territory. They have exploited different means to get Drocco to different uncomfortable terms which Drocco had always refused as they arrogantly requested for his territory. They felt Drocco was a treat as Drocco earned a lot of respect from the members of the pack as an alpha and people travel from different neighbouring cities to affiliate themselves with the Drocco because of his honourable dominance. Larry gave an angry growl at Julian with his nostrils oozing with hot breath, Julian waxing angrily, gave Larry a sneer with fencing canine teeth, and began running towards him. Only for him to realize that he was getting weaker with every step he took, and his wolf was feeling uncomfortable with his paws trying to find a better grip on the ground. He accessed his wolf body and could see that he had been bitten by Larry, he looked at Larry who in his wolf form was standing and observing him and noticed that his canine teeth had been injected with a rare type of poison which was stronger than wolves bane. Larry noticed he had fallen and left to fight other of Drocco's pack. “Al..phaa..”, a weak voice came in trying to get the attention of the pack members. Only Drocco heard the voice because of his strong werewolf embodiments. He looked towards the direction as he had currently snapped three of the invaders, in his wolf form. Drocco's wolf was the biggest in Daytown, with his eyes burning hot and strong canine as long and sharp as a knife. Mind-linked other members of his pack Drocco ordered them to keep fighting while he checks the voice coming from his direction. With a swift jump, he hopped very fast he was able to get the scent of Julian, and hurriedly got to Julian who is now transformed to his human form. Murmuring, “Alpha… it's ...a.trap”, Drocco observes Julian's wound not healing rather the bite was gradually expanding and immediately he could scent that he was been poisoned and could smell the type of poison. “It’s aconite” said Drocco still in his wolf form mindlinking Julian. He remembered when his father used to train him on hunting, he had once mentioned this particular type of poison stronger than a wolfbane but rarely found in Daytown. “We ne…ed to warn the re…st of the pack Alp…ha, please hu..rry” those were the last words from Julian… Drocco growled with anger, very loud everyone could hear it… but it was too late… His pack had been surrounded. Drocco ran quickly to his surrounded pack which was led by Larry, and with a long Jump Pounced on Larry who was now transformed into his human form, he was about to strike him with his sharp paws before he heard a voice from behind saying… “Opp Opp, if I were you I wouldn't do that…” it was Lane, the half-brother who arrived with the Invader's Leader. Clifford was in front of the house, trying to sniff scents and trying to mind-link other members of the pack to get information and updates on what was going on. When he saw one of the pack members running towards him. He ran to meet him only to see he was shaking, his leg had been injured and one of his arms had been broken. “You need to protect the Luna!, you need to go! now!… they are coming for her!...” With these last statements, Clifford hurriedly ran back to the house mindlinking Sansa, “Sansa! Get the Luna and the child! At once we need to go! now!” Sansa was with Lisbon who was shaking in her seat waiting for her husband to come back. She looked at Luna, “Luna, we need to go, we have been ambushed and they are coming,” Lisbon wiped her tears away, she knew immediately that the time had come for her to be strong as her husband had always trained and prepared her for emergencies like this… She asked no questions, grabbed Binda, tied her firmly to her chest, and drew out her sword which her husband had given to her as a gift. Sansa grabbed the packed bag and both hurriedly joined Clifford who led them narrowly through a part of the forest.