Hunter and hunted

Her death/my anger

Brian P.O.V

Not knowing where my son is it is time to take action, I made a call to my now Ally and we set a date for our attack, he states that he's got another suprise for the wolves, he has recruited someone called a Magi, and apparently the wolves had betrayed him as well, he explains that the magi are creatures of great power, I hang up to go find my butler, "Eric? Where is Therin?" Eric turns "I am unsure sir, I haven't seen him since you went to get an army." I am confused, where the hell could he be? I turn and go to my office, I sit at my desk and turn on my computer, I check my security system for the day I had left, playing the video in three times speed on ten screens I finally see it. Therin with a duffle bag hobbling around outside, hiding behind trees from my security team, then he disappears into the forest.

Closing out the screens I call for my second in command, she comes into my office and stands with her hands behind her back, beings she was in the military I thought it was only fitting for her to be by my side, she's around five foot ten, black hair in a tight bun, wearing her military commo pants, an a shirt, and black boots that go halfway up her calfs, "yeah boss?" I turn to her, "so where did my son go?" She gives me a confused look "he said he was going to do some errands for you to try to get more people for the fight with the freaks, Ryan drove him, I saw the car pull out myself." I slam my fist on the desk, "did you see Therin in the car?" A look of disappointment on her face "no I just assumed he was in there." Anger starts to rise inside of me, "what do you mean you assumed?" She could see how pissed I was, "I mean, he said he was going to gather supporters and got into the car, they pulled away and I went back to what I was doing." My breath getting faster, "this is strike two." I get up grabbing her by the bun on her head, taking her down to the field calling everyone from the community, I strap her to a post with her hands around it after all get there I rip open the back of her shirt so her scared skin is exposed.

I turn to the crowd shouting "AS YOU ALL KNOW, FAILURE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED, MY SON AND YOUR NEXT LEADER IS MISSING BECAUSE OF TWO PEOPLE'S ACTIONS, FOR THIS MY SECOND IN COMMAND WILL BE PUNISHED!" I step back six feet and grab the bull whip "TEN LASHES FOR STUPIDITY!" I grab a bullwhip and start, *CRACK 1 *CRACK 2 *CRACK 3… her legs give out and lands on her knees only being held up by the ropes on her wrists *CRACK 4 she lets out a scream *CRACK 5 her back is bloody *CRACK 6 her body goes limp *CRACK I finish at ten, a man comes out of the crowd to untie her and take her away but I shake my head and tell him she can stay there until the morning. Eyes full of tears he nods in compliance. I turn back to the crowd, "I NEED TO SEE RYAN, MY PERSONAL DRIVER!" I shout again. Everyone scatters going to find him, and I go back to my office. I look at the clock at it reads ten fifteen, I look out the window and see the man tending to her back, putting medicine and gauze on her new wounds.

I clasp my hand, I won't stop him from fixing her up, maybe next time she will pay more attention. After an hour or so the door to my office swings open, and Ryan is thrown in onto my floor, face bloody and I can see his eye is already swollen shut. "He tried running sir" a devilish smile spreads from one side of my face to the other, "now why would you beat him?" The man stands up straight "because he tried to run sir." I go over and pick Ryan up putting him in a chair, I go back to the man and whisper in his ear, he grows a smile and leaves. I go back and sit on my desk in front of Ryan, "now why don't you tell me what happened to my son?" He coughs up some blood, "sir I don't know, he had me drive to the end of the property and he got out, gave me some cash and told me to come back the next day." I lean back and start typing bringing up the security recording from three days before, "bullshit" as I turn the screen around, the man from before comes in holding a rolled towel and hands it to me, he straps Ryan's hands to the chair and I unroll the towel to find some tools of torture, I pick up each one looking into Ryan's one good eye, his eye goes wide and I smile, the man leaves the room, "now will we be telling the truth now?"

Three hours later Ryan keeps telling me the same story and that the video was doctored somehow, every spot that I had cut with my blade has finally dried, his left arm broken, one of his ribs piercing through his skin, a couple of his toes and fingers missing. I am pleased look over my handy work, but he still hasn't told me the truth. I have the medical team come and take him to fix him up so we can do this again tomorrow. I have one of the maids come in and clean up, I wrap the tools back in the towel. I go and clean up, looking in the mirror I've got blood splashed on my face alongside my hands, after I finish I go to bed

~Flashback~

A day like any other, playing outside with the twins, my father sitting on the porch, my wife calls out to us for lunch, the three of us head to the house, my father calls me over, "hey son I've got to talk to you for a minute" I walk over and sit down next to him hoping for the answer I wanted, "I am truly sorry but I cannot give you the wolf you want." I am flabbergasted "but I've done everything you've asked of me, why?" He looks at me knowingly "I will be giving it to Wyatt, he is and will be the strongest out of all three of you, I can't explain why he is but he just is." I am angry at this point and I go inside "daddy are we going to play some more after lunch?" I hear a six year old ask me "NO WYATT WE ARE NOT" a look of terror comes over his face. My wife looks astonished at how I just acted, she rushes after me "Brian Wilcox, what has gotten into you, snapping at our son like that?!" I get to the living room and throw a vase across the room pissed off at the words my father had said " he's not giving me the wolf, said I'm weak" as I throw another vase full of flowers. "Does that you need to go on a rampage?!" "YES" I scream at her, she is taken aback, she'd never seen me like this before, I was angry, hurt, and confused. Why would my father say that about me, my wife leaves the room and I break down crying, so ashamed of myself for treating them like that, but I need that wolf to make my family stronger.

" We're being attacked!" I hear from outside, I run out grabbing my silver coated pool cue I've adopted as a weapon and run outside. I see people coming out of the woods breaking our fence, coming in our territory, my father had changed into his wolf form, I run across the open field, ready to strike. Behind me I hear gunshots, I turn and see my wife shooting at men trying to get into the house, one of the men runs at me, I turn to see him coming at me, he lunges at me and I swing my weapon, hitting him in the temple, he falls motionless, I strike another as he tries to jump at me, from behind me I hear a scream as gunshots die down, she's out of ammo, I turn to run but I am tackled to the ground, teeth in my shoulder pinning me down. From inside the house I hear a blood curdling scream, I somehow swing my weapon and hit the wolf injuring him, I jump up and run as fast as I can to the house. I reach the broken door rushing in, the kids are no longer sitting where they were, but hiding in the corner, I didn't expect a five and six year old to fight off a full grown wolf, Wyatt was blocking Therin from the site of their mother being eaten by the wolf, blood covering her face, trying to fight the beast off but to no avail she cannot fight anymore, I hit the wolf over and over, until it is a heaping pile of blood and mush.

I pick up my wife and take her to the medical wing of the house, the doctors hook her up to an IV but nothing can be done to save her, the staff come out and tell me the news, "she doesn't have much time. I am so sorry Brian." I take the kids in and we say our goodbyes, I am numb, my entire body is numb, I have just lost the love of my life, one of the Nanny's comes in and takes the kids, I am still with her hours after she passed, just sitting in the chair, frozen, no emotions in my head or on my face. My father comes in, he sees her body and tears fall uncontrollably, from his face, he finally composes himself, comes over to me and puts his hand on my shoulder. "We still have some of them alive, they are in the cells" I stand up leaving the room and head to the cells with my stick, I am stopped by the security team that my father had sent down.

I push passed them, and reach for the door of the cage, I start pulling the cage door but it is locked. "OPEN THE DOOR!" I yell at the guards, my father few moments pass of me pulling on the cage door when my father enters, "Brian, let me get the answers for you, please" sadness across his face, I didn't just lose a wife and the kids didn't just lose a mother, but he just lost a daughter. I back off and he steps forward, he grabs one of the bars to show these wolves that pain dose not phase him, their eyes grow wide and they start to shake in fear. My father's alpha Aura is going crazy, "who are you and what pack are you from?" Nashing his teeth together in a whisper. For some reason they are more scared of his whisper than shouting. "W-w-we come from the sn-snow moon pack." Says the first Wolf, the second chimes in," yeah w-w-we were just doing what w-was ordered I swear." My father looks at them with a smile "I completely understand gentlemen, for telling me the truth, I will not kill you" he starts to walk out, stops next to me, and hands me a pistol. I grab the pistol, walk over to the cage, and shoot both of them. Gasping for air one of the wolves asks coughing "I thought he said he wouldn't kill us." , I smirk "oh? he didn't say that no one else wouldn't."

~Flashback ends~

Therin P.O.V

I look at the clock next to my bed, 1:36 am it reads, I've been asleep for pretty much three days. Not being able to sleep I think, I ripped out the IV, I should have had a tear in my skin, a puncture, something, I turn my head towards the door, I can hear someone outside of it. I see the nob starting to turn, the door flys open and there stands my father… my body jolts and I sit up out of bed, I let out a huge sigh, a dream, it's only a dream, finally one night without getting beaten, why did he beat me for all those years? I look at the clock as I hear noise coming from outside, 5:38 am, I slip out from under the covers and sit in a chair next to the window and look out.

I smell lilacs again, it's that girl from yesterday. I breathe in the uforic scent, what made her act like that, if the door had been made of anything other than why I can only presume is oak it wouldn't have held, looking out and watching her I see that they are training, sweat dripping off of her she throws the guy she's sparing with, yelling something I can't quite hear, everyone nodding and turning towards their partners, after twenty minutes or so they get into groups of four and three of them attack a single person, the only ones that are able to defend against these attacks are some blond male, the two guys I saw, the one girl , and another female, it looks like fun, training where you can defend yourself, not getting ripped out of your bed in the middle of the night and getting caned, or doing something your father thinks is wrong and getting beaten almost to death. Quizzically I wonder if that woman is who my dream had told me, everyone is covered in mud ,dirt , and blood but I'm only smelling lilacs, what the hell is wrong with me?!

I look back at the clock and I see it saying 8:30 am, everyone is finally leaving the field and going their own way. I see her heading towards the house, she stops and sniffs the air, looking straight at me she grins, and runs to the house. A moment later I hear banging on the door, it sounds like someone is restraining her, I then hear the most beautiful word come from the hall "MATE!" my stomach is doing summer salts, my head is spinning, and I just want to run to the door, it was hard enough for me to get to the chair that I don't think I'd be able to move very fast. I see a wheelchair and hop into it, roll myself over to the door, as I get within six feet of the door it bursts open.

Amanda P.O.V

We train, it's the only thing keeping my mind busy, today I have something else for the worriors, "OK EVERYONE GATHER AROUND!" I had raised my voice so everyone could hear me, so today since everyone has warmed up we will be doing some multiple attackers sparing so get into groups of four and it's three on one, leads will be myself, Reggie, Zachary, Michelle, and Chris, since you're a smaller group than usual this shouldn't take long. We all break off into the smaller groups the five leads taking on the other three of their groups, it's finally eight thirty and we head home, training finished for the day, "hey Zach, we may have to bump training up to two a day if these guys can't…" I stopped as strawberries and chocolate fill my nose, my legs not working not letting me move anymore, I look up and I see him watching us,

staring at me, watching me from the window, all of the sudden I bolt into the house passing everyone eating breakfast, up the stairs three at a time I turn the corner to see security in front of the door I might break through. I rush the two guys and bang on the door, Zachary must have followed me quickly, trying to pass the guards I hear from behind me "let her through" I turn and Zachary is standing there nodding for me to go through.