Demonic Wolves

Prologue

Shivering through the quiet night, Evelina, a young omega, walked through the night in search for shelter. Nothing more but the sound of the trees whistling and a wolf howling in the distance was the only thing that accompanied her in the rather quiet night. The sound of her shoes crunching along the autumn leaves, made her ears perk up, silently searching for any signs of another creature in the otherwise empty forest.

Crack.

Crack.

Crack.

The sounds of a harsh whip echoing through her mind, the reminder of what had happened a few hours ago slashed across her back. She hissed, feeling her clothes rub the raw skin, the skin that has still not started healing due to her being an omega. She quietly sniffed at the thought of how cruel her alpha was.

How can someone be so cruel? He is supposed to protect his pack, not brutally beat his members. Her mind slowly drifted to what had happened hours prior, flinching at the horrible thoughts.

***

Hours prior

The sound of cheering could be heard throughout the stadium. The chain wrapped around her neck was burning her fur. But she knew she would have to save her strength for later, knowing that the pain of the cracking whip would be the most unbearable pain she will receive in her young 16 years. Her tiny grey wolf was shivering in the corner, afraid to show itself in fear that ‘he’ would catch her and really make her ‘raw meat’ as he so harshly stated he would.

“Scared.” Her little wolf whimpered.

“I know. Me too.” You see if she had the strength to give her wolf reassurance, then she would have, with all her might, she would have. But unfortunately, Evelina has dealt with this for 16 years, punishments were and are nothing new for her; the only difference this time being that instead of a slap to the face or going days without eating was that she would receive blows from the whip that is only used to control rabid wolves, wolves that are becoming rouge. She has finally grown tired of everything, the only thing she hopes for at the moment was that the whip would finally take her out, for good, from this world.

Her wolf whimpered at the thought of dying, there was still so much that she hadn’t even done. She was far too young to have faced the horrors of this world, and yet here she was about to receive the worst punishment that any wolf can receive.

A powerful force radiated out in the stadium, announcing the arrival of the Alpha, Dominic. A whimper escaped little Evelina, the feeling of such power making her fall to the dusty ground, a slight shiver making its way through her body. ‘Please don’t find me.’ she chanted. Afraid of the consequences if he found her hiding from him. The sound of footsteps could be heard, slowly coming nearer and with that the shaking commenced. She knew she was done for, she knew that he knew where she was. She knew that he was toying with her, slowly making her fear build up until that was the only thing that she could feel. The footsteps seized. The sound of his footsteps slowly were put at ease, her fear grew ten times.

“He found us!” Her wolf screamed. “He found us, he will kill us!”

She dared not make a sound, afraid that her predictions were true and that he had truly caught them. She closed her eyes tightly, afraid to open her eyes in fear that she will be looking into his evil brown eyes. She curled into a tight ball, thinking that if she makes herself smaller then she already is then he won’t see her. But that’s just her wishfully hoping that she can make it out of this place alive.

A screech escapes her as she feels a sharp claw clasp the soft fur around her neck, aiming for the collar but ending up punctuating her neck instead. She cries out. “It hurts!” her wolf whimpers, the toxins that are inside the Alphas claws slowly entering her blood stream. She started convulsing, foam coming out of her mouth, her mind becoming a mess. Her wolf screamed knowing that this would cause a forced shift and that her human side would have to deal with the pain of the toxins.

A howl breaks out from the back of her throat, the shift happening much more quicker than any other shift she’s ever had. She lets out a powerful scream once she has fully shifted, her small body shaking from the exertion, and the toxins. Through her foggy mind she hears Dominic let out a powerful laugh, happy that he has finally found his favorite play thing. She lets out the smallest whimper possible at meeting his brown eyes. Dominic was a handsome man, but his evilness and his way of being have completely ruined her views of him.

“You thought you could hide from me? How hilarious. You thought you could escape your punishment? Well let me tell you something, you stupid mutt....” He paused for a second, taking his fill of the fear that was covering her beautiful face. His eyes went past her slim neck and landed on her heaving breast, admiring the perfect mounds as they moved up and down. He licked his lips and smirked. “What a waste.” he thought. “If only you weren’t such a weak omega, you could have been the most beautiful Luna.” he sighed sadly. “Well I guess there’s no use stalling anymore.”

Aurora’s brown eyes looked up to meet the matching brown of her fathers. He smirked as he picked her up, throwing her naked and limb body over his shoulder. He walked out of the dark area and made his way to the center of the stadium where a metal pole stood around 8 ft tall. Rod metal being the only thing that the pole was. “This is it.” She thought. As he threw her tiny body against the metal, her head making contact with it.

Dominic stood proudly, staring at the mess that he had created and appreciating and taking it all in. There her naked body lay, bruised, bloody and weak beyond belief. He scoffed, “This is what was supposed to one day lead my pack? Pathetic.” He spit on her, taking glory in the way her body flinched.

Evelina heard approaching footsteps, she slowly looked up and made eye contact with a guard. He smirked as he proudly showed her the device in his hands. There in his hands lay a whip, not just any whip, this whip was about 3 1/2 ft long and it was nothing but metal. Knowing that this was what would be making contact with her skin she tried to plead her case one last time, knowing that it was futile.

“Please Alpha, please don’t do this to me. Please! I’ll do anything!” She screamed from the top of her lungs.

Dominic, along with the rest of the pack, laughed mercilessly at the young girl.

What a joke!

Kill her already!

Did you hear that, she really thinks the alpha will show any mercy.

Show her what you’re really made of Alpha!

The series of yells just made Evelina’s head duck down in shame. She didn’t know her pack could be this cruel, that they would want her gone just as much as the Alpha did. She looked down at herself and let out the smallest of sobs knowing that she was done for.

The guard walks up to Dominic, bowing and handing him the whip. Dominic takes it with eagerness, almost as if he was a child receiving a new toy, he caressed the whip, feeling the light sting as the silver made contact with his finger. He turned towards the crowd and held the whip above him, proudly showing it of as if it was some award.

The stadium shook with the amount of cheers that were going through. He smirked, the feeling of superiority taking over his body. He turned towards the shaking girl and nods towards the guard. The guard walks up to her and takes her hands tying them around the pole with the dirty rope on the ground.

Evelina whimpers, feeling the roughness of the rope against her delicate hands. The guard notices this and tightens the rope around her hands, chuckling evilly when he hears her let out a more pained whimper. He stands up and looks towards his Alpha, giving him the go ahead as to commence the show.

The Alpha smirks, he stands right behind her and whispers in her ear, “I hope this truly kills you.” It turns eerily quiet, as he raises his hand to silence every one.

“For your betrayal of The Blood Moon Pack, you will receive 50 lashes. Is that understood?” He asks, but Evelina merely let out a scared whimper, to scared to speak.

Crack.

She lets out a scream at the feeling of the whip meeting her milky flesh. The sound of sizzling flesh a nasty echo throughout the stadium. Her cries filled the stadium, nobody felt pity, only intense satisfaction at hearing her pained cries.

“I said, is that understood?” He repeated his question, calmly.

“Yes, Alpha.” She replied with a shaky voice.

He greedily takes it all in, he steps back, raises his hand, and strikes down and aims for the center of her back. Evelina arches her back at the feeling of the first blow, it was nothing like the first one, no, this one was much stronger, this one ripped through all layers of skin and licked her bone. She’s a crying mess and he’s only just begun.

“One.” She lets out. Only to let out a painful shout at the second one, and the third and the fourth. It went on, the striking, and the coming down of the whip against her back, slowly opening her skin and showing her meat and leaving her raw, just like he said he would. By the 25th lash Evelina couldn’t take it, her vision started blacking out and her voice started to slowly quiet down. She knew she was done for, she always hoped that she would go out in the least painful way possible, but that clearly won’t happen, not from what she can see and feel. And so with one last pained cry she let herself collapse into the never ending oblivion that she so desperately has seeked all her life.

Dominic noticed that her body went limp and laughed like a maniac, he didn’t seem to want to stop, in fact her fainting just made him want to hurt her more, to s***h more lashes across her back, he wanted her to burn in hell for all the pain that she has caused him; and that’s exactly why he kept going. Why he went past 50, almost past 100, he ripped her skin open while letting hot tears spill from his face, he had no intentions of stopping. It took almost 3 guards to get him off of her and even then he still wanted to go back, to make her look even more of a mess than she already was.

The crowd was stunned into silence, there they watched as their Alpha, who was seconds away from shifting and finishing the poor girl off, was dragged away from little Evelina who lay in a pile of her blood. Shards of skin could be seen surrounding her, the horrors of what had happened that day now engraved into each members mind forever.

Never betray the Alpha, each one of them thought silently as they all departed the stadium leaving the young Evelina in a pile of her own blood and flesh.

***

The feeling of something soothing her back, something cold and slimy could be felt, but Evelina didn’t want to get up, she wanted to lay still and let this feeling last forever. Whosoever hands these were, they truly felt amazing and they helped soothe her aching skin, or anyway what’s left of it. The hand continued to spread the oil on her body, the pain now becoming bearable but still quite painful. With a gasp Evelina wakes right up, almost jumping in fright at the feeling of cool breath along her ear.

She starts to shiver, the autumn weather making her one of its victims to the harsh weather.

Aurora turns, afraid of what she might see, and is met with the glowing eyes of the packs healer.

“Ay mija, I was hoping that you would wake up.” the elderly sighed heavily, finishing the last touches, she rises from her crouching position. “Come on, mija, you must get up, there is not enough time for you to be staring at me so baffled. Up. Up.Up.” She takes ahold of Evelina’s arms and lifts her up, the elder doing all the work. With a whimper, Evelina tries to steady herself, her legs feeling numb after being down for so many hours.

The healer mumbles curses under her breath picking up a Tshirt, underwear, and combat boots and handing them over to Evelina in a hurry.

“You must change, mija, hurry we never know when he might come back. Take these clothes with you and run, do not look back, you must hurry now. Go” Evelina nods her head, quickly changing into the clothes that the kind elder gave her. The healer takes her towards a back door that she had opened previously in order to make Evelina’s escape much more easier.

“Go, mija, please do not look back. Please go live a better life, you must go.”

“Wait, ma’am, what may your name be?”

“It is Rosa, mija.”

“Thank you, Rosa, you will not be forgotten, thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

The elderly gave Aurora a warm smile, tears welling in her eyes at the thought of what the poor girl has gone through. She nods and gives Evelina a push of encouragement, encouraging her to finally make the leap, to fully go out to the wild and search for a better life then the one the Moon Goddess has provided for her. With a deep breath, Evelina steps out, knowing that once she steps out she is no long part of the Blood Moon pack and will be a free wolf. And with that thought she smiles brightly and steps into the moonlight. She turns and smiles at the elder as she feels the pack connection slowly break, she is no longer tied down to painful memories, but she can now go on and make new ones and search for a happier life.

***

The sound of thunder wakes Evelina up from her painful memories, she looks up into the sky and sees a bright red meteor headed towards her direction. She quickly diverts and ducks towards safety just as the meteor makes contact with the place in which she once stood. Scared beyond belief Evelina stays frozen, the heat that meteor brought with it warming up her once cold skin.

Evelina’s gaze didn’t stray once from the glowing red of the meteor, she was entranced, captivated from it, she just couldn’t move. Through the red glow she could make out a figure, and with that figure she noticed a distinct feature, their eyes were purple.

She gasped upon making contact with those eyes and screamed bloody murder.

Demonic Wolves. She’s heard the legends, the legends in regards to these creatures. She’s heard of the gruesome things that they have convicted upon the wolf community. Heck they make Dominic look like a saint standing right next to them.

The demonic wolf made eye contact with her and released a pained whimper falling onto its stomach and convulsing. Evelina didn’t know what came over her but she approached the Demonic Wolf, suddenly not having any fear towards it. The glowing red fire slowly started to diminish and in its wake she was met with a purple wolf slowly commencing its shift. The painful yelps that were coming out of its mouth was enough to bring Evelina down to her knees and help the wolf through its shift. Upon closer inspection Evelina could see chard skin, the wolf’s skin singed and only bone showing, she looked it away, suddenly sad upon seeing that this wolf was inflicted to the same pain that she had gone through. She lay with the wolf, calming it down and helping it shift until the wolf finally shifted and in its wake was a beautiful brown women laying on the ground next to Evelina. Evelina let out a gasp at making eye contact with such a mesmerizing creature. She truly was a beauty.

“You have helped me.” The women whispered, even though the young Evelina helped her, the Demonic Wolf knew that it was her time, she knew that she would have to pass down her powers and go back with the Moon goddess, with a painful whimper she made contact with the sad doe brown eyes gazing at her with tears. She found it adorable that even though this small creature knew what she was, she still stayed and helped her through such a painful process and was still here holding onto her for dear life even though they barely knew each other.

“Can you do me a favor, sweetie?” The women asked Evelina, hoping that even if she died she could still get her message across.

“Anything....um” Evelina paused wanting to know the women’s name.

“Ethereal.”

“I will do anything that you ask of me, Ethereal.” Evelina didn’t know where this was coming from, but she felt safe with this women, she felt as if she has known her her whole life, as if she's always been connected with her in a way.

The women chuckled, feeling the same connection with her and knowing from the bottom of her heart that this was the person that she would hand her powers over to.

“Please take care of yourself, and tell my husband Lucifer that I love him with all my heart.” And with that Ethereal presses a cold hand against Evelina’s forehead. A glowing purple light surrounds them, the feeling of the earth beneath her shaking, Evelina’s hands grow cold and she lets out a pained gasp at the feeling of such power being transferred over to her body. Both women let out a pained whimper and collapsed at the same time. Evelina because of the power that is now inside of her, and Ethereal because of her final breath, she smiles knowing that she has transferred her powers over to someone that will use her powers for good. With that final thought she looks up at the sky and slowly closes her eyes to that final thought.

***

Painful cries could be heard, the sound of someone choking too. Evelina’s eyes fluttered open, meeting the orange and pink sky. It’s dawn. She thought. The sound of sniffles could be heard, and with that Evelina slowly sat up, the pain in her back now forgotten. She made eye contact with teary red eyes and gasped. His eyes were filled with so much sorrow and pain, he looked away from her and looked back at the body that he was holding in his arms.

“My Love.” He thought. He couldn’t believe that the love of his life now lay broken in his arms with no heartbeat to reassure him that it was just a dream. Her skin, once a creamy chocolate, was now just a pale hue. Her once radiant black hair was now just limp. He let out a pained cry at the reality that the love of his life is now dead and laying in his arms never to see the light of day again.

“Sir..” Lucifer slowly looks up and makes eye contact with a tiny girl that was now gifted with his wife’s purple eyes. Her hair just as dark as his wife’s and her skin a tan shade. He gives her a nod as if telling her to continue with whatever it is that she was going to say.

“Your Wife told me to tell you that she loves you with all her heart.” And with that the water works commenced once again, Lucifer couldn’t take it, the pain that is. The pain of knowing that his mate has left that world and did not take him with her. His hands pound on the ground, he shakes his head in disbelief. His wife was really gone, she left, she won’t be coming back today nor tomorrow, nor the days after that.

He couldn’t take it, he just wanted to isolate himself and to never speak to anybody again. Well maybe that was taking it a little to far, but Lucifer was done, he did not want to be an Alpha for the Demonic Wolves if his wife wasn’t there to rule along his side. He heaves as he makes eye contact with those purple eyes again. This time reaching to the point where he knew what to do.

“I hope you are prepared, little one, for you have such a journey that long awaits you.” And with he leans over and presses his hand up to her forehead. Kind of like Ethereal, a red light emits from around them, making Evelina feel the same cold sensation, she drops to the ground feeling lightheaded at the feel of so much power going on inside of her. Lucifer chuckles seeing the little girl collapse.

“The names Lucifer, and what might yours be, little one?”

Evelina slowly looks up and through her foggy vision she slowly makes eye contact with Lucifer and gives him a shaky smile. “Evelina.” is all she is able let out as her tiny body faints from the overexertion. Lucifer noticing this chuckles and caresses the side of her cheek, gazing down at her with a certain fondness he whispers to himself. “The daughter we’ve always wanted.”