Artemis Rising

Luptator

Artemis POV

It's been 6 months since that night and every time I think of it my skin crawls.

Thankfully he hasn't been around since then. Drex left the following morning to recruit other packs to his cause for power and take over.

I found out that Alpha Andrei is not only a strong young Alpha but a direct descendent from our last King. He is so powerful that not only does he control the pack he lives with but all the packs in Canada. He's just two hours from here and I know that's where my brother is.

I sent a man to find my brother, one who was looking for redemption and that wanted to prove himself loyal to me and my cause. He hasn't been back so my guess is that he was either found out by Drex's men or he was killed by Andrei's pack.

"Are you even paying attention anymore?" Brock asked

sighing I responded "yes I am, just thinking about the last time I sent someone to find my brother is all. I miss him."

"I know how you feel. I miss mine as well, but we need to focus on the here and now and find our way out of this place so we can go back to them. That is the only thing we can control at the moment." Margo said to me with her own longing look for her brother

"Your right Margo, let's focus. So Brock you were saying there are a small pack of wolves in our pack that are struggling in the northern parts?" I looked at the map on Brock's desk.

Brock was the son of my father's top trainer. His family legacy goes back to the beginning like mine and for him to have survived seemed to be strange to me when I first found him or I should say when he found me. He was out of town on business for his father when he felt the connections break in the pack and immediately came home. Though to late, he had come home the night of the mating and was one of the ones in the shadow's he said.

"Yes, they are about four families all together I believe. The children are starving and the adults are struggling with the crops out there. They are one of our few farms left that haven't been fully raided by these assholes. They hold back what they can and send the rest to pay tribute but it's not enough."

I look over to my closet where my gear hides. I am the Luptator now and that means I protect those that can not protect themselves.

"I'll leave in an hour. That should be enough time for Margo to gather what food she can for them and to load it to the horses. Are you willing to come on this mission?"

"I am. My life is your's Luna and always will be till your brother returns and claims this pack." Brock saluted me formally "I will gather our followers and we will ride tonight with you." He turned and left

We will meet in the stables in one hour and ride out. The pack had no idea that I was the Luptator I hide my face with a hood s only my eyes are visible. I am death to those that call upon it and savior to those that need it.

Opening our closet Margo and I walk in and get dressed. We wear all black and attach our blades to our legs and our bows to our backs. We look at each other as we slide our hoods and masks up and say our prayer.

"For the Goddess we ride to protect her children to free those that need to be freed. To the Goddess we pray protect us and our's this night."

With that we jump out the window and run to the stables in the shadows