~CLAY~
... I felt Doug start pacing with distress and before I could gather my thoughts that’s when I heard it.
The painful howl that held so much pain within it and that undid me and my wolf and in an instance I started my run back towards the pack house. Doug knew that howl well enough to know whose howl it was. It was our Father's howl and the pain in it meant bad news. And without much debate or thought I headed the painful call before opening my links once again and allowing open communication with anyone so that I got informed of what was happening. And a few seconds in Sam's frantic breathing seeped into my mind.
[Sam?] I called needing an answer.
[Clay... Mum and Dad, ...uncle Dan Clay he has... He...] Sam paused and I could tell he was crying.
[Sam] I called needing him to be calm so that he can tell me what the f**k is going on since I couldn't understand him. And it would be a little while before getting back to the pack house where i was sure the howl came from and I really hated myself now for leaving the pack house. I shouldn't have. I let myself overreact to something so irrelevant. If something happened in my absence just because I was throwing a tantrum like a f*****g two year old... I didnt know. I couldn't think that far. I just have to get there and it should be fast. I urged our legs to move faster and faster they did. Doug sprinted across the trees in a speed we're not used to but it called for it.
[What is happening, I heard our father.] I said trying not to panic but I was. And for now I didnt want to go by suspicions otherwise I wouldn't be able to make it in time.
[*sniffles*] Thats all I got back and I tried to offer comfort to my younger brother via our link and all I got back was whimpering.
[Hang on I'm almost there.] I said as the treeline came to my vision.
[Its too late Clay. Too late. They're ...] The link went silent and a cold shiver ran through my body. No. This can't be happening.
[Sam!]
[Sam!]
[f*****g answer me you dimwit.]
[Anything please...] Tears threatened to leak but I couldn't give in not yet. If I did that would be just me raising a white flag. Sam was wrong it wasn't too late. I couldn't be f*****g late.
No I couldn't.
[Sammy.... Neil?] Nothing.
{Doug please tell me you can feel them. Tell me we're not late.} I tried to get Doug to feel the connection but all I got back was a threatening growl. And I knew not to push him. We were trying to get there and that suggestion wasn't helping. And I could tell my wolf had blocked me from his thoughts, which was really frustrating at the moment. His connection to them was better than mine. He could feel them better. I needed to know we weren't late. But I had to let him concentrate on getting us there.
Sprinting away from the treeline towards the pack house I smelt it before I even saw the huge cloud of smoke dangling above where the pack house was.
No no no . My run halted at the yard of the pack house as I looked at the flames that had swallowed the whole house up. And no one was trying to put it off but thats not what caught my attention but the crowd I could see up the front of the house. I walked slowly hoping to spot the Alpha and his Luna. Hoping this wasn't happening and that howl had been a distress to the fire.
Everyone dispersed as I walked through. I could feel the power of an Alpha wolf and I strode through to where the power was emanating from. I looked around trying to spot my dad but I didnt see them. But the Alpha power. I looked around once again confused and my eyes locked onto the brown eyes of a wolf I very well knew. But something was so wrong. My eyes immediately lowered and Doug growled in disapproval. And then it hit us. The Alpha power. No this was so wrong on so many levels he was my mother's brother and no he was not from the Alpha blood so how and where the hell was my Dad.
"The runway pup returns." He boomed and the crowd snickered. I looked around trying to look at them but I couldn't really see anything but the flames. Their snickers cleared my mind for a minute and I caught it but it was too late. The smell of blood. My mother's, dangling from the hands of a wolf I had trusted and in a minute Doug was charging at him. But we were a minute too late. Something prickled my neck and I lost my balance and landed on the ground missing my target. Low growls left Doug's throat and he tried to make a stand but His legs tumbled and he slouched down onto the ground once again.
"See, weak and pathetic. How can we be ruled by such. A disgraceful wolf one who even the goddess deems a disgrace. Pathetic. You know its sad that you can't follow your parents. Their ship has already sailed and without you. So we'll request for yours special." At the mention of my parents and the blood dangling from his hands anger like no other I've ever felt surged in me and Doug leapt up in the air before catching our target off guard and sinking his teeth right through his neck but the bite wasn't too deep to kill because of the weakness we felt. Seconds later Doug followed the bite with a s***h of his paw across the guy's face as deep as he could before we fell of off him. Doug shook his fur as we tried to stand once more but it was becoming difficult. Our hind legs felt weaker than the front and so standing became a problem, had to drag them but the more we tried the weaker we felt. The legs couldn't stand.
[What did you do to my father you piece of shit.] I growled inside my uncles head making him look in my direction from where he was kneeling holding onto his neck. He sneered at me and looking at him I felt a tad bit smug looking at his scarred face that would forever be scarred if I didnt kill him and his neck the damage was pretty bad and insane to have been caused by a drugged wolf.
"They're where they should have been for years, sorry you couldn't say goodbye to them. But I can tell you the scream from your mother was..." A feral growl left Doug's mouth as he sneered at the man before us and tried to get to him but it was vain. Which seemed to amuse the bustards around me. I could hear their snickers that followed the chuckle from Dan. A man I vowed to kill in the most cruel way.
"What, you're too much of a coward to here the details. You dont want to hear how she begged as I sliced through her throat and watched the light in her eyes fade. Or you want to hear about the feral screams your father let out as he watched me slit the throat of his slut." More growls left Doug's mouth and they became weaker as the bastard went on. I could feel the drug of whatever they injected me with eating me from the insides and soon I could feel the darkness drawing me in and I couldn't do anything. But one thought kept going through my mind even with the darkness, I was late, And my parents... I couldn't save myself just as I couldn't save my parents. But one thing was for sure I'd make everyone of this assholes pay. I thought as my eyes scanned around and the faces of everyone surrounding me imprinted on my mind. They'd pay. They'd all f*****g pay. As darkness consumed me my last thought was they better kill me if not all of them were going to pay. In the most cruel way ever.
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