Howling to the moon

Chapter 1

"Ana, can you wake up and unpack the dishwasher?" My aunt Janine asked. "Yes aunt Janine."  Anastasia says while she wakes up, opens her sleepy eyes and goes downstairs to unpack it. 

My name is Anastasia and i am a 13 year old girl, not a human girl but a female werewolf. So is my familie and most of the people in the town as we are one big pack. Of course the alpha and luna are in charge, after them there is the beta and beta female, then you have the gamma’s and lastly you have deltas and omegas. 

The omegas are the only ones without a wolf in them, which means they cant shift into a wolf. They make up around 50% of the pack and the other pack members protects them. Meanwhile they will support the pack by earning money and making sure everybody in the pack has the basic needs to live. Most of them run small companies of businesses or work for the pack. No omegas means a low income for the pack which is not good. It is no shame to be a omega, unless you come from a full delta family. Well its not really shameful but more disappointing your family. Coming from a full delta familie basically assures you that you will have a wolf. Not having one is unheard of. 

But i will have a wolf. I come from a full delta family and hoped that i would have a beautiful wolf inside of me just like my moms. Hers was beautiful with a full chestnut coloured fur and bright green eyes. I looked at her picture every morning when i wake up and every evening when i go to sleep. On the picture there was mom and dad hugging each other lovingly and besides it there was another picture of them in there wolf forms. My dads wolf was all black. Mom died while giving birth to me, her one and only child. My dad could not bear it, he took care of me for two months and then committed suicide. He left a note saying he missed his mate to much and asked for forgiveness for leaving me alone so soon in live and one day we would meet again in heaven. 

Since than my aunt took me in and raised me together with my uncle. my aunt and uncle already had two children, a boy named Jeff  and a girl named Evelynn. They had a small home which was now a little cramped with five people in it but it worked. Jim, my uncle, divided the basement into small rooms, one for storage and one for a me so i had my own room. My mom and dad left enough money to cover for basic expenses such as food, cloths and my education. Still my uncle and aunt had to watch out with finance to manage everything. That's why i got a lot of hand me down toys and clothes from Evelynn which i was fine with. Evelynn is one year older than me and Jeff is three years older than me. We get along with each other but aren't really close. 

I quickly put something on looked at my bright green eyes in the mirror and brushed my red curly hair still half asleep. After that i put it in a bun and went upstairs to do my chores. Janine and Jim both worked full time so everybody in the house jumped in to do the house chores. I usually did the dishwasher, clean the thing that did not fit in it and take out the trash. When i came upstairs the smell of freshly baked bacon hit me and I was immediately wide awake. Jim was making breakfast, a lot of breakfast ! “Goodmorning uncle, wow thats alot! what is the occasion?” “Goodmorning sunshine! well Jeff and Evelynn went for a big hike in the forest. They wil be back any second and i reckon they will be hungry!” Jim said with a big smile on his face. Jim was a tall sturdy man with dark brown hair and brown eyes. He was a very loving father and you had a big problem if you did anything to his family. If it wasn’t for my aunt i would have called him dad but she wasn’t comfortable with it. She had periods that she wasn’t comfortable with a lot of things involving me. It was because i looked a lot like my mom. My mom and Janine were twin sisters and did everything together, they even had their wedding on the same day! She was very sad when my mom passed away and looking at me reminds her of my mom which makes her sad at times or even angry because she sometimes blames me for the dead of my mom. My uncle shields me from her when she has a bad day like that and i usually have a sleepover at one of my best friends got get out of the house. After that everything is oke again and life will continue like nothing ever happened.  

“We are back!” I hear Evelynn yell from the front door. We all quickly assembled at the dinner table and ate our breakfast and talked with each other about our plans for the weekends. Evelynn and Jeff wanted Jim to go with them to the obstacle course. They were trying to get fit so they could be ready for the pack training to become a warrior or tracker. Jeff could join the training next month because he just turned 16, Evelynn had to wait for two more years before she could join but secretly trained with her brother. She wanted to be good and impress the alpha later by being prepared. She dreamed to become the luna and thought that here chances got bigger by being a good warrior. I on the other hand never thought about being a warrior. The only thing i wanted was to become a pack dokter! I already took a class in the art of healing magic. Some werewolves had a little bit of magic in them, and I was one of them. When properly trained you could learn healing magic and support magic to support the warriors in battle by making them stronger or faster for example. They discovered that i had a affinity with magic when i was around five and took the class for 8 years now.  I was good and showed a lot of potential until I got sick when I was around 8 years old. We don’t know why but me and my 2 bestfriends, Destiny and Alice, ended up in the hospital after playing in the forest. The pack doctor said we either came in contact with something bad or eat something bad but would be alright. After that I had lost a good portion of my magic. The dokter thinks my body became to frail after that to control magic but told me not to give up on my dream and meditate everyday in order to improve. I did it everyday and improved a little but not much. The upside is that the doctor thinks it will be restored when my wolf wil surface. My body will get stronger and i will heal faster which might heal whatever is preventing me for controlling my magic properly. 

Most of the werewolfchildren will get their wolf at the age of 13. If a wolf does not show up at that time they will be wolfless, a omega. Than between the age of 14/16 the boys will shift for the first time into there wolf form. The girls on the other hand shift when there mates claim them. They start training at 16 years old but in their human form. It's funny to see that some girls are stronger in their human forms than the boys. I always chuckle as I see the boys get beaten by a girl. 

I just turned 13 which means that at the next red moon i will undergo the ceremonie where i ask my wolf to come forward. This time five kids will go. Me, Destiny, Alice, Mark and Harry. Mark is the only one from a omega family. Alice her family is mixed, her dad is a omega and her mom is a delta, so it will be a exiting night for her where she finally knows if she has a wolf or not. She said she will be happy either way. It is not rare to have a mixed family if you are wondering. 

Alice, Destiny and me always dreamed we could take the ceremonie together. And know that dream will come true tomorrow night.