Evangeline had been preparing for her 18th birthday for years now and today was it. She knew there was no birthday party awaiting her or even smiling parents to say happy birthday. Celestia would great her with a happy birthday and a cake. Only her and Celestia knew what she had planned for today.
"Happy Birthday, sweetie" Celestia said while handing her a cake and present.
"You shouldn't have Celestia. It's not like I'm one of your kids you have three of your own" Evangeline said.
"Evangeline you know that I love you as of your my own but the gift is a dress worthy of a leader. Your more than ready for this."
"Then I will open it when I win the fight today".
Evangeline then quickly walked into the kitchen which was large room with grey cabinets and white marble countertops. The room had a large gas stove and walk in fridge/freezer. This is where the pack warriors are and sometimes the other top wolfs in the pack. Evangeline typically ate her meals with the warriors to avoid eating at the dinner table with her father. She quickly ate a few pieces of bacon and ran to the training grounds to meet up with her father and challenge him.
He was sitting watching some of the omegas train as everyone in the pack was expected to have some training so, that no one was considered a distraction if war was to break out. Evangeline then stood in front of her father stared him in the eyes and before he could even look up at her she spoke.
to effortlessly and quickly to jump on top of his back and taking a bite out of his back. She then knocked him onto his side with one paw on his face and another on his neck exposing his most vulnerable artery. She let out a large growl showing her father her dominance and said submit father.
He did just that, he shifted back into his human form and said "I Alpha John Thornwood relinquish my title of Alpha to Evangeline Thronwood."
She stepped back and sighed in relief that she didn't have to kill her father. She may not have love for the man but, he was still her father. She shifted back and one of the warriors quickly handed her a robe for cover.
"We will have a large banquet to celebrate our new Alpha, Alpha Evangeline Thronwood, my daughter" her father said.
"Oh, so now you recognize I'm your daughter, now that I proved myself to be more than just a little girl. Well, father you are right we are going to celebrate that I'm the new Alpha but, from here on ought you will no longer be given alcohol at these events. You also will be seeing the pack doctor to help you" Evangeline said with her Alpha tone.
Her father bowed his head in submission but was left speechless. The little girl before him was all grown up and hated him. Guilty rushed through him at all the years he wasted in sorrow and avoiding the person that most reminds him of his beloved late wife, he could of spent being near his beloved daughter who turned out a strong independent woman. Someone his wife would of been proud of. For once in the years that his wife passed he noticed the pack grounds around him, he noticed the buildings that where falling down and the once beautiful gardens that where now full of overgrown weeds and trash. He noticed that the pack looked in shambles and that there was no one left that respected him. His wife would of hated. He knew his daughter was right in her choice to take over and spake some since into him.
He hoped that some day he could make up to his daughter some day but he also knew she may never forgive him for his years of abuse and neglect. He slowly followed behind his daughter to the pack house which once stood a beautiful white now looked dirty and overgrown.
The house was a large colonial style mansion. It had a beautiful wrap around porch with a falling porch swing that once hung beautiful overlooking the pack grounds but now only hung half up. The doors to enter the house were to heavy wooden doors with painted glass on the sides. When entering the front corridor there was a large staircase that took you to the rooms where the Alpha, Luna, and other bedrooms were. If you walked straight through the main corridor you would see two rooms one was the Luna's office which set undisturbed since the Luna passed and next to it was the Alphas office which housed a large wooden desk and cabinets. Papers where every where and alcohol bottles on the floor. To the left was the large kitchen and the right was the banquet hall. Then in another room passed the banquet hall was the ball room. Nothing had been held there since before the Luna passed and was left dusty and empty.
Everyone entered the banquet hall which was usually left for the Alpha, beta and their families to eat but on special occasions every high level member of the pack ate in this room. There was a long dark wooden table with and elegant chandelier in the middle of the room. Steak and potatoes was being served to everyone in the room. Red wine was also being served but the previous Alpha was given a glass of water. A bowel of soup was also given to everyone.
Celestia stood up and hit the side of her glass with her fork " I would like to give a toast to our new Alpha let her prosper and bring life back into our pack. I will also like to say happy birthday to our Alpha so let's celebrate."
"Thank you Celeste. I think it's time we get to business. I first want to name my beta, Stella. She is the meat woman for the job she has trained along side me and her mother our Gamma since childhood. She is wise and my closet friend. Celestia will continue being our Gamma as she has continued doing a wonderful job even under the lack of administrative direction. We will also get this pack to being the respected Pearl Moon pack it once was. By first cleaning up the grounds."
The room cheered and was relieved to have new direction. Then Evangeline stood up and walked over to the large oak door that lead to the ball room.
"I want us to have reasons to use this room again. I want us to be a proud pack again. This pack has lived in death and sorrow for so long so we will start by organizing my office and cleaning this room. We will then rebuild the housing and garden. If anyone in the pack needs help with housing we are going to provide it. This pack needs growth and we also need to regain our alliance with the southern Lycans and other shifters. In one month we will hold an annual ball of the southern Alliance which will have the other packs, shifters, and the Lycans from the southern Republic to try to regain our lost alliances." She said proudly while retaking her set. She wore an elegant white wrap dress which hugged her waist giving her an elegant hourglass shape to her form.
The room again cheered at her words. Finally the pack was beginning to feel like a turn for the better. It was about time that something be down about these grounds and growing the pack strong once more. They room started chatting on how to make these improvements and laughter grew in the room. They spent hours discussing these plans until finally they began getting up and headed to their respective houses or sleeping corridors.
As Celestia and Stella left the two women stopped and talked to Evangeline a little bit longer about her turning 18. "You look beautiful in your birthday dress" Stella and Celeste said in unison.
"Thanks again for it" She said as the walked out the front door to their house just down the road. Evangeline then walked up the stairs to her room. She laid in her large bed that had a white bedframe and grey and blue comforter. She smiled to herself and fell asleep.