In the center of pack village, a very spacious hut is build. There were the pack's leader hut, the Alpha's hut. At the certain corner, a man is cradling a young girl with long black hair as the girl won't stop crying and trembling.
"Dad, he surely come to eat me." The young girl wailed as she hug his father tighter. The older man is helpless as he continue to calm his daughter. He can just sigh as he look at the others elder who look at him jokingly.
"Reimy, there's no such things in this world." He tried to comfort his daughter but receive another series of wail about a corpse in a cave who can still move.
"It must be just her imagination." one of them reason out before another man enter the hut while carrying horrified Misha. The elderly is having a headache about this two youngsters.
"Okay, I'll ask Rico to go at the top of the mountain to check the cave you where saying so the two of you should stop crying already. We still need to talk about something important." Alpha reassure the two youngsters before asking somebody to take them to rest.
The moment the two stop crying is when everybody had the sigh of relieve. It was when a knock is heard and a man with long hair and black top came in.
"Okay, since everybody is here, let's proceed." The Alpha said as he wait Marcel to be seated. When he sit almost everyone look at him. They might not heard the man's voice yet once they look at him, they can feel a faint danger from him.
"Alpha what's the matter this time?" One of the asked.
"Rogues." Alpha simply answer. "But not like the other times, it looks like they have a greater motive this time." Before looking around the hall.
"Raise the defense around our territory." He command everyone before dismissing the majority of the elders. "Rico, once this rain stop tomorrow, lead a group to go on the top of mountain to look at the cave Reimy and Misha talking about." He ordered before looking at Marcel who slowly standing up.
"Marcel." He beckoned and Marcel come. Alpha look at Marcel. He still clearly remember the day Marcel awaken again. In just a week span, he defeated the most elites guards of the pack, when this wolves try bully them.
At the present time, this man is already one of pillar of the pack. A warrior wolf that ensure the safety of their pack.
"Why don't you rest here inside the pack? You don't need to come next week on the border patrol." He smile as he patted Marcel's shoulder. He know that many of his pack patrol now rely on Marcel when they having patrol when there are rouges purposely seeking in there territory. He know that Marcel was the one who always capture those rouges before the others that tend them to just give Marcel this task and sulk off.
Given Marcel's character and special condition, that is he don't speak, they won't know if those little buddies are doing proper business.
Marcel stared at him before placing his hand on his chin. Both Alpha and Rico smiled at his gesture. The both of them knew that Marcel is weighting the pros and cons of this matter. A mannerism that he don't change since he become a werewolf since two years ago.
When Riza is explaining that it's Marcel habit, the whole pack was really intrigue but they had already used to this gesture of his.
"That's right! How about accompany me in the top of mountain tomorrow?" Rico quickly suggests knowing that Marcel is really a hard core busy body. Once you didn't give anything to do, he will look on his own.
Marcel tilted his head as if asking what are they going to do there and Alpha narrated about the story of the two young girls about the moving corpse at top of the mountain. Marcel look at them like is this a joke? and answer by shrugged shoulders and shaking heads. In the end, Marcel just nodded his head before existing the hut.
Once Marcel exit the hut, one nervous servant come to Alpha. Alpha asked what he needed but answered by extreme nervousness of the servant.
"Alpha? Do you still remember the corpse of the child Marcel's group protecting?" He asked in lowest voice he can. Alpha and Rico both knitted there brows before looking at each other.
Of course they do. That child died when they discovered them along with Marcel and his company. They clearly remember that once they decide to touch the body, Marcel and everyone of them start to attacking them. It was aching to like they slaughter everyone from the pack if they touch the dead body of the child. It was till two months after there arrival to the pack, when the elderlies of the pack had sneak and throw the corpse in the cliff two miles away, the graveyard of the pack.
"What about it?" Rico asked. The servant look around before fiddling his finger then raised his head to look at the two.
"When we are traveling to the graveyard, once we are a mile away, the child's body disappeared." He revealed that make the two gawked. So what that supposed to do with this situation?
"Before it disappeared, I...no,...we saw him opened his eyes and... and... Then rain started to pour hard then wind blew and then his gone." He narrated horrified.
Alpha and Rico was flabbergasted as they look at the servant with great disbelieve. The bloody corpse?! What that supposed to mean? The child opened his eyes after 2 months of being death? Then what? He disappeared like a bubble in the air? And now a corpse on top of mountain opened his eyes? Are the two is the same person? The hell?
"I think it's just coincidence... Hehehe... Rico bring at least 15 person tomorrow. Make sure you look properly at everything." Alpha quickly said as he run to see his daughter and ask few question about the corpse.
On the other hand, Rico started blankly on the sky. The child that killed his son his now a moving corpse? What kind of thing is this? Don't tell him the child is alive?. He pondered for moments, the child is really dead back then. No heartbeat and breathing. Even the temperature of the child is for a corpse? How he supposed to be alive?
When Marcel get back to there hut, he quietly sit at his corner. He sigh deeply before looking at his left hand. A scar is wickedly drawn from there till his upper arm. While looking at that scar, a painful memory flash at his mind.
Inside a cave, a very big tree stood and not far away from there was a woman being tangle by many roots is straggling, yet she wasn't struggling to be freed but to help them. Once she free a hand, she pointed at Marcel direction before a very bright light cover his sight and once he recover he was outside the cave. He try to go inside the cave to be just running a certain moment before existing the same entrance over a hundredths of times.
When remembering that thing, Marcel can't help but to clench his hand. He look around there hut and just decided to walk for air. The moment he stand, his heart skip a beat. Shock with this, Marcel didn't move for a while then he notice that everyone on their hut also stop moving. They look at each other anxiously. Looks like everybody feel the same.
"The bloody things is that?" Anton asked as he placed his hand on his chest as he voiced out. Everybody shakes their head and just continue what are they doing. Marcel head out. Coincidentally, the tip of the mountain is clearly seen once you stand in door of their hut. Marcel look at the view and knitted his brow. The rain is still pouring hard yet a certain spot on the mountain don't have raindrops to fall. Marcel close his eyes, then look again but it's not the like the previous view. There's already raindrops.
'Am I hallucinating? " Marcel asked himself before shaking his head and walk around the pack for the time being.
At a certain tall tree at forest, a young man sit on the branch as he swing his feet's and bite at the fruit he hold and then chew while looking a far. The young man is topless as he look up the sky. He furrowed his brow then whispered something before the rain pour harder. He sigh and jump from the branch and land on a little pond. There is his polo, slowly been wash by both the rain and pond water. He crouch down and wash his cloth till there's no blood trace.
He whistle and to his surprised the rain began to stop. Why do this seen looks familiar? The young man thought then shrugged before looking another tree branch to hung his clothes. After that he run randomly just to go back with many fruits in his arms.
The next day, Rico arrange a team to go up the mountain, everyone,except Marcel, look at him strangely as he speak the objective of this trip. Investigate a moving corpse? Is that even true?
Oh well werewolves are true, might as well a moving corpse. Rico told himself as he command to proceed. Half a day traveling and they reach the entrance of the cave. They look at each other as they saw a very well polished stone chair at the entrance of the cave. Marcel on the other hand, sit on the chair for a short period before snipping the chair vigorously.
Near the cave, a young man is sitting on a stone as he play at few feeble in his hands. Suddenly he turn his head on the cave direction. He titled his head and then head on the topper place of the mountain.
Rico dragged Marcel as they continue there investigation in deeper part of the cave. There they found a little passage. Everyone cautiously enter the passage and when they come to the end of it. They're surprised of the place, stone with different height arrangement. But different to the young girl description, there not a single plant or corpse around. This place was so neat and clean that even dust or moss are not presented.
All of them knitted there brows as somebody already transform in wolf form and roamed around. No scent neither sign of live in this cave. Rico walk in the middle on the cave and bathed by sunlight from the cracked on the ceiling. He keep walking till he step on stone debris. Then to his surprise, stones fall from the ceiling from one after another till it comes from all direction.
"What a freaking place is this?" One of them shouted as he dodge the stones around. The others having a hard time dodging. "Everybody try to exit now" Rico commanded as he turn around to the direction of passage and to there surprise, the passage is no where to be seen.
If Rico remember clearly, there's no big stone on the direction of the passage. What happening in this cave? Moment later, he feel somebody patted his shoulder. When he turn, he see Marcel nudging his arm. Then Marcel turn around and jump up on one of the high stone and easily dodge all stones. He jump around till he catch one stone then throw it on a cave wall, that has a hole. Then everything stop. Everybody panted heavily as they look at each other then they look at Marcel easy going movement. Marcel stop on one of the highest stone before stopping and waving his hands to them. They quickly follow and look at place Marcel's pointing and there a passage. They quickly jump over and run to the passage and exit the cave in different part on mountain.
On the very top of the mountain, a young man was lying on the ground hugging his tummy as he laugh hysterical. Oh how long he fooled around. After a while he stand and jump on a branch of a tree. He squint his eyes to see a few wolves at the opposite edge of the forest. He smile mischievously as he leap from branches heading towards the edge of the forest.
Back at the pack, everybody stared blankly as they slammed on the ground while breathing unevenly. No one can believe what happen. All of them thought it just a nightmare or just a hallucinations.
~chapter end