At the Beta's house. A certain girl is curled up at a corner. Her short curly brown hair was all over her mattress.
"Misha? Wake up, Riza is here to see you." A middle aged woman rack the girl gentle waking her up.
The girl quickly open her eyes at the mentioned name. She jump joyously ad she race to the huts door. There was a young lady wearing a long skirt and have a small basket in hand.
"Riza!" She shouted as she hug the waist of the young lady. "Oh little Misha, looks like you're okay already?" Riza said as she rubbed the girl's hair.
The girl repeated nod before she dragged Riza back at their hut. This past few days, Riza would come to check this frightened girl. The girl's father, one of the betas of the pack as her if she could do something to Misha so she can quickly forget about that corpse incident. Riza agree without any unnecessary things because the young girl is quite close to her. Misha is one of those little girl voluntarily asked to learn about attending medical related things. She gladly accept it because Riza see herself on the young girl when she was at her aged. Ready to learn many things to help their pack.
This day, Riza didn't came to thought her any medical lesson but to story tell. It is the thing Riza came up for Misha to forget that corpse incident. So far Misha was getting over her fright mode as they continue the story telling, one at a time, they would switch position in telling story until it is as if the incident is just one of the story created by Misha's wild imagination.
"I'm really in so much debts with you, Riza." The middle age woman said as she hand over a small basket of fruits to her. Riza take the basket before telling the woman "you don't have any debts to me, I'm merely doing my job." Before walking toward the man waiting at her in a certain corner of the hut.
The two then arrive at the hut near the forest. Once they enter the hut, their companions stand ups.
"Rio. You are assigned with Riza." Ricardo spoke in serious tone. He look at everybody before continuing "Anton and Ramil will be part of the front guards of the prison while Criston and Dennis will join the one of the border platoons. Marcel and I will join the repelling squad."
"Um? Is it because of the rouges? Why would I be assigned with Riza?" Rio asked while tilting his head to the side. Anton violently rub his head while saying that Riza needs someone to protect her when they get out of the field. Alpha assigned Riza to tend the injuries of the warriors in the battlefield. So Ricardo and the others assigned Rio with Riza.
"Why me? Riza is strong enough to defend herself." Rio whined as he stamped his feet. Dennis squint his eye as he twist Rio's ear while saying "be a gentleman and protect lady Riza, you little nerd."
The others laugh as they tease Rio. If Riza is their group's doctor,and Marcel is elite warrior, this little guy that have the same age as Riza, is simply their genius tactician.
Among there group, Dennis is their defensive measures expert; Criston is their quickest;
Anton have the keenest hearing; Ramil have the sharpest eyesight; Rio have the most sensitive sense of smell; Ricardo have the most powerful body in the group.
If you sum all of that in a person you'll get an expert on Marcel's level.
"Have you still can't turned in to wolf form?" Riza asked out of know where. This make everyone still before there expression turned unsightly. They don't like to mention this matter, it just they really don't like turning into wolves. Everybody look at their side avoiding Riza's and Marcel's doubtful gazes. Dennis even start to turn and ran away of there hut.
"You guys!" Riza said at the top of her lungs while Marcel eyes start to glimmer. Ricardo and the rest start to run around there hut while being chase by wolves form Riza and Marcel.
"It isn't like that, it just we don't have..." Rio explained when Riza cornered him.
At a certain waterfall 3 kilometers from the pack, a young man is tossing rocks from the bank. After quite a while he remove his clothes and dive at the water pool. He slowly approach the waterfall before looking for a stone where he can sit.
"What a bunch of fools are they." He said after quite a while the waterfall suddenly stop pouring it's water to the young man as if there's an invisible thing doing it.
He sat on a flat stone on the middle of the fall before closing his eyes. After quite a while he furrowed his brows and look behind him. He stand and face the wall of water fall before touching it. A beautiful blue stone was embedded at the stone and cover with moss.
"Witchcraft?" He said before pulling the stone from the wall. Right after pulling, the young man almost kneel down from an invisible pressure coming from the stone. The young man lip turn into smirk as he clench the stone in his hand, the visible pressure crumbled as an intense force assault it.
"A general rank, huh?" He said as the stone turn to dust in his hand. The dust sprinkled at the water on fall and it change the colored of it. From a dark green river to cyan color. Even the river floor up to the waterfall change it color.
Back at the pack, everybody is preparing for the worst. All their supply and necessities are all stored, the security were heighten by several folds and all the children are on their houses.
Ricardo and Criston are arrange to be a warrior once the rouges break in the defense. They will be one of the warriors as the back tried to push away the rouges or one of those help to evacuate everybody.
Dennis and Ramil will be with Marcel in the front line and Anton will still guard at the prison.
And with Riza and Rio are assign to assist injure members in the chaotic battlefield.
Everyone on the pack feel uneasy. It feel likes the 'that wrench witch' put an unending curse of bad luck on their tribe. Since the horrible dead of their former Alpha, the pack had engrave to their mentally that witches are horrible and not a good existence to socialized with.
From the simple fact that the rouges are planning to attack them, they also need to make sure that their traces is hidden to another races, worse comes to worse the 'hunters'. With that issue aside, the majority of the pack are woman and mostly children. The elders discussed any possible issue may come and how they would respond accordingly.
Meanwhile at the a cave miles away from the pack, scattered wolves are to be seen. Right at the darkest corner a wolf with black fur was emitting a very foul aura.
"It's time to have what should been mine...." he muttered to himself as he dig his nails on the ground.