It's all my fault, it's all my fault. I took away that one thing that gave them peace, hope and a future. I took away their leader now, it's up to me to take full responsibility. I will step up to the position as the Alpha and reform the pack. Things of this nature takes time and patience, and that I have.
Ever since the incident I've been a lot more active, busy I suppose. As a new leader, catering for a pack isn't a simple task— especially when their not too fond of you. The disrespect was on a daily basis, glares filled with disdain that basically say 'who made you boss here?' Critics in every corner with their back-talk. The criticism I went on to receive was blatantly outrageous but did I endure? I endured.
Connecting on a deeper level, forming strong relationships and creating unbreakable bonds— I endured. Training for hours, mentoring the weak and disciplining the strong— I endured. Cry, smile, laugh at once in unison— I endured.
For more than 6-months, it took me 6-months to get them where I wanted them to be. It to took 6-months with the help of mother and the old man. With their knowledge, experience and teachings as my backing, I could see the 'perfect pack' in my vision...the perfect pack. Even now, I still remember their faces, each and every one of their names— I remembered. At first it was hate but in the end it was love, I cherished them all. Amongst them none were friends
but something much larger— family.
I turned what was yours into mine, I turned nothing to something. Their fears and anger had disappeared because they found a new light that brought new hope. A bright future was ahead of them. Could you have done that? Could you have done better than I did?
A Few Hours Earlier
It was a day that would soon turn dark. Freidich was heading home after a long day of practice. Coach Keith was tiring them out with suicides when some new kid kept messing up their drills. It was annoying but by this time Freidich had forgotten about it. He just wanted to lay back and call it day but he had something else to do. Before going home Freidich took a shortcut, a path that was a long stretch with numerous perpendicular twists and turns. By scent and memory Freidich would follow the right direction.
Midway the journey I just had to stop. I tried telling myself that's not what I think it is, that's not the smell of blood. But the fact I smell the hefty aroma of rusted iron means it is indeed..blood. Now, I was running, and then the next moment I shifted. Nearing the end of the scent trail I came upon, what would call it— an annihilation.
A total, complete annihilation. Those who shifted where skinned and hung. Those who weren't suffered a faith worst than death. Their eyes, ears, mouths and noses where...gone, burned out. The scene was just a nightmare in which I had to suppress any emotion given the situation. And after scouring every inch of the area I found nothing that led to how it happened and who did it.
Freidich felt a thump, a sting and then the rapid continuous thumping of his heart. His emotions were at boiling point, swirling around inside fighting to get out. He grabbed his chest and began hyperventilating and after a while of REM he opened his eyes. The roar he let out traveled for miles and miles across the continent.
In amidst howling I spotted two figures floating above across the sky.
Switch POV
"What an interesting fella' down there. A humuan, no... a monster."
— Luther
"So you noticed it too? That's the howl of an Alpha whose lost it's pack...those kinds you do not want to cross."
— Geyser to Luther
"(smiles) Hindsight, he's as dangerous as they get but that one in particular just looks too strong."
— Luther to Geyser
"(If he thinks he's strong...) Yes, there's more to the event than meets the eye.
— Geyser's response
"Well, at least for now let's focus on the task at hand shall we."
— Luther ended.
Switchback POV
After catching a short glimpse of the two, they flown off in the distance. I recuperated myself and began gathering the bodies of my fellow men. After compiling them I followed the Old Wolf traditional burning. The air was quickly filled with smoke and radiating heat. Staring at the flames, I made the oath— 'to find whoever did this and erase their existence' —mark my word. The first step was breaking the news to them— I mean, what else could I do at the moment?
We switch over to Freidich, his mother and the old man at the dining table.
"So they were all massacred? This isn't just some coincidence boy. Due to your prior involvements with this pack, you've now been pinned as a target. I hate to say it but someone powerful out there is after you— whether they see you as a threat or not— that, I don't know."
— The Old Man to Freidich
"(Sighs) Terrific."
— Freidich to them all
"And what about those guys, you know the ones he saw?"
— Scarlett intervened to The Old Man
" Those guys...it's the last part they said that makes me a bit uneasy (focus for now..? Task at hand..?) who knows if they'll try to find us and pay us a visit- reason being I don't know. It's all so clouded in mystery."
— The Old Man to Scarlett
" We need to locate Heller, that's the only way we'll get answers."
— Freidich to them all
"Are you insane boy! We don't even know the guy yet you insist on reaching out to him?"
— Both Scarlett and The Old Man
"Yeah, do you have a better idea? There has to be a reason he approached me, he had to have some ulterior motive in all this... didn't you say this isn't all a 'coincidence' old man (smirks)."
— Freidich to The Old Man
"Tch, don't get cocky boy."
— The Old Man's response
"We'll that's what I thought. Anyway, where do we start?"
— Fredich to them all
"Don't worry, I have a spell..."
— Scarlett
"And I (holds up strand of hair) have a hair."
— Freidich finished