We had two hours before the announcement of the beginning of the acceptance trials. Leone, Rain, and I were dressed in the trail sub uniform that was given to us, basically a big black jumpsuit. I don't understand why us taking the three optional trail was such a shock to the Alpha but it has something to do with the fact that not many people take all three or something along those lines.
I felt a much larger hand cover my much smaller one. I follow the hand back to its owner, but I wasn't surprised to find that it belongs to Reagan. He has not left my side this past two weeks. I find it both cute and annoying at the same time but I have gotten used to it because I know we are stuck together for the rest of our lives, a mate thing.
"I have to join father on stage, I will see you after the trials are over, and please don't get hurt, or else I will feel bad for not being able to protect you," Reagan said but I could tell he was very much against the idea of leaving my side.
"Don't worry, I can very much protect myself," I said to him with my best reassuring face.
The two hours had passed by faster the I thought and the three of us were now facing Alpha Ezra, Luna Aiya, Beta Hart, Reagan, and Barin on the makeshift stage with
"Please state your full names to the pack," Alpha Ezra says emphasizing the word 'full' and I just know that was directed to me because of the misunderstanding I made when we first got here.
"Lionel Greene."
"Malaika Greene."
"Rhiannon Khan."
"Here today we have three trail subs that wish to join the Silphium pack and as tradition, you may state the optional trail you wish to take." Alpha Ezra said with a commanding voice and straight to the point not leaving room for any miscommunication.
"All three optional trails," we all say at the same time gaining whispers from the crowd that had gathered, some of how it was unheard of, others of how it was possible with our reputation, and lastly, others of how it was impossible as only the Alpha and Beta families could pull it off.
"Then let the tails begin. Reagan, please inform the trail subs of the trail rules." With that, the Alpha took a step back joining the rest of the leaders at the back of the make-shift stage.
The first thing Reagan did was to take a good look at me as if checking to see if I had magically hurt myself in the past two hours he was away from me, once he was satisfied with what he saw he began the rules of the trails.
"Rule one, once the trails begin they can only be stopped when the trails sub surrenders or if they die.
Rule two, the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma must be present through all the trials.
Rule three, the wolf's code of conduct must be observed at all times.
Lastly, severe hits are punishable by death." I don't know where this can from but damn his Alpha voice is hotter than hell and the way he talks with such courage is- NO! Malik focus.
After all the procedures were completed we were finally allowed to begin the first trial, the tracking trail and since we are taking all three, we are doing them one after the other. We were given a specific scent to track through the woods. The scent was two weeks old and just to increase the difficulty level, a similar scent was all over the woods just to make our lives hell. The scent we were told to track leads to the next trail while the fake one leads to the border of the pack where pack wolves await to escort us off the pack grounds and inform the Alpha that the tail was a failure, what a wonderful way to get someone kicked out of the pack don't you think.
The tracking trails we will leave to Rain. Rain was one of the best trackers in the Vulton pack. From the word go Rain took the lead through the woods with her snout high in the air.
As we were running through the woods we came across the false scent several times but thank the goddess that Rain was here or I would have ended up following the wrong scent dispute all the rumors of how were some sort of gods in war our tracking was pretty pathetic.
We run through the woods for a few minutes closely following Rain's footsteps until we finally found a pattern in the way the scent was running through the woods. The scent would run through the woods closer to the pack, then the deep forest, tried to lessen the scent by swimming in the river and finally to a small base in deep in the woods and it disappeared. We have been standing outside the base hoping we were not at the borderline of the pack territory because that would just be a disgrace if we were to fail on the first trail.
Finally, the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and the others came from behind the small base with shocked expressions.
"I must admit we were sure it would take you at least an hour to find this place but it only took you half an hour to pass the tracking trail," Alpha Ezra congratulated us.
"We have the best tracker of the Vulton pack with us here, so it was rather easy for her." Leone practically brags about his mate.
"The best you say," the Alpha says with a thoughtful face probably thinking of how useful Rain will be to the pack. This gives me even more motivation to prove myself to them, why? I have no idea.
While this took place I took time to lock eyes with Reagan, I could tell he desperately wanted to be by my side but his Alpha code of conduct forbids him from having any special relationship with the trail sub because it may affect an Alpha's decision during the trial of the pack.
"Onto the next trail then." The Alpha said as he led us into the small base.
"The strategy trails are set up in a way that tests your plan of action in different situations, we usually give situations such as kidnapping, rescue, sting operations but based off on how fast you completed the tracking trails and rumors, we would like to try something different, we will give you the situation of an unfairly balanced war, with you only having 25,000 wolves on your side against 50,000 wolves, we will be back when you think you are ready to present the plan to us, good luck." with that they leave us once again.
"Malik, we will leave this to you," with that he turns to Rain, ' you must be exhausted from all the running we just did, rest a bit," and they started an argument about who was tired and who was not. I then started racking my brain on what strategy to use.
And he was right I do have the best strategies in our trio. I finally came up with one, I filled them in on it and they agreed to it. They had a few questions on the efficiency of the plan but after some explanations, we were set.
We rested a bit and once we were ready we called for the Alpha and the others to came back and hear our strategy.
"So, don't keep us waiting," Alpha Ezra looked anxious to know what strategy we had come up with.
"The strategy we have come up with is the called the three blood waves under the code name 'red sea'," I said.
THE WOLFS CODE OF CONDUCT
Respect the goddess
Protect your mate
Protect the pack
Protect the Alpha
Care for the fellow wolf