Prologue
Cascading heat from blazing smoke gases awaken 20 year-old Janica Lyca in the middle of the night, as what it should have been, melancholic harmonic breezes of air freshing around flashing and swaying curtains of her window was at its total opposite when blazes of fire, progressive temperature rises brought upon igniting heat as the fire spreads rapidly expanding all corners of their house .
"Mama"!
"Papa"! Janica shouted,breathing so hard in between sobs. Scared of her sight that in her door occurs flashovers while she kept herself suited at one corner which so far, still safe for her but not any longer if the fire could not be stopped.
Starved of oxygen, she needed herself to keep at pace and never give up.
"God, please help me..
"Mama!, where are you?" Help, me please.!". she cried hard, but no one seemed to hear her voice like no one was outside for rescue .
Without any choice, she stood up in between coughs and sobs, she wrapped herself with her comforter insulating against the heat.
"No choice, but the window!" her eyes found the window at her right, her heart pumped even faster thinking of herself jumping from the 3rd floor of their ancestral house .
"ah! " She shouted out loud as she "thuds" to thorns of her rose garden which was once her stress-freeing venue at times. From her 3rd floor room, she "thuds" ,then rolled a bit farther to ease, at least to ease the pain from falling so hard .
"Arg! " she slowly opened her eyes while still lingering herself with the pain, rushing blow of fire hit her glass wall that makes it explode even louder.
While in pain of the fall, she needed to endure her slightly burned legs added by the scratches from the thorns from the garden.
"Oh my God!" she hardly spoke, while crawling towards a pine tree at the forest feet. .
"No! I will never let you get my daughter, she's innocent, no one among your pack could ever take her away. I swear to the Moon Goddess, I'm gonna torn your pack all of you!" She heard her mother Cassia Valdez howled loud from a distance.
Numerous howling tension gets more and more appealing to her ears even the howls of some other wolf's around .
"Are you insane Cassia? She has to die or else your pack will soon vanish as the curse!" A voice from someone vigorously caused an air to blow from the West.
"Spare my daughter!" A brave strong bark roamed in the forest, the voice from another wolf around, her father Dark Lucian Romeo Valdez growls at a strong bold voice .
Janica was trembling in fear catching her almost fading breath and a heartbeat continuously beating a deafening sound of a drum.
"What's happening?" ,her whisper of uncertain question while slowly walking extensively towards those voices out from the dark forest,making sure that no one could notice her presence by shutting herself somewhere which has scents of pines fragrant enough to cover up her scent and probably trick the smelling powers of werewolves at the place.
You're daughter is a curse Cassia!" "She's a human, a worthless fucking human!,This pack would be in total chaos with such a worthless future human alpha!" a male werewolf 's sound again roamed around the peaceful realm of forest.A sound inflicting threats,anger and menacing danger.
Following the sounds of arguing creatures, Janica still was able to manage herself to still get unrecognized.
There she saw her mother lying infront of unnumbered powerful creatures while her father was tied twisting himself to let go, both were tormented and tortured.
"Mama!,Papa!" Her loud shout cry vibrated along the dark forest full of bloody-red orbs of murderous werewolves howling towards her.
"She's here!" A wolf howls at the other side, while it continued indefinite howling as if a warning to everybody.
"Anak!", "My princess!" her mother scream out with wide eyes, "Go away princess, save yourself!".she added.
"What's happening ma?" Please let me know what is happening?" with trembling voice and shaking legs she ran towards her mother, but someone with hairy arms red-eyed monster is holding her tight with his pangs ready for belligerent attack against her.
"Let my daughter go!"her father screamed. Werewolves around them kept their howling so louder after another. "Kill us if you want, but spare her life. Let her live as human, because she's a human!,she's innocent and pure". There's no way your pack could be threatened by her existence, she's nothing but weak mortal." Her father's long utterance had caught enemy's attention.
The werewolves unanimously whined and howled in response.. One long howl from a werewolf fronting her father and said." I don't believe in your lies, the mighty Alpha Dark Lucian Romeo Valdez of Dark Dawn Shadows" Don't you ever think of fooling me! I'm way better than you! I must be the alpha of the Dark Dawn Shadows but your father chose you and not me who did all his commands and even willing to serve with all might!,but I was disregarded because of such foolish young and weak as you are who even raised a human child in your Luna's womb! You are a failure,and can never win the fight I will offer." The enemy's long utterance made Janica proved that it was the beta of the Dark Dawn Shadows, Gregory.
"Beta Gregory! How dare you for betraying the Alpha!" Janica screamed in anger, that if only she could barely shift and transform into a strong and powerful werewolf to kill the bastard beta.
A wild laughter roared around the forest from the Beta .
"I should kill you now,Alpha, Or, I should kill her instead" pointing Janica,that in a blink of her eyes was already held with Beta's furious arms wrapping her neck from behind holding her tight that gets even tighter in seconds.
Her eyes widened as she saw his father Romeo, wounded and even burnt from the fire she thought was in their house.
The alpha strongly trying to unclog himself from being tied. He cried out his loudest howl as he wanted to save her daughter form being killed .
"Janica!" Her mother Cassia shouted but was even more wounded and weaker as she was also a human but a chosen mate by her father who chose to transformed as a were-woman to bear a half human-half wolf daughter Janica Lyca.
"You and your daughter shall be killed, for me to become an alpha,the throne is for me,and not for anyone stupid as you!." said the enemy Beta.
"No, please spare her life, she's a human, why aren't you convinced?"
She's already 16 years-old but not even one among werewolf traits had she manifested." her mother Cassia cried so hard.
One moment and another, werewolf hold Cassia's neck as the Beta Gregory said, If you're not gonna be my Luna when your alpha dies, I would even be pleased to kill you first" he said, in a second,the pointed claws of the werewolf dug into her mother's chest and pulled out her heart.Then, she fell down lifeless as what the Beta uttered.
Mama! Shaking tone of Janica's voice aired screaming loud.Her eyes widen as she witness the cruelty of killing her mother.
"Mama!Mama!" she cried so hard and felt herself gets even stronger and her eyes got blinking red-orbs triggered by the anger and pain of seeing lifeless mother . Her father Romeo howled louder, hopeless yet determined to avenge his Luna's death,but somehow impossible for him to make as he was even weaker caused by losing too much blood from the scratches and bites he had during the earlier fight with other wolves.
"Don't worry alpha, you'll gonna die too soon. Enough of your heroic reigns for I will replace you because I am more capable and powerful than you! Weak alpha!" Gregory's level of anger rised up even higher.
"There's no way I could live happy now that Cassia's gone, you may kill me now beta,but please spare my child!" her father's voice of defeat.
"If that's want you wish alpha!" Gregory scratched Romeo's neck and more blood flowed out from his wounds.
"Princess",her father mind linked her.Yes, Janica had even learned mind-link conversation as it was her first werewolf trait. She looked at her father who's eyes were already shut closed and gets weaker and even weaker."Yes papa,"she replied.
"Don't know how to say goodbye, it's too painful that we'll going to be parted by death. Please live longer , be a human and spare yourself from danger of being a werewolf. I'm sorry princess,I am a failure for I failed to protect you and your mother. "
"No, papa. Please don't say that .I can shift now, I know,I can be better and stronger papa" her unstopping tears flowed from her eyes looking at her father,the Alpha".
"Please daughter. Live as a mortal, as a human , my princess",her father added as his voice faded and heart stopped beating as she had not even heard any beat, and that's to moment she realized... "Now I am alone".
All the wolves around them howled in victory, celebrating the defeat and death of the alpha and his Luna.
"Now, it's your turn! A pair of bloody-scarry orbs faced her and hold her chin,and uttered:"As the bloody moon arises , the new Alpha Gregory now officially fulfilled the throne.
"You!" Pointing his claws to Janica now hopelessly grieving. "The bloody Moon as it reached its peak, You Janica Lyca Valdez, from now and all though out your worthless human life, will never become a werewolf ,will never be smelled by your werewolf mate, will suffer the life with one after another rejection and will never be accepted in a werewolf clan, will be forgotten by the clan forever!"
A long thunderous howl of curse from the new Alpha aired along the darkest night as continuing blasts of lightnings after thunders as the other werewolves joined their alpha in an earsplitting howl of celebration to the new alpha.