Azrael looked at the three hefty men and then at the girl on the ground.
The girl was looking skinny and scrawny, her face was covered in scratches and dirt.
Her clothes were a mixture of rags tied in specific areas to barely cover her private parts.
She looked as if she hadn't eaten in a while.
Alpha Azrael took two large steps toward the girl and stretched his left hand toward her to help her up.
At this time, one of the hefty men couldn't help but shout at Alpha Azrael.
"What are you doing, don't you know she is a stray, we are meant to use strays as we see fit..."
After the first one spoke the second hefty man continued, "Mate, you've done us a solid by helping us catch the girl, you can go now, don't interfere any longer..."
Alpha Azrael ignored them and reached out to the girl.
The girl looked up at Alpha Azrael with curiosity.
"Why are you helping me?" She asked.
She reached out her hand to him and he took her hand and helped her up.
She smelled like rotten fish. Her long hair had a lot of things caught within it, it was a mixture of dirty brown color and interwoven streaks of grey hair in certain areas.
Alpha Azrael looked at her closely and she became self conscious.
"Do you want to join my pack..?" Alpha Azrael asked the girl.
The girl looked at Alpha Azrael with surprise. "Your pack...?"
One of the hefty men had just about had enough of Alpha Azrael and he shouted, "Okay, pal, it's time to teach you some manners"
The hefty man raised his right fist and slammed it toward Alpha Azrael's left cheek.
Azrael didn't flinch in the slightest, in fact, he just did as if he didn't notice the punch heading straight for him.
Even the girl closed her eyes expecting the punch to slam against Azrael's face but instead, there was a sudden low thud, followed by a cracking sound.
Everyone turned to the source of the sound and they saw Beta Londan Grey holding the hand of the hefty man with one hand and applying pressure to his knuckle which Inturn caused the fingers of the hefty man to start breaking one after the other.
"Beta Londan..."
"Beta Londan..." The remaining hefty men said in fear and reverence.
They started to back away as they noticed how dire the situation was getting.
It was at this moment that they finally deduced that this man before them wasn't the commoner they thought he was, he may as well be the Alpha of this pack.
These men worked to round up any strays under the command of a thug known as Gellibert Ash.
Gellibert did as he pleased and usually got away with anything because the former Alpha, Alpha James always showed him respect and gave him free rein to do as he wished, but he only knew that there was a new Alpha, he thought it was probably Londan Grey who took over and he expected the same respect, oversight and allowance to be awarded to him.
The two hefty men looked at Londan Grey and stopped.
"We were sent by Lord Ash, this girl is a stray and Lord Ash wants her to join the other 'prisoners'..." One of the hefty men explained immediately.
Although they initially deduced that Alpha Azrael who stood in front of the girl might be the one in charge, they later put that idea away and believed that the Beta, Londan Grey was the one in charge.
The first hefty man whose fingers were crushed fell unconscious from intense pain.
His hands had started to heal, albeit slowly, but they were messy.
"Pay your respect to the Alpha..." Londan Grey commanded the other two.
The two hefty men exchanged glances when they saw that their initial assumption was true.
They didn't even know what to say. All they heard about him were the superstitious fairy tales of his deeds that made him look like a mystical figure that was made up.
They were surprised to find out that Londan Grey wasn't the Alpha.
At this time, Alpha Azrael commanded, "Londan, take this girl to my guest house, ensure she is well looked after, fed, bathed, and given new sets of clothes, I want to find out who this Ash is!"
Londan Grey nodded in obedience.
He went toward the girl and asked her to come with him.
The girl's stench was easily perceived by Londan Grey. He turned his face away in disgust as he managed to endure the stinking girl.
He beckoned on her to follow him. The girl looked at Azrael in surprise.
'The Alpha?' She kept looking at him as she walked behind Londan Grey. 'Why would the Alpha help me?' She thought.
Azrael faced the other two. The two hefty men shivered in fright when they finally discovered the real identity of the man they had initially labeled a 'commoner'.
Their hearts skipped a beat as they left a wide berth between the Alpha and them.
"Take me to your leader..." Alpha Azrael commanded with a tone that doesn't want to be questioned.
The two went towards their unconscious third and dragged him up as they nodded several times and started to walk ahead.
Alpha Azrael was like a one-man army, following them from behind.
The hefty men didn't even make a sound as they continued to trudge ahead. They had done a lot of running in pursuing the stray girl which eventually was a waste of time and now they have to go back with nothing.
This thought was haunting them as they were walking.
At this time, they started to whisper amongst themselves.
"He is just one man, we can take him. I'm sure Beta Londan is the one we should fear, let's face him together..." The hefty man on the left suggested as the third unconscious hefty man slowly opened his eyes and awoke from his unconscious state.
He looked at his knuckle, they were in bad shape. "I don't think I'm in a good shape to fight.." He said as he joined the conversation and managed to stand on his own.
"He is behind us, we can take him three to one, we just need to transform into our werewolf forms and attack him at once, we will kill him and go and search for that girl..." The hefty man to the left spoke again.
"What of Londan Grey, won't he stop us...?" The hefty man to the right asked.
"Well, once we kill this one, we will become the joint Alphas, Londan Grey would be forced to serve us..." The hefty man to the left spoke.
"Okay, let's turn on the count of three," The hefty man in the middle with broken fingers suggested.
"One"
"Two"
"Three"
They all turned.
At this instance, Alpha Azrael was nowhere in sight. They looked around in shock and asked, "Where did he go just now...?"