"Alpha" Beta Brian speaks up, "it's time" Adryan nods his head at this.
"Come" Adryan says to Jade, placing a hand behind her back, guiding
her and Adonis towards where the metal bowl was placed on the
wooden table in the middle of the stage. The metal bowl had intricate
designs along its circular sides. A detailed carving of the stages of a
man changing into a wolf was carved into it with immaculate artistry.
Jade and Adryan stand opposite each other, facing each other, with the
metal bowl in the middle.
Upon signaling Brian with his hands, who steps forward and hands
Adryan a sharp knife, light reflecting off of its sharp and pointy edge.
Its, handle was made of some kind of wood, which, just like the meta
bowl, had designs carved into it, this one showing different phases of
the moon. Adryan hands Adonis over to Brian, who stood beside him.
Adryan takes the knife in his hands, he lifts his eyes to catch Jade's
green ones, his eyes seem to ask her 'If she was ready?', Jade nods her
head to let Adryan know that she was ready for the initiation to
commence.
Taking her small hand in his, Adryan turns her hand so that her palm
was facing upwards, drawing the knife slowly across her palm causing
Jade to wince slightly, he cuts it, causing blood to flow freely and to
drip into the metal bowl below, which help some kind of clear liquid
that held magical properties. Next, Brian steps forward towards the
wooden table, with Adonis in his arms, he brings forward a small
needle, Adryan takes Adonisâ small hands in his big ones, Adryan takes
the small needle Brian had outstretched towards him. Since Adonis was
a toddler, only a drop of his blood would be enough for the initiation.
Jade felt a slight worry grip her as she didn't know how Adonis would
react, but that worry quickly left her system when Adonis merely
blinked when Adryan extended Adonisâ hands above the bowl, and
pricked his index finger with the small needle, letting a drop of his
blood fall into the bowl below. Jade takes Adonis from Brian's arms
after thanking him for his help, to which he replied with a smile.
The entire pack was waiting for the initiation to be over, so that they
could feel the bond and strength that came with the Alpha and Luna
being in the same pack, together.
Adryan turns to look at someone and nods at them, at his action
someone comes forward. A woman in her mid-thirties comes and stand
between Jade and Adryan, Jade at first was confused but then
understanding settles in as she watches the woman place both her
hands beside the sides of the metal bowl, with her eyes closed she
starts chanting something in Latin, Jade understood her, for she too
was familiar with the language. Latin was supposed to be mostly used
by one kind specifically. Witches. The woman was a witch, who was
using magic to bond Jade and Adonis into the pack.
As the woman cast the spell for the bonding, the liquid contents that
were inside the bowl, started mixing own it's own. Jade watched
mesmerized as the crimson red color of the liquid started changing into
a different shade, green in color.
Everyone watched wide-eyed as the liquid slowly started to bubble, and
then something beyond words happened, the liquid started to raise
from the metal bowl and travel upwards in the air, the crowd gasped in
shock and awe as they watched the now green potion travelled in a
curving pattern two time basically forming an eight shape or in this
case, Infinity, the symbol of limitless or eternity.
The woman opened her eyes and turns towards Adryan and nods her
head. At this the pack members start to cheer, Jade stood stumped as
she suddenly felt warmth travel through her, and suddenly there were
multiple voices inside her head, their voice brimming with happiness,
it's been a while since she felt like she was a part of something. Jade
watched as the pack members interacted with each other with a bright
smile on their faces.
Adryan moved to stand beside Jade, with Adonis in his arms, just as he
was about to speak up, the crowd of pack members go still, pin drop
silence spreading around the crowd. Everyone looked around confused.
Suddenly, there could be heard the sound of multiple paws hitting the
forest floor, and by the way the sound travelled, it was heading their
way.
Adryan raises his face, and takes a sniff of the air, seconds later his face
hardens as he understands what was happening. The pack was under
attack or was about to, as the air carried the scent of rotten flesh and
blood, which only pointed towards one creature in particular - rogues.
It seemed like everyone else too understood the situation, and what
was about to happen. Rogues were heartless creatures, and they killed
without any remorse, no one liked their species and that should on the
faces of all the pack members as hatred filled sneers covered their
faces. Adryan wasn't worried about his pack, he had made them train
rigorously for times like this, women and men alike, and he was sure
they were capable of protecting themselves.
"Warriors" Adryan speaks up in his Alpha voice, "Line Up."
The trained warriors of the pack had decided to take immediate action
as they positioned themselves in front of the other pack members,
forming a protective shield of sorts. Some of them in their wolf form
and others in their human. Every pack member remained calm, some
tried to, as showing fear was one of the greatest things the rogues fed
off of.
"Violet" Adryan calls out his female beta.
"Yes Alpha" Violet steps forward at his call, her tone serious unlike the
usual sarcastic and lively one.
"You know what you have to do, take the elders, pregnant she wolves,
toddlers and omegaâs to the safe bunker, Now. GO." Adryan gives out
orders but immediately pauses, "Wait" he says to Violet and then turns
towards Jade.
"You need to go with Violet to the safe bunker with the others. NOW."
he demands to her urgently, as he could feel the rogues getting closer.
"Why?" Jade asks confusedly.
"Because it's the most safest option I have right now. I can't have you
here with me and worry about your well-being while fighting them."
Adryan's voice turns hard.
"Do you really want me to run to safety instead of fighting when a crisis
arises?" Jade asks him incredulously.
Moving his face closer to hers, he says, "Isn't that what you usually do?
Run?.â his words seemed to hit right where he wanted to. It stung a bit
too because in a way Jade has always ran when a problem arose. She
did nothing but ran when the rogues killed her pack members, and
burnt her pack house to the ground. She ran when things started
getting difficult with Adryan. This hurt her, but she was determined to
do the right thing now, she wasn't going to run like always this time,
this time she was going to stay and fight.
"I'm not going anywhere, I'm going to stay here and fight with the
other pack members." Jade says while staring directly into his eyes.
Adryan grits his teeth in anger at her words.
Jade turns to leave but turns back once again tells him "I don't need
you worrying about my well-being, I'm more than capable of looking
after myself. After all I did that myself for the past three years." Her
words a direct jab at Adryan, her words cause his nose to flare in anger
and his fists to clench, his eyes darkening to a black shade.
Adryan takes a step towards her direction, but someone places a hand
on his elbow, pulling him back from doing something stupid.
Adryan turns his head to see Violet shaking his head at him.
âDon't do something on impulse and end up regretting it later, Adryan.
Remember what we talked about? Have a little faith in her.â Violet's
voice speaks in his mind, he stares at her, taking in her words.
"Violet, take him with you" Adryan hands over Adonis to Violet, all this
while Adonis had been looking at his parents arguing back and forth,
this realization made Jade to feel shame, she shouldn't be bringing her
personal problems in front of him, she didn't want her problem with
Adryan to cause problems between Adryan and Adonis.
"Come on little guy" Violet takes Adonis in her arm. Turning back to
face Adryan, "I will be back soon.â she says to him and turns to Jade
and nods to her in understanding.
Violet leaves, leading with her the elders and other pack members who
couldn't fight physically.
Just as she left, a growl resonated around the open field. Everyone
watched as wolves started piling in one after the other, there were
around fifty of them, but something else stood out in each one of
them. Their eyes held a wild, crazed and glassy look to them. Parts of
their animal body were missing chunks of fur, and a few wolves looked
abnormally bigger than the average wolf.
âSomething was up with themâ Vince told Adryan.