She rushed to his office and sat down before him.
"John, what do you want to do with me?" She asked, trying to stare up trouble.
"I don't understand. What are you saying?"
"You are ignoring everything. I want you to understand that what you are doing isn't good."
"I still don't understand what you are saying. Perhaps we can have this conversation another time when you are ready."
"Shhh! I'll come back again for this. You killed Andrea and the elites. You and Maddie did it."
***
Alpha and his men walked gently through the back fence. It was at night and most of the guards were away playing chess in the yard. For two days they have them infiltrate Georgina's men and from that, they were able to get first-hand information on when the guard went away to play or sleep.
They jumped in and slowly roll into the opened room that has been open for then the night the bomb took off at the warehouse. Three is his new pack had been in the fortress since then pulling things. They saw it when that human was killed and later threw him into the sewer. They were there when they showed Catherine and Sarah the live clips of Elvira.
They entered gently but did not give the men playing chess any clue of what would happen next. It was around 1:20 Am. Sam went straight towards the gate with another who was following him. They tiptoed till they got there and successfully drugged the gatemen. It was a fast one and quietly they moved them away and tied them up into bundles like they weree clothes.
It was exactly that time the poet boy entered the fortress from the back. He had been weakening some part of the fence just to create room for him to enter and take out Catherine and others. Though he liked Sarah more because they have discussed many things before.
"Go gently up. Slowly slowly." Alpha said as they climbed the walls to reach the office window. Which has been left open by one of their spies.
Damien covered his head in a hoodie and walked past the men playing chess. He entered the fortress directly from the front door and quickly ran in the direction of the kicken to open the cellar where some of the men crawled through from behind.
They went upstairs and the first person they met coming from the bathroom was Lillian. She screamed when she saw Damien and quickly Damien shoot in her direction but she was shocked. The sound of the gun and the shout made the men rush back to they'd position.
'What is that?" One of them shouted. Elle and Elizabeth showed up in front of them saying.
"This just happened." They started shooting their guns, bullets flying around and the men started falling. Before they could finish one roundabout 500 men were done.
Damien ran after Lillian but before he could grab her a knife slitted his stomach. He held it right and reached for his gun. They ran away before he could shoot at them. He held the face tighter than before he could get to them, they ran away.
Alpha jumped in from the window into the office. He grabbed the mic and yelled into it, "I am Aiden and I'm back as the Alpha.
Sam moved closer with the other men clearing them with bullets. Some of them fell from the roof. Sam screamed happily. " I never thought his shit was gonna be easy!"
He continued shooting as the men came forward. Some turned into their wolf forms and ran towards them. The ladies Elle bloated out their hearts with her bullets and Elizabeth changed and cut through them like lightning.
Georgina trotted into the cell and pointed a gun at her head.
"You are going to die now, " she said but before she shoot at her the poet boy stabbed her in the back with a sword. She growled and started turning into her wolf form. The boy ran towards Sarah and started breaking the cuff but before he could finish that, Georgina grabbed hold of his neck and threw him to the wall.
He fainted. She growled and ran towards Catherine but before she could bite off her head a bullet landed on her head and the she-wolf fell.
It was Elizabeth who shot the gun. She was a sniper shooter, but rarely go out on a mission.
"Are you hurt," she asked. Quickly she started breaking off the cuffs and the boy whimpered in the corner. He has broken some ribs.
Damien fell through the stairs into the landing and the man with Lillian was shot dead by another flying bullet probably from Sam or the other men. She crawled towards him with a knife in her hand. She wanted to turn into her wolf form but she's lost lots of energy already. Damien was there lifeless and Lillian got closer. She was about to stab his head when a bullet pierced her head and landed on Damien's chest.
She fell forward lying on him.
Elizabeth walked in with Catherine and Sarah. When they saw Damien on the floor three of them rushed to him and Tina came down crying with a gun in her hand.
"Did I kill Damien?" She said.
"No," Elizabeth said. And hold the girl closer.
"Aunt Elizabeth," she said and started crying.
"Mum said you'll come to get me and you did."
"Yes, darling I did come for you. " They continued hugging while Catherine and Sarah tend to Damien.
***
When they got to the office, they found Alpha on the floor white and blood flew from his side.
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The recent book Elvira started reading was a collection of people's testimonies, comments and of connecting with their inner wolf. She has not called Smallsville for two days to know what is happening. She's just been engrossed in reading and hoping to bring everything to life.
"Tonight my wolf instincts came out, I was chasing around the dog and he was chasing me. It was great. We connected."
"I am looking for werewolves to be a hybrid like me…"
"Please someone help me to become a werewolf please .. help me if you want I will inbox you please…"
After reading this comment from someone, she laughed hard and nearly threw up. She then imagined herself in their shoes and wondered why they would love to become a werewolf too.
She flipped to the next page.
"What’s up y’all just wondering who wants to hear me howling like a werewolf because all my friends said I howl just like it but I don’t believe them I’m going see what other people thank if it’s true not but if y’all want to hear it me up…"
She read the comment printed in the book. The only person said, "Yeah."
"today when I got angry my eyes turned red even though they usually turn yellow and greenish" one said.
"it's very confusing since the wolf blood transformation is at the age of 15-16 but I'm 14" another said.
I know wolf blood and werewolves are different species but do u guys know anything about it…"
"So... Tomorrow is the Full Moon and I'm going to the woods to look for werewolves. What should I bring?"
"WHERE CAN I FIND THE TRUE PACK
WHERE CAN I FIND SOLDIERS
WHERE CAN I FIND WARRIORS
WHERE CAN I FIND OLD WITCHES
WHERE CAN I FIND HELLDEMON WOLF!"
She smiled and said.
"The true pack is my pack."
"It has to be approved by the elders for a werewolf to change a human into a werewolf and the human has to have a good explanation on why he wants to become a werewolf.."
"Ok sooooo I have been seeing people asking to be werewolves and shit and it’s pissing me off seriously. Like you all are offending our kind. Firstly you can only be born. Secondly when we aim to kill we leave no one alive. Thirdly, spells don’t work because it’s from our past and their DNA spells can’t change DNA. So please get it right I swear you guys are disrespecting our kind with that kind of fake knowledge. If u guys have any questions you want to clarify just dm me."
"It seems that if you drink werewolf blood, you can become a werewolf. Are there any werewolves who can confirm this?"
***
Elvira dropped the book and sat there for a while. She started thinking about so many things and then walked back to the shelf loaded with books on ancient human forms. Then she sat back again and reasoned it again as to why they've changed so much.
***
When she got back to her room and sat in her bed after taking a cup of coffee. She had no idea what it was. She has put off her phone since the morning. She felt a bit tired of everything and yet wanted to continue. She claimed in her bed and curled up. She knew she was getting there but to what extent does she want to go? That's the question she longed to answer. She rolled her eyes towards the chandelier. Its lights and the colours flickered and made her close her eyes for some minutes. She wondered about, Alex, her childhood, her life and the present.
She tried drifting off to sleep but nothing came. She stood up, sauntered into her bathroom, stripping herself naked and sitting in her bathtub thinking.
"The whole of life is about thinking." She said.
She put on the shower and sat back in the tub with prompts in her head and listening to them unfold.
***
Then she fell asleep like a sunflower. Minutes, she was at it. Then Jung's words flashed into her mind. She opened her eyes. They glow! "The whole of nature converges in humans…"
She closed her eyes again and strange wolves appeared before her. They stood on black boulders under a crescent moon. They were howling and she sat amidst them on a throne.
The throne was white, then it turned yellow, then it yelled and turned Sapphire. It was on this Sapphire throne she sat and then it pushed her into the mouth of a mother she-wolf larger than life. She screamed. Blood. Cry. Death.
She opened her eyes. It was a dream. She inhaled and stood up. She went to the kitchen. She went forward to fix herself some eggs and see if she could eat. She started eating and then discovered that she had lost her appetite. It wasn't fun at first but then those dreams kept coming into her heart, disturbing her and making her see things that weren't there. She tried to eat but she couldn't.
That was how she sat in the kitchen throughout the night listening to sad music, fiddling with forks and she slept.
*****
The next day Alpha opened his eyes and found himself strapped to a bed. Beside him were two other beds. Damien lay in one with bandages across his stomach and the other lay a boy, he doesn't know. He looked at the straps and was wondering who did that to him. Then he remembered he used a microphone in the office. It was after that he slumped. He felt his stomach packing up. He closed his eyes. He couched and the pain seemed to be coming from his intestines.
He tried moving his head again, and Elle and Catherine came in.
"Don't move your head," Elle warned. "You might break your spines that way."
Catherine walked up to him and sat beside his bed after checking on the boy and Damien. They are both sleeping.
"Alpha," she said. "It's been a while. You don't have to see anything now. You should heal first."
Alpha smiled mildly. She kissed his forehead and stood up to walk away. He pulled her right hand slowly.
"Stay for a while." He managed to say.
"Alright, I will stay," Catherine said and smiled.
***
When Sam came back from the bower with the hound, Sarah was happy.
"You bring back the hound," Sarah said and walked toward them.
"Yes, Sarah. He needs a new home. The bower has been messed up. I couldn't find Martha's books. I searched but they are all gone."
"Probably someone took them. "
"Yeah, that's what I think too. Anyway, I have the hound. Let's see what comes next."
"Sure."
Immediately, she started playing with the hound's head and he seemed not to be in the mood for that. She tried again but the hound turned her down.
"He's not in the mood to play today."
"He's never in the mood. Are you a silly sad hound?" Sarah said, looking at the hound.
"He will respond later. How are the guys doing?"
"Alpha woke up. Damien and the poet boy are sleeping."
"I need to check on them. The poet boy is gonna be a great poet."
Both of them laughed and Sam walked the hound away.
***
Catherine went back into the office to start arranging things. She noticed that most of the files owned by a father are gone and the files that remained were just those that were there recently. Nothing more. Georgina and her team never kept records of anything. They only continued building based on what Elvira told them. It was like that that the Kingdom or the fortress continued till they came back.
Now there will be new rules and new ways of doing things to make sure that the people of Smallsville gain back their rights. That is the peak of Catherine's dream and she wants to make sure these things happened.
She sat down and said: "I will continue shuffling the files." Then she remembered before she went to the bunker she kept some files in her Father's wardrobe. She quickly stood up and tried to open it. All she found was emptiness.
It seems that Elvira took them with her. It looks like she's going to start everything afresh. It seems the park needs her more than before.
She walked towards the window and looked down at the people and werewolves. She wants to remain with them to build a new smallsville and that alone gave her hope.
She turned away from it and sat down to think about her life and how she intends to make sure everything goes right.
Her mind went to the day she was told Jenn would be her new mother, she remembered she cried. She doesn't want to follow Jenn and she did she watched Jenn die.
It was a sad experience. Life comes and goes.
***
At that moment, Sam sat back in his new office closer to the fortress.
"I need to find something new to do." He said to himself.
"Everything in life is changing. People ate changing Into the Wolves, the werewolves, shewolves and humans. I need to upgrade myself."
He walked towards the gate and looked outside. Smallsville has started changing since they started a new rulership. It was a different place when they came back from the cave.
He saw the birds flying. They reminded him of childhood. Then he would go to school, play with other children and make toys.
He went back into the fortress and looked around. He saw a child playing with a small ball then he saw Tina and the other kids seated in one corner, reading books. They looked happy and that is a beautiful thing.
The air started blowing gently carrying particles with it and leaves falling from trees and the sweetness of fruits of a mango tree.
He looked at everything and discovered that they are works of great masters. The easiest packs and the humans performed and left history for them to explore.
Alex and Martha will continue being alive in his mind. He closed his eyes and remembered the first day he started working with Alex. He got tired easily because Alex was always having people around and they drank a lot and they joked about so many things and he learnt so much from them.
Someone knocked at his door. He went out and found Elle waiting.
"Oh!" He sighed. He opened the door and she walked in.
"Hey, I found this and I thought you should see it."