The Book

Grant leapt high in the air in order to cut Ashton off, landing in front of Ashton he snarled knowing that Ashton is just a pup who wouldn't be able change he is no threat to Grant.

"End of the line boy"

Grant snarled while slowly stalking towards Ashton. Ashton still trembling in fear was at a loss for what he should do. He knew this monster was strong enough to kill his father and though Grant seemed awfully wounded at this point Ashton knew he didn't stand a chance so he turned and ran away back towards where his fathers and Lance's corpse was.

Seeing this Grant merely smirked and continued to stalk the boy knowing this bastard would be his next meal. Deciding to inflict more mental trauma upon the boy he called out

" You know your whore mother still lives, rotting away inside of her father's dungeons for her crime of breeding with that mutt and giving birth to you"

Grant spoke each word with venom and malice hoping to hurt the bastard as much as possible.

(Ashton POV)

'Why is he saying all these things, isn't he going to kill me? Why play with me first? What kind of sick game is he playing?'

Running with all my strength, tears and blood still running down my cheeks I noticed the large crossbow and bolts that could hurt my father in his wolf form.

'Maybe the Bolts are made to hunt werewolves, maybe with this I could have a chance at fighting back, maybe even killing him! I have to be careful though if he catches on to what i'm doing i'll be dead in a heartbeat'

(3rd pov)

Ashton continued to run as hard as he could towards his father's body. All the while Grant is laughing hysterically slowly stalking his way his laughter bordering the sounds of a madman. He had stopped and gripped his head.

He had finally gotten revenge for what had happened to him and now he would end the mutts bloodline completely the best revenge possible!

While Grant was losing himself in sweet insanity at achieving his dreams he had failed to notice Ashton had knelt next to lances corpse and was preparing to fire the still loaded crossbow bolt directly at Grants head

"DIE YOU PIECE OF SHIT"*THUNK*

Grant immediately looked in the direction of Ashtons voice in time to see one of the silver crossbow bolts they had prepared for Mad Dog Piercing into his left eye *Gahh* Grant cried out in pain, losing sight in his left eye.

Stumbling over cursing his overconfidence and his Thoughtlessness in the situation. Grant now blinded and in a fury focused his remaining eye on the boy noticing him struggling to load another bolt, and darted for the boy not but 4 or 5 yards away.

However when Grant got 2 meters away Ashton had the bolt loaded and the cross bow aimed at Grant's chest. Panicking Grant attempted to dodge to the side but his momentum was too great and the cross bolt fired directly into his heart.

Ashton leapt out of the way of the now tumbling Grant gasping for breath. Ashton stood up, reached over for another bolt. Then loaded the crossbow and stood behind the large werewolves body, aimed the cross bow to the back of Grant's head and fired once again directly through the back of Grant's skull.

Looking around he had found that some time after werewolves died they had reverted to their human form once again.

Ashton stumbled over to his father's corpse, then fell to his knees hugging his father's body crying for what had felt like hours. After clearing his eyes of tears he realized he needed to stitch his face back together pulling a mirror out of his father's discarded pack and a needle and thread. Ashton got to work fixing his wound.

He wasn't perfect at fixing up wounds but he could do a good enough job after dipping the needle in his father's alcohol as well as the thin thread. With a closed wound he grabbed the alcohol, ripped up his shirt and bit down hard on a ball of cloth and poured the alcohol on his swollen face, holding in a scream the whole time.

After making sure the wound wouldn't get infected he proceeded to search through all the belongings of everybody here taking anything he deemed useful from money to Grant's long sword and Lance's large crossbow and the remaining 13 silver bolts as well as his 50 regular steel tipped bolts.

' I need to figure out what's going on right now my father was murdered in front of me because he and my mother had me which was against their clan's rules whatever that means. Now that these people are dead im sure more will come looking for them.

As it is i need to leave and gather my wits. First the book my father spoke of under his bed i need to collect it and read it. If my Father and Mother are both were wolves then it's most likely that I am as well but ive never changed into a wolf my entire life and i assume that book will tell me why.'

Packing everything he could carry into his father's pack and the weapons on his back and side he made his way back towards the village by this point it's well past after noon, but there is still at least 4 hours of sunlight left.

'I will make it back to the village maybe an hour before the sun sets'

Now back in the village he quickly ran home avoiding all the looks and questions the people of his town would no doubt have. Entering his home he went to his father's bed and lifted it slightly so he could reach under more easily. Quickly finding the book he flipped to the first page.

{ To my Son, I hope you never have to read this book, but in the event you are it means i have failed in protecting you and i have passed on. You may be sad, but you don't have the time to be you need to quickly read and understand a lot of very important information.

First things first your mother and I loved you very much I'm sorry i never told you anything about her but the memories are too painful, and you were not ready. Now you don't have time to be ready as you know there are cultivators in this world that follow many different paths and I've taught you there are powerful hidden clans that are not to be messed with.

Your mother and I hail from one such a clan and we cultivate what's called our beast soul. Werewolves is the poor man's term for us. Accursed I've slowly been preparing you to be able to cultivate our unique souls to the peak that is why since you were young you've been hunting and doing rigorous training to be in your peak condition.

Only those with the blood of the Dark Crescent Clan can cultivate this as we all have the beast blood. If ive died in a battle against another wolf that means they have found us, and if you're reading this that means you survived the encounter.

In the off event I've died from a different cause then this is going to be embarrassing but as i can no longer protect you, you still need to leave this village immediately }

This is too much information to take in at once. I have the beast blood but he didn't explain why I haven't changed yet, this also explains why next to my race it states ??? since I didn't know.

Name: Ashton Silverfoot

Race: Accursed

Strength: 14

Finesse: 13

Vitality: 14

Intelligence: 10

Skills: Bowyer: Beginner Archery: intermediate Survivability: Advanced Hunting: Intermediate

Perception: Intermediate Stealth: Intermediate Sign language: Advanced

'Holy Shit most of my stats have increased by at least one and my survivability Archery, and stealth increased in rank. I guess going through life and death situations will cause a small leap in strength.

{Now Son I'm sure you're full of questions and I've answered most questions in these entries. However there may still be more you want to know.

To start you have never changed into our beat form because until you turn 17 your body cannot handle the transformation into a full blooded Accursed after your birthday passes and the next full moon comes by your first transformation will be forcibly triggered and you will lose control and consciousness I'd recommend to get as far away from society and hide in a dark cave, after your first transformation you will find your stats rise exponentially while in your beast form.

Nor only that after reverting you will notice your stats will be much higher than before, Not only that since you are your mothers child you may have the royal bloodline. You won't know until after your first transformation but if you have the royal blood then you'll be much stronger than the average wolf}