Chapter 2 - Wolf Killer

"Why me?" I asked myself that cold night that I was imprisoned but I got no answer. 

I shivered as the icy cold poured through the windows, and no matter how many times I pleaded for help, the warriors ignored me.

The only time they spoke to me was when they brought me food the next day. 

"Here, filthy Omega, your dinner has arrived," they announced before tossing a plate on the ground. The plate clattered to the floor and half the contents spilled to the ground.

I rushed to it, to stop from being completely destroyed, but I was horrified to find what they had given me to eat. I shrunk back as it's odor hit my nose.

"W-why would you give me this? It's not food." I weakly protested at the warrior who was cruelly smirking at me, clearly enjoying my suffering.

"You ungrateful little bitch! That's perfectly good food there, how dare you look down at it?!" He sneered.

"-But it's rotten bread! And the soup has maggots!"

"And so? It's still food,"

"Please don't do this, it smells too disgusting to eat, it will give me food poisoning!" I cried.

"YOU are the disgusting one, and I hope you die from food poisoning, in fact we all do!. Being in the dungeon is just the perfect place for such a filthy abomination as you and we all pray to the moon goddess that you die here." He sneered.. 

The man suddenly spat at me, and I felt so desperate that I tried to lunge at him as Sera wanted to fight back but the minute my paws touched the cage doors, I jumped back it's a scream as the man burst out laughing. The silver they laced the doors with were not in anyway small. 

"There's no escape for you Omega, You will remain here until the Alpha and the pack decides what to do with you."He said before walking away. 

My whole body was in pain from the silver lined bars, but that wasn't all, my bones still hurt from the transformation which was highly unusual. 

When other normal wolves where shifting, the only pain they felt was during the shifting and after that, you were supposed to have zero pain especially during every other shift, that followed the first.

I wondered why my case was different, why I was locked up. I wondered what they saw when I shifted, what was different as the warriors of the pack dragged me to the dungeon where the rogues and wolves they caught trespassing on the pack land were kept.

 The pack was usually happy when a member shifted. Mine was different, mine was life changing and it was not until we got to the entrance of the dungeon that I knew why it had all been so. 

The dungeons had pieces of glass that I later found and looked into. And that was where I saw myself, I gasped and almost tripped on my feet when I saw it.

I looked like a monster. Like a twisted half wolf, half human monster. I hadn't transformed to a wolf form, but I didn't look human either.

I was pitch black, from head to toe, the only stripe of white was on my right ear. I w as only able to catch a glimpse before a warrior immediately covered the glass with a cloth before sneering at me. It seemed they didn't want me to see myself.

"No no no, this can't be possible. Why am I —- what am I?!" I screeched in horror, looking down at my hands. Every wolf in wolflife pack, down to the wolf that shifted last was white in color, no stripe of any other type of color, not even a dot. 

I stayed in that icy cell for many cold nights as a young wolf, finally able to shift to my human self after a while. But I could feel Sera getting weak without food or water for nights. 

No one came down to check on me or speak to me, not my parents, not my friends, I was abandoned and alone. Just waiting to die.

Suddenly, I heard the main door to the dungeon open but I remained hunched in the corner. 

"Jasmine." Some one called out, but It was darker than usual in the dungeon and I could not see the face of whoever it was but judging from the thickness in the voice and the height of the person, I knew it was one of the warriors. 

"Yes?" I answered weakly. 

The person cleared his throat. "The Alpha will see you now." 

I struggled but managed to get up. I did not expect anything good from meeting the Alpha, he had already made his opinion clear to me the night I changed. 

I was a disgusting abomination that was meant to be locked up and starved to death.

The warrior who came to pick me was a bit gentle though the roughness was there. Compared to the ones who took me to the dungeon, he had a bit of softness to him. I could not help but tell him thank you silently after he dropped me in the conference room where many eyes bore into my soul. 

Suddenly, I felt small in the presence of them all. I felt like an outcast with the looks on all of their faces. I felt weak, so weak that I knew it was not supposed to be.

"Omega.. Can you tell us what happened that night?" Alpha Nicholas asked, refusing to address me by my name even though he knew it.. 

"I don't know anything, sir." I answered quietly. 

I heard whispers behind me. I knew what they said even though I didn't hear anything they said clearly. —they all wanted me dead and out of their prestigious pack.

"Where are your parents?" He asked again. 

"They disappeared the night I shifted. I haven't seen or heard about them since that night." 

The room was quiet again. 

"That means Your parents have something to do with your monstrosity. If not, why did they run?" 

"I- I don't know."

He asked many questions that I could not give an answer to. I stylishly looked at the children in the room, many of which I called friends. They avoided me very much and did not try to look at me in any way. 

The alpha and the luna gave looks to each other. I knew it was their wolves communicating. I really did not know a lot about the wolflife just yet but I remember my mother telling me that mates could communicate without speaking actual words to each other. 

I was originally excited to learn all those things when we first arrived, but I didn't need a soothe sayer to tell me that it was all in the past now.

"Your family have served us all and as every member of this pack knows, we are big on loyalty." Alpha Nicholas started. 

I felt a moment of hope when he said those words, Maybe he wasn't as heartless as I thought, maybe he was kind enough to release me after all.

"But," he paused. 

All the hopes I had got dashed in a minute. 

"We still do not want an abomination in our pack to tarnish our image. We cannot throw you out but we will not protect you either. You will be a lab rat for every experiment we perform in the pack and if anyone wants to use you for any other thing they feel like, they can." 

I felt my heart clench painfully and tears bloom in my eyes. They wanted me to be a lab rat? Just a flesh for anyone to use anyway they liked?

"You will continue to sleep and wake in the dungeon. But don't worry, we are not monsters, You can still go to school so we can monitor your interaction with others, but only when you are allowed. You will be fed when we feel like it and if anything new comes up, we will let you know."Alpha Nicholas concluded. He adjusted in his seat, his hands intertwined with that of the Luna. 

I bowed my head. Feeling hate and anger bloom in my heart for everything and everyone in this pack. I began to make an escape plan in my head. "I could just run away from school one day." I thought. 

But the Luna was the next to speak, disrupting my thoughts. "Don't think of running away, we will always find you." 

"Actually," the Alpha added, we can't risk you running around with that monster inside you. If we are to keep you alive, then that disgusting thing you call a wolf has to die."

"W-wait, —what?" I tried to understand his words, but a nod from his head, two gigantic warriors grabbed me by the arms and dragged me out of the room kicking and screaming.

"Wait please stop!" I cried but the toughly dragged me on the floor, not caring about my desperate cries. Sera urged me not to give up so I continued fighting their strong hold on me.

"Please don't do this! I beg you! She's all I have." I begged again, but one of the guards just slapped me in response.

"Shut up bitch! Stop screaming! No one is going to save you here!" He leered, roughly dragging me until my knees scrapped the floor and started bleeding.

And that when I saw him.

For a weird reason, I felt a sudden urge to look up, I didn't know why, I didn't know what I was searching for or if I would find anything, but I suddenly looked up. And I saw him.

He was tall, very tall and he looked strong. He was blonde and more handsome than any man I had ever seen in my life before, even on tv or magazine. He was pure perfect.

But that wasn't even what caught my attention, it was his eyes that captivated me. They were bright green and vibrant, and I felt them call to me, reach out to me, but I couldn't understand why.

For another reason I can't explain, I snatched my hand from one of the guards and stretched it out to him, as if I was asking him to hold my hand.

But his eyes suddenly hardened into ice as he frowned down at me in disgust, like looking at me irritated him. It was obvious that whatever calling I felt to him, I felt it alone.

Sera suddenly whined in pain and I felt a sudden pained stab in my heart as she immediately got quiet, but before I could even process what had happened, the guards yanked me away. But the weird thing was, Sera stopped fighting them.

She stopped urging me to struggle and just let me lie there, even when the doctor prepared the injection that we knew would kill her, Sera didn't struggle. 

And I knew why. Sera— my wolf had died before the doctor had gotten the chance to kill her.

And it was all because of that man with green eyes.