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CHAPTER 2

DEREK

As the three men reached the crowd–, the crowd parted way for them as they did for my dad earlier not out of respect, but fear.

The large man leading them is none other than my dad's aide, Achilles — the Beta of our clan.

Standing by his right, a man with an impressive physique of his own but dwarfed by Achilles is our pack's Gamma, Nicholas.

Moving in and standing in front of my dad, he shrugged his massive shoulders. Looking at his right with an expressionless face, "let's get this over with I have some other things to do."

Nicholas moved without any prompting, as he helped Achilles out of his jacket followed by his tank top.

Then moving to act as the referee, he cleared his voice, "This is the memorable day of our lives, Achilles Alexander the beta of this pack has challenged kyros Adamo our Alpha for the alpha position of the clan —" his speech was cut off by irritated Achilles who was dying to have a go at kyros.

"Cut the crap with all the announcements. I think we all know why we're here ", Achilles said. His muscles rippled like waves as fur grew from his skin.

"Crrk crrk", his bone made some noise as his face elongated into a wolf-like head. He seemed to have added some inches to his previous height. His muscles expanded as his pants bursted into ribbons leaving only stretch trunks.

"grr," emanated from his throat as his blue eyes became bright shining like lightning. After his transformation what stood in his place is a hybrid between a wolf and a human. Standing 7.9 feet tall covered in gray fur.

Not to be out done, my dad— kyros, also changed to his werewolf form, but his fur is scarlet in color while his green eyes turned as dark as ink. He looked dwarfed in front of the massive Achilles despite adding some inches after his transformation.

The two wolves in stretch trunks started circling each other, looking for an opening in the defense of their enemy.

The gray wolf— Achilles, lunged at Kyros, swiping his clawed fingers at kyros. But Kyros was quick to duck under the arm, while closing in delivering a jab under Achilles' armpit with his clawed fingers.

Giving a grunt, Achilles retreated by a step while a trickle of crimson blood ran down from his armpit. Kyros pressed his advantage, having the smaller physique gave him much agility to dash in and give Achilles another swipe on his chest while retreating .

Achilles raised his head as he let loose a howl, storming towards my dad disregarding any injuries he might receive, he stretched his massive furred hands as he tried grabbing kyros.

Kyros tries to dodge while he goes in for another swipe, this time targeting Achilles' neck.

With a sudden increase in agility Achilles retracted his arm that was in mid attack which happens to be a feint attack, and latched it on Kyros neck while– his claw penetrated kryos' neck drawing a lot of blood.

As Achilles squeezed his hand trying to cut of kyros' neck —.

My heart sank further into my stomach as a possibility I have thought of before dawned on me —. What if Achilles decides to kill my dad?

Anxiously I tried to reach my dad by telepathy to ask him to concede. But my dad, knowing me too well, has isolated himself building a mental wall in his consciousness —.

As I saw Kyros hand squeeze further and the defiant look of my dad I knew I had to do something to stop this fight. Looking around the now quiet crowd and seeing it would take time to cross the crowd I decided to carry out a crazy idea—.

Bending a little as I unsheathed the dagger that's always strapped to my calf, I placed it on my throat as my voice reverberated, "concede dad! or we die together!"

I know my dad loves me as I am his only child, I hate using this on him but am out of options.

The crowd turned to look at me , even Achilles was surprised. The scarlet wolf which is my dad looked at me with his inky eyes, I can see the struggle within his eyes.

"I….. con..cee..dee", he said between gasps, Achilles released him and he dropped on the fall in a heap gulping a large amount of air.

The other man, who hasn't spoken since his arrival and happens to be one of Achilles' lackeys, dropped to a knee and bent his head saying, " I greet the alpha."

Following his example, the clan members also dropped to their knees as they echoed, "we greet the alpha."

As this echoed out I can feel the dynamic change in our consciousness. My dad consciousness which served as the nucleus that connects our consciousness deemed in brightness.

A new nucleus is formed and our consciousness is rewired to connect to it. The nucleus gave a burst of light which lasted for some seconds, deemed a little, then stabilized.

As all this happened, Achilles who just won the fight and became the core of our existence didn't seem to be impressed. His face is rock hard, seemingly not to care.

"crrk crkk" sound as Achilles bones shifted below his skin — as he reverted to his human form. Looking at the clan members he cleared his throat and looked at Nicholas—.

Acting on cue, Nicholas turned and took an ancient looking dagger from a golden plate held by an omega behind him. He handed it over to Achilles .

Taking the dagger, looking at the crowd as his blue eyes turned bright, Achilles slit his wrist. Raising it up for all to see he said in a solemn and loud voice, " I Achilles the son of Alexander hereby swear by my blood that I would protect and defend the interest of the clan, let it be known to the moon goddess."

As the oat was made it resonated with our blood. As the oat was made my dad lost all his authority and his position in the clan was automatically demoted to that of a Beta.

Kyros, seeing that he has lost, changed back to his human form. He turned as he walked down the platform but his descent was stopped by Nicholas — our gamma.

" pls hold on".