Alpha Adryan
thirty six

"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, guidingher and Adonis towards where the metal bowl was placed on thewooden table in the middle of the stage. The metal bowl had intricatedesigns along its circular sides. A detailed carving of the stages of aman changing into a wolf was carved into it with immaculate artistry.Jade and Adryan stand opposite each other, facing each other, with themetal bowl in the middle.

Upon signaling Brian with his hands, who steps forward and handsAdryan 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 metabowl, had designs carved into it, this one showing different phases ofthe 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'sgreen ones, his eyes seem to ask her 'If she was ready?', Jade nods herhead to let Adryan know that she was ready for the initiation tocommence.

Taking her small hand in his, Adryan turns her hand so that her palmwas facing upwards, drawing the knife slowly across her palm causingJade to wince slightly, he cuts it, causing blood to flow freely and todrip into the metal bowl below, which help some kind of clear liquidthat held magical properties. Next, Brian steps forward towards thewooden table, with Adonis in his arms, he brings forward a smallneedle, Adryan takes Adonis’ small hands in his big ones, Adryan takesthe small needle Brian had outstretched towards him. Since Adonis wasa 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 wouldreact, but that worry quickly left her system when Adonis merelyblinked when Adryan extended Adonis’ hands above the bowl, andpricked his index finger with the small needle, letting a drop of hisblood fall into the bowl below. Jade takes Adonis from Brian's armsafter 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 theycould feel the bond and strength that came with the Alpha and Lunabeing in the same pack, together.

Adryan turns to look at someone and nods at them, at his actionsomeone comes forward. A woman in her mid-thirties comes and standbetween Jade and Adryan, Jade at first was confused but thenunderstanding settles in as she watches the woman place both herhands beside the sides of the metal bowl, with her eyes closed shestarts chanting something in Latin, Jade understood her, for she toowas familiar with the language. Latin was supposed to be mostly usedby one kind specifically. Witches. The woman was a witch, who wasusing magic to bond Jade and Adonis into the pack.

As the woman cast the spell for the bonding, the liquid contents thatwere inside the bowl, started mixing own it's own. Jade watchedmesmerized as the crimson red color of the liquid started changing intoa different shade, green in color.

Everyone watched wide-eyed as the liquid slowly started to bubble, andthen something beyond words happened, the liquid started to raisefrom the metal bowl and travel upwards in the air, the crowd gasped inshock and awe as they watched the now green potion travelled in acurving pattern two time basically forming an eight shape or in thiscase, Infinity, the symbol of limitless or eternity.

The woman opened her eyes and turns towards Adryan and nods herhead. At this the pack members start to cheer, Jade stood stumped asshe suddenly felt warmth travel through her, and suddenly there weremultiple voices inside her head, their voice brimming with happiness,it's been a while since she felt like she was a part of something. Jadewatched as the pack members interacted with each other with a brightsmile on their faces.

Adryan moved to stand beside Jade, with Adonis in his arms, just as hewas about to speak up, the crowd of pack members go still, pin dropsilence spreading around the crowd. Everyone looked around confused.Suddenly, there could be heard the sound of multiple paws hitting theforest floor, and by the way the sound travelled, it was heading theirway.

Adryan raises his face, and takes a sniff of the air, seconds later his facehardens as he understands what was happening. The pack was underattack or was about to, as the air carried the scent of rotten flesh andblood, which only pointed towards one creature in particular - rogues.It seemed like everyone else too understood the situation, and whatwas about to happen. Rogues were heartless creatures, and they killedwithout any remorse, no one liked their species and that should on thefaces of all the pack members as hatred filled sneers covered theirfaces. Adryan wasn't worried about his pack, he had made them trainrigorously for times like this, women and men alike, and he was surethey 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 actionas they positioned themselves in front of the other pack members,forming a protective shield of sorts. Some of them in their wolf formand others in their human. Every pack member remained calm, sometried to, as showing fear was one of the greatest things the rogues fedoff of.

"Violet" Adryan calls out his female beta.

"Yes Alpha" Violet steps forward at his call, her tone serious unlike theusual sarcastic and lively one.

"You know what you have to do, take the elders, pregnant she wolves,toddlers and omega’s to the safe bunker, Now. GO." Adryan gives outorders but immediately pauses, "Wait" he says to Violet and then turnstowards 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 youhere 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 crisisarises?" Jade asks him incredulously.

Moving his face closer to hers, he says, "Isn't that what you usually do?Run?.” his words seemed to hit right where he wanted to. It stung a bittoo because in a way Jade has always ran when a problem arose. Shedid nothing but ran when the rogues killed her pack members, andburnt her pack house to the ground. She ran when things startedgetting difficult with Adryan. This hurt her, but she was determined todo 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 theother 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 needyou worrying about my well-being, I'm more than capable of lookingafter myself. After all I did that myself for the past three years." Herwords a direct jab at Adryan, her words cause his nose to flare in angerand his fists to clench, his eyes darkening to a black shade.

Adryan takes a step towards her direction, but someone places a handon his elbow, pulling him back from doing something stupid.

Adryan turns his head to see Violet shaking his head at him.

“Don't do something on impulse and end up regretting it later, Adryan.Remember what we talked about? Have a little faith in her.’ Violet'svoice speaks in his mind, he stares at her, taking in her words.

"Violet, take him with you" Adryan hands over Adonis to Violet, all thiswhile Adonis had been looking at his parents arguing back and forth,this realization made Jade to feel shame, she shouldn't be bringing herpersonal problems in front of him, she didn't want her problem withAdryan to cause problems between Adryan and Adonis.

"Come on little guy" Violet takes Adonis in her arm. Turning back toface Adryan, "I will be back soon.” she says to him and turns to Jadeand nods to her in understanding.

Violet leaves, leading with her the elders and other pack members whocouldn't fight physically.

Just as she left, a growl resonated around the open field. Everyonewatched as wolves started piling in one after the other, there werearound fifty of them, but something else stood out in each one ofthem. Their eyes held a wild, crazed and glassy look to them. Parts oftheir animal body were missing chunks of fur, and a few wolves lookedabnormally bigger than the average wolf.

“Something was up with them’ Vince told Adryan.