Claude was welcomed by a hug and quick kiss from his wife.
“Jake is gone. Missing again. How is Jason?”
“He is well. He seemed a bit nervous yesterday while eating lunch.”
“Where is he?” Claude asked.
“Probably with Charlotte’s kid. That would mean they’re both missing.” Lydia said.
“Those boys.” Claude walked to a sofa and slumped there rubbing his temples.
“Dad!” Harry bounded down the stairs to jump on his Dad’s lap.
“My boy...” Claude opened his arms wide and crushed Harry in a tight bear hug. “Where’s your brother?” He asked Harry while balancing him on his lap.
“He told me he was having his first fake date with Lily...” piped Harry. “He loves her, you know. Or so he says.”
“You don’t believe him?” Claude asked gently.
“I think it’s gross. Yuck!” Harry squeezed his face up. That made Lydia and Claude to burst out laughing.
Harry jumped down from his father’s lap and raced up the stairs. He took some of the stairs in wolf fashion, landing on his hands and leaping higher.
“Such energy.” Claude smiled to himself.
“How was the meeting?” Lydia asked, returning to the sitting room and handing a glass of water to her husband.
“The Vamps want war.” Claude said wearily.
“War?”
“Yes. And it’s just because of Jason and Jake’s attack last week.”
“But this is not the first time there’s a clash between Wolves and Vamps.”
“I know. One of the Vampires killed this time was the favourite son of an Elder.” Claude answered.
“Oh my...”
“I know. I know.” Claude rubbed his eyes with the heels of his hand.
Lydia came to stand at his back and gently massaged his shoulders and neck. “What are you going to do now?”
“I really don’t know, honey. Rosetta us one hell of a bitch and she was the one that proposed the war.”
“She would instruct a man hunt on the boys.” Lydia said, thoughtfully.
“Yes. Yes and now the boys have gone off without knowing the danger they’re in.”
“I’m sure they’ll be alright. Don’t bother yourself so much. Is the committee minds set on wolf attack?”
“I don’t really know, dear. I think so. They might be contemplating other creatures.”
Claude saw the puzzled look on Lydia’s face and said, “Rosetta especially... she’s claiming a Were Cat did it.... That woman, she evil but smart bitch she is.”
“Shh...” Lydia put her finger to her lip. “Don’t use foul words even Harry is nearby.”
“I know. I know. I’m sorry.” Claude said, morosely. “I’m just stressed out.”
“That’s why you should just remove everything from your mind and go to bed.” Lydia suggested.
“I can’t. I’ve got to go help Jamie. He’s running out of his mind. And Jaja is here too.”
There was genuine glee in Lydia’s eyes now. Jaja was also her friend from childhood. “I have to go see him. Harry should to. After all Jaja is like his god-uncle" she said, as if thinking out loud.
“You should. But not now. Now, there is an intense man hunt for the kids. Let the heat reduce a bit.”
“Okay. Sure. But I can’t help it if he comes knocking, you know. I was his favourite back then as kids.”
Claude smiled and kissed his wife tenderly. “I have to go.”
He got to his feet and walked to the door. His wife blew him a kiss as she watched his figure walk into the darkness towards her brother’s house.
She wasn’t a bit bothered about Jason. She knew he was alright, She felt a bit of fear from him but he was a brave one. Alpha blood flowed in her veins and with the blood comes an inner strength that separates an Alpha from his pack. Her Alpha strength wasn’t as strong as her brother’s who was the pack’s Alpha, but it was there.
She sat on the couch that her husband had just left behind and took a deep breath. She imagined the air filling her lungs. Gold air rushing into her body to her toes and then going out in smoothly. She fell into a semi trance as she tapped into the strength and tried to find the Cat of her son.
An extremely large brown wolf leapt out from her body. But it was not a physical wolf, it was more like a luminous ghost of her were wolf. It left her body and drifted out of the house. It wasn’t solid so it just passed through the wall and ran into the dark night.
She had sent a message with her spirit wolf and she was sure the message would be delivered. With that, she went to check on her other son who was fast asleep and snoring loudly. She arranged his sheets and tucked him in properly, smoothing the hair on his head. She knew what was coming and she would miss this child so much. She kissed him lightly on his sleeping forehead and turned off the light and closed the door behind her.
She made a pot of coffee and sat down to wait the long night for her husband.
“CAN YOU TELL us where it is we’re going now, Arthur?” Matt whined.
“I’ve been thinking about it, you see... and I realised that it all started from the morteaux flower. The origin of all these is the place where the flower is located...” He turned to his friends behind him and propped his hands on his hips and said, “so, that’s where we’ll start out investigation.”
The four boys were lost.
“Investigation? What are we investigating?” Jeff asked.
“Don’t be dumb.” Arthur said and continued his walking into the woods. “We are investigating the missing boys – Jason and Jake”
When his four companions still looked at him, wide eyed , not saying a word and looking dumbfounded, He said, “Well, it’s not really an investigation... its more like going to look for clues that will lead us to where our friends are. We find them and we all go back home and we’ll be welcomed as heroes.”
They seemed to all agree with the plan.
Then Billy asked, “What if we come across Vampires?”
“We fight! If Jake and Jason, who is a human by the way, could fight and hold off about 4 Vampires. Why should we fear? After all we are all werewolves.” Arthur replied in a confident voice.
Jeff, Matt and Zach nodded their heads while Billy still looked skeptical.
“Billy, are you scared? You’re being a wimp, you know.” Matt teased and pinched Bill on the arm.
“Bugger off!”
They followed Arthur deeper into the woods, through shrubs and thorns until they came across the stream bordering the territory.
“Ohhhhhh....” Zach cooed.
“I’ve never been to the part before...” Matt said in an awed filled voice
Jeff didn’t say a word, he used his hands to cup up the clear water and brought it back his lips and drank.
“Come on.” Arthur said and splashed across. The others followed suit.
They kept on running for close to 5 minutes with Arthur at the lead, until they came upon the rocky site where the morteaux flower was.
“Is that it?” Billy asked. Now, he was amazed as the thrill of an adventure seeped through him.
He walked forward, ahead of Arthur and knelt close to the flowers.
“She’s beautiful... and smells pretty too.” He took a deep breath.
“That flower isn’t a ‘she', Billy.” Matt laughed.
“You sound so gay.” Jeff said, quietly.
Arthur coughed and said, “Okay guys, time to search. We might see something that the Alpha and his men might not see... or smell. Use your sense of smell more than your sense of sight. Shift, if you have to. Don’t forget to take off your clothes first.”
They all nodded and started taking off their clothes. The sounds of bones cracking and reforming filled the early morning air and then four not-so-big werewolves were walking about, sniffing at the air and at the grounds around.
Billy stood as a human. He felt something was wrong, so he had resisted the urge to shift. He palmed the glock pistol he’d taken from his Dad’s study and hidden securely in an holster beneath his shirt. The gun filled with silver bullets. Just in case.
He glanced around and saw the wolves of his friends. Arthur, the unofficial leader was a light grey wolf. He had a thin stripe of brown from his hackles to his forehead.
Jeff was a total black wolf. He was big for his age but that size came with a disadvantage: He wasn’t so fast. Although what he didn’t have in speed, he made up for in strength and agility.
Matt was a gold-brown wolf. He was a fast one with a longer than normal fang and claw. His wolf was extremely deadly when in a battle, he was sniffing and looked like he had picked up something because his ears perked up and his nose was now leading in a straight line, like following a trail.
Zach, a tiny boy tiny boy he was human, was a massive wolf. His wolf size was almost the size of a adult full grown wolf and he was as fast as he was strong. He was a very formidable weapon as a wolf when in a battle.
Billy glanced around him, it seemed like his wolf friends can’t sense anything wrong. Something was pricking his mind. He closed his eyes, inhaled deeply and followed his instinct. He walked for few feet with his eyes still closed then he stopped and opened his eyes. He sank his hands in his jacket pocket and bent down to inspect a dark speck that looked like blood.
A drop plopped on his neck as he was bent, he glanced up and saw a man straddled to a tree, he neck was torn open. The man was very white and very dead too. He had lost most of his blood, it was the last few that were dropping down.
Where was the rest of his blood? Not here, obviously. They’d have perceived it in a second.
Why did they not perceive the corpse? That was weird.
Then the realisation hit him like someone drove a big fist into his tummy.
“Oh shit... We’re in trouble!” He whispered to himself

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Chapter 79
I WAS AWOKEN by the harsh Ray of sunshine coming from the window. I glinted and squinted as i sat up. The fireplace was off. The wood had all burnt off.The main sitting room was buzzing with activity. People were coming and going, I heard Jake’s voice talking with someone.I turned and yawned and saw he was talking with Gibson. I grimaced as I remembered that this huge man was Dad’s replacement. I heard the door open and the sounds of footsteps as the boys – Billy, Matt and Zach – bounded in.They made a beeline to where I laid down and stood over me.I struggled and sat up. I groaned as I felt a crick in my lower back.I looked at their faces and went a little sad at how incomplete they seemed.We all missed Arthur and Jeff.“I should wash up.” I said, rubbing my eyes.The nodded.I walked and headed up to Jake’s room to use his bathroom.I was half expecting to see Elsa. I could really do with her smile this morning.I rushed to the bathroom to do my stuffs, while in the bathroom I
Chapter 78
I RUSHED NEXT door to the Alpha house and went on to find Jake.“They are in the study.” Elsa said as I walked in, as if she knew exactly who I was looking for.I headed to the study and walked in and realized why Elsa had said “they". I found him in the study with Alpha Jaja, Alpha Preston, Mum and aunt Charlotte.The heads turned to look at me as I burst in. I prepared to turn back but thought better of it so I stood my ground.I raised my hand and pointed with my thumb to the back. “Is he supposed to be here?” i walked into the room.“Who is that?” Alpha Jaja asked, pushing back his chair and standing up.We heard the door open and the sound of walking stick tapping the floorboard as footsteps approached.The pale figure of Henri filled the door as Henri came up and looked around the room. His eyes lingered on me before he moved on to Jake.“I came to pay my last respect. Your father was a good man and a strong Alpha.” He said and turned and walked away before any of us could say a
Chapter 77
SHE PULLED ME up with ease. I searched her eyes for any knowledge that I was banished and the reason behind it.I did not find any. Just the warm brown familiar eyes of and her wide smile. She was really happy to see me.“How have you been?” She asked, pulling me into a tight hug.My arms wrapped around her waist and I inhaled the nice fragrance from her hair. We stayed in the hug for some seconds before she pulled back and I noticed a squat figure just behind her.“Oh, this is Grem.” She said. “He’s a dwarf.”I looked closely at this strange creature, barely reaching up to my knees with large feet and hands and big black eyes too.“We have them at the pack now. Not as slaves, though. Of course not.” She said, laughing. “More like an exchange of relationship, we offer them food and shelter and protection and they run the chores of the pack. Like cooking and cleaning.”I made the appropriate noise to that because she nodded and continued. “Dad wanted to offer them money too, you know.
Chapter 76
A THICK SILENCE filled the air at the cabin. The fire still burned outside but not on its own now. It cackled loudly and the pungent odour of burning human flesh hung heavy in the air. Clyde was seated at a couch opposite Rosetta. Roland was standing in a dark corner, his ankles were crossed and arms folded.Henri stood near the window in his regular pose – one hand in his pocket and the other, holding his stick. But this time, he held the stick at the middle, the head of the stick was hooked to the curtain, drawing it back and opened slightly so there was a thin slice of moonlight casted over his features.Sofia came in from casting a burning spell on Tom’s body, her hands were tucked inside her robes. Clyde turned to her. She gave a brief nod and then settled herself down on the chair in front of the fireplace.“You have been staring at that too much, lately.” Henri pointed, letting go of the curtain and gesturing with the hand holding his stick towards the fire.Sofia nodded.It mi
Chapter 75
THE BURIAL OF an alpha is not small affair. Claude had been the longest lasting and once best friend of Jamie, so he was consulted as to what Jamie would have wanted.And Claude said what Jamie had told him years ago. Many many years ago.Jamie wanted his body cremated and half of his ashes buried in the cemetery, but he wanted his son, Jake to spray the other half of his Ash into a flowing river.At least even in death, he would still have the chance to explore.That evening, Jamie’s body was cremated just before the burial procession started.Zhao and Alyssé stood by a corner. Alpha Jaja had arrived a few hours ago with his wife. His eyes were red rimmed. He had been crying.The whole pack was dressed in black. Drakys III and Faerie were seated at a table, constantly consorting with each other.The grand magus was also at the burial. But all these guest were detached. They were mainly here out of a sense of duty and respect for the dead man.Only Preston and other invited werewolves
Chapter 74
MY MIND WAS in a turmoil. Mum left yesterday, or was it two days ago?I lost track of time.Then Dad was called too. He left last night.And that was how I ended up alone in America. I planned on staying in my dorm for the major part of the day. But I had to go to campus in the morning, I had a major lecture.I entered the lecture hall distractedly, my hood was pulled over my head as I settled down.I should call Jake, I said to myself. I should offer my condolences. Mum had sent me the news that my uncle was dead. Jake would be the alpha now.I randomly remembered a time when we were 9 and Jake had held my hand, saying I would be his right hand when he became alpha.It had seemed like a faraway dream as at that time.Now, it felt like another life.Another reality, but a reality nonetheless.I shook my head and brought out my laptop, and then I perceived it.I looked up sharply and caught the glint of the sun on that ginger coloured hair.She was sitting a few rows in front of me. Wi
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