Filed to story: Wolf Crying Mate of the Alpha by Jazz Ford
The only person I can see is Moss, who is snarling and snapping his teeth at me. I can hear Nina yelling my name.
‘Magnus!’
Moss lunges at me. I snap my teeth over his front leg, breaking it. He lets out a howl of pain and snarls back at me. Before he makes his next move, I lunge, knocking him onto his back. I press my front paws on his chest to keep him down and rip ferociously into his neck. He falls limp as a puddle of blood forms on his torn open neck. As the fog dissipates the woman around my mother’s age lets out a horrific scream and runs towards Moss’s dead body.
‘No! Not my son, he can’t be dead!’ she screams cradling his head. I take a few steps back. She looks up at me with a fierce stare.
‘You, you will pay for this. I should have killed your mother long ago and now I will kill you too!’
The elderly woman grabs the younger woman’s shoulder but stares at me.
‘It’s over for now, but this won’t be the last you see of us.’ She hisses.
I growl and step towards them. May places her hand on my back.
‘No, let them go. We need to find Nina. We can worry about them later.’
She says as the two women quickly shift and run away. I shift back and yell in pain. After a few minutes, I’m in my human form. Leon shifts back as well.
‘Nina!’ I cry out.
There are dead bodies everywhere. Gianna is sobbing. May approaches her and unties her from the post and the rope from her wrists. I hear a moan and a mumble and run towards the sound. Pushing a couple of bodies aside, I find Nina.
‘Nina, I’m here. You’re safe now.’ I say, untying her wrists. She squints her eyes, letting them adjust. The look of relief shows on her face. She sits up and lunges into my lap, wrapping her arms around my neck, and cried into my chest.
‘You came for me, you found me.’
‘Of course, we came for you, Nina. I would search the ends of the Earth for you.’
She cries even louder and holds me tighter.
‘I thought I’d never see you again.’
Leon approaches.
‘Dad.’ Nina stands up and runs into his arms.
‘My baby girl, I was so worried.’
Nina looks over to May, who is looking at the whiplash on Gianna’s back.
‘May, Gianna.’ She says, releasing herself from Leon.
May and Nina hug.
‘I thought you hated me?’ May asks.
‘Although you have been a horrible sister to me all my life, I’m glad you’re here.’ Nina checks Gianna’s back.
‘It’s already healing.’ She says.
‘I’ve had my wolf for a month now, which means I heal quickly.’ Gianna says to me, May and Leon.
‘Are you okay?’ I ask Gianna.
‘I will be now that Moss and his rogues are dead.’ She says, forcing a smile.
‘How long have you been captive here for?’ I ask.
‘Over a year… I think so anyway. They would never tell me what day or month it was.’
‘What pack did they take you from?’
‘I was never in a pack. I lived in an orphanage and they kicked me and anyone else who turned sixteen years old out. I spent a year living on the streets until one night, when I was about to fall asleep, a man approached me, sniffing the air. He smiled at me and said “She-wolf” and took me away to join them. They wanted me to join them for… you know… and I didn’t want to be used. I didn’t want to be there. I was better off in the streets than here.’ She frowns.
‘Gianna, we would love you to join our pack, a real pack where you will have freedom and friendships?’ I offer.
‘You would really want me to come with you?’ she says with a raised eyebrow.
‘Yes, we would.’
She looks at Nina, who smiles and nods her head yes at Gianna.
Gianna cries and hugs Nina.
‘If it’s not too much trouble, then I would love to come with you all.’
‘Well Gianna,’ May smiles. ‘We must introduce ourselves. I’m Nina’s younger sister May and this is our father Leon and our future Alpha, Magnus.’
‘I’m so happy to meet you all.’ She smiles.
Nina takes a step back in thought.
‘Um May, how did you summon a storm, fireballs, and fog?’
‘Well, you see. We can across a witch who led us here. She gave Magnus and me a stick and made it light up like a torch. When we were in trouble, the wand illuminated more and I had the sudden urge to say a spell out loud from the book of spells and hexes Magnus showed us. Then I realised they weren’t just sticks but wands. So, I shouted one spell out loud and it worked.’
‘But only witches can use wands, so how is this possible?’ Leon asks.
I take the wand from my pocket and whirl it around and point at a shrub, ‘Inferno Flamo.’ I say and we watch as nothing happens.
I pass the wand to Gianna. ‘Inferno Flamo?’ she says. Again, nothing happens.
‘Why does it only work for May?’ I ask.
Nina takes the wand. ‘Inferno Flamo.’ She says, and a gigantic ball of flame appears and flies fiercely through the air over a mountain. We hear the impact in the distance, causing a touch of smoke to rise into the sky.
Everyone has a look of shock on their faces as we all turn to stare at Nina.
‘Umm oops, a daisy?’
‘Oops, a daisy?’ May says. ‘You just summoned a ball of flame the size of a house and made it fly a kilometre away! And all you can say is “Oops a daisy?’
‘Well gee May, ever think I might be just as shocked as you all are with what I just did? What do you expect me to say?’
‘I just want to know why you girls can use wands? This is not normal for a wolf to wield magic.’ Leon says, confused.