Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:28:24 -0500
From: Ghost Wolf <ghost_wolf6@hotmail.com>
Subject: The Pack: Chapter 6

The Pack Chapter 6 - - Rage

"When we are children we seldom think about the future. This innocence
leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about
the future is the day we leave our childhood behind." -- Patrick Rothfuss
(The Name of the Wind)

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Standing in the door way of our room I silently watch him sleep. Staring at
him it was hard to imagine the monster beneath his soft skin. As I turned
to walk from the door way a faint whimper escaped him. Somewhere deep
inside I think he knew my intentions.

I shifted silently and padded softly out the door to be greeted by more
than the rising sun. Luke was leaning on the railing with his back to me
but I could sense his body was like a coiled snake, he must know.

"Going somewhere, runt?" He whispered ever so slightly without turning.

Coming to my feet I replied with a weak determination, "Out for a
walk. I... I couldn't sleep", he moved faster than I thought someone could.

His lips brushed my ear as I felt the heat of his breath and a slight growl
rumble deep in his chest. He could smell my fear, hell I could smell my
fear. "A walk, Well don't go too far; hunters might mistake you for a
normal wolf." As I pulled away gave what I took as a warning.

"If you get lost we `will' find you, don't worry."

Once past the tree line I ran as fast as I could into the deep forest. I
needed to make a lot of time between myself and the house before Luke told
them I ran away or they figured it out.

Time seemed the pass like a blur as I ran for three days, stopping only for
water and sleep. As the fourth night set in I could barely move faster than
a trot, I shifted back to my boy self and slumped under a fallen tree. In
less than a moment sleep claimed me.

"Cody please understand. Everything in nature eats others to survive in one
way or another. People eat their cows and chickens and never wonder about
the living animal they just had grilled and fried.

They have become removed from it all living a life of hidden ignorance. We
are Werewolves. The flesh of a human is a necessary part of our diet
sweetie. I know it can and will be hard, but I will be there to help you
through it"

I stared at him now for the monster he was rather than the boy I fell in
love with. "But what if I don't want to go through with it, what if I
won't." My eye's searching him for salvation.

"You have no choice... I've seen what happens to a wolf who does feed; you
and I both don't want that."

He began to tear, "You will or the wolf inside you could kill all of us if
youy hunger goes that far."

The light crack of a twig woke me with a start. The early morning mist
clung to the dark places trying in vein to stay. A red-brown wolf came into
view. "No Matt, please just leave me alone to die." My voice was horse and
exhausted.

Time slowed for me as it went fast for everything else. Matt started to
move towards me when a shot rang out. It caught him in the hind quarters
and sent him rolling into a tree.

My mind stopped and froze that image into my head as a camouflaged hunter
came out of the brush towards me. "You ok son?" It was all he could make
out before I screamed.

My whole body shook and convulsed banging into the ground as the change
slammed into me with a force strong enough to break all of my bones. The
muscles in me ripped apart as blood began to seep from my pours.

Rage was all I could think. So beautiful and most terrible of all emotions
it stormed across me like freezing water. I embraced the beast in me as
ebony fur ripped across my skin. My body became a hulking frame of a deadly
monster.

My roar sang to the beast in me as trees were sent shattered and flying in
all directions. The putrid smell of rotting earth and tree sap filled my
lungs and my blood burned like liquid fire.

I looked down at the cowering hunter who face was white. I smelled his piss
and fear as he attempted to raise the still warm gun. He shot at me but I
ignored it as it passed through the meat of my arm. I was death and nothing
would stop me.

My body shot forward as I tore away his arms. His screams were music to my
ears as he fell back giving me a clean shot at my prize. I easily ripped
his clothing and now bare chest and tore open his rib-cage then began to
feast upon his organs. As I finished my gore, I turned to face Matt's pale
frightened face. I inhaled the addictive rank fear radiating off his
quivering body.

I let out a low growl as the other came in to view behind him, but were
stopped in their tracks. Their blood drained faces gave me pleasure.

"Cody.", Matt croaked wearily, "We aren't going to hurt you. I'm
alright. Please look at me and see I'm going to live. Listen to my voice
and it will anchor you, let it go lover." He cooed to me.

The shock of what I had done sunk in. My blood soaked body quivered and
shrank as I collapsed to me knees. Matt caught me before I ended up face
first into the ground. It was then I looked around realized what I had
done. The area around me was destroyed; there were broken trees, blood, and
fur everywhere.

What was left of the hunter lay in front of me. Shredded blood soaked
clothing and an unrecognizable pile of flesh and bones. What have I done
was all I could think about as the sweet darkness clamed me.

I smelled Matt's musky fur as I awoke. Small streams of light escaped the
thick dilapidated drapes. My body felt truly alive for the first time in my
life and the distant thunder of my rage waited for me in the darkness.

"Will it always be there?" I asked a hidden Justin. He came around the bed
into view looking far more aged than the last time I saw him.

"No. Those few of us who have touched it will be sensitive to it. You will
have to learn how to control it so you can call it at will." Naturally I
would have protested but instead something in me accepted it.

My lack of retort gave him a smile. Matt stirred with a large jowly yawn as
he shifted to meet my face and gave me a big slobbery kiss across my
face. As he shifted back I planted my own morning kiss upon his beckoning
lips.

"Don't leave me again..."

"I wont, ever."


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"Sir, this is a closed crime scene you can't be here without proper
identification," Said a pale face officer. The light rain of the northwest
had begun to annoy Detective Douglas Mainer as he flashed his FBI badge to
the backwater cop.

"I'm with the FBI let me pass."

The man, boy really, nodded and stumbled back to let the detective
through. The air smelled like iron which told him there was a lot of
blood. As he waded past all the broken trees he began to take mental notes
of the paw prints.

His sneer grew as he reached to epicenter of this particular gory
sight. Wolves for sure he thought as the pile of putrid flesh came into
full view. Motioning for the local boys he brought out his note pad and
gloves.

"Tell me what you know gentlemen."

The bigger one who, of course, was in charge raised his hand like a school
boy. "Sir uh well we had a report of a missing hunter in the area so we
sent out some local guys to search the woods for the guy when one of them
found this," He said point at the remains.

"And?"  "Well we got word there was um some body parts or whatever so we
called in the more experienced guys from the next county over and they uh
said it was human remains and not to move them till y'all showed up."

The Rage in Mainer's mind flared. The stupidity he thought, what careless
whelp made such a mess? As he calmed himself so reason could take
root. Find and destroy that was his mission and he was the best at it.

"Well gentlemen... it wasn't a human who did this. Look at the teeth and
claw marks, it was a wolf probably. Maybe a pack..."

Yes... a pack such a find he would to keep secret from the others. They
were rare and hard to catch because of the numbers but it made there
capture and or death a rather large promotional advancement.

His smug face betrayed him for a moment as his normally light brown eye's
turned black with distain for the walking food around him.


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So... what do you think?? It's been a while since I've added to The Pack
but I felt this would be an interesting but hopefully not corny turn of
events... Hope you liked it and I'll try and post another soon.