Chapter 10: Rabid

This is the one subject I did not pay full attention to when my mother was narrating it but I think it goes something like this. About 400 years ago a group of werewolves hunted down the last aetherius she is said to have possessed the power of time. This group included wolves from all seven packs and they were led by a Beta from the Lycius pack who was convinced that he was the rightful Alpha and he wanted to create new werewolves so he’d have his own pack. An aetherius has to give her blessing willingly; well she has to recite a chant in the old tongue bestowing her blessing on whomever she chooses, over time the aetheria were kidnapped and tortured into doing the chant and that’s how many of them died. This last one however, when she was caught by the Bastard (that’s not me insulting the man, that’s the name my mum called him when she was telling the story) she recited a chant in the ancient tongue that reversed Selene’s blessing and put the wolves in the original state of Zeus’ curse. They all went mad and killed their families. 

I know you’ve heard stories of werewolves attacking humans and eating their flesh, well that’s not completely accurate. Trust me, we like our meals cooked just as much as you do, only a rabid wolf would attack a person or another werewolf and eat them; we refer to them as rogues. I don’t know how it spreads and I don’t know how many rogues there are, what I do know in this moment as I run down the palace steps and make my way to the armoury pushing past a lot of pack warriors who are too focused on gearing up to face the imminent threat to notice me and I begin to load a vehicle with as many guns and bullets as I can find is that two of my brothers and the love of my life is in danger. “You’re insane if you think I am going to let you go out there” I hear Greg growl behind me “you can’t stop me Greg, Anthony, Gerald and Noah-” he grabs a gun out of my hand as I am speaking “putting yourself in danger is not how we save them” Greg starts to walk away from me towards the other warriors preparing to go out into the woods “Greg!” I scream “look at me Greg” he turns around and looks at me “I don’t know how, but I know you can feel it too, you need me”. Greg walks back to me and leans his forehead against mine “I will bring them back I promise, but you need to stay here for Mum and Dad” and with that he leaves with the team of pack warriors going into the woods and I stay back with the warriors guarding the palace.

All the guests are led into the palace and the gates are closed as soon as Greg and his team leaves. I am standing outside the west gate with a group of warriors and there is an eerie silence. There is no scent or sound and we can’t see anything. I feel a shiver down my spine, they are here and I can sense it “Aim” I say,  the soldiers look at me confused “do it now” one of the soldiers at the front responds “at what? There’s nothin-” he is immediately cut short by his throat being slit and then we see the rogue, They were cloaked. 

Soon rogues come charging at us from all directions, there’s hundreds of them. They are swarming the palace and I watch the soldiers around me fight for their lives, I find that I am frozen in fear and unable to move, my arms are trembling and I drop my gun. “Do something, Do something, move” I am saying to myself in my head then I look up and I see a rogue charging towards me,and in that moment it feels like something unlocks from inside my stomach building up into my heart like electricity. The energy explodes inside of me “prohibere!” I scream and a blast of energy shoots out of me and spreads throughout the entire palace every rogue is flung so high into the air that most of them don’t survive the landing and the one that was charging towards me is sliced in half.

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Nereus is running towards the west gate of the palace, everyone felt that quake that reverberated throughout the entire palace and thankfully it was in their favour because it seems to have affected only the rogues. However that is an issue for later, right now his focus is getting to his gamma at the west gate. He is thinking all these when she runs into him, “I’m so sorry” she says and takes off without another word. Nereus watches her leave then notices his necklace is glowing again