Silver: “These are the latest silver bullets crafted from your father’s book like you showed us,” one of the soldiers told me. “Watch what happens when I shoot it at the target compared to a normal bullet.” I watched with eagerness as the soldier shot Rogu who was tied up, with the normal gun, but there was no scratch or reaction from him. However, when the soldier shot his left arm with the crafted silver bullet, Rogu began to writhe and scream out in pain. “It works,” I exclaimed. “That’s amazing!” “Unfortunately, we can’t kill him since he’s the werewolf available for us for testing,” the soldier explained. “That’s alright,” I told him. “We’re just getting ourselves prepared in case their Alpha declares war. There’s no telling whether we’ll actually have to fight them or not.” I inspected the other weapons the soldiers and technicians had created under such notice and was marveled at how good they were. At this point, Rogu who was the only test subject was begging for death b
Silver: “Who gave you the orders to do this? I never asked you to do this!” I yelled. During my daily supervision of our weapons and others, I had come to realize that on the testing field, Rogu was no longer the only test subject. There were several other men and women groaning and crying while silver bullets and knives poisoned with wolfsbane were used on them. “The queen approved it,” an elder told me. “Why are you testing these on innocent people? What does this solve?” I cried, as more soldiers shot bullets strategically into the bodies of the people tied on the ground. “Like you said, Silver, several other wolves have been living among us and unfortunately we couldn’t tell because we didn’t have their sense of smell. But after much studying and testing, we were able to find these ones. More will still be found too,” he said with a note of pride in his voice. “How do you even know they’re wolves?” I asked, finding the entire idea absurd. “We have people that can tell.” “
Silver: “I had second thoughts about your plan,” Victor said when I told him why had happened. “I knew something like this would happen. I just knew it.” My entire body was shaking. If word got back to the werewolves that their people were being killed just to test our weapons then we would be done for. They didn’t know what they were doing. They didn’t know how ruthless those man beasts could be. “If only you hadn’t outed Rogu to everyone,” Victor continued blaming as usual. “If only you hadn’t transformed. Couldn’t you just hold yourself…?” “Can you just shut up!” I yelled and he looked at me in surprise. “I get it. I messed up and you kind of warned me about it. But what is all of this ‘I told you so’ actually going to solve. Our lives are in danger but all you care about is reminding me what a fool I was and how right you were. It’s really tiring. If you don’t have a solution then just shut up and stop adding to my problems.” Ever since I got back, everything and everyone had
Alpha Damon: “My lord,” my guard announced, barging into my throne room. “Rogu is here.” I frowned and squeezed the staff I was holding so tightly, it would have broken into several pieces if it were glass. Without wasting any extra second, I stood up and followed him. I could hear Rogu’s voice but couldn’t see him. His voice was strained as he spoke, like he was in severe pain and several people were gathered around the place it was coming from. I pushed my way through and everyone who saw me cleared the way for me as I walked up to him. When I saw him I was taken aback. He looked terrible. His clothes were torn and he had several marks on his body, almost on every spot that was visible. His hair was clean shaved and the rest of him looked bruised and bloody. Beside him, other people, both male and female who looked just as bad as he was looked at me with dreadful gazes. “What’s going on here?” I asked, but my voice was softer. “We escaped. Master Rogu helped us escape,” one
Alpha Damon:When I saw Gwyddion’s body dangling as he used his last moment to try and detach the rope tightened around his neck and wringing his life away from him, I was half-tempted to run to the executioners and order them to let him free. Maybe it was my fear or my anger, but I remained rooted on the spot, watching the man I had respected for ages fight a little more until his body hanged limply. A chilly silence spread throughout the crowd. I had made my point clear. Their sweet Alpha was gone, and a hard one had taken his place. After five executions the past week alone, only a desperate fool would try to cross me at that point. I had to admit. A part of me had assumed I would finally get a response from the goddess, or something would stop his death from happening. I had been so confident about it, that in a way his execution could have been regarded as bait for them, but no such thing happened. The silence of the goddess gave me all the confirmation I needed. They were
Silver:I was in prison when it happened. Unexpectedly. Unplanned. No one saw it coming. I had washed my hands off their practice and in my last act of heroism, had rescued the werewolves that had been used as test subjects. For that reason, I was deemed an enemy of the nation and jailed, awaiting trial. I knew that rescuing the wolves, especially Rogu would increase the chances of the war getting more heated but it was a risk I was willing to take than to see innocent lives taken for no reason. It was my second time in prison, and human prison was considerably better than the wolf dungeon so I didn’t complain. No one came to visit me, not even my sister. Lately, she had become putty in Simon’s hands, only doing whatever he said and since we were no longer on good terms after our fallout, that meant she never came to see me. I heard the shouts of the people first, before the sound of hooves in their hundreds pounding the ground. I covered my ears, thinking it was just our men
Silver: I heard the voices of so many people at once, even though they were trying to whisper. I knew some other people had walked in through the door, but I couldn't see them, so I couldn't deduce their number or whose side they were on. "They might not check here. They know this is a prison and they have no us for prisoners, at least not yet," I heard one say. "Shut the door!" the woman with a child cried out. "You'll make them find us!" "Don't reveal our hiding place," another prisoner said. "Go soemwhwere else before you haev us killed in your place." There was arguing among the prisoners and those who wanted to hide with us for a few minutes. I found it very stupid to engage in an argument at this point. It wasn't like the prisoners could come out of their cells and chase the new people away. "Everyone stop!" the man who always managed to have information barked and everywhere quieted down. "The more we argue, the more we increase our chances of being seen. We h
Silver:My chest constricted and I began to cough violently until I shifted back into my human self. I stood up immediately and went back to join the others, not willing to draw any attention to the fact that I had just killed a wolf. “Let’s go,” I choked out and fortunately, no one asked me any stupid questions, just followed me. I limped as I led the way, my entire body in pain. I had no idea where I was taking them, but as long as we were moving, I was fine. I wasn’t sure if there was any place that hadn’t yet been run down by the wolves already. “Marc,” someone called and I glanced around but didn’t see anyone. “Psst. Hey. Down here.” We all looked down at the same time and I jumped when I saw the faint outline of a body through a hole in the ground that could pass for a sewer. “Jimmy?” The man in our group who must have been named Marc called back. “What are you doing in the ground?” “Just wait, I’ll be right there,” Jimmy said, disappearing from our view. My head was poun