Saved or Caged

*Cough*

Ken cleared his throat as he was about to put forward his point.

“Everyone, as I had promised you. I have summoned the girl. And let me promise you that I more than anyone else want my pack and the werewolf race to prosper. Therefore we must use all cards possible and use every means available to bring down the humans and take back what is rightfully ours. We must be able to rise to the day when the moon shines on the land and we can proudly stand and say that we rule these lands and the humans are our subordinates, a lower race. That is why I implore you to support my cause.”

Stevan got up, removing his sword from Evelyn’s neck. Evelyn could take a breath of fresh air as she realized that her life had been extended. A few years at best and a few minutes at worst. She wanted to cry but she choked her own words. She didn’t dare to speak with her soul being pierced by 35 alpha werewolves and many more. Everyone looked at her with scorn as if she was the evilest existence on the whole planet!

“Who all wish to vote for Alpha Ken’s cause please raise your arms.” The man named Steven spoke. He had an air of seriousness around her as if he had shouldered an important responsibility.

The werewolves usually don’t have a way to go about things in this way. It went against their natural ways. They formed packs and followed the lead of the alpha werewolf. There was no voting possible. That was the werewolf's nature. But the threat that was looming on them from the humans had made them slightly curb and change their methods so that they could make more effective strategies. Turns out packs coming together and wage wars with the humans wasn’t enough to defeat those crafty fiends. They needed to employ proper strategies and this was the best way to come to an agreement.

All the alphas are invited to this congregation hall whenever something involves the wellbeing of the entire werewolf race. And such votes were held to decide on a proposal even though it was not in their nature to work this way.

Steven himself raised his hand as if he supported Alpha Ken’s cause. That gave the motion some major weight.

Followed by him 30 more Alphas from different packs raised their hands. Ken sighed a breath of relief as he finally raised his own hand. He had been tensed. What would happen if he lost the majority? He couldn’t even fathom! But thanks to his verbose proposals he had won by a huge majority!

“As the majority goes for the motion, we will act on Ken’s proposal,” Stevan claimed. Stevan was the Alpha of one of the greatest packs among the whole werewolf race. Situated in the north, away from the humans it had the most opportunity to prosper. So Steven’s words had a lot of weight. No one would go against it for now.

Evelyn could finally sigh a breath of relief but even her breaths choked at the intense stare. With the motion being in favour of her she could at least ensure that she would live.

Ken beckoned to his beta. He brought along a pair of chains. Seeing them Steven realize that he had prepared for this all along.

‘Did he think of this from the very beginning?’

“Smart kid,” he whispered.

Ken took hold of the chains and walked towards Evelyn. His elegant steps were for every alpha to watch. The capture of Evelyn for them was no laughing matter.

“No… Please move away from me.” She squeaked but all Ken did was hold onto her hands. Unlike Steven he was not harsh, his touch was warm as if he was not detaining her but taking her on a date instead.

His touch was enough to break off all of her resistances. She wasn’t screaming anymore but only dead staring in his eyes as his face was covered with a mask. She felt a sense of filial spice in it. But probably out of all of them only Evelyn realized this as he chained his hands with the lock.

She looked into his eyes. One of them had a crescent-shaped pupil as if it was the shape of the moon and the other one had the sun’s shape. She hadn’t seen such eccentric eyes ever before in her life! And top it off his eccentric mask. But there was something about them that drew her to it. Especially the right one which had the mark of the sun.

“Take her to the cell,” Ken said as he got up. “With this everything is settled. Humans would never know when their land was swept off their feet.”

“Owwooooo!” Someone who had turned into a wolf howled out of joy.

‘Does the demolition and destruction of humans excite them to such an extent?’ Evelyn thought but she could only wonder as she stared at them with adept attention. And why would she not? These were mythical creatures. They were werewolves!

Two of these similar werewolves that didn’t seem to be among the Alphas pulled her along with her chain. They left through the same door that she was trying to escape from.

“Where are you taking me?” she resisted but all for nought. These werewolves were much stronger than ordinary humans.

“Shut up and follow!” He smashed her back with a whip. “If not for your value, I would have killed you off myself and fed you to the cattle!”

“Ugh” it was then she realized that her sufferings hadn’t come to an end. All of them wanted to kill her yet they were holding back for some reason.

How much of a predicament she was in? The answer was probably out of her reach. The whip had caused a stinging pain to run through her back that was unlike anything else. She definitely didn’t want another one like that so she quietly followed without making any other cry of protests.