Kimberly sighs in the mind link.
“How possible?” Martin asks in the mind link.
“I don’t know!” Greg yells back. “She’s groaning in pain.”
“Go save her. Isn’t she your mate?” Charles splutters in an infuriated tone.
“It costs me nothing to jump down and save but don’t think of us any more. We won’t be able to return to this pack any longer!”
Martin shudders. “Or do you think there might be some sort of interjection?”
“Not sure. We can only get that through the map with the moon goddess or if a white wolf releases his power or if I jump down.” Greg clarifies. “Any of the three options?”
“Which is the fastest?”
“A white wolf shedding off the power can’t take more than three minutes. Fast! Look for a wolf willing to sacrifice his power for Kellie. A white wolf!”
“Dang!” Kimberly comments. “They are rare. We shouldn’t use them.”
“Then forget about your daughter.” George retorts.
“Okay, you know what?” Martin says.
“What?” George retorts in a breaking voice.
“Stay intact. I’ll look for a white wolf to sacrifice the power so you’ll get the interjections.”
“Okay. Don’t take long.” George says, and the mind links adjourns.
“Fast! Find a white wolf!” Martin barks at Charles.
Charles shudders, and shrugs, “You said it. I don’t know how to find a white wolf.”
“Take the wolfsbane. The liquid type. He who coughs intensely is a white wolf. Tell a wolf to close a door without moving near. He who does that is a white wolf. Then, more conveniently…” Alpha Martin says, as though he knows Alfred is a white wolf. “… tell the wolf to shift. You’ll clearly see the white appearance.”
“What if the wolf fails to shift?”
“Provoke him. The wolf will thrust out itself. They don’t have temper, but they can be silent. Provoke him to the core!” Martin yells. “An hour. Five minutes gone! We have a damn hour!! Hurry!”
“Make sure you do your best here too. Guard the rogue well. Kimberly, I’ll be right back.” Charles says, and marches towards the main gate in view of entering the pack house and get a white wolf.
“Whenever I mind link you, respond immediately!!” Martin yells as he sees Charles entering the pack house through the gate. Charles waves at him, telling him he heard him.
“You bastard, you caused all this!!!!” Kimberly grunts, and yells at Alfred, punching his chest hard.
“Don’t let your wolf thrust out. It’s not advisable right now. Not at all.” Martin says but Kimberly keeps hitting his chest till Alfred pushes her away.
“Leave me alone. Why are you doing this?” He says. “After all, it’s a blessing in disguise.”
“How?” Martin asks.
“He got there…. through the fight.” He stutters and stops abruptly. He wouldn’t want to have the slip of tongue, he is making sure he does not say anything he heard in the mind link, so he won’t be suspected.
Thuds are heard approaching in the hut.
Ten minutes gone.
Kimberly crawls up to him again, and ensures he is tied and can’t move a bit. Then, with her clenched fists, she dashes him blows on his nose, mouth, eyes, forehead and chest, all parts but mainly the ones mentioned. Alfred shakes his head sidewards, tired of the beatings but Kimberly keeps hitting him.
The thuds can’t be heard anymore. But it seems someone is lurking around the hut. Or inside. Or maybe not someone, maybe people.
Then, Alfred’s mind link clicks. He tucks his wolf back in, and tells him it’s not the best time to shift. Why did his mind link click? He hisses when he discovers.
“Alpha, your attention is outrightly needed.” He hears the voice of his fiftieth Beta. That soft masculine cool voice.
“About Charles?” Alpha Martin asks, thinking it might be about the white wolf mission.
“No.”
Then, he cuts the mind link. Kimberly keeps hitting Alfred and suddenly, Alfred’s wolf thrusts out. With loud grunts and waste of whirlwind, his wolf thrusts out and Martin stares at him, he’s a white wolf. The white wolf he sent Charles to summon and retrieve his power.
“Holy Mary.” Kimberly exhales sharply and stays with Martin.
“It’s a blessing in disguise indeed.” He says. “You provoked his wolf. I didn’t even think of this, earlier. Wow!”
Then, grunting and whining, the white wolf shifts back to Alfred and his clothes are still on him. That’s another advantage of being a white wolf. Alfred, once he shifts back to human, takes to his heels, heading straight to the hut but Martin and Kimberly pursue him. He’s a youth, Martin can be called a grandparent while Kimberly is pregnant with Charles’ pup. So, they can’t catch up with him. The chains break off of his hands when he shifted back to his human, and then Martin uses that idea. An inch to step into the hut, Martin picks up the chain and sends it across the neck. The thick ropes his Gamma bound Alfred with, too, he sends it across his neck and body. Then, he quickly mind links Charles.
“Charles, do you copy?” He enters his mind link swiftly, holding the rope tight. If Alfred is to cut the rope, then he must shift to his wolf even if it is half shifting.
“Yes, I copy.” Charles responds immediately.
“Come over here. The rogue is a white wolf!!!” He yells, and Alfred starts to shift.
Within nanoseconds, Charles has arrived before Alfred could half-shift or full shift since he used his wolf power to run.
“Take him! Seize him! He’s a white wolf!!” Martin yells, ordering Charles. Charles moves up to him, and sends him to the ground. He punches him hard on his face but two voices stop him. Kimberly’s and a stranger’s.
“Stop! That was what I did that thrust out his wolf.” Kimberly cries out.
“Don’t touch my Beta.” A voice like a foghorn speaks from the hut.
Not minding shit, Alpha Martin and Kimberly with Charles carry Alfred up and head to the fighting centre, near the barrier.
Twenty five minutes gone.
“How to retrieve the power?” Charles asks Martin and he starts to sweat.
“I don’t know how to. Are you asking me?” Martin retorts. “Ask George. Quick!”
“Please…” Alfred muffles, knowing he’s been caught. “… don’t retrieve my power, please.”
Kimberly tucks her fingers into his mouth and then down his throat. She brings out her hands again, and slaps him hard on his chin.
“You’re a mere rogue.” She tells him, as Charles starts to mind link George.
“No, I’m not. I swear, I’m not!” He groans and winces in pain. The lumps caused by Kimberly’s fingers in his throat gets healed on time and automatically since he’s a white wolf.
“Then, who the hell are you?” Martin barks at him, signaling to Charles if he’s gotten through to George.
“I’m a Beta for a pack. I was sent here to attend Kellie’s coronation. To grace it.” He lies.
“That’s a blatant lie, idiot.” Martin hits him with his feet.
“Let’s try our best not to provoke him for his wolf’s sake, so he won’t escape.” Kimberly says.
Hearing this, Alfred gives his wolf the control of his body. Kimberly’s face wrinkles as she glares at Charles and then at Martin.
“What to do!!!” She yells.
“We can’t fight him with our human powers. Before Charles return to his being, we gotta shift and make sure he doesn’t escape.”
Then, Alfred’s white wolf cries out, grunts and whines as it darts towards Charles. Immediately, Martin’s wolf takes control and he directs the white wolf away from Charles. Charles and Kimberly move away from the scene since Charles is hearing from George and Kimberly shouldn’t shift since she’s pregnant. She can but she advisably shouldn’t.
When Kimberly notices that Martin is being defeated, she runs with her might to the main gate.
“Please, I need few security wolves.” She pleads, rattling the wolf padlock tied around the gate.
“What is it, madam?” One of the security asks, and she points at the scene. Then, three of them join her immediately and approach Martin and the white wolf on the ground. As the three of them approach, they give their wolves the control. The three are white wolves, they should be able to deal with just one white wolf.
Seven minutes wasted. Thirty two minutes gone.
Their wolves bark at Alfred and Alfred retaliates but only gets a big wound. They dump themselves on him, whining and woofing repeatedly. They howl as much as they can as they hit Alfred with all their might.
Then, Alfred shifts back into his human form.
Charles comes back to life. The three security wolves shift back to their human forms as well, and Martin returns to his wolf form.
“May we go?” The three asks.
“Not yet.” Charles replies. “Hold him down. We want to retrieve his power.”
“We can do that better.”
“Oh, wow.” Kimberly comments.
Charles starts to explain how to retrieve the power but they nod multiple times, telling him they know it already but still though, they take few points from Charles.
Thirty five minutes gone.
The three security white wolves start to retrieve his power.
“Please, don’t hurt my Beta.” That voice in the hut pleads but no one listens.
Alfred gives a great yell as his white wolf power leaves his body. But luckily for him, he still has the normal wolf abilities. But not a white wolf any longer.
“Next line of action?” Kimberly asks.
“Keep him safe.” One of the three says.
“Mind link George. Make sure no white wolf is near here. Then give him the white wolf power. You can do that by showing him this rogue… and..”
“How did you know why and what we are doing?” Charles asks.
“We are white wolves, remember?”
“Mind link George.”
“Sure.”