Chapter Eight – Perk of A Silver Wolf.
Rihanna’s POV
Being a rogue was hard. I rolled on my back again, trying to get some comfort that will slid me to sleep. I found none.
I lifted myself from the ground and eyed the cave I was coiling myself in. Was I sure I could do this? Being a rogue?
Not even the maids in our household lived this hopeless. If the rains came, I’d freeze to death.
“Maybe instead of saying what you can’t do, try doing what you can?” Lana scolded.
“And what’s that smartass? What in the world am I good at that will save us out here!” I pointed at my surrounding.
“Use the eyes the moon goddess gave you. Go hunt girl. Or better, let me do the hunting. Sit back and whine.” she began pushing for control.
I slacked backwards and let her take control, I was once again enthralled by her beautiful fur. In wolf form, I ran towards the bushes to hunt.
It was morning so the animals maybe quite few, but they’d be amongst the preys. I sighted a deer enjoying breakfast but went past it.
It was pregnant and was due to deliver, I paused. “How did I know that, Lana?” I turned back to the deer.
It did have a bigger stomach but I shouldn’t have been able to guest it was pregnant, I couldn’t tell male from female.
“You felt it’s energy cos I am getting stronger. It’s a gift of silver wolfs. We feel energy and can give, when we want, of course.” She lectured.
That was awesome, I really needed to know more about myself and improve but that will all be self taught since I had no pack or teacher.
I stooped low when another deer ran past a tree and sped towards the cave I had been. It was fast, very fast and scared.
Then they was a gunshot. Lana shuddered and so did the pregnant deer, who immediately took to her heels.
I ran towards the direction of the sound on impulse. There was a cargo of goods…., no people down below the hill.
The energy those people had were of mainly omegas and four out of them where of warrior ranks. The omegas had chains tied to their necks. They were slaves being transported.
The gun shot came again and another omega fell dead. Why were they being killed? But I didn’t want to interfere.
Slaves business had been on for a while. It was one of the things Alpha King Wayne had allowed to continue after his father stopped it.
It was prohibited in only two packs, Black Rose and Black Hills, the other three packs indulged in it greatly.
“Hey!” an omega was slapped by a warrior. “If none of you speak, I’d put a bullet in your heads. Where’d she go?”
The one who was slapped, had a straight face, filled with blood and sand. She looked like she wouldn’t budge. They must have let one of them escape.
Feeling weak, I crawled away from the scene as the warrior shot the omega down and began cajoling more slaves to spill the information.
It was annoying how these wolfs were being treated, perhaps they had been stubborn but we were all equal to the moon goddess.
“Lana, one day, we’d destroy this stupid practice and make that ignorant Alpha King pay!” I seethed.
“That’s a sure one!” she huffed, running back to hunt. “He disregarded a silver wolf, but not the prophecy. His bloodline shall not reign for long.”
With renewed confidence and enthusiasm, I went back to hunt and while it was my first time actively hunting, I could say I did pretty well.
From the little things I packed from home, I found items to start a fire and prepared a place to sleep in.
The smell of roasted deer meat was surely enticing that I was almost sure I wasn’t the only one swallowing loudly.
“Who are you? Come out before I find you.” I ordered at whoever, that person had been inside the cave since I started roasting meat.
A thin tall girl shuffled her legs from behind a cave wall. She raised her head, revealing the blood, sweat and sand mingling on her face.
“I’m hungry, please.” she mouthed.
That was quite brave asking food from someone she barely knew. What if I poisoned it?
I scrutinized her properly and saw the matching outfits. It was same like those omega slaves I encountered earlier.
Was she the one they had let escape? I smiled at her and cut out a piece of meat for her. I tapped besides me. “Come eat.”
She was energetic and ran towards me. Perhaps I was older by two, or three, years but she was surely taller.
I shouldn’t speak of the death of the women that didn’t expose her whereabouts, the guilt could kill her, or the pain make her stronger.
“Why didn’t you help my clan from getting killed?” she asked, as she bit into her meat.
I turned to her. So she knew I saw all that? The she must have seen it then? And how did she know I was the silver wolf?
“You are a silver wolf. A blessing to our clan. Why didn’t you help us?” her voice was becoming teary.
I backed away from her. “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Chill, I don’t know where you guys are from. And I wanted to but I am not strong enough… yet.”
I tried not to look in her eyes, they held pain and a tint of disappointment. “And how I was to know you guys aren’t criminals being punished?”
That came out wrong but it was worthy defense.
She frowned. “We are victims! My father was the clan chief, we lived quietly, not being under any ‘pack’ but got raided! Our men were taken and women are to die so the lineage will end!”
Every word was an outburst. I should be careful of what next I’d say. I nodded, understandably, waiting for her to be calm.
“It’s no use anyway. You are young, there’s no way you could have saved us all.” She stopped eating and stared into the fire.
It wasn’t right, those warriors were only four. With the help of those brave women, who’d rather die than expose her, I could have taken those men. I would have been a Beta anyway.
I rose from where we sat. Her clan and those warrior would be long gone already. We couldn’t chase.
“I will try to save who I can from now on. I am very sorry about your clan.”
She looked up to me and I saw a tint of hope in her eyes. If that hope was on me, then I really didn’t want to lose it.