Lycanthropy

“Blood Moon Pack?”

“No.”

“White Wolf Pack?”

“No.”

“Oh wait! I got a good one! Sexy Alpha Pack!”

“Hell no!”

The past few hours we have been hiking, to find us a better spot to start our pack. And all the while me and my newly acquired Beta tried to search for one, Amy continuously came up with idiotic names for our pack.

“Then I’d suggest we stick with the ‘Fluffy Bunny Power’ name for now.” Amy said.

“Oh, shut it girl!”

“Yes Alpha.” She said with her hand stuck to her head, as if she was military.

The lodge was nice for the time we were in there, but we can’t live forever in a small, single roomed house. We had to find a place where we could keep several more people, and the place had to be easy to defend as well. Since we are just with three, and only me and Terrence were trained to fight, we can’t live in a wide open space.

A snow storm was about to start, so we shifted into our wolves and carried our clothes with us. The snow began to fall more rapidly and the wind picked up pace as well. Soon, we didn’t have a clear sight, and we were too far to get back to the lodge, without really knowing where we were.

Within the pack’s link I told them to keep going and follow me. As a reply, Amy was acting smart, that my white fur was hard to see in a snow storm. Her perky attitude wasn’t something I liked, but the fact that she dared to act like that to me, was. I mean, I haven’t been the slightest nice towards her, so why should she be so happy? Terrence on the other hand, hadn’t said a single word, ever since we left the lodge.

“Terrence, you okay?” I asked him through the mind link.

“Yes, just amazed that an Omega like me, turned out to become a Beta of one of the strongest Alpha’s I have ever seen.” He said to me.

It was strange indeed, how this all happened. And if it weren’t for Amy, we still wouldn’t have been linked. It was a smart thing to do though. We can communicate with each other while in wolf form, and in silence, so hunting animals would be easier.

The snowflakes turned into pellets of ice, and struck our nose and paws with stinging cold.

I quickened up pace, and the others followed behind. After walking through a forest of countless of pine trees, we reached the base of a mountain. We followed a natural path, that was carved along the mountain, by decennia of streaming water, once the snow melted in the summer. And as our paws sank in ten inches of snow, we kept pushing ourselves upwards, I hope towards a shelter of some kind.

Once we were able to reach higher ground, we could watch in the distance, to see where the best place could be to house ourselves. But for now, I’d really like to find a dry place.

Suddenly, I could smell a distant scent of an animal. Even though the hail, snow and wind made it extremely difficult, to understand what it was, this scent couldn’t be anything else, than a male bear. He must be hiding somewhere for the storm too, or hibernating someplace safe, so I followed my nose and found a dark cave.

At the entrance I dropped the bag of clothes, that was in my mouth, and over the pack-link told the others to be quiet. While using my nose, I sniffed out where the bear was located. Bending around a corner or two, avoiding some stalactite walls, I found the snoring creature. He was hibernating indeed, and it would take up to at least another month, for him to stay in that deep sleep of his.

I was glad that my father had sold me when I was sixteen, and not years before that. Now I had the chance to survive in the wild, as I wasn’t a complete dumbass, to everything beyond the walls that I was kept in. Besides that, Terrence kept me occupied with a lot of knowledge, over the years as well.

Swift but silent, I trotted back to the entrance and shifted once I reached the others. Quickly I had put on my clothes and the warm coat, so that my body wouldn’t freeze to death. Oh! That could be a new one to try out actually…

“Be quiet, there is a hibernating bear to the right of us.” I said to them.

They shifted as well, and clothed themselves. We waited until the storm subsided, but fell asleep in each other’s arms.

After a few hours, we had awoken again, and when the sun broke through the grey clouds, it lit up the entrance of the cave, where the back of it, wasn’t able to be seen. Amy stood up and walked to the left, but quickly came back.

“There is a whole tunnel system!” She yelled.

I shushed her directly, not wanting to awake the bear. But I stood up and went to look, what she had seen.

And indeed as she told us, there were several tunnels leading back, into several directions. But since it was so dark, and only the beginning of the tunnels were able to be seen, we can’t figure out where they lead unless we got some torches or flashlights.

Lucky for us, we had taken a flashlight from the van with us. I had turned it on, and saw several chambers, and more tunnels. I could easily imagine people living here, if we could arrange electricity to light up the place. Then carve out some wider doorways, and buy supplies like beds and closets and such.

We discussed my ideas, and both Terrence and Amy were liking the idea of living in a solid mountain.

Of course we had to come up with something to gain money from. Maybe we can sell some pelts, after hunting animals. That is something we have to figure out still.

While continuing our walk, some bats got scared from our voices and the light, so they flew away instantly.

I nearly wanted to turn around, to find the entrance again but something caught my eye. In the back of the cave, there was a small natural well, where water from assumedly the snow outside, came pouring in.

“Alpha, can I have the flashlight for a moment?” Terrence asked me.

I gave him the light and he used it to shine upon the water in the well. He pushed his whole arm in it, to reach the bottom and grabbed something from there. He took the flashlight in his mouth, and in one hand he had a pile of black dirt and with the other, together with some water, he filtered the dirt and little stones, away from something else he had seen.

He shone the flashlight upwards, following the small stream of water, that came down seeping against a rock wall.

He chuckled, so I began to walk in on him. Was he going crazy?

“Alpha, I think I have found a source of income, for our new pack.” He said.

I looked closer to where he was pointing the flashlight towards, and was completely amazed by what I saw. The solid black wall, wasn’t solid rock at all. I was distracted by the whole tunnel-system that I hadn’t realized that there could be something else as well.

Because what the wall didn’t make solid rock, was a line of shining gold! We have found a gold mine! Literally!