Chapter 4: Massacre

In the seconds that followed my dad’s killer cut his head off with a swing of his curved sword and raised his head up with blood dripping from his neck, “Alpha Fisher is dead.”

Silence suddenly befall the entire room with everyone looking up to him, my pack members with a tinge of sadness in their eyes while the others smiled in victory.

With my mouth wide open I stared at my dad’s remaining pieces, his orbs were white and soulless with the skin of his face loose like it’s peeling off.

“Dad,” I whispered with tears streaming down my eyes. It looked like I was staring into his ghost, and he didn’t recognize me at all.

I was traumatized.

Then my view expanded and I realized the man had taken off his mask. I knew this man, I knew the killer, he was one of my dad’s warriors.

“Traitor!” I yelled out my voice cutting through the silence like a thunderstorm.

He grinned grimly and walked towards me, “Daddy’s little girl.”

“Punch him in the nuts if he gets close,” Zane whispered, his voice laced with grief. I never thought he liked my dad that much.

Suddenly Thane got in the way, glaring at him. He towered over me blocking my view of this imbecile.

“Ahh, the quadruplets,” another man entered the house, he had pale white skin and long hair.

I noticed a change in Zane’s grimace, it was a look of shock, like he knew this man.

The man straight up walked towards their mom and grabbed her hair, simultaneously putting a knife on her throat, “You boys know what to do.” He spoke his first words with his eyes on my stepbrothers.

Maybe they wanted me, the alpha’s daughter and needed them to stand down. Maybe they’re from a rival pack.

“Run,” their mom ordered.

The strange man tightened his grip on her hair and pressed the sharp knife on her throat leaving a mark, “Don’t do anything stupid.”

I stood up to watch, even though I had just lost my dad I was more afraid of losing her at the moment. I didn’t want to lose everyone in one day.

“Run,” she repeated with a fading voice when Thane immediately turned around and yanked me up on his shoulders, running upstairs the same instant. Zane and Axel killed the remaining men right behind us and followed along in a hurry.

“What’s going on here?” Kris met us halfway up the stairs looking all confused.

“Just go!” Zane yelled at him when Kris got skeptical and hurried down the stairs to check.

“Kris, no,” Thane yelled and tried to hold him back when he jumped past them, they all chased after him.

“Mordred,” Kris' curious eyes were tamed at last as soon as he reached the end of the stairs and sighted the mysterious man.

He knew him.

In the same second the strange man sliced our mother’s neck with a clownish smile on his face. Kris suddenly transformed into his wolf form, he was huge and majestic with muscles in his arms. His fur was thick and blonde with a skin full of scars. My eldest stepbrother used to be a warrior? And why the hell does his wolf look like a lycan? Are my stepbrothers lycans? I had a lot of questions.

He rushed into the men as soon as the transformation was complete. Zane raised his head with a grin when Thane held his hand, “Not here. We retreat just as mom said.”

He turned around with me on his shoulder and headed for the door downstairs, Axel moved ahead of him to clear the path while Zane stood still with rage in his eyes.

I watched my dad’s head thrown at the corner like dirt as I was carried out, then I turned to my stepmother who was covered in a pond of her own blood.

Thane threw me in the back seat of his truck while Axel got in the front to drive, then Zane finally came joining me in the back.

I was cold, I could feel my eyes going red, tears brimming up in them. I looked up and saw Zane’s eyes, they were lifeless, he was motionless, only his chest was moving, panting angrily inside his chest.

Then boom Kris wolf was thrown breaking through the walls and landing outside. His fur was soaked in blood and dust from breaking through the wall. The strange man walked towards him with a smirk, the wind blowing back his black coat as he walked towards Kris’ weakened wolf.

“He still has it,” Thane’s eyes showed sympathy for his brother. “Go!”

Axel hit the gas and drove off.

“What’re you doing?” I yelled out disturbed. “We’re not leaving Kris behind,” I jumped out of my seat and tried to fight Axel who was in the driver’s seat when Thane reached out and forced me into a hug.

“I’m not losing another family today,” I screamed. “I’m not losing another family today,” my voice eventually molded into gags of mourning.

Zane turned to me without any clear emotions in his eyes, all I could see was his anger that had turned into fatigue.

The flashbacks of all the blood and gore I’ve seen today triggered me again and I started drumming on Thane’s back, “Why did we have to leave him behind? Why?” I wept.

“Mordred had the wolf killer, there’s nothing we could do,” he explained.

“Why did my dad have to die?” I continued mourning, I didn’t even get a word he said clearly. I simply wanted to escape the devilish grip of reality on my skin. For once I wanted a nightmare, at least I could just wake up and escape it.

“Why did today have to come?” I whimpered, gasping loudly. “Dad!”

“Enough!” Zane pushed the chair, provoked. A shred of tears stood in his eyes, “Can’t you mourn silently like everyone else?”

“The girl’s not like you,” Thane defended.

In a flash the tear was gone from his eyes, “If she wants to survive her new reality she better learn to be.”

“Let her grieve how she would,” Thane’s voice grew harsher.

“Can you two just shut the fuck up!” Axel snapped. “We’ve lost too much to fight amongst ourselves.”

For once they both listened. I withdrew from Thane’s embrace and sat up, staring at the window with a drop of tear cruising down my left cheek. My glance rested on the dark forest trees which gave me a visual reflection of my mind, cold, dark, shallow and scary. I could never visit that place again, at least not now.

Suddenly the car threw me forward banging my head on Axel’s chair and halted simultaneously.

“We can rest here for the night,” Axel dropped from the car and shut the door walking towards the wooden house before everyone else.

Thane dropped along and came to get me while my head wandered around the idea of the look and location of the house. “C’mon,” he carried me in his arms and headed for the house.

Zane sighed irritatedly and walked past us when an arrow from out of nowhere brushed past his muscular arm.