Moon bound

Sophia ❣️💫 P.O.V

The full moon kept drawing near, nearer. We were highly perturbed, petrified. It was tradition, and they say tradition must be kept. The whole pack was more silent than a graveyard, young she- wolves wore their smiles like loaded guns, elderlies grumbles in distress but who could gather enough morale to air our grievances.I have always dreaded this day but today it is nearer to me than my shadow and I pray that I be not the chosen one.

That night, I decided to wear a simple black flowing gown adorned with a leather sandals, in a bag was the silver pendant my late mother had given me, few clothing items and a bottle of drinking water.

Nana and papi were sitting beside the fire place, they wore mourning faces because this might probably be my last night with them as no one ever chosen by the alpha returns. Nana and draco were my grandparents, they had singlehandedly trained and taken care of me since birth, I had lost my mom two years after I was born in a war. Her mate, my father followed suite, you know as a wolf without your mate you are good as dead. My mother was a great warrior of backwoods packs, she fought wars gallantrily on behalf of our pack and in a particular war with the ruthless alpha of bloody moon pack. we lost, he had weakened our defences and since then had continued to maltreat our pack.

I had trained to become a nurse and to be able to help heasten the healing process of our wounded warriors.

Nana moved reluctantly with her ageing defying body and gently wrapped her arms around me, engulfing me in a warm hug. Her sobs and sniffles doing the talking. Papi had moved close and joined in our hug, he could obviously feel his mates pain. I would miss them but I got to be strong. I pulled my self out of their embrace, held Nana's hand and began to "Nana, am going to be fine, I promise to come back here as healthy as I left, don't cry it's going to be all right, promise me you won't cry and you take care of yourself until I return?"

" I promise to take absolute care of myself and your papi but please remember that you promised to return safely " she replied in between sobs. Papi looks at me, eyes glistening with unshed tears, I nods reassuring him of my promise. " Good bye, stay safe " he said to which I nod and began to move towards the direction of the pack training filed where the ruthless alpha of the bloody moon pack will choose a maid not necessarily a mate, as he has said.

That reminds me, I haven't found my mate yet , as wolves we are expected to have found our mates before age 16 but here am I 24 years old without a mate, I just prayed that the ruthless alpha does not turn out to be my mate but what if he was my long awaited mate.

I walked out of the comfy bungalow that has housed I and my grandparents for the past two decades, carefully looking around it's environment, with a whole of darkness covering the field I could still feel the beautiful presence of papi's orchard and ornamental plants, a grove of whistling pines stretched out behind the orchard giving a forestry vibes. The masquerade trees stood tall and I could remember how they would dance in tune to the playing wind, with the subrubs of hibiscus, tulips and other flowers. I moved towards the entrance that was marked by a few apple trees and the village stretched out before me, glowing in the night fires . As silent as they had ever been, no newly turned wolves were seen running around in the ecstasy as they just joined the league of werewolves and had just developed their wolves, no wolves cheered as it would have been on a normal full moon. The village just laid, deserted, desolate and mostly silent.

I walked slowly but confidently to the pack field, where other wolves would have gathered. As I walked, I thought silently about my mate, where was he?, how were we destined to meet?, why haven't we met ? I just hope he be a good person, werewolves has thought us that we don't necessarily need love since the mate bound was necessary for the love but you actually need a good and kind person to make it work. Mates are essential to without a mate was prone to dieing young.

I got to the pack field, the were there standing in fear ot the unknown. Frightened girls and crying mothers , at that moment I couldn't help but pray that I be chosen and my pack would have peace and joy again.

Growing up this pack has held so much memories of my childhood both the good and the bad. I loved this pack with my life as my mother had loved it with her own Life but we cannot question the inevitable nor can we question the moon goddess.

Soon we were ushered into an horrible looking caves, decorated with human and animal skulls, smelling of urine and sewage wastes, with dead animal lying about. Stench of decay was prevelent and could churn a person's stomach, with darkness following us like an armed robber. And then, were ordered to shift into our wolf form, sounds of bones cracking were heard as about a hundred she - wolves shifts into their wolves. My senses heightened as I shift and beautiful dark black wolf (Karina) emerged, she was the violent and blood thirsty part, she has been on my nerves, since we both hasn't been able to sense our mate. Karina was one of it's kind, extremely hot tempered and beautiful too.

And we wait patiently for the Alpha.