Chapter 2: Chapter 1
Cascading heat from blazing smoke gasses awaken 16 year-old Janica Lyca in the middle of the night, as what it should have been, melancholic harmonic breezes of air freshening around flashing and swaying curtains of her window was at its total opposite when blazes of fire, progressive temperature rises brought upon igniting heat as the fire spreads rapidly expanding all corners of their house .
"Mama"!
"Papa"! Janica shouted, breathing so hard in between sobs. Scared of her sight that in her door occurs flashovers while she kept herself suited at one corner which so far, still safe for her but not any longer if the fire could not be stopped. Starved of air, she needed herself to keep at pace and never give up.
"God, please help me.."
"Mama!, where are you? Help me please.!" She cried hard, but no one seemed to hear her voice like no one was outside for rescue . Without any choice, she stood up in between coughs and sobs, she wrapped herself with her comforter insulating against the heat.
"No choice, but the window!" her eyes found the window at her right, her heart pumped even faster thinking of herself jumping from the 3rd floor of their ancestral house .
"ah! " She shouted out loud as she "thuds" to thorns of her rose garden which was once her stress-free venue at times. From the 3rd floor, she fell hard and rolled a bit farther to ease, at least to ease the pain from falling so hard .
"Arg! " she slowly opened her eyes while still lingering herself with the pain, a rushing blow of fire hit her glass wall that made it explode even louder.
While in pain from the fall, she needed to endure her slightly burned legs added by the scratches from the thorns from the garden.
"Oh my God!" she hardly spoke, while crawling towards a pine tree at the forest feet. .
"No! I will never let you get my daughter, she's innocent, no one among your pack could ever take her away. I swear to the Moon Goddess, I'm gonna tear your pack all of you!" She heard her mother Cassia Valdez-Howell howling loud from a distance.
Indefinite howls increased the tension and it appeal more to her ears. It came from everywhere.
"Are you insane Cassia? She has to die or else your pack will soon vanish as the curse!" A voice from someone vigorously caused an air to blow from the West.
"Spare my daughter!" A brave strong bark roamed in the forest, the voice from another wolf around, her father Dark Lucian Romeo Howell growls at a strong bold voice .
Janica was trembling in fear, catching her almost fading breath and a heartbeat continuously beating a deafening sound of a drum. "What's happening?" her whisper of uncertainty with her slow walk towards those voices out from the dark forest, making sure that no one would notice her presence by shutting herself somewhere which has scents of pines fragrant enough to cover up her scent and probably trick the smelling powers of werewolves at the place.
"Your daughter is a curse Cassia!" She's a human, a worthless fucking human! This pack would be in total chaos with such a worthless future human alpha!" a male werewolf 's sound again roamed around the peaceful realm of forest. A sound inflicting threats, anger and menacing danger.
Following the sounds of arguing creatures, Janica still was able to manage herself to still get unrecognized.
There she saw her mother lying in front of unnumbered beasts while her father was tied twisting himself to let go, both were tormented and tortured.
"Mama! Papa!" Her loud shout cry vibrated along the dark forest full of bloody-red orbs of murderous werewolves howling towards her.
"She's here!" A wolf howled at the other side, while it continued to howl as if a warning to everybody.
"Daughter! My princess!" her mother screamed out with wide eyes, "Go away princess, save yourself!" she added.
"What's happening mama? Please let me know what is happening?" With a trembling voice and shaking legs she ran towards her mother, but someone with hairy arms and a red-eyed monster was holding her tight with his fangs ready for a belligerent attack against her.
"Let my daughter go!" her father screamed. Werewolves around them kept their howling so louder after another. "Kill us if you want, but spare her life. Let her live as human, because she's a human! she's innocent and pure. There's no way your pack could be threatened by her existence, she's nothing but a weak mortal." Her father's long utterance caught the enemy's attention.
The werewolves unanimously whined and howled in response.. One long howl from a werewolf fronting her father and said. "I don't believe in your lies, the mighty Alpha Lucian Romeo Howell of Dark Pthalo Shadows of the Dawn"
"Don't you ever think of fooling me! I'm way better than you! I must be the alpha of the Dark Pthalo Shadows but your father chose you and not me who did all his commands and even willing to serve with all might!,but I was disregarded because of such foolish young and weak as you are who even raised a human child in your Luna's womb! You are a failure,and can never win the fight I will offer." The enemy's long utterance made Janica prove that it was the beta of the Dark Pthalo Shadows, Gregory.
"Beta Gregory! How dare you betray the Alpha!" Janica screamed in anger, that if only she could barely shift and transform into a strong and powerful werewolf to kill the bastard beta. A wild laughter roared around the forest from the Beta .
"Should I kill you now Alpha? or I should kill her instead" pointing at Janica that in a blink of her eyes was already held with Beta's furious arms wrapping her neck from behind holding her tight that gets even tighter in seconds.
Her eyes widened as she saw her father wounded and burnt from the fire she thought was in their house.
The alpha was strongly trying to unclog himself from being tied. He cried out his loudest howl as he wanted to save his daughter from being killed .
"Janica!" Her mother Cassia shouted but was even more wounded and weaker as she was also a human but a chosen mate by her father who chose to transform as a were-woman to bear a half human-half wolf daughter Janica Lyca.
"You and your daughter shall be killed, for me to become an alpha, the throne is for me,and not for anyone stupid as you!" said the enemy Beta.
"No, please spare her life, she's a human, why aren't you convinced? A 20 year-old breed must have turned themselves to a full werewolf form, but not even one among werewolf traits had she manifested. Maybe she’s a human and has not inherited her father’s werewolf traits" her mother Cassia cried so hard.
One moment and another, the werewolf held Cassia's neck as the Beta Gregory said, “Shut up! If you're not gonna be my Luna when your alpha dies, I would even be pleased to kill you first" Gregory was pissed at her. In a second, Its long pointed claws dug into her chest and pulled out her heart. Then, she fell down lifeless as what the Beta uttered.
“Mama!” Shaking tone of Janica's agonizing scream as she witnessed the cruelty of killing her mother.
"Mama!Mama!" She cried so hard and felt herself get even stronger and her eyes got blinking yellow-orbs triggered by the anger and pain of seeing lifeless mother . Her father Romeo howled louder, hopelessly urging himself to avenge his Luna's death, but slowly getting even weaker as the poison he took from the wine mixed with wolfsbane got continuously streaming throughout each vein, as he was deceived by the Beta whom he once trusted, now gradually losing strength with blood from scratches and bites he had during the earlier fight with other wolves.
"Don't worry alpha, you're gonna die too soon. Enough of your heroic reigns for I will replace you because I am far more capable and powerful than you! Weak alpha!" Gregory's level of anger rose up even higher.
"There's no way I could live happily now that Cassia's gone, you may kill me now beta, but please spare my child!" her father's voice of defeat.
"If that's what you want, alpha!" Gregory scratched Romeo's neck and more blood flowed out from his wounds.
"Princess"her father's mind linked her. Yes, Janica had even learned mind-link conversation as it was her first werewolf trait. She looked at her father who's eyes were already shut and got weaker. "Yes papa" she replied.
"Don't know how to say goodbye, it's too painful that we're going to be parted by death. If only I was able to despise the offer, I shouldn't have taken the wine. We were poisoned, it was their plan all along. Our house where memories of happiness and cheers have vanished and burnt by these wolves. Please live longer , be a human and spare yourself from the curse of being unordinary, the werewolf in you must've been a gift but now a curse, spare yourself away from danger of being one. I'm sorry princess, I am a failure for I failed to protect you and your mother."
"No, papa. Please don't say that. I can shift now, I know I can be better and stronger papa" her unstopping tears flowed from her eyes looking at her father, the real Alpha. She screamed like a human while almost howling like a wolf in anguish of bearing the traumatizing agony.
"Please daughter. Live as a mortal, as a human , my princess, I love you, my ALUNDRA" her father added as his voice faded and heart stopped beating as she had not even heard any beat, and that's the moment she realized...
"This time, I am alone".
All the wolves around them howled in victory, celebrating the defeat and death of the alpha and his Luna.
"Now, it's your turn!" A pair of bloody-scary orbs faced her and held her chin, and uttered: As the bloody moon arises , the new Alpha Gregory shall now officially fulfill the throne.
"You!" Pointing her claws to grieving Janica now hopeless and pained.
Beta Gregory inserted his claws to Janica's nape, aiming her midpoint underneath making her memory vanish as ashes blown by wildly breezing wind. "The Full blooded- Moon as it reached its peak, You Janica Lyca Valdez, from now and all throughout your worthless human life, will never become a werewolf ,will never be smelled by your werewolf mate, will suffer the life with one after another rejection and will never be accepted in a werewolf clan, will be forgotten by the clan forever!”
A long indefinite thunderous howl of curse from the new Alpha aired along the darkest night as continuing blasts of lightnings after thunders as the other werewolves joined their alpha in an ear splitting howl of celebration, hailing the pack's new Alpha of the Dark Pthalo Shadows of the Dawn, now called Dark Shadows.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone