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Korra's POV
I left home about half a century ago. Yep, you read right. Half a century. I'm 267 years old. Not your typical human, but that's the thing, I'm not exactly human. I'm actually a werewolf, an Alpha to be exact. It's not something I wanted to be. I can't help it. It's in my blood; I was born to be a werewolf. My parents were also werewolves before they were killed. I was four. That was the first time I morphed and right then and there they knew what I was going to be: an Alpha.
Aang had been the previous Alpha but when my dad, the chief of my tribe, imprinted on my mother, he became the next Alpha, handing me the title when he died.
Imprinting. That's a different topic on its own. There are a few theories out there on why it is werewolves imprint. The main one, which Aang came up with, is that we imprint to create bigger and stronger Alphas or wolves in general. I guess he was right because I was the sole survivor of the attack by the Hunters.
Hunters are typically humans who hunt werewolves for sport or just because they hate us. I can't help but laugh at the irony. We were protectors of humans, keeping them safe from other creatures, yet we were killed by the sole being we swore to protect. I don't know what gave them the idea that we intentionally morph into wolves. It isn't something we can control, we're born this way.
Part of the pack had left to help out a neighboring pack that was having problems with Hunters as well. When they arrived all the wolves had been dead for days and they realized it had been a trap. They came back but they were too late. I survived because my mother hid me before joining in on the fight. They never had a chance, there were too many Hunters.
When Katara found me, she took me out of my hiding spot and I called out for my parents. I found them in their wolf form, dead. There were so many emotions swirling in me. I felt so much pain and anger that I actually morphed into a wolf. Usually when you morph you stop aging, your growth spurt ceases. Because of this, Katara, who had been second in command, had to order me to not morph again until I was older, which meant locking the wolf part of myself away.
Needless to say that with my temper that didn't last very long either. I hadn't been aware that I was Alpha which is why I accepted the order. But then she explained who I was and what I was meant to do, lead the pack.
I didn't want to lead anything. I didn't want to be in charge of a pack; to have their lives in my hands. I turned down my title and since Katara was too old to be Alpha the title was handed to Iroh. I mean she had three children who could have taken up the position but they weren't 'dominant' enough for it. There was another reason why I didn't want to lead a pack. Being Alpha meant that the chances of you imprinting were higher and there was no way in hell I wanted to imprint.
After spending two hundred years with them, I decided to go off on my own and live my own life, away from the life of the pack. See the weird thing about us is that we don't answer to the call of the moon, we can morph when we want, which is pretty neat if you can control your temper.
It took me about a century and a half to be able to control my morphing which completely sucked. Being away from fifty years also helped me to control my thoughts. You see when you're in wolf form, the pack you belong to, everyone can 'hear' your thoughts. Everything about you was laid in front of the pack to 'see'. I hated that. But after being gone for so long, I learned how to hide my thoughts; to shield myself I guess. It would come in handy down the line, as I would later find out.
I didn't know why I came back. It was as if something was calling me back to Republic City and one day I just found myself running in that direction. After fifty years of being gone everything seemed so different, so modern. I guess that's what happens when you live as a wolf for ten years. I came back with the same two thoughts I left with: I didn't want to be an Alpha and I didn't want to imprint.
Until I met him, that is.
