Luna opens her eyes there is a bright light shining on her. She closes her eyes and puts her hand in front of her face to shield herself from it.
"Hello Luna."
Luna squints to see a short heavy set woman with blonde hair and blue eyes approach her. "I trust your trip home was comfortable. I am Dr. Olivia Klowski. It is nice to finally meet you in person." Dr. Klowski looks at a clipboard, and writes something on the piece of paper attached. "You seem like you are in good health. Your physical looks spectacular. What a fine specimen you are. Your mother would be so proud of you."
Luna crosses her arms in front of herself and looks down at the ground. "You mean Dr. Aurora Ward? Yes, I suppose she would be."
Dr. Klowski smiles, "You will soon be meeting 227 and 329. I'll let you get to know them and you can decide for yourself who you'd rather mate with."
Luna gasps and looks up at Dr. Klowski. "Ah, mate with?"
"But of course. The entire reason you were asked here was to carry on the work of your mother. It was her intention for you to eventually mate with one of your fellow wolves."
"So let me get this straight, my mother's intention was for me to mate with one of my half-brother-cousins? I've never heard anything so disturbing in my life."
"Ah, but Luna both of these wolves were bread and taught nothing but you. You are the only female wolf that is in existence now. It doesn't matter to them if you're their sister. They don't even know the meaning of the word."
"No! This isn't right. I won't do it."
Dr. Klowski raises her voice and her face becomes stern. "That is not an option. You will pick one of them to mate with or we will force you to mate with the one of our choosing.
Luna looks around and realizes that she and Dr. Klowski are the only two people in the room. She gets up and makes a run for it. She hears a loud noise like a gunshot and feels a sharp pain in her neck. Reaching her hand back to investigate she pulls something out. "A… tranquilizer…dart?"
"Now we can't just let you get up and walk away when we are so close to a breakthrough, can we?" Dr. Klowski smiles over her gun.
Luna quivers and starts to blackout. "I uh…" Her body hits the ground and her consciousness fades away.
Luna's head pounds like a drum her eyes open and she looks around. She slowly starts to realize she's in a cell. She lies on a mattress placed on a cement floor. There is a light just above the center of her compartment.
"Hello! Are you awake?" A voice comes from the next cell over.
Luna looks over to the voice but it's shrouded in darkness. "Where am I?"
"Well this is our den, me and Alpha's. He's gone to exercise. We get to exercise once a day. Do you like to run? I like to run. Maybe we can run together."
Luna hears movement and then something cling to the bars of her cell.
"I'm so happy that the day has finally come for you to be with us. You are more beautiful then I ever dreamed you would be. To mate with you would be an honor."
Luna sits up on the bed pulling her knees into her chest and hugging her legs. "That isn't going to happen." She says trying to convince herself as much as the voice.
"Why not? Have you chosen to mate with Alpha? Poor 227 is sad."
She hears the bars ring as hands are slid down them. A ruffle of hair hits the bars followed by a loud banging sound that Luna could only assume was the sound of the person speaking's head hitting the bars. "Who is 227?"
"I am 227, and you are Luna. The wolf woman we were promised by Dr. Ward."
Luna can see the glint of 227's eyes as he looks at her.
"Why would Dr. Ward promise me to the two of you?"
"A gift! A gift for being the chosen ones."
"But I'm only one person…I mean wolf, wouldn't that pit you and Alpha against each other?"
"It is meant to be. The strongest will mate with Luna and our race will carry on."
Luna hears movement again and then feels a warm liquid hit her arm. "Ewe, gross did you just pee on me?" Luna moves quickly to the other side of her mattress.
"I am marking my territory so Alpha knows you are mine."
Luna hears him readjust himself. "I already told you I won't be mating with either of you."
"But how will we survive? We must carry on it is in our nature."
"I cannot mate with either of you because my heart belongs to someone else."
"Heart? What is heart?"
"Well it's a figure of speech but your heart is the muscle in your chest that burns when you run to hard. I feel that way whenever I see that person. Like I've been running to hard."
"Then we are meant to mate together for that's what happens when I run too!"
Luna shakes her head. "227 that's not how it works. The love needs to be mutual. I'd need to love you the same way."
"You don't love me?" Luna hears 227 walk away from the bars and deep into his cell.
"227 I don't even know you. How can I explain this?" Luna puts her hand on her forehead and can smell the urine on her arm. She quickly pulls it away. "Have you ever howled at the moon?"
She hears 227 scuttle over to the bars again.
"Yes! Yes I howl at the moon." He demonstrates, "Owooo".
"Well being in love is kind of like howling at the moon, but when you do howl you don't just go Owooo."
"Oh! You did that very good Luna I like your howl."
Luna starts to think this conversation is going nowhere but she presses on. "Thanks. So you don't just howl Owooo when you are in love with someone. When you are in love you howl their name. You howl their name for all the world to hear. Like this." Luna clears her throat. "Ryyuuujjiiiiii!" She feels her heart start to race and she starts to worry that the Order won't come for her in time. She pushes the thought down and tries to bring up as much courage as she can from deep inside herself. "Do you understand?"
Luna hears 227 scratch his head. The doorway opens and a flood of light comes in from the opening.
Luna looks at 227 while the light is bright enough to see him. He is a tall young man with long lean muscles. His messy dark brown hair almost covers his two wolf ears. He has a square well defined chin with a little dimple at the end. His wolf ears wiggle with the sound of the approaching footsteps.
He looks at the doorway. "Alpha is back. That means it's one of our turns for some exercise."
A voice comes from the doorway. "No. 329 that's enough."
Luna hears growling and a man screams in pain.
"Lloyd!"
"He bit me! 329 bit me."
Luna sees the silhouette of one of the wardens take up a billy club and beat 329 into a cage on the opposite side of her's. 329 snarls again just before his cell door is locked.
The warden turns back to the man that was hurt by 329. "Jesus Lloyd! How many times do I have to tell you not to get close to them?"
"But he seemed so calm." Lloyd holds his arm his hand covered in blood.
"You can't trust your instincts. They're monsters."
"We are not monsters!" Luna yells. "We are cursed! How dare you assume to call us such things?" Luna runs to the front of her cage and grabs at the warden with the billy club. "If you want to see a monster, you need only look into a mirror."
"You're new here, so I'll cut you some slack wolf." He hits Luna's arm with the billy club hard enough for her to retract it. "Don't touch me or the other wardens and we won't have to beat you like the dog you are."
Luna glares at him spitting at his shoes.
"Why you little!" He wrestles to get his keys off his belt.
Luna braces herself.
"James! She's the only female. Just let it go." Says Lloyd.
James turns to look at Lloyd. "Why would I give a shit?"
"Dr. Klowski told us to be gentle with her."
"Gentle with her… Gah! Fine." James turns back to Luna. "No more shit from you. Got it? Otherwise my club and your backside are going to meet."
She glares at him and without saying a word goes back to her mattress and sits down.
"Good girl." He rejoices over his victory by smirking at her. "Come on Lloyd let's go down to the nurse's station and get that bite checked out. I don't want you turning into a werewolf."
"That's not how it works is it?"
"Lloyd you watch too many monster movies."
"What about 227? He needs to be exercised too."
James looks over to 227. "Ah the wimp. Yeah, come on."
227 walks over to the door of his cell and turns with his back to it. James opens the door and kicks him to the ground. 227 whimpers and James cuffs him.
"Is that really necessary?" Luna shouts.
"I thought I told you to shut up! Not another word." James bangs his billy club against Luna's cage.
227 turns his face against the ground to look at Luna. "It ok Luna. I go for run and then you can. I leave my scent on my favorite trail for you."
Luna nods and 227 smiles at her. James picks 227 up off the ground by his arm and pushes him out the open doorway. Lloyd closes it behind them.
The room is silent for a moment and it makes Luna feel uneasy.
"You female wolf we waiting for all the time?" Luna can feel 329's eyes on her. "You not even have pointy ears."
"No I don't have wolf ears when I'm in my human form."
"I not say you speak!"
"I didn't ask you if I could speak." Luna turns toward 329's cell a bit annoyed after everything that had just went down. "And if I'm the one you've been waiting for you are going to be waiting a long time, because I have already told 227 that I will not be mating with either of you."
329 bangs against the cage right next to where Luna is sitting on her mattress. She jumps startled by the sudden noise. "Bitch, you mate with me. I'm Alpha! I take what's mine."
Luna looks at him. She can barely see since the only light in the room is above her cell. He is a stocky muscular blonde with hair down to his shoulders. His face twisted and angry with dark circles under his eyes. He looks as though he needs to get sleep and lay off the steroids. "I have given my heart to another. So like I said before I will not be mating with either of you."
329 raddles the cage. "Yes, you will! When moon is full I forces myself upon you and I kill anyone who gets in my way."
Luna shivers and feels sick. "You do realize that you are talking about mating with your sister right?"
"Sister? No sisters. Me and 227 survive."
Luna turns towards him. "Wait what? You and 227 are the only two survivors of my mother's experiments?"
"We born and we survive. Now you mate with me!"
"Shut up! I won't be mating with you!" Luna Yells.
329 undoes his pants.
Luna gets up quickly grabbing her mattress to use it as a shield and goes to the far end of her cage with it. She can hear 329's urine hit the floor of her cell and her mattress.
"What the hell is wrong with you 329?" Luna says behind the mattress.
"I Alpha!"
Luna grits her teeth and throws her mattress urine side down. "No," she says angrily, "I am Alpha!" She pulls down her underwear and squats peeing along the edge of her cage.
329 backs away from her cage. "That smell like human pee."
"Duh! I'm human."
"No you mate!" He pounds on the cage.
Luna finds her chamber pot and finishes peeing into it. "No I'm Alpha, and don't you forget it." She splashes a little on the bars where he is standing and he retreats into his cell, silent as a church mouse.
Luna slides her mattress against 227's side of the cage and lays down. She tries to sleep but the smell of urine is over whelming. She muffles her voice into the mattress as she starts to cry. "Ryuji, Lightening, please hurry! I don't know how long I can last."