The Water of the Covenant

A Katara and Kya Werewolf AU Fanfiction

For Katara Week 2014, Day 2

By Nagone


Summary: The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.

Genre: Supernatural

Rated: T

Warnings: mentions of blood

Words: 689

Prompt: Matriarch

Author's Note: The prompt was matriarch, and although this is a bit of a "rule breaker" I wanted to portray Katara as the female leader to a pack of women wolves. It's a bit of a different take on the term, but I hope it's befitting.


They met on a pale night, upon the snow dunes outside the village center.

It was a gather of women, teens and young women, blue eyes bright under the full moon. They wore no shoes, and despite the biting wind, nothing more than their undergarments, now that their robes and clothes were cast aside.

"Welcome, my sisters," Katara intoned. She lifted her arms up and the women organized into a loose circle around her. Yips and snarls filled the air, but they quickly faded, caught on the wind. "We come together, as always, to celebrate Yue, Mother Moon, the creator of our gift." Howls roses once more, heads tipping back towards the sky. "Tonight, she offers us up new pack mates, girls who have reached maturity in our tribe, and who are ready to become women. They are Buniq," Katara motioned to a girl, short and round, with pale blue eyes and messy brown hair, "Yakone," a girl with jet black hair bobbed around a heart shaped face, "And Nukka, sister to Yakone," a girl that, like her sister, wore bobbed hair too. "These, too, are a part of her promise to our nation."

Buniq, Yakone, and Nukka, her younger sister, stepped forward, blue eyes wide. Kya, Katara's daughter, positioned herself behind them, a wall to protect them from the circle. "Do not fear," Kya whispered, leaning forward. She smiled, sharp canines extending down to her lips.

"Do we take these girls to become One with us? To feast upon the Moon's bounty?" Katara called. All around, voice eschoed a single response: "Yes!" Nukka reached fro Yakone's hand and squeezed, while Buniq bit back nervous tears.

Katara looked to her daughter. "Beta Kya, do you accept them?"

"Yes," Kya answered. "They are worthy of The Covenant." She said it proudly.

"Then let their blood fall upon the light of the moon, and allow her the rite of judgment." Kya nodded and drew a weapon from the sheath about her hip. It glinted under the pale light, the curved blade sleek and sharp.

"This will hurt," Kya told them, "if you're truly pack. It'll burn and break you, but be brave." She nodded towards Buniq, the eldest at 15. "Your palm." Buniq raised her palm, opening it. Kya was quick, drawing the knife across, crimson welling up. A few drops fell to the snow, seeping in. Kya quickly repeated it on Yakone and Nukka, their drops joining Buniq's in the white expanse.

Yakone fell first, burying her face into the snow as the change overtook her body. She felt her back break first, a crippling feeling as a chill crept down her body. Her face stretched, jaw forming itself into a maw. Buniq and Nukka followed, screaming as the pain overwhelmed them.

"Push through," Kya whispered. "You can make it."

Make it they did, as the last bits of the change rushed through them. They shook off the strange magic and stood up, wobbling on four new canid limbs. They barked, tongues lolling from their mouth's, and jumped up and down in the snow.

"They are one with us," Katara called, smiling. Kya moved forward, and smiled.

"Welcome girls. It's great to have you." She smiled and pressed her thumb to each of their foreheads, and a wave of warmth rippled through them. The girls whined, shaking themselves to get rid of the magic that roared through their veins. "They have been marked, mother."

Katara nodded, and undid her hair. She removed her underwear, and the other women follow suit until all were skyclad. "Let us hunt until the sun rises!"

All around Katara, the change rippled through the women. They shed human forms, transforming into wolves. Paws met the snow, and they took off, Kya leading the pack, Buniq, Yakone, and Nukka trailing behind clumsily.

"Merry meet, and merry part." Katara snapped at the air, drool spilling past her morphing maw. Her eyes faded to bright yellow and she pitched forward into the snow. "And merry meet again." She took off into the night, howling as she chased her pack, tail threatening to beat down the moon and stars.