Ch 10: The truth

For the next two days and a half, I and Kali were training constantly for my trip to find answers. We fought each other blind folded, had regular sparring fights, and the good old fashion hide and seek in the forest. I almost always won thanks to Maliah. The fights, not so much but I tried hard to win against Kali to try and impress her. She made a rule that I can't use my moon eyes which I guess that's what we're calling it now. I complained that that was cheating but she didn't care. I didn't ether because I enjoyed being around her. The way her hair moved when she was striking at me, the way she smelled when we were up close and personal. I think she also knew that I enjoyed it and I knew she liked it too.

Finally on the last day I and Kali were in a section of a phone store of the mall. Phones cases, chargers, headphones, and more were lying all over the floor. The walls had a few dents as well and some broken glass was lying around. Kali hopped on the counter and swung her feet back and forth. I was walking around picking up the accessories.

"Are you always barefoot? You know there is glass all over this place."

She chuckled "I can't remember the last time I wore shoes. It's just not my style."

I nodded my head while looking at some torn headphones. Whatever even happened to this place? It seemed like an angry mob ransacked this place and no one ever wanted to come back. No one has been here for at least a two years. I started thinking about this when Kali reached behind the counter and revealed what I have been waiting for. The clothes that she promised, it was simple, a dark black jacket long sleeve that went to my waist that could be zipped or unzipped and still look good, with three red claw strikes right in the middle of my chest, a hood that was blood red, and it was made out of Gabardine Material, with blood red gloves that resembled a wolfs paw. My jaw dropped and stayed there for a little bit even. It was better than I had imagined and I knew I would take care of it to the best I could. I was happy even that there was no mask because that would make me a complete ninja. I am not a ninja, I am an alpha. I stared at it for so long she put it down because her hand got tired.

"So I guess you like it?" she said grinning

"You. Are. The. Best. Person. Alive." I said as I practically tackled her over the counter.

I never hugged Kali before and a part of me was careful since she did threaten to take my head off once. At that moment though, I did not care. I hugged her and she hugged me back and we were both laughing at the same time. Once that was over she handed me the outfit it dawned on me that his meant I was leaving for a little bit. I took the suit and put it on. It felt 100% comfy and flexible, but I knew I was not going to be comfy soon.

"I guess this means I will be going then." I said quietly

"You say that like it's a bad thing, is this not what you wanted all along?" she said

"Leaving you kind of sucks though, I didn't think it would be hard to." I said

"It's hard for me too but I am sure you will be back soon enough." She said

Then she kissed me on the forehead and put the red hood on my head. I am pretty sure I blushed and I was kind of embarrassed but I felt warm at the same time.

"Make sure to not let anyone know who you are or make enemies because they might follow you when you come back. When the hood is on, they won't see anything above your nose, but even so make sure your eyes are always red so they won't see your eye color. Also mask your scent when you get there as well so they won't track you by scent."

"So I guess you can't come with me then?" I said sadly

She put her hand on the side of my face and groomed it "No, if Deucalion comes back he might think we ditched him. Besides he is coming back pretty soon and I want to see if he has new alpha. I'm sorry"

I didn't say anything. I suspected as much because she would have said if she was coming by now. I also thought being alone would make be a better survivor. I picked up my backpack with a bunch of food water and other things. I said my goodbye to Kali and I left.

It took four days to get to my destiny of travelling through the roads, walking along the road, and stopping at gas stations and buying candy. I mostly just slept in the woods next to a tree which brought upon some bad memories. I luckily didn't run into some trouble which I was actually surprised. When I finally got to Sacramento and I reached the cemetery. It was a simple but large cemetery with a small but mean looking black gate around the cemetery, some flowers and other things on people's graves. This place didn't really creep me out since besides the graves and the fence, it looked peaceful and welcoming. That was until it began to rain very hard. It started to hit against my face and I put on my hood and my eyes glowed but no one could see them. I started looking at all the graves trying to find where the grave of Bruce Pierce was. It sounded familiar and that's the only reason why I came because he might have been related to me, maybe my father. After about ten minutes of just wandering around and looking at graves I have finally found it. And someone else too, an old guy who seemed to be praying next to the grave. I didn't want to interrupt him so I waited but the old geezer took ages so I finally said something.

"Excuse me, did you…" I started to say

I was interrupted when he turned around and threw a punch at me aiming for my head, I moved my head to the side and backed away fast. He had some sort of fighting stance

"What the hell old man! I was just going to ask you…"

"Oh shut up! You think I am a fool? You were probably sent here by crow to come and kill me! Besides, with what you're wearing you look pretty suspicious to me."

"Okay I don't even know what in the world you are talking about but…"

He ran towards me and tried to throw a kick on me but I caught it and flipped him but he somehow caught himself. He then rushed towards me again and tried to roundhouse kick me but I caught it again inches from my face and pushed it away. I could have counter attacked and hit him if I wanted to but I am not trying to beat up a man that five times my age.

"I don't want to fight you I am just here for answers I swear." I said

"Why should I believe you? Huh!?" he said

I removed the glove from my right hand and showed him the ring holding it up for him to see. He looked surprised and he put his hands down as to say he does not want to fight me anymore.

"You are my grandson. I don't believe it…." He said stuttering

I laughed out loud pretty hard, but it stopped when I saw that he was not joking. I kind of got scared because our first step to becoming buddies was fighting each other and I did not want him to be my first sibling.

"Uhhhh…say again." I said

He pointed at the ring "I gave your father that ring when you were born; he was supposed to give it to you once you were a child." He said

"Okay I have some questions, first what happened to my parents? And why don't I remember anything?"

"Your….your father was murdered right in front of your eyes when you were about 5 years old, I took care of you for some time but you became violent. You attacked anyone who wasn't me and you were damn good at it for your age. I decided that seeing what happened to your father made you into a complete jerk and insane so I had your mother remove your memories once you were about eight. After that Emily couldn't take losing you and Bruce because you didn't even remember her so she ran off. I never really liked her anyway."

I didn't say anything for a little bit. I put my ring back and put on my blood red glove and just stared at the ground. So my mother is still alive? She didn't even care about me? This was all just weird and confusing.

"So why did you leave me?" I asked

"I didn't, you ran off to be with our wolf buddies but they were all killed by Crow. He didn't kill you because he wanted to wait for the right time." He said

"Wait so…"

"Nope, no more questions until you take the hood off. I want to see how you have changed in five years, about to be six actually." He said

I took the hood off and felt the cold rain hit against my hair, for some reason when I took it off I felt exposed. He had a warm smile that even in the rain made him look friendly.

"Jesus you need a haircut but….you look a lot like Bruce. Come on I will take you home