Children of the Starnik

This is Alternative ending one, let me know what you think. Enjoy. :)

Chapter 51: A Time for Everything and Everything in Place

Now, many of you would think that this was just a story that the Starnik had told their children, and their children before them to pass down when they no longer can. It's actually far more then that. This story was told, not by the Starnik, but by someone else. Two hundred years into the future, a time where everything was just the place the Starnik dreamed to create. Wolves and Human lived side by side, not just across the country, but across the globe.

The Starnik and others set out to other and distant countries so they could teach others that this can be done. Russia being one of the major countries with a "wolf problem" as they put it was the first to become the new safe zone for wolves, Finland wasn't too far behind, Siberia shortly followed and as the Starnik travelled the world, they also found no sign of the Ditori, they did the right and cautious thing, to close down and accept that the world was going to change. It was only twenty years into the future that the world was at it was now, the Starnik lived to see it, and their youngest daughter cast her spell to all her descendents when they turned two, so that they too can live the life span of a human. Myka's children and their children after all inherited her gift, so they were to carry on the gift and knowledge of the Starnik Wicca bloodline.

Back over in America, you'd find humans and Wolves as equals, laws set down back in the days of the Starnik to keep them both in check and punishments. An attack from either species on the other is a jail sentence, they'd both go there, no longer a pound. Wolves started to get jobs, ones that they could of course. So things like game keepers, reserve guides, even teachers. Wolves had the natural ability to learn things as they grew up, some become far smarter then most humans to the point they received jobs in universities. They were paid, they didn't work for free. They had their own bank accounts, most lived in their own homes inside towns and cities. Technology had enhanced to thumbprint recognition, so it was the same principle to wolf prints. Some worked in care homes, wolf pups given up at birth were given into care and had the same treatment all human children did. They were given a social worker, sometimes which would be a wolf, they were given their own rooms, and they went to school. Nearly all wolf pups went to school in these days, but because of their shorter life span, they only spend three months in one grade before moving up to the next.

Crime and punishment wasn't a problem, like I said, both sides would go to jail, but a wolf would get a shorter sentence due to having a shorter life span. The longest they could get would be five years. There was the problem that arose with interspecies prostitution, but that was cut down by far and no reports have gone out about it for the last fifty years. Wolves hated the jails just as much as the humans; they should be out and free to move, not behind bars. SO it taught them the lesson.

This was the year 2218; flying cars weren't around like the futuristic sci-fi movies suggested back in the past. But technology had taken some big leaps. Phones, military, weapons, hospitals were just some of the places and things that had new ways to do what they did. Science persists they'll be able to solve the puzzle of the flying car in the next fifty years.

So that was the world, how it is now and what the two species are up to. But what of the Starnik and their descendents? Nobody knows. The Starnik were known for being the most generous and loving family of all, that nothing stood between them. But after the first generation was born, nobody knows what happened to them. Some say it ended there, others say it carried on o this day and they live among us. A place was discovered in Idaho in 2047, a temple like place. One large domed like room with more rooms that led off out of it. The ceiling looked like it caved in, a giant hole rested on the top. The walls and other rooms were still in tact, but the excavation team didn't know what to make of it, or what this place was. So they brought in their archaeology team, one of which was a wolf and a supernatural with the gift to understand and speak every known language there had ever been. He saw this was ancient Dire Wolf, the the first thing he saw was the story of the Original Starnik, but across the large domed room was a second, telling the story of their successors. Their names cropped up several times in the second story. "Scott, Rosie, Lupa and Dakota." Written many times. Adding that to the rhyming poems another team found in the second room with a waterfall, they concluded this was where the Starnik once lived. But the main question was, what happened to them.

The Starnik were their saviours, the world's saviours. So it was called in and the few years that followed, it was turned into a museum. The rubble was cleared, the giant hole in the ceiling filled in to stop the rain and areas the public weren't to touch and go in taped off. A building was made out of that part of the mountain. Museum guides started to learn the history of the place and what the stories said to they could read them out to others. But then one day, one hundred years after the museum opened, something shocking happened. The head of the museum found on his desk, a book. And an old book it was, couldn't be more or less then one hundred years old. The pages were tattered and tearing and the cover not fairing much better. He asked where it came from, it was handed in by someone and they turned around to leave. They said they found it and that it belonged here. He gave it to an examiner who opened it, to find it was no ordinary book, nor was it an ordinary witch's book of shadows, but the youngest daughter of the Starnik, Myka's. The book had returned to its home. It was put on display but far enough away so the public couldn't get their hands and paws on it. Only the people who worked there and the guides were allowed to take it down and show the public that was inside. Its contents were spells from her, diary entries of her life, pictures of her family, but also, a list of names. The next two pages didn't contain anything, they were blank.

Now, I said at the beginning that this was not just a story; I can say it's a lesson. This story was being told in a lesson. A fourth grade school class came with their teacher who happened to be a wolf to the museum on a field trip. Seven humans and three wolves, all three still small pups int he class. They walked around the museum, taking in the sites while she explained the story of the Starnik. "And this I believe is the very book Myka used to say her spells." She said as they came to it, making every child gasp in wonder and awe. It sat on a pedestal beside the waterfall in the Sanctum with a protective cover over it. "It was brought here by an unknown person, but now the museum keeps it."

"How do you know all this ma'am?" A student asked. She turned to him with a smile.

"My family many generations ago were friends with the Starnik, their stories were passed over and down to me." She answered.

"What happened to them?" A wolf pup asked.

"No-one knows." She replied honestly. "There are many theories as to what happened to our saviours. One is that the bloodline continued to the point their descendants didn't inherit powers so they led a quiet life. Another was that they bloodline stopped after the third generation was born, that the pups of Lupa, Faolan, Jack, Myka, Dakota and Chance were the last of the Starnik. Another I heard about was that the mother, Rosie, because of her immortality, she still walks the earth with her daughter Lupa who was still a spirit and couldn't die, watching over their family as they grow up." She said. "But then there was also the famous birth mark." She added. "It's said that only the Starnik bore the mark of two white claws, and that every she-wolf in the family carried the same mark. If the bloodline is still around today, and you see a she-wolf with two white claws on her front right paw, you can be sure that she is a Starnik, their descendent."

"What do you believe ma'am?" A second pup asked slyly and stepping forward to the front of the group. She smiled down at him, out of her entire class; she'll admit he was her favourite of the class.

"I believe that they are always around us, that the bloodline of the Starnik never stopped and they live around us all the time in plain sight." She giggled, but why? "Now, moving on." She said as she walked off with her class right behind her and towards the waterfall where the next lesson started. But the wolf pup didn't move, it stood facing the book when a curious thought came into its mind. What was in it? He was only being a young and curious pup, he couldn't resist. He looked around, there wasn't any security in the area, and his class were the only people in here today, so he had the perfect moment while they weren't looking. He crept under the tape and climbed the pedestal to place his paws on the box and get a closer look. He could see the writings and the picture that was on the page. It was off two wolves, a black and white male and a light brown and white she-wolf. He knew them, he had seen many pictures to know that this was Dakota and Lupa of the Starnik.

The teacher looked back to see the young pup where he shouldn't be, only she didn't yell or call his name. Instead she told the children to stay there and looked into the waterfall, because some say you can see the spirits of the Starnik in it while she padded up to him. She stopped behind the line. "And what are you doing over there?" She giggled. He spun around and flattened his ears.

"I'm sorry miss, I just wanted to see." He said stepping down. But she stopped him when she jumped over the tape and motioned for him to come back and look.

"It's pretty cool right." She said.

"All my family have seen it, I haven't yet, I'm not old enough." He sighed.

"You will, not that long to wait now." She said. "Now come on, back to class." She said nudging him with her nose and moving him back to the group. There was more to the pup then meets the eye; the same went for his teacher. It came to the end of the tour, and the end of school as well. So the class headed outside where the teacher said a few last parts to finish off the day before dismissing them all. They all lived in the town not far away, so they all walked together across the forest trail. But the young pup was stopped when his teacher called him. "Nathan!" She called. He stopped and padded back to her.

"Yes ma'am?" He asked.

"Oh you can stop calling me "ma'am" now, we're not in school." She giggled. "Come on, your mom and dad asked me to walk you home."

"Ok Aunt Taylor." The pup said tail wagging and bounding around beside her.

"Did you enjoy today?" She asked as they walked into the depths of the forest, Nathan was one of the many wolves that still lived in the forests.

"It was fun, I can't wait for tonight." Her eyes widened.

"I almost forgot!" She exclaimed. "It's your coronation. I told you you'd see the book soon."

"I know, I'm really excited." He said bounding around her and running circles in pure excitement.

"I can tell." She giggled.

"Are you going to be there?" He asked after jumping on her back and riding her like a horse making her laugh.

"Of course, I can't miss my nephew's big day." She giggled. She dropped her nephew off at his home not far from the museum. She was offered to stay, but she didn't, she had to get ready for the big night ahead. Preparations fro Nathan was started straight away his mother bathed him, something he hated. Like most pups. It wasn't like he hated getting wet, he loved to swim, but in his eyes, there was a fine line between swimming and taking a bath. Swimming was fun, having a bath wasn't, you just sat there. His mother pulled him out when she was satisfied. She licked him dry and then groomed his fur. She was one of those mothers that always did things far before they needed to be done, they had to wait for hours still, and her pup was most liking going to ruin his fur in the time they had to wait. His father just sat and watched with a smile, he knew he'd have to be cleaned again before the time came. But he loved to see his mate exaggerate about these things.

Night crept over the forests quickly, bringing with it the cold winter breeze that had blow in with it. It was to snow any day now; any wolf could smell it coming. Darkness had filled the museum, it was quiet, no sound other then the sound of the window blowing through the sleeping chambers, making the whistling sounds it makes. Outside the Temple, a security guard sat in his office that was built on the outside. Usually it's the point where you pay to get inside, but at night it was his office. The full moon shone brightly and filled the forest with its light. Far in the distance you could hear the wolves in the town and surrounding areas howling.

Approaching the museum, a black wolf came walking through, on its own, seemingly minding its own business. Only it headed to the temple. The guard saw its approach and walked outside to meet it. He stood in front of the doors to the tunnel that led inside, the wolf stood some distance from him, neither saying a word. The she-wolf nodded, and the guard did in return before turning around and unlocking the doors. They knew one another; the guard had to keep her secret. She padded inside not saying another word and the guard locked the door behind her.

The only sounds she heard were the sound of the whistling going on the sleeping chambers and her own paw-steps. She walked across, laughing a little bit as she took in her surroundings, so much had whistled casually as she walked into the sanctum and towards the book, where then she removed the casing skilfully with her own paws and brought it over to the front of the waterfall. She started flicking through the pages, tutting as she did at the state of it and how much it was aging. It wasn't always like this, had she kept it, maybe she could have done something to preserve it. She found the page she was looking for and read out loud one of the writings inside. "Power of the family spirit rise, course unseen across the skies, come to us we call you near, come to us and settle here…" She then bit a small cut in her paw and dripped a few drops into the water behind her. "Blood to blood I summon thee, blood to blood return to me." She closed the book and waited to see what happened. But she knew it worked, she knew it would, this wasn't the first time that she did this, she did it every full moon.

The room was suddenly filled with a one hundred small, green lights that only made it look one giant one that filled the room and blasted out the room and into the main dome. Four of which appeared either side of her. One a second later, those lights formed into Wolves and Humans, that all gazed up at the four wolves that stood before the waterfall. But that only lasted a moment before they all broke out into laughter and greetings.

All these people were family, Humans and Wolves, only this was not what it seemed. A second bright light filled the room, but only coming from one wolf. No-one reacted when the wolf that stood beside the witch that brought them all together again pushed back onto his hind legs and he turned into a human, carrying with his bow which he took off and placed to the side. He was forced to turn once again. He walked up to the other humans and pulled each on into a hug after which he did the same to his family. The rumour about the Starnik bloodline never going extinct wasn't exactly true. It can never go extinct, if none of them died. Scott and Rosie grew up and aged, but it was when they still saw how the world needed them to watch over the world and their descendants weren't gaining powers that the saw that they'd still be nedded. So the entire family was called when he and Rosie aged to be fifty, she still aged at the same pace as he. The entire family gathered just like this, but in the Valley where they lived to come to an agreement with the humans that they needed to stay. So using some advice and an idea from her brother-in-law, Myka fashion up several bracelets of immortality to hand out to them all her family, even the youngest. But they made a rule that the younger ones wouldn't have their bracelet until they were two.

Scott, Rosie, Lupa, Dakota and Myka have lived all this time with their mates and children and their mates and children, watching over the world. Scott was getting to become an old man when his aging was stunted by the bracelet. Faolan, Chance, Dakota, Myka and Jack, were in their twenty's when they had their's put on, but they don't look any different then they were when they had their on. Each one of these wolves had their own bracelets, neither one of them aging since they had them put on.

The human's were none other them Tony, Skye, Kristy, Cody, Melissa and Michael with their families, no more after their children came. Their children's aging was stopped at eighteen, where as their parents were in their fifties as well. Only these few stayed, the others declined them when they were offered to live forever. Jenny knew better then anyone that they all had a time, she even saw her own death at one point, she had to see it through. David never wanted to leave her side, so when the time came, they died together of old age. Tess never again wanted to leave her father, so she too denied her chance at living forever. Those that did were accepted into the family and made a part of it. The Starnik didn't only just pass on the lesson that Wolves and Human's could live together, but also that family was what was important more then anything. Lupa was the only one other then Rosie who didn't have to wear her own bracelet, for she was dead, how can something dead age. Sirius lied when he said that she would, but she didn't hold a grudge him, she laughed it off. Rosie was connected to Scott who wore his, if he didn't age then she didn't and her immortality prolonged her long life. Scott may be an old man now, but he still had a spring in his step, always acting as if he was still twenty.

They'd do this every full moon, get the entire family together. The Starnik's genes were passed down, more of their family gaining gifts of their own. But they learnt something very valuable. Chance, Jack and Faolan were supernaturals, so their blood carried their gifts, as did the Starnik and their children, hence why with their mates blood combined, their pups had their abilities. A supernatural's power is held within their blood. But the generation after found their mates to be ordinary wolves, and the chances of their pups having powers after them and them after decreased. It came to the point where now it was a suppressed gene, where they were lucky if they received powers. Some did, but most didn't. But the rest of the family loves them just as much. Whether they had powers or not, they were still family. Two things they all had, whether or not they had powers were their eyes and the girls of the family. All their eyes changed when their emotions run high or when they control them, at will. Everyone of them had that, whether they had powers or not. And every she-wolf was born with the same two white clawed front right paw. Never a male had been born with the mark, only the she-wolves.

After an hour of talking and greeting each other once more after not seeing one another for a long time, it came to the moment they all gathered on this beautiful night. The Starnik and their children lined up before the waterfall and the rest of their descendants gathered back around, most of the younger pups gathered at the front so they could see. It fell silent as Rosie spoke.

"We are gathered here again to see through the next generation of Starnik. Nathan, can you come up here please?" She asked looking towards the pup at the front. He was excited before, but now he had to get up in front of his entire family and do this, it brought the nerves out in him. His Aunt who he spoke to today nudged him forwards as she sat behind him. He did and stepped towards his great ancestors. Scott stepped forward and picked up his far down the line grandson for all to see. He was from Myka's blood line, and Jack smiled up at him, proud that his line was a good looking one. This was a ceremony that the Starnik came up with; to really show they were a family. Scott then continued.

"The next generation of Starnik, the next of our family. May he always be blessed with an eventful and bountiful life." He then muttered, but loud enough for them all to hear with their wolf like hearing. "But not as eventful as ours." The family erupted into laughed and giggles, but the pup had no idea what they meant. Some of these pups had already undergone the ceremony, others were not old enough. They were to be seven months old to undergo it. Then they'd go through another when their bracelet would be bestowed to them when they turned two. Scott placed Nathan down, and Myka motioned for him to come over. She sat with him between her paws while she flicked through the pages to the very last ones. In her earlier days, she managed to fill up her book again after she had given it an extension. She turned to the last few pages, the ones that were blank. Nathan looked up to her, why would she turn to a black page? She smiled down at him and waved her paw over it while saying.

"Guided spirits, hear my plea; reveal this magic, so mote it be." She turned the book around on it's side as names started to appear on the pages, it started with the top with three names, Scott, Shadow and Rosie, then underneath them connected by lines were Lupa, Dakota and Myka whose names were beside Jack, Faolan and Chance.

It was a family tree of everyone in the family. Getting wider and always longer yet somehow there always seemed room on the two pages for more names. Nathan found his mother and fathers name with his grandparents above them, but his name wasn't on there. His cousins were, but why wasn't he. "It's time to add you to it." Myka said. He looked back up to her, and she could feel his tail wagging against the inside of her legs.

"Really?" He asked, making all the she-wolves and female humans "aww" at his cute little voice.

"Uh huh." She said nodding her head. "Place your paw over it." He did, putting his small paw over the middle of the two pages and she placed her over his. "I call forth from space and time, matriarchs of the Starnik line, accept this pup, the latest of many, he's one of us, add his name to our family tree." Her eyes glowed above the small pup, as did the rest her family and every wolf around, showing he was now the latest of the Starnik name. Letters crawled out from under his paw, the letters of his name. They snaked from his paw and across the page towards his parents. There and underneath his parent's name, the letters rested and a line joined them together. Every wolf on the room threw back their heads and howled in celebration and the humans "whooped" and clapped their hands with them.

The Starnik line will never be broken. Because of family, their love was ever lasting. When they come together, they are the strongest, family makes them stronger. Nothing is more powerful, the full moon, weapons, or supernaturals have no chance at beating family. The Ditori fell because they stood in-between family, Myka, Lupa, Dakota and their children were born because of the love they have as a family. The reason they're all still alive is because of it. People always wonder why Wolves love one another like family even if they're not, but it's because they are, maybe not by blood, but in heart. The Starnik are a family like no other. Not because of whom they are and what they did, but because they have proved that family can do anything when they're together. Nothing can extinguish it, nothing can defeat it. The Starnik bond shall never be brought to an end. It shall live on, forever.

Alternative ending one, how'd you like that? I'm ready to cry now, because to me that it the end. Please review the ups and downs to the chapter before going onto the next one to give your verdict. See ya. :)

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