Eternal Wolves Chapter 50

An hour later, all of the original gladers except for Jeff since he was looking after Newt, were all seated in a circle at Thomas and Brenda's having a Gathering. Thomas was seated at his desk that was made of dark wood with a wooden chair accompanying it. He was currently sifting through papers that were all spread out on his desk. Minho looked at Thomas with a look full of suspicion as he spoke the words the whole group wanted to say after Thomas had dropped the biggest bomb of information on them a few moments ago. "So what you're saying is that Ava Paige sent up a box that was filled with all of your old records and lab notes with all the blueprints to the experiments that you were in charge of at Wicked? When exactly were you planning on telling us? I feel that was a fucking slinthead move if we're all gonna be honest now."

Thomas shot an annoyed look over at Minho before going back to reading the lab folder that he was currently occupied with. "The box appeared one day in our house when I came back from patrol. The note inside said that these were everything I needed from my days of being a Creator. Now that I've read everything, all that has been happening has made sense. I know you're all pissed off, but I didn't even look through this stuff for the longest time because it always reminds me how much I hate the fact that I was the one that caused all of this. So if you don't mind I'd like it you'd all lay the fuck off while I try and figure out what's going on."

Gally glared at Thomas before standing up and walking over to the front of the desk making Thomas look up and quirk an eyebrow at him. "Thomas you kept vital information to yourself that could explain what happened to us and all the hell we went through. Not to forget that now this is way more personal seeing as how my baby sister and her mate who's your best friend by the way, is suffering because we haven't had a clue how to make it better for them. I suggest you start talking and be as honest as fucking possible with all of us. No more secrets. No more lies. It's time for the truth." Thomas held Gally's gaze for a moment before sighing and reaching into his desk pulling out two vanilla lab folders that had the name's Newt and Hope printed on them. "Then I guess we should go over these first. This is everything we know about Newt and Hope. Where they came from. Who they were before this. How the virus was planned for both of them. How everything that has happened has almost gone perfectly according to the plan. I suggest that you all hold on to your seats because this is going to be a long story."

"We'll start with Newt. Newt was born in London on September 23rd. The exact year is unknown but we've estimated he's about 17 years old. He was born with the name Elliot James Gallagher III and had an identical twin sister by the name of Rosalind Eva Gallagher. Their parents both fell victim to The Flare virus right after the sun flares hit the earth. Neither lived a long life. Both Newt and his sister Rosalind were taken as subjects into Wicked. And both were introduced as variables with the injection of The Flare virus during the trials. Rosalind died in the maze in a failed control group that happened before Group A and Group B were formed. As I remember, Newt and Rosalind were very close and Newt was devastated when she died. He was in the control room with me when she died and that memory didn't leave him until he received the swipe. Newt was actually planned to die during the final stages of the trials when The Flare had worked its way through his system and we had enough of the blueprints of his kill zone intact. When I saved him, he was released as a subject when Wicked fell as we all were, and Ava Paige sent the lycanthropy virus for him to be cured and now the only mission for us all is to reproduce and repopulate filling the world with immunes. Newt and Hope reproducing many offspring is vital to this mission because both have the cure infused in their systems and will breed a more powerful supernatural race of wolves that will insure that no disease will ever affect the earth like it did The Flare."

Everyone was quiet for a moment letting the vast amount of information on their friend and second in command sink in. Minho spoke once more with a slight shake to his voice. "Yeah well, if you have records on all of us about who we were before the trials I definitely don't want to fucking know. We all made a life as who we are now. I don't think we need to delve into the past and open the closets of skeletons." All of them nodded in agreement as Gally narrowed his eyes at Thomas. "Alright so we now know about Newt, but what about Hope? How does she fit into all of this?" Thomas looked at him intently for a few moments before closing Newt's folder and opening Hope's as he began to go over the information. "Well Gally, I've got some good news for you. Hope is actually you're baby sister. She's three years younger than you. You were the oldest child of your family and you always were very protective of her. Your name before the trial was Austin Michael Booker and Hope's name is Bethany Eliza Booker. You both were born in Tennessee in America before the sun flares wrecked everything. You're 18 and Hope's 16. Your birthday is on February 14th and Hope's birthday is on June 2nd. Both your parents succumbed to The Flare very early on. But both of you were born as immunes. When you found yourself orphaned with having to take care of Hope, you took Hope and yourself to Wicked to work towards a better life. You thought you would be taken care of and you were for a while but only to find out that both you and Hope would be used as test subjects. You were both separated as you were sent into the trials and Hope was held at Wicked to be used to test experimental cures. When they created the lycanthropy virus and Hope was infected with it we saw that it made her a wolf. She was the very first wolf created by Wicked. She's extremely powerful and she'll become more powerful when she is mated and Newt in turn with be the strongest Alpha to ever walk the earth. They're going to be quite the power couple I think."

Gally put his head in his hands as his breathing turned ragged with his voice shaking from his warring emotions. "You took me away from my baby sister and stuck her with needles until you turned her into a wolf? She was just a kid. How could you do that when she had no one else but me? Everything is coming back now about how she relied on I for a better life and I failed her by taking her to you fucking Creators." Letting out a long heavy breath, he stood once again and walked over to where Thomas sat at the desk as his eyes bore into Thomas's skull. "Not a word gets out about this. No one in here should say anything to them until I get a chance to talk with my sister. I'm the one that's going to make this right with her. I have to. I was the one who caused her to suffer so I'm going to be the one to make sure her and Newt are taken care of for the rest of their lives."

Everyone nodded in agreement as Thomas nodded slowly before looking around the room and meeting each of their eyes. "Now onto the main problem of the day. How can we help Newt and Hope control their powers before and after they mate until they can control it themselves. That is where this particular folder comes in handy. This folder is filled with all the lab notes having to do with the lycanthropy and how to handle any malfunctions that may occur after one is injected with it." Minho looked less than thrilled at the prospect of delving more into the minds of the Creators that had made their life a frickin hell but still managed to deadpan out an answer. "Great… let's get this over with. I've just about fucking had it with talk of the frickin Creators for one day. How are we gonna keep the furballs safe and sound until they can control their little wolfy magic?" Thomas blinked as the corner of his mouth twitched into an almost smirk. "The key to the power of the bond and keeping it stable is having each of them have someone that can act as a rock to keep them steady and let the magic flow infuse into their soul as to keep them grounded from the currents that run through their mating bond. So long story short we'll need two volunteers to be infected with the virus as well so the energy will have more conductors spreading it out evenly between the four wolves essentially creating the beginnings of a pack. Newt will then be able to stabilize his mating bond with Hope by his Alpha status coming into play as he leads the others. My advice is for each of you to go home and think about whether or not you want to be the one to be infected. The infection comes with great power but there are consequences and hardships that come into play as well. In the end, we need two people to make the commitment by tomorrow night when the full moon will unleash its power over all wolves in the vicinity. It will be the best time to complete the transformation without incident. Until then, we should all be prepared for everything to go to hell until the two step up and bring stability as a wolf pack. We'll all meet back here for a Gathering tomorrow afternoon before the sun sets to complete the transformation. If there's nothing else, I think I'll say this Gathering is over."

Everyone was stunned and shell shocked into silence as each other them cast their eyes downwards thinking of how the biggest change to Glader history had yet to happen. And it was all going to have to go down before the full moon tomorrow night. All they knew for sure, was that tomorrow night the power of the wolf pack will be forged and a new journey was about to unfold.