Here we are the next chapter. So, I know that in the show Ansel never had a twin brother, but it'll be explained why that important here.
So, we need a little backstory on Ansel and his pack then the story will be about him and Esther from that point on.
Hope you enjoy. Leave some Comment Please.
Over the years the packs have mostly stayed divided, some of them have built up an alliance of sots, but even that can be faulty at times.
The only pack that keeps completely to themselves is ours. It's nothing personal but our pack had always been the most renowned and hunted pack. They respect us since we hail from the very first wolf, but many of them are still jealous of how easier of transformations are, or how we can sometimes tap into our wolf abilities even as a human.
We know their looking as each new Alpha takes on his position, and later fathers a child, they're all waiting to see if this is the child of the prophecy. Well, most are after a few hundred years some people had begun to doubt Lani's words, wondering if she was just a grief-stricken women shouting at them.
Except everything else she said turned out to be true, they all bound by the full moon and turn every month like she said. So, they know it to be true, and because of this even members of our pack are waiting after every birth to see if this child turns out to be the one Lani spoke of.
Years go by and while the children later become Alpha, it's not the Alpha from the prophecy, they have control over their pack but not the others.
Then things seem to worse. While pack members are waiting for the birth of their next Alpha, they're also waiting to see they'll be cursed with a another set of twins. Yes cursed because the birth of twins always mean bad luck for the pack it never ends well.
See when an Alpha has a child they know at one point that child will take over the pack when they get older. Some Alphas relinquish the role to their child as soon as they turn 18, and some pack it's a fight to the death.
When twins are born it mean there are two possible Alphas born, and it doesn't matter who's born first, each child has a claim to the Alpha position. Which mean he'd have to fight both kids and once, or give control to both, leaving the pack with two Alpha. Something that can never happen.
A pack needs an Alpha, but they need only one. With two you have two people with different view each trying to run a pack the way they want, and they end up cashing. It always ends the same way with one twin killing the other.
We are descends of Fenrir the first wolf ever, and the first wolf to be killed by his twin. So, all packs were a little surprised, and maybe a little jealous, when we never had to go through the curse of twins being born to an Alpha.
Not once in the last thousand years since wolves came to have we had to endure this…until me and my brother were born.
I've heard the stories how my mother went into labor on the morning of the full moon, how by the time the moon had risen she was pushing and pushing until my brother popped out and her pain stopped.
He was beautiful lightly blonde hair, with blue eyes, and a crooked smile. Everything was amazing until the pain returned, and I quickly came out, another baby boy identical to my brother.
Hours later when out father returned bursting with excitement at being able to meet his child, and a little sad at having missed the birth. He was surprised to see the members in the pack who haven't turned yet look somber and sad, and he quickly filled with dread fearing they'd had another stillbirth. It happens rarely with wolves, even less with Alpha's children, but it can and has happened before.
When he got to his tent he was stopped by the midwife we he learned the truth. "Your wife is ok, and you have two health baby boys. Twins."
All air was sucked out of him at this. Twins. No, he knew about the trouble that came with an Alpha fathering twin. It would mean one of his kids would end up killing the other.
When he stepped into the tent he was smacked in the face by the sent of blood, and the urgency in the room. After I was born they discovered my mother had torn so much and they couldn't get the blood to stop. She was dying the labor and birth to much for her body, and by morning she was gone, and he was left holding to babies; wondering what they'd bring to the pact.
Well, what we brought was happiness. I was always told that while they were cautious of us at first all the pack members quickly fell in love with us. We'd run around playing with the other child ad laughing with everyone. Except for when we had training. We learned to fight at a young age hand-to-hand combat and swordsmanship.
There was so tension with anyone except me and my father.
He and my brother were as close as possible they spend hours together hiking, practicing our fighting skills. Me and him on the other hand can't seem to do anything except argue. It wasn't always like this when I was younger we were pretty close to but after I turned 13 he seemed to drift away from me and more with towards his other son.
I tried not to let it bother me, but as more years went by and our 18 birthday came closer I could feel the distance spreading between me and my father and the rest of the pack as well.
He and father would spend time together talking about what would happen when he became Alpha. It started out as a joke but after a while they talked about it as if they knew he was the one to become Alpha. After a while the pack seem to believe it to, and it seemed as if some started ignoring me, I guess there was no reason to acknowledge me if I'm not going to be Alpha.
I never wanted it. I mean my father always seemed to stressed and run down by life. I knew that if I became Alpha any chance me having the life I want, a life of being free and exploring the world would be over. I also knew that any child I would have would be hunted his entire life, the pack who don't want to be untied under one rule have been getting bolder.
There have been numerous attempts on mine and my brother's life ever since we were about 5. Our father had us see many witches trying to see what our future would hold; I think he wanted to know if we'd kill one another like the other twins had. He finally found a seer who couldn't tell which one of us would become Alpha but that one of us would father a child who would be the Alpha of the prophecy. This was when we were 13, when he started pulling away.
I wonder if that mean he fears I'll be the one to try and kill my brother.
Honestly I'm terrified of what will happen, but I want this to be over already. I don't care what happens but I'm gonna show them that I'd rather die than kill my twin. I cant help but pull away from him a part of me is jealous of the bond he and our father shared, but I still love him he's like a part of me.
Maybe after he's Alpha I'll be allowed to leave. The only time I leave our camp is when I'm talking with the other packs.
A few years ago, we were under a series of attack by Phoenix, a descendant of Viktor of course, and it was coming so frequently I knew we needed help. Even though father said no, I snuck off to ask the Crescent wolves for help. They agreed and we were able to create a tentative alliance with them.
After we got Phoenix to back off I stuck with our alliance, and managed to get an alliance and even friendship with some of the other packs. It's my job now to every few weeks to visit the pack to make sure were still good. I think It was supposed to be a punishment for going against him to get help from another pack, but I love it.
I love running through the woods, hunting in other areas and just getting a chance to get away from my camp. I mean its home and I love it, but it feel like it's a prison sometimes I can barely leave.
I want to leave it more than anything, but I'm going to miss it just as much. I love my pack, but hate how it seems I've been cut off from them. Oh well things can't get any worse.
What a fucking idiot I was. I can hear the sobbing around me and smell the blood. The pain in my heart is so intense it feels like I'm going to explode.
I remember the sound of them gathering the wood for the pyre and trying to leave while everyone was busy. I realized to late that I really didn't want to leave the pack, that I just wanted to feel like I belonged again, and that I was wanted here.
On the day of my 18th birthday, I woke up with a feeling of dread wondering how the day would end.
It started out nice enough father took us for a walk around camp, and gave everyone a chance to congratulate us on our birthday. I had to ignore the way most people gave him more attention that me, or the pain as my own father seemed to be ignoring me. I refused to let it bother me I'd had enough and had a plan all set up to leave.
They want him as Alpha so badly they can take him. A few weeks ago, I was approached by Leon he's the Alpha of another pack, one that I hadn't reached out to since it was rumored he was friends with Phoenix, and practiced in some of the same activities as him.
They were only rumors though. I meet him when he saw me walking back from a meeting with another pack and he stopped me to talk. I was cautious at first assuming it could be an attack, but he just wanted to talk. We discussed how difficult it's been since he took over as Alpha a few months ago, he said he hated it the obligation the stress, and it sucks even worse since people have been spreading rumors that he killed his father and that it wasn't an accident.
We built up quite the friendship meeting every few days to talk. It was difficult as the days leading up to my 18th birthday my father stopped letting me outside the camp as much to afraid of an attack.
He's the one I told about my plan to leave, and he was the one who agreed to help me. I knew it was for the best if me and my brother are both here on our birthday it wont go well.
When twins are born in a pack on their 18th birthday there are only a few ways it can go. Either the children and the Alpha fight until two are dead and whoever is left standing is Alpha, or he gives the Alpha position to both of them, and they try and run the pack together.
Wolves need an Alpha, but they can only have one. If there's more than one Alpha they start fighting for dominance, it cant be helped their wolves take over. Eventually the cant help but start hating each other and then eventually they cant help but fight until one of them is dead.
Well, I wasn't going to let that happen. There's one thing no ones ever tried before. In some pack they might separate the twins and father from one another, so they don't bond with each other, and it's easier for them to fight to the death.
The thing is if we're kept apart on our birthday, and if I leave the pack for awhile then when I'm not there on our birthday my father can make him Alpha. Then I can come back and be a member of the pack with no need for us to fight since my opportunity to be Alpha will have passed.
My plan seemed full proof. I had my bag packed and everything. When father took him for a walk just the two of them I ran for it. Except when I got to out meeting point Leon was there, but he looked different, no longer smiling and happy he seemed cold and emotionless. My body screamed at me to get out of there that something was wrong, but I couldn't move.
Then he started laughing at me telling me I was an idiot and weak, and there were doing my pack a favor so they wouldn't have such a weak Alpha. I struggled to move but I found that I still couldn't. Something that was explained when a witch, followed by a smug looking Phoenix walked out from behind a tree.
Phoenix was holding a knife with some green liquid on it. I was sure he was going to kill me, but it was much worse. He'd been looking for a way into our pack and he found it. The only way to allowed into our camp is with permission from an Alpha, and the only way to get the same abilities as we is to be a part of our pack.
There plan bind me to him to he can control he, make me go back and fight and win so I become Alpha, and then kill me and take over. I'm not sure it'll work he wont really be apart of our pack but he's desperate, and either way he has me in his grasp.
I should've listen to my brother. When he smelled Leon's scent on me and discovered we'd been hanging out he was pissed said he wasn't to be trusted. I refused to listen, and now look at me.
I looked up at the sky and could see the sun hadn't begun to set yet, but it will with the nest 2 hours. I could feel my wolf under the surface ready to rise fueled by my anger. I wonder if they know how dangerous we my pack is on the day of a full moon, we spend the half already half turned before we transform completely under the moons light.
I can feel my wolf coming out, and my control starting to come back. I started trying to move my arms and I had some control. I kept it small as not to get the attention of Phoenix and Leon both arguing on both wanting the pleasure of killing me. Out the corner of my eye I can see their witch standing a foot away from me not even paying attention anymore.
Before anyone can react I roll over towards her and snap her neck before taking off. I can see the tent of our camp and I almost make it before I feel one of them pounce on me. One minute he's on me but then I hear my brother yell for help and suddenly my pack is on the way.
Its Leon who's waving his fist around and trying to hit me, but I'm to pissed to be hit, and he's swinging to wildly to hit his mark. I managed to snap his neck to, and he drops dead to the ground, my victorious feeling is cut short when I get a mangled cry.
I turn to see Phoenix thrusting his arm towards by brother a few times, and when he steps back I see his poisoned covered knife now covered in my brothers blood.
I see nothing but red and in a blink of an eye I'm grabbing his knife and stabbing and cutting into him until he nothing but a bloody corpse.
I don't remember what happened next. I blacked out and the next thing I know I'm in my tent with father sitting next to me. The look on his face answers the question about rather my brother made it. He just looks at me like he doesn't even know who I am anymore, and he suddenly leaves.
I shake my head from those thought. I laid there for an hour before deciding to go see his body, I need to apologize before I head out. The looks I get from the pack stop me they range from anger, to sadness, to pity; and no one will tell me where the body is.
They blame me, and they're right to if I hadn't been so stupid no of this would've happened. It's my fault he died. It's all my fault.
That thought causes my knees to buckle and a sob to burst from me. I try and stop them, but the damns been broken, and heart wrenching sobs come from me. I know the pack is watching and I hate being weak in front of them, but I can't stop now.
When a comforting hand lands on my shoulder I know it's my father, and I lean into him. Before he pulls back from me staring angrily at my knapsack of clothes. He starts screaming demanding to know how I could abandoned me after causing this, and suddenly I'm filled with anger.
"How dare you? You…you were supposed to be my father, but 5 years ago it felt you stopped. You choose him over me. You decided he was going to be Alpha for whatever reason and basically just yelled at me, and that's if you spoke to me at all. So, screw you….You wanna know what I was doing with Leon he was helping me leave. I was tired of you and the pack treated me like nothing and I was going to leave and never come back." I'm out of breath at the end of my rant, but it feel good to get this all out.
Until I see the heartbroken look on my father's face, and I just feel sad and guilty all over again. I don't know what to do with myself, so I just grab my bag and start heading out. I only make it a few paces before I hear my father speak in a soft voice I never heard from him before.
"It was you who was to be Alpha. I knew for 5 years that it was going to be you, and I knew for 5 years that he was gong to die somehow today. I pulled away from you because I knew you'd be alive today, and I spent more time with him because I knew I'd loose my other son today." He's crying by this point.
"How…How did you know it was going to be me who became Alpha." I ask hesitantly.
"The seer I spoke to said that one of my sons if they had a child it would be the one of the prophecy. I'd know who it was because he'd be the one to help bridge the gap between the pack, and when you stared making alliance with the other pack I knew it was you. She also said the other one would be killed because of an enemy pretending to be friend. I know it's my fault this happened I should've told you everything she said I just… couldn't. He's…He's gone, and he loved you Ansel. He knew you were going to be Alpha he said you had the strength to be Alpha, a strength he didn't." He finished and he just stared at me waiting for me to say something.
I look at him and I know he tells the truth, and when I look at my pack I see them staring at me waiting for a response to.
All of a sudden I don't want to leave here; I mean its home. I only told myself I wanted to leave because I felt unwelcomed and unloved, but I was just an idiot. I know why he pulled closer to him now and I can forgive that I just wish I'd know sooner.
I could've spent more time with my brother instead of trying to get away from him.
With a startled cry I throw the bag down and run to my father, and for the first time in what feels like forever I feel his arms wrap around me and hold me tight.
A sudden scream tears through the camp and we turn to see an elder women lying down with an arrow through her throat, and suddenly were under attack. I know these men they're park of Phoenix pack probably here to avenge his death.
I feel my father pull me towards him before I can run off. Before I can say anything he grabs my hand and cuts the palm of it before doing the same to him and pressing them together.
With a start I realize what he's about to do, but I'm to shocked and excited to pull away. In a clear voice so everyone can hear he says. "I leader of this pack relinquish my position of Alpha to my son Ansel for he shall lead us in this upcoming battle in his rightful position as Alpha."
I feel a force slam into be and it's so strong I collapse into his arms.
I feel the battle stop for a minute all the wolves watching this unfold. I feel my father kiss my forehead and whisper. "Go protect you pack, and be the Alpha I knew you would be."
My strength returns and with a roar of anger the battle continues with me leading my team to victory.
Some of Phoenix's pack live. I allow them to so they can spread the word about the new Alpha, and what happens if they continue to mess with us.
Sobbing. God I can hear so much of it as we light the pyre and say out finally goodbye to our fallen pack member.
My brother. The only life we lost last night. After the battle was my first full moon running as Alpha, and while it was exhilarating I could feel a part of me missing.
Since we've taken out first kill at 12 after another attack, I'd always ran as a wolf with my brother by my side. Now that'll never happen again. I take a step towards the pyre as it burns.
"I love you brother so much, and I will never forget you. I'm sorry I didn't listen to you, and I'm sorry I didn't spend more time with you. I promise I'll make you proud. I'll be the Alpha you thought I would be. Goodbye brother I will always remember you."
Yep so this was Ansel life growing up crazy huh. Anyway, next chapter we get back to him and Esther.
I jeep referring to his brother as "My brother or him" that'll be explained next chapter.