Authors note: bare with this muddled chapter I didn't want to a short ass chapter for the beginning of the chapter and I didn't want to spoil anything for the next chapter by featuring what I had planned in this one as well.
Also glad that people are enjoying this flip flop situation between painful and saddening situations to more light hearted scenarios between the characters, cause that's basically the whole theme for this story. I didn't want to go completely dramatic but I did not not want to have good moments between the characters.
My original take for this story was to keep it mystery and supernatural based but the mystery is more in the details with the characters than from the perspective of the reader. Enough for me talking let's get to the story
Friday came at a snails pace. According to Johan, his brother and the two cousins were gonna sneak into the school over the weekend and set up what they had planned.
Unless Nikkola confessed to her crimes and the juniors confessed as well what they did and deal with suspension. They weren't hoping anything. Judai texted Aster before they got on the bus to get Nikkola and bring her behind the school so they could talk.
Johan Jim and Hassleberry told them to keep them in the loop at school for Friday since they had to help out Jehu with his contraptions and hell week plan. The others didn't mind. Blair and Stella weren't allowed to leave the hospital since they found out about Blair's consussion she gave herself, while Stella was suffering from an adrenaline deficiency.
When the three boys got off the bus, they walked around the school to the back of the school, Yusuke Aster and Nikkola stood there waiting for them.
"Hey there Nikkola. So good to finally see the face behind the name." Chazz mused crossing his arms over his chest as Judai stood in front of him and Syrus. "Oh piss off Princeton." The red head had a bandage over one of her eyes.
"So how'd you get your little injury? When you tried to abuse Blair and Stella the way you did? Care to face up and explain what you did?" Judai didn't let up his rage just boiling under his skin. She nearly spit in his face earning a good hair pull from Yusuke making her glare at the green haired male behind her.
"We'll let you off easy if you confess your sins now. We take your ass to the principal and let her decide your punishment." Syrus insisted as he looked at the red head, slight annoyance on his face. He was disgusted by the woman who had bullied Blair more than once and gave Stellar a problem as well.
She whipped her head to the shorter boy. "Look at you three acting so courageous and tough. Your only like that because Bruce is dead. Otherwise you wouldn't even cross me." She wasn't wrong Judai was fearful of Bruce but he didn't back down if it meant protecting someone else.
He grabbed the front of her outfit. "I have never once been afraid of him. He may have beaten me down repeatedly but I was never afraid of him. He was afraid of me and the secret I had over his head. The secret that would've ruined his image at this very school. So don't talk big and hide behind Bruce's phantom. Because he's not here anymore and it's just between you us and your junior cronies." Her gaze didn't back down as she glared back at the harden chocolate brown eyes glaring at her.
"You plan to pay me back for what I did? Ha. Hahaha..! Do your worse Outcasts. There maybe more of you now, but you'll always be the losers of the school that nobody gave two shits about." Judai dropped her on her ass the girl grunting as her ass hit the concrete under her.
Judai tried to center himself as his rage was building still. He was pissed at this uncaring lowlife of a human being, having no remorse for the shit she put his female friends though. A deep seeded smirk crossed his face. "So then no confession? No problem. See you Monday." Judai gave nothing away as Aster and Yusuke escorted the red head back to gym as Aster winked at them.
The 5 minute bell rang as the group head to their classes. Before Judai entered his class he sent a quick text to the group chat.
Judai: Let Hell week begin.
Johan saw the text and smirked hoping in the back of Jim's truck as the 6 males went into town with Chazz's credit card to get everything and anything they would need to set traps for the red headed monster at school.
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Thanks to Aster's father being a board member, the Outcasts were able to pull some strings for hell week. One being no interference from the teachers. And none of the outcasts would be punished for the incidents that would occur.
Chazz payed the school in advance for any damages that might or might not occur as well as paid the janitors extra for the mess that would most definitely come about.
The only thing they needed to do was lay the ground work and announce it to the school of what would occur to a certain red head, and any interference from any students would get a paint bomb set off in their locker and or their car.
It didn't take much either for Axel to break the group into the school and set the first round of traps as well as the paint bombs. Jim went ahead and got every students locker number and who it belonged to printed out so that any interference could automatically be dealt with by a button push.
Judai was impressed by how throughout Jehu planned the whole hell week. The rest of Friday went by without much crazy stuff happening. The wolf boys went to work Saturday setting everything up, taking almost the whole day to get everything set.
The true crazy portion was to happen the day when Jim sat on his horn at 6 in the morning on a Sunday outside Judai's house with his parents dead asleep.
The brunette rolled out of bed shocked as hell as he unlatch the attic door, walked down the ladder and across the room to the front door forgetting his jacket as he stood outside.
"WHO IN THE HOLY- Oh my Jesus Mary and Joseph." Judai cut himself off as the three males laughed from the truck seeing Judai in just barely a damn thing, his red boxers barely covers his knees and his tank top exposing most of his torso.
"Get dressed partner! We got work to do!" Jim shouted out his window at the brunette standing in the freezing cold.
"You maniacs! It's 6 in the morning! And what work are we doing we got everything set up!" He called back, clearly thrown for a loop by the three male's antics. Johan called from the back of the truck.
"If you don't get dressed right now Ju-Chan, so help me Ill come over there and tie your ass to the roof of this damn truck!" Judai's new sudden nickname from the males words caught the brunette off guard and shocked him so stiff, he walked back in without another word of argument.
He got dressed in a white long sleeve top with a red button down vest on the front and some normal black slacks as he pulled on his shoes and wrote a note leaving it on the table for his parents to find.
He locked the house up with his key and walked to the truck, his wallet and phone stuffed in his jacket. "So are you three jackasses gonna ruin anyone else's sleep or just mine?" He said grumpily climbing in next to Johan in the bed of the truck. He noticed this time around there was a thick blanket covering the end of the truck and Johan was holding a thermos and a take out bag.
"Just yours. Blame my brother… He wants to know whos the leader of the Outcasts." Johan handed him both items when the brunette sat down as Jim pulled the truck away from the curb and drove away.
Judai immediately pulled out the breakfast sandwich and dug in smiling. "Where the hell did you get this it's amazing!" Johan smiled at Judai's expression as he boldly told him. "I made it." The brown eyed male looked at Johan with surprise who didn't look at him as he glanced over the side of the truck at the passing scenery.
"Jo-kun… It's delicious!" He chirped happily making the teal haired boy's ears dye red. He turned back to Judai his eyes closed as his smile spread across his face into an open grin. "Glad you're enjoying it!" He let out a small laugh as he opened his eyes seeing the joy on the brunette's face as his eyes soften, looking over him.
'Please don't hate me after today..' he prayed silently as his thoughts went to yesterday.
"So you care about this Judai? Knowing fully well he could be the reincarnated Supreme Alpha?" His brother broke his thoughts sitting across from him after their hard work at setting up the traps at school.
"E-eh? What do you mean?" His face dazed expression broke into something of startled and surprise mixed together. "Don't give me that bull, Jo-Jo! You've been smitten with that boy since you got him out of the woods when you were a pup!" Johan shrimped away from his brother getting up and tried to walk out of the room.
Sadly for Johan, Jim and Hassleberry were gone to collect last minute things for the first day back for them. So he had no way of avoiding his overbearing older brother.
"I've watched over him my whole life because the elder told me to! These feelings developed when I got close to him…" he explained his face dusted with pink as he doesn't look at his older brother, slightly embarrassed to look at the amber eyed male.
"It's cause the elders know that your the protector. Your his reincarnation."
"Yet they want him dead!" He argued back glaring at his older brother. "If he turns because you bit him all those years ago!"
"He would've turned already. That's not the case with the Supreme Alpha. The effects of the alpha transformation occurs after their 16th birthday. It was written down when the first Supreme alpha came forth."
"His birthday was back in August… you mean the transformation has been this slow." Jehu shook his head. He held his hand to his chin thinking as he stroke his chin.
"It's time to undo the seal on his memories. Let them come back on their own. If anything it might trigger the transformation." Jehu suggested.
"He's been having visions in his dreams of the supreme Alpha's life. If we lift the seal he could see everything." Johan argued against his brother.
"Your just afraid of having to admit you befriended him as a child and don't want to have to explain why his memories were erased…" Jehu sneered at his baby brother.
"I don't want him to despise me! Even being afraid of what I am!" He screamed at the amber eyed male.
"If he can't accept what you are then his love for you isn't real." Jehu warned making Johan glare at his brother fearfully.
Johan glanced away from the brunette as he finished eating his breakfast, a lump in his throat as he stared out at the trees around them.
"Jo-kun? Your shaking. Are you okay?" The shorter male reached for his crush's hand touching it gently, making the teal hair boy look back at him faint tears in his eyes making Judai's eyes widen.
His brown eyes searched Johan's emerald green eyes seeing what could be causing his beloved stress. "Jo-kun… tell me what's wrong.." Johan smiled sheepishly wiping his eyes.
"It's nothing Ju-Chan. Everything's okay." He faked a smile but it was so real that Judai dropped the conversation just returning the smile to his crush as the wind blew around them messing their hair lightly as Jim turned and pulled into the gravel road lot that was in front of their rut in the woods.
According to Jim Hassleberry and Johan it was a rut in the woods when in actuality it was a decent sized cabin the back door being a sliding glass door onto a furnished wooden deck with nice oak chairs with seat cushions on them.
Inside the house lead to the living room which has two couches and the kitchen area off to the corner of the room which you caught just a glimpse of through the sliding glass door.
The last time he has been here, he had arrived passed out and was taken home unconscious after he had fallen asleep in Johan's lap in his bedroom. This time he was able to see their place in all its glory.
"Nice place your guys have." Judai said kindly as he meant it since the outside of his own house look like trash so compared to his own theyres was in better shape. Hassleberry and Jim got out of the truck and walked in.
Judai looked at the trees and felt something staring at him from the woods. "Huh..? Is something out there..?" He saw a flash of dark fur and blinked his eyes confused. Johan noticed Judai staring out into the woods.
"You see something, Ju-Chan?" The brunette turned towards his crush who was standing next to the truck waiting for him to climb off the truck bed. He got to the edge and let Johan help him down.
"I..I think I did… an animal maybe?" He scratched the top of his head confused as he looked back at where he spotted the thing. Johan rolled his eyes knowing fully well it was either Axel Adrian or Jehu who ran through the trees just then.
"Yea, these woods are full of things like that you know?" He smiled knowingly at the male next to him as he tugged him inside. He knew the others would soon make their appearance. Judai followed being tugged along.
He sat down on the couch and noticed Hassleberry wasn't in the room but Jim was in the kitchen cooking. Johan shared a look with Jim nodding uneasily as he sent him a silent good luck as he went back outside and vanished into the woods.
"What's going on Johan?" Judai met his emerald eyes but they were cloudy with unsureness. This worried the chocolate eyed male seeing his crush not meet his gaze. His eyes were filled with confusion as he watched Johan pull what looked like a wooden palm sized talisman from his pocket.
"Close your eyes Ju-Chan and trust me." Judai not questioning the stern look in Johan's eyes, he shut his own and felt Johan put the cold wooden object to his forehead. Judai suddenly felt unsure himself and trembled out of nowhere.
"Jo-kun, what's going on…?" His voice sounded shakey but Johan didn't answer instead he spoke in a language Judai didn't know. He felt a sharp pain go through his head as if some block that he didn't realize had been in his mind, was being broken through by his words and the object on his forehead.
"AAAHHH! It Hurts!!!" He cried out holding his head, his hands fisting his hair as blinding pain shot through his head crumbling away the wall in his mind. "Jo-kun, make it stop!" Tears welled up under his eye lids as Johan stopped speaking and the object removed from his face.
He fell forward and sobbed into the male's chest. "It hurts… What's happening, Johan?!" He screamed in pain as the throbbing in his head slowly died down when Johan touched his head gently.
It erased the pain almost instantly as if Johan's touch soothed the pain away. Johan didnt speak a word just held the brunette in his arms stroking his hair gently as if to comfort him in a way.
his mind went back to the rest of the conversation he shared with his older brother.
"Use this to break the seal. Father gave it to me. He said only Johan would know when it was time to use it. I think you should use it sooner rather than later." Jehu told him, with his arms crossed over his broad chest his leather vest tight against him.
"This is supposed to remove the seal?" Johan looked from the item in his hand to the male in front of him. "Its supposed to give him every memory the elder's erased. Im not sure how long it will take. But since his transformation is slowly increasing, the past memories might start showing themselves as well. Just like before you shifted the first time." Johan remembered those past memories, it was of the ones the original protector had and of his last moments alive. It made Johan fearful of Judai having to go through the same thing alone.
Tears welled up in Johan's eyes as he held the Brunette in his arms tightly. "I'm so sorry, Ju-chan…" The brunette in his arms went limp, exhaustion taking hold of him from the seal breaking on his memories.
Johan pulled back slightly in time to see his brown eyes slowly close as he touched his cheek. "I'm staying right beside you…" Judai breathed his name as his head tilted to the side as he fully fell unconsious.
