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Chapter 2: Memories to forget
After Aura's farewell, Katherine really needed to use a bit rest. After all, the act of giving birth really stresses your body, and nothing was better than fall into a deep slumber to recover lost energies. She slowly rest her head on her paws, trying to curl up his newborn son to keep him warm as possible and safe. He somehow recognized her, although his eyes weren't opened yet, and squeaked happily, his face showing a cute, permanent smile, that never left his face, not even during sleep. Looking at this, his mother couldn't help but smile, and they both drifted to sleep.
Unaware of the imminent danger approaching speedily to their den.
"I'm finally home,darling!" A schizophrenic-toned voice shouted not far away from den's entrance.
Katherine was in a sort of trance, what usually happens to who stays between sleep and wakefulness, so she didn't recognize at first the voice, but suddenly she wanted to evaporate and dissipate herself through the air of the den. She could hear claws tapping repeatedly the ground, in effort to get as fast as possible to close any escape ways to his designated victims. Katherine, at this point, couldn't do anything but prepare herself pulling out every ounce of strenght left and fight against him.
He, who once loved and with whom wanted to spent the rest of her life, with whom she conceive a child, was devoured inside by a repulsive and horrifying monster, a demon, his only purpose to spread chaos and suffering in every corner of the Earth. How could she have been so blind to not notice any strange behavior, any sign of his mental madness… Until he truly showed his real face, when he beat her so hard to find herself wandering between life and death, trying to escape his blood-lusted wrath, she found herself running, pregnant, into a dense forest, aiming to reach anybody who could help her. She was lucky to find this pack, to find some such caring people like Aura and Helios. But seemed, in the end, she ran out of luck.
That voracious monster of his husband, Waylon, stand there, with a creepy smile written all over his face, determined to fulfill what he had begun. He spoke first
"So… long time no see, huh? How did you do?" trying to act innocent.
Katherine, determined to protect his pup at cost of her life from a horrible fate, wanted to making him pay for all the awful things she endured , her motherly instinct kicking in and gave her a sort of enhancement. Her fur begin to wristle in a way that she never had seen before, drool begin to pour from her massive sharp teeth, a low pitched growl coming from her throat, her claws unsheated. She rarely acted like that, unless she was being forced to. Although she's an Alpha, she always hoped for conflicts's resolution through diplomatic ways and not through force and war. But now she had no options.
Engulfed by her momentary rage, she yelled: "What do you want more from me?! It wasn't enough to scar me for the rest of my days?! I want you give you a last chance: leave NOW and never get back, because...i won't be responsible of my actions any more!" She said last part so angrily that her speech seemed more a growl than a intimation.
Her husband was temporarily taken aback from her sudden outburst, but after a moment his mouth flowed in a momentary wicked laugh. But he stopped abruptly, regained his composure and spoke: "You've never imagined how I miss you… Your warmness, your soft fur, your silken voice…and most important of all, i missed that sweet, warm, sinful taste of blood of yours!" Then he began to encircle her,licking his lips, as if he were savoring in advance her blood.
He continued speaking while circling her: "Why didn't you just let me finish what i started? Is it too much to ask you this?" Then he noticed something little beneath her, a little body of a wolf. This was his perfect occasion to take the lead. So he finally decided to act: he pretended to jump, so she prepared herself to counter a flying attack, but instead he slided near her and grabbed something by the scruff.
When she finally saw what he grabbed, he didn't realize he had done his greatest mistake: this action has unleashed in her a murderous rampage.
Never separate a puppy from its mother, especially during its first days of life.
During his escape attempt with the pup, with his son, Waylon can barely reach few meters outside her hidden den, only to be slashed fiercely by a massive paw in both his hind legs. The force was so intense that it was possible to hear a loud and brute snap in the place where her paw hit his forelegs, and he immediately felt his bones crushed, along with its neighboring tissues and nerves. When he hit the ground, he yelped so loudly in the quiet, silent morning air that his voice was reverberating like a thunder during a storm. He, during the fall, let go the newborn's weeping body, but he turned to see her.
Katherine stand behind him with a blank face, she begin walking and stomping over him, and causing him other severe fractures all over his body, trying to reach her sobbing baby. She started soothing him
"Shhh, baby boy, mom is here", she said,pick him by his scruff quickly and putting him in the den.
Then she returned outside, looking with the same expressionless face at his husband's mangled body trying to crawl away from her, she stopped him grabbing by his tail, dragging him until she was with him on the edge of a nearby cliff.
He begin to laugh, sickly, saying: "So, as you can see we're not so different… Look closely what you did to me and tell me… don't you feel mighty, knowing how have you crushed a life with a so small effort? Doesn't it seem great to you? You finally make me proud of you!" He then coughed some blood, due to his serious internal breakages.
Hearing these words, she recuperated her will, but she spit her last words to him, full of hatred:
"Don't dare you to ever, EVER, compare me to you again. You are a SICK, DEVIOUS devil that doesn't deserve to stay and inhabit the Earth anymore. So i'm gonna put an end to your despicable life… and i sincerely hope that hell won't spit you up again in this world!"
After she said that, She threw Waylon into a deep, neverending ravine nearby her den.
Finally, the worst was over.
She finally have a chance to rest and relax after a very long and painful morning. She came back in her den and cuddled near his newborn son, but something was not right…
At this time of the morning she could hear very well Alpha leaders assigning various tasks to their alphas in the main ground, but something about that deafening silence was…really frightening.