Hello again, here's GrinWolf, and here's the 4th chapter...Remember, read, enjoy, and review, please

I'd really love to know what do you think this far, although isn't very long yet.

Chapter 4: Daemon

Two days have passed since Grin was put in detention. Climate was completely changing during these days. Nothing could be remembered about mild temperature of Grin's birthday.

Dry, fallen leaves fluttered into a new chilly autumnal morning, meeting often the ground and being dragged by the impetuous wind. From den's entrance, it was possible to see tree's brittle branches bending to gale's force, trying in vain to resist. A few sun rays penetrated into their hidden den, but they were no longer as hot as several days ago. But sun rays lasted for a few, short moments, hidden by some threatening dark clouds.

It was clear, summer was quickly giving way to autumn.

KATHERINE's P.O.V.

Katherine, although she didn't want to leave her den, taken by a sudden moment of laziness , she forced herself to get up, streching herself to relieve the stress of her muscles, and left quietly the den, not wanting to wake up her child. This morning was an important day for her: she was going to reveal her will to abdicate, her withdrawal from her Alpha Leader's position, but she was going to be inevitably forced into exile with all members of her family, and it was just what she was aiming at. She didn't want to imperil his son's life…so young, so small, yet menaced by a life threatening danger.

She speedily reached before all others the main ground, in which Alpha would have been assigned to their various tasks, putting herself on the high rock that was in the middle of the clearing. She, then, howled in the frigid autumn morning a gathering howl, not only for Alphas, but for all pack. Within a few minutes, all the pack was sitting in front of her.

About thirty wolves, murmuring to each other about why she wanted to gather all of them so early in the morning , but they were ready to listen anything she wanted to tell them and ready to do anything she wanted them to do.

They didn't trust her very much, due to the fact she presented in a very bad moment for the whole pack, adding another two mouths to be feed, and due her failures to raise pack conditions, so they were very nervous about she wanted to say them. But they have to admit one thing: she was the only one which wanted to take reins of pack in her hands, hoping in a betterment of their shape.

"SILENCE, please" she said with a loud tone of voice that made to finish the murmur.
"I have an important announcement to make" She continued.
Her heart was beating so fast, her breath visibily intensified. She was worried about what others would think about her leaving her position as Alpha Leader. She knew she could be accoused of treason, and being killed on the spot, but she hoped with all her heart to be, at least, sentenced to exile.

"I…i decided to give up my office as Alpha Leader."
If before whispers were still audibile, that last sentence froze completely the crowd.

Then an enormous wave of words began to rain on her. Wolves in every direction spoke, but the gist of the question was still the same: what was the reason that led her to this decision?

At this point, she was scared.

Actually, she didn't want to tell them her true reason. She and her son could be both killed because of her son's genetic abnormality, and she didn't want to risk their lifes, or at least not that of her newborn son.

During all the commotion she squeezed her brain as possible, determined to find a solution that would lead her and her son out of there safe and sound.

Slowly, onlookers's voices faded into a silence, readiy to listen to her motivations.

"Got it!" She tought to herself, then she began to speak

"I came to this bitter decision, because i want to avenge the death of our previous Alpha Leader of this pack… the pain I feel is unbearable… I feel compelled to honor their memory for have accepted me into their pack, threating me like i were their daughter. I want to respect their kindness, to which i will always be grateful. I decided I want to find the responsible of their murder and make him or her suffer of a never ending pain!" She said with a composed, but angered tone.

Other wolves were surprised to see such a loyal attachment to their previous Alpha Leader, and they began to howl in approvation of her willingness.

"It's done" she thought "I'm gonna leave this place in three-four days, and they won't ever see my face again". She smiled, thinking about her near future.

Then she noticed something, wolves were pratically losing interest in her speech, and gradually the mob started turning their heads to what interested mostly them. She could see their facial expression changing from a joyful and happy to a mixed expression of fear and surprise.

Her first thought was that her almost certainly killed husband was still alive, but she proved to be horribly wrong.

GRIN's P.O.V.

He woke up after a few minutes his mother left their den to fulfill her duties as a leader. He was put in detention for a week, and have already been two days. His punition was to not leave their den, due to his previous endeavour to leave den without his mother's supervision, trying to sneak out while his mother was sleeping.

"Great" he muttered under his breath "I was born two weeks ago, and i haven't seen anything of the outside world yet!" He stomped angrily one of his little paws on the ground.

"Mom can't continue to keep me confined here, and let me lose everything it's going on outside!"
So he decided to break the rules, and venture outside "Of course, i don't think mom will know about my little walk outside…eheh" he thought, and so he approached den's entrance. When he took a look outside, his eyes widened.

"W-w-wow" he stuttered, unable to say anything else. He was completely charmed by the view.

When he stepped outside, a blow of wind started ruffling his fur, and send a chill to his spine.

He was eager to know, eager to explore whatever nature has created, grassy paths, mountains, hills, waterfalls.

He started to look at surroundings just out of his his right there was a deep fracture into the earth that lead to a endless, dark cliff. Straight before him stretched a vast thick forest whose trees seemed to take frightening expression, and whose branches were flogged by a dreadful current. At his left he could see various gradients that would lead to grassy plains. He decided to go left, driven by curiosity, and started to chase a raccoon, trying to have a bit of fun.

He started to run behind him, running through bushes and stepping into shallow ponds, giggling the entire time, aiming to get the raccoon and play with him. But running while watching exclusively the raccoon wasn't a good move, and soon he bumped into something, but wasn't something hard or sharp, on the contrary, was something soft, furry and warm.

"Ouch!" They both said at impact time. Grin, after the impact, closed his eyes moving forward but he didn't see a fallen branch, so he stumbled over it and fell down. In the meantime, Grin heard a male voice asking, deeply concerned : "Kyros, are you okay?" Then he heard groaning another voice, answering "Yeah, i suppose so, Cyril, ah, by the way, thanks for helping me".

Then Grin regained his balance, and standed up, only ending to notice he was in presence of other three wolves, slightly larger than him. He was a little bit scared, so he tried to withdraw slowly from their view, but they noticed him, and one of them start talking:

"Hey, what do we have here, a little wolf? Don't be afraid, we won't bite… at least I won't" He said chuckling, looking at his brother who was regaining his balance too and trying to stand up, and his brother answered at his look with a slight growl, rolling his eyes. "We're all brothers... my name's Cyril, his name" pointing to his brother "is Kyros, and her name" pointing to her sister, who blushed slightly "is Iris...We have been so called because behind our name there's a hidden meaning.

Cyril means regal, elegant.

Kyros means forward-looking, but also young.

Iris means Gods's messanger, but also flower and a eye portion.

I think I speak on behalf of all to say...nice to meet you, little one!

Oh, i'm sorry, i just kinda bore you, didn't I? So, why don't you tell something about you to us?"

"Ah…uhm… m-my name is Grin" he said with a smile, but when he spoke, they seemed caught by something.

They didn't pay much attention before, but something about him caught definitely their sight. His eyes were very characteristic: One was green, the other one was brown.

"Wow!" "Incredible!" "Unbelievable!" They said at the same time. Grin turned his head behind him, figuring that they had seen something behind him. "What" he said in a worried thing "What's going on?"

They started giggling, and Iris explained him the reason of their wonderment: "Oh, don't worry, we were simply admiring your marvelous eyes… I think they could mean that inside of you could coexist two different types of souls, don't you think?"

Grin, slightly confused, tilted his head said: "What…what is a soul?"

The trio smiled, but they understood that maybe he was really too young to comprehend such a difficolt concept. So they tried to shrug off him those concerns, and Cyril spoke again: "Why don't we play something togheter? Maybe it's me, but i don't wanna wast all day chatting, let's do something!"

They started an intense session of playing, playing a lot of games Grin had never heard of.

How could you blame him, he was a newborn pup after all. But he had never had so much fun in his entire life like now.
Time passed by, game after game, chase after chase, but soon was time to return to their families. The wolf brothers wanted to introduce him to their parents, and they know they were participating in a sort of public meeting.

Grin didn't want to initially, but after being prayed by all three of them , he couldn't say no, and walked with them to the meeting place, nervous to meet new people, and hoping they were nice and kind like their sons.

Finally they arrived there, and he saw a large amount of wolves standing there and listening to a single wolf speaking on a high rock in the middle of the ground. He didn't care very much to the speech, knowing that if was going on something important, his mom would have told to him: after all, she was the Alpga Leader.

So they approached Cyril,Kuros and Iris's parents.

Iris speaks to a couple of wolves "Mom, Dad" they both turned their head to their sons "Look, there's someone i'd like to introduce you. His name is Grin, and he's a new member of this pack, he was born few days ago." They turned their head once more to see him, standing with a smile and said "Nice to meet-"

But, before he could finish the sentence, a scream coming from their mother's mouth directed to Grin, and it said:

"OH MY GOD…GOD, SAVE US FROM THIS! DEMON, GO AWAY!"

OH, things seems to get better and better, don't you think? What will happen to them? STAY TUNED for next chapters!