Upward

The Child

Weeks have passed by and Upward has been at high alert at all times since the day when Anita's family have been slaughtered. But the Rogues still haven't made a move on them yet, which was strange. This made the whole pack confused but regardless of what was happening, Anita still made sure that all her warriors were ready to fight.

It was around 1am in the morning and everyone was up and about guarding the Williams house as usual. Anita and Ramya were asleep in the master bed room of their home. But Rami woke up feeling uncomfortable. It was the most pain she's ever endured. All she could do was sit up and moan. She tried to wake Anita up but she was a deep sleeper and nothing she did was working. Until she screamed out loud and slapped her alpha's face. She woke up that time. Anita sat up in the bed and looked over and at her Luna like she'd lost her mind.

"Do you know what time it is? I need all the sleep I can get every night" after she spoke she realized what was happening. Ramya was going into labor with her child. She pulled back the sheet and there was blood everywhere. Anita called out to Shuri for her to come and help. While she was coming Anita tried to calm her Luna down by rubbing her cheek against Ramya's. But the pain that was happening was too overwhelming for her to pay attention.

Finally, Shuri came into their room. She's delivered babies before so this was nothing new to her.

"I know I might sound crazy but I need you to calm down and just breathe. It'll be over before you know it I promise" she told Ramya.

But she didn't listen. She decided to push without Shuri's commands. Shuri let her do what she needed but Rami's screaming was louder than normal. But she obviously didn't care and tried to continue doing her job, being careful not to hurt Ramya or this new child or she was going to get demoted on sight.

After a few more pushes and a couple of more loud screams, Ramya finally managed to push out her child. Shuri grabbed a hold of the baby and bit off the umbilical cord, then she handed the baby over to Anita. It was a girl, something that both of the females were proud of. Anita wanted this new child to be the next alpha and follow in her footsteps. But that was something to worry about later.

After looking over her new daughter, she licked her clean and handed her to Ramya so she could do the same.

"What do you want to name her?" Anita asked her Luna.

"That's your choice my queen" Shuri was still in the room with them.

Anita looked at her then back at her child. "Something not too basic like everyone else's. Kelani sounds nice. Everyone in this forest will know who she is".

Shuri smiled and agreed to liking the name as well as Rami. Kelani was a little light skinned baby and she had a head full of brown curly hair. She still didn't open her eyes, but her face was perfectly put together. With her being the newest member of the pack, she was going to be exposed to so much. Every time a new pup was born, everyone in the pack was so interested in looking, especially if it was the alpha's new child.

When daylight appeared later that morning, there was an announcement made for everyone in Upward to join and to see the new child. Anita and Ramya both were walking up to the pack's religious leader, Jafari. He has anointed almost everyone in this pack when they were young. He still remembers when he's anointed Anita and her father. He was that old.

The crowd behind Ramya and Anita was pretty large, but Shuri and Audre both pushed people out the way, so they would get near Kelani.

Jafari smiled at the two females as they both approached him. He was always happy and nothing ever made him upset. He hugged the both of them and took a hold of Kelani. He walked up to a balcony that was above his house where everyone could see him.