the rose's thorn

the beginning

The beginning 

It was a cold day the day they took over. Everything that could go wrong for us, humans, did. We lost all freedom and our rights. When it all started it was slow and casual. They came out of hiding and asked for peace. They wished to coexist with us and then that changed just as fast as they started finding what they call mates inside of humans. This caused a war between humans and the wolves.  

I witnessed some of it. Before the war,Me and my mother were at the store, I was eight at the time.  We were low on stuff at the house so we went. Anyway, we were in the store when my mother was about to ask me what cereal I wanted. She screamed and my eyes grew wide with fear. A tall man with a very strong muscle structure held my mom. He kept saying mate over and over again.  

"Mommy" I said in a shaky voice. 

That made the man look up quickly. He looked mad at first but then softened. "You have a daughter?" He says in sadness. " That is fine, we will raise her together." 

That's when my mother freaked out even more. " Run,Arisa. Go baby. Go to your father and sister hurry!" She shouted at me. With tears running down my face I turned and ran towards home. I never saw my mother again. That's when the war began. My father went to fight in the war and I had to take my sister to the secret underground bunkers that can hold a year or two of supplies and hold at least ten families. It's a whole underground city that we made when we noticed the war coming. There are twenty apartments but only ten families but they are big families. Me and my sister live in the farthest apartment from the center of our underground city they call Samena, meaning secret. Inside this bunker we have running water that we get from the river above, a filter for drinking water, a kitchen and dining hall, and a small hangout area with an old fashioned tv and a radio so we know what's happening up there. Over the years we've found out the soldiers who were in the war have either died or become slaves and the ones  that didn't fight either found their mates or got put into human camps. They announced who died in the war and that's what told me that we were alone, my sister and I. 

It's been ten years since it all started and now I am alone raising my little sister. 

Everytime she asks about dad I want to cry but no I can't ,not around her.  

So I cry every time I know she's asleep. I cry my heart out. The loss of both parents weighing heavy on me. Sometime the bunker leader, Arica, would come check on us and see how we were holding up. Arica also said they expanded the bunker to the one about a mile away so that we have now more people and more supplies. 

Of course I went to town meetings every week while my sister , Iris, was in the classrooms that came with the new bunker attachment. Arika made a raid team to scout out abandoned houses and also to Hunt for the food we need. Among one of the raiders is my best friend and fiance, Erik. 

Erik is Arika's younger brother and is my age. Me and him fell in love about two years ago. He proposed to me a month ago. He protects me when he knows I'm in pain not just physically but mentally as well.  

Anyway that is the beginning to my story, but not the end. Oh no, not the end… things are about to become a lot more complicated.