Moon Child

Chapter One:

Being a runaway wasn't hard, if you looked young enough you could get away with tricking the little old ladies behind the counters of the corner shops. A little pout and a few fake tears and they're practically shoving the food into your hands, and asking you for afternoon tea next week. But if you're a runaway you know that you always smile and move on, never form attachments if you don't want to be caught, it's pretty much rule number one. Now if you were to add into the equation that you're also a mythical creature who has an issue with fur? Well welcome to the life of a runaway lycanthrope.

  - Lycanthropy

     (Noun)

          The mythical transformation of a person into a wolf.

Archaic

A form of madness involving the delusion of being an animal, usually a wolf, with correspondingly altered behaviour.

See, even the dictionary think's it's bullshit. That Lycanthropy does not exist, that it's a myth, and false and all a bunch of hocus pocus made up to scare kids in villages into staying home at night. But it all came from somewhere, like every myth, and legend, and stupid little fairytale, there's always some truth behind the sparkly Disney curtain. And here you can read that truth.

Being a Lycanthrope isn't all howling at the full moon and following your rank within a pack. It's not fighting vampires that sparkle in the sunlight and play baseball during thunderstorms, thanks Stephanie Meyer. Lycanthropy is a genetic condition. Passed down from generation to generation, not through scratch or bite but through DNA, having sex with a lycanthrope does not mean you will become one. It means your future spawn has around a 50% chance of being one, but not you. Due to the history of mating with humans, only small pockets of lycanthrope packs still exist around the world, and barely any of them are pure-bred. Most of the ancient bloodlines still exist, the ancestors will have told their stories but the transformation gene would have been lost to history.

What about her history? Her family had the Gaelic surname Barrach, and they were part of the Aurora Clan from the settlement of Kinloch Hourn by Loch Hourn in Scotland. The surrounding forests gave for some amazing runs, there was nobody around for miles. Her father was the Lead Warrier in their pack, he supervised the training of all them. Her mother was a healer, working tirelessly to help those injured by even the smallest thing. Her sister had found her mate before she could even walk, the bond was strong and connected her to the eldest of the Beta's sons. She was the disappointment of the otherwise perfect family, her initial transformation came late, at nearly fourteen, she was considered to be even less than the Omega's.

And she had had enough.