Claws Against Petals✓

51•|Mournful Killer

Grayson's POV:

I could feel my adrenaline kicking in as I reached closer to Silver Crest's territory. It feels like forever ago since I last came here, I used to call this place home. But now, it's nothing but a wasteland in my eyes...

"Grayson, behind you!"

Stopping in my tracks, I turned around and saw that Damien was already on the high defense as well as the other alphas as they surrounded a young-looking wolf. He's someone I don't recognize, but there's no denying that he belongs in the pack we're trying to kill. Nonetheless, this scent that I'm smelling is picking something else... It's also bizarre that this wolf is the only member we've run into thus far. We're already deep into their territory, yet we haven't run into one single alpha until now-

"Are you the one they call Grayson?"

Surprised by his question, I was more interested in how he knew me. Seeing how wounded he was in his body, it doesn't look like he was attacked by Fang Claw. His cuts are already healing, but slowly. From what I could tell, it's obvious that his clan did this to him...

"And what if I am? Tell me, what is a young little pup like you doing out here alone? Also, you're about to take your last breath...that's unless you don't tell me how her scent is all over you?"

"Orchid?! You smell it on him!? Tell me where she is! What have you done with her-"

As I asked the young wolf a question, Damien quickly caught on to what I was implying as he lost his composure for a minute and he almost tried to tackle the wolf in front of us. So I immediately had the other alpha keep him restrained as I approached the young alpha. His uneven breathing and rapid heartbeat could be heard as he kept making eye contact with me...

"So you are Orchid's mate? I find that hard to believe, considering how nice and sweet-natured she is. She risked alot in doing what she did... please, I'll answer any questions you want. But first, I want to know if the women and children from Silver Crest are safe-"

"The women and children are no longer part of your pack, they never were, and they never will be. But if you truly are worried about them, why didn't you flee like a coward and go see for yourself?"

I said to the young boy, but now that I'm getting a good hearing from his voice. I was finally able to recognize who the hell this wolf was! No, don't waste your energy killing this mutt. Even if he is the one who helped kidnapped Orchid, he is someone who can probably give valuable information to me at the moment-

"Grayson, don't waste your time on this fucking dog..."

"Let's just kill him..."

"For all we know, this could be a trap..."

"Can we even trust him?"

With the alphas talking amongst themselves, I saw that Damien had calmed himself and began smelling the air. So I began to do the same as well as the other wolves around us. And that's when we all smelled a familiar scent that we've already known.

"Blood..."

I grunted heavily as my head followed the directions of where the smell was coming from. It seems that our pack has already started attacking Silver Crest, in that case, we don't have time to waste being here. So I immediately had everyone follow the trail of blood, yet only Damien stayed behind as he had his eyes set on killing this young wolf in front of me. He probably recognized who this is, since we both only saw this alpha in his human form, it's harder to pinpoint who he is when he looks like a wolf right now.