Rogue Squad

Finding Friends in Odd Places

Brendan is questioned for hours. My father taking down all of the notes while Rina and I sit quietly and listen. Rosemary is constrained by one of the guards and the little girl sits quietly next to her, her arms held tightly by the other guard.

Through the interrogation we found that Brendan is one of the leaders of the Werewolf Hunters. Their main target is our rogue pack. Although they don't know the exact location of our pack house, they do know the large woods we run around in. There are traps set up everywhere. We found out several names and locations of other hunters and which parts of the woods they are designated to set traps in.

"Well Brendan, it looks like that is all we needed to know." Alpha says to him.

Brendan sighs, clearly disappointed in himself, but what was he supposed to do with his loved ones threatened?

"Will you release us now?" Brendan says.

The Alpha laughs, "Release you? Where did you get that idea from? You wanted to play the hard way, and like I said, someone is going to die today."

My heartbeat sputters a million miles per hour in my chest. He has to be kidding, right? Brendan answered all of his questions. What is the use of killing him?

"I did everything you told me!" Brendan yells at the Alpha.

Alpha Serg approaches him with a sick smirk, "Thank you for that, but there is no way I can allow two of the strongest hunters to continue killing my pack. I didn't become Alpha by simply releasing hunters back into the world."

"You bastard, we had a deal!" Brendan says as he struggles furiously in the chair.

"We made no such deal."

In one swift motion, the Alpha slits his throat. Blood pouring out as I hear a small quick gurgle from Brendan before his head tilts back lifeless.

As the Alpha goes to clean his knife, Rosemary releases a blood curdling scream. I can feel her pain and agony as she charges and manages to escape the guard's grip. She heads straight for the Alpha.

My father is about to jump out and defend him, when Serg whips around and stabs the crazed woman directly in the heart. She staggers back a bit, then she collapses to the floor, dripping in her own blood.

My hand shoots to my mouth, shocked as the little girl screams, "Mommy!"

Rosemary manages to crawl to Brendan's corpse, dragging her body over her blood. Leaving a crimson trail as she curls against his legs, hugging them tightly. Her eyes fading as she turns to her daughter, "I'm sorry," she mouths as she hits her limit, falling silent onto the reddened concrete. Blood pooling around the two of them.

The little girl bursts into tears.

The Alpha walks over to the dead corpses and kicks Rosemary onto her back with his foot. He pulls the knife from her chest and calmly cleans it off on his shirt, staining it a crimson red.

He glances in the little girl's direction as she wails. She looks to be around 5 years old, and she has already seen her parents killed before her eyes.

The Alpha approaches her with the knife in his hand. As she sees him coming her voice dulls and she quiets down. Terrified, she tires to get away but the guard holds her in place.

The Alpha bends down and holds the knife towards her. I feel a small growl grow in my chest, he can't do this, she is a small girl!

I go to spring at him, when my arm is caught by Rina. I look at her with wild and desperate eyes. She just quietly shakes her head at me, pulling me back to the wall.