The Mating Game

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A/N: there's no editing. I wrote this on my phone so give me a break. Anyways, sorry for the wait.

The Mating Game
Chapter 5

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"She had a baby?"

"Yes, we're all surprised. We hadn't realized she was even seeing anyone. You know it has been some time since she's contacted her mother and father. Well any of us for the matter. "

"And she probably wouldn't have had the baby not been born full blown werewolf." I sighed, filling in what Mrs. Hurley had yet to say.

The games had been boring so far. In fact for the past three days there had been no games at all nor sight of Ryder or Dylan.

From my understanding they were giving us a break being that they'd practically slaughtered most of the competition and there were only eight of us still surviving out of almost thirty or forty girls that had entered this land seeking to mate their alpha.

For this reason things were not only boring but quite uneventful, so when I finally got a call from Mrs. Hurley I'd been happy. Well I was happy until she delivered some devastating news.
In our world there were two types of people, there were shifters and non-shifters. The non-shifters though preferred to call themselves humans. Non-shifters were people that had failed to shift at any point of their life, despite being born from full blood werewolves. In fact genetically they were werewolves only they had yet to change and never gained the strength or power that a werewolf possessed. Non-shifters were rare, probably one out of every hundred wolves born would be a non-shifter. Though, I suppose, at the rate that werewolves reproduce it is not all that rare.

Unfortunately in our community many wolves tend to look down on Non-shifters, sometimes depending on the pack they'd even outcast and bully the non-shifters. Treating them as maids and outsiders within their pack. The mistreatment for most had become so unbearable that the decision, through the high order of werewolves which includes the most powerful packs, to allow them their own community was made. They were given an abundant amount of land to do with as they pleased and some packs even funded their nonshifters who decided to move to this land. Allowing then to create housing, schools, hospitals, etc and so forth. Since discrimination was hard to escape as a non-shifter most of them decided to move to this land once they were of age to care for themselves.

This had been the case for my cousin Alexa. In our pack we treated everyone with respect shifter or non-shifter. We were caring towards all of out members. But for some reason my cousin Alexa had chosen to move to the non-shifter's community. We did not want her to leave, it hurt to lose a pack member. But, she was determined to start a life there. She hardly kept contact after she left, maybe calling once a year to let us know she was alive but other than that she seemed content where she was.

It's been three years since she and I had a decent conversation, so when Mrs. Hurley called informing me of the new addition to my family I was not only shocked but hurt for what this meant. Over the years science had become more advanced and doctors were able to confirm whether a child would be a shifter or non-shifter upon birth. When two non-shifters conceive the chances of the baby being a shifter are actually pretty low. Though when the child did turn out to be wolf, it was hard for the parents to decided whether they'd raise the baby in a non-shifter community or in a shifter community where they could properly be taught the dynamics of being a wolf. Obviously a shifter community would be a better environment being that non-shifter communities tended to attempt erasing their werewolf lineage and were even a little discriminatory themselves against shifters. Most parents did not want to move back to their own packs and often opted out. Instead they'd send the child and choose a primary caregiver who would look over the child. It was sad the way they'd cast their children off over something so frivolous. I never understood the hate or fued between shifters and non-shifters.