I looked out the window of the house there was a dust cap coming over in the distances yes this was going to be a bad dream I turn to see my dad walk into the room and begin the same argument he always has with my younger brother I already know what he is going to say but still try to tell him to go with them to run but he doesn't hear me I plead with him but he does not react then he turns to me and seeing his face drives the pain in my chest of the memory into overdrive
"Son go with your mother and siblings," said, my father the same thick and deep stoic stubbornness in his voice as it had the day they had come for us that same stubbornness that had been our downfall
"Hell no you and the pack need help," I hear my self say my own younger voice cracking but still laced with the same stubbornness, I can see in my father's eyes that he knows better than to argue with me
"It will be fine we will just case them off get to the house," he said it's a lie I can smell it
"No I am staying," I said and he knew I would never budge I was his son I would never turn and run
"Fine," he said if we had the time he probably would have carried me out the back door but he didn't that day
"Honey please I can't lose you too" my mother pleads I ignore her and I walk the eldest of my two little brothers "look after them for me okay make sure that they remember me and dad and remember, "I say
"blood is thicker than water," we said together and with that, I give my brother one last hug then I hear my sister start to cry
"Hey hey hey don't do that," I said momentarily hugging her to my chest "no none of that" and I hug her one last time I turn to look and mom and dad hugging the dust trails are getting close and the pack starts to forward out
"okay time to go, Jain, this is your last chance to go with your mother" I just look at him 'though not'
'okay' I hug my mother one last time then we follow the pack out there is no bravado just a simple pep talk from my dad "remember this we are lions take advantage of our strength don't use your half form unless you have good one and one last thing there are no rules no need for control let your lion help you" the cars pull up and the other pack pours out and their alpha steps out
"last chance to give it up and run" when I see my dad step into that trans of the king of the wild where you let your beast to the surface but just hold back the change then my dad begins to laugh
"Haha you think we are going to run we may die today but we will sure as hell take at less ten of you for each of us," he says his voice bellowing across the field that separated us and the attacking jackals
"Okay then" the alpha then I let myself change as I feel skin tear and give way to fur and I feel my bones melt and reform into a mix of human and lion, once we are all done dad looks at me and nods his head and smiles his expression saying a thousand words that smile will always stay with me
as the jackals approached father then lets loose the mightiest roar I had ever heard shaking the very ground with his roar then I too joined him in announcing our defiance and one by one the pack joined us and for a moment the jackals halted but spurred on by their alpha they continued their charge and we followed suit charging into battle with the thunder of thirty-three lions at our back each of us weighing in at close to a ton I could feel the ground shake,
As we clashed with the jackals and began to set ourselves into the motion of the fight letting the beast start to take a bit more control as we begin to paint a ring of bodies around ourselves but slowly one by one our pack falls taking ten to fifteen with them but it's not enough they had expected such losses.
then out of nowhere mum breaks through the front door in worrier form I remember thinking that day what the fuck then she yells they cut us off they got Damien I feel it as if I am still there my heart tries to reap through my ribs as my dad turns to respond to mom the other alpha attacks and snaps his neck the pain of losing my alpha coupled with the pain of my father ripped through me then he rushes mum she puts up a good fight but still she falls then I feel cold claws rip into my chest and I try to get to my sister as I turn to run the other alpha picks her up and says to me 'now to take the last of you scum hell' he punches her in the chest then my world goes red
next I lay in the red sea the sea I go into when I let the rage take me outside i can hear my beast roar and our enemies scream as we tear them to peacies soon I awaken from my trance checking my sister I let go then I hug her there are more dust trails in the distance "no fuck just go away" I hear myself say and put my sister down behind me readying myself to fight then they arrive and Alana steps out followed by her father and my uncle she runs to my sister I step between them
"It's okay I just need to check her" my uncle comes up to me and says those words I will never forget
"their gone aren't they" I nod then I hand my sister to Alana then another man comes over and steps on my father's body I rise from where I had been kneeling I look at the man then my uncle notices "Jain don't there has been enough bloodshed today"
"Like he could do anything the other man says" then Alana's dad turns around and backhands the man and he hits the ground hard
"you represent me and the pack watch your mouth Fellhan" Fellhan raises his jaw clearly broken then everything fades and I wake suddenly to the screams of my sister but not screams of pain as I had thought but screams of laughter I look around my room looking at the familiar white walls my glass bedside table and my draws then there is a knock on the door
"Come in" Alana comes in the door "what woke you"
"Ev's scream"
"You need more sleep Jain I will watch her," she said going to leave then she turned around and leaned over the bed and kissed me on the cheek "thank you," she says then leaves and to my own shame I watch her ass as she walks
