The Lost Relic of the Lycanthrope

This Should Be Fun

The next few days were pretty rough. Over the weekend I didn't really talk to my parents much. They kept apologizing to me but I'd just walk away whenever I saw them. I figured that they didn't know about what I was since they gave me a necklace I couldn't even touch and they never once mentioned anything about it, not even on my 17th birthday which is apparently when the curse gets triggered, but then again they never got to meet my real parents, so how could they know?

I spent a lot of time wondering about what my real parents were like. When I was in school I'd find my thoughts wandering to who I looked like more, and whose personality was more like mine, whose eyes I had and so on. I also wondered about the more complicated things. Stuff like what were my parents' pack statuses, and which noble pack were they descended from? I'd wonder about all of these things until I got sad about it.

I just wish I could have known them.

I found myself avoiding the members of the pack who went to my school. Everyone except Bae that is. I just felt so weird about them claiming me and us changing. I was so nervous about my first full moon that I didn't want to talk about it, but every time I was near any of them they'd try to bring it up in conversation, so I avoided them at all cost.

Kane was the most displeased about this, which he made very clear of via Bae. He'd force him to pass messages to me since I wasn't responding to any of his calls or texts. But I made how I felt very clear to Bae as well, and he didn't force me to talk about any of it- but I think that was because he felt guilty about the whole "not telling me he was a werewolf" thing. He'd supposedly known his whole life, which means that his parents know, which means that they are wolves too. I'd been wondering about this as Bae and I were walking out to his car after school one day, so I decided to ask him.

"Hey Bae? Can I ask you something kind of personal? It's about the whole wolf thing." I asked in a small voice, trailing off at the last part.
He looked over at me as we reached the car. "Sure." He shrugged.
I got in the car and he did the same. He started driving while I tried to think of how to word this appropriately.
"You gonna ask? Or wolf got your tongue?" He joked while I rolled my eyes, a common thing I did around Bae.
"Har-Har. I was just wondering, are your parents like us? I mean, you're an omega so does that mean they're both omegas? Which noble pack is your family descended from? Are they both wolves or is it possible to be with a human? Are they in a pack too or-" The questions just came rolling out of my mouth, each one fired out and triggered me to think of a new one. I kept asking more until he stopped me.

"Woah woah woah!" He exclaimed with wide eyes. He looked over at me like he didn't know where my head was at anymore. "That's a lot of questions for a girl who doesn't even want to hear the word werewolf." He remarked. He cleared his throat and looked back at the road. "Okay well first off, yes, my parents are 'like us', yes they are both omegas, I'm fairly sure we're descendants of the Leidolf pack, and no, it's not possible for a human to be with a wolf- it's too dangerous and a human cannot bare a werewolf's child, they'd die. Yes they are in a pack but it's different from ours." He said it all in one big spiel.
"What do you mean it's different from ours? Different how?" My curiosity was demanding more information.

Bae chuckled and sighed. "Didn't anyone ever tell you curiosity killed the she-wolf?" I looked down as he said this, feeling slightly bad for prying so much into his life. He noticed. "Hey, it's fine. I'm just messing with you. It's just shocking that you're only asking me about all of this now." I looked back up at him, smiled, and waited for him to continue about his parents. He furrowed his brows.

"Well, our pack is what Kane calls a 'new gen pack'. It's a pack made up of wolves from our generation only- which is a fairly new thing, but ours is not the first or only. Typically a pack is made up of wolves of every age and you stay into the pack you are born into, but during the war, pups were given up at birth by scared parents trying to protect their young. This caused the council to predict that when those wolf pups would come of age, they'd turn and most likely not know what was happening, and no pack would take them in before their first full moons, which would lead to an increase in the mutt population." I was surprised to learn there was such a thing as a council but I decided to let him finish his explanation before I asked about it.

"Since the council was so concerned about these pups being given up growing into mutts, a new law was brought about. The law stated that when each wolf came of age, they had to leave the pack they'd been born into and join a new pack. The kids would grow up within the pack, and be trained as much as possible before they turned 17, and then they'd have to leave. Each packs alpha would breed a new young alpha that would be responsible for taking in new wolves that came of age from their previous pack and any wolves they might find that had been given up at birth that were clueless as to what they are. The young alphas would also be expected to breed another alpha to carry on the tradition." My thoughts drifted to Kane momentarily before he continued.

"This law had a lot of problems at first. Parent wolves disagreed, saying it was too dangerous for newly changed wolves to be thrown out of the safety of their packs, but the council demanded it was necessary. Another problem was the age difference between the young alphas and the wolves who would come of age before them, which often caused the young alpha to have to leave the pack sooner than they came of age so the wolves forced to leave before them wouldn't be pack-less since without an alpha there is no pack." He finally finished with a deep breath.

"That's terrible!" I managed to say after my thoughts had finished processing. "Leaving your pack before you're ready, and by force? That doesn't sound right." I protested.
"Maybe not, but the council says it's the only way, and they're the oldest and wisest wolves in existence, so people tend not to argue with them." He bitterly says with a grimace on his face.
"Why hasn't anyone told me about this alleged council? Who are they?" I asked, the questions were never ending.
"It never came up I guess, it's usually something you learn about after your first change. Every newly of age wolf is brought before the council, especially the ones who were given up at birth." He noticed the nervous look on my face. "No, don't worry! It's just so they can document you-like what pack your in and just that you exist and stuff. They're the four oldest wolves alive, each member is from one of the noble packs. When one of them dies, the next oldest descendant from that noble pack steps up to become the newest member of the council. They're not all bad though, sometimes they can even tell a new wolf their pack heritage when they're brought before them, and if you're lucky, they can tell you who your birth parents are." I became hopeful at his words. I wanted nothing more than to meet my parents. I was suddenly even more eager for my first full moon to pass.

We drove the rest of the way to my house in silence. My head was filled with scenarios in which I'd meet my parents and the pack I had been supposed to be born into. Eventually the law Bae told me about entered my thoughts and I started to wonder about the young alphas. Bae had said that they'd sometimes been forced out of the packs before they reached 17... I couldn't help but wonder if Kane had been through that. I suddenly felt very sad for him, and for every wolf that had to have left their former pack. It seemed awful, but I could see why it was necessary.

When I went to bed that night I couldn't stop thinking of my future. Apparently it was impossible to be with a human, so did that mean I'd have to mate with someone in my pack? I shivered at the thought. The guys in my pack weren't exactly hard on the eyes, and they all seemed nice, but I didn't know if I could mate with one of them. I didn't even know what that meant. Then my thoughts turned to what would happen to my child- if I had any children- and how they'd be made to leave our pack. I kept wondering about what my child would look like based on each male in my pack- except Damon as I was recently informed that he and Luna were sort of together. I thought about it until I reached Bae, it was weird to think what our child would look like since I'd known him for as long as I could remember. Eventually I reached Kane, I felt odd thinking of myself with him- him being the alpha and all- but then something dawned on me.

I didn't even know my pack status.

Just like that my mind began to race with a million different questions and concerns. It was safe to say that I wouldn't be sleeping tonight, and I had finals at the end of the month. I rolled over and groaned into my pillow.

This should be fun.