The Mating Games

Chapter 6

Chapter 6- The Story

I just stare at him for a while I don't want to talk to him. I don't want to know his story, but a part of me is curios and is telling me to say yes. My curiosity won and I nodded my head at him still refusing to speak and wait for him to start his story.

 "When I was seventeen I thought I was just a normal wolf like you, I had grey fur with some white specks. I had friends in my pack and my life was pretty good. Just like everybody else I went to the mating games at sixteen, but I didn't find my mate. It was a week until I was supposed to go again. I didn't want to go again though. I didn't want to be disappointed again. Even though I didn't want to go that still couldn't help me because everyone has to go. It's the law.

I went with every other pack member that was of age and didn't have their mate. When the game was about to start I smelt the most amazing scent, it was a mixture of vanilla and cherry. I wanted to wrap myself in it and never leave. I knew at that moment that my mate was there this year. I was so excited I would finally have my mate, the only thing I wanted, the only thing I had been yearning for so long. When the games finally began I ran after the scent that would lead me to my mate.

When I got to the end of her trail I saw her sitting by the river waiting for something. I walked up to her and smiled. She looked so beautiful, I was so happy at that moment that she was my mate. She turned to me and looked confused for a moment before she realized I was her mate. She smiled so brightly at me. I went up to her and kissed her when we parted I asked her name. She said Annabell. It fit her perfectly.

Before we could do anything else I felt an excruciating pain run through my body. It felt like I was shifting for the first time all over again. I was confused and I didn't know what was happening, I figured that I was shifting, but I didn't know why it was hurting so badly. Once I was shifted I realized that I was shifting for the first time into my black wolf. I looked up at Annabell, she was so frightened I walked up to her and comforted her. She relaxed and shifted into her grey wolf that looked exactly like my old one. We stayed there for a while not wanting to leave each other’s side for a minute. We finally shifted back and went to the place we were supposed to after we found our mates. We signed our names to the paper. Then we were supposed to sign our wolves color next to it. I didn't think much of it at the time and it did not help that all I wanted to do was spend time with my mate.

We left, but a few hours later some of the elders found us and brought both of us to the council chambers. They asked for both of us to shift. We looked at each other not knowing why they wanted to see our wolves, but did as they said none the less. Once in our wolf forms the elders stared at me with surprise. They had just found a black wolf. A wolf that had only been heard of in legends. We could tell that they didn't know what to do with me. They finally started to talk to us and all they said is that they wanted us to stay for a while and left.

When they returned they brought the Alpha King he saw my wolf form. Like the elders he looked surprised, but there was also something else in his eyes and it was fear. Fear of what I was capable of. He turned to the guards and whispered something to them. We didn't really notice when more of the warriors came in. When the King shut the doors he stared at us then signaled something to the fighters. They all attacked us at the same time.

We weren't prepared for it and they bit into my sides, but with me already being an experienced fighter I shook him off me when I heard a howl then a whimper. I looked over at her long enough to see the life drain from her eyes and body. I went completely berserk. I will be completely honest with you I don't remember anything after feeling the loss of my mate. I just remember coming to and seeing all the fighters on the floor and the King nowhere to be found. Of course I knew he ran away to somewhere he knew would be safe.

And that my dear is the story about why I became a rogue."

I stare at him in shock and pity. I couldn't imagine losing my mate even though I didn't want one. I don't know what to say or even how to process this new information. My mind was running about a hundred miles per hour. I probably sat there for a good twenty minutes before I worked up the courage to finally speak remembering something that he said earlier.

"That was some story, but what does that have to do with you thinking I am a white wolf?"

He looked at me then smiled, "Well that story was just for you to understand why I became a rogue and what would happen to you if you went to the mating games and found your mate. As for me knowing you’re the white wolf, pure white and black wolves can sense each other from a mile away."

I open my mouth, but nothing comes out I don't believe him. He is a rogue and not just any rogue, but the rogue that killed my parents and other innocent people. It finally becomes too much for me to process at once. The last thing I remember is the ground coming up to meet my face.