VALEN: The Gift of Family

16

"I'm gonna kill you!" I shouted, "it's your fault we're here!"
I smashed at the cage trying my best to claw my way to her.
"STOP!"
I turned around growling to see Rose. She looked as if she had seen dead animals with unknown claw marks on it.
  "What do you want!" I barked at her.
"That's my alpha!" She blurted.
"What?"
"That's her."
"What's her?"
"My alpha! That's my alpha!"
"You know her?" Ophy's voice said, "when did this happen?"
Rose looked at her as if she was ashamed of her situation.
Why? Why did she care for this excuse of a creature. As far as I know she has caused nothing but pain for me. Not only that but she tried to take Ash from me!
Rose looked at me, she gave me a look. It was completely blank of emotion. As if she was lost in a memory. Or lost in her own imagination.
I looked over to Ophy who was staring at me.
She finally laid down and sighed loud enough to let us all know that she was depressed. She glanced at Qulil and back to me.
"So how did you end up here?" She asked.
I narrowed my face, "Same way you did."
She looked amused, "So they beat you too?"
As much as I was surprised to know that there were worse ways to end up here, I still needed to know where Ash is.
"So what happened when I left?" I asked, "What led you guys here?"
"You mean what happened to Ash?" She said.
As embarrassed as I was I still cooperated. "Yes, I wanna know about Ash."
She looked even more amused at this point. She was toying with me and she knew she was having fun.
"He went off looking for you." She finally said with a sigh, "He just looked at me and said what he always says when he blames it on me."
As happy as I was to know that he is out there right now trying to find me, I was horrified by the fact that he was out there trying to find me.
"So where's the rest of the pack?" Rose asked, "If you're here they can't be far behind."
She looked at her, "I don't know where they are."
"W-What?" I choked, "How do you not know where they are?"
Almost immediately I was thrown on the ground and kicked by the Humans. I could feel the pain going through my whole body as if I was lit on fire.
Then a hand reached out, grabbed me by my left back leg and threw me back into the cage with Rose and Qulil.
They stood back in horror as the lock clicked shut.
Still very dizzy I was barely able to spit out, "What the he'll happened?!" To my horror I saw blood spit out my mouth as well.
Rose looked at Qulil and back to me, almost as if she afraid of speaking.
"You were howling in your sleep. I guess that annoyed them."
"I wasn't even sleeping!" I barked at Rose.
A dead silence soon filled the room. They both looked at each other, both were confused.
I scrambled up on my feet to see that Ophy wasn't even there. The cage that they had kept her in was gone too.
I looked at Qulil for an explanation but he turned his head towards Rose.
They both looked at me and said, "Yes you were..."
"What happened to Ophy?" I asked.
"Up here," she called.
She was one row above of where she once was. "I guess they thought it was my fault you were howling. And I guess we're smarter than they believe us to be."
She then lazily lumped down to the ground and sighed.
"We're all gonna die, I just hope Ash doesn't find us."