Her Pride

The Meeting

I pull myself together and stand up. I shove the memories down. I jog to the Alpha's office and knock.

"Come in" she calls in a sweet voice. I open the door and take a seat across from the Alpha.

"I know, I knocked, the end is coming!" I say over dramatically. She just laughs.

"So what are these beasts as you call them?" she asks me getting right to the point.

"I don't know, I've always called them beasts. They look like a bear and a wolf did the nasties and then the product mated with a human" I explain as best I can without bringing up memories.

"I've never heard of anything like it. How do you know these things exist?" she inquires.

"I've seen them. They distroyed my old home" I say as I look down. No one of this Pride knows about my old Pride. I changed my name and I wear contacts most of the time. Only the Alpha and Angel know about my eyes.

"I've heard of werewolves attacking Werecats are you sure this isn't werewolves?" she asks.

"What's a werewolf?" I ask her confused.

"It's like us only the change into a wolf instead of a big cat" she explains simply.

"Do they look like wolves?" I wonder aloud.

"Yes, you would think you met a wolf, just like the would think the met a cougar if they came across one of this Pride" she tells me.

"Then I don't think so. It could be but theses things don't look like perfect wolves" I say as I let the memories of all the times I had seen these creatures come back to me.

"How many encounters have you had with theses creatures?" she asks me. I can tell she wants more information on my past but she doesn't want to ask me directly.

"Too many" I say.

"You aren't telling me everything" the Alpha says.

"No I'm not" I say back.

"You need to learn some manners young lady! I am your Alpha and you will show me some respect" she yells.

"You want the truth? Well I come from the Black Panther Pride in the southern part of Africa, it was distroyed by these beasts because I led them to the house by accident. I am not Ember Scott, my real name is Burning Embers and I am the rightful Alpha of that Pride" I say with my words full of hate.

"So you killed your old Pride, change your name and join my Pride without telling me about this so I am completely unprepared when these things attack? This is wonderful" she says sarcastically. I can tell she is trying not to get mad.

"I didn't think you would accept me into this Pride if you knew" I say sheepishly.

"Well at least I know now. So these things you think attacked this blond girl at your school because they thought it was you?" she asks confused. I nod.

"They don't give off a scent when they are in human form. Yes that does mean I have seen them in this form. It was a long time ago and they were in our dungeon and they changed as they were killed" I explain.

"Okay so I will begin getting everything set up in case they attack. One last question before you go. Why are they after you?" as she asks I hear a scream come from downstairs. We both race out of the room and down to where the scream came from.

A large group of people surround someone in the middle. The group makes room for the Alpha to get through and I see that the little girl from earlier lying still in Angel's arms.