At The Beta's Command

Chapter 3

Ashton

"Training will start in three minutes." I mind linked my pack knowing that they probably are already aware of it. Not half a minute passed and they are now all standing in front of me in wolf form.

"Shift" I commanded and they hurried back to the pack house's backyard to get basketball shorts and to shift. Once done, I started counting them in my head. Forty-seven. Forty-seven new fighters, they are this years' sixteen year old wolves who will start training today. Boys start shifting at their sixteenth birthday and that is the perfect time to train them, yes, they were still hurt from shifting first time but it is better to feel pain over and over and be immune with it than to lay low and not be ready. We will not be called the strongest pack if we are not this dedicated to our trainings.

"Today we will start your training, and I will require you all to fight hand in hand in human form." I saw fear, hesitation and shock on their faces, moving in human form is harder than in wolf form if you are injured so I quickly say "Yes, I know first time shifting still hurts like bitch. But that's the point. You feel the pain today, yes but I promise you in the future you will just ignore it. Our pack fighters are immune to pain, that's why enemies couldn't take us down easy. They cry, we laugh, they whimper, we growl. That makes us the best fighters around the world 'Play the Pain' remember?"

"But Beta, my ribs are still hurting and still broken." says a frightened boy with ash blond hair I recognized as Michael.

"Too bad, huh?" he nodded. Then I used my wolf speed to hold him in his throat and punch his stomach twice before dropping him on the floor. He winced and I saw tears in his eyes. "Pain, you feel it. But your mind can betray that feeling. Now stand up boy and don't cry. Don't think of pain but think of something that worth living for so you can endure the pain."

"When I say Play the Pain, I mean play your fears. Don't let fear eat you, but use your mind to control how you feel. Now, get a partner and start fighting like pain never existed." I said in general.

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"Trainees earlier are complaining about how hard it is to train with their unhealed ribs and still broken bones after their first shifting." Jaden said chuckling. It took a year for a wolf to fully recover from their first shifting so all of them are still hurting. They howl at night at the agony of pain calling the Moon Goddess for help but pain is part of being a complete wolf shifter.

"Oh, that was like us four years ago!" said Nico. The three of us and some others trained when we were all sixteen. Alpha Lukas, Jaden's father insisted that we train and learn how to fight because he heard that rogues are attacking pack after pack with a mission of killing sixteen to eighteen year old wolves. But the group of rogue mutts never came to our land. After I killed Hunter's father, I was assigned in training fighters and declared Beta for Jaden. I can still remember that day, the day when things at Blazing Red Moon Pack changed big time without the Alpha and the pack members knowing it. Only Jaden and I know about that turn of event.

"Wait, remember the time when rogues gone crazy killing sixteen to eighteen year old werewolves?" asked Nico interrupting my train of thoughts.

"Yeah, the reason why we need to train at the young age. Normally, werewolves train at age eighteen." said Jaden. Yes, werewolves normally train at age eighteen but when we saw the advantage and good result of training early we decide to train every wolf boys as soon as they shifted.

"Well, I heard from an elder at the temple earlier that one of the elders paid those rogues for the job." That got my attention.

"Why? Did they say anything?" Jaden asked skeptically.