It's surprising what human beings can accomplish when death is staring them right in the face. When things began plummeting, few knew how to react. Most were confused, seeking guidance from the very foundations and institutions that, once meant to h...
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The world came to an end. The demons of humanity ultimately caught up to the human beings who had tried to tame them into oblivion. Racial hatred, genocide and, eventually, nuclear war—each a death sentence carried out. Economies crashed, the Internet ceased to exist, and countries fell. Civilization was wiped out in an instant.
As the air, thick with nuclear residue and the stench of suffering, slightly calmed, between two mountains is where our story begins. There, the remaining survivors of humanity's apocalypse can be found. However, they technically can no longer be considered human.
Long ago, a group of twenty plus families, friends, and neighbors, were led into the mountains of Southern Spain in an attempt to find shelter and survive by a brilliant scientist named Aide, who was a doctor and a chemist. Gifted with an insatiable curiosity, Aide was also a student for life and pursued engineering and geological sciences on the side. Aide had been a college professor working on his tenure proposal and research projects when chaos erupted.
He led this group of people into the valley between the two mountains where, by some miracle, they happened upon a network of hollow caves. Now, Aide was not much of a believer in God and miracles and luck. He was a man of science and saw this discovery only as a coincidental, natural phenomenon. But, there are no coincidences.
Aide and his group of unconventional team members worked together to gather household supplies to build kitchen-made bombs and arts-and-crafts dynamite. They were running out of time. They had to go into the mountains and underground in order to survive. Some gathered food, chopped wood, stole grills, medicine or whatever they could get their hands on. They poured into the darkness of the caves unaware that their known world would cease to exist when they came out again.
They lived. The only humans to survive the end of the world. How is that possible you ask? Because within this group were brilliant minds destined to rebuild society from the ground up. But, when Aide finished his assessments and declared resurfacing safe, humanity had been erased. Their group—now double in size—needed to begin from scratch. The factory setting animalistic instincts of humanity kicked in even though there were no other animals in sight.
That is until the night of the first full moon. When the bright blue moon's rays breached through the murky green mushroom clouds, from the ruble arose a mystical white wolf. Aide spotted her first as the search for uncontaminated water failed miserably once again. He named her Moon Goddess and was convinced she was just a mirage.
How can a wolf have survived the end of the world? He thought. But, then again, how can a group of twenty plus random strangers trapped in between two mountains do so either.
Moon Goddess was very much real. She spoke to Aide as if telepathically and helped him guide his people towards her own pack and towards fresh water. They greedily drank and feasted on their food, while Moon Goddess and the pack hovered nearby. Aide had never been a believer in the old legends his grandfather used to tell him as bedtime stories. But, even a man of calculated theories and evidence-supported facts believed anything was possible at the end of the world...even mystical white wolves with crystal blue eyes and ancient magic.
The tribe began to mimic the Moon Goddesses' pack, finding that in a human-less world, the wolves knew how to navigate the waters better than them. Eventually, with time and a little left over radiation mixed with ancient magic, they began to develop the senses of the wolves. Their brains and movements transformed or rather...adapted.
The humans could smell better, see clearer, hear more sharply, and were physically more fit. They ascended and became the wolves: alphas, betas, and omegas. They became Werewolves: part human, part wolf. And with these newfound strengths and ways of life, Aide's tribe began to rebuild civilization into the advanced society it once was only better and more idealistic with the structure of the wolf pack.
Generations after Aide and the Moon Goddess, the Two Mountains tribe—the original and most powerful Wolf Pack to roam the land—had split into another main pack: the Blue Moon pack, led by Aide's great-great-great-grandson. The two packs produced enough Werewolves to populate the earth and mingle with whatever unknown was left after the end of the world, but the Wolf race eventually purified itself. And the two packs—the Two Mountains and the Blue Moon pack—are still the strongest and purest of packs with a blood line leading directly back to Aide and his original twenty plus survivors who had witnessed the powers of the Moon Goddess first hand and lived through the demise of humanity.
But, enough about ancient history. This is a story about a girl named Adelaide Wulf, who loves to read books and swim in the stream outside her comfy childhood home with her older brother Declan Wulf. She is quite the firecracker, with a quick tongue and clever wit, and although she doesn't know it yet, she is destined to be the next Alpha of the Two Mountains pack.
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Author's Note:
This is the first book I've ever tried to write. I hope you like it!
