Finding a new home

Finding a new home
" Are you okay?" Darren moved back from the embrace, quickly checking Kyley's body for injuries or wounds of any kind as he asked.

What she did just now was very risky and he still feared that Jason might have hurt her someway. After all, Kyley was just an omega. She's weak.

Kyley still staring in a lost daze at Jason's dead body moved her gaze to meet Darren. " I killed him..." she muttered in a low tone.

Darren hearing this froze and looked at Kyley warmly. He reached a palm to cup her face.

" You did the right thing Kyley. Besides, you saved me." Darren said to her in a tone full of gratitude. He reached to cup her face warmly.

Feeling his warm touch, Kyley couldn't help but raise her gaze to look at him. Her pale blue iris reflected his well outlined face under the moonlight. Her eyes watered and she broke into tears as she jumped into his embrace.

' My love...' Darren sighed pitifully in his heart and hugged Kyley tight.

The latter cried hard in his embrace for the longest while, and Darren just stayed there, hugging her warmly to sooth and comfort her.

However, seeing the two guys who had appeared beside Paige, he couldn't help but frown.

Although he recognized one of them to be Alphonse, he still disnt know just who the lady and the other dignified- looking man was and he couldn't helo but raise his guard.

Not that he harbored any malice towards them, he just didn't trust that they wouldn't attack him and Kyley all of a sudden.

" We should leave," Alphonse who saw the change in Darren's expression quickly suggested and turned around without waiting for the rest.

He knew damn well just what Jason was and he didn't want to provoke the lycan.

Paige and Harrod didn't linger around as well as they quickly followed behind Alphonse to leave the place.

Watching the three as they disappeared into the darkness of the woods up ahead, Darren heaved a deep sigh of relief.

He moved his gaze back down at Kyley and scooped the latter in his arms as he stood.

Kyley feeling the shift in position couldn't help but raise her tear-filled gaze to look at Darren.

" It's over now. Let's go home" Darren smiled warmly and said to Kyley.

...

Returning to the Moonblood pack residence, the destructive battle continued in an intense rowdiness. Both sidesfull of omegas and betas still at it.

A huge flame burnt on the side, illuminating the wild massacre and flaring just as the pack battle between the Nightclaw and the Moonblood pack. Several bodies lay on both sides, blood and organs splattered everywhere.

Setting sight at this, Alphonse couldn't help but feel a sense of guilt. He stopped for a second, watching everything in a lost daze.

Harrod had left towards Jason's house to pick up Georgia's corpse and left towards a distance. He didn't care about the war as he had other plans in mind.

Paige, however, stuck to Alphonse's side, unsure of what to do now. She had nowhere else to go, and it was evident that the Moonblood pack would now cease to exist.

She didn't think that Kyley would welcome her at her house either. Paige couldn't even bring herself to move in with her when she knew just how cruel she'd been to Kyley.

She just couldn't.

So, where was she to go?

As the werewolf lady lowered her head lost in deep thought, Alphonse furrowed his brows into a frown, " Haaalt!" He bellowed out loud, raising a hand in the air as if to command everyone.

The battle seemed to pause hearing this Alpha's out-yell, as even the fire that erupted in the side seemed to wane in its fierce burn a little.

They all shot their gazes that was full of rage and murderous feral intent towards Alphonse in bewilderment.

" The war is over. Jason is dead!"

" Hah!"

" Yeaaah!!!"

The Moonblood pack members gasped in disbelief, while the Nightclaw pack members jeered in victory.

The war has ended, and the winner has been declared.

" Surrender, and fight no more. I promise not to harm anyone any further. Nightclaws, stand back!" Alphonse ordered, taking steps forward to approach the pack of werewolves before him.

They were all his people. The Nightclaws and the Moonblood pack members. They were all his pack. Albeit, the latter being his previous pack.

However, they were still related.

" I want nothing but peace. We can all coexist as one!" He spoke in a solemn voice, urging everyone to stop fighting.

The Moonblood pack members became lost in a daze as they all dropped their guards. Jason had lost, they had no reason to fight any longer

The battle soon died down, as both packs stood to the side, dropping their weapons and raising their hands in surrender.

" Moonblood pack members, I am one of you, and I have come to free you from Jason. You may join my pack, or leave this instant!" Alphonse stood to say, straightening his back as he commanded.

Several of the Moonblood pack members expressed shock and disbelief at first. They stared at Alphonse as though he'd grown two heads but, they still dared to dream!

Some of them ran away, rushing into the woods in an instant while others just stood in rooted in spot with their heads lowered.

The Moonblood pack was all they had, there was no one else to go for them.

Paige was the same as these people. And she realized that perhaps, there might still be a place for her to stay.

Hence, she decided to join Alphonse's pack.

Vroom!

However, Just then, bright lights shone through from the woods in the distance as a car bust through to the residence.

The car had an ashen-colored body that glistened under the shine of the moonlight, further glorifying its exquisiteness.

Screech!

It parked right before Alphonse who had a deep frown on his face as he stared at the car intently.

Just then, the back door to the passenger seat was pushed open and a beautiful lady whose white hair shimmered under the moonlight stepped out.

" Alphonse, there's trouble!" She hurried towards the stout balding alpha of the Moonblood pack, ignoring the gory sight around.

Alphonse who opened his mouth in a bid to question Nicole as to why she was here despite having promised to stay back in the city couldn't help but furrow his brows even deeper seeing the panic and fright in Nicole's face.

" What's wrong?" He asked instead. He stepped forward to meet Nicole and reached to hold hold her.

" The city is no longer safe. The mayor and the others have ordered all werewolves to be executed. Even I could barely escape." Nicole recounted breathlessly. Her eyes trembled in deep fear as her beautiful pace was pale.

She seemed to have experienced a fair deal of near-death situations on her way.

Everyone else hearing this couldn't help but express disbelieve. Just a day out of the city and now their home was no longer a home!

Alphonse's gaze widened in shock but then he frowned again as he darted his eyes about in thought. " Why are they doing this?" He couldn't help but ask.

" They're afraid, Alphonse. They can't stand us anymore." Nicole shook her head and said, looking at Alphonse.

Alphonse paused and lowered his head in silence afterwards.

Shortly after, he raised his gaze and moved to hold Nicole by the arms. He looked deep into the latter's eyes and pulled her into his embrace.

" I'm sorry I wasn't there to protect you" Alphonse apologized, comforting his mate.

" Oh Alphonse" Nicole cried and hugged him tightly.

After a while, they broke off and Alphonse stood to the side to address his pack.

" You've all heard. We are no longer allowed to return to the city." He broke the news to those who haven't heard and those who still doubted.

" Hah!" Causing everyone to let out a gasp of shock, sorrow, and panic. Most of them had lived their whole lives in the city of Portico and even had families there.

To suddenly hear that they couldn't be in the city any longer was a shock to them.

" I do not know about you guys, but as for me..." Alphonse turned to face the Moonblood pack members in the side and then he looked at the burning houses on the other side. " I think I'll make my new home here" he said with a warm smile.

This was where he was born and bred. There was no doubt about it that his home was nowhere else but here.

Alphonse ignored the shocked gasps around and just looked at Nicole with an apologetic gaze, as if asking the latter if she was alright with his decision.

Of course, Nicole was also surprised. However, after lookijg around the place with a complicated expression for a while, she moved near Alphonse and nodded resolutely as she stood beside him.

" Me too!" She said out loud, facing her pack.

" Hah!" Another bout of short gasp was heard.

" Me too!" A feminine voice was heard from the side, and everyone turned around to look. It was Paige!

Even Alphonse was shocked to see Paige willing to join him, but he just nodded at the latter without saying anything.

" Hah!"

" M-me too!

" Me too!"

Soon a lot more chimed in, joining in on the dream of making a new home in the fallen Moonblood pack residence.

Regardless, there were few stubborn ones who left and didn't stay around. However, Alphonse didn't stop them.

He wouldn't force anyone to stay in his home, however, he welcomes everyone to join him.

As several others contemolated on there decision, a small wistful smile appeared on Alphonse's said as only a thought remained in his mind.

' Home!'

...

As they walked into the woods, Jake and José had only ventured a bit into the depths when they suddenly heard rustles from a dark distant part of the woods.

They instantly grew alerted and took a defensive stance as the rustles grew near them.

" Old man, stay behind me" Jake warned in a low hush as he took a step to stand in front of the old bartender.

Just then, the silhouette of a young man was seen as the latter walked forth from within the darkness.

" Brother?" The figure suddenly called, causing all hair on Jake's neck to stand. He knew that voice all too well.

However, he was in disbelief.

" E-Erik?" Jake called in a staccato, taking a cautious step forward to verify. He couldn't make out the silhouette's features in the darkness.

Tap! Tap!

" What do you mean, Erik? It's me, brother!" Erik stepped out into sight from ge darkness, his face beaming with a big smile.

Jake stood surprised momentarily, and only José slipped from behind him to hurry towards Erik.

" Oh my boy! You're alive!" The old bartender cried as he pulled the younger Erik into his embrace.

Shaking out of his daze, Jake moved near both Erik and José. " How are you here, Erik. I thought you left with the members of the Nightclaw pack?" He frowned as he asked.

Erik who hugged José moved back and looked towards his brother, " Yes I did, but I left behind them at some point and began finding my way back to the city. What are you guys doing here?" Erik couldn't help but ask.

Jake's face twitched at Erik's words as he said, " To pick some cotton... To find you of course, dummy!" He yelled,eaving Erik slightly confused as to why he was suddenly being yelled at.

Despite his cold attitude, Jake was glad to find Erik. In fact, he was even more glad than José. However, he wasn't the type to do all that hugging and embracing stuff.

' Perhaps, hunter Logan's coldness had rubbed off on me' Jake couldn't help but lampoon at himself.

" In any case, we must find a place to go." Jake said.

" What do you mean? Let's go back home?" Erik said, baffled.

" The city isn't safe anymore, Erik. As we speak, the hunters are on a killing spree right now" José spoke this time, causing Erik to express shock.

The pair of sons and step-father fell into silence as they stood rooted in spot, pondering where to go. The family has finally reunited, but they had nowhere to go.

They had only two choices.

The darkness ahead, or the danger behind.

" We need to find a new place we can call home" José raised his gaze shortly after and said, looking at both Jake and Erik.

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