***LEONARD'S POV***
My name is Leonard Korun, I am a nineteen-year-old werewolf from the Crescent pack, a small pack in Florida. Both my mother and father were the betas of the pack until my father went missing three years ago. Rumors around the pack are that my father ran away because he was ashamed to have an omega as a son.
Three years ago, when my parents found out I was an omega after I shifted for the first time on my sixth birthday, they were shocked because never in history had two betas born an omega. The lowest on the ranking system of werewolves. My father was ready to go high and low to find out what went wrong with my transformation and why I shifted, and gained my wolf two years earlier than the expected time.
So they took me to several witches to find out what went wrong with my wolf, but to no avail. Months later, my father disappeared and the best trackers in the pack couldn't find any trail of him. It seems he vanished from the face of the earth. Days after my father's disappearance, my mother felt their bond breaking so she believed he was dead.
But I think my father is still alive. Things relating to his disappearance did not add up.
Why will a respected beta leave his post and family?
Why will he disappear without a trace?
He loved us too much to leave us alone.
I never told anyone of my suspicions. I kept it all to myself.
In the same month, my step-dad forced my mother to marry him against her wishes and will. And he and his son, Morris, moved into our home and, ever since then, everything has changed for me and my mom. My torment started the same night they both stepped into my home.
" Where is that stupid son of yours?" I heard my stepfather's voice echoing in the house, interrupting my thoughts in my room.
My heart started beating rapidly as I knew what was to come. He is going to come in and release all his anger on me.
He has made me know how much he hated my father and I. When my parents were young, my stepfather was in love with my mother, but things didn't go his way when my mother turned eighteen. My mother got to know my dad was rather her mate. Hearing this, my stepfather got angry and has hated my father since then. But that is not the only reason, there is something else, something I cannot say out loud. No one will ever believe me, not even my Mom.
My door violently flew open, causing a boom sound, which brought me back to reality.
I quickly stood up from my bed and my stepdad took an intimidating steps towards me, making me take a few steps back. My heart was humming in my chest and immediately when he got to me.
He smacked my face very hard so that I took a step back due to the force. I yelp in pain.
" How " smack "dare you" smack
" embarrass me in front of the whole pack?" he spoke in anger as his neck veins popped out.
" Today will be your end" he spat out and held onto my shirt, dragging me out of the room and down the stairs. He threw me on the floor, making me whimper in pain.
"Please Seth, let Leo go", my mother spoke. Her voice broke as she witnessed what my stepfather was doing to me.
She was crying bitterly as she struggled in my stepbrother's hold.
" Shut up, will you? I'll never let him stay here in peace. He is just an omega. That is why his father ran away from both of you. He was ashamed of his own son. He was ashamed of the abomination you two created." he laughed in disdain.
"He doesn't deserve to live with high-rank werewolves like us. All he does is to embarrass me in front of the pack. " He growled and continued with his hand pointing at my weak figure lying on the floor.
" He has brought shame and humiliation to me and my son. I am going to kill him today", my stepfather roared and kicked me severely in my stomach and chest.
I tightened my lips, suppressing my scream, but I whimpered a little in pain. I could feel pain all over my body as he continued his kicks.
" We need to leave this place Leo, we need to leave before your stepfather kills us" my wolf Ryker yelled in our private mind link anxiously.
My wolf has been telling me to leave the pack for years now, but I just couldn't leave my mother here all alone. I stayed and took all their abuse like a good little dog. I became my step father's and step brother's punching bag just to stay by mother's side.
" But we have no where else to go? What about mother ?" I mumbled back in a hoarse tone through the link.
" We will figure that out later. For now, let’s leave before it is too late. Besides, your stepfather loves mum too much to hurt her. We need leave now" my wolf growled as he was getting impatient.
My wolf pushed forward, giving me all the strength I needed. I stood up from the floor. I punched my stepfather in the face and pushed him to the ground.
I heard a collective gasp around me, but I didn't bother looking at any of them. I knew it was high time I saved myself from those two wicked men.
I made a run to the back door when I realized my stepdad was out of my way. I didn't think twice. I shifted into my wolf Ryker and ran into the night.
" NO!!! No, son, don't go."
" It is the red moon. You will be killed by vampires if you run into the woods." She shrieked.
" Please Leo, the red moon is out. Come back" my mother shouted in a pleading tone behind me.
I could hear the anxiety and fear in her voice.
" I will find you and kill you" I heard Seth, my stepfather's voice.
My body trembled at his words.
" The red moon" I mumbled and gazed up at the red full moon, the moon that makes every werewolf terrified. My breathing pattern changed at once as fear crawled across my body. I wanted to turn and go back home but I knew there was no turning back.
My step father and step brother will kill me. And nobody in the pack will save me, not even the Alpha. They always watched on the sideline laughing as I was being tortured day and night.
The pack members watched as they tortured me with wolfsbane and laughed at my misfortune. I am known as an outcast, so to the pack I am no one important. To the pack I am nothing but a waste of space. I know they will be happy if they hear of my death the following morning. If they get to know I was brutally murdered by the Vampires, they will celebrate my death.
I glanced back one last time, murmuring
" I will come back for you mom, just wait for me."
" We're going to get through this night" my wolf reassured, boosting my confidence.
I ran into the cold, dark, eerie forest. The atmosphere in the forest was dark and creepy. But I continued to push running forward. I ran as fast as my wolf could go at a full speed. I got deeper into the woods and the air around me was chilly and icy cold. The dark forest was extremely quiet, it was too quiet for my liking. I felt my fur, standing straight as if I was not alone in the creepy forest.
The leaves were rustling around me and I sensed a presence around me.
No no
This can't be happening to me.
I heard werewolves howling in pain from a distance as they were being devoured by vampires. My heart rate exceeded twice the normal rate. A creepy feeling swept over me and the cold air did nothing to help as sweat formed over my entire body. Fear envelop my heart.
" We get through this " my wolf informed, and didn't stop for a second. He kept running forward with no destination in mind.
My wolfy blue eyes scanned the dark cold creepy forest, my eyes connected with five pairs of bright red eyes blinking in my direction.
My breath got stuck in my throat. My mind was blank that very moment, I couldn't think straight on my own.
" How can I be stupid to run out of the house on such a day" I spat a sting of curses.
My wolf continued running at a fast speed but my heart accelerated further when another ear-piecing howl filled the silent cold forest. My legs were trembling as I ran. My wolf was cold and even my bones could feel the coldness that penetrated through me.
After running for about five miles, I felt iciness around me, my surroundings got more than chilly. And my fur was standing straight and stiff.
I swiftly turned around, scanning the forest, when I found five cold red eyes running beside me.
Soon I was surrounded and I stopped my run suddenly.
" VAMPIRES" I screamed in the silent forest.
Bloody Vampires!!!!!!!
"How did they find me so quickly? " I asked myself the lamest question ever.
I started taking steps back when they were coming to me with blood smearing out of their mouths. Their fangs were on display, looking long and sharp, ready to tear me apart.
" You will get through this, Leo. Don't be scared. You're a man and a wolf, remember that". I repeated the same words in my head to reassure myself, yet, it wasn't enough to calm the storm and raging war going on in my body.
My heart was pounding and racing against my chest. I heard a snarl behind and I turned slightly to see another vampire bearing his bloody teeth at me.
Two vampires lunged and sunk their bloody fangs into my wolf's shoulders.
I howled in pain when the others also charged, biting into my dark blue fur.
I saw my life flash before my eyes that very moment. My body ached in pain as blood spout from my fur.
" Hold on Leo!!!, " my wolf Ryker announced.
My wolf pounced on the two Vampires in front of us unexpectedly and ran out in desperation. My wolf picked up his run when he heard vampires tailing us.
A horrific wolf's cry caught my attention. Although my body was sore and I felt pain throughout my entire body, I did stop for even a second. I run as if my life depends on it and truly it did.
I refused to give up even when I felt extremely weak. I crossed another pack's border and felt power flowing through me.
My body finally lowered onto the floor and the adrenaline boosting my body was now gone. The only thing left was pain, which doubled as time passed.
I heard snarls from the five vampires who were pacing up and down in anger since they couldn't cross the pack border.
I released a sigh and felt darkness slowly consuming me until everything went black........