Rogue

Rogue

*Author’s Note*

Sorry for the wait, my oldest started kindergarten online, school opened this month now is attending school. It is taking me time to get with the new routine since my other two kids are to young to assist school. All I ask is patience, as for now I will be updating at least once at week, every Sunday. I will start updating sooner as soon as I can, I do update as I go, which means I write I update theirs no draft before this. Now I just hope you enjoyed this first chapter see you all soon.

*end of note*

Chapter one: Rogue

I walk through the long corridor, with shackles in my ankles cuffed to my hands, two custodians one on each side. I see on my sides the many women who have been imprisoned before me, some may be innocents' others may be guilty just like me. They all stare at me, maybe because they know I don’t belong here or maybe because of my looks. I am tall at 5.9ft I have white straight hair that reaches just above my waist. But what most people stare at is my eyes, I have purple eyes although sometimes they are blue. They become blue whenever my wolf is present, for a strange reason my wolf has blue eyes, and I know what you are thinking. You might think I am a white wolf, wrong, my wolf’s fur is more of a golden color, you know that Garfield cat? Eww I hate cats bad example how about that dog from the movies that play basketball and such. I hate dogs too another bad example let me just think here for a second, oh I know a fox have you ever seen a golden fox like in the movies yes that’s the color of my fur. I sigh as I remember the day, I shifted for the first time I was so scared I was seven years old and alone. No it’s not normal to shift at that age but I was basically forced to shift, everything started the day my parents had to run from our pack.

I never met my mother but my father told me the story he told me of how our pack was attacked by another pack enemy. My mom was pregnant with me, dad took her hand and they both run. Dad was no warrior, no beta, and no alpha, they were both ordinary wolves leaving in a pack. That is why mom tried to shift into her wolf but couldn’t, sometimes a beta female, a alpha female or even a Luna can shift while pregnant. If they shift while pregnant, they are not able to shift back until after they go to labor. Dad told me of how they run through the woods, mom couldn’t run anymore they had to stop anyways. Since dad had picked up the scent of rogues, dad though that even though he didn’t know how to fight he still was going to try and save mom and me. Three rogues soon appear in front of them mom was sitting in the ground as far as she could master. My dad fought he fought and didn’t give up, he was tired after a lot of fighting but he had master to kill the rogues. When dad went to check on mom the scent of her blood hit him, she was bleeding about to give birth to me. He stayed with her, helped her in everything he could while he could hear and smell the blood of those from our pack. After a while that to him seem like hours I was born, the minute I took a breath in this world was the minute she gave her las breath. The scent of the rogues and my mom’s blood called others dad took my mom’s blanket wrapped me in it, he shifted into his white wolf. Taking me with his snout he run, leaving behind the love of his life his dead mate, my mother.

I remember hearing my dad cry and his wolf whimper at nights they would dream of the night they lost her. He always told me how my mother’s wolf was grey with blue eyes something weird but probably beautiful. He always told me how my mother was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen how he fell in love with her even before they knew they were mates. Even her wolf was the most beautiful wolf he had ever seen, his eyes water every time he spoke of mom, I wanted and needed to hear more so I always listen.

That is until I turn seven of course because that day I lost my father the only family I had left.

Memories of seven year old me

Dad training has been getting harder every day, but I don’t say anything because I know why this is. I am growing and so are the dangers in this world I have to be able to fight and defend myself. As my father and I are about to start today’s training something made his eyes turn black. That means is his wolf, I have learned that the color of wolves eyes are either, yellowish (golden), black or brown, then there is mom who had blue eyes. But that is not normal, and dad says is fine because not been normal makes us special. So, I guess I am special because I have purple eyes, I can’t wait to turn of age to shift and meet my wolf.

I hope she is grey with blue eyes like mom was, I came back from my thoughts when my dad pulls my arm with him. “I need you to listen to me carefully sweetheart, remember that story I told you about the prince that was looking for a land to conquer?” I nod as I remember what dad said, apparently the king of all wolves has two children, boys the oldest took the throne while the other decided to form his own pack. He has been looking for land for a while now, “they are here now” dad whisper I try to hear as far as I can. Then I hear it, the troops of the prince the screams of all those who have leave here in the woods near the place mom died. It became like a refuge to all those without a home without a pack, my dad had become the leader of them without asking. Everyone just follow him all the time, a tear rolls down my dad’s left eye, “I love you with all my heart and that is why I need you to listen. I need you to run, run how I thought you, go south to the nearest human pack and hide under them.” He kisses my forehead I shake my head, “no daddy please,” “I can’t” he sighs “I can’t live without her, I have tried truly I have, but it pains me.”

I know what he means with this but I need my daddy I am only seven I can’t be on my own not yet. “You are my daughter and you are strong you can do this, now run, run and never look back, just remember that I love you and so did your mom.” Tears start rolling down my cheeks “I love you daddy” I then run like he said going south like he thought me, tired of running I decide to hide I can still hear the screams of the people been killed. The cries of the children, children like me but the difference is I have a chance to run and I will take it. I will always run I will do it for my parents, when the sun comes up, I start running again when I am grab by an arm. “Leaving without me?”

Ian my best friend like an older brother, he is fourteen and shifted for the first time a few months ago. I smile shaking my head “never” he then holds my hand and we run, and keep running until I can’t keep running. We sit in the ground taking a breath when my stomach growls “don’t worry I will go hunt for us.” He leaves, a few maybe hours later he comes back with a rabbit I am used to this since I was born and raised out here. We put up a fire and grill our rabbit for dinner, after we are done eating, we lay around the fire. Cuddling with each other to keep me warm, since I still don’t have my wolf, I get cold while he is always warm tanks to his wolf. Morning comes and he goes hunting, after we eat it’s time to run again, until we can no longer run. It’s late we are so close to the human town dad told me about, Ian stops running making me stop as well. “I smell wolves I don’t think they are rogues” he says as he sniffs the air, I try as well but I can’t pick up a scent other than his. “They will pick up my scent not yours, because you haven’t shift yet, I need you to run.”

I shake my head not him too, “no please don’t make me run, I want to stay with you please.” “You have to do as I say, I will come look for you, as soon as you reach the human town blend in with them, I will find you I promise.” I nod, then turn running away leaving him behind like I did my dad, I have a feeling I won’t see him ever again. I keep running till is completely dark, looking for a safe spot to spend the night I find a small cave. There I cry myself to sleep, the sun comes up waking me in the processes. I try hunting but I can’t seem to catch anything, I have to walk like this without food I won’t be able to run. Since my ears are not as good, I can’t even hear any water falls or running lakes. I am thirsty tired and hungry, Ian was the one helping me out now that he is not here, I feel like dying.

All of a sudden, a dark grey wolf almost black jumps me, my heart beats rise. He has me pin in the ground as he growls at me, he doesn’t look like an adult wolf he is small like Ian’s wolf, but Ian is a black wolf. He removes his paws from me as he stands and I do the same, I watch as he shifts into a boy. He looks around the same age as Ian, before I can speak, he is holding me by the throat. “Why are you trespassing my lands!” He growls at me making me feel more scare than before, “I... I just... pass...ing... by” I stuttered. I feel how his claws extend around my neck shocking me, black dots cloud my vision but before I can faint, I feel pain. The sound of bones cracking and then blood, the boy holding me by my neck lays in the ground probably dead. I run not wanting to be caught, I run when I hear a water running hitting rocks on their way. I follow the noise and soon I am in a small River when I near the river to drink water is when I realize what I am. I am a wolf, I mean in wolf form, I have shifted, ‘aren’t you getting a drink in three hours running in wolf form we will land in human territory.’ A voice in my head speaks, ‘who is this?’ I ask myself ‘I am Lica your wolf’ my eyes widen in realization but I do as she says and drink water.

We run and just like she said we are in a cliff now watching the human town I have to shift back into human so I can descend but I don’t know how. After hours of trying finally I feel the pain as I shift back into my human self, I walk down the cliff dirty and naked. A couple driving a car passing by the road between the cliff and the town stops and run to my aid. I faint in the women’s arms feeling too tired and hungry ‘you are saved now, you did it you got us here’ my wolf Lica says.

Now as I walk through the halls of this place, I remind myself that I am a werewolf in a human world. I have to be careful with what I do here, and if you ask what happened to Ian, then let me tell you he never came to me. I waited even run out of my adopted parents every night to wait for him by the cliff but he never came. But that was ten years ago, I am seventeen now and I am about to serve about two months in prison. Before you ask no, I am not innocent I have committed too many violations of the human law. In high school a boy who tried to drug me and rape me met me and Lica, we kicked his ass. Since he comes from a wealthy family, I spend three months in a juvenile prison, then a vampire girl and I cross paths. She is a loner like me hiding in this human town so we got together and found more like us. We made a group of young supernatural, those who called themselves hunters came after us when our group became known. These hunters are not entirely humans, I mean they were but not anymore. They changed their DNA to be faster than humans, in order for them to smell scents humans can’t and much more. We had to run to hide but on my way to my adopted parents one got close to catching me I had to kill him. The thing is this was witnessed by my neighbor who then called the police so here I am in prison. I am to spend five years here with humans who have in fact made more horrible things than me.

I roll my eyes to myself because the truth is I don’t care, I know I can run out of here if I want. All I have to do is shift but I won’t because right now I am safer here than out there where hunters are looking for me. I have to stay strong stay here for a few weeks maybe a few months then I will run away. After all I am the daughter of wolves who gave their life’s for me, I am Raquel Donati, and I am rogue.