*Author's note*

Now we begin our prologue. For face casting of Akela I stick with Hugo Weaving and for the Bear Beorn I have chosen Idris Elba.  Both have the ability to change from human/elf to their chosen animal forms. You all shall see them both more soon enough. For now enjoy my lovelies :)

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It was 10 years after the Guardians' had lost Jackie Frost to the Dark Witch's curse, in the kingdom of the Mirkwood where the elven wolf pack reside; Thranduil was out all alone one night out along the mountain ranges of his kingdom reflecting on everything that has happened in the past few years.

The Seasonal guardians have each lost their daughters and the seasonal animals have lost their princesses maybe forever.

Thranduil himself felt very grief stricken but he refused to show it before his pack, they needed their Alpha to be strong in these dark times, especially now since no one has seen eye or even hair of Ravenna in the past year. It was almost like she disappeared off the face of the planet.

As Thranduil stood along the mountain's edge looking up at the late afternoon sky in his proud wolf form, his ear twitched back as he heard the sound of a twig snapping. His head lowered and teeth bared in a low snarl as his wolf instincts were telling him that something was watching him.

By nightfall, Aniu began to get concerned on why her Alpha hadn't returned back from his patrol of the kingdom.

Usually he's back within a few minutes with no sightings of any orcs, spiders anything revolving around Pitch or Ravenna but now she had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach that something had happened to her husband, something bad.

So she left her kingdom and walked along the trail she had been told that her husband would be taking to scout out any threats when her elf ears caught sounds of painful whimpers and snarls in black speech.

When she reached the top of the mountain she saw her husband's wolf body lying there on the mountain floor bloody and madded and standing above him was an ogre. It turned to Aniu snarling and glaring daggers at her and Aniu only looked at the ogre with piercing blue eyes.

The ogre then let out a panicked cry as Aniu began to glow then a powerful magic wind shot out from her hand disintegrating the ogre and allowing a powerful beam of white light to spread across the night sky.

Aniu then picked up her unconscious mate gingerly in her arms, his wolf body cradled close to her chest as she walked down the mountain trail only to hear a voice speak in Black speech of the Legend of the Wolves.

"The Alpha Thranduil strong as he is wild as the untamed sea, The White Soul Aniu, guides the lost souls into the light,"

"The Beta, protector of the Alphas and enforcer of their commands" Aniu finished as suddenly coming out from all around her were Beta wolves from a few descendants of a wolf pack around the world. But these wolves had been turned into Pitch's wargs.

Like wolves but bigger than their normal cousins and twice as deadly with sharper claws like tiger's claws and teeth like a lion's. Aniu frightenedly backed up into the mountain's base and came down to her knees with her unconscious mate still cradled in her arms.

"You cannot win, even now the Almighty White Soul fades. One she-wolf, against an entire army". The voice taunted in black speech once more. Aniu raised her head and said strongly.

"I am not alone". Soon leaping down in front to protect her was her Beta and son-in-law Akela. His fangs bared and tail up defensively then coming up the mountain trail was another Guardian of Mirkwood and a dear friend to Aniu and Thranduil, Beorn the Black Bear.

"I'm told you are in need of assistance my Queen" Beorn stated. Some of the wargs turned towards Beorn snarling at him as the black bear glared at them.

"Harm my Alphas and face my wrath!" Akela proclaimed before leaping towards one of the other Beta wolves letting a huge wolf and warg brawl to start. Beorn as well charged in roaring at the rest of the wargs.

Akela had ripped apart one of the wargs' throat apart but he was soon pinned down by two wargs and the three of them rumbled against one another with fur and blood flying everywhere. Beorn swung his mighty paws at the wargs dislocating their jaws as they charged at him or scarring them up so badly that they soon dropped dead. As the two defenders of the Alpha's continued to fight, Aniu turned to her mate whispering.

"My love, come back" she then leaned in and kissed her mate's muzzle and remained there for a moment before separating. Before long Thranduil came around whimpering and grunting in fear before he set his eyes on his wife.

"He is—here" he choked out fearfully.

"Yes, the Dark One has returned" Aniu stated as she soothingly stroked through her husband's fur.

While the battle continued on between Akela, Beorn and the wargs, another figure soon came out from the shadows but came in front of the Alphas' of Mirkwood. It was Legolas in his snow leopard form.

"Adar! Climb on!" He cried out. He had heard of the trouble from one of the snow owls who had sent him a message about his father and without worrying Jack Frost any more than he already was, simply told him he was going to check on the Woodland realm to meet with the wolf pack to discuss some issues regarding all that's happened.

"He is weak! He cannot remain here as this place is now draining his life! Go Legolas! Quickly!" Aniu said as she placed her husband on the snow leopard's back. Thranduil then gently tugged on his wife's white sleeve with his mouth and through their telepathic bond he weakly said.

'Come with me melamin'. Aniu looked at his empathically at her injured husband then closed her eyes and tore her sleeve out of his grasp and with her magic creating a demanding echo and her eyes turning soulless white she ordered Legolas to go to which he did with his father over his back.

As Aniu slowly collapsed onto the ground, Beorn finished off the last three wargs he was facing with a strong swipe of his paws and ripped the last warg with his fangs while Akela hopped on top of one of the wargs and severed its spinal column with his fangs.

Bleeding and injured but still holding enough strength to stand, Akela approached his Alpha female and gently nudged her hoping that she was alright when suddenly a powerful magical surge burst the edge of the mountain revealing the shadow of Pitch Black himself. Akela stood over his Queen protectively while Beorn stood closely by the two wolves and stared at Pitch's shadow with both strength and fear.

'It has begun. With the fall of the Daughters', the rest of the seasons shall soon fall. The time of the Guardian's is over. The reign of the Dark One now begins' Pitch's voice stated in Black speech. Suddenly Aniu stood up but her appearance look absolutely haunting and her dress appeared black and green like a haunting river nymph. She raised her right hand holding what looked like a small vile which then suddenly shined brighter than any star vanishing the nightmares away leaving Pitch's shadow to suffer at the star's light as Aniu's demonic voice proclaimed.

"YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE. SERVANT OF THE DARK ONE! YOU ARE NAMELESS. FACELESS. FORMLESS. NOW GO BACK TO THE PRISON FROM WHENCE YOU CAME!!!!" Suddenly a bright flash exploded out and Pitch's shadow retreated away and Aniu stumbled back groaning in pain as Akela now in elf form caught his queen before she fell to the ground.

Legolas who was now out of the woods stopped as he heard thunder rumbling in the sky and Thranduil raised his head feeling his mate's distress and her power fading fast.

Akela cradling his queen against his shoulder muttered in elvish that they have been deceived. The shuddering Elven she-wolf then stated.

"A portion of his spirit lives here".

"It has been banished" stated Beorn.

"He has partnered with the Dark One". Aniu finished weakly. Beorn walked ahead as Akela stated firmly.

"The pack must be warned. We must assemble our army before they arrive". Akela stood up as Aniu took hold of his arm weakly and Lord Beorn stated.

"No, get as many of your people out of here as possible. Your Queen has spent much of her power, her strength is fading. I will protect her".

"My Lord Beorn, they must be stopped and destroyed once and for all!"

"Without the Daughters of the four seasons, a new dark age could soon rise upon our lands". Aniu leaned against Akela's leg as he gently placed his hand on her head as Beorn declared. "Go now! Leave this army to me".

Unfortunately the army proved too much for even Beorn to hold back. Though Akela managed to sneak all the younger elves out of Mirkwood and into a sacred land hidden in the Alaskan wilderness, it was too late for him to go back for his Queen and the rest of the elder elven-wolves. An army of spiders and wargs had taken control over the Mirkwood realm and taken Aniu and the rest of the pack hostage.

Even with his injuries and refusing to listen to his son's persistence in resting and hiding away, Thranduil refused to leave his pack and his queen under reign of these creatures of darkness. But soon he too was taken under reign of the warg Alpha Maugrim.

Akela alone was to raise the remaining young wolves under his reign in the Alaskan wild and without the magic of their homeland or their Alpha's to bestow upon them the ability to become the dog breeds of today, they could no longer serve as Man's best friend and protect the children or keep a watchful eye upon the human realm.

With the over-ruling of the Mirkwood wolf pack, other wolf packs began to deteriorate and were divided among each other. They could no longer come together as they once did and they felt afraid that if they were to try and stand up to the threat upon Mirkwood that their pack would suffer the same fate as their High Alpha pack has.

It was on that day that a prophecy was born. A savior would stand up and lead the rest of the Mirkwood pack back home to defeat the threat of the Mother wolf pack and restore order to all other wolf pack.

No name was give of the savior only stated that they would be of Wolf-kin and yet do not know of it.

And this my dear friends is where our story continues.