For the next few years our parents took us on hunts, which was so much fun.

We were lucky that a farm was near where we lived so on moonless nights each month my parents would tell us to shift, then we would take the trail we always did right to the back of the farm where the cattle was.

Calfs bleated and ran around, too restless to sleep, where as their mothers slept peacefully. Our target was the babies.

I was first to go since I destracted the creaturs with my fur, my wolf body slowly maturing into a delinquent, a teenage wolf.

I was nine now and our hunting strategy was that I destracted, the rest killed.

With in thirty minuts we had five calfs and were on out way home with the deed done, the farmer would be pissed but who cares.

We stoped at the butching hut, a cold concreate hut my father had built so that he could cut the meat and sell a portion to the pack.

Slowly we placed the dead calfs on the metal square just outside the door and left my father to work while my mother, brother, sister and I went out to the forest, killing a few wild turkeys and a dear.

We repeated the process of putting them on another metal square and left to go into the house, taking a shower and relaxing.

It was a long weekend here in Ontario due to family day being tomorrow so my siblings and I got to stay up late and watch movies with a ton of ice cream, candy and chips. This was the only time we got to do this since Zack was in college and Mia was in highschool, so our parents didn't have to worry about them, but because I was still in grade school I got treated like a kid.

I hated it.

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"Well who wants my famous home made burgers tomorrow?"
My dad asked as he waltz into the room. He was carying a cooler box with what I assumed to be meat for burgers, perking my siblings and I right up.

"Do we really need to answer that dad?" Zack asked and Mia and I both nodded in agreement.

The night went on about what else we would have with the burgers while our parents went up stairs for some reason.

In the end I was curled up between my brother and sister fast asleep.

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"DADDY can we go for a run now?" I asked impatienly, hopping from one foot to the other.

Our dinner had been finished hours ago and now it was time for the anual family day run.

I was excited.

I loved being in wolf form and running in the night as my fur moved like flames in the wind.

My siblings had already shifted, tired of waiting and I was about to shift to.

"Yes we can." That was all I needed to hear before I ran around behind a bush and shifted. I whimpered from the pain and the bones cracking and realigning themselves till I was on all fours.

It had only taken three minutes for me to shift and join my siblings but it felt like hours with all the pain.

Finally we were all shifted and running through the forest. We were going to meet up with other members of the pack that had kids between my age to Zack's age and have a moon light party with the pack, our extended family.

We reached the clearing by the lake and I instantly look for Leo, pouncing on him from behind and pinning him underneath me.

[Ambie get off me] my friend growled as he mind linked me
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[Make me!] I retorted, only to find myself pinned under him.

[Noooo faaair] I whined.

[Life is not fair, deal with it.] His smug voice whiped through my head.
I huffed and waited for him to relax, then moved out from under him.

Leo was our future alpha and sun to Alpha Blue, yes his dad's name is Blue, like Blue's Clues, and he even looked a bit like the dog from that show.

For the next few hours we were chasing each other and heading just inside the tree line as we dodged one another in mock battle when a shot rang out and a whimper was heard.

We froze.

[HUNTERS, EVERYONE TO THE PACK HOUSE] it was Alpha Blue and wolves instantly running our way.

[Amber?] My mother, she was worried.

[I'm with Leo]

[Okay, meet us at the pack house.]

[Okay.]

I looked at Leo and we nodded, taking off and running to catch up with the other pack members, but our legs were too short and we fell behind.

"Did you see that? the wolf with fur like flames?" I could hear the hunters, and it was clear that they had seen me.

So had Leo and he steered me towards the cave system and I let him.

[Hury up!] He growled, his alpha side appearing.

[I am] I glared back, reaching the safety of the cave and hiding just inside.

Neither of us shifted nor breathed to loudly and we curled into the hidden ledge, Leo using his black wolf fur to hide me in the shadows.

"Where did they go?"

"I don't know, you were the one tracking the fücking runt and its friend!"

The hunters were arguing about loosing us and I shook with fear. They were just outside our cave.

[Amberle, Leo, where are you?] It was the Alpha.

[In the cave, the hunters are outside where we are hiding.] I could hear Leo. Guess that Alpha Blue opened up the mindlink to everyone.

[Stay there, we are comming.]

It was quiet after that and suddenly howls and growls could be heard. Two shots rang out and I froze, recognizing who's scent of blood that was.

[Amberle, stay in the cave] It was a command from my Alpha,
B

ut I ran just as the last hunter died.
I went passsd him to where my parents were, silver running down their sides from the woumd they had taken.

I shifted, my long hair covering my naked back.

"M-mommy, D-daddy?" I whimpered, taking their hand as they shifted too, leaning their bodies against the tree to support themselves.

"Everything is fine. Just listen to Alpha Blue and your siblings. Be a good girl." My mother said weakly, one of her hand taking my hand, the other grasping my fathers.

Tears were flowing down my cheek as some one else started crying out. Mia ran to their side and Zack stood behind us.

"We love you three..." was my fathers dying words as him and my mother slowly became lifeless, the silver poisoning them.

"This is your fault!" Mia screamed, slapping me hard against my tear stained face before sprinting away, Zack glaring at me before chasing our sister.

Some one tall and strong picked me up and I grabed his shirt, crying because I know that I had lost my family tonight.

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I stood beside the alpha as I watch the casket with my parents inside get lowered into the ground.

I couldn't cry anymore as I stood there emotionless.

My siblings had disowned me and no one my age came near me. Leo even ignored me.

The funeral ended and I knew of the plans my siblings had to burn down the family home this weekend with everything in it. Today me and the Alpha would clean it out while everyone else grieved. It was the only request I asked.

Hours passed and everything I wanted to keep was placed inside the trailer that was attacked to the old nineteen-sixtynine mustang convertable my dad treasured.
We hid it in the old shed that was at the very back of the pack propety, my stuff from my bed room already placed in the room I chose in the pack house. It was the attic that had been renovated into a bed room, the bigest room in the house that no one went near.

Thats where I cried myself to sleep all alone...