Hanley Jane's Story

Hanley ran with her pack through the forest, the canopy was thick and blocked most sunlight, the light that remained unblocked fell through the canopy like golden waterfalls. Despite their pack being the smallest of all known packs, the Forest Moon pack still made an entrance, their paws hitting the ground created a thunderous noise and their swift pace created a wind that blew the trees.

Hanley kept a watchful eye on her surroundings, the meeting place for the mating was secluded and difficult to reach but she wouldn't be surprised if some uncanny, evil force had found a way to locate it and cause havoc. She kept her thoughts to herself and slowed with the Alpha. They all shifted and Hanley fed a hand into a backpack she had been carrying round her neck.
Everyone was naked, it didn't bother most but it left Hanley feeling vulnerable. She got dressed quickly in a loose, thin grey vest and a pair of brown shorts. She then tossed her thick curly hair back and clipped a percentage of it up to keep it from snagging on things. When ready everyone entered the kingdom and joined the party.

Hanley's eyes were immediantly drawn to the Alpha King for obvious reasons, he was handsome, strong and incredibaly large. He was a sight to behold for any female, her silver eyes studied him for a moment before she shot him a small smile and turned her attention back to her pack Alpha. She kept close to her Alpha, she felt they had a connection Hanley wanted to protect her despite being younger.

They contrasted dramatically, Hanley's skin being a dirty bronze and hers being a creamy pale. She caught others looking and tried her best not to bare her teeth.

"Play nice, this is an important ceremony" her wolf whispered to her.
"This is nice" Hanley muttered back and said nothing more. She didn't want to think about the ceremony. She didn't need a mate.

There had been several times that Lucas had wanted to kill Tyler but right now he might just do that. Lucas had no control of his body now, some male was touching her! It only made it worse that she smelled like lavender mixed with the smell of morning dew, "Tyler, release her now!" he said a little too angrily but covered with, "We need to go talk to some of the others, now!" Before he could find the will to move, Lucas made the mistake of looking at her face. It look soft and it's delicate features, like an angel had formed it by hand."She's pretty" his inner wolf said once more, "Shut up! we don't have time for pretty." Tyler growled to himself. He grabbed Tyler by the arm and strode away before his friend could comment. Not paying attention Lucas accidentally ran into a young female with thick curly, " My apologize!" Lucas said grabbing her by the arm to keep her from falling.

Hanley was too busy watching her Alpha to spot the on coming collision. Someone large ran into her and knocked her sideways, the same individual grabbed her arm to prevent her falling. Hanley balanced herself and then yanked her arm violently from the hand that held it before she even registered who the individual was.

Her silver eyes darted to the face of a male wolf and she realised quite suddenly (and with embarrassment) that it was the Alpha King. She glanced around to see if anyone had noticed the small commotion before forcing herself to appear relaxed. The sudden contact had given her body a shot of adrenaline, her muscles were tense and her breath hoarse. She tucked a long wild ringlet behind her ear and entwined her little hands together awkwardly.

"Respect! Respect the Alpha King" her wolf urged her hastily.
"No my apology's Alpha" Hanley murmured before bowing awkwardly. Her heart raced in the company of the two towering Alpha's (Lucas and Tyler) and made her wolf and body do strange things that she didn't agree with. She felt tiny beside them both and looked it too. She wished for male from her own pack to be closer so they could protect her from them.

Anne woke up feeling strangely homesick, the sun was at its brightest, and nothing seemed better than to go out running in her wolf self to clear up her troubled mind. Anne could remember seeing her mother smiling at her, encouraging her to come over before dinner turned cold, of course that was when her mother was able to cook, and before she feel badly ill. “Strange” Anne said to herself, “it’s been a while since I last daydreamed of my mother”, she suddenly let out a smile realizing how fast time passes. It seemed as if it had only been a matter of days when she was playing hide-and-seek with her older brother, while her mother yelled, “dinner is ready!”. Anne left out a small sight and after a lot of thought she also remembered it had been a while since she last felt like this, missing her family had not been in her mind, mostly because she had already found a new family she could lean on, her pack, the Shadow Moon Pack to be exact. She thought of her mother and what she would thing is she had seen her becoming the pack’s doctor. “she would be proud” her inner wolf said, a small tear made Anne ayes blurry, “and…” after a long pause the voice continued, “she wouldn’t want you to be said, plus she would encourage you to wear something pretty for today” her inner voice added, and to this Anne laughed for a moment, her mother was indeed always worrying about formalities, and always trying to look her best for big events, after all she was always a beautiful lady, she didn’t have to try very hard to begin with.

Today was the day the pack would go to the meeting place to find their mates, to find their “destined mates” as some would say. Anne laughed once again, the idea of a predestined mate made her stomach sick, and almost seemed like a joke to her, she didn’t actually believe any of it, “I would have to see it to believe it” she whispered to herself. Anne rushed back to her pack, she knew they would be waiting, it was not like they were late for the event but instead because her pack always wanted to be the first ones to arrive-always being competitive against other packs and all- besides they needed to move quickly because it wasn’t an easy travel, they needed to get early to get an advantage. Indeed, it was quite hard to get to the meeting place, “what did you expect Anne?” she asked herself, after all it was a royal ground, it isn’t like just anybody would be able to reach such fancy place. Since she was already in wolf form she didn’t have to change or anything, instead she remained as a wolf. Anne’s wolf was stunning, while changing her form to that of a wolf she remained some of her beautiful human features, such as her beautiful red hair, however, the color of her eyes changed from blue-green to an extremely light born, her height was that of 5’8” she wasn’t particularly the biggest wolf around.

The pack moved quickly only resting when told to, and before finally arriving at the meeting place, they had to change quickly, Anne rapidly changed to her human form; she didn’t mind being seen naked specially in front of her pack, but she felt uncomfortable specially now that they were supposed to find mates, she changed rapidly to something she was used to, she first changed her undergarments, then put on a black tank top with a pair of black jeans that shaped her figure perfectly, “perfect” she said to herself, “your mother would disagree” said her inner wolf, and Anne laughed once again, and once again she was absorbed in her thoughts.

They finally reached the castle and Anne was at awe, she wasn’t used to seeing such fancy places. After a pretty blonde boy with a boyish face asked the leader the name of the pack, they were able to enter the castle. Everyone waited for the rest of the packs to arrive, and the Ocean Moon were the last ones to arrive, “as expected” Anne said as she smiled in contempt, and she let out a mocking grin that she couldn’t hide. After that one of the royals gave a speech, and everything afterwards was simply annoying to Anne, all of the girls being over the royals was something Anne could simply not understand, Anne would rather stay home reading a book, but they had to attend the meeting, “Ugh!”. Anne decided it was best to be friendly and try to meet other wolves, but before anything she turned to Sabrina who looked just as annoyed as her, “guess we have to be friendly, and meet a dreamy wolf huh?” she said sarcastically.

Hanley's spine crawled as the large wolf accompanying the Alpha king tossed her a few lines. She opened her mouth to tell him exactly how she was doing, which wasn't going to be pretty, when something diverted their attention. A little, honey blonde wolf was being man-handled by one of the older, more aggressive wolves that were known around the packs. She looked distressed and helpless. Quite a few eyes diverted to the Alpha King in expectation.

Hanley strickened hoping no such wolves were near her and her Alpha but she needn't worry. On backing up a little she bumped into a male chest and knew from scent that it was Jason. Safe.

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Jason had entered with the girls, but had gone to look for drinks, he'd taken his eyes off them for a few seconds and already the Alpha King and his Beta were there by his Alpha and pack doctor. It made his blood boil to see his tiny female pack members stand so close to other males who were so big. He bolted over like a horned bull and placed himself behind the girls.

It didn't matter though, their attention had been drawn else where to a young female wolf being carried off by an older male, one who was most likely lonely and fancied his chances. Jason cleared his throat. "Someone gonna go get her?"

Jason had been tracking the females of his pack like a predator tracks prey, much to their annoyance. He knew his mannerisms could prevent them from reaching out to their potential mates but that was fine with him. They were is girls and that was that. Little did he know that later on all hell was about to break loose.

He was getting ready for the evening banquet and was half into his tux when chaos broke loose, being tense and alert anyway allowed him to pick up on the danger surprisingly quick. Without a second thought he bolted out of the room he was standing in and sprinted to the unfolding scene. Vampires were attacking and their stone cold hearts were set on the king. With so many Lucas on the scene it was suicide and the vampires seemed to work it out shortly after making themselves known. By the time Jason reached the madness the vampires were gone and several wolves were injured. He bent down next to Adrian as many others did.

With the danger over however his heart beat raced as his eyes darted around for his pack, what if some of them were outside where the vampires fled, or perhaps they were around here and hurt somewhere. "Alpha?! Luke? Hanley?" He called out into the crowd from his knelt position. It was mayhem, everyone was stressed and unsettled. Shifted and not shifted.

"Alph-" Jason's voice disappeared as soon as his eyes found someone. A fragile, pale face appeared through the crowd rushing towards the scene. She was cutting through the crowd in an angelic evening dress, her face creased with concern and worry. He watched her rich, red curls bounce with every hasty step she took, but everything seemed to be moving in slow motion, like a terrible scene from a movie except there was nothing terrible about watching her. She seemed unreal to him. She came to kneel down right in front of him over Adrian's body her green eyes precise and piercing. She was beautiful. He felt a strange feeling he didn't like overwhelm him, like a unused part of his brain was suddenly being put to work. It made him feel dizzy and weird.

In reality it left him kneel over the kings mate, staring directly at the red head like a concussed fool. His white shirt hung half open, and a black dickie tie hung loose around his neck.

Adrian shifted so she was leaning more on Lucas, his body heat comforted her and she knew she would heal faster as long as he was beside her. There was so much commotion that it gave Adrian a headache so instead of focusing on the outside she tuned her hearing to listening to her bones cracking and reforging as they healed. She took a deep breath in a cringed in pain as her ribs poked her lungs, she exhaled quickly to stop the pain. Out of all the events happening in front of her Adrian heard a small whimper echo in her ears. She looked around to see no one less had noticed as another small whimper followed.

'the pups!' her wolf barked, worried and Adrian's eyes widened in fear. She shot up off of her mate and started to run to the room all the pups were. When she arrived as yelped when she saw the dead body of one of her packs nurtures. She crashed into the room and her eyes instantly landed on the male vampire. He had a shadow moon pup and a royal moon pup thrown over his shoulder and he was grabbing another one when she came barging in. He hissed at her and rushed towards the open window but Adrian threw herself in front of it and snarled at him. Her broken bones protested but she didnt care, they were trying to harm the pups and that is just to low on the humanity scale.

The vampire roughly dropped the pups on the hard marble floor and Adrian snarled as they whimpered in pain. He would pay for making these pups scared and hurt. She lunged at the vampire as a crack sounded in the room, one of her half healed ribs breaking again. Adrian fell to the side and the vampire lunged, tackling her. Even though she was bigger and strong then him, in her hurt state he easily pinned her down. Adrian heard some of her pack's male pups snarl and Adrian looked up to see around vampire had joined them.

'dammit' she mentally cursed and latched her jaw's onto the vampire above her shoulder. He screamed in pain as she kicked out his knee's making him fall on top of her and she shot up, ignoring her pain. His shoulder was still in her bone crashing jaws as she shot off and grabbed the other vampire by the leg and jerked him, making him fall to the ground. The second vampire struck at him, digging his claw like finger nail's into the flesh of her front leg. With a tug he broke it but Adrian didnt care as she threw them out the window. She whimpered in pain them collapsed, all the pups instantly coming to her side. They all shifted into their baby pups and nuzzled her sides trying to comforted her and themselves.
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'Bryarly baby are you ok?' Tyler whimpered as he nuzzled her face. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Adrian's look of concern then her shooting off to who knows where. Tyler turned to his best friend to see a look of worry plastered on Lucas's face.
'dont worry dude i'm sure she's.......' Tyler was cut off as a eardrum scattering scream echoed threw the halls from the pups play room.
'Oh shit' Tyler cursed as he was about to dash off to the pups room but stopped. He couldnt leave his mate when she was so hurt.
'Royal moon pack follow your alpha to the pups room' Tyler ordered in his Beta tone.

When the panic and attack was over, everyone went to bed. The forest moon beta couldn't sleep though. He couldn't stop thinking about the evening/night that had passed. He'd observed so much happen. The little warrior of Ocean Moon seemed to be the next Lycan Queen the way she and the King acted around one another. Not only that but the careless way she threw herself into the first sign of trouble was worrying, if she continued on that way...they wouldn't have a Queen for long and then the monarchy would be at stake.

It was troubling stuff, not to mention how the vampires attacked the ceremony, it was erratic and illogical. He couldn't fathom what the Head Vampire was thinking. Most of all though he couldn't stop thinking about the flame-haired girl who capture his attention just by existing. He wished now that he'd said something, but she'd been so wrapped up in the events like himself that he didn't get a chance. He couldn't stop imagining what she must look like as a wolf, or naked which was terrible of him. After all she was a stranger but she was a gorgeous stranger, one that tempted him. When he did eventually catch an hours sleep, he dreamt of sinking his teeth into her neck...

When morning came he was exhausted and not quite himself. "That girl...you know what she is" his wolf murmured gruffly. Jason ignored it and got dressed instead. He hadn't checked on the girls all night, things felt strange in the Royal families domain...like it wasn't his place to follow them round. He hadn't seen luke much either.


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Hanley woke with a start, she'd been nestled up with a few other female members of her pack. The Vampire attack had frightened them and not wanting to disturb the Alpha, Hanley had taken them under her wing. It had been a night of arms and legs and female hair getting tangled and knotted. Hanley rose with the sun nevertheless and pulled on a light dress. Going over to her window it seemed others were already out and about as she saw the Alpha king jump out of a window in his wolf form, however when the other Alphas followed including her own Hanley strickened. That was unusual. Not bothering with shoes she ran down the many stairs and out into the open follow their scent and also the scent of a vampire. Again.

She came up behind the troop of Alphas to see a dead Vampire, a bleeding King and two other wolves. She hurried forth after nodding to her Alpha Lily.

"Alpha King, you're hurt-" she murmured huskily gesturing to his heavily bloody wound. She paused when one of the other Alphas rose up fiercely about the ocean moon warrior being his mate...which even Hanley could tell was a mistaken claim.

Lucas was relieved that he had arrived in time, it was worth getting hurt to protect his loved one. Even though the cut wasn't deep, it was doing enough on him. Adrian tried to lick as much out as she could but was interrupt by the Ocean moon alpha, who started licking her affectionately. Lucas could already feel his body quiver, he wouldn't be able to stay in wolf form long but it would be long enough to kill Colton.

"The hell! your her mate! Adrian is my mate! Lucas stood on shaky legs pressing past the medic that had arrived, he went nose to nose with the alpha. He let loose one of the most terrifying growls, that anyone had probably heard. Even though anger was keeping him standing, Lucas wouldn't deny that there was something that really wasn't right. He would be to weak to put up an actual fight so he hoped Colton would back down for now. (OOC sorry for the shortness >_<)

After all the commotion had passed, Anne tried curing as many wounded as she possibly could, and once she saw the bodies of the fallen wolves she couldn’t help but feel hatred and rage towards the vampires, “they need to pay for this” she thought as she clenched her fist in anger and before she headed towards her pack wishing that everyone would be safe. Anne knew the blonde girl from the Ocean Moon pack was the mate of the royal alpha which made her the new Luna. She smiled knowing that she was brave, risking her own life for the pups, but felt concerned for her reckless ways.

Once she arrived with her own pack she tended some wolves with minor injuries before the smell of blood once again filled her alerted nostrils, she finished cleaning a wound from a warrior before she headed towards the smell. A young male around 19 years old; blood covered his face as he grabbed his neck, his face reflected nothing but pain, his heart rate was decreasing by the minute, and tears streamed from his blue eyes. Anne had only seen the boy once before when she had healed him from an accidental silver wound, he was one of the youngest warriors. She moved quickly as she had the worst possible feeling a doctor could ever feel, helplessness, she knew he wouldn’t have long and that he would die in a matter of minutes. She came closer to the boy and he gave her a small smile. He died before Anne could reach him. Being a doctor wasn’t as good as it seemed, she had lost more people in her life than she could possibly count, and knowing that there is nothing she could do only made her disappointment greater.

It was incredible how vampires had infiltrated the ceremony and how they had attacked wolves without second thoughts, but Anne thoughts moved from the horrible incident towards the blonde boy that filled her thoughts constantly. She had seen him when she came rushing towards the Luna and now she wanted to see him again, she didn’t know what to think of him, a part of her wanted to trust him but she was afraid of trusting him. After all she was afraid of falling in love again, but most of all she was afraid of getting hurt. Her first impression of him was that he was a player, but oh how she longed for it not to be true, she wanted him all for herself. She closed her eyes wishing her longing would go away, but her attempt resulted on mere disappointment, all her thoughts were now occupied by the boy with the golden hair and a killer smile.

Anne woke up feeling odd, she had a strange sensation; she felt incomplete as if part of her was missing, and she couldn’t help but wonder what had made her feel that way in the first place. you know you want to see him her inner wolf spoke in a teasing attitude, Anne shook her head in disagreement, shut it. She headed downstairs when she was once again surprised by the smell of blood. Once she reached the bottom she saw her alpha Renier and the other alphas reunited. And then she noticed another shocking image, the alpha king was bleeding, she slowly tried to come closer when he suddenly changed into his intimidating wolf form charging against another alpha male. Anne didn't know a thing that was going on, but she knew something was not right, the scent of vampire filled the room again and that could never be good news.

Lily stood by, somewhat unsure, during the commotion with the wolf who mistakenly thought the alpha King's mate was his. It was not her place to step in, and anyways the royal Beta seemed to have it mostly under control. She stepped towards the tree where the vampire had been hiding, inhaling deeply. She could still pick up on the faint scent of vampire and silver, but he was obviously not a threat now and there didn't seem to be any more. Or at least she hoped.
She turned back, scanning for her pack. She nodded to Hanley when she spotted her, but other than that there didn't seem to be anyone. Jason and Luke were still probably asleep. She didn't want to go find them and barge in their rooms, due to the fact that they might have found a mate. Knowing that they would be up and find her soon enough, she tried to relax a little.

Brushing her dark curls over one shoulder, she followed behind the parade of wolves carrying the alpha King. She was careful to stay far enough behind that she wasn't crowding, but close enough that she could jump in front of the, if more vampires came. As the others emerged from the forest, Lily lagged behind and paused, looking behind her at the forest where she knew the vampires were hiding. But the one thing that she didn't know and was killing her, was one big question: what were they planning?

Lily had to fight a grin when the royal beta's mate pinned the vampire, threatening it. "Well, it seems like you all have this whole situation under control. I'm going to go do a quick patrol to make sure no other leeches have tried to get in. Anyone is welcome to join me." She paused, glancing at the male with pale blonde hair before forcing her bright blue eyes to look away as she turned and hurried out of the castle.
'Anyone up for a stroll through the forest, potentially with bloodthirsty leeches?' She spoke to her pack through her alphas's mind link, as she started off in her human form.

Lily paused for a moment, glancing back at the door and hoping the male would join her outside.