Chapter 255
By the time I’ve finished scanning the area with my senses, Alpha Conway has shifted back to human form and found himself some sweatpants. He’s looking over the devastation of his pack grounds with sad eyes as the rest of my group is checking for surviving Wolves and administering low grade healing pills. It doesn’t take much with werewolves, if they’re not in danger of bleeding to death, they’ll usually recover on their own.
"Can you explain what happened? Your message didn’t make things sound this bad, I was going to come help with cultivation techniques and hunt some Moose. Well, I did that second part, but what’s with the monster Horde?" I ask.
"Your guess is a good as mine. Two days ago they just started going crazy, rampaging and stampeding through the area destroying everything. They’re even killing each other if they run out of targets." The Alpha shrugs.
Even in human form he’s still a beast. A full 6’6", deeply tanned, heavily muscled and zero body fat, as expected of an Alpha werewolf. Right now his gray eyes look haunted and his jet black hair is a mess, but he’s still got the presence of a natural born leader.
"We’ve gotten to everyone we can. I count eight lost, unless some are missing entirely." Lelou calls over and Alpha Conway nods solemnly.
"Thank you for that, I expected closer to thirty to be lost or crippled. You lot even saved the last of the children to get to the bunker."
"Is it a proper bunker then? I was worried it was just a glorified root cellar like so many other packs panic rooms are. There’s not much left here on the surface but the one pack house." Karl asks, carrying an injured warrior over to an open spot in the grass to recover.
"We built it a number of years ago to throw the government off. They were investigating us after a slip up by one of our youngsters, so we decided to make them think we were a prepper militia, it’s the perfect cover for a werewolf pack. That way they expect patrols, guns, physical training, and if they happen to catch a glimpse of someone shifted we can explain it away as a guard dog. That line doesn’t work with the usual, we’re a hippie commune, sort of excuse."
"So you’re saying all those years of the news reporting White Supremacist groups in the woods of Canada..." one of the witches begins.
"Yep, almost all werewolves. The news didn’t look deeply enough to even check skin tone once they had the story they wanted." Alpha Conway laughs. Looking again, I think he himself has mostly native American blood. Unless a wolf is very weak, the werewolf gene will be dominant to the human, but the physical appearance of the werewolves human form will be a mix of their parents.
Alphas having human mates is uncommon, but strange things happen in the remote woods.
"How many can move into the pack house? Or do you think you’ll need to evacuate immediately?" Lelou asks, working on a plan to get everyone settled.