felt something heavy land on my back. In my distraction, Brandon had pinned me again. But then his attention turned to Trix. “What happened to her!?”

“sorry alpha sir, but the hold we had her in was kinda a more you struggle the harder it gets type thing and…well she basically killed herself”

That news wanted to make me feel dead aswell. Trix was dead. I wanted to murder everyone in this room but I was too weak. Brandon had roughed me up quite badly. He got off of me and threw me to his guards. “Restrain him and rough him up until I decide what to do with him!” Brandon shouted.

One of the guards pinned me to the floor whilst the other slashed at me, scratched at me, clawed at me, bit me. Whatever forms of torture he could think of, he did to me.

The agonizing pain went on for what felt like hours and hours and hours. Brandon watched at me getting beaten up with great interest until he finally said. “Right here’s what we’re gonna do “the guard paused to listen to him. “Rough him up for however much more you want then exile him”

The guards continued to beat me up for about half an hour. By that time I was laying in my own little pool of blood. He stopped and said “allright get up” I struggled to get up as I felt like every bone in my body had just broken. I managed to get halfway up then he kicked me in the stomach. “On your feet!” he shouted. I once again struggled to my feet. But this time I managed to make it all the way up.

When I walked I left a little river of blood. I wasn’t even walking I was limping. I was only able to put weight on 2 of my 4 paws. My right hind one and my left front one. Even they hurt like hell. I wasn’t even a black wolf anymore I was a red wolf. My fur looked like it had turned crimson red from the blood. But its blood, it usually just washes out. As I was walking one of the guards kicked one of my good legs and made me collapse over the body of Trix. “Say goodbye to your girlfriend!” the 2 of them laughed.

I used what strength I had left to pull Trix’s cold, lifeless body closer to me. I wrapped my front paws around her head and hugged her tight. “Goodbye Trix” I said softly. Tears started flowing out of my eyes. “I’m so so sorry. It’s all my fault”

“Ok that’s enough!” one of the guards yanked me up by the scruff of my neck, tearing a chunk out of my skin as he did. I screamed in pain but they ignored me.

As we exited the den, a snowflake fell on my nose. “Well would ya look at that. Looks like that snowstorm is about to arrive”

We continued walking until we reached the edge of territory. They quite literally kicked me out of the pack. I landed face first in the snow and they laughed as I did. They started walking back. “This isn’t over! I’ll be back!” I shouted.

I started to limp off as the snowstorm arrived.

Flashback end.

Back to 3rd person POV

“So I was banished from my pack and here I am now” Dio said.

“Hmm…interesting” the wolf said.

“What about you? What's your story?”

“Not allot really” the wolf replied. “I was abandoned when I was a few months old. Learnt to fend for myself, been a lone wolf ever since. And I think I’m destined to die a lone wolf”

“Hm…I'm sorry” Dio yawned. “I’m gonna hit the hay”

“Yeah me too” the other wolf replied. They both turned over to sleep. “Oh and buddy. This is another wolf packs territory, so you might wanna get the hell outta here early in the morning. Cus I ain’t waking ya”

“Ok got it” Dio replied.  ‘Like I’m gonna survive anyway. With these injuries I wouldn’t be able to make it outta here in time before the wolves turned up no matter what time I woke up in the morning’

The next morning

Dio was awoken next morning by the sun creeping into his eyes. He rolled over to find that the wolf he was sharing the log with last night had gone. He laid his head back and rested. Suddenly he was awoken again. This time by teeth in his tail. He was dragged out of his hollowed out tree by 3 wolves.

“You trespass in our territory. You can either get out now or be bought to the alpha” one of them said.

“Ah just take me to the alpha. My situation can’t get much worse” they started to walk in silence. But the wolves couldn’t help but notice Dio’s injuries.

“What happened to you?” one of them asked.

Over the course of the journey, Dio explained what happened.

“Oh…I…I’m sorry”

“I’m not asking for sympathy! I’m just explaining how I got injured!” Dio snapped.

They made it back to the alpha’s den. Where Dio met the alpha. “You must be the alpha” he said.

“That I am” she started noticing his wounds. “Who are you and what the hell happened to you?”

Dio sighed as he once again had to explain his story.

“I see…if that’s the reason you got exiled, why should we trust you?”

“Listen…what's your name”

“I am Aleu, the alpha of the pack”

“Listen aleu, the only reason I tried to rebel against my previous alpha was because of his obsession with power. You seem like a fair leader; therefore I have no reason to plot against you”

Aleu thought for a minute. “Ok we’ll take you in…I’ll escort you to the healing den”  she started to walk and Dio followed her. 2 of the patrol wolves came and rested on either side of Dio to hold him up. “So surely it wasn’t just you and your girlfriend who wanted to rebel Dio?” aleu said.

“It wasn’t, but no one was willing to stand up to him. I was the only one with the guts to take him on”

“What about your parents”

“…my mother was executed under the suspicion of working with another pack when I was young…and my uncle went missing one night so my father went to look for him…neither of them ever came back”

“Don’t you have any brothers and sisters?”

“I had 2 sisters and a brother. My sisters left for different packs when they found love in them. Similar story with my brother just allot more…violent”

“Oh…I'm so sorry” aleu was beginning to feel awkward, so she decided to change the subject. “So have you ever done anything you’ve been proud of? Like have you been involved in any wars or anything?”

“I've had my fair share of action” Dio replied. “Did you know about that little war over territory along the Alaskan-Canadian Border?”

Aleu nodded and said. “Yeah” at the same time.

“I was in that” Dio replied.

The 2 wolves that where holding Dio up and aleu went wide eyed. “You’re a war vet?” the one holding his left side said.

“Yep, and I kicked Canadian ass. But I’ve been involved in much more than that”

“What was the most painful experience of your life?” the wolf on his right asked.

“What I'm going through now” Dio replied.

“What was the second?”

“…watching my girlfriend die at the paw of my old alpha”

“And the third-”

The wolf on his left kicked the wolf on the right. “Shut up, your gonna make him cry” the wolf on his left said.

Dio blushed slightly as he said that. He felt like crying, but he didn’t want to. He was taken into a den with loads of other injured wolves.

“Settle down anywhere. One of our healers will be with you in a minute” aleu said.

“Thank you” Dio replied and found an empty spot. The place stunk of blood, vomit, death and rotting carcasses. 

The waiting was taking a while so he decided to spark up a conversation with the wolf next to him. “So why are you in here?” he asked.

The wolf turned his head to reveal that his right eye had been slashed out.  “It’s what those goddamn rouges did to me?”

“Uh rouges? Sorry I’m new around here”

“Well basically there are the big major wolf packs, like the one you and I are in now. Then there’s the small minor wolfs packs. There called rouges. And they generally loiter around the outskirts of the big packs territories. They tend to push and pull allot because the balance of power is always unsteady within them”

“I see. So we’re not in any wars then?”

“Not yet, but one day the balance of power between the 4 big packs in this area could tip. And before you know it, we’re on the front lines” the wolf said. “So who are you? I’ve never seen you around here”

“Names Dio, I just came in after getting exiled from my pack” Dio explained his story to the wolf.

“I’m sorry about your girlfriend” the wolf said. “But why you in here?”

Dio rolled over to reveal more of his body and more of his wounds. “Because of this” he said.

“Ouch” the wolf said. “So when you said your old alpha roughed you up pretty bad, you really weren’t kidding”

“No. in fact, I’m lucky to be alive. I just about made it through that storm last night”

“Geez you’ve been through tons. You’re lucky” the wolf said. “And I think your