incase they wouldn’t talk to him thinking he was one of them. ‘I saw that they opened door with their eyes…I don’t understand?’ He said looking at Caelum who shook his head.

‘Men made these machines so that when they looked into it opened don’t ask my how it works I know nothing of this technology but obviously these Vereor do.’ Caelum looked down from Aryan to the ground, ‘If you were smart you would have escaped whilst you could! Not come here willingly you must be a fool.’ He snapped at Aryan who shook his head.

‘I didn’t know I had been released by the men back into the forest I just wanted to find my family.’ Aryan sighed.

‘You doomed yourself.’ With that Caelum turned around and walked back into the shadows leaving Aryan to look down at the ground. These horrible creatures were killing all animals they could find and were turning wolves into creatures like themselves and he had walked straight into it.

Turning around he walked up the cage door and stuck his head as close to the bars as he could as he looked down the hall both ways but all he could see were corridors branching off in all directions and all he could hear were the hum of machines and the flickering lights in the hallway.

‘What’s you name?’ A wolf said walking halfway up to Aryan as he turned around.

‘Why don’t you come any closer to the bars?’ Aryan asked looking at the wolf who looked scared.

‘When the Vereor come they take those closest and if we hide at the back we have a greater chance of surviving another day.’ She said softly keeping her whole body in the dark shadows.

‘My name is Aryan.’ He said bitterly.

‘I am Astra.’

‘How long do we have before we are taken to become like them?’ Aryan said sighing and looking at her.

‘Days…weeks…hours even. It all depends on them they are the perfects and decide out fate.’

‘Are there any other wolf packs here?’ Aryan said hopefully as Astra nodded.

‘They are kept separate we hear them at night but we’ve never seen them.’ Sitting down on the ground Aryan guessed that how ever long he had left of life as a free wolf was slowly ticking away and all he had to do was sit here and wait till they needed him, waiting for the inevitable.

Whilst he lay down trying to sleep he heard a sound and instantly looked up to see a Vereor wolf looking down at him from the other side of the cage. In the corner of his eye he could see all the other normal wolves behind him cowering in the darkness. If he was going to be turned Aryan guessed he might as well do it now he was never going to see his family again no matter how long he waited here, so staying as he was seemed to be a pointless venture.

Standing up he walked up the cage were the horrible green eyes of Vereor wolf stared at him but as always its face remained emotionless and cold. Slowly it raised a paw and pressed a button near the cage which made Aryan turn around as a humming sound began to echo around the room. Looking up to the roof he watched as food was dropped down on to the ground but still none of the wolves in the shadows went for it. Looking back at the Vereor wolf he suddenly realized that it was walking away, frowning Aryan ran to the far end of the cage as he called out, ‘Take me, don’t leave me waiting here If I’m going to be turned in to you then do it now and don’t leave me to go crazy!’ The Vereor wolf stopped in its tracks for a moment but didn’t look back at Aryan. After a few moments the wolf continued as Aryan stared after it till it disappeared from his view.

‘Is it gone?’ One of the wolves asked from the shadows as Aryan turned around and nodded. All the wolves suddenly ran forward grabbing what ever food they could before running back into the shadows.

When Aryan finally walked back to the middle of the room he saw that none of them had left him any as they all greedily ate as fast as they could in the shadows as though they hadn’t eaten in days. Aryan didn’t mind though he wasn’t hunger and as he laid back down and closed his eyes the blurred images of his pack seemed even more distant then they ever had before.

Part 7
‘I did not do what the imperfect specimen told me to do.’ The same Vereor wolf that had just been beside Aryan’s cage said to Parvus who was standing up looking at the wolf.

‘There is something he is not telling us, why else would he walk blindly in to this place and then ask or rather tell us that he wants to become one of us?’ Parvus thought aloud standing up and pacing on the hard floor. He was in a small room covered in broken computers whose broken glass crackled under his large paws as he walked. ‘We need to find out what he knows’

‘Do you want me to make him give us the answers?’ The other wolf replied as Parvus quickly shook his head.

‘No I want him turned into one of us that way he’ll do as I say and answer my questions.’ Parvus growled as the other wolf nodded before turning away and walking out of the room.

Meanwhile back at the large cage room Aryan was snoozing on the ground in the middle of the room as all the wolves behind him began to whisper as Caelum walked forwards up to him. ‘Are you a spy sent in to make us behave?’ He said bluntly causing Aryan to open his eyes and look up at him.

‘Do I have green eyes?’ Aryan said standing up looking at Caelum who just frowned. ‘Look all I wanted was to see my family but now I realize I can’t so I might well turn into those creatures it might be the only way I’ll ever finally find true happiness because I’m not going to find it caught up in this cage am I?’ Aryan frowned looking back at the wolves who were all looking at him.

‘You’re mad.’ Caelum said shaking his head and stepping back.

‘I’m crazy!? Look where we are, we’re in a cage being consumed by the Vereor of course I’m going crazy this can’t be real…’ Aryan said his voice shaking as he turned away from them. All the emotion’s he was hiding inside were making him feel sick and confused. He was scared, frightened, hopeful and angry all at the same time and keeping it all bottled inside was just playing with his mind.

‘It takes awhile to realize Aryan.’ Astra said walking up and sitting beside Aryan who looked down at her.

‘I don’t understand how you can live in fear everyday and yet not go crazy?’ Aryan asked sounding very confused as he looked at the walls that boxed them all in.

‘We let the hope of a rescue and of something to come and save us cloud our minds so we can even if it’s just for a moment forget the fear we feel inside.’ Astra said closing her eyes and smiling.

‘You’re much stronger then me.’ Aryan admitted, ‘I wanted the easy way out and yet you and the others will last as long as you can.’ Standing up he walked up the bars and looked at them shivering. ‘I’m a coward and I always have been and now I‘m being exactly what I am by taking the easy way out.’ Sitting down Aryan rested his head against the bars as he closed his eyes.

A loud bang suddenly made Aryan open his eyes as he looked down the corridor to see two Vereor wolves walking towards him, quickly jumping back away from the cage he looked behind where all the other wolves retreated towards the back of the room.

‘You will come with us.’ They said looking down at Aryan who hung his head low as he slowly walked out of the cage looking back at the others who had hidden back in the dark. Looking away from them he followed the Vereor wolves knowing that he was going to be even more alone and feared when he came back here and he knew Astra and the others would never recognize him again.

As Aryan followed the Vereor he walked past at least two different cages were he could see the wolves hiding at the back and every time he saw them he’d stop to try and work out whether or not it was his pack, but every time he was met with disappointment because it was never them.

Looking at the Vereor wolves he suddenly shuddered wondering whether this horrible creature was once part of his pack could this be someone he had been searching for…could this be one of his parents or one of his brothers or sisters? He would never know and he didn’t want to because as far as he was concerned it was better to live without knowing such things.

From the end of the corridor another Vereor wolf suddenly appeared and started running towards them making Aryan instantly stop and look scared thinking that it was going to try and kill him but it just stopped and turned to the other Vereor wolves. ‘We have an emergency put this imperfect