Chapter 1. Cages

Drip.

           Drip.

                       Drip.

The only thing that I can hear around me is this incessant dripping of water droplets that keep falling from the ceiling down to the ground in this dark and gloomy prison.

We have been hung up, dangling in small cramped cages high up off of the ground. We have next to no room in these bottomless cages.

No one even knows how long we have been dangling up here for, I have no idea when I last saw some rays of light. I would kill in this moment to just feel the suns warmth on me once more

"Little wolf." My oldest brother Jordan was barely able to croak out as he tried to limply reach out through the bars of his cage to me. Although we were just out of reach from one another, you would think by now we would know this and stop trying.

But we wont, we will never give up on each other.

His arm fell down limply causing a small bang to echo from his cage. I held my breath praying that no one would come into this dark room due to the noise.

Thankfully no one did.

He was so malnourished, we all are. I have no idea when we were last given a meal or something to drink.

Sometimes the wolves in this room try to catch the water droplets that fall down from the ceiling even though they taste like death. Every wolf here puts up with the taste it is better then having nothing.

"Big wolf." I called out to him softly trying to reach out to him, but I had less then a chance of reaching him then he did me. I am just a small she wolf where he was once the strongest wolf I knew.

Excluding our father that is.

I turned to my left to see my other brother. "Middle wolf." I tried to smile at him but even that was too hard for me to manage in this condition. Conner, the middle sibling, he was always the carefree and playful one out of the three of us.

I reached out to him, I was just barely able to graze my fingers with his. Our little secret from our captures, if they knew they would move us away from each other.

And we needed to stay together. We would not survive on our own.

"How are you holding up little wolf?" He coughed out, I could have sworn that I smelt the metallic coppery scent of blood. He was so weak, both of my brothers were, it caused a sole tear to slip out of my eye for both of my brothers.

My brothers who do everything to protect me even if it means sacrificing themselves.

We don't call each other by our names here, we don't want anyone to know who we are, or who we once were. It is safer for us all this way.

"Barely hanging on." I tried to laugh my reply back to my brother, an effort to lighten the mood of this gloomy situation.

I could barely see a thing in this room, even with my werewolf sight, not that I knew if my wolf was even alive or not. I could feel her there in my mind but at the same time I couldn't.

We have all been drugged up with so much silver and wolfsbane that I am surprised that my family and all of the other wolves in this room have survived this long.

I glanced around the room, I can't make out details but I can see outlines of cages, there are so many of them. We have been packed in here like sardines.

But why are we here?

That is a question that no one holds the answer to. We are all completely clueless, there is no pattern to it. Most of us aren't even from the same packs.

The only thing that we do know is that we are stronger then normal wolves. We are all of warrior, Beta or Alpha bloodlines.

We can all smell it on each other, or at least we did when we were first locked away. I tried to carefully move in the cage, I was so uncomfortable. We all are there is no floor to these cages, just bars with enough space for our legs to fall through and dangle.

And unfortunately that is what happened to me, my leg fell through the gap in the bars. For a moment, for one single second I thought that I had gotten lucky.

But I was stupid to think that I had gotten lucky. Luck was not a thing around here for not even a full second later the room lit up in a blast of white blue light of electricity that was attacking my leg.

That is why there is always water dripping, they electrocute us if we try to escape, not that any of use are stupid enough to try. We have all seen what happens to wolves that try to run.

I wanted to scream out in pain, I wanted to squeal and thrash around. But I couldn't, I couldn't draw attention to myself or anyone else.

Conner reached out to me as I had my arms hanging out of the gaps to help pull me up. He pulled his cage over to mine by my arm, his cage was now sitting at an awkward angle facing mine.

If he wasn't careful he would go through what I just did and I couldn't see him go through any more pain. Conner pulled me up while Jordan just begged for us to hurry up.

I wanted to cry but both of my brothers begged me not too, we didn't need them to know who hit the electricity. When Conner was able to help me pull myself back through I backed myself into a corner. I didn't want to see what would happen next.

We could hear footsteps coming to our cramped prison our captures were not quiet. They were cocky, they believe that they have won.

Every wolf in this room held our breaths, we all knew what was coming.

Who was coming.

No one moved an inch, except for Conner. He let his cage swing away from mine. And it kept swinging even when they entered the room.

"WHO TRIED TO ESCAPE?" A harsh and angry voice screamed out. We have never seen the face that this voice belongs to, he always flashes a torch into our eyes.

Rendering use momentarily blind due to the harsh light.

No one uttered a sound, there were no words that we could use, we could only whimper. And pray to the moon for her to help us.

Even if she hasn't answered any of our prayers yet.

"Don't make me ask again." The voice called out in a singsong voice, as if he was signing. We all knew that if no one were to come forward that we would all suffer.

And I couldn't have that, I couldn't have everyone suffer because of my mistake, because I wanted some comfort.

I was about to speak up when Conner did, we all knew deep down that they would take him anyway, his cage was still swinging from side to side when they walked him.

"It was me." Conner coughed out. "Only me."

My eyes widened like a deer caught in headlights when I saw them go to his cage and poke him with cattle prods.

I looked over at Jordan, begging him with my eyes to do something but he only held his finger up to his lips.

He knew that there was nothing to be done to help. Both of my brothers would protect me, there baby sister until they took there last breathe.

They poked him so many times that he roared out in pain. Just as he was about to pass out they came and dragged him from his cage taking him away.

To do moon knows what to him.





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