December 3

Jonas saw many bow their heads in respect as he was heading toward the hospital. He would nod back to acknowledge them. He came across two wolves growling at each other. It was a rogue and a member from Striker. "If you had stayed by our alpha he would not be dead."

"Alpha Jon sent me away as one of his guards. He sent me back to the rear."

"I don't believe you. I saw you running back. You are a coward."

He growled, "I am and have never been a coward. When my alpha, Alpha Marshall Jergans started assigning and breaking up mate bonds at Croans Pack I stood up to him. I was his enforcer and my job was to protect the innocent. He kicked me from the pack and I led those away who did not want to break their true mate bond. He was trying to force us with a chosen mate. When Alpha Jon promised us a spot in his pack, I accepted. We were fighting our wolves not to become rouges." They both growled at each other.

"While being here I have found his true worth. He was a liar and would be a murderer. That is who your alpha was. He does not deserve your loyalty. You hiding behind his split tongue makes you the coward for hiding from the truth. He said he did not trust a rogue by his side and to depart to the back. I did because if I had stayed it would have been me most likely to die for trying to rip out his tongue. Though I might of beat him because of my experience. He wasn't a strong fighter because he was too lazy to train properly. My people who followed me needed me to lead them from his lies. It was some of my people who escaped here. I am going to have to find them and lead them to a hidden valley once I know where it is. You can stop with the attitude you coward."

He growled, "I will show you who the coward is." He shifted and Jonas commanded, "STOP THIS NONSENSE NOW. SHIFT BACK."

He shifted back and still growled at the rogue enforcer. Jonas looked around and saw Frank walking with several of the alphas. He called out, "FRANK."

Frank and the alphas stopped and turned toward him. They walked towaard the king. Jonas looked at the two were fighting, "what are your names," he asked the enforcer.

"I am Keton Jones, former enforcer of Croans Pack and now a rogue who was promised and lied about a spot at Striker Pack.  This is senior warrior Amos Eklem.  Younger brother of Alpha Jon Eklem, your majesty.

"Frank, take Amos Eklem to the prison, but get him some clothes to wear."

"Yes, King Jonas."

"This is Enforcer Keton Jones. Assign him to my guard. Introduce him to my gamma.  He also has some followers with him." He looks at Keyon, "I can put you in touch with someone whose brother is part of Hidden Valley. They can either go there or open one of the first stores in the palace's village."

Frank ask, "does the palace have a village?"

"If it doesn't I will create one," he smirked.  "Also if you have not heard, I want all Elementals and alphas to meet me at 1:00 in the conference room. Eat lunch before you head to the meeting. I see six alphas are with you. Please make sure the other three hear about my request.

"Yes, my king."

"Frank, please refer to me as Jonas. I am now on the way to check on Jules and Cassie." He turns and continues on his way.

"If they have woken up send my regards." He looked at Keaton and Amos, "you heard the king, and grabbed Amos' arm, "come with me."

Amos started struggling. Jonas growled. "Knock it off Amos unless you want me to add some of your treatment of prisoners." Amos paled and stopped struggling. He walked away with Frank and the others. Jonas turned and headed toward the hospital.

When he gets to the hospital he asks one of the nurses, "where is Alpha Jules and Priestess Cassie?"

"They are in the back. Doc is preparing them to be moved to Raging Vatic Medical Facility."

He looks around the clinic, "what about the others who are still here?"

"They should be discharged in a few days. The only ones still here are being treated for silver being in their system."

"How did they get silver in them?"

"Your majesty, I would talk to Striker Warriors. It isn't my place to say what I heard others discussing since I did not hear or witness it directly."

"Who is the best person here I can talk to for information?"

"We have eight rogues as patients who should be able to answer your questions.  None of the Striker Pack are here. Those warriors were here just for bone resets and then discharged once correctly healed."

"I see a couple dozen still in bed here. Are they the only ones left as patients?"

"We have twenty-two patients still here. Nineteen are for silver, two are going to be sent to Symposium to be operated on because their broken bones healed wrong and one rouge being treated for silver wolfbanes in his system. As I said earlier eight are rouges, the others are Ally packs. We have already moved nine patients back to their packs' hospitals. Those nine were also going to be operated on for broken bones that healed incorrectly at their pack hospitals.  Plus Alpha Jules and Priestess Cassie who are in the process of being moved."

Just then Amelia walked up to him, "hello your majesty. If you're here to see Jules and Cassie they just departed. Jules will be ok. She and Siena are both just mentally exhausted. She has been taking Vita-Bane and apparently stopped taking it about a month ago. Her guide had been helping her as much as he could. She was hiding her feelings. When she got angry and killed her mate that was the last straw. She now just needs to sleep in this deep sleep until she is healed."

She looks sad, "the healers and I are trying to figure out how to take away the dark magic spell from Priestess Cassandra. We will take turns at Raging Vatic clinic working on it and at the same time will have to continue to run the coven school."

"I understand. I will need to make decisions about my school soon." She nods in understanding, "well since I am here I am going to go around and greet the remaining patients. Plus try to understand why these wolves have silver poisoning."

Amelia looks at him, "I can answer that. I was talking to a couple of them. I now have my healers making a potion that will removed the silver quicker than their current treatment. They should be released by tomorrow morning. That will only leave the one with wolvesbane."

She sighs and looks Jonas in the eyes, "Some of the Striker Pack warriors had silver claw extenders put on by orders of their head warrior. These wolves were assigned to what you called the Blue and Purple sections.  This is where the highest casualties were and who got the silver poison in them. Those Striker warriors were attacking both our allies, Striker wolves who said no to the extenders and members who fought with you. The one with wolfsbane in him had it poured on the silver wounds by their head warrior named Amoose."

Jonas growled, "I just had a Striker head warrior named Amos placed in the prison."

She points to one of the patients, "you can verify the name with that patient.  It just sounded like he said Amoose, but it might have been Amos. He was talking slurry until he passed out.

She points to another patient, "that patient is in critical condition." She points to another patient, he is the one who has both silver and wolves bane deep with his body. I can cleanse him out if we can find his son. I can make a potion with his child's or sibling blood to clean out the poison. If not he might not make it.  I would ask Rusty to come and talk with the patients along with Frank. Maybe even Peter. This way legal steps can be taken. I thought those claws were illegal. I would also have them talk with Striker Warriors. They may not know about their legal status. You need to find out who still has those extenders."

"I know who we can start with. I will also have my gamma, Frank and my cousin there as a council representative when we interrogate him at the prison. Thank you for letting me know. Since priestess Cassandra cannot be at the 1:00 meeting can you and at least two of your most trusted coven members be there?"

"Yes, your majesty. Go talk with the patients. I will have one of my healers staying here helping the doctor. Request the others to join me. I'll be there at 1:00pm."

"Think about three or four members from Fae and Vampire you think can be part of the supernatural committee. I have a couple vampires in mind but I have not done much dealing with fae.

"I have a couple that pop into my head but also a couple from other witches' covens."

"Give the list to Edmund." He writes down a couple names and hands her the names. "Please give him these names with yours.  If we can, we will see about setting up a meeting with them later unless you feel you can get them here by 1:00pm. I will talk with you later. Thank you."

"You're welcome and I will contact them now. You listed two names I had thought of.  If they can't make it I will give Edmund their names." She turns to walks toward the exit and he walks toward the patients.

Jonas looked around the room. He calls out to the room, "I think you all know who I am, but in case you do not. I am Alpha of Simposium Pack and recently named King of the supernaturals." Some start to try to stand. "Everyone stay in your bed. You all are healing. I have heard there are twenty-two of you here. I have heard that nineteen of you were attacked with silver extension claws.  Some of you were attacked by your own pack members for refusing to take wear them. Some of you were attacked because you were rogues or my allies."

"My king, five of us who are here had been Striker Pack but the five of us said no to our leader  because our lead Warrior Amos s ordered our comrades to attack the rogues, certain pack members and the enemy of Striker with silver claws. We refused to wear them. We are now rogues even if we still have the Striker scent because our alpha died just as or just before we renounced the pack.  There are seven who are rogues that our former alpha betrayed. That is twelve of the nineteen. The rest were warriors with Red and Blue Pack who did try to save us when they realized what was going on. The one who is still not woken up had wolfbane poured on his open wounds by Amos. I don't know why they did that."

Another wolf called out, "he was one of the strongest rouges we had. We called him Beta Rouge. I think they did it because he had beat Amos in a training match. His name is Allen Wayne.

"None of you will have to worry about Amos. He should be in the dungeon. If any of you can identify the person who attacked you wearing the claws please let one of the guards know that I  assign to this mobile hospital. I was told  most of you will be discharged in a few days.  Those who will need longer care can be moved to Raging Votic or Symposium Hospital. The choice can be yours to make. Though there are two that will be transported to Symposium Hospital for surgery."

"With us being in the hospital we heard that the memorial will be either tomorrow or next day. Is there any way we can attend to say goodbye to our friends? Plus we told our sons to run when we saw what was happening. We want to go look for them when released."

"I will not overrule the doctors caring for you, but I will set up with IT to run a live feed to you. Those without phones or tablets can set you up with some student ones. You can view it then. Well I have a few more things to do before I have a meeting at 1:00pm. My Gamma Russell Suite will be here later today to get identifications of those who wore  the silver claws. I know on Symposium lands it is illegal to use, but I will have to see what council laws state about them. I have already assigned trackers along with rouge to search for runners we did not capture. Now you all get some rest." He waves and they wave back. He walks out with his hands clenched.

Peter walked up to Jonas. He sees his face and clenched hands. "Good, you're still here. I have been told you were at your cabin, then the prison where you got one very pissed off lead warrior, was at the training grounds breaking up fights and catch you storming out of the hospital. What the hell is wrong?

"That pissed off warrior is what is wrong. When I get there he had better answer my questions or he might not see another sunrise"

"He seems like a blustery fellow. One who flaps his gums without thinking. You handle students like him all the time. What is different about him?"

"He handed out silver claw extensions. He also has been throwing wolves bane on warriors

"Those extensions were banned about twenty-five years ago after the Arbor Pack attack. That pack was wiped out, even the pups. The only survivors were the warriors and alpha to be who was at a training on the east coast. Plus the families who came to  one of our two week training seminars. My father told me about it. He said that those survivors started clasping and howling when they felt one break after another. We were still pups back then. Our fathers contacted a nearby pack to check it out. The Arbor pack members had been attacked during the night while sleeping. Parents and pups had been killed by silver claw extensions while sleeping in their bed. Some of those claws had been found at the scene. It matched the silver found in their bodies. Dad went there and I remember when he came home late at night. He was in mom's arm crying after seeing even newborn pups who had been murdered by those diabolical claws. I am coming with you. We need to find out where they got them."

"Come with me." They two cousins walked off side by side. Some members started to greet them but turned away when they saw the furious looks on their faces.

They walked into the cabin located behind the lodge. There were two wolves sitting behind desk. They stood up, One said, "your majesty and councilman. What can I do for you today?"

"We are here to see the prisoner that Enforcer Frank Grimlock brought in."

"Here is the sign in sheet. Please sign in and Tony can escort you down to his cell." He hands him a clipboard and they both fill it out.

Tony moves to one of the doors and opens it up. It is a stairwell that goes down to the dungeon. They get to the bottom step and there is another door. Tony pulls out keys and unlocks them.  They walk into the room. It has two bunk beds, a tv, couch, table with chairs and a mini kitchen. There were two wolves sitting playing cards. When they notice who was there they stood and bowed their necks, "your majesty."

"They are here to see the new prisoner," Tony tells them.

"Enforcer Frank said you would be coming. He is right now getting processed in- he is getting cleaned up and put in his prisoner outfit."

"When done, bring him into the interrogation room. I know we have other prisoners here. Bring anyone from Striker or the rogue groups into the other interrogation rooms."

"We have seven other prisoners. We only have three interrogation rooms. I can bring in three at a time, but two of these prisoners were brought in last night because of being drunk and disorderly. They apparently brought some celebrity supernatural beer with them. Alpha Que Height from Yellow Pack  has now confiscated the bottles. When they get out he has told them they will be collared like dogs. They are busted down to humans for six weeks. One of their duties will be to scrub all the lodge floors and bathrooms with a toothbrush."

"Sounds like those two will have a chore to do. Add that they can scrub each dungeon before starting in the lodge. Find out who they were disorderly with. They will need to apologize to them. Plus owe five hours of servicetude to them."

"Yes, sir."

"I will not bother interrogating those two. Since Amos is still being processed I will do him last. Bring three up here and put them in each room. Then I will talk with them. You can rotate them out as I finish with them."

"Yes sir." Jonas sits down and waits.

A few minutes later the guard brings in a prisoner, "have a seat at the table," he tells the prisoner. "Your majesty, do want me to stay?"

"No, I can handle him." He looks at the prisoner, "how old are you?"

"I am sixteen. I will turn seventeen next month."

"Why were you fighting here?"

"Alpha John promised my family a place in his pack."

"You were one of the rogues that were caught trying to escape?"

"Yes, Senior Warrior Amos snuck up on dad and swiped him with one of those illegal silver claws. Dad yelled and called for us around him to run. We were tricked. I followed dad's command but was captured and brought here."

"What is your name Jeff Wayne."

"Is your father Allen?"

"Yes. Have you seen my dad?"

"Yes, he is at the pack mobile hospital. He will need your blood to survive."

"Oh course my brother and I will give him our blood. What is wrong with him?"

"Brother?"

"My fraternal twin, Jack, was placed in the room next to me."

Jonas yells, "Tony, take Jeff and Jack to the mobile hospital. There father Wayne is a patient in critical shape."

Tony came running in, "yes, alpha." He unlocks the handcuffs on Jeff.  Follow me and I will get your brother."

Jeff starts to follow. He stops and turns toward Jonas. "What about Aztec, Conon and Beck are their father's ok?"

"Who are they?"

"They are friends whose fathers were also attacked. They are in prison too."

"Tony get all five pups. Have them wash and get in regular clothes. Take them to the hospital. Have them check if their dads are there too. Then place them in three bedroom homes. Have them contact their mothers and arrange escorts here. They will be staying at Raging Vatic. I will have their beta swear them in since the alpha is not available."

"Yes, Alpha."

"Tony, have the sixth prisoner brought in. Do you know who he is?"

"He hasn't talked since he was brought in. He has been withdrawn and in shock. He was caught running. He had one silver claw on him but the others had been ripped off by him."

Peter growls, "brings him in. Place the senior warrior in the other room. Chain him to the wall."

A few moments later a very young looking warrior came in. "My Goddess, how old are you?" He looked up at Peter. Tears pooled in their eyes. "MATE. Why is she in chains?" He growled.

The guard looked between Jonas and Peter, his eyes got big and he looked scared, "She? Mate? No one told me we had a female prisoner."

"She was with the males?" He roared.

Jonas spoke up, "Peter, calm down. None of our prisoners share rooms. She was by herself."

Jonas links Frank and Maureen, "Frank, bring Michelle here. We seem to have a young female wolf here who is too scared to talk. She had one silver claw left and ripped the others off. She is from Striker Pack. She is Peter's mate. We are hoping Michelle can help her since she too was from Striker Pack."

"What does she look like," Michelle asked.

"She is 5 feet 11 inches, hair is auburn and cut in a short bob cut."

"That sounds like Anita Marshall. Alpha Jon's niece. Always felt bad for her. She use to be a girly girl but her father , Amos was forcing her to fight and be a boy after her younger brother died in birth with his mate. Tell her 'She-she is on the way. I use to pup sit her."

Jonas in a whisper says, "Anita, She-she is on her way."

Peter says in a quiet voice, "Anita, what a beautiful name."

She looks at him. She whispers, "you will reject me after you hear about me." She broke down into tears and scooted away from Peter. He looked hurt and angry.

Michelle came in just then. Her Luna spirit came out. She went and wrapped her arms around Anita. "I am taking her back to a cabin. Send Amelia to me. Also ask Omega Pamela to come."

Peter said, "She is my mate. Can I be with her?"

Michelle gave him a sympathetic look, "she right now needs a mother touch. You want to do something. Go to the warehouse and have one of the workers look up clothes for Anita and bring it to the cabin." She thought for a second, "Peter? You do know she is only fifteen. She got her wolf two years ago when she was 13. The pack doctor felt she needed her wolf early after her mother died. Her father decided since he had no son he would make her train like the boys. He cut her long hair short and she could only wear pants. She hated it. But Alpha Jon gave his brother permission to do that to his niece."

Peter is growling again and looking surprised. "When I realized she had a wolf I never thought about her being underage."

Anita looked up again while sniveling. "He treated me like a boy on the field, but at home..." she started crying again.

Michelle said, "let's go."

She pulled away and looked at Peter. "NO, go ahead and reject me. I cannot be a mate to you."

"I could never reject you. I have waited a long time for you."

"I can't mate you because I am not a virgin."

Peter growled, "neither am I. What happened before we met? I don't hold it against you."

"You don't understand. I am already mated."

"You bare no marks. You're not mated."

"After my mom died my dad said I looked just like her. I am his second chance mate. He took me with our alpha blessing. I was declared his second chance mate but he cannot mark me until I am legally sixteen, but he still mated me other ways."

"Your dad lied. He cannot declare you his mate and make it so. That is against the moon goddess doctrine. You are his daughter. Your dad was the alpha and cannot legally do any of that."

Michelle hugged her, "Peter is right. Your dad and uncle lied to you. How did you end up here in battle?"

"Dad said since he had the alpha's blessing and with my short hair I looked more like mom. That she came back to him as my wolf, Rose. My Mom's wolf was Violet. She was a flower that blossomed for him."

Michelle whispered to her, "your dad was wrong. He cannot ever be your mate. He was delusional and cannot be your mate. Now let us get out of here." She looked at Peter, "I am taking her to your  cabin."

"Put her in the second bedroom on the left. It has a master suite. It is my parent's room when they visit. Jonas, can you handle our other prisoner?"

"I am not going to interrogate him. Our 1:00pm meeting has now become a court case. He looked at Frank, "bring him to the training ground at 1:30. I will link everyone about the change. I am sending over a lawyer from Symposium to represent him."

Anita looked at him, "will I have to tell them that he mated me?"

Michelle asked, "what do you mean? Your not his mate."

Anita looked down at the ground and whispered quietly, "he is why I am not a virgin. He says him taking mu virginity makes menhos mate."

Peter lost control and shifted, he ran out of the interrogation room. The guard ran over and entered a code. A panel slid down and he hit a button. The doors unlocked and opened up and a blue light with a siren was set off."

Frank looked around startled, "what the hell?"

Anita was back in Michelle arms, shivering.

A few minutes later the siren and lights went off. Frank looked at the guard, "what the hell was that? My ears are ringing."

The guard looked up, "Alpha Jonas, I mean King Jonas installed various warning lights. Blue light with that siren sound meant a pissed off guard or in this case councilman is coming up. Get out of the way or you might get hurt."

Frank said, "clever idea."

Jonas said, "Michelle, I will escort you to Peter's family cabin." He looked at Frank, "I will see you at 1:30." He turns and leads Michelle and Anita out.

Jonas links everyone in the pack, "I have called a meeting for 1:00 with leaders it will have to be postponed until after the memorial.  Instead we will be having a trial against someone who has knowingly, I mean allegedly used illegal items, committed murder, rape, incest, and theft.

"If anyone is with Amelia please let her know."

Thank you for reading ONE YEAR. Would love to hear your input. This chapter is 4465 words.