Filed to story: Werewolfs Heartsong by Dizzy Izzy
Darien turned and glared at him, prompting Mason and the others to burst into laughter once more. Darien was about to become extremely annoyed when he heard Alora burst into her own peels of laughter. It caught him off guard, but at the same time it made him smile.
Alora’s peels of laughter could be heard by two others, one was Matt. When Matt heard Alora’s laughter, he thought it was a beautiful sound. Even as his heart ??lenched in pain at the loss of what could have been.
The other was Sarah, and her reaction was vastly different from Matt’s. For Sarah, Alora’s laughter filled her with rage and had her screaming internally.
In the parent’s section of the stadium seating. Bettina and Allister were still flipping through the program guide trying to find
Alora. They were having no luck. They had scrounged through every fight class under Sarah’s and could not find Alora.
Bettina took out her phone and shot off another text to Alora demanding to know what her fight class was. Bettina was so furious she was no longer able to keep a blank expression. The fury Bettina felt had twisted her expression to something that was almost demonic.
Allister’s expression was dark, and almost expressionless in its stony anger. It was like Allister was cast in a dark cloud, his feeling for the little twat he was absolutely positive wasn’t his were complicated. Allister knew what the DNA results said, but he was sure they had been faked.
Absolutely none of Alora’s features or coloring came from any part of him or his family. However, she did look a lot like Bettina’s paternal grandmother, and Allister had also witnessed Bettina give birth to Alora. If not for these two things, he would think Alora was unrelated to Bettina as well.
As Bettina’s fury mounted, Allister started to anticipate his time down in the basement with Alora tonight, Alora would be punished for every grievance they have suffered that day, and any other she may cause before the day ends.
Allaster and Bettina’s expressions didn’t go unnoticed by Alora, who had returned to looking at them after she received another demanding text message from Bettina. Alora had received the message right as she had submitted the two songs she wanted played during her challenge fight.
Alora chuckled darkly as she read the text again, she was getting a unique thrill out of how angry she was making Bettina. Xena was highly amused as well, Alora had te image of a big wolly grin on Xena’s face, and her long bushy tail waving languidly in the air back and forth. Xena’s tail looked like it had been dipped midway in the blackest of inks.
Xena’s ears also looked like they had been dipped in that same ink, then used that ink to paint a perfect crescent moon halfway surrounding a star on her left flank. It was when Alora focused on that last unique marking on her wolf that she remembered hers.
The mark on Xena wasn’t only on her, it was also on Alora. It was a birthmark, one her mother had told her was too ugly to be shown. Bettina had claimed that, if shown, it would have her hunted down and killed as a traitor to the Pack immediately.
Alora scoffed internally, thinking what Bettina had said was just another one of her many lies. It was only now Alora remembered her mark would be visible to everyone if she moved her sweater aside. Alora’s hoodie hung down past her shorts, while standing her shorts covered the top half of her mark.
When she sat down though, her shorts rode up enough that the mark was on full display. If Alora had not draped the loose ends of her open hoodie across her thighs, that is
Abea thought about those long ago words from het mother. One of the reasons she was sure it was complete and utter bullshit, was because Luna Ember personally delivered her. Lona Ember had seen her birthmark, it was documented in Alera’s birth profile.
Another reason was that her mark had been exposed again to Luna Ember, and by chance Alpha Andrew, Dumien, and Darien.
All of them knew of Alors birthmark. None of them said it was ugly, and none of them had any adverse reaction to it.
Alors decided it did not matter and refused to hide herrell away anymore. As far as she was concerned, everything that spewed from Bettina, Allister and Sarah’s mouths was nothing but lies. With that in mind, Alora’s text back to Bettina was deliberately inflammatory
“My fight class and rank are the very last one you would expect, Alora looked up to watch her parents after she sent that message to Bettina.
Alora was rewarded at once, as her text had the effect she was going for. Bettina looked like steam would come out of her ears and foam out of her mouth any second now. It made her laugh, they were so angry at that moment, and there was nothing they could do,
Darien, who had been seeing all this, leaned down and asked in a tone that was both amused and serious, “Wouldn’t it be great if they would lose all their composure in public and fully reveal themselves for the pieces of shit they are?”
Alora smiled widely and laughed and said, “I’m hoping to anger them so much that they blow a fuse or two.”
Darien leaned back and laughed. “That would be great to see.”
“Hey, hey you two, share in the fun.” Garrett said, “What are you two laughing so much over there?”
Alora, thinking that the cat was already out of the bag, pointed in the direction of Bettina and Allister and said, “We’re discussing how I’m attempting to make my horrible parents so angry they expire on the spot.”
As one, all the Alpha Class fighters looked in Bettina and Allister’s direction. Mason was the first one to start laughing. “If your goal is to make them expire from their anger, I believe you are very near success.”
“I would have to agree with mon ami on this ma ch?ri.” Jamison said, smiling in his own amusement.
“I feel they deserve it.” laxon said, glaring at Bettina and Allister, he clearly did not like them.
“Agreed,” Lexus said beside him.
“Horrible beings will eventually have a horrible end.” Garrett said in a serious tone,
“On a brighter note, have any of you seen the number of challenges we’ve received from the Beta Class fighters?” Mason asked. wet oll repeatedly. “Tecwat her all have ??of challenges” Momin said mitation, and the kirk on his face was dark. “Dann little buggers think they can win against me * He growled. “They better Aloes was no less imitated than Darien and it showed in her own expression. “I think I’m going to run out of song choices.” “Mosbe we could pick the same one for each challenge” Jaxon proposed, looking at his phone with a deep frown on his face. “With as many times your phone has just dinged with challenges,
please don’t.” Lexus said in a serious tone. “I agree with Levis, we would come to hate you after the third time the same song played.” Garrett added. Jason’s expression twisted a bit, before he growled out. “Then I hope nobody minds medieval metal or medieval instrumental music, cause that’s all that’s on my current playlist” “Well, mes amis, we all better hurry and choose our music, the Reserve Class challenges, while many, were over quickly. Many Reserve Class fighters are now in the Enforcer Class fighter rank. Only a few have moved to the Scout Class fighter rank; Jamison told them all. Everyone looked up and confirmed what Jamison had just said, the Scout Class rank advancement challenges were now starting. Looking at the list, you could see an almost fifty, fifty split of those wanting to advance into the Enforcer Class fighter rank and the Delta Class fighter rank. It made sense really, this was the year that your body had their most dramatic changes, especially among the males. Many originally weaker beings were now much stronger than they were at the beginning of high school.
Now that Alora was thinking about it, her original annoyance over the many challenges she had just received was gone. Alora had wanted to stop hiding away, she wanted to show everyone the real her and wanted to finally break the chains her family had on her.