5 Greater Good (Ch.9)

Kalen's POV~

I dodged Wren's attack, spinning back and throwing a kick at him, he stumbled back from the force and was unable to recover before I delivered another solid punch to his jaws, he groaned, dodging my next attack and swinging a fist at me, I didn't move away this time, catching the fist instead and spinning him around, I wrapped my arm around his neck in a painful headlock, he struggled for a while but soon tapped out.

"Damn it Kalen, enough training for today already!" He said tiredly, I frowned slightly at him but didn't say anything, grabbing a water bottle from the table and gulping down the contents.

"You've gotten rusty Wren, I haven't been paying attention to you so you neglected training?" I asked him in my usual cold tone, he sighed, putting down his bottle and running a hand through his hair.

"It's not that.... just that, I've been so busy pacifying the pack...." He trailed off when he noticed the look on my face, unsure if he could continue and still guarantee his life, I rolled my eyes, motioning for him to speak.

"They want you to choose a Luna, Kalen." He informed me, I raised a brow but didn't say anything in reply, Wren sighed in frustration but remained quiet, we stayed that way for a while before I felt a hand on my shoulder, I turned to him and he gave me a comforting smile .

"You... you also want me to give in to their request?" I asked him quietly, he answered immediately without hesitation.

"Of course not, I'm one of the few who actually know your reasons, even if you hadn't met Miwa, I would never support just matching you up to someone... it's just that, the pack also has elders with a good level of authority, when they take a stand together on something, it's hard to ignore, you need to see to it that they stop insisting." He said, I nodded quietly.

"I also would like to know.... since when they began to dare make decisions for me...I'm really curious about that. Pack meeting tonight, pass the information accordingly." I instructed Wren, he bowed slightly and left to do my bidding, while I remained where I stood, tilting my head back as the morning sun caressed my skin, my mind kept flashing back to her, if only she was here, I wouldn't have to be this miserable.

"Miwa..... Iretomiwa...." I murmured slightly to myself, shutting my eyes at the aching feeling in my heart.

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I walked calmly through the forest, heading to the large clearing deep within, my pack already awaited me there. I arrived at the point and stopped just outside the clearing, sensing my presence, my pack members all froze, all light conversations immediately ended and everyone bowed as I walked past, heading to the front where a slightly elevated dais was forged out of rock, this had been the meeting ground of dark moon for centuries, although we now had a modernized hall back at the pack house, I choose this spot because I knew this meeting wouldn't go by as peacefully as a meeting should.

I walked up the steps calmly, standing casually at the top of the elevated dais, my gaze moved quietly through the crowd of over a thousand wolves, my pack numbered way more than this, but this where the members close enough to arrive on such short notice, a drone flew calmly over the clearing, every other member absent would watch this live from wherever they were.

"...so....the pack wants to see their Alpha, here I am.... speak." I said in a cold tone, they flinched at my words knowing I wasn't pleased with their recent actions.

"We have the right to request our Alpha's presence to discuss our concerns, should we feel bad about that?" A proud voice sounded, the clearing became even more quiet than it was earlier as my gaze moved to the speaker, it seemed my pack members didn't even dare breathe, except the wolf who spoke, whose breathing rate increased rapidly even as my cold gaze landed on him, he tried to look at me but was unable to withstand the intensity of my gaze and quickly looked away, his fear was quite obvious so I pushed down my anger and decided to ignore this for now.

".... when I said speak....I was referring to reasonable people.... since when did it get to your turn to speak to me.....?" I asked in a deadly tone, he gulped audibly, obviously terrified as any other wise person would be after speaking to a deadly wolf like me with such disrespect, however the thing about youths that I disliked the most was their stupid hot headedness, with egos a much bigger size than their brains.

The young wolf covered his fear with foolish anger, lifting a haughty gaze to me, he was truly asking for death. Despite the fact that I was also a youth, I once again loathed the egotistical genetic make up of most youths, it was why apart from my few confidants who defied the usual character trend of youths, I found it hard to relate with the hot headed fools.... the only exception to this was Greg.

Aiden my third quickly moved to the wolf and placed a restraining hand on his shoulder, giving him a warning glare, he turned to me and bowed in apology on behalf of the youth.

"He has been abroad for a while now and is acting in ignorance, please do not take his actions to heart Alpha." Aiden pleaded, his head down, I frowned not liking to see my third lower himself because of some fool, I reigned in my anger.

"... when you're this stupid... you should naturally have a friend like Aiden who dares speak up for you.... even putting his life on the line like this.... You have yet to report to me on the results of your mission Aiden, see me after this.... don't worry, I won't kill you ....yet." I said calmly when I noticed he wasn't breathing, Aiden audibly sighed in relief and gave me a grateful smile, nodding before turning and glaring at the still furious youth... some people truly didn't know what was good for them.