Night Attack

(Asterios POV)

'Shit, how the hell did those bastards get the drop on us, oh poor Travis, and Raphael.' Asterios thought thinking back to the sight of Travis and Raph, one of his own betas heads being mounted on a pike as hunters spilled into the compound.

"Uncle, I can't keep running!" Little Cyrus called out to Asterios as he heard the shouts of men, the barking of dogs, and worse of all, the gunshots, how the gunshots rang out and made him flinch whenever they were accompanied by a roar or a scream.

Asterios turned around quickly and scooped Cyrus into his arms as he continued to run through the woods.

As the uncle-nephew duo continued to run, they were suddenly stopped by a loud bang that came from the gun that shot a bullet into Asterios' shoulder.

"Gah, motherfucker!" Asterios exclaimed in pain as he tried to keep moving to get Cyrus out of danger.

*Bang!*

*Bang!*

Another two shots rang out as one hit the tree next to Asterios' head and the last bullet struck him in the arm that was holding Cyrus.

"Fuck!" Asterios roared as he placed Cyrus behind a tree and turned around the take out whoever had shot him.

As he turned around, Asterios shifted into his full werewolf form, fur grew from every limb as his bones broke and extended and morphed into a canine shape.

The whole process only took but a moment and after it finished where Asterios once stood there was now a 6-foot (183 cm) giant gray wolf whose eyes glowed an ominous blood red.

Asterios, now in his giant dire wolf form, lept toward one hunter who was closest to his right, ripping out his throat with a swift bite, quickly transitioning over to the next swiping his claws at his stomach, spilling insides all over the grass floor of the forest.

As he took out another hunter, Asterios was once again shot by another wolfsbane-laced bullet in his other shoulder, causing him to stagger momentarily as he gritted his fangs together and took out the hunter who shot him.

'Shit, that makes what, four bullets?' Asterios thought while killing the next hunter, knowing he could maybe only take another two before he wasn't able to move anymore, he could already feel the effects of the wolfsbane traveling through his body.

"What the hell is this guy made of mostly alphas can barely stand a couple of these bullets- Gah!" the second to last hunter yelled as he tried and failed to dodge Asterios' next attack, getting his head ripped clean off.

Right as Asterios was about to go after what he thought was the last hunter, He heard Cyrus let out a scream as he turned around he saw Cyrus being held at gunpoint by another hunter whom he didn't remember seeing earlier.

"Ah, now what do we have here?" The older man said as he held Cyrus by his shirt collar.

"Let me go!" Cyrus screamed as he tried to get out of the old hunter's grip.

"Haha, what do you think you're gonna do pup?" The man laughed grimly as he was about to move his finger to the trigger of his gun.

"What the hell are you doing, we follow the code and that doesn't include killing innocent children!" The other hunter exclaimed at the former

"This is war, Christopher! Sure he may be a kid but he is one of them, and alpha no less!" The old hunter boomed at his younger counterpart.

Seeing a moment of opportunity, Asterios lept at the older hunter grabbing Cyrus' collar with his teeth, earning him another bullet in the side for his effort.

As he was running away with gritted teeth, Asterios could hear more hunters converging on the area, so he pushed himself to his limit and ran, and ran until he was god knows how far away from his family's home.

(Cyrus POV, Several hours earlier)

"Come here little wolf, it's time for dinner!" Cyrus could hear his mom call out from the other side of the manor.

Not being one to skip his meals, Cyrus put down the book he was holding and bolted as fast as possible, which was pretty fast given his supernatural status.

Arriving at the dining hall, Cyrus could see that his entire family was seated at the table, a rare scene lately as they seem to get busier and busier as the days go by.

Sitting down in his chair and waiting to be served, Cyrus could see that his dad and aunt were having a conversation in extremely hushed tones, something that annoyed the little eavesdropper to no end.

As the food was served Cyruis immediately started to munch down on the smoked beef that the cooks had made tonight, time passed by fast as he finished eating and sat there talking and joking with his family.

After dinner ended, Cyrus went with his Uncle Asterios to go and have another lesson on maintaining control, especially over his emotions, something that was very important for a born alpha like himself, according to his parents anyway.

Standing in the large room that they used for training, Cyrus was in front of Asterios who was in the middle of explaining how to find an anchor or something that helps him keep control over himself even in especially strenuous situations.

"So, Cyrus, to help ground yourself and not lose yourself to anger or any other emotion, you need to find an anchor, someone, or something to help keep you grounded and sane."

Now a little curious about his uncle's anchor Cyrus asked. "What's your anchor uncle?"

"Haha, well my anchor is quite simple, it's this family, anytime I feel myself giving in to my more animalistic tendencies or anger, I just think back to this manor, our family, and all of the good times I've had here and with my siblings."

"For you however, a good option might be your parents, I know for me at first using my father, your namesake, as my anchor helped me leaps and bounds when I was young. Unlike me, however, you also can sue your mom along with your dad as an anchor." Asterios said with a melancholy expression before he reverted back to his cheery self.

This training went on for another few hours as Cyrus started to grow tired not only from his day but also the continuous shifting he was doing to help control it better, sadly he still couldn't quite turn into a big wolf like his parents and Asterios and Aurelia but he at least could half shift into what they call the "Half man half wolf" form.

Cyrus and Asterios were walking through the halls of the manor toward his bedroom when all of a sudden they heard a loud bang.

*Boom!*

*Roars*

"What the hell?" Asterios said with confusion before he winced and his face grew pale.

As Cyrus was about to ask his uncle what happened, he could hear Asterios lightly mutter a name under his breath before he sprung into action taking Cyrus with him.

Cyrus recognized the name Asterios had said, the name was Raphael who was one of his uncles Betas who had been with him for the longest time, having been turned by his uncle in their teenage years.

"What happened to big bro Raph?" Cyrus asked innocently as his uncle's face showed discomfort and sadness.

Despite Cyrus asking, Asterios didn't answer the boy as they came across Raoul and Selena, with the form looking extremely mad, and the ladder having tears rolling down her face, her eyes glowing a ghostly bright blue, a contrast from her previous brilliant golden colored eyes.

Seeing the change, Asterios looked at Selena with sadness before he asked what happened.

instead of Selena answering, it was Raoul who did in his deep and gruff voice, fury being evident in his tone. "Those damn hunters are what happened! The bastards struck with an ambush, they got Travis and Raphael in the initial fighting!" Raoul boomed in anger

"What? How the hell did hunters get into the compound, there have to be at least 20 different betas roaming around the perimeter from our packs." Asterios said confused about how hunters could possibly get in undetected with the sheer amount of werewolves in the compound

"We... we don't know," Selena said in a low tone

"Uncle, what's going on?" Cyrus said now a little scared at the mention of hunters getting in and some of his friends being hurt.

Asterios looked down at Cyrus and reassured him that they would be alright before he tasked Raoul and Selena with finding Cyrus' dad and rallying the others to expel the hunters.

A few minutes later, Cyrus and Asterios were down in the main foyer with another dozen betas around them, and Alexios and Aurelia walked in with another man who also had glowing red eyes that Cyrus recognized as Oliver, his father's cousin.

As Cyrus was standing by the side of Asterios a little bit away from the gathering of werewolves, he could still pick up some of their words, all of which left him feeling more and more worried as more names were mentioned to have been 'taken out' by the hunters.

Cyrus could see his dad look around for somebody before asking Oliver something. "Hey Oli, where is Zach?" Zach was another one of their cousins who if Cyreus remembered correctly, was his father's second cousin.

Cyrus could see Oliver's face morph into a downcast expression as he in a very hushed tone told Cyrus' dad something that also made Alexios' face sadden.

As everyone was talking and coming up with ways to push the hunters out, a beta burst through the front door telling everyone that it was not only the agents but also the Calaveras and a couple of other well-known hunting families.

This sent the whole room into an uproar as Cyrus' dad and a few others tried to calm everyone down. 

Seeing his dad get everyone to calm down, Cyurs went up to him and asked with his mom was, Alexios told Cyrus that he had hidden his mom with a few other betas as she was too pregnant to fight.

As his dad and the others were talking they all heard another series of loud bangs, the last one being right outside the manor.

"Shit, we need to move now!" Alexios exclaimed as he instructed Asterios to take Cyrus and get Ana and run for the nearest safe house.

"What! I can't leave you and Lia' here to fight them alone!" Asterios rebuked but was still told to take Cyrus and run, being assured that his siblings and family would be alright.

Cyrus saw as Asterios gritted his teeth and ordered a couple of his betas to come with him.

While they were running to get his mom, Asterios, Cyrus, and a couple of his uncle's betas were knocked to the ground as an explosion hit the side of the manor where they were.

"Fuck fuck fuck! Ana!" Asterios yelled as he and his betas ran to the scene of the exploded room and found it in ruins with a couple of betas on the ground bleeding or dead, and Ana being crushed by some debris.

"Mom!" Cyrus yelled as he ran to his mom's side trying to move the heavy debris and getting it to budge a little before Asterios threw it off of Ana.

"Its okay little wolf I'm fine," Ana said dusting herself off, it would take a lot more than that to take down an alpha, even a pregnant one

As they were helping Ana up, a loud bang rang out and Ana staggered to her knees.

"No, no!" Asterios yelled as he saw the bullet wound in his back and looked over and saw a hunter standing a few feet away with his rifle pointed at them.

"aquí encontré algunos!" Cyrus heard the hunter yell out in Spanish as some more movement started coming toward them.

one of Asterios' betas lept at the hunter and shifted into his werewolf form which was a more animalistic human form and ripped the man's throat out with his teeth as he ran to another hunter that got there and clawed his stomach, blood leaking out along with some organs.

"Come on, we need to move!" Asterios called out to his beta before he got shot in the head by another hunter who closed in on them.

Seeing this the second beta with them killed that man before he told Asterios and Ana to run with Cyrus as he tried to hold them off, his glimmering gold eyes changing to a cold steel blue.

Sadly, before they could get away from the large blown-out hole leading into the manor, another hunter, this time an older man, raised his rifle and put three shots into Ana's stomach, the black veins appearing all over her evident of the nature of the bullets.

Cyrus could only look on in shock, sadness, and fury as he was grabbed and pulled away by Asterios he yelled for his mom, seeing her go down and be shot several more times.