18. The ceremony 4

Everyone stared at the blood that was flowing in horror. They soon noticed that something was wrong. His healing ability as a lycan was faster than the average shifter but the wound had not yet closed it kept on bleeding. They realized that the bullet that had penetrated him must have been a silver bullet.

Their fear seems to increase at the realization. They have still not forgotten what this boy was capable of doing. When he was younger than this he had terrorized them and seized power from them. How much now that he was older and has all the power? They could only watch on and hope to find the culprit.

The culprit... Yes, they needed to find him soon before they all paid a price that they were not ready to pay. They began looking around to find who was so brazen to do something so... Stupid.

Darren who was shot had no expression on him. He did not even flinch from the pain and stood there as he stared at the crowd below him. Though he was expressionless, the murderous intent that he emitted along with his powerful aura was too heavy for a lower-ranked to bear as they trembled from its impact. While he dug his claws into the place where he had been shot and pulled out the bullet throwing it on the ground. 

Mateo and Lucy were standing in front of Darren who hadn't moved at all from his position. While Levi had stepped down the podium with Lucinda, Leo, and Logan hunting down the culprit.

After a few moments had gone by, Levi dragged a man out of the audience. He was a rogue who had sneaked in along with the guests. Levi tossed him in front of Darren. "Alpha, he was the one," Levi said as he glared at the man who was forced to kneel.

As soon they heard that everyone sighed in relief. At least Darren's anger will now be directed solely at one person. He was young but they feared him.

Darren took a step closer to the rogue and growled at him. His already dark eyes became darker. "Who sent you?" he asked, from how deep his voice was it was obvious that his beast was also speaking along with him.

The man was quiet and Darren became more livid. "Don't make me repeat myself," he warned, "Now... talk," he said as he gripped his throat harshly as if intending to squeeze him to death. Lifting him and suspending him in the air. His elongated claws dug deep into his neck as blood rolled down Darren's arm.

The man was still quiet even when the grip on his neck became tighter. He refused to talk. Mateo and Levi growled dangerously at him but he didn't care, the one whom he should care about was already strangling him.

Darren did not say more and just increased his strength bit by bit around his neck until the man could take no more. He was losing blood and his lungs had long run out of air. "Alp... Alpha. La... Laza...rus." He said, stuttering.

Darren moves his other hand and grips his head, with one swift move he pulls it away from his neck and threw both his body and head in different directions. His white pants were now tainted red with blood.

Everyone gasped at what they saw him do. They all took a step back when they saw him pulling the head of the man and heard how his bones snapped loose. It didn't seem like much of a surprise to the visiting packs, but it was a huge eye-opener to the members of the Shadow Moon pack. They have now realized what kind of a monster they were messing with the past week.

Darren stepped back and a few maids ran up to clean up the blood that has pooled around the separated head and body and Darren's feet. Darren had refused to make anyone an omega because he knew how bad it was to be treated as one. Instead, he had maids, at least he pays them to work.

After they were done cleaning under everyone's gaze, the body was taken away. Darren returned to his position so did Mateo and Levi. "Let's continue," Darren ordered. Everyone snapped out of their daze as soon as Darren said that.

The elders came to their senses and struggled to get their composure back. The female elder stood before Darren once again and raised her trembling hand which was missing its direction. She looked at the right side of his chest and saw that it was only a scar left, she sighed in relief.

"Breath, Agatha, breathe," Darren said to her when he noticed her shaking hands. She nodded and breathed deeply. She took the newly heated silver rod and placed it on his chest on the left leaving it there for a few seconds. She then pulled it away and looked at the image it left behind. Its healing was slow and it will certainly leave a scar in the shape of a wolf's head, which was their aim.

Two more elders who had stepped down earlier returned with two other rods which were in the shape of a wolf's paw and gave them to Agatha. One was a right paw and the other a left paw.

Mateo and Levi were also stripped of their shirts just like Darren was and a rod was placed on them respectively. The right paw was on Mateo and the left was on Levi.

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Blood moon pack.

The fight went on for almost an hour, the vampires and rogues along with the abominations tried to break through and head to the pack house.

The name 'abomination' was given to mutant werewolves. They looked strange and out of shape compared to the other werewolves, though they were few, they were famous among the supernatural creatures. And they have made a reputation for themselves in killing the werewolves of various packs. They don't belong to packs and move independently rarely seen together. But now there were many of them working together with vampires and werewolves along with the switches. This baffled them much.

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A few vampires and witches had managed and broken through the defenses of the Blood Moon pack And went into the pack house looking for someone.

"She is near." One of the spell casters said the vampires who were with her. "Try picking up her scent." She said again and the vampires started sniffing the air.

Kora was up in her room with Dana when she heard the door being knocked down. Dana quickly pulled her behind her back shielding her from any danger. "Lazarus!" she yelled through the mind link, calling to her mate for help with her eyes strained at the door.

"Kora!" She called. "Once that door opens, I will hold them back for as long as I can, you should run and find a place to hide outside of here," Dana instructed. Kora just nodded with no intention to argue. She had learned not to argue since the incident with her mother.

The door to the room was knocked open, without thinking, Dana used a spell and knocked down the witch the vampire that just burst through, and shouted "RUN" to Kora who bolted out of the door. Dana didn't care, Kora already knew she was a witch, half-blood, but she knew so she could use her power when it was only the two of them.

Kora ran out of the room and went downstairs running under their feet as she was so small. She ran to the back of the pack house where she thought there would be fewer of them.

Some of the vampires escaped Dana and chased after her and almost caught up to her when she ran into a cave. They followed her but got burnt and turned to dust at the mouth of the cave when they tried entering it.

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