MICHAEL

MICHAEL

Being orphaned at a very young age took a great toll on me, specially when those responsible are the werewolves who happened to be the kinds I hated most for their brutal nature.

My Dad was the head warrior and strongest "werewolf hunter" in the human world accompanied by his younger brother Kyle White.

When I was six, My Dad went on a battle with the werewolves who constantly tortured and killed humans. The werewolves called us humans weak and they did not hesitate to kill anyone they come across without an ounce of conscience.

Tragedy struck, when my Dad got killed from his last battle with the werewolves, Mom upon hearing the news of my Dad's death became extremely sad. She refused coming out from her room for days without food or water.

My uncle and his wife tried their best in comforting her, but it was of no use, she became paler and thinner by the day and when her body could no longer stand the self torture,she died.

I cried for days, I could not understand why my parents had to die, why these vicious beings won't let us be.

From then on, i vowed to take revenge on werewolves and personally take my revenge on those responsible for my father's Death. I would find them to the ends of the earth!.

Uncle Kyle took care of me after my parents death. He is the became the best uncle anyone would wish for, he somewhat have some of my dad's feature, tall just like my dad but not as huge as he was. They had same brown hair and sparkly brown eyes. I on the other is a spitting image of my Dad, same face,hair, and slightly tanned white skin.

My uncle had two kids, Marcus and Arla. I am a year older than Marcus and Martin is two years older than Arla. My uncle as a werewolf warrior thought us how to defend ourselves for we might be besieged by the werewolves any time.

Living in the northern suburb which was closer to the dwelling of werewolves always kept us on high alert.They are beasts never to be reckoned with, its a shame some humans are mated to these ruthless creatures.

Marcus and I both attended the school for werewolf hunters for we both strived to fight for the safety of our kinds just like our fathers did.

We were given hard core training and at the age of eighteen, I was named best among the werewolf hunters.

Being the best wasn't what I strived for though, when you loose your loved ones to this ruthless creatures you will need all the courage and strength you can get to fight them to your last breath, I believe being my father's son I possessed natural and equal strength in fighting the werewolves.

Marcus and i, together with other young warriors fought our first battle and came back victorious. Though i got a few scratches and a broken nose from a wolf who tried to attack with his claws.

We were thought the history about the werewolves. "If you want to defeat your enemies, you have to study them perfectly, master their strong and weak points to be able to defeat them fair and square."

Those are words uncle Kyle always said to us. We learnt they lived in pack houses with their leader commonly known as Alpha, a Luna who happens to be the mate to the Alpha. A Beta who is known as the second in command, a gamma who is third in command and the Omegas and Deltas who are lower ranked.

There are some set of werewolves known as rogues, these rogues spend their lives living in forests and are never members of a pack.

They are more vicious than those who lives in pack houses and this particular werewolves are the ones who infiltrate the human village and carry out ruthless massacres. They sometimes kidnap the human girls and make them satisfy their sexual appetites.

We learnt about their heightened sense of hearing and smell which is one of their supernatural qualities. They could tell the differences between those who are rogues and those who lived in packs, they also have the ability of mind linking themselves as a form of communication.

We were also trained to use weapons coated with wolfsbane when fighting them. Wolfsbane is poisonous to the werewolves and when used on them, it weakens their power which gave us humans a higher chance of defeating them.

Every battle we fought with the werewolves, half of our victory comes from the usage of wolfsbane.

Here in the human world, wolfsbane commonly used as a form of protection against the constant invasion of rogue wolves who attack,the surroundings to each house is fully covered with wolfsbane plants.

Eve Tyler is a close friend to me and Marcus she's also a werewolf hunter who is very brave and fearless. Eve is same age as Marcus.

She is a very beautiful young lady with curves that puts every guy she come across in disarray, though she's never interested in any of these guys but got eyes for only one person who was.....unfortunately me.

On my part, I never saw Eve as a girl I want to have a romantic relationship with for i see her only as a little sister.

Marcus on the other hand is the greatest flirt ever known, there's practically no female in his life that was left untouched.

At home, we all live as one family. Arla was fourteen and very naughty, but she's a sweet little girl. She preferred me to Marcus because she thinks am way nicer than her own brother and I don't play with girls like he did.

Eve was also a regular visitor to our house,if you did not know my family well enough, you would think she's part of the family as well.Only Marcus and I maybe Arla too knows she's always visiting because of me.

It's a bright beautiful morning, aunt Lauren always made the best sandwich ever. We all had our share including Eve who came visiting that day.

Marcus and i always did the dishes after every meal, its something we've got used to doing over the years specially when we are home.

"Michael, you are not too dumb to see that Eve is always here cause of you right?. Man! what's taking you so long to make her yours already?"

"Marcus you know I only see her as a sister and a friend, the likeness I feel towards her its no different from the one I feel for Arla. I see her only as a younger sister, I can't even imagine anything romantic towards her.

"Well too bad She doesn't like me, I would have been her perfect man".

"Marcus you don't have any stable woman in your life, Am sure Eve is lucky not to like you, else she would have been among the long list of girls you have slept with".

" I know right?, but on a serious note Michael, do you plan on being celibate all your life?"

"Marcus, you of all people should know I don't have time for a relationship right now, am yet to get those responsible for the early demise of my parents. Who knows I might end up dead in the course of fighting werewolves or looking for my father's killers.

Being in a relationship with Eve couldn't be more worse as she's on the same mission as me, she would either have to watch me get killed one day or I watch her die helplessly because of me. The last thing I want right now is to let any woman suffer same fate as my mom".

Marcus looked mortified at what I said.

"Now I understand you Michael, am so sorry I didn't understand your pains, but don't forget you have me okay?. The fight is not yours alone, they were my uncle and aunt too".

I excused myself after I was done with the dishes. As i was about going to my room when Eve called out to me.

"Michael, can I have a word with you please?".

I turned back, wondering what she wants to say, I just hope its not same thing she's always been talking about.

I led her to the garden in our backyard filled with the scent of fresh lilies .

After walking for about 30 minutes, she stopped, facing me she began...

" Michael, You know I have always had a crush on you, please just give me a chance to show you how much I care about you.

Not again!...Why can't she just stop, she wouldn't understand me no matter how I try to explain to her.

"Eve listen, you are turning out to be a very beautiful young lady I must say, but am sorry I still have to turn you down as my feelings for you never changed all these years. I don't love you in the way you want me to, don't waste your time on me Eve, there must be a perfect man out there who would love you better than you expect".

"But I want no one but you Michael, why don't you understand you are the only man I desire, I want only you..."

This is getting harder than I imagined, at first when we were still kids,I was 10 back then and she was 9, she would always stick to me, when she was 12 she boldly announced she had a crush on me for everyone to hear. Martin and I both laughed about it for we thought it was just a childhood crush and it will go away once she's had a boyfriend.

I never knew, she would refuse all proposal just for a childhood infatuation.

"You would never understand me Eve, i have a greater responsibility to carry, am sorry I will have to reject you yet again".

And with that I walked away from the now crying Eve, I can't watch her cry because of me. If only she knew my reasons for rejecting her was for her own good.

I know am quite a handsome looking dude, I looked so much like my Dad each passing day. At eighteen I was bigger than than guys in their twenties.

I'm broad chested, tall and huge with a slightly crooked nose which I got as a result of my first battle with a werewolf.

"Hey mike, Did you make Eve cry again?".

"You were spying on us weren't you Arla?". I asked.

"Nope I wasn't..."

Arla is not a very good liar but am not going to stress on that, I just need to rest my head and prepare for training.