Ezra dragged his feet with the rest of his
strength, he was exhausted from the miles he had covered with his youngest
brother on his back, you could see the distance they've covered from their shoe
prints on the snow, he was the eldest and had to push on "Brother look" The boy on his back cried out as he pointed out to a bold sign on a board, as he dropped his brother on his feet he read the sign out
"Saint San Jerome Emiliani children
shelter"
"could this be it" he thought to himself as he pulled out a flier from his torn shorts
"okay yes it is" He confirmed as he compared the words on them both
"it's this way" The youngest brother said and led the way" This is one big building for a shelter" Ezra said to himself; it was 2 story building tall but wide enough to fit a community and you could tell from the way it looked that not all parts of the house was being used. His brothers looked at him to ring the doorbell. The shelter owner need not to use any power to figure that children
were outside because of the loud Chattering of the boys that he heard as they
argued who should ring the bell;
"Creeaakkkkkkkkkkk!!"
"Cliccckkkkkkkkkkk!!"
Came the loud sound from the door "it's
opening" zeph whispered
The boys stood in awe from the shock that
came from what the saw behind the opened door ......…
Luther's POV
I'm an ice wolf from a descendant of
weak werewolves;right from the first generation every member of my bloodline were killed and eaten for fun because of our inability to defend ourselves . My pack was the last survival of my blood line until 4 out of 6 ended up dead, Causing Tiala one of the survival of my pack to start making her own army by biting humans. I never for once stood against her because it created a sense of power for us and other werewolves could not maltreat or disrespect us ;until one day she woke up and began to search for the cursed spell book . when I asked her for her reasons "I need to wake up all our descendants,They will seek their revenge themselves and kill all the bloodline that killed them" was her answer, i knew how addictive and destructive the spell book was so I stood against it and that broke into a big
fight. knowing fully well that I was no match
against Taila and her army ,I decided to run far away ,off to where it'd take ages before anyone would be able to trace me .
I spent 2 years hiding,trying to cook up a
plan and finally I decided to build my own army so I can be able to find the
spell book before Taila does. I opened the shelter for orphans and abandoned children who had no purpose to live. I had to journey to the end of the world to find the rare herbs to be able to make enough armies because biting them would leave them with marks,making it easy to tell by humans and their enemies and that was not what he wants.
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"I'm Luther" He was 6 inch tall
with very broad chest which was not the reason they boys were dumbstruck,
besides he was wearing a coat over his shirts and pants, what made them scared
was his skin; he was literally made of hair that you could barely even see his eyes or lips but they moved as he spoke or blinked
"it's hypertrichosis"I said,
answering the questions of the shocked
stares to an extent
"werewolf syndrome? " I said in a tone that sounded like i was asking if the boys knew what it meant, which they did for obvious reasons. "Would you like to come in?" I
asked with a smile seeing that the boys looked relieved and they entered without thinking twice. Seeing the way they cling to Ezra, I knew he was the eldest.
"You'd find wolfsbane behind every picture in the house"I broke the silence as I walked them through the shelter "so you're allowed to touch pictures only when there's need to" i continued;
The boys felt like they've signed up for
something other than children's shelter
"and inside every lamp you'd find silverpowder or pure mercury" I added and
this time the boy felt like they were
just being lectured.
"I can smell dead children" Ezra said under his breath as they followed me up the stairs, he wanted to speak out but he knew his brothers wouldn't believe him "How on earth do you know the smell of dead children?" They'd laugh.
I made a quick sniff and gave a blank stare,
the boys couldn't see my eyes to tell that they had turned yellow,
"don't move ,I'd be right back" I said and excused myself .
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"The whole house smell weird"The
youngest brother had said seeing that Luther went outside, Ezra was about to
chip in "like rare herbs"his youngest brother continued as he moved
towards a door with a strange handle, it was the only room with a lock
"Sir Luther said we shouldn't
move"
The smart but meek brother warned as he
followed behind,The boys gasped and opened their mouth widely as they stared
into the room.
Ezra who hadn't left his spot
asked" what did you see?you look like you're staring at Sitsuie and
Hirsasu herbs" He added jokingly because the herbs exist only in movies,
"Sutsuie and Hirsasu!"
He repeated in shock as he was also staring
at it with his mouth left agape,They should have locked the door and let
curiosity die off but instead the youngest went in and tried to uncover what
was under the linen
"Junior stop it!!"
Ezra
ran after him and was able to catch his hand before he raised it; Ezra knew
this was a cadaver room
"don't call me junior"his brother
said
dragging his hand off his grip,Ezra rushed
to zeph his meek brother who was having a panic attack and tried to calm him
down,
Junior continued exploring the room and
noticed dozen syringes, More herbs and several other ingredients scattered all
around the room,
"if this was a crime scene, the
forensics would have noticed the fact that the killer didn't get what he wanted
and took his anger out on the innocent room "junior said to himself
"Junior,come out! "Ezra called out
for a second time
"Don't
call me junior"He rebuked "Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!"he screamed and
immediately Ezra and zeph rushed back inside the room to know why junior
screamed;what they saw gave zeph another panic attack then junior who had his
hand on his opened mouth with tears said
"does…..t.t.. this mean every….
linen.. is…is.. covering a…a…. child" He stuttered as he struggled for words.
Ezra knew he had to be strong, covering the
piece of cloth he moved his brothers out and locked the door behind them
"okay okay, look at me"He said to
his brothers who were still in shock
"look at me!!!"
He yelled and they wiped their tears
"we have to go "Ezra continued "I don't know where but I prefer
we die out in the snow than like them" he concluded and led them down the
staircase.
They had gotten to 5th staircase when the
door opened and Luther came in on his four, with his hairy face stained with
blood, judging from the look on their faces and the way they were shivering he
knew that they had entered his project room
"I told you not to move"he growled
and rushed over to Ezra and knocked him out, Zeph had a third panic attack that
made him collapse
"we did not see anything "junior
cried out as he stood still in guilt
"please let us go"were his last words before he too was unconscious...