Shadows of Destiny

Back In The East.

~Leo~ Protecting what was left of my territory from Bane’s invasion was hard, but I had to.

These were times when I would have loved Tamia on my team.

She knew exactly what to do and how to act.

I was leaning on Max and Kyle, and our odds didn’t seem great.

When the lesser Alphas joined with Bane, it didn’t hurt.

I felt it was their choice.

They wanted to go after the wolf lord and get their daughters back; some wanted revenge for their loved ones.

I could understand their pain.

However the Wolf Lord tried to justify his attack, his actions were wrong.

Attacking the entire East because a pack from the East 1/19 dared to attack him was wrong.

I knew it was cowardly to accept defeat and urge the East to rebuild and move on, but I did not want us to lose more than we had already.

The northern soldiers were strong, and they had a larger army.

Combining our strength with the south would have evened the playing field, but I did not trust Bane’s intentions, and I still don’t.

I had called a meeting with the remaining Alphas under me, and they answered.

When the alphas arrived, they were angry and scared at the same time.

Everyone blamed Kyle for our misfortunes because he was the one that brought Bane to What pissed all of us off was Bane wanted us to join up by force.

It was as if the part of the East that willingly went with him was not good enough.

He wanted Kyle, Max and me on his team too.

During the meeting, I watched the alphas argue and push blame around, which wasn’t why I called the meeting.

I called the meeting because I needed to find the best solution for peace.

Joining Bane was out of the question.

“We need to call a truce,” I said, and the hall went quiet.

“We can’t do that, Alpha Leo; the man is mad.

I heard something about him calling himself the rightful Wolf lord because he killed Maurice Volkov,” Ramsey said.

I was surprised about how ambitious Bane was.

“We need to find a way to tell him we do not share in his views and we won’t go to war against the North,” I told them, and they agreed.

“How will we do that? We have already told him we maintain a neutral stance.

How else can we tell that bastard that we are not interested in his promises and helping him further his cause?” Alpha Christian said.

“Since you told us Luna Tamia spoke highly of the Wolf Lord, and that he has been treating our sisters and daughters well, we have made peace.

How many more do we have to lose?” Timothy said, sounding as frail as he was.

He was one of the Alphas that did not bother fighting.

He just handed his granddaughter over as tribute because his daughter was already mated.

I could understand his fear.

“I say we take the war to Bane and let him know he has his limits.

What he took from the East isn’t the best of the East; we can take him down,” Gaston said, and I shook my head.

“Luna Tamia was one of our best strategists, Luna Avery dealt with welfare, and Luna Linda dealt with shelter protection.

With those three aspects of our society unattended, we stand no chance.

The north crippled us already by taking the three most powerful Lunas of the east.

We have to rely on strength, and as my wife always said, smarts beats strength any day,” I said, remembering Tamia, and we were silent.

3 “We can still manage with what we have,” Gaston said, and I nodded.

“Of course, we can, but we do not want any more bloodshed.

we have a peace talk with him,” I said, and they began to

“The man is mad.

answer

greedy and

he gets what

seemed the Alpha had made up

have a peaceful meeting with him,” I said,

“This is Kyle’s mess.

brought the bastard upon us; he should have a peaceful meeting

risk your life?”

your anger, Alpha Ramzey,

him, but we all

wasn’t bothering us, we still chose to Join forces with the south to

force us to accept the alliance; we did it wholeheartedly; it can’t be his

to have that peace talk with Bane,” I said, owning up to my responsibility, and everyone was

anything happens to you, we

is as simple as

the army he is building, and going to

might not win, but we will

take orders from him,” Max said,

several letters to Avery in the north but

Tamia wrote her letter under duress, but I had to point out the difference to

wife, I never maltreated her

finger on her and performed my duties

up and would have laid down my life for her sake; he

he should take her

herself there and had moved

that it was a tradition in the north to split Lunas among the top officers, she was probably

life would be better than what she and Mia

walks, I saw the silver scars on

because it wasn’t

been pleading with Max to let go, he didn’t

was a desperate alpha

Luna enough to treat

I looked at Kyle.

take place on Hill valley land, where it shares a

meeting me there,” I said

throughout the meeting, so I decided to rush home

northern

not seem like they came to fight me,

away the last

composed myself and

and we had learned we were expecting

will have a full house

happy as the news

the life

be taking this transition

that I was the cause of

to keep my promise, and it will stay with

the Council of the North sends us,” The man leading the envoy said to me, and I nodded and sat down

did not like what Amanda did with the place; I prefered the way Tamia decorated it, but it was Amanda’s home now, and

she had served them

just hoped she wasn’t stupid enough to slip them

Bane and the Wolf Lord to come at

me and

was still yet to let

and

to accept it, and it didn’t

visit?” I asked the man

“I am Jacob Mikhailov.

Northern Council spokesman,” he said, and I nodded, he looked more like a warrior to me,

introduce myself; he knew

you are interested in

part of the East, and threatens to force your remaining region to

help liberate your people and end his reign

Jacob? The part that joined with Devin did it willingly;

has promised to give

not

brought this hardship upon my people by attacking us and taking

north that

the first

they wanted peace, they would have had peace talks about the alleged attack instigated by Brent pack before wrecking our

us will never recover from the loss we incurred due

has gained allies because

us are willing to let go of our loved ones, however painful it may