Prologue: Becoming Alpha
Tick, tick, tick… the clock struck midnight, and Riri, my favorite “mad wolf scientist” was nowhere in sight, but luckily already scent. She should be here any minute, I thought nervously. And then I screamed, as two hands came up from behind me and covered my eyes. It didn’t take long before the poor woodland creatures got to go back to sleep, as the hands came off my eyes, and Riri jumped in front of me, laughing hysterically. I swiped at her playfully, and before long we were both laughing. And then I stopped short
“what’s that smell?!” I yelped at Riri, who just smiled nervously. This was something I’d only ever seen uuum… never? Riri? Nervous?! When had that ever happened?
I was still realing when Riri whispered “i did it,” then much louder “i finally did it!!”
“What?!” I asked excitedly, remembering the last concoction that had come out of Riri’s lab, the itching powder that had helped prank so many teachers.
“It’s better than itching powder” she whispered, as if reading my mind, “it can get us drunk.” “Us?” I asked, hardly daring to dream, “as in werewolves?”
“Yep” she said, smiling bigger than I had ever seen “us,” and then she pulled out the bottle.
A half hour and only two shots later, we were drunk off our asses, laying on the leafy ground and laughing hysterically, when Abe, otherwise known as the alpha, slunk into the clearing.
“What in heavens name are you two delinquents doing?!!” he snarled, grabbing at Riri.
The feeling of lightheadedness disappeared, and I realized i had shifted, and faster than I’d ever done before. I snarled and leapt at Abe, feeling stronger than ever, which i must have been, becuase within minutes, Abe, the godamn alpha, was dead. And now, the alpha was me.
