Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Sabre Pahn
*Phone Call*
“Hello?” “Cin is missing.” “What do you mean our sister is missing? She was supposed to be investigating the Alpha to Ocean Groove pack.” “Yeah well, he is at Desert Moon, and she never showed up. The council came instead and took the panther that was in the pack as well as more than half the bears. The Hellhound has been found and I cannot get in contact with Cin. I think the council has her.” “How would they have her? She is the best at stealth tactics.” “Yeah, well tell me something I don’t know. Just know that I cannot get in contact with her, and our twin link isn’t working either so yeah what do you think it means.” “SHIT!!!! I will be there.” “No, we cannot have Jian suspicious I am just telling you I am leaving my post and going to try to find Cin.”
*Dial tone*
It’s been a little over 3 months since that phone call with Nimcha. I’ve been doing my best trying to keep Jian the leader of our parliament from being suspicious and keeping my shit together. But I haven’t heard from Nimcha in a month, and I am starting to get more worried. I got out of the bed and stretched my muscles in front of the ceiling to the floor window in my bedroom. I will have to make my way to New Mexico to find out what the fuck happened to my siblings. Jian be damned, he might be our de facto leader, but these were my siblings. I walked over to my computer to start booking international flights and hotel room stay. I might be an Owl, but I refuse to fly long distances in my animal form. I’ve been in London for months now. There was a young upstart vampire if you call being almost 200 years old young that councilman Li needed me to take care of. He wanted me to use my skills to get close to him then terminate the threat. I was a trained assassin for the world council or more specifically councilman Li since I found out what I was. It was my brother Scimitar that brought me to the attention of Li. Like all owl shifters most of us have been on the run hiding away from other shifters. There’s never a large parliament of owls, always just one or two traveling together. Or even a lone male. It is said, every last supernatural on earth wants to end the life of an owl. Don’t ask me why that has just been the way since forever. I was raised away from a parliament, with my human mother. I was raised as a human. I didn’t know what I was until I was 16 and shifted for the first time. It was then my mother contacted Scimitar. He was my older brother; 10 years my senior. Apparently for lack of a better word our dad was a rolling stone. Putting it on himself to repopulate the owl population. So, while Scimitar was my older brother between my mother and father. Nimcha and Cinquedea are my younger siblings by five years, between dad and a different woman. The twins didn’t know of me and Sim until their tribe was massacred by a pack of rogue vampires on the orders of a local witch. She had heard that there were owls in the tribe and as such wanted them dead. So instead of trying to find out who was who. She just had the vampires kill everyone or try to. Nimcha and Cin had just had their first shift and were out exploring their surroundings when the massacre happened. The witch didn’t get them, but they did kill my father and as he laid there dying, he told them to find Sim. Sim and I were on an assignment for Li, my first assignment actually. After I completed training from the council. We were stalking a wayward witch for councilwoman Esmeralda since magic of any kind does not affect owls. It was up to me to get close to the young witch and kill her. Sim called me a chameleon like him. He said our indistinctive features means that we could blend into any community, city or country we came across. To the outside world I am a mixed-race man, with ambiguous features. Am I black, am I white with nice a tan, or Asian perhaps who knows. Sim had told me once that it was a point for a good assassin to blend in and look like any and every one at the same time. The only giveaway was my hair. It was naturally a deep fire red, like Sims and apparently our father. I tend to dye it for whatever job that needs to be done. Right now, I am currently a brunette with my hair combed into a low ponytail and hanging down my back. It’s one of the things I refuse to change for the council, I refuse to cut my hair. My mother loved mine and Sim's hair, so I never cut it. As such it reaches just above my waist currently. At my 6-foot height it’s an impressive length. I walked into the bathroom and looked at myself. I never really try to look too hard anymore, because I see my older brother staring right back at me. I can’t believe it’s been 2 years since he was killed. There used to be 7 owl shifters in the world. All of us somehow found our way to the council and to Li. Jian had grown up with Li and looked at him as his father and when he found his mate Katana it was like love at first sight. That mate bond was no shit. I remember when Sim explained it all to me. Owls have mates just like every shifter out there does. But since the population is just us the hopes of ever having your destined mate is null and void. The fact the Jian found Katana was a miracle. Katana and her little sister Kalis had found their way to Li by accident. They had latent owl shifter genes. When Jian seen Katana, he knew she was his. What was 3 turned into 5 then when Nimcha and Cin came along we were 7. Sim died in an attack on a lion’s pride trying to take out the alpha and Katana died almost immediately after. We still don’t know what happened there. All I know was after that moment Jian changed and how he interacted with me and my siblings. He is only close to Kalis now. A little too close if you ask me, being that she is his dead mates’ little sister. I threw water on my face then turned on the shower. I still had blood under my claws from when I sliced the vampire’s head off his shoulders. I got into the shower thinking it was a good thing I had killed the vamp earlier than expected cause now I had a buffer of about a month before Li and Jian would need me to check in with them for my next assignment. Hopefully enough time to find Nimcha and Cin. Once out of the shower I got dressed in a straight leg black European design three-piece suit. Instead of the normal silk button up, I paired it with a red turtleneck. I had washed the die out of my hair, so my regular red hair matched well with the shirt. Because I chose to let it air dry my natural curl pattern had come back so the waves were hanging down my back. I didn’t use my make up kit to cover my freckles and contour my face. My natural dark grey eyes weren’t covered by the brown contacts I had, all in all I looked like myself, I looked like Sim. A slightly darker version of him sure, but I could see Sim staring back at me. I grabbed my phone, my watch and my luggage as I headed out of the penthouse down to the lobby. I used my phone to call an uber passing the day security guard and waiting out front for them to get there. Once in the uber I directed it to London international airport as I was headed to New Mexico. The flight was going to be a 12-hour flight with a 2-hour layover in New York city. I was not looking forward to it but at least I’d be comfortable as I booked a first-class seat for myself.
Nimcha Pahn
I have been in the boundaries of Desert Moon pack for months. When I first realized that Cin was missing, I flew straight to Ocean Grove pack to try to find her. There was no trace of her at all, like she didn’t even make it there. Just the egotistical Alpha Declan King. I stayed watching him for like I week before I decided to just go back to New Mexico at least there they were taking the council threat seriously; Declan was just going around like life didn’t change he wasn’t preparing his pack at all. No extra training, hell no training at all for the warriors in his pack no prepping for battles nothing just like a regular day in the life of the playboy alpha. I’ve been back in New Mexico for weeks now, secretly observing the events that been happening. That is me and Cin talent we watch and report back, we do not interfere at all. We collect evidence and proof, we are spies. I was there when councilman Li was sneaking into the priestess room and when Jian ended up killing her. The younger priestess is powerful, I would hate to get on her bad side. The power the emanated from her upon seeing her mother killed was astounding. I got blown away from the scene just like Li and Jian just in the opposite direction. Once I flew back to the pack lands. I stayed clear away from the priestess not wanting to be found out. Who knows what other power she had unlocked. I was there for the little family reunion that the Hellhound had orchestrated for his mate. It made me uncomfortable to be around so much magic but for Cin I would endure. If I was going to find Cin I had to be there when they found the damn panther, I was sure of it. My gut is telling me that Cin was taken to the cave. But it’s warded and I have no clue how to get there or get in. So, I need the Hellhounds gang to figure all that shit out for me, so I can rescue my sister. It was hard to just stand by and let Jian kill the witch, but it brought my life into stark clarity. We were just tools for Li. Sabre, Cin and I were nothing more to Li than a means to an end. Who he truly favored was Jian and by extension Kalis Jians mate little sister. I’ve been keeping most of my tabs on the Alpha Bishop the Hellhound he is easier to track and be around. Alpha Cj, the Beta, Gamma and the Witch I am wary of getting in the way of. Who knows what would happen to me if they found me spying on them. I know If the priestess finds the panther or a way to get to her. Then she will tell Bishop and they will form a plan to get her. Once they have their plan, I will swoop in on the tail end and get Cin. The council either has Cin or did something to her I just know it. I just hope I can find her and bring her home in one piece cause if not. The council won’t have to worry about the wolves there’ll be 2 pissed off owls that can and will kill them without a trace.
