I'm Emma.

..I am a wolf..But I don't know where I fit in.

My wolf looks more like a dog,

that's why I'm a laughing stock to everyone.

Not that I wasn't already, because I'm the only one different here. Our pack is the Momblack... Everyone has black eyes and hair, including my parents, who are the Alpha's betas.

Both my father and my mother are Betas. Their strength is almost equal to that of an Alpha.

I am the aberration because I am not like them....

I think if my brother Enzo, who is his darling, hadn't been born with me, he would have accused my mother of treason.

I've asked my mom several times about my birth but she says she doesn't remember much because she passed out as soon as my brother came out.

The only person who was with her mysteriously disappeared right after the birth.

She said that night there was a blackout that she couldn't see an inch in front of her face. Not even with our night vision.

A heavy rain was knocking trees down on houses.

This made my father and the other wolves go out to help.

She said she screamed but no one she knew showed up...until a woman who said she was a midwife showed up.

She didn't know the woman but was too weak to question, she just needed help.

She says my father only found her sleeping, already clean with two babies beside her.

He says that at the time he felt a very strong power emanating from the babies..

But as soon as he laid eyes on me, we looked at him at the same time, he ''felt'' that I was inferior to my brother.

As the days went by, with everyone finding me less than him... For being born thinner, my parents no longer felt the power...

They took my brother to the pack elders who said it was because he was very small, that this power will only be released along with his wolf.

...

I saw myself growing up practically alone... My father wouldn't let me play with Enzo... Making him hate me.

The alpha had a son the same day we were born, Elzo and he are best friends... Daniel will be the next alpha... He, along with everyone in town, likes to make my miserable life hell.

My mother is the only one who still shows me some affection... It's nothing like the love I see in her eyes for my brother, but it's the bare minimum so I don't feel any more alone...

At school I suffered living hell.

Everyone abused both physically and mentally.... I've already suffered for being weak... I've already suffered because my wolf is precocious and ugly... I had my first transformation when I was 14 years old... My hair, which was already blond, turned platinum... My face I found beautiful but everyone told me that I was horrible... When I looked in the mirror, I swear, at the time, I started to find myself horrible...

In the pack everyone is brown with black hair and light eyes...

(everything against me)

When my wolf came I didn't have the strength to sustain her and I ended up passing out until they found me in the woods... I was out for 3 days...

I woke up with my parents in the room and my mother crying

because he was asking what dog his wolf had gotten involved with to have given birth to this aberration...

Not understanding what he was talking about, I forced a transformation, even though my body was weak... What I saw in the large mirror in the room was a weak and debilitated wolf... it really looked like a dog.

But that's not how I remembered myself, I remember that when I transformed myself at the edge of the lake, I saw a huge she-wolf with soft fur that seemed to emanate fire, my mother crying saying that she had never cheated on him, that her wolf would not accept betrayal anyway, my father blind with rage didn't want to hear any of it.

He rejected her right there in front of me, I saw my mother cry out in pain, I saw her wolf whimper, I felt that pain...

He looked at me, grabbed my weak wolf by the neck.

He left dragging me to the front of the Alpha's house... Where there were many people watching...

He threw me like a sack of potatoes on the floor... Where I was stoned... Hearing everyone call me an aberration...

My body ached... My eyes almost closed... It was late at night, after spending the whole day huddled on the ground in the sun, I felt my body being picked up and rocked for a long time...

I woke up the next day in the middle of the woods in a cabin alone.

I didn't remember how I got here....

I returned to the pack a few days later, I found my brother with the Alpha's son and their girlfriends at home...

My father was not... Neither was my mother... I heard that he was after witches to get my mother's wolf back, that he regretted what he had done...

He just didn't regret leaving me there to die...

There was already a bag at the front door.

Julia, my brother's girlfriend, handed it to me smiling.

I found it strange because she doesn't like me...

Daniel and Cintia still mistreated me, calling me BITCH ... And other names I'd rather not say.

Enzo kicked me out... I ran back home because I smelled my father...

I didn't want to see him...

I arrived at the cabin and as I opened the bag, I dropped to the floor...

Inside was a dead dog and all my clothes were covered in dried blood...

It was horrible to see... I closed the bag again and set everything on fire...

Going back inside, I saw a bag with clothes and some fresh fruit and meat on top of the small table...

Emma __ But.... How?

I searched around the cabin and couldn't find anyone, nor could I smell them.

I never thought that at 14 I would have to fend for myself... The worst part is always sleeping... It's not the fear of being alone, it's sleeping in the dark... It's the disturbing dreams that haunt my nights.

I dream of the day they stoned me... I dream of things I never lived, but it seems real.

I wake up in the middle of the night and feel a presence in the cabin.

But I don't see anyone.

Emma __ Is anyone there?

.....

Nobody answers me...

The day breaks and an old man comes to my house... I know him, he's the leader of the Council, he says I have to go back to school...

I didn't want to, I really didn't want to...

I already know everything I need to know... I was always the best in all classes...

After a month of suffering aggression at school... I decided to take a stand, I tried to talk, it didn't help, so I punched Cintia in the face and they expelled me from there, and I liked it...

Did I get caught later? I did.

But at least I wouldn't have to see the faces of those wretches every day...

I spent two days in bed waiting for my bones to heal on their own... My healing process is slow...

Again, I don't know how I got home or who brought me...

Before leaving school, I took several books from the pack's magic library.

I searched for any case similar to mine and found nothing... Just one that mentioned a prophecy where a daughter of light and darkness would be born, who would bring salvation to the magical nations... That she would have her powers when her first mating unleashed the supreme powers in both wolves...

Her mate would accept her as she is and together they would reign on the face of the earth...

I found it bizarre and didn't pay much attention to it... It has nothing to do with me anyway...

I thought about practicing magic... Even though I'm not a witch, I wanted to try... and I succeeded... I trained for days...

In this place, I had no worries or annoyances.

I felt that presence again every time he brought me food and clothes.

But I could never make him appear to me. After training hard, I felt the presence again one morning, so I made a dome of magic around the cabin, trapping him here...

Emma __ Show yourself to me...

....

Come on...

....

In the dark corner of the room, I could see the silhouette of a man. He didn't speak, but stared at me intensely.

Emma __ Who are you? Let me see your face.

Shadow __ I cannot materialize myself for you, little one.

Emma __ Why have you helped me?

Shadow __ It is my duty... Since you are talking to me... Let's start your training early.

Emma __ I don't understand.

(I say trying to approach him)

Shadow __ Do not come any closer...

I stop where I am, if he wanted to hurt me, I'm sure he already would have...

I will help you strengthen your body with training and magic... Your wolf will only be himself when your mate accepts you.

By then, he will already be strong...

From that day forward, I spent my days fighting and strengthening my body.

Shadow told me that I would have to have a strong mind too... Or I could die easily.

In case anything hurt me too badly...

My trips to the city are few, but every time I go, I come back with some bruises or with more hatred in my heart.

I didn't want to hate those I always hoped would love me...

But even the woman I called mother... today throws stones at me and blames me for being without my wolf...

Elzo and his little friends will follow me even here... and they always come to intimidate me... I've already thought about blowing their brains out with a fireball, but Shadow said it's not the time....

..On my 15th birthday, I spend it alone... Not even Shadow showed up.

On these dates, we feel our wolf stirring within us...

I haven't transformed since the first time.

I don't even know how to hunt...

I am by the lake at the back of the cabin where I take my baths....

I felt Daniel's presence...

When I saw him, he was already on top of me...

I tried to scream but his hands were over my mouth... I closed my legs but he forced me... I tried to free myself with magic but I was too nervous to control myself.

I tasted metallic blood and it was a punch he gave me that made my mouth bleed...

He said things that didn't make sense... He said I was called by him... He called me bad names..... When I thought he was going to get what he was forcing... I felt him being thrown away and disappearing...

Shadow took me inside and put me to sleep.

I woke up the next day scared..

But he assured me that the bastard couldn't violate me...

Out of fear, I would only go to the pack in the morning when all the young people were at school....

Daniel didn't come near me anymore... But he didn't let me live in peace either... I can't get anything I want in the city... I can't even buy clothes because he forbade everyone from selling to me.

He was already acting like everyone's alpha since I know his father never set limits for him.

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Emma - 15 years old

Elzo - Emma's brother - 15 years old (hasn't shifted into his wolf yet)

Daniel - 15 years old, future Alpha

Cintia - Daniel's girlfriend

Julia - Elzo's girlfriend...

I don't understand the point of them dating knowing they might not be mates...

....

I got a message from my mom, she wants to see me at her house today.

I already know what for...

Shadow __ Are you sure you want to see that petty family?

Emma __ I have to go. If I don't, they'll come to me and I don't want them here.

Shadow __ I'll go with you...

Emma __ Let's go then.

...

Shadow's been with me since he brought me to this cabin... With my magic, I was able to fix it up inside. I left the outside as it was, but inside it's quite comfortable...

I left the house and teleported to the pack territory, stopping at the door of my old house.

I know they're all home at this time... It's been a while since I've seen them, as Daniel has forbidden everyone from coming near me...

My mom opens the door and I'm already met with looks of hate.

Silvana __ Get in here... Do you want Daniel to see you, you good-for-nothing?

"I don't know why I thought it would be any different"

Emma __ Hi, mom.

Silvana __ Just get in and shut your mouth.

Roberto __ Go on, girl, sit down.

Emma __ It must be serious for you to call me here. If it's not about that again, I'm willing to listen.

Julia __ Look at the nerve, mother-in-law...

Silvana __ You don't get a say in this, Emma. It's your fault I'm like this.

Emma __ My fault, Mom? Are you serious?

It's not my fault... I don't know how to reverse wolf magic, Mom. I don't think that's even possible...

Silvana __ You're going to, you bitch... I know you're a witch too... I don't know how that came from me... You're the reason for everything bad that's happened in our lives, Emma...

"I start to cry at this point. I honestly don't know what I did wrong in all of this... I unloaded on them almost everything that had been bottled up inside me for years."

"Are you sure this is my fault? I wasn't the one who forced you to give birth to me, Mom. I wasn't the one who stopped loving a defenseless child... Never in my entire miserable life have I disrespected you. I always did everything to be noticed and loved by you... You kept me away from my only brother the moment we were separated outside your womb..."

I didn't ask to be different... I just wanted to be loved. I didn't reject him, he did... The man who, even knowing you could die, rejected you. The man the Mother Goddess entrusted your soul to...

I'm not a witch like you think I am. I know magic, yes, but the basics, I don't have and never had the chance to learn...

You're hypocrites who just want to use me for...

"Slap....."

The taste of blood again... Filling my mouth... My father again...

Roberto __ Shut up, you freak... You should have died before you were born... You were never anything in our lives... If you can't help, get out of here...

Enzo __ And let it be known that tomorrow, when Daniel gets his wolf and our father introduces him to the pack as Alpha, he himself will chase you out of here... Because all these lands belong to our pack.

"I had forgotten that tomorrow is our 16th birthday... I think if my wolf hadn't awakened earlier, I would be euphoric and anxious for that long-awaited moment...."

"Julia" You're so ungrateful, Emma... Your mother just wants the chance to feel the bond again...

Emma __

"I lifted my head and looked at each of them. I spat the blood that was in my mouth... The burning on my cheek probably means the mark is big..."

"I don't love you anymore... I don't want recognition from any of you... Know that I will have my revenge on every one of you..."

"Not just one, but all of those who have wronged me... And I'll start with you."

...

"I left that house the same way I arrived... Disillusioned with the shitty family the Goddess gave me..."

"To make matters worse, there was Daniel arriving with his little viper. I walked past them as if I hadn't seen them..."

"But I knew that bitch wouldn't let me go that easily..."

"Cintia" Where do you think you're going, you disgusting thing, without speaking properly to your Alphas?...

"Emma" I'm sorry... I don't understand.

"Cintia" You don't understand, freak? Starting tomorrow, when our wolves awaken and recognize us as mates, I will personally drag you by the teeth to the gates of the pack.

"Feeling a chill in my stomach, I looked at Daniel, whose face was expressionless... She also looked at him and smiled maliciously..."

"Daniel also looked at me with the darkest eyes of hate..."

Daniel __ Leave.

....

"I ran out of there... Already at the entrance of the forest, I teleported home..."

"I couldn't cry, I just felt anger, hatred..."

"Shadow was by my side... I think anyone would be uncomfortable with a shadow man as company every night..."

"But I think in my case, there's no better friend than him..."

"I haven't tried to see his face anymore because I know I won't be able to handle it."

He is my best companion.