Michael

I was in my room brooding over Khloe's amnesia when I heard the door creek.

" Not in the mood to talk right now Richardson" I said in a bored tone without even bothering to check whoever walked into my room.

" Just go away. Can't you understand that?" I said, still hearing clear footsteps which signified that my visitor was coming closer.

" Baby" I heard that very familiar voice call out to me.

" Mother!" I screamed before jumping on her like a six years old.

" Okay that's enough. You're stronger and I'm older, this position won't work out." My mother said, patting my back to get me off of her.

" When did you come in?" I asked cheerfully.

" When you were brooding over your lost girlfriend." My mother teased, smiling at me like a kid.

" Common mother. We both know I don't have a girlfriend." I said to her, unwrapping my hands from her shoulder.

" True, but you do seem like you plan on getting one soon." She further teased.

" Well, if you must know I wasn't brooding over no girlfriend. I was just worried about my best friend." I said to her, turning away my gaze to the wooden floor.

"Khloe? Oh my goodness. What happened to her?" My mom asked, rushing her questions.

" She forgot about me." I said, trying to fight back the tears in my eyes.

" Forgot about you? I'm not following." My mother said, seeming to not believe my words.

Just as about to shed more light on the matter on ground, my phone chimmed.

Uninterested in whatever had popped up on my phone, I simply tucked myself in my bed.

" Hunny, I still don't get you."My mother said, drawing closer to me as she finger-brushed my hair.

" It's fine. It's not that big a deal actually. I'm just overacting unnecessarily."I replied, trying to get her off the case.

" No baby, don't feel like that. Nothing concerning you and your brother has ever been a big deal to me, and would never." She assured me, trying to get me to look at her.

She kept on trying to persuade me to fill her in but all to no avail.

I was tired, disappointed, heartbroken and sad to explain anything to her. Trying to do that would just ruin the evening for her.

She was my mother, not an object. She would feel hurt when she finds out the reason for my gloomy nature tonight.

Just because I was feeling like shit and she was my mother wasn't enough reason for me to let her share in my hurt.

" Well since you are in no mood to talk to anyone at all, I guess I'd just leave you but please you could at least check your phone. Who knows? That might be the solution to your problem."She said before exiting my room.

With one long heavy breath, I deepened my head into the pillow as I drifted off to sleep.

The next morning

Khloe

" Rise and shine sleeping beauty." I heard two loud voices squeak.

I had woken up to a family pillow fight by my mother and Jack.

" You look horrible Khlo" Jack said with horror in tone.

" That's strange because a minute ago, you were like 'rise and shine Khloe my beautiful sister'" I said, laughing as I mimicked Jack.

Of course, he denied and then series of arguments followed but then, pancakes solves all problems.

I had a pancake filled breakfast with my family. It felt so refreshing like it had been our first ever meal together as a family.

I laughed all through breakfast and even while packing up my stuffs for the vacation.

Two hours later***

" You're not singing along Jack, anything wrong?" I asked my baby brother who had been quiet all through the drive.

" I don't know the song."He lied, looking outside our family SUV.

" Really? Because, the last time I checked, this was your favourite song. You can talk to me if mom acts too old."I said to him, whispering the last part.

" You know I heard that right?" My mom said, driving.

" Why don't we all stay with Khloe mom. It doesn't seem fair enough." Jack protested, tears welling up in his eyes.

" Awwn. You look so cute." I said, admiring my baby brother moved to tears.

" Trust me baby I really want us to stay with Khloe but sadly, we can't baby. She needs space, a lot of it. But don't worry, we would come around every two days to check up on her." My mother promised causing my brother to smile.

" Mom, we've been driving for quite a while now. Mind filling us in on our destination?" I asked, getting bored of the long drive.

" It's a surprise baby. Just chill and enjoy the ride." My mother said, smiling and staring at me through the front mirror.

A lot of minutes later****

" Wakey wakey sleeping heads."My mother said tapping my brother and myself.

" We're here." She said looking very excited.

With heavy eye lids, Jack and I stood up and followed her into the old looking cabinet at the entrance of the woods.

" Wow" Jack marvelled at the internal decorations of the cabin.

Indeed, it was a very cozy cabin. The decorations and temperature it possessed was simply unearthly.

" This place really is cool mom. How did you come about it?" I asked with my hands in my pants.

" It used to be your father's. Back then, we would always come here to get away from every stress of work and the busy City we live in. When I was pregnant for both you and Jack, I spent all of my time here. Your father used to believe that was what made you both very healthy at birth. He just holds this scared respect for this cabin. Since it's been a while and we're already healed of the pain and hurt, I thought you would need a little bit of his warmth. Everything here in this cabin speaks of him. You should be able to feel your father again." My mother said with a cracked voice.

" Oh Mom."I ran to my mother and engulfed her in a hug.

" You shouldn't have." I said stroking her hair as she sobbed in my arms.

" I miss him a lot." She confessed.

" We all do Mom."I agreed.

" Well, the point is for you to be comfortable and this is the only cabin I know that can offer that." She said still in my arms.

" It's fine mom. Thanks a lot. At least I know I won't be alone; I'd have dad with me. Right?" I said, sniffing as I chuckled.

She only smiled at my remark.

We remained in that position for a really long time.

In the evening

Michael

I had been considering checking the message that popped up on my phone last night.

All I did today was stay in bed. I only went out to get breakfast. It was then that I found out Mom has gone out again.

It left me even sadder. I was rude to her, never gave her a chance to spend the little time she had with me.

" God I feel like shit." I said, squeezing my hair.

Whenever I felt like this, Khloe would always come to my aid but unfortunately she couldn't anymore. She doesn't even remember my name.

Finally, I decided to check the message who knows? It really might be the solution I need just as mom had said.

' hello bestie. I Know you're probably not expecting this and I Know you're feeling like shit because I failed to remember you. The doctor said I had short term amnesia. I must have hit my head hard on something. I still do not remember everything though, lol. But I hope you can help me remember and have fun while doing so. I don't know why but I feel like there's a movie we have to see together. Mind coming over so we could do so?'

Best friend,

Khoe.

I couldn't decide on my emotions as I read out the text.

" She remembers me, she doesn't remember others but she remembers me" I repeated to myself.

I have to see her tomorrow morning.

Tonight, I went to bed with butterflies in my stomach and smiles on face. I was so happy, I slept off with my phone in my hand still wearing my casual clothes.

Michael

The next day came so fast, I felt like I didn't sleep at all. I opened my eyes with a wide smile on my face.

" I'm gonna be meeting Khloe today" Were the words I kept repeating.

I felt so excited like I was just meeting my crush personally for the very first time. It felt like I hadn't seen my best friend for a thousand years.

After my bath, I settled down to pick my outfit for more than an hour.

"Shouldn't you be in school?" Richardson asked from without my room.

"A minute" I yelled from within my room.

"Are you planning to go on a date after lectures or something?"My brother asked barging into myself room.

"Seriously, won't you ever stop barging into people's rooms? What if I was naked?" I asked vexed with my brother's attitude.

"Whatever" He said with an eye roll.

Several hours later***

I found it strange that Khloe wasn't in school today.

The doctor said she was going to be discharged the next day right?

She was a perfect attendance scholar, why would she decide to Miss a day at school?

Wait, maybe the doctor postponed her discharge.

I kept on talking to myself that I didn't even notice when I bumped into someone.

"Hey watch it frog face" I heard that very familiar voice yell.

Frog face; there was only one idiot that could ever call me that- James.

"Wow, he's alone today strange." John, one of James' disciples said.

"Oh yeah, pretty nerd isn't with you today. Heard she's gone kookoo" James teased, referring to Khloe.

"She isn't a nerd." I said to them even though I knew above every other person that my best friend was a big nerd.

"Oohh I'm.." James was about to go further with his teasing and bullying when Mr Bradford interrupted him.

"If you have any more classes, I'd advise you to attend them and if you don't, you can as well create some space in the school.hmmm?" He said, ending the conversation and dispersing the gathering.

My anger vanished immediately I remembered that I was going to visit Khloe today.

I texted my brother that I wasn't going to be home until seven in the evening before running to the bus station. I didn't want to be late on our very first meeting after her illness.

"Can't wait to see you Khloe." I whispered to myself before walking into the train with a broad smile on my face which I think the people on the train found strange, judging from the weird stares they passed me.

Somewhere far away from the knowledge of humans; The Infinite Nightwalkers werewolf pack.

Amigo

Tonight was the night. The night my brother was going to be crowned King of lycanthropes, alpha of all alphas, ruler of the Infinite Nightwalkers werewolf pack.

It was also the night where the fate of the existence of all lycanthropes was going to be decided.

The corruption was eating deep into my heart. I could feel it from Black's discomfort filled howls.

Everyone was getting ready, preparing for the eventful night.

Every alpha was always coronated on the yellow moon.

The first alpha found it very special, so special he said it was the greatest moon of the year. So, he made it a tradition that alphas be coronated only on this day.

I refused partaking in any of the preparatory activities. I was still a newly turned Wolf. I still wasn't used to the whole rogue thingy plus I don't even Know how this thing works.

It is a day of Joy. Jumping on someone and biting the person's head off wasn't the best show to put up tonight.

I was able to trace the rogues Alexandra was working with.

There really were still witches, bad ones. Immediately they stepped back into the pack, their rogue smell disappeared. Alexandra must have had the witch do something about that.

Now, all I have to do is keep an eye on them till they make attempts to leave the pack. Then, I would either stop them or, follow them and keep them away from the last ingredient to the stupid spell for the annihilation of all lycanthropes.

At the cabin.

Khloe

I spent my first night away from my family and friend alone in my father's cabin and it didn't feel lonely.

It just felt like someone was watching me all through the night, that made me feel safe.

I was supposed to go on with my assignment on environment earlier today but I forgot to take along with me; the book where I note down all of my researches.

Since Mom and Jack were going to be here tomorrow, I would inform them to bring the book along on their next visit.

I would have simply told her on the phone but the service here was really bad.

Since I couldn't exercise this morning, I would just go for a quick run.

I had never had a run in the woods before, I wonder how it would feel having those tall green trees greet your speed with their waving branches, the fresh air of soil fill your nose strills as you run through, the soft sounds made from the contact of your feet with the soft wet soil beneath them and the chirpings of different kinds of birds.

I think I now understand why dad loved it here so much and I think I'm beginning to too.

Michael

'ding dong' the door bell in Khloe's house rang out.

I bounced on my feet unable to contain the excitement within me.

The door creaked open but surprisingly, there was nobody there.

"Down here Michael" I heard a tiny voice call out.

I looked down to see Jack- Khloe's baby brother.

"Jackie, waddup little man?" I greeted him as I scooped him in my arms.

"Put me down Michael, I'm seven" He said giggling as I blew bubbles in his stomach.

"Good evening madam." I greeted Mrs Smith as I walked into the house.

"Michael! Welcome. Khloe almost had a heart attack you know." She said filing her nails.

"What? When? How? Why?" I rushed my questions as my heart beats doubled.

"It's really no biggie Michael. There's no need for you to panic. She just thought you were mad at her and would probably never speak to her again." She clarified my horrific thoughts.

"Oh, I was just giving her some space to heal." I said feeling guilty that I had to make my best friend go through all of that.

"Friends are supposed to heal each other with love, care and attention Michael. Not with distancing." She said with a friendly smile on her face.

" I guess so. Can I see her?" I asked, unable to take the guilt anymore.

" Oh, I'm afraid you can't." Mrs Smith replied.

" Why ma'am?" I asked unsure of my thoughts.

" Khloe went to the woods for treatment, the doctor advised her to."Jack replied me from behind as he went through my bag.

"Oh." Was the only thing I could say.

"You don't have to worry Michael. She would be back sooner than you expected. But if you urgently want to see her, we are going to visit her tomorrow. You could join Jackie and I." Mrs Smith offered causing me to give a sigh of relief.

" Thanks a lot Mrs Smith. I'd really love to join." I said to her happily.

"Okay but you better be here before 10am. You're not having classes tomorrow are you?" She asked.

" Not even one." I lied.

Well who cares? I was going to meet my best friend since so long. I would happily sacrifice anything for that.

Somewhere far away from the knowledge of man; the infinite Nightwalkers werewolf pack.

Amigo

" Show time." I said to myself.

I spotted the werewolf packs leaving the gathering.

They really were novices. Anyone would suspect their movements.

I followed them unnoticed as they left the pack to the woods; the only part of the forest visible to the human eye.

Michael

I was in the train on my way back home. I was so excited to see Khloe that I forgot to get Jack chocolates.

Getting Jack chocolates had been a tradition since he was four.

I was going through my bag for no special reason when I found a book in it.

It looked like the one Khloe kept any vital information.

Interested, I decided to go through it.

I decided to start reading from the last page. At the base of the page, I read a really weird sentence;Ita shka seru matelsal hem Motsora matelsal hem. Shku sha, molehfej shku sha.

" What the fuck does this even mean?"

Khloe

I was still running, admiring the climate in the woods when I heard extra footsteps.

Whenever I stopped, it stopped too and whenever I resumed running, it continued.

This went on for more than eight times.

On the ninth time as I stopped, a big wild dog from nowhere, pounced on me.

It was big with brown fur and greyish eyes. It's canines were brown and dirty but dangerously long.

Spit unlike the humans poured from it's mouth unto my face.

It's paws pinned me down to the wet ground and just as it was about to lower it's face to mine, another of it's kind emerged.

It pushed the brown furred wolf off of me.

It was three times bigger than the one that had attacked me.

I was still on the ground, observing the violent fight and growling that was going on in front of me.

My savior with black fur looked at me before giving an ear bleeding growl.

I guess that was my cue, I ran and kept on running. I ran with all of my strength.

Soon enough, I had gotten back to the cabin. I ran in with my soiled sneakers on and locked the wooden door. Not like that was going to save me.

As I turned back, I met another wolf on my couch, waiting for me.

Frightened, I did nothing but stand on the same spot.

Just as it was about to come for me, it fell to the floor. Shaking and howling, it rolled on the floor with foam pouring out of it's mouth.

This went on for the next ten minutes before it stopped moving.

Walking closer to it, I tried observing if it was still alive.

" Arrrrrggh" I screamed immediately the animal turned into a man.

Before I could take time to digest his features, the cabin door burst open.

Somewhere far away from the knowledge of man; The Infinite Nightwalkers werewolf pack.

Unknown POV

"...... I now crown you alpha, king of..."

The eldest lycan was still speaking before he was interrupted by the soon-to-be alpha.

"Wait." He said, with his hand in the air.

" Where is Amigo?" He asked, standing up with authority.

His question did nothing but create murmuring among his subjects.

Khloe

There was blood everywhere, on the wooden floor, on my hands which strangely held a knife.

" What the hell?" I whispered to myself.

I heard a low howl at a short distance. l looked before me to see a big wild dog with black fur, fitting the perfect description of a werewolf as given by fantasy books.

It was also covered in blood. It's eyes held nothing but sadness in them. The more I looked into them, the more guilt I felt.

It hadn't come to attack me, it had come to protect me. It only used the wrong approach which horrified me. I shouldn't have killed it.

I quickly diverted my gaze to the opened window in the cabinet.

I could hear loud, angry and violent growls.

Oh no, it's brothers must have come in search of it. They would surely find out. I wouldn't escape death, that is definitely sure.

" Oh no, what do I do?" I asked myself.

" Run" Someone said.

"Ah!"I screamed, the animal had turn to a human; a man, a naked man, a beautiful naked man.

" What..how?" I was confused, does this really mean werewolves existed?

" Don't worry about me, just run"He advised, gasping for breath while covering the big sore I had inflicted on his chest.

Before I could even get to my feet, my father's cabin was invaded.

Derrick

I couldn't believe my eyes, different emotions ran through me. Kodiac, my wolf froze, I could feel his heartbeat stop.

Before me was my brother, laying still in his own blood, dead.

Why does this always happen to me? Why does a day of happiness always go bad for me?

My mother was killed by a rogue on my nineteenth birthday, my father died on the yellow moon night, the night I turned into my wolf self.

And now, now, now my brother; the only family I had left was laying in front of me; cold-blooded in death.

The rest of the pack were growling and howling as I looked on.

I knew something was fishy when Amigo went missing. He would never miss anything that gave me joy.

I initially thought he was just fooling around with me.

Amigo was fond of making entrances, I thought that was his plan but he would never make his entry after I had been crowned right?

I wanted to overlook his absence but something just didn't seem right.

I was still in my thoughts when I heard an unfamiliar voice scream.

There were only few females in the pack's defence group and I instructed them all to remain in the pack to protect the rest. Only the Delta was amongst us and she wouldn't be screaming but growling.

I looked to the left of my brother's dead body and sitting there, was a human girl.

I walked closer to her still in my wolf form and from her countenance, it was obvious she was afraid.

Why was she sitting close to Amigo's dead body and covered in his blood?

Wait, she was also holding a knife.

I moved even closer to her and took a sniff of her neck. She is responsible.

She killed Amigo, she killed my innocent brother on my coronation night.

How wicked could the humans get?

Now I understand my ancestor's reason for choosing to live away from the humans.

I felt Kodiac's pulse quicken as he growled from within.

She was going to pay for this, with her life!

Khloe

Oh no. I definitely wasn't going to escape death. They had come for their brother and had found him dead with me beside him covered in his blood.

Of course they weren't going to have Mercy on me.

The biggest and fiercest looking of them all walked toward me and as he did, an image flashed through my mind. It was blurry but I could still recognize some of its features.

It was like I had seen this particular one of them. It looked exactly like the one I had seen in the illusion I had back at school during my presentation.

Wait, the illusion I had. Oh my gosh I had completely forgotten about that.

I looked to the left to take a proper look at the dead man laying on the floor while reminiscing on his voice.

His voice, it sounded just like the last thing I heard before passing out then.

How could I have forgotten about something so important? Why was I just regaining all of those memories now?

I knew staying here especially without my family was bad news.

Now I was doomed, I didn't even get to tell my family a proper goodbye.

I never got to see Michael again.

I never even got to complete my project.

Why was life so unfair?

Maybe this was how my father died, maybe he didn't actually commit suicide as reported, maybe these were the wild beasts that attacked him and killed him.

Oh heavens, my mother would never be able to survive this, I'm very sure of that.

Why did I have to lose my memory of the illusion? Why did I even have the illusion?

My dad always said you can only experience what you have in your imagination and only what you see can ever evolve around you.

Maybe if I hadn't seen anything of this sort I would not be close to my death hour.

As I was thinking of all the possibilities regarding my situation, my sight suddenly became blurry and immediately the biggest of all the beasts sniffed my neck, I felt light headed.

Migraine returned to me. It was so severe, I felt I was going to die even before the wolves attacked me.

Speaking of wolves, from the looks on their faces and the abrupt stop they made to their growling, they must be thinking about the million ways they could use to kill me. They could even be communicating with their minds.

I was slowly drifting into unconsciousness and as I did, I saw an image of a girl whose features I couldn't quite point out, except for her waist long cherry coloured hair.

I saw her look into my eyes only to say something, something that sounded so familiar; Ita shka seru matelsal hem Motsora matelsal hem. Shku sha, molehfej shku sha.

Those were the last words I heard before passing out.

Derrick

Humans would always be humans. From decade to decade, they would always be the same.

Weak and vulnerable but wicked and self centered.

I hadn't even made a move on her and she had passed out already.

Nevertheless, I wasn't going to change my decision against her.

I howled to the rest of the wolves, ordering them to carry both her and Amigo back to the pack while I do a ground survey around the human's cabin.

She couldn't have killed Amigo all by herself.

They howled back at me before carrying out my instructions.

The next day***

Michael's Residence

I was brushing my teeth happily, I was going to see Khloe after so long.

It actually wasn't so long, it was even up to a week since I last saw Khloe but I miss her like we hadn't seen in a Century.

Today is Saturday so, I would sleep over at Khloe's cabin.

We could even talk about what I saw in her diary.

Wait speaking of what I saw, I should even check it out. That way I could have a bit of contribution to make, it could even help her out in her project.

I don't know why but I really wanted to impress her.

I opened the diary but found nothing, I flipped through the pages over and over again but couldn't find anything.

Yes, I finally found it. I picked up my phone to do a bit of research.

To my utmost surprise, when I tried researching, what happened next surprised me.

What the hell?