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GRAY POV

"Who did it? I know you were there." I spat at the vampire who was part of the murder of the Blue Woods Pack. Oron had finally tracked him down this last three days.

"Kiss ma' ass man." The guy smirked. Interrogating the repugnant vampire is nauseating. He was shackled and chained in the prison quarters.

"So you want it to be the hard way." I smirked in half and my knuckles connected with his nose and it broke. Once more with power, I kneed his face, bleeding and shouting in pain was all he could do.

"Still want me to kiss you in the ass?" I asked in a neutral tone.

"Fuck you."

"Wrong answer." I jabbed his face again and again, making him scream as I made contact with his broken and bleeding nose. I didn't stop and kept on hitting, all the sanity in me was gone and replaced with malice. This man was part of the massacre of my family and he deserved to be murdered.

"Bud, don't kill the prisoner yet. We still need him." Alnick smirked as he entered and disrupted me.

"What do you want Alnick?" I asked coldly, not even giving him any moment to reply before kicking the nauseating vampire in the chest, breaking his ribs. He yelped.

"You really are ruthless. Anyway, Oron called and said that he's out for today. Got a date with his fiancee Gina." Alnick snickered.

"I'll call him later but this blood-sucker sings first." I smirked at the groaning vampire. He wasn't able to heal because we had drugged him toxic chemicals and bask him in the sun. He was almost burned to crisp if Alnick didn't interfere with me yesterday.

"Let me handle this." Alnick tapped my shoulders and I glared at him but he shook his head, asking me to watch him to do his dirty trick. I scoffed and sat down on a chair, leaning over a wall and watched him do his thing.

Alnick chuckles and bend down, looking straight to the nasty blood-sucker.

"Vampires are said to be invisible if they are immune to the sun. But vampires can only be like that if a witch is involve and a contract is made. Am I right Cole Sanders?" Alnick snickered and stared at the vampires glaring eyes. He just hit his weak point.

Sadist. I thought, unmoved by the same pattern.

"Don't you dare touch Millie. I swear if you--"

"Tut. Tut." Alnick tutted and smirked, "I'm still not finish. Listen to this, why were you almost burnt to shit yesterday if you had a sexy witch contracted with you?" Alnick was playing his mind games.

"You motherfucker! What did you do to her!?" The blood-sucker's eyes go red and went berserk in the room. I whistled low, impress at his reactions.

Flies do care.

"Not yet. But she will be in a few minutes if you don't give us want we want. Or do you badly want me to do her in front of you?" Alnick smirked, the vampire tried to get out the chains and cursed with all the hatred, letting the quarter prison hear his uproar. I wasn't one to involve innocent people but at this point, it didn't matter anymore. I wanted my job done.

"Listen buddy, will you talk or your girl Millie Renders dies. Pick one or is it that too hard to pick cause I can choose for you." Alnick smirked.

"I can't... Millie will still be endanger.." The shitprick's voice sounded raspy and cracked like all has ended.

What is he talking about? Is someone hunting and using him?

Alnick seemed to read my facial expression and asked the vampire just what was on my mind, "Who would kill Millie? Is it another royal vampire?" Alnick was getting serious and dire.

"I don't know who it is. I swear." His voice was starting to sound like a plead. I smirked and watched the ongoing torture.

"Goodbye Millie then." Alnick replied, no trace of bluff was in his eye but pure abhor. I was feeling the same as him. I was keeping it together as to not snap the fucker's neck and watch him burn.

"Wait. I know something that can help.." The vampire begged.

We look at him, gesturing him to go on. He gulps nervously, his face sweating a lot, he gulped and whispered.

"Werewolves..."

"Werewolves?"

"What about them?" I glared at him, telling him to fuck off the wisecrack because we both weren't buying it.

"It's for you to believe. It wasn't vampires who murdered the Blue Woods Pack, it was werewolves and they did a good job leaving the vampires as the counterfeit." He spat disgustingly as he tried to explain and mentioned the weres. I could feel his hatred for the were-people. Vampires and Werewolves weren't on good terms since ancient times.

"Your bluffing." Alnick spat. He wasn't buying the shit. I scoffed, I was on his side, it just wasn't possible.

Rogues aren't that stupid and they couldn't have taken out the strongest pack of wolves in Japan.

"Your saying rogues ended the Blue Woods pack?" I gritted my teeth, not believing anything. He was dishonoring my parents.

"Not Rogues.. Werewolves from another pack." He says in a scandalous spiral. Alnick and I exchanged looks, distraught by the news.

"Bullshit." I said.

"Calm it Gray." Alnick snickers and turns to the vampire, "Why would werewolves from another pack kill their own kin?" Alnick asked, opening his mind at the moment.

"I don't know either. My gang and I was requested to clear that area if something moves. We only took the money and participated."

"Werewolves ordering vamps? You sunk that low? I thought you crave each others death?" I spat. The vampire smirked and it vanished fast.

"Our love one's lives were on the line if we backed out. We were threatened and it sure worked. It didn't reek of vampires afterwards that massacre ain't it?" He says the one thing that was true. Alnick and I look at each other and back to the vampire. It was a fact. There was no scent from vampires but there weren't also any scent from weres.

"It was werewolves slaughtering their own kind." The fly explained and spit blood as soon as he finished his unbelievable demand.

Lying son of a fuck.

I stomped towards the vampire to break his arm and give him a punch he couldn't forget, Alnick step in front of the blood-sucker, shooing his head at me and convincing me to hold my temper, "Gray, you are not going to kill this vampire. The high council still has a word for him. He's evince trial isn't over. Do you want to be dropped out of this case because you let your temper get the better of you?" He asked bitterly. I glared at Alnick and scoffed at him.

I burst out the quarter and didn't decide to log out in the hunters area. I was too mad to do anything. I met Blue who just got from Europe, who have been handling funny business with elite vampires. He looked stressed and ditsy.

"Hello Mr. Gray. Very moody are we?" Blue sang. Encodes were a must for all hunters, either colors or weapons. I didn't choose mine, an old geezer I respected let me inherit his good name.

"Yes. Are the business with the blood-suckers going well?" I asked roughly, trying to stay tranquil and stop myself from punching someone.

"It is but unfortunately not this time." He sighed and look pissed. It piques my interests. What could he mean by his words?

It was forbidden to pry and asked about somebody's business and area in the Hunter Society but like hell I would follow it. My mind was in jumbles.

"Why?" I asked, glaring at the old man who flinched at the tone I used. He gulped and take it slow, he maybe older than me but I was one of the top hunters.

"This isn't safe to tell." He says in guard. I stare at him, getting more and more irritated every time his sweat broke out.

"Vampires are going wild and uncontrollable with the weres." Blue said with a nervous voice, "They are trying to have a treaty or..." He looks around us and cease to make sure no one could hear.

"Or?"

"War."

"...." I stayed quiet and thinks on the decisive new matter that could happen anytime.

He gulps and gestured that we drop the topic before we were caught and evicted, drenching in blood afterwards.

"Nice Meeting you Mr. Blue." I greeted and smirked.

"My pleasure Mr. Gray. Send my regards to that man--" He stopped his words when he saw me gritting my teeth and clenching my bloody knuckles. I didn't have time to be reminded about that man. He gulped and nodded awkwardly before walking out.

I stared consciously and relaxed myself, feeling finally calm. I walked out the Hunters Society and drove out the place with my partner. I drive in a racing speed, out driving the cops who were asking me to pull over. I snorted and went over in a higher speed, finally escaping the slackers. I reached the ocean side and stopped the car.

While taking in the view, I got out my car, leaning on my partner as I took a smoke from my leather jacket before lighting it. It was too long since I haven't smoked.

Inhaling and blowing a whiff of smoke, I took out my phone and called Oron. I needed the guy to get the dibs from the information I was having. There were so many questions and puzzles that I have to solve. My problems were piling one by one.

Oron picks up the phone and I breath out my code, "Gray. Code, Xdf Vxz, 8087"

"Oron. Code, ASD Bnm, 5454..."

He answers back in a whisper.

"What happened to you?" I asked in a monotone.

"Bro. Sorry, I really can't help you right now I'm--So you gonna' just do the silent treatment o' me again! Hah!? Listen here Derek! Drop that phone or so help' me I will grind you' to the bone! Ye' like that!!!"

I chuckled silently. Oron was getting home schooled by Gina again. Gina was a black American but she was loving, brave and she always make sure to take care of Oron; but she missed the fact about Oron being a universal famous hacker.

Gina is nice woman. It was enough for her, knowing Oron had a job, she didn't pry too much and gave him his privacy. She just loved the stupid prick to the bone.

"Gina please! Listen to me baby, It's Gray. I swear I don't have any woman besides you. I love you baby." Oron begged helplessly. I could imagine him getting on his knees and kissing Gina's hand to stay.

I was entertainingly listening to the whisper-yells and arguments while leaning at my partner and watching the ocean waves. Gina was rampaging and Oron was pleading. They were both crazy for one another, something that made them both overprotective.

"Ello' Who is this bitch!? Get of my man's dick and get yo' own!" Gina warned and screams at me over the phone.

She must have snatched Oron's phone.

I heard Oron groaned on the phone and I couldn't help but chuckle.

"Gina dear, it's Gray. Don't worry, I'm not after Derek's dick, I have my own and its even better than Derek's." I said seriously, getting a snorted reply from Oron and a nervous gasp from Gina.

"Ohmma' god! Gray?! I'm so sorry! I didn't know it was you!--I told you baby, we need trust in this!--O' shut up! Trust and goin' in a bar yesterday have no connection in it!-- You still don't believe me woman!!?-- Ye' I sure ain't Derek--Gray please explain it to her!"

I smirked and just find the two amusing in their own little world. They keep on snatching the phone and I know it was time to get serious and save Oron's crappy head even though I still wanted to hear the dou's comedy.

"Gina, no need to hype it up. We didn't go to a bar yesterday to get drunk. We celebrated a buddy of ours getting home." I explained. I never lied once to Gina about Oron. I always tell her everything she asks except from our work. And Oron knows nothing bout' it.

"You ain't kiddin'?"

"I'm not. Oron didn't do anything but sat in a couch and drank and barfed. Don't worry he was only a pretty face for the ladies and a nasty drunk in that bar." I explained calmly, knowing that Gina was the type to listen. She sighed and gave up the subject before handing the phone to Oron. I heard many moving movements until Oron answers his phone.

"Hello man. I'm glad you called, thanks for saving my butte there. I thought Gina was going to cook it!" Oron hyped.

"You owe me big time."

"Agh. I saw this coming but it always surprises me. Tch. How come Gina listens to you?"

"Because I don't hide things from her and go on funny clubs."

"... Point taken..."

"That aside, I need you to gather some information for me."

"What is it?"

"About pureblood weres."

"I already told you that's a confidential topic."

"I'll pay big and the information I needed this time are far too interesting for you to decline."

"Re-really man?"

"A vampire nation having treaty with the werewolf."

"Woah!"

"It's just a guess but rumors has it that hunters are collaborating with rogues. I need you to check on it too." I said archly. I wanted him to take account that I will be the one frying his balls if he didn't get it done.

"Fuck. Already on it."

"Good." I responded. I could hear Oron typing in a lightning speed.

"We have a problem."

"What?"

"The pureblood system has been decoded. It's blocked with extreme passwords and codes. I can't get passed it unless I UN-code their system and broke down their system by force, though they will track us."

"They caught on us." I commented.

"Seems like it, such smart creatures. Don't worry though, I already cleaned up my mess before they could tracked us down. To put it simply, we can't get datas about each other. Were in each others throat." Oron quacked, getting us farther from the approach.

So it was true that the new Alpha King is vicious and sly. Alnick got that part right.

"Leave Emma Collins aside, what do we got?" I asked.

"Corpses from the South."

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SHANE POV

I sat on my office in the pack house after the pack meeting was over. It didn't went as good as I would expect it to be but nothing that would be out of the ordinary. I rested on my armchair and feel my mind relaxed.

"This is not fun.. Isn't there someone who's fun to kill?" I whispered, humming and playing with the files, crafting an airplane paper.

The Red Moon pack, the Silver Creek pack, the Black Wood pack had been attacked again. The motif was on my head, it wasn't rogues anymore but filthy vampires that was disrupting my title as Alpha King.

I clenched the airplane paper until my knuckles go white and blood was bleeding from the sharp nails piercing through my skin. I would happily play and rip out those vampires innards.

'Alpha Shane. The rogues in the east are trying to enter the boundaries. Should we kill them all?' It was Zach's voice, my third in command that was mindlinking me. Beta Ryder was still off duty and Zach was currently taking his position.

'Kill them.'

'Yes Alpha King.'

The mindlink was cut off and I stared into the daze. The Alpha King responsibility was eating my sanity and even death isn't an option. I needed my mate to calm down Setsu.

'Alpha King, Intruders are asking for a treaty.'

'Alpha, the south borders and patrol guards caught some hunters sneaking in our territory.'

'Alpha the western borders had whiffed a vampire's smell.'

'Alpha King, Beta Ryder is still not on patrol.'

'Alpha King, a man from the Red Crescent pack is holding a letter for our pack.'

'Alpha King, the White Brink pack and the Silver Line pack had requested an audience with you.'

'Alpha, the rogue prisoners had finally cave in and got the details we needed.'

'Alpha King, the Elders requested your presence at the pack house meeting room. '

I growled on the mindlink, receiving a whimper from all of the annoying mutts. I couldn't give orders if every five seconds there was a new report to be made. The Royal Moon pack laws, rules and training will be tripled first thing tomorrow morning. I needed pack warriors and members who know what was the adamant move in such situations.

'Easy boys. I need reports not to make notions. Am I understood?' Intimidation and authority was in my cold voice.

'Yes Alpha King.' They all replied in a submissive and respectful tone.

'Be always aware.'

'Yes Alpha King.' All of my rank officers responded.

'Very well, The intruders who are asking for a treaty, denied. We don't accept treaty that way. Catch them and interrogate them in the underground prison. Their actions are strange and deserves an explanation. The hunters we caught in the south borders, take them to prison don't let them go until any information is out.The western vampire who's been discovered, drag him into the pack house, alive. Beta Ryder is still off duty, pay no mind to it. You will take all reports to Beta Zach. The letter from the Red Crescent pack, take it to my office, now. The invitation letters from the the White Brink pack and the Silver Line pack, send a letter of invitation to them for tomorrow night. The rogues, keep them company until I visit them. As for the Elders requesting for my presence, tell them I'll meet them tomorrow. Am I clear?'

'Yes Alpha King.' The mutts answered and scattered to their works. I breath out and rested on my arm chair, running a hand on my messy dark blond hair.

YOU TIRE TOO MUCH. Setsu commented grimly on my head. He was a tenacious and cold-blooded but he was still the father and the king of his realm.

Hello pup, happy to hear you talking to me in your calm estate.

DISRESPECTFUL BOY! He growled causing a massive pain in my head. I groaned.

Setsu. Don't. Try. Me. Today.

He growled once again and tried to take over my body by controlling my right hand and almost punching me in the head. I smirked.

Bad move pup.

I took out a syringe again in my pocket and he growled even more to possess my sanity. The sharp needle connected to my veins. I growled quietly. I injected it three times to make sure Setsu was hold down. He growled in agony, both of us getting tortured and warped. The distorted pain in my body was nothing that would kill me easily. I can always managed my insane wolf.

KILL YOU BOY.. The last word he growled and howled as he was forcefully blocked out off from my reach.

I pulled out the injection that I implanted on my arms and trowed it to the garbage bin. I smiled on satisfaction but too much pain was consuming me to hold on.

"Alpha Shane. Can I come in?" It was Xander, knocking on the door.

"Come in." I replied, pulling myself together. Even Xander didn't know what my state was. He shouldn't know. There was no weakness to show.

He came in and sat on the couch, facing me in my desk. He stared for a second and cleared his throat, "Hans couldn't trace the tracker who was messing with our files."

"Well if he couldn't crack their system. It means hunters are on our tails."I commented, trying to be receptive.

"I think the same but they aren't for the pack this time. They are trying to corner the purebloods."

"So they decided to make their move first... Vermin." I smirked to myself.

"Also, the vampires in the South America and North America have been ambushing werewolves in numbers." Xander said. No life in his voice.

"Then we