Chapter 12 - A big task

***Callums pov***

After spending a couple of hours at Zandras I headed back to the packhouse, in my head I repeated everything that was said.

-You need to find her and bring her back here. She must be with her own kind when you unbind her.
-How?
-How what?
-How do I find her? How do I bring her here? I cant just grab her and throw her in the back of my car!
-No, charm her, convince her to come, explain why. If she won’t come, then you throw her in the car. She smirked.
I rubbed my face
-Very smooth Zandra, very smooth. I sighed.
-Okay, first thing first. Were is she?
-I dont know.
-What do you mean you dont know? You know everything!
-I dont know that!
-Okay… what is her name? What does she looks like?
-I dont know.
-Ghaaa! Seriously Zandra? Now, of all times, you know nothing? Can you tell me anything about her?
-My connection is with Luna, the wolfspirit inside her. And she is sleeping! I can feel her trying to wake up, but that is not enough to get a location.
-So how am I going to find her? She can be anywhere!
-Well, tell me what she showed you and we figure it out together.
-Showed me?
-Yes, she came to your dream, did she not?
-But it was a dream. I dream about a lot of shit, doesn’t mean I act on it.
-Tell me!!
-Ok..It was a battlefield. A beautiful white wolf was sleeping in the middle, starting to wake up but changed her mind and went back to sleep.
-Aawww, that’s Luna! It’s how I see her! She beamed. Then what?
-Then I was at a zoo. I frowned. By the grey wolves. And there was a girl, interacting with them, but I didn’t se her face.
-No, you saw her heart. You saw the place she loves to be, you saw the place where she finds peace.
-So, find the zoo and find the girl?
-Exactly!
She stood up, walked away and returned with a laptop.
-And here I thought you only used a crystal ball. I laughed

After searching the web for pictures of wolf enclosures for almost two hours, I almost gave up. But then there he was. I recognized the Alpha male from my dream as soon as his image popped up on the screen. To a human, it wouldn’t be possible, but to an Alpha werewolf, it was easy, like looking at mugshots. I found out the zoo was two towns over, about 4 hours by car and I felt the excitement in my body, mostly thanks to my wolf, who was jumping around in my head with hearts for eyes and a white wolf on his mind.
-I will do this my way Zandra. I will not force this girl to do anything. She has lived her life as a human. I say before I turn to leave.
-Yes yes, I hear you, she answer and hasten me out the door. But if it doesn’t work, you throw her in the back of your car! She calls out behind me.

As I walk up to the packhouse, it’s a bit of commotion outside. I see a few wounded in their wolf form, trying to speed their healing by not shifting. I see women, men and children, but these are not my people. They are not from my pack.
A large bus is parked some distance away and I see more people getting off.
“Reece, what the fuck is going on?” I urge through the mindlink.
“Alpha, I’m at the clinic, ill be there in two minutes” He answer.
As I look around, looking at the injuries its crystal clear what happened.
Fucking leeches..

At the bottom of the stairs is a little girl, crying. She looks scared and lost and I cant se anyone tending to her.
“Hey sweetie”. I kneel in front of her. She is maybe three, or four years old.
“Where are your mom and dad?” I ask, looking around for anyone missing a little girl. She keep crying, shaking so I carefully pick her up and her small arms holds my shoulders and I feel her tears in the crook of my neck.
“Its going to be ok,” I’m cooing her, stoking her back, trying to calm her down wile I let my eyes wander, searching for anyone missing a child.
“Alpha!” Reece comes running up to me.
“What the fuck is going on Reece? Who are all these people?” I ask, trying to keep my voice calm, not upsetting the pup in my arms.
“They are from Alpha Alans pack” he starts, they got attacked a couple of nights ago.
“And where is Alan?” I ask, looking around for my, not so good friend. Me and Alan seldom saw eye to eye on things, whether it was about running a pack or fighting a war.
“He’s dead, I heard he held on for quite some time though, gave them a real fight” He answer.
“What about the other ranked? Beta Justin?” My eyes wander over the people.
Reece shakes his head and opens the mind link.
-Thats Beta Justin’s daughter in your arms, Callum. Her older brother should be around somewhere, but both Justin and Camilla, their mom, are dead. So is the gamma couple. A busload of people is all that is left. I counted 53, alot of them at the clinic. He tells me thru the link.
My arms tighten around the girl. Poor child.
“Anna” I hear a small voice and look down.
A young boy is standing in front of me, seven years old maybe.
I sit down at a step of the stairs and put the girl on my lap and face the boy, his head bowed in submission as he feels my aura.
“Hey, no need for that,” I say, and put a hand on the boy’s shoulder.
“Whats your name?” I ask and look him in the eyes before continuing. “Are you the guardian of this cute little thing?” I bounce ny knee up and down making the little girl giggle a little.
“My name is Thomas Alpha, that’s Anna, and yes, I am her big brother.” He answers, a little unsure of my relaxed tone.
“Good, that’s good. And do you know what’s going on Thomas? Do you know why you are here?” I ask the boy, watching him holding back his tears to keep a strong face for his sister.
“Yes Alpha,” he answers.
I give him a smile, my heart breaks for the young boy.
“You’re safe Thomas,” I say. “You are both safe now, I won’t let anyone harm you” I see a tear finally fall from his eye and he quickly wipes it away. “Come here” I say, pulling him in and press him against my chest.
“Its ok, I know its tuff but it’s gonna be ok” I assure him.
I lift both children and walk in the packhouse and head for the kitchen.
While I place them on barstools surrounding a kitchen island I open a link to Greta, the lead omega, telling her I need her in five minutes.
I open a cabinet and take out two bowls. I open the freezer and take out the best thing ever made.
“You know, when I’m down or feeling sad or sick, this is the only thing that can make me feel better,” I say and scoop up ice cream in the two bowls.
“Its called Rocky Road and it’s like an ice cream bandage for the heart,” I say, handing them the bowls.
Greta walks in, looking at me, at the children and back at me.
“Ah, Greta!” I say, “This is Thomas and Anna. They are my special guests!”
“Nice to meet you! I see the Alpha has shown you the magic of Rocky Road.” Greta gives the children a warm smile, which they return with their mouths full.
After talking to Greta and leaving the children safe in her care, assuring them yet again that everything is going to be alright, I head for my office, linking Reece to meet me there.
We met in my office.
- I need to tell you something, it’s about my meetings with the hag, I started.
I told him the story, not as detailed as Zandra told me, more like a rough draft.
-Let me get this right, you are leaving to find a girl, a human girl none the less. This girl is going to stop the war with the leeches? You don’t know who she is or what she looks like but you think she is at a zoo, petting wolves? Do you hear your self? Are you fucking insane?! He shouts.
-We are at war, we just received a busload of refugees, many of them wounded, the clinic is full, and you’re leaving on some fucking quest based on a fairytale that crazy hag filled you’re head with? He rubs his face, trying to calm his breathing.
I slam my hand in my desk, hard.
-Enough! I growled, letting my alpha aura roll at him. I hated to do that, but he needed to calm the fuck down.
-You know better than to doubt Zandra, Reece. I know it’s all sounds crazy, but if there is the slightest chance this girl is real, that she can help us, can we really afford to ignore it? I sighed.
-Its just for a few days, a week at the most. I told him.
He looked at me and then he chuckles.
-Insane Callum..fucking insane. But I got your back, I keep my eyes on the pack and you go do what you have to do.


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*Author Note: Thank you for reading!
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