The Rejected Alpha's Vengeance

[HAWI]

"Tell me… Are you… Are you Perihan?" Hudhayfah asked hopefully as he looked at the ice cream vending in the middle of the night.

He knew he was reaching, and just because Farida had mentioned the name Karim couldn't probably mean that she knew him personally, right? Besides, 'Karim' also meant kindness and Farida was a kind woman.

Everyone in Sicario knew that. Hell, even the ghosts that lingered on the Sicario walls knew of the woman who put so many smiles on the faces of people, so this shouldn't have been surprising to anyone.

"Who is that?" Farida asked, giving the kids their ice cream for the night. She had seen such parties and she knew this one was going to last longer because they had just taken a break from everything horrible that had happened in the past few months.

It was their chance to unwind and Farida knew that too. She understood the essence of this all, which was why instead of focusing on what Hudhayfah was asking her, she chose to focus on keeping the smiles alive and everyone sane.

"Nevermind… I thought you were someone I knew from a past I hoped to get back to. But then it's alright. You can keep doing your job. My apologies for that," Hudhayfah said, his apologies making him feel different from the way his heart was beating.

There is only one woman on the face of the earth that had ever made his heart beat as frantically as that. She had been the love of his life but she had suddenly disappeared without so much as a goodbye.

His Perihan.

Goddess, he loved that woman with everything he had and didn't have.

Perihan was to Hudhayfah what life was. He loved her. He adored her. He lived for her, and when he woke up to an empty day three hundred years ago, he had sworn to never love another and keep living for the white wolf and the prophecy.

His Perihan was a beautiful woman, a warlock who never aged no matter how many years had passed.

She never had wrinkles on her face and while Hudhayfah could see the clear wrinkles on Farida's face, he wouldn't help but think to himself that she looked like what his Perihan would have looked like if she had taken the aging potion or cast an aging spell on herself.

It was a long gamble for Hudhayfah, so the rest of the night, he stayed in one corner, going to the goddess that daybreak would come sooner.

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"This is fun!!" Hawi shouted somewhere into the night and the wolves cheered as they partied hard like this was the last day and not the first of their operations.

Expectedly, the night quickly faded into a warm morning as the wolves went to bed each sharing the thought of what tomorrow would be like for them. They were thinking of what the future would look like for them after everything that had just happened.

The same was with the Savasci Knights, only that instead of endless parties in their minds, they had something else;

Something that would determine whether they would have a home after all of this or if they were headed down a rabbit hole that would rumble on them the deeper they got in and couldn't come out of the mess that would result from it all.

Their strategic placements in the war with the Shadow Warlocks who would have obviously gotten some allies from the dark forces to help them. The war with the wolves had just been the beginning of it all.

It would take them a minute to gain traction but one thing was certain, they had to be very careful with how they dealt with it. All eyes were on them at the moment, thanks to the takeback they initiated in Sicario.

The fire wards were no longer up, as if Sicario was letting the world know that they were not scared of shit. It was a brave move and a very daring one. But then it was alright, because no one in their right mind would dare to go against Awuor Hawi.

Sure, the shadow warlocks were a different breed of insanity, but even they knew when to hold back, which was actually commendable for a bunch of warlocks who used their magic aimlessly.

Perhaps now that has had Atticus locked up, the warlocks would be taken off route for a minute, right? Or maybe Atticus was never actually the brains of the operations? It was getting a little hard to understand at the moment, but they had time, no?

"This marks the end of the road for the both 0of us, at least until the dust settles on both sides of the realm," Hudhayfah said in the alpha's office where the tired Savasci Knights currently were.

They looked like ghosts who had finally seen light as they tried to figure out whether it was morning or midday or even evening. Their eyes hurt, but then Hudhayfah's words slammed them back into a reality they hadn't considered yet.

"What do you mean by that?" Mbali asked as she struggled to keep her eyes open while she saw silhouette of Hudhayfah in the distance. She could have sworn she never got drunk, but damn that was a wild night they had had.

They had all woken up a little later than midday and they were tired as hell. However, they still had things to worry about, like the security of the region and even the fact that Jeremiah Warner had been free since yesterday.

For anyone, that should have been something to worry about, but then the Savasci knights had seen hell more than thrice with the same one and they knew that there was Julius no way Jeremiah would outrun them.

Maybe they were giving him a proper head start when at the end of the day, they would get to the bottom of everything. But one thing was certain — they would have to work faster than any of them had thought possible.

They may have had two of the Russel brothers, but there were more of them out there and there was a lot to be expected.

"But I thought you were having fun last night… why do you want to go back so soon?" Hawi asked as she looked at the older healer.

The Sicario alpha had noticed that Hudhayfah had gotten gloomy after his little chat with Farida and while Hawi was curious about what they had talked about. She knew that there were just some things that would always be beyond her.

She didn't want to intrude because if it had been a matter of security or one that needed her attention or even Rukiya's, Hudhayfah would have told them straight up, so there was no point holding on, or even hoping that Hudhayfah would say shit.

Besides, with years and years of being the healer, he had learned a thing or two about secrets and he would clearly consider it impolite. All that Hawi could do was sit and hope that it would all get better with time and that no matter what happened, they would be fine regardless.

After all, Farida was a kind woman and Hudhayfah was a good healer, so there was no reason for h both of them to have any disagreements, right? Well, that was a little hard to tell given how things had been the previous night, but then she could wait and see what that meant, yeah?

"Of course I did. But we left the Lycans in Greyson with the warriors. As much as they are on the same side at the moment, we must consider the fact that them being alone there might give them the impression that they are abandoned with the wolves—

"Or even that their mission was changed along the way, which wasn't the case for many of them. We are all determined to make sure normalcy is restored, but then with different factions alone together, and without any of their leaders," Hudhayfah explained and they all looked at each other.

Rukiya had also noticed the change in her healer, but then just like Hawi, she didn't want to push.

If Hudhayfah had wanted them to know what had happened, he would have told them when they woke up, but then they had been normal, pretty normal for a bunch that had woken up with back out of hangover—

— thanks to the alcohol they had somewhat mixed with the ice cream yesterday, they despite Farida's best efforts to stop them and remind them that their skull had visitors in their home.

"Well then in that case I can only wish to meet the both of you again once there is peace in the realm. It is going to be dark skies from here on out and a lot of lives arguing to be lost.

"I know we want to wish for the best and hope that there won't be any, but then we saw what Nikolai did barely two days ago. If Malika hadn't been here, there was no telling what he would have done by then.

"Besides, we should work with the assumption he has already alerted his brothers of the situation, finding the other brother won't exactly be easy. Be careful on your way home and stay alert at all times," Hawi reminded.

Hudhayfah looked at the young wolf whoa oh finally got her home back. He was happy for her. He was glad that this happened because a part of him knew that this war was the beginning of their wins.

Or maybe this was an isolated win for them. Well, whichever it was, this war was the start of a normal world for all the werewolf packs and the factions at large. This wasn't going to be it for them, right?

"You talk like we are going to die, Alpha Awuor," Sherry said.