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HIERARCHY

Heavens Demons

Grand Alphas: Edward Lucas Alexander and Jilliann Destinee Harper Alexander

Alpha(s): Lithium Destinee Harper Alexander/Erik Dan Hutford (Darkened Light)

Co-Alphas: Mitchell P. (Darkened Guilt) and Jessicuh K. (Darkened Secrets)

Darkened Light

Alpha(s): Lithium Destinee Harper Alexander Hutford and Erik Dan Hutford

Co-Alpha: Bryn Lee Cooper and Riley F. Unter
(Bryn has green eyes and black fur.)
(Riley has yellow eyes and reddish fur.)

Letineut: Laila Destinee Harper Alexander
(Laila has baby blue eyes and cream colored fur.)

Lead Fighter(s): Victoria Tyther and Josh Radding
(Victoria has black eyes, not as black as Lithium’s, black fur and a white back right paw.)

(Josh has hazel eyes, grey fur, white muzzle and speckles.)

Others:

Patch Curtis- Eyes are reddish, he’s a back wolf.

Zachery (Zack) Finnington - Has black eyes, not as Dark as Lithium’s, and is a brown wolf with a white star on his chest. Brother to Shane.

Shane Finnington – Has rare grey eyes, and a brown wolf that’s underbelly and front left paw is white.

Lillie Marie- She also has grey eyes *wink wink*, a black wolf and grey paws.

Rayne Kipper- Has black eyes, not as dark as Lithium’s, has a brown muzzle and front left paw.

Rhylinn Dee Yatkins- Has yellow eyes, black fur and no markings.


Lithium
--~Intro~--
How would you imagine your life… if rules controlled it, make everything change, on one birthday, just because of who you are? Or how about falling in love when you’re not supposed too. And one of your so called ‘friends’ is a backstabber, she manipulated you, for herself.
--~*~--
My phone alarm went off at 5 am. I sat up and rubbed my head probably making my already bad bed-head worse. I then put my fluffy wolfy slippers that I got for Christmas last year.
I managed to drag myself downstairs and eat an entire bowl of cereal. My wedding planner said I was getting some love handles on my sides. So now I eat '3' meals a day ... more like 5 or 6. By the time I got upstairs I was wide awake and school didn't start for another hour or so. I closed my door behind me and sat down on my brown colored couch that was facing my French doors leading to the balcony.
I stared out the balcony for so long I jumped when I heard a gentle rap at my door. Laila let herself in, her bleach blonde hair trailing behind her, baby blue eyes smiling like the sun them self. "Hey, enjoy your Lucky Charms Lith?" She laughed a little then came and sat down next to me. I punched her playfully in the arm. "Jerk," She knew everything there is to know about me. Like that I twist my hair around my thumb went I'm embarrassed, or that when I'm mad my left foot twitches ... or that I'm sneaking food.
The giant mansion of 23 bed/bath etc. rooms seemed too big for this family of 4. My sister, mom and dad and me. Although our maids practically live here they sleep at their own houses.
When I turned my head to look at the portrait of me I got done in Italy, Laila began to brush my jet black, belly-button lengthed hair. "Can I do a French braid starting at the middle of your head then wrap it around but stop braiding half way?" I laughed at her descriptive question. She was 17 and a half, the center of attention with the boys and teachers. We were twins ... age wise. We had very little in common she was the elegant, beautiful Blondie. I was the spunky, partier, black hair and electric blue eyes.
"Hum... how about a micro (little) French braid starting in the front and going to the back to a side ponytail?"
"Sure," Laila bit her lip like she does when she’s thinking. "You're going to be Alpha,"
"You're going to be Lieutenant!" I said accusingly. "Don't say it like I get everything and you get nothing, OW! Don't pull so hard."
Some people might call us werewolves, or "puny half-breeds!” I just call us 'human wolves' ... nothing insulting or taken from movies. Cause it is what we are, right?
My dad’s the Grand Alpha... the head master of all packs. This in our group was 3, and still be when I get my own. The 3 packs already are Darkened Souls, Darkened Guilt and Darkened Secrets. I still had no idea what I wanted to name my pack but, altogether Darkened Souls and Darkened Guilt and Darkened Secrets and whatever my packs is, is all under the control of dad - called Heavens Demons.
"What should my pack name be? Darkened Moon sounds to ... movie like err something." Laila finished brushing my ponytail and I turned to look at her. "Cute. How about ..." She squinted and bit the inside of her cheek. She raised a finger. "Aha! I got it! Darkened Light!" She and I high-fived, I tapped her on the head with my finger. "Someone has smarticles," I got up and walked to my room inside of a room - my closet. I got my uniform which consisted of a black and white plaid skirt, a either black or white blouse and a black and white plaid tie.
I got dressed with a black blouse, and the whole getup. Laila left and came back dressed. Her light grey eye shadow on the top and a blue to match her eyes made her seem like a model. I applied a white top layer and a dark grey on the inside. "You're so pretty Lithium, I'm jealous." I went directly to her side. "But, you’re the thing that pageant judges would die for." She smiled. "Yea, I guess so Lith,"
--~*~--
After I ate my 1st (2nd) breakfast, Laila and I hopped in our old corvette and drove to school with the music blaring and the top down. We got out and separated to our group of friends. Just to clarify there are more human wolves than my family. My pack consist of my friends that I’ve known forever and trust and care about... that are also human wolves.
First off as Co-Alpha there's Bryn. Tall and lean, beautiful black, silky hair and pastel green eyes.
Laila would go here then after her the lead fighter Victoria. Small and graceful, black hair with red highlights and black orbs.
Then the others ... just part of the pack. Meaning when it gets going they will be assigned their positions. Lillie, grey eyes, black hair. Rayne, black eyes and hair with a brown undertone. Rhylinn with golden eyes, and short pixie cut hair, that's also black.
That made up the whole pack of Darkened Light.
Now, the one I will be marrying of course has all the ladies going for him. Even when they know that, I,*ehem*, we, will be married in about 2 months... Enter the stage - Erik!
(Taken from a past girlfriend)
"Oh-em-gee he’s just like so ... mysterious, oh! And his green eyes... they aren't pastel or worn out ... they're like ... trees. Like -friggin-forest-trees!"
...Thanks Lithium for dragging on and on about your friends life stories and such ... now back to your book.

I met up with my friends and called a meeting. My dad pays the school giant grants so the school owes him. I can take my friends out of class if I want and we head to a staff meeting-room.
We sat down in the meeting-room. Me on one end of the table and Bryn on the other. Victoria stood. "Meeting is now in session," then sat down. I combed my side swept bangs with my fingers out of a habit. "Thank you Tori, anyway we have less than 2 weeks before the wedding. Also known as the 'merge' of my not-yet-created pack and Darkened Souls." Lillie raised her hand and pushed a piece of hair behind her pierced ear. "Lith, have you decided on a name with Bryn yet?" I spoke to Bryn on the phone, on my way here. I answered smirking just a tiny bit and Bryn and she smiled devilishly back. I nodded my head at her, wordlessly telling her to break the news. "Lithium and I would like to happily announce our pack name ... Darkened Light. Does anyone appose or have a suggestion, idea?" When no one moved she continued.
"This is not a 100% moving train yet, during Noel, Lith's birthday, she will need to discuss pack rules and 'terms of agreement' with Erik. So now ... we just call ourselves Darkened Light."
"I would also like to give credit to out Lieutenant, Laila, or also known as my little sister."
She stood up and said thank you then sat back down. Right after that Darkened Souls walked in and took their seats. Bryn moved to sit diagonally across from me. Erik now sat across from me, smirking at me. Victoria once again stood up and said. "Meeting is now in session, both packs are here, Darkened Souls and Darkened Light. Packs performing the 'merge and marriage of our 2 alphas. Lithium Destinee Harper Alexander and Erik Dan Hutford. Darkened Souls may begin.” She sat down. The room was silent until Erik’s seductive voice called over the room. “Darkened Light? You decided without me?” He questioned. “No, it’s what my pack and I decided for a temporary name Erik, don’t be so quick to judge sweetie, you’d underestimate me our whole lives if you did.” The others, including his, hissed at my snide comment. He took a deep breath, “Okay, moving on… deciding positions in the pack will be decided by testing, which is this Saturday. We also need to mark our border with Perfected Secrets, they’re testing it. That’s all,” Perfected Secrets was Grand Alpha name (so like Heaven’s Demons for us) our enemy. Riley, Erik’s Co-alpha raised his hand and whispered something to Erik. “Lesser ones are dismissed,” Lesser ones are everyone that isn’t Alpha or Co-alpha. When everyone left Erik stood up and leaned on the table, showing his defined muscles built up. Bryn and I didn’t move.
“Now… when will a child come into the picture Lithium?”
“Never, unless it’s necessary.”
“You’re supposed to be in love with me Lith!”
“I’m not one of those skanks!” I crossed my leg and Bryn kicked my left leg on purpose to let me know it was twitching. “Erik, I’m not in love with you, I’m doing this to make my parents happy.”
“Didn’t your parents ask you if it was okay if you married me before they arranged your marriage?”
When you’re the Grand Alpha’s offspring you must be married at the age of 18. Since it was too late for me to find love, I got and arranged marriage, with Erik.
“No, did yours?”
He nodded, and I waved the others off. I put my head in my hands and he walked over and massaged my back in little circles. I wasn’t crying, just stressed. Normally if my pack or his were here I would shoo him off me, but right now I just ignored him and acted as if he were just my friend. I looked at him and said 3 words.
“I hate you,”
--~*~--
I invited my pack over to my house, to discuss further things and just be girls for a day, after all we were skipping school and it was Friday. I invited Laila but she said no because they were having spelling bee tryouts. I was suspicious because I wasn’t even sure we had a spelling bee. We decided to tan at my house on the lawn and talk about random crap, even though there was a giant pool and tanning chairs. We laid there for hours, 2 to be exact, then got up and changed into wolves and trotted into the forest in search of Erik and his pack. It was funny, we all had black hair so we were all black wolves. It’s not always the color of your hair that makes the color of your fur. My electric blue eyes, seemed neon in the daylight, but at night, it seemed I had none at all, my eyes were so black. Rhylinn spoke up her pink, wet, nose in the air. “I found a bear scent I think, –she sniffed again- it’s fresh.”
I tested the air and sure enough there was the stench of bear. I looked ahead through the trees at Erik’s camp, wolves walking around following commands, or just relaxing in the sunlight. I gave a high pitched howl that only wolves could hear. If humans heard us howl in the daylight – we’d be toast.
Erik’s lead fighter trudged out of the entrance – there was a quarry but it dried up, leaving only its walls. There were bushes in a small cave opening, like tunnel. “Lithium, nice to see you,” Said Josh, a sleek but muscley grey wolf. He turned around and led us into Erik’s domain.
I nodded to the rest of the pack to let them socialize and not to follow me and headed to Erik’s -ehem- our den. A slight climb up the side of the wall, for humans it would be impossible, then an indent in the quarry’s wall made up his den. I walked into the dark cave, my eyes seemingly glowing. Erik growled, and stalked out of the darkness, playfulness in his eyes. I growled louder causing our packs to look up at us. He barked and lunged at me, I swiftly moved out of the way then jumped to the ground landing perfectly and walking away from the cliff.
He jumped and landed on my shoulders and gently bit into the back of my neck. I used my back legs and kicked like a bull, then flipped onto my back, squirming like I had an itch. Our packs enjoying the friendly fight began to bark. Erik wriggled out from under me and jumped while I was still on my stomach. I rolled and then jumped on his shoulders. What was the point of this? It was a game, the first one to put the other into a killing position, biting the throat or slicing the eyes, wins. I jumped off his back, my force knocking him down. I ricocheted off a rock and pinned him down his back to the ground. I bent down and gently bit his neck as he put his paws to my eyes.
Everyone froze, he took his paws off and I let go. He stood up and licked my cheek I wagged my tail in return, our way of saying ‘good game’. Young Rayne, her eyes bright spoke up first. “Who won?” She said putting her brown paw in the air then back down. Patch looked at her. “It’s a tie,” The reddish brown wolf said, Zack and Shane agreed. (Zack-brown, white star on chest, brother to Shane- brown and has a white underbelly and front right paw.
“Anyway, we came by to warn you that, there is a bear that passed by not too long ago, the scent was fresh.” Erik walked over to me and whispered “I know, we could smell it too, we think that it might not be a bear and just might be a wolf from Perfected Secrets that had recently killed a bear and rolled in it to disguise its smell.” I backed up and looked him in the eyes and nodded. “Come on guys,” I let my pack go first and as I left Erik swiped me on the butt and I growled lowly.
--~*~--
Erik and I sat on my bed, me sitting criss-cross-applesauce hugging a pillow to my chest. Erik on the end of my bed, feet dangling of the bed and laying down on the bed. My birthday … I didn’t get anything because tomorrow I would have a pack. Erik and I got ‘humanly’ married yesterday. He reached up and grabbed my knee, I flinched and moved it back. “So is the name Darkened Light okay with you?” He nodded sleepily.
We finished talking about everything else besides that and if we wanted to find a new territory or just use his or do both. “What about territory? I think we should combine lands.” Erik nodded again. I hit him in the face with the pillow. “Lazy ass,” He grabbed another pillow and sat up. “What did you just call me?” I smirked. “A… lazy… ass!” Then hit him in the head again. He took my pillow and shoved it in my face and pushed me down.
He climbed on top of me and took the pillow off, his face inches from mine. I closed my eyes and sighed giving into him. I blinked my eyes, enough to see him smirk. He leaned closer and breathed on my neck, giving me chills down to my toes. He grazed me on my lips, and then kissed me. He smelled like old spice with a hint of forest smell. His tongue touched my lips one part of me
a) Wanted to let him do whatever,
b) Push him off and walk away.
Unfortunately for me I did both - I let him kiss me like that then I kissed him back. He crushed his lips harder against mine and I pushed him off and walked to the bathroom. I would be caught dead doing… that. I splashed water on my face and brushed my teeth. I walked back to my room where Erik was already sleeping on my queen sized bed. He had one arm under his head and one across my pillow, I climbed on and lie on my side and put my face in the nape of his neck then curled my legs close to me. I felt him sneeze … or was it a laugh?
--~*~--
I walked in between the rows of wolves on either side of me. There waiting, at the end of the line of wolves was Erik sitting on a rock. With a rock of equal height across from him, above him my parents shared a large rock. I bet to them I looked like a black walking blob. The midnight moon shown down on me giving me a slight figure. I jumped easily up on the rock across from my soon to be mate. I looked up and smiled at my dad, he looked down at me and smiled quickly before starting. My mother almost started crying, her black and grey speckled wolf and light pastel eyes made her seem so beautiful in the moonlight. My dad’s large black wolf, with blue eyes made him handsome.
“Welcome wolves of Darkened Souls, Darkened Guilt, Darkened Hope, and my daughter, Lithium’s, pack – Darkened Light. Tonight we are here to merge 2 packs or ours, and then become mates.” He turned and looked at me.
“Lithium Destinee Harper Alexander Hutford, for years on end you will be loyal to your mate?”
“Yes,”
“Lithium Destinee Harper Alexander Hutford, for years on end you promise to be loyal to your pack, Darkened Light?”
“Yes,”
“Lithium Destinee Harper Alexander Hutford, will you protect your pack and pups with your life?”
“Yes,”
The males had a different testimony than the girls and I was technically second in charge but, everyone knew that I would be in charge. Dad put his giant paw on top of my head, God, I hate this part! I thought, He slid his paw against my cheek, then unsheathed his claws and cut my face so exactly 3 drops of blood came out. I winced a tiny bit, because his claws were like a million knives. The 3 drops of blood landed, in a puddle of water, they did not mix with the water they sat there. He turned to Erik, I gave a faint smile.
“Erik Dan Hutford, for years on end will you be loyal to your mate?”
“Yes,”
“Erik Dan Hutford, for years on end will you be loyal to your pack, Darkened Light?”
“Yes,”
“Erik Dan Hutford, will you protect, your Alphaness with your life?”
“Yes,” My dad then again, put his paw on Erik’s skull, then to his cheek and cut it, with 3 drops of blood landing next to mine. My dad then mixed the blood and water together making it a sticky paste. Erik and I both put our paws in, and put it on each other’s face, leaving a red paw imprint. Then, waited for our platter, we locked eyes, out of the corner of my eye I watched my mother jump down from her rock, then return with a flat rock and placed in front of Erik and I. We dipped our paws in again then pressed them on the rock.
“If any rules are broken, if any promises are broken, we will shatter this and will banish the wolf unworthy of being in our presence. Understood?”
“Yes,” Erik and I and said at the same time. My mother and father smiled.
“Go home with your pack,” My mother said softly, which meant lead your new pack home.
Erik and I jumped off the rock and started off at a trot. The rest of the pack stayed behind, to give us some privacy. Erik nudged me, and smiled. “You made out with me yesterday,-” I glared at him. “-you French kissed me,” I swiped my paw out, making him stumble over it. “Shut up!” He smirked and stuck his paw out trying to make me trip. I jumped and starting running. I heard Erik grunt trying to catch up, which made me speed up even more. Did you know I’m as fast as my dad, he’s lightning and I can keep up with him. Erik was about 2 feet behind me but I skidded to a halt. Bryn turned and looked at me. “You okay?”
“You know where it is, lead the pack, I can’t do this right now.”
Being the most awesome Co-Alpha ever, she licked my ear and howled taking the lead as Erik run up next to me. I sighed and walked on the trail to the territory. Erik walked so close to me his fur was warming me. “I’m sorry,” he said softly head down and walking in sync with me. When I didn’t respond he licked my clean cheek. “Lithium, I know you don’t love me but … I love you.”
“Just go catch up with pack.”
“No, today … tonight’s supposed to be me and you together.” That was the one thing I needed right now, I leaned up against him. When we go to the territory I stood up straight. “Aww I liked cuddling,” He said with a smirk. I turned around and slapped him in the face and said. “Shut! Up! I can’t believe my parents chose you, you friggin pig!” He showed a hurt look on his face and I felt kind of bad but I couldn’t give in. I thought about Laila … she wasn’t here for 3 days. She said it was her best friend’s birthday and they flew to NY for a week. I was real suspicious her best friend over me?
--~*~--

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