"So you're really planning on coming with me? You're ok with helping me?" He asked her again for the 3rd time, bewildered that she would want anything to do with him after what he had done to her farm. They had been walking through the mountains for nearly an hour when he had gotten hungry and she had ended up feeding him every hour since. He was hungry every time he looked at her, so he forced himself to look away, but after around an hour he couldn't take it anymore. He was about to ask for some meat when suddenly.
She stopped.
"Do you want a straight forward answer to your question? Or are you still thinking that you're going to eat me if I stay?" She asked. It was very obvious that Retsu didn't want her coming along. But she wasn't giving up on receiving compensation.
He licked his lips. Hungry. She said eat me. His wolf said inside of his mind. It took all of his effort to regain his composure but now he had forgotten his question. After he didn't answer, she decided to answer him instead.
"Let's just say I'm going to be your beta." She said after a moment. "I think it's obvious that you're an alpha, but I'm really not sure what's wrong with you….why you're all….dead and stuff. And where you came from. Why you were in my family's pack, but I'll put it behind us for now and you can just make me your beta."
Retsu didn't like the Luna's beta. He would make anyone a beta instead of that guy, but he wasn't planning to go back to the werewolves.
"I already told everyone I didn't steal the power of the alpha or whatever that is." He defended himself. "Besides, the Luna killed me, remember? So how are you planning on making me the Alpha? Having control over fire doesn't just make me an Alpha."
"They say the alpha is the only one who can make fire. The Luna makes ice." She responded.
"How did you get the fire powers anyways?" She asked curiously.
He opened his fist and felt his palm warm up. A small flame began to dance on his fingertips. He was very good at controlling at least this aspect of himself. After ten years of being imprisoned, he had begun to feel like it was always a part of him, but no, he used to be a regular human in a normal life. Or at least his kind of normal.
She looked at his flame that he made in his palm and tried to hide the awe in her eyes.
"I ate a mushroom and suddenly I could make fire." He said honestly.
"And I didn't steal it, maybe someone dropped it, but c'mon, why would a mushroom give someone superpowers?" He said, "that's absurd."
"Why would you eat a mushroom off of the ground? Now that's absurd. Did you know a lot of them are poisonous?"
Her tone was condescending but he tried to ignore her as his mind was very focused on not eating her. His pupils dilated and he was suddenly very aware of her heartbeat. It was as if his heartbeat was beating in his ears, but he knew he didn't have one.
Badum. Badum. Badum. Badum. BADUM. He held his hands to his ears and stopped walking. His eyes had become a deep green and saliva was now dripping from his mouth.
The girl stopped walking and looked at him and rolled her eyes. "You can't even go an hour without eating." She was about to grab some meat but then an idea came to her mind. "So are you gonna mark me as your beta then?" She asked.
BADUM. BADUM. BADUM. BADUM.
He turned to her anxiously, the distraction had made him unable to hear her.
"What?"
"Make me your beta. Mark me as a member of your pack."
"I'm a little busy right now,-" he said as he began to lose control of his wolf. "give me some meat and I'll do it!" His wolf interrupted him. "Meat! Meat! Meat! Meat!" He exclaimed aloud to Rori.
She rolled her eyes at his impatient wolf, "ok fine." She agreed.
She pulled the frozen ground beef out of thin air like she had done before and handed it to him. He swallowed it, plastic and all, and then, before either of them could prepare themself for what happened next, he had bit her arm clean off, swallowing it whole.
She screamed in shock, betrayal, and pain. And then her face filled with anger.
"How dare you!" She began, but suddenly her anger was cut off by a mechanical beeping sound. Both of them heard it and before their eyes, a notification was suddenly visible in the middle of the air.
[CONGRATULATIONS!!! A new pack member has been added to your pack! You have officially activated the Alpha System! All of your abilities will now be registered as skills, and your more complex abilities will be locked.]
Then Retsu saw words begin to run across his field of vision one letter at a time like an old computer screen, a mechanical sound accompanying it as each letter appeared, all of his abilities began sorting themselves into lists, and tabs and a status bar.
When that was done, a task appeared before his eyes [Please select the role of your new pack member.]
He looked at the girl in front of him, with her arm bleeding on the ground and to her confusion, the skill [Rapid Recovery] activated on its own, listing itself as a passive skill. The speed at which she recovered was 100 times faster than that of a regular werewolf, and her arm began to grow back.
The horror on her face somehow didn't phase him at all.
He read the list of options. A beta was the right hand man to the alpha aside from his Luna. She was definitely not a Luna. He finally nodded his head.
"Alright, make her my Beta." He said. A smile creeping over his lips. "I choose her to be my beta."