C20 CHAPTER 20: THE ELDERS

With Venus going to her work, Livius was left to face the elders who had made things worse for him with his wife.

So, after she left, he found a day to have a long meeting with them and have an overdue talk with them.

The Ethereal pack has five elders, of which one of them is a female and she isn’t a weakling but a very dangerous person who hides behind a sweet smile.

She is the most deceptive person in the whole pack but they all knew that she means well for the pack and everything that she does is for the good of it.

This female elder was roughly sixty years old and a grandmother of beautiful children. She followed Livius from the old pack, the previous Alpha was a very bad man, he killed her daughter for his own selfish reasons so she didn’t even bat an eye to betray him when Livius declared war on the pack.

The war was very bloody and a lot of families perished. She chose the winning side from the word go so her family didn’t suffer much. It wasn’t easy for Livius to trust her and the others that followed him as his hatred for his old pack was too much.

It was understandable after all the pack did nothing when his parents were taken away and murdered. He was just a kid and no one helped him or his family, so his hatred towards every single member of the pack was justifiable.

The other four male elders came from different places. Two were with Livius from a young age and the other two joined from the old rogue pack that Livius destroyed to avenge the death of his parents.

Back then, the selfish Alpha sold Livius’s mother to a rogue Alpha for his own selfish reasons. Livius’s father didn’t like this idea at all so he fought with everything that he got and, in the end, the couple was taken together.

No one really knows what happened when these two were taken but decades later when Livius came to exact revenge, it was in the light that the couple perished and it was a very long time ago.

The rogue Alpha who was responsible for this was a vicious man who was so selfish and didn’t treat others with respect. So, despite being the leader of a rogue pack, not all members liked him. They also couldn’t leave as they were afraid of being killed.

So, when someone arrived, who was capable of ending this tyrant's rule, they betrayed him and fought neck to neck to get their liberation.

Livius didn’t want to have a burden with him or lead a pack but when he saw all these lost souls, it suddenly dawned on him that leading them and showing them the right way to live was his calling.

So, two of the most powerful men from this rogue pack followed Livius and swore their loyalty to him. In the end, they were made elders alongside the other three making them five.

The elders didn’t have complete authority over Livius’s life, they were simply there to help with the pack’s problems and issues. Livius can inform them of other things but it didn’t mean that he should listen to them.

They all knew that he was strong-headed but he was also clear and a good ruler. The pack had never suffered under his leadership. He gathered rogues that were abandoned and lost without a home and he made them a family.

Just like the good wolves as they deem themselves to be, rogues were also like them, it’s just that they didn’t have a place to call home. And if it wasn’t because they get hunted, get ostracized, and pointed at all the time, would they end up becoming so bad and scrouge of the earth like most of them?

Livius wanted to change that and at the same time, he didn’t want to live in hiding like most rogues. He was living his life and he wasn’t going to let any orthodox packs plan his life for him.

Everyone was shocked when Livius built the Ethereal village in the open, although it was between Sydney and Daisy town. The village however wasn’t in hiding, it wasn’t every day that you get to see rogues living in good buildings and much better than other packs.

Livius didn’t only stop there but he made a breakthrough that left other dominant packs speechless. He went into the farming business and livestock rearing. This was something no one had expected.

These rogues were shamelessly living in the open and doing jobs no other had ever thought of. Some were even daring to wage wars with them, they didn’t think that they deserved to live in such great buildings and everything that they owned should be given to those who belong.

But that was the greatest mistake that they did. They suffered a great defeat and the win of the rogues made them so famous that those around Sydney tucked their tails and stopped causing trouble for them.

It wasn’t easy for the Ethereal pack to be where it was today and even though the elders were acting like this, they knew that they messed up, and making it up to their Luna would make all the grievances vanish.

“You have been too relaxed for years that you now disrespect your Luna, my chosen mate as you wish. I don’t care what you are going to do or how you are going to make her forgive you.

If she refuses to go through with the mating ceremony, my dear elders you wouldn’t want to see the other side of me! It’s been too long since I stretched my muscles!” Livius coldly threatened his elders before leaving.

It wasn’t even a discussion as all that Livius did was just say these words and leave like the king he was.

The five elders looked at each other, despair could be seen in their eyes. It has been too long since they have been surprised like that. They have all seen their Alpha in action and they didn’t want to be at the receiving end of his wrath.

The old lady, Mrs. Grace smiled as she looked at the four elders, “you should have pretended at least even if you don’t like her, not only did you manage to anger the Alpha but the Luna as well. You have all seen for yourself how crazy she can be. I still wonder to this day just what type of a wolf bit her for her to be that vicious!”

Grace could recall that oppressing aura every single time she looked at her grandchildren. They had wolf forms and yet their ferocity wasn’t even on par with a hybrid. It was simply too shameful and she felt as if she had lost the face of her ancestors.