Unsuspecting weapon

"What!?" Jack and Steve yell. The smallest of six after me is on my left.

In one quick motion I move towards her and grab her neck and twist my body around hers. I put her in a choke hold while putting her in a very uncomfortable position.

"Hey! Calm down a bit." Alpha says as she and the other four back away from me. I snap my attention to Alpha's mom.

"Not happening. We can still kill your friend there and we can kill this one next if you don't let her go." She says. I silently chuckle.

"Did she just do what I think she just did?" Jack asks.

"She did." Steve answer him.

"What did she do?" Alpha's mom asks. She gets answered w/ a whimper. I just applied pressure to the girl's throat.

"Do you not care about your friends!?" She asks.

"She cares about us. But she knows you can't kill us. Cause if you do then you'll have no leverage." Steve answers.

*Click click.*

"What!? Damn they're picking us off one by one!" Jack states.

"What?" She asks.

"Oh she just brought to light how you took a fondness to our friend you have in your arms right now." Jack answers.

"Well then what do you have to say, wanna be my mate?" She asks him and he shakes his head no. "Sorry it doesn't count unless you say it." She says teasing him a bit.

"He won't talk to you." Jack says.

"Oh and why is that?" She asks.

"Because he doesn't talk to people who chase him in that sense." Jack answers.

"Wait do you go mute too?" She asks.

"Yes I do." He answers.

"Is there a way for you guys to talk to us?" She asks. We all tensed. "Woah what is it?"

"You may not like this but we need to go back to our home." Jack states. We heard them take a sharp breath in.

"Why? It's obvious she didn't talk to them before so what would be different this time?"

"We'll do a ritual."

"What kind of ritual?"

"I can't inform you anymore than that."

"And why is that?"

"Because we like keeping to ourselves."

"Why can't we just do the ritual here?"

"Because we need to be close to the ritual grounds. We're already breaching conduct by moving to the fence for you guys. We're not breaching it anymore if we can help it! So it's that or nothing at all!" Jack states annoyance evident.

"Calm down! Seriously some silly little ritual can't be that important."

"Ugh I should've just kept my mouth shut."

"Well now an important question. What do you guys want to eat?" Steve and I make eye contact.

After which I was dragging the girl I have in a choke hold after me.

"Hey you don't have to drag her!" Alpha exclaims. I just roll my eyes and keep dragging her.

"Someone's sassy even when quiet." Alpha's mom says.

I stop for a moment, since I passed her, I turned around and flipped her off. Then continued.

I got w/ in arms length of Jack and whoever is pinning him. I break my choke hold and forcibly head butt the two enemies together successfully knocking them out.

After which I checked on Jack and he seemed ok. I was able to quickly pick up the female I previously had in a choke hold and grab her head as the others try closing in on Jack and I.

I do so in a way they know I'm willing to snap her neck.

"Let our friend go." Jack orders.

"Or else what? If you kill her then you have no guarantee that you will stay alive and she has no guarantee that they won't pounce on her in a moment's notice." She states.

"We know." He says.

"What? You know? And you're willing to take that risk?" She asks in disbelief.

"I mean, yeah. Because I know what's gonna happen if you kill me. But you don't. So are you willing to risk that?" He asks. She remains quiet for a minute.

"You have till I reach zero." He says holding up his fingers and counting down.

As he counts down I started twisting her head more and more to break it slowly. He had just reached one when she relented.

"Fine!" She states.

She lets Steve go and he runs out followed by Jack and I followed after and I brought the hostage.

"Any idea?" Jack asks.

I shake my head no but gestured towards my hostage. As you could guess they followed suit. We lost them finally but not w/ out a lot of close calls.

"Ready?" Steve asks. I nod then slap the female.

"Ahh!" She screams as she wakes up. "W- what's going on?" She asks.

"Oh you're going to take us back to the fence then you're free to go." Jack answers.

"What!? I'm not going to do that! But I will take you back to the pack. Alpha and the others must be worried sick." She mumbles the last part but we all heard her loud and clear.

We looked at each other then back at her.

"Now listen we just don't feel like going around blind. But we really don't need you. We can just wonder around. Yeah we might go onto another's territory, and yeah we could possibly starve to death or dehydrate but we really don't have to have you guide us." Steve informs.

"Then why even bother taking me?" She asks.

"Oh because if we needed to we would have killed you if they kept chasing us or cornered us." He tells her.

"And what would you have done if I woke up and saw one of you carrying me? I mean I'm pretty sure I could take you both." She states.

"But we didn't touch you." He says. She looks at him confused.

"We're not strong enough to ran fast enough to escape and carry this much extra weight. But our friend here, you know the one you keep chasing, she's more than strong enough. She also was the one who was gonna do the deed and kill you if it came down to it." He adds.

She went from confused to offended to shock to awe to horror and fright.

"S- she was g- going to k- k- k-kill me?" She asks to herself.

She was shaking. Either from the thought of being so close to death or from feeling helpless. It wasn't clear nor did I care.

"C- come on. I- I'll take you to the f- fence." She gets up and starts to walk towards the way we ran from.

"We didn't get turned around. We know your pack is that way." Jack states.

She freezes and turns around and starts heading the actual way. We follow her.

I would let them know when to keep her on track when she tried to turn us around. Now I'm the best out of our group in remembering directions.

Especially if I've been that way or there in general before. I'm hyper aware so I'll keep track of what we pass and what not.

I also remember that after a while there's a downwards slope. Apparently, forest wise speaking, the fence is on top of a hill.

So turns that would have us walking along the slope instead of up I know is her way of trying to turn us around.

The only time it wasn't was when she said that if we kept going straight we would enter another's territory.

Not being able to tell if she was lying or not we listened. We had to stop because night came.

She said that the snakes are harder to see and we wouldn't be able to help whoever got bitten. Seeing reason we made camp.

"H- how are you guys moving so well in the dark?" She asks.

"Because we're used to being out in the dark. It's a bit darker than what we're used to but manageable." Jack states.

"How do you know how to make camp from scratch? Even those in the pack struggle and that's when it's light out."

"That's our business. Now something important why aren't you helping? You may not be able to set up a shelter but what about fire or hunting?" Steve asks.

"I'm," She pauses I feel her gaze move to me. She stares at me for a minute or two then continues. "I'm an Omega."

"Why did you stop and look at our friend Omega?" Steve asks.

"First don't call me that!" She snarls at him I had returned to place the fire wood down and start one up and broke a stick hearing her snarl at my friend. She shrunk back and continued.

"Second I stopped because well that's isn't really the greatest thing to announce and I still see her as a potential mate that I want so I got embarrassed saying it."

"Why would saying that be embarrassing? It's a title like alpha and beta but they said theirs and seemed proud." Jack states.

"I'm not answering that one. I asked two questions and you asked two now we're even." She says and turns her head.

I just got the fire started and was getting ready to go hunting.

"But there's three of us. So one question for each." Jack says.

"But I still only asked two. So I get to ask another question."

"No. Only two out of the three talk to you." Steve says.

"Then only two questions get answered." She states and refused to talk.

I walk up to the group. She turned and saw me approaching and tensed. I pointed my thumb over my shoulder and nodded.

"Ok." The guys said. Then I left.

"Where is she going?" She asks.

*Whistle.*

I whistled. A whistle that's low at the beginning but rose in volume and pitch and speed up towards the end.

"Well looks like that was three questions." Steve states and I could practically hear the smugness in his voice.

*Snap!*

A snap of a twig drew my attention. I was already some distance away from the camp.

I went in the direction of the sound and spotted a big buck. This thing looked like it could tower over me.

I saw that it was alone. I slowly approached the animal afraid of frightening it.

I couldn't risk moving down wind so once I got closer it noticed me. I put my hands up as if to say I come in peace.

It looked at me hesitantly. I moved over to some berries and plucked them then handed them out to the animal. It slowly approached me.

When I showed no signs of being a threat and was patient it started eating out of my hand. I quickly and swiftly broke it's neck.

It was dead in an instant. I cleaned and prepared it then brought it back.

"Oh oh! Look at you!" Jack teases as he sees the hull.

I chuckle at him and we start to get ready to cook. I got some herbs and spices while I was out.

Chef Jack made sure we all knew what was edible. He said how are my minions supposed to get me my ingredients if they don't even know what they look like.

We didn't argue w/ him and we simply just learned it. But we did give him a good beating when he called us his minions.

"S- she caught that all by herself?!" Omega asks in amazement and shock.

"That's four and you yet to answer our previous question." Steve states.

"But you didn't answer my last one." She counters.

"We did but we did so nonverbally. Her coming back w/ food should have answered your previous question and since we had to wait for an answer so did you." He says.

"F- fine. My title is embarrassing because it basically says I'm the weakest or one of the weakest in the pack." She relents.

"Yes. The yes is to your fourth question and this is for the fifth one you were undoubtedly going to ask if I didn't explain. But why can't we call you by your title?" Jack asks.

"Because being called by my title is embarrassing." She says.

"You didn't get embarrassed you got offensive so tell us the real reason." Steve says.

"Being called by my title can be demeaning and indicate that I'm in trouble." She says.

*Click click. Clap click.*

"If you and those other five are mates w/ each other then how come you guys call alpha and beta by their titles when alpha said she didn't have to use the title?" Steve asks.

"How did you get that from a couple of sounds?" She counters.

"That's confidential now back to our question."

"She doesn't have to because we know that a human using a title instead of a name is a sign of being cold and/ or distant to or from the person. We didn't want and still don't want her to be like that to us. But we do it to each other still because of respect. Alpha still had to call her mom and dad their titles out of respect. So we basically have what you call a work side and a personal side. The only time we would mix the two would be when the alpha needs consoling or convincing because they're most likely to listen to their mate more than someone below them. Or if the alpha or beta or a higher rank is being intimate and you kinda want them to finish a bit sooner but don't want it rougher. Well they're extremely possessive and dominant so begging while using their title could push them over the edge. But you need to be extremely careful because if it worked a bit to well they'll be ready for another round and chances are you want a break. Of course the stronger their mate's rank is the rougher they are and a bit less over protective. Meanwhile it's the opposite w/ the weaker rank mate. Then they feel like they need to protect them at all cost from anything and everything." She explains.

"Well damn. You're gonna have to make sure you're not alone w/ them if they catch us. Because I don't think they're going to be the most understanding considering everything." Jack states.

"Shut up. I'm scared of what's going to happen to us once the alpha's mother comes into the picture. I have a feeling that she might give them an idea to do on her and I get the feeling that if they feel like they nearly lost their mate, whether or not said mate accepted them or not, they're going to be really cuddly and clingy." I nod at Steve's statement.

"They are. But they can get pushy too." She says.

"Pushy? How?" Steve asks.

"First what are you guys doing to the meat? It smells really good but I don't remember burnt meat smelling good." She asks drooling. The guys busted their guts laughing at her.

She is after all eyeing the meat like she've never seen a piece of meat a day in her life before. And I have to admit I even laughed at her.

The guys started laughing harder and when I looked to see why she had stopped drooling and was staring at me completely amazed and absorbed.

I waved my hand in front of her face and she snapped out of it.

"S- sorry!" She says looking down I saw her hair move and realized she had wolf ears on top of her head! Like actual wolf ears!

"First of all we're cooking the meat not burning it. We can't eat raw meat like you can apparently. Second can this one touch your ears? We just noticed them and she seems completely enthralled." Steve asks.

This snaps me out of my daze. Omega turned red but nodded. I got estastic and immediately started petting her.

She tensed then leaned into my touch.

"Now back to our earlier question." He adds.

"W- well depending on the situation they could try and mate w/ you." She states.

"Now when you say mate you don't mean?" Jack asks.

"Sex." I stopped my petting as we all froze.

"Which cases does that happen?" Steve asks.

"Say an alpha got jealous and they had a weaker ranked mate like an omega. Then a rival alpha saw and decided to test their luck. They start making passes and flirting w/ the omega. Well afterwards the jealous alpha would try to assert their dominance and leave their scent on the omega. Be it through sex." She explains trying to get me to resume my petting.

I do and she seems pleased.

"But why didn't the omega refuse and leave? If they have an alpha after them already and they know what's going to happen unless that's what they wanted." Jack asks.

"Definitely not! Even betas dare not do this unless they had a major fight and are too mad to see reason! Omegas aren't permitted to speak back or against a higher rank. It's seen as disrespectful. As is any lower rank doing so. The exception is if they're mates then it's necessary and seen as mates being there for one another. And the lower the rank the more disrespectful. Cause then others see the high rank as a joke if someone weaker than them can talk and act how ever they like and not get punished. So unless given permission to speak or implied permission like a question being asked to them or anyone who knows the answer than the lower rank can get punished how ever the offended party sees fit. So if that situation were to happen the alpha who has claimed the omega as a mate would feel like they haven't done enough to show that the omega is not for the taking." She elaborates.

"Why did you respond to me saying unless they wanted that to happen like you did?"

"Because though the alpha may be a bit more pushy they won't be necessarily rough. They just want to mark what they claim as theirs. But if the one they claim doesn't do anything when given the opportunity to do so and encourages it then that's something else. The alpha would be rougher, wilder even. Now like I said earlier about alphas being rougher w/ their mate if they're a higher rank well they still hold back. But when they get wilder they stop holding back as much. Since now they're not only showing others but their mate themselves who belongs to who. And since the alpha would most likely feel disrespected then like before they will punish the disrespectful party as they see fit so if it's a beta even when they beg, if the alpha felt so disrespected, they won't stop till they're both passed out. Meaning they won't stop when their mate passes out they'll keep going till they quite literally can't. No food or anything. So an omega doing that is even less likely because yes the alpha will stop when they pass out but they often gag the omega to prevent begging. The alpha will feed them and get them water but afterwards it's right back to claiming what's theirs. W/ the beta it can be at most a week but the omega since there's food and water involved plus resting a week isn't even close to being done."

"Does the alpha act similar w/ any other rank below the beta. Like the closer to omega the more similar the treatment becomes like the omega treatment?" Jack asks.

"No." She answers shortly.

"So why the drastic change in treatment. Yes you said omegas are weak but they must be stronger than that?" Steve asks.

"Because omegas have died during regular mating so something like that really caused omegas to absolutely fear getting an alpha's attention. Omegas tend to desire other omegas as mates seeing as there isn't a drastic difference in power. It's a lot safer for the omegas that way especially during mating season."

"There's a mating season?" They guys ask.

"Well more or less it's not specific in time but it's a chain of heats happening."

"So heat, mating season, and so much more. Yeah you two have it made." Jack states. We both punch him in the arm for that comment.

"How come you guys can hit each other but someone so much as look at you the wrong way and she tries to kill them?" She asks.

"Because we don't tend to badly hurt each other. Like when your mom swats your hand away from something she doesn't want you having. It hurts a bit but you don't need to get help because of it." Steve answers.

"Food's done." Jack states. He hands us our servings and the omega looks confused when she's handed one.

"What?" Steve asks.

"You're feeding me?" She asks as if she couldn't believe it.

"Yeah? Why wouldn't we?" Jack asks.

"Because I'm your prisoner." She answers like it's obvious.

"What do you guys do to your prisoners?" Steve asks.

"We beat them, starve them, torture them, and pry them for information." She answers.

"Did you guys consider us or at least him as a prisoner?" Steve asks.

"Him yeah. You as well but then the alpha's mother took an interest." She states.

"Would you have done the same to us when she wasn't around and before the alpha's mother took an interest in me?" He asks.

"Yes and no. We would have fed you since you're humans and really weak. We might of lightly tortured you but we most definitely would've pried for information."

"Why? The feeding we'll leave to us being weaker for now. But why the change in beatings and everything?" He inquiries.

"Because that treatment is mainly for traitors and spies. And those guys tend to be supernaturals as you tend to call us." She informs looking him dead in the eyes.

"But you guys need food and water as well. So what else is there that you're not telling us?" He challenges matching her gaze.

"We do that to weaken their forces. One less strong warrior but another mouth to feed." She says.

I think she was trying to see if he would keep prying. He didn't though which shocked her a bit. But what really took her by storm was what he said.

"More resources and time spent to help the spy recover and heal. The more spread out their forces are. The more energy spent. But the less people available to gather resources so less food and stuff to go around. Higher chance of starving and exhaustion. The weaker everyone gets and becomes which in turn makes them less of a threat and easy to dispose of." He states catching on to why they do what they do.

"So you think like us?" She asks measuring him up.

"No. I think like a survivor. Like someone who has people to protect and mouths to feed. Basically a king or ruler of some kind. I just wanted to see if you realized what you were doing or not. I also know that you were going to treat us different because you wouldn't benefit from treating us like that. After all someone your alpha is trying to woo has people she cares about and you have them as prisoners. You know she's protective of them. So seeing someone she's protective of hurt by people who are trying to woo her would only cause her to hate you more." Steve states.

Her eyes widened in disbelief.

"Now we have different ways to deal w/ our prisoners than you. So take the food and eat up." He says as he hands her, her food.

She takes it and he comes back to us. We saw her take her first bite and whatever she was feeling from the earlier conversation was erased in mer milliseconds.

She lit up and started scarfing down her food. We all chuckle at her and start eating ourselves.

Have any idea how long it might take us?" Jack asks me.

*POP.*

"Really a few days?" He asks in disbelief. I nod.

"How come?" Steve asks.

*Click, pop. Click tsk tsk.*

"Wait how fucking fast are you!? You made a 2-3 day trip in the span of 7-8 hours! And this is damn near double that!" Jack asks.

"But that still doesn't explain the vast contrast." Steve states.

*Tsh tsh tsk.*

"So she's dragging her feet. And w/ her trying to turn us around all those times makes sense that keeping her on track would be added to the time. Got any tips or tricks to speed things up?" Steve asks.

*Pshh.*

"Ok. Let's get that started." Jack says as he pops up.

"Get what started?" She asks.

"Something to help us on the way back. You just go to bed." Steve says.

She looks at him like yeah right. I side eye her and she immediately starts going into the shelter. We were able to get everything done and booming fast so we got some sleep.

"Hmm?" Omega hums as she stirs. I was shaking her awake. "What's wrong?" She asks me.

"Just get up we're heading out." Jack says.

"What?! This early?" She asks shocked.

"Yes now let's move!" He states. She gets up and I take down the shelter.

*Tweeet!*

I whistled as Steve and Jack try to just walk off.

"Oh yeah. How did you end up curled up w/ her?" Steve asks her.

"I got cold so I found something warm." She states turning red.

"Mhmm." Jack hums sarcastically. I had the shelter down fast so we were just waiting for her to lead us. "Are we gonna go or?" He asks.

"But isn't she-?" She went to asks but stops when she saw me ready to go. "She's fast." She states then we head on our way.

We would walk a bit faster than her so that we would bump into her. She sped up a bit to get ahead some space but slowed down again so when she sped up so did we.

This got us to cover more ground faster than yesterday already and we were only walking for 30 minutes.

"Umm don't you think we should have ate before we left? I'm kinda hungry. Do you want to stop?" She asks. Jack taps her shoulder and hands her some jerky.

"Where did you-?"

"We made it last night." He interrupts her. She takes it and tried a bit and just like before she lit up. We chuckled again but kept moving.

"There's a stream over that way. Want to stop for a drink?" She asks. We nod then start making a filter and fire. "What are you guys doing?" She asks.

"Well we're going to make safe drinking water. There's all kinds of germs that could get us sick if we don't." Steve says.

We made some pots and stuff last night as well. I saw some fish so I took my socks and shoes off and got in the stream.

I was able to catch a few. So we also cooked fish. We just threw them on the fire and charred them.

We ate, drank, and stored extra water for the trip. So we were able to speed up a lot and now we're where the cave was where the original 6 took me.

I tapped Steve and he nodded. I did the same for Jack who then did the same as Steve.

"Ok let's take a break." Jack states. We all sit and pass out more jerky.

"U- umm. Can you do what you did last night again?" Omega asks me.

Her ears slightly dropped and her head was lowered. I look at her confused for a moment then realization hit me.

I nodded and she perked up. She crawled over to me and put her head in my lap. I was cross-legged and she chose the middle.

It was a bit awkward but I started petting her. After a few minutes we heard light snoring. I looked at the guys.

Steve was on the side she was facing and nodded confirming she was asleep. I took her head off my lap and we booked it.

I helped them jump from tree to tree and soon we were at the fence. So we kinda sped her up so much we practically had her sprinting that's why it was fast.

I knew how to get to the fence from that cave so once we got there is where our plan kicked in well part two that is.

We didn't get down and we even moved away from the hole in the fence. Then we jumped over the fence once we thought the coast was clear.

We ran for a bit taking cover when needed. We got to one of our hide outs and relaxed visibly.

"So who's telling the fam?" I ask.