Prologue

Darkness is all I see. It's all I ever see when they're not here. Sometimes they reward me with sunshine for a couple hours if I have done something correctly. It rarely happens though, I always mess up somehow.

I wish I was with my family, sure they weren't my real family but they were family none the less. I remember that night so clearly it haunts me every time I fall asleep.

The blood, the screams, the tears, and all I could do was cower away into a corner wishing somehow it was all a nightmare and none of it was true.

That was the night 'Father' told me I wasn't his real son. I figured that out by myself when I turned into a wolf. I always thought I was a late vampire. He told me the truth about my real family. I made a promise to myself that I would find them.

That promise went down the drain when they found us. Steven, which was his real name, died protecting me. He yelled for me to hide over and over again. If only I would have listened, then maybe I might not have been captured.

I was the reason they all died, and I hate myself for it every single day. My brother watched our little sister being torn apart. Then it was his turn. No one dared to touch me. I tried to use it to my advantage, but it just made everything worse. 'Mother' oh how I adored her.

Even when I wasn't her own, I was not blood-related to one of them; they all still treated me like I was.

I'm brought out of my thoughts at the sound of the metal door slamming open. The light temporarily blinds me, but I still enjoy what little I can get.

I look at them to see the evil smirks that remain on their faces each time they come in here. "You ready?" She asks. I have no choice in the matter, and it's always a rhetorical question.

I stay silent, not answering or looking at them anymore. "Answer, you piece of shit!" He yells and whips me with his favourite whip. It has metal spikes on the leather.

I have so many scars on my body I don't even remember how it looked before. I'm skin and bones they don't feed me, I'm too disrespectful to have food.

"No, I'm not going to do it." I whisper loud enough for them to hear. Another strike hits me but on the face. I cry out in pain and clutch the side of my cheek.

"Bring it in." She says and stands more towards the wall, while he steps out and brings in the new victim. It's a little girl this time. She has tear stained cheeks and she looks like she's taken more than one beating. She sees me tied to the wall and unfortunately think I'm safety to her.

I feel the pain going through my body like it usually does when they want me to become the true monster I am. I smell the little girl as she crawls closer to me. She's a human girl.

"P-Please help m-me." She calls out to me. I feel myself lose the last bit of control I have. The true monster coming out. "Come here I'll protect you." The voice says to her. I just sit inside my head, watching it all happen.

This is how it always happens. He charms his prey into thinking he is their saviour but he, no we, are their demise. She gives a small smile and crawls into his lap. She hides her face from their view. That poor little girl just made the biggest and last mistake of her life.

I see what he thinks of doing. I get a moment to try and reach out. "Get away from me quickly!" I yell at her with my voice and push her off. She listens to me and tries to crawl away. He takes control again, and the little girl's body is mutilated in a blink of an eye. There's blood everywhere, her insides are outside, and he prides himself by planting a kiss on her dead lips.

He does that to all his victims, apparently shows respect to his prey. He is my wolf but they changed him, we were friends when I first spoke to him but after that one night he was gone and something else replaced him.

I get control back and I just sit there, no tears fall. I haven't cried in a full year, they broke me long ago and they know it. "He's never going to be ready if he can still sometimes take control back!" He yells. I ignore them and just stare at the dead girl in front of me. The guilt always eats away at me, knowing they died by my hands.

"That's why I made this my love." She says and gives him a kiss. She holds up a silver medallion. It has a moon on it and it shines from the light that hits it. "What will this trinket do?" He asks her while taking it from her.

"This will keep him trapped forever. As long as this is placed on his neck his wolf will have full control." She says while smirking at me.

I crawl into the corner scared more than I have been in a long time. "Well now that is good. Put it on him." He says and hands it to her. I scream, kick and thrash trying anything to get her away from me.

She did something that made me freeze in place. She puts the medallion around my neck. I unfreeze and feel a pull in my head. I try to resist the pull feeling my wolf coming through. I eventually lose all my strength and it happens. He becomes me, I become him and he must follow a revenge based plan.

"Are you sure he's ready?" He asks while looking around us. "He's fine Babe, we've been over this a million times. Now would you just trust me?" She says getting impatient with him.

After that night where they put the medallion around my neck I haven't been in control once. He's killed and slaughtered so many already, all innocent, all thinking he's their saviour. That was a year ago. During the time after that and now, I have been training and am now pure muscle.

I know how to kill someone in the simplest ways, and I'm disgusted with myself. I talk with my wolf, but he's too far gone. It would take a miracle to change him. I found out there's a spell on him as well.

I look at my two kidnappers, they ruined my whole life. I see them arguing over and over again. She finally slaps him after his last complaint.

She always treats him like this but he does the same, still wonder how they're mates. Worst mates I've ever seen. "Okay go on, time to set the plan into action." He says. I feel my body move but I'm not in control he is.

"Please don't do this to our family Gage! What have they ever done to us! Gage please!" I yell inside my head.

"Shut up Theo!" He yells at me. I don't listen and continue to yell, trying to change his mind. I know it's a lost cause but a guy can try. We walk up to the front doors of the castle, he knocks and the huge doors open.

We look to the woods and see them still there, she shoo's us in and he complies. "Hello and you are here for?" A guard asks. I observe him he's quite big which means he has many blind spots that could be deadly.

"I'm here to see the Moon Goddess." He says with his deep tone. The guard nods and tells us to wait here while he goes to ask if we can see her.

"Why Gage? Why do you want to do this? Please Gage just take the medallion off then we can help you and we'll be free. We don't need to kill our family, they-" I'm cut off by him yelling at me.

"They are not our family!" He yells and shuts me out. Luckily I can still control this part so he technically can't shut me out. We wait silently for the guard to return.

When he does, all he says is to follow him. We comply and follow after him silently. We look around the hallways and admire the beauty of the architecture, it's such elegant designs. He opens another pair of huge wooden doors.

We keep our head down not wanting to draw any attention yet to ourselves. We can see them but they can't see us. We look at the couch and see a young girl probably 16 already. We look at our parents, our mom has raven hair with amazing white eyes. Our father has mostly grey hair but he's still a very handsome and huge muscular man. I'm sure if we had to fight against him we would meet our match.

She dismissed the guard and he left us alone in the room. "Hello young man, how may I help you?" She's asks us, her voice is so soothing and calming to my ears. We don't answer but only take the hoodie off of our heads and look up at them.

We see the tears begin to form in her eyes but she says nothing, our father is having a similar reaction while apparently the girl is the only one who can speak. "Mom who is this guy?" She asks our mother. Gage growls at me telling me this is not our family and never will be. I roll my eyes at him and ignore him, loving the fact that I'm finally meeting my family even though we were sent here to kill them. I'll do everything in my power to not let that happen.

"Keep dreaming Theo." Gage spits at me in our head.

"Theo?" She asks as she comes near us. "Mom." We sigh out, I do it in relief that she really does remember us he does it to put on a show. "I-Is it really you?" She asks not coming closer but we can see she wants to.

We nod our head with a smile and she smiles back and hugs us tightly. We groan from the strength she has. "M-Mom?" The girl asks our mother with a shaky voice. She approaches us hesitantly. "Callie come meet you're big brother." Mom says to our sister.

She comes close to us and looks us over, next thing we know there's a girl hugging us while crying. It's Callie. While I am actually crying in my head Gage only smiles. I can actually feel his emotions still and I know he is slightly happy whether he likes it or not. "Shut up I don't like it!" He yells as we still hug Callie.

Callie releases us and stands next to our mother. The man, who is our father, steps closer to me and looks me over more carefully. He suddenly smiles and breaks into tears while pulling me into his embrace.

We both move closer into his embrace loving the feel of it. We both like the affection we get from our family.

"I don't love them and I never will Theo! They are not our family! Get that through your thick head already!" Gage yells at me as we still hug our father.

"Stop it Gage! We both know they are our family! Stop following their orders, please!" I yell at him, just trying to change his mind. "No we are to follow orders nothing more nothing less." He says with an emotionless voice.

I internally sigh and just continue to watch. "I'm so happy my son's back. We thought you were gone forever." Our father cries out as he hugs us even tighter.

"Kyle the boy can't breathe let go of him." Our mother chuckles, he releases us but still keeps a hold of our shoulders. "Theo-" I cut him off and scream out in pain.

I fall to the ground and wither around in pain. I feel my bones begin to break and begin to form into my wolf form. "Why is this happening we've shifted before?" I yell in our head as my arms snaps.

"How the fuck should I know!" Gage screams back at me as both our legs break and morph into our hind legs.

We see our family looking at us worriedly. Our father is trying to speak to me, my mom is yelling for someone to show up while Callie is crying her eyes out.

We feel our fur start to sprout from our skin and it doesn't feel like it did the first time. This time it felt like we were engulfed in fire.

We continued to scream out for help and in pain. After 20 minutes of the agonizing pain we pass out from exhaustion.