Chaos

Ashes to ashes

"Chaos, welcome." Alpha Redstone welcomes us into his home. It was anything but humble. The ceiling was strung with chandeliers and the flooring was pristine wooden planks that seemed more like glass and unnatural. What was the point of having a wooden cabin home if it wasn't rustic. This looked like a mansion painted to look wooden.

The two wolves, blue and red had receded once we were outside the gates of the mansion and we were left with a naked human who was previously the golden wolf. He seemed very comfortable in his birthday suit, which meant these wolves were very in touch with their origins- That, or he was a nudist.

"Alpha Redstone, we apologize for any inconvenience", Elijah answered the alpha with a firm shake of hands.
"No worries, you've luckily come at a great time", he didn't smile or offer any welcoming gestures other than shaking Elijah's hand. I backed up and surveyed the opening, scouting each panel with sharp eyes.
There was a vacant picture on the wall. There were photos surrounding one small insignificant space on the wall under the stairway. It was polished and absent of dust so I couldn't make out what was there previously, but it was unusual to see such a cluttered space absent of a single picture in the top left corner.

I didn't bother mentioning it as we continued following the alpha to his office/bedroom.

"May I ask what brought you here today?" He settled into a chair in the corner of the room and turned his back to us in the chair. Elijah stood as I made myself at home, resting on the leather couch adjacent to the dark mahogany desk. I flicked my hair over my shoulder and crossed my legs in a professional manner.

"As I recall Redstone, you invited us, you just hadn't disclosed when." I studied this room as well.

There were two women in his bed, both naked and hugging each other. Probably his playthings. I surveyed the rest of the room in hopes of finding something related to his son, who's name I still had no recollection of.

"His name was Aven", the alpha bowed his head in concentration as he wrote on a mess of pages scattered on his desk.

"You didn't have contact with him during his stay in the facility, did you?" I asked. It was hard to decipher if those girls were dead or asleep. They were definitely human, that I could tell, but they're heart rate was surprisingly low.

"No, as per the contract", Redstone sighed.
"May I see this contract?"
"Yes, Gaven, fetch the papers."
Gaven, the golden wolf turned naked werewolf turned and left the room. When he came back, one of the girls were up and drowsily rubbing her eyes, Gaven now wore a loose black jeans and bare chest. He handed the folder to his Alpha, a thin folder with barely nothing in it.

"Gaven... eerily similar to Aven, don't you think Chaos?" He voiced my thoughts perfectly.
"Yes, Eli", I leaned back on the couch and he snuck himself into the couch with me.
"Aven is my twin brother", Gaven said coldly.
"You are quite opposite then", I responded. I hadn't even bothered to look at him as I said this and turned my attention back to the alpha. Why send Aven and not Gaven? Gaven seemed more capable of withstanding testing, whereas I knew Aven to be hotheaded and less composed.

"I sent Aven to get stronger", Redstone took off his reading glasses and pushed himself away from the desk slightly, only to stare out the window right above him. "If he died, it wasn't a loss, it was opportunity for Gaven to become an Alpha by right. If he lived, he would be a powerful Alpha no doubt, and Gaven would be his Beta."

Smart. But it looks to me he's still short of one very powerful alpha.

"Where is his ashes?"
Redstone tosses me the folder of the contract and I took it up to review it. Opening the folder, there was a single paper with small text over viewing the progress so far and briefly touching on his mental state. At the end, they assured Redstone that things were going well and his son was happy, all despite what the result showed to be emotional and physical breakage.