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"[b]Disclaimer:[/b]\nThis story is about feral wolves and it followes a realistic biology (realistic anatomy and aging).\nIt was inspired by the movie \"Alpha and Omega\" and asks the question: What do Alphas really learn during alpha camp?\n\nThis story is purely for entertainment and does not reflect the opinion or likes of the writer. 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This story is about feral wolves and it followes a realistic biology (realistic anatomy and aging).
It was inspired by the movie "Alpha and Omega" and asks the question: What do Alphas really learn during alpha camp?

This story is purely for entertainment and does not reflect the opinion or likes of the writer. For legal reasons all characters in this story are considered adult. (Actually they are kindoff adults in feral understanding and biology, even though I still add a few tags because of the aging in the story as well as side characters involved.

Adult notice: This story series is an adult (R-Rated) story of ferals having intercourse (including incest). The story starts with the main character at a young age (2 years, which is basically short before adulthood for wolves) and might be seen by some as adolescent or cub, which is why I will add these tags.
If you do not like this kind of content or if your are still a minor in your country (usually under 18) please stop reading this story directly and check your account settings.", "writing": "[b]Chapter 1: The Chosen[/b]\n\n``Niera'' The ears of the young wolf perked up. It was her mother who was calling her, and she turned toward the mountain trail that went up to the dens.\n\nShe did not want to go home already. She just got started with the fights with her brothers and the other kids and she already won twice.\n\nNiera was a young wolfess who would soon turn 2 years, but she was still considered a pup by all the adults. With 2 years she would have to work and hunt with the others and help the pack.\n\nNot that she did not help with hunts already, or at least she considered herself to be a help, but only after their graduation ceremony before the pack they were accepted as a part and were expected to work with the others.\n\nNow she still could play with the other cubs, unless her mother was interfering.\n\n``Niera, come here this moment.'' The voice of her mother sounded a bit angry for her not to respond at the first time. Niera sighed, let a short bark out to signal that she heard her mother and with a last envious gaze towards the other pups, that continued their game without her, she turned towards the trail up to their den.\n\nBecause Niera's father was the Alpha of the pack and her mother was the Alpha female as well, they had the cave at the top of the small mountain. It had a nice view on the valley, but the way up was always a hassle for Niera.\n\nShe had 3 older brothers that were still with the pack and two her own age. She was the only daughter of the alphas.\n\nWhen Niera was nearly at their cave, she looked over the valley. The white snow that covered most of the treetops and the grassy land reflected the sun and she had to close her eyes half not to be blinded by it.\n\nThe valley was so big, that it was not possible to see anything clear at the other edges. It was a valley surrounded by mountains, but Niera had only seen the eastern side of the valley yet.\n\nFour packs ruled over the ``Howling Valley''. It had been named this way because the night howls of the packs echoed through it every night.\n\nBut there was peace between the packs, and they respected each other's borders. There was enough food for all of them and the packs rarely met with each other.\n\nOnly when they hunted in the middle of the valley, it happened that two hunting groups circled the same prey, but they had come to agreements on working together when this happened and sharing the prey afterwards.\n\nAll wolves in the valley were timber wolves and Niera was part of the ``Eastern Pack'', that ruled, like the name said, the eastern side of the valley.\n\nThe other packs had the same kind of clear name, which was given to simplify their territory. The Northern Pack, the Southern Pack, and the Western Pack.\n\nThe Alpha's met regularly and Niera knew that her father had been at such a meeting this day but came back a few moments ago.\n\nNiera took the last turn and looked into the stern face of her mother. Like Niera, her mother Amira had a red-brownish nose. Niera was often compared to her mother and other told her that she was cute and will be as beautiful as the alpha female one time.\n\n``Why did you not react the first time?'' asked her mother and Niera winced. ``Sorry Mom.'' She said with a slightly annoyance in her voice. ``We were in the middle of fighting.''\n\nHer mother waited for Niera to get in front of her and then she started to use her tongue to groom her daughter.\n\n``Mom?!'' Niera said annoyed and tried to get away, but the alpha female blocked her path with her paw and continued to groom her until she was satisfied. Niera was not fully grown yet and even compared to her brothers of the same litter, she was on the smaller side.\n\n``Your father has something to discuss with you.'' Her mother said after she took a step back and observed the result of her efforts. ``Don't let him wait any longer.''\n\nNiera just shot an angry gaze at her mother, for forcing the bath on her, and bounded towards the cave entrance, with her mother following her on the heels.\n\n``Welcome back, Dad!'' she greeted her father. Holo was a big wolf with black ears and legs. His gaze fell on his daughter, he did not look stern like her mother, but he smiled. Niera sighed and was happy to see that. Maybe it was nothing bad that he wanted from her.\n\n``Hello my girl.'' He greeted her. ``Come her and sit with your old father, won't you?'' The atmosphere in the den seemed a bit tense even though her father was still smiling.\n\n``What is the matter? Mom said you wanted to tell me something?'' her father's gaze went to her mother who still looked stern, but this time to her husband.\n\n``Yes, it was just decided at the Alpha meeting today.'' - Niera looked up to her father with anticipation. ``What did you talk about?'' she asked but her mother rustled and swatted her tail.\n\n``Let your father continue and listen silently without interrupting him.'' The young she-wolf noticed that her mother was tense and on the edge. She did not dare to defy this order.\n\n``You see, we decided on the young wolves who will go to Alpha training this year.'' He father continued and looked at his daughter again.\n\n``You still are a bit playful and need to learn how to listen better, but you are strong and if you want you can be disciplined.'' Her father explained her. It was true, that even though Niera was smaller, she never lost a fight with any of her brothers or the other pups her age.\n\n``We decided that you will be one of the few to get the Alpha training this year.'' Niera jumped up excited and her tail began to wag.\n\n``Really? I am going to Alpha School?'' she asked and bounced around.\n\n``Niera! An Alpha does not raise such a havoc. Keep your dignity. Do you really think that she is ready for this Holo? I mean... you know...'' but her father interrupted his wife.\n\n``I know Amira, but this is what was decided. For the future of the peace and for a strong pack, she needs to learn and take her place. She is a strong girl, and I am sure, that with a little training, she will be a great alpha sometime in the future.''\n\nNiera disregarded the worries in the voice of her mother. She knew that Alpha training was hard and dangerous. One of her older brothers came back from it with scars and told her that he nearly killed himself at a hunt.\n\nHer heartbeat strongly, and she was super hyped about getting a chance to go to Alpha school.\n\nIt was very rare for females to be chosen. There was at most one female of any pack each year, sometimes even in two years.\n\nThe girl also knew, that even if you could rise to be a Beta with hard work and training, there had never been an Alpha female that did not go to alpha school.\n\nUsually, the girls who went to alpha school also were three and she might be one of the youngest accepted females for the training.\n\n``When does it start?'' she asked her father excited. She could not wait for it to begin.\n\n``In two weeks, you will meet with the other candidates and your teacher in the neutral area in the middle of the valley.'' Her father explained.\n\n``Who will be the teacher this year?'' was the question from her mother and her father smiled before her turned to Amira and answered. \n\n``It is my old brother in arms Khara.'' He said. ``None could be better to train a strong alpha.''\n\nNiera knew Khara. He was the Alpha of the Western Pack and had visited them a few times.\n\nShe often had called him uncle Khara, because he and her father had been very good friends, like brothers, in their youth.\n\nKhara was, like her father, a leader of his pack. It was a tradition, that each year a different Alpha was looking over the training of the selected few candidates. This was also to deepen the bonds between the packs and make sure the peace, that lasted for generations already, would continue.\n\n``Can I go and tell my friends?'' Niera asked and her father chuckled. ``It seems you are excited already, right? Well run along but be sure to come back right after. It is starting to get dark.''\n\n``Thank you, dad!'' She shouted over her shoulder, already making her way out of the den.\n\n``Be here by the dark!'' her mother reminded her and with the voice of her mother in her ears the young wolf dashed down the hill to the place where the other pups were playfighting.\n\nWhen the girl left the cave, her parents sat together and had a long talk, until the girl returned with her siblings at the last light of the day.\n\nThe two weeks went by in a flash and Niera held her chest pushed out and her head high when she played with the other pups. They all had been surprised and congratulated her and her brothers had been a bit jealous.\n\nBut despite the pride she felt, she started to change her behavior already, like her mother told her. Every evening, her mother talked sense into her and reminded her to show respect for elders and responsibility in her actions.\n\nNiera decided that it would be the best preparation to act like an alpha with the other pups, overseeing their fights, stepping in when two of the pups were in a quarrel and trying to show everyone how responsible she could be.\n\nShe even rescued one of the younger pups, that nearly fell down a cliff and her head was hot from pride when her mother praised her for her sense of responsibility. But every evening, after she had her long talks with her mother, the eyes of the older she-wolf looked a bit sad, even though Niera could not think of a reason why this was, and she did not dare to ask.\n\nShe felt much more like a grown up already, even ordering around the other three years old pups. The news that a female was chosen for the alpha training, and in addition as only one for the Eastern Pack, got around like a wildfire and soon everyone in the pack knew about it.\n\nThe other kids approached her with respect and awe, when she bounced by and nodded to them as a greeting. Most of the older wolves smiled at her and some even had a weird grin on their muzzles, but Niera did not pay them many thoughts.\n\nDaily she trained her strength and agility, took part in fights with her friends and brothers and trained by hunting rabbits, which she already managed to do successfully.\n\nThe princess set her mind to make sure to not embarrass her father at the alpha training and to impress uncle Khara with her progress. The last time she had seen him had been half a year ago.\n\nHer body did not grow much in this time, but she was sure that her uncle would be impressed at how ladylike and alpha-like she had become.\n\nEvery day she spent hours of grooming her fur to make it silky and shiny, just like the fur of her mother. In the past, she had not paid much mind at her outer appearance, because for fighting it had never been important, but now, that all the eyes were on her, she bathed in the ``Ahs'' and ``Ohs'' when she walked down the hill freshly groomed and with slow and dignified steps.\n\nThen the day had come to say goodbye to her mother, brothers, and friend and to follow her father the long climb down into the center of the valley, where they would meet in the middle of the day with all the other candidates and uncle Khara.\n\n``Are you exited?'' her father asked her, when they left the pack behind and walked through the forest. The wind was blowing softly and made piping sounds in the trees, that did not have their leaves yet.\n\nIt was quite warm for the end December. Usually at this time of the year, there was snow all around, but this winter had been very mild, much different from the last one. The ground under her paws felt soft.\n\n``Yes!'' Niera answered and the excitement was clearly audible in her voice. ``This is what I have been training for.''\n\nHer father chuckled a bit. ``The training will start now.'' He mentioned. ``You have to promise me something my sweetheart.'' He stopped for a moment, waiting for her to catch up.\n\n``What is it?'' she asked and looked into the black eyes of her father.\n\n``You have to promise to never forget that you are representing our pack.'' He said and his voice sounded a bit concerned. ``Endure the training with dignity, whatever will come and be strong. Don't give up and give your best for the future of the packs and the valley.''\n\nThis sounded very important and serious, much different than his usually talks. In general, it was her mother that had serious talks like this, while her father always had been playful with his little girl and comforted her.\n\n``I will do my best and won't bring disgrace on me or the pack.'' She answered and showed her toothy smile. Her blue eyes glistened in excitement for the training.\n\n``Good.'' Was all her father said and he nuzzled her muzzle and ears before he turned around and continued to lead the way.\n\nThe rest of the way, her father was very silent and Niera looked around and took in the scents and pictures of the surrounding. She had never been to these parts of the forest, but now in Winter it did not look much different than their own.\n\nOnly the scents were different. There were very few scents of wolves and they mixed with other animals. She could smell that her father had been here and wolves she had never sniffed before. This journey alone was already an existing adventure for the little wolf.\n\nIn the distance she heard the mumbling of a river, but it sounded bigger than the one near their dens.\n\n``We are at the meeting point soon.'' It was the first sentence her father said since he reminded her of her duties. ``You can see it over there, where the rivers meet.''\n\nNiera followed the direction her father pointed with his head and saw the forest shy away and open for a grassy plain. There was a sea that was filled from three rivers, coming from the east, the west, and the north. They all filled the big water and then the liquid turned south and continued in a bigger river.\n\nNiera could already see a few wolves on an island in the middle of the sea. She followed her father, who went to the edge of the sea and then started to swim towards the island.\n\nA howl greeted them, coming from the big wolf with the black snout and scars all over the left leg, that stood at the coast of the small island and waited for them to get out of the water.\n\nNiera shook her fur to get the water out and was a bit disappointed that the water ruined her carefully groomed fur. She did her best with a few licks to get the fur silky and shining again.\n\n``Hello Holo!'' Niera perked her ears and saw the big wolf greet her father. She recognized him. It was uncle Khara.\n\n``Hello Khara, sorry that we are a bit late. It seems everyone else is here already.''\n\nBoth leaders laughed and Niera stole a glance around. There were only four other wolves, all bigger than her. One of them looked younger than the others, a young boy with black eyes and a white snout.\n\n``Is this your daughter Niera?'' her ears perked up and she looked back at Khara, who now stood in front of her. ``By the moon, she has grown up quite a bit since I last saw her.''\n\n``You mean since last year? Sure, she has.'' Her father responded and to Niera's joy she heard the pride in his voice.\n\n``Welcome little Niera.'' Khara smiled at her. ``You have become a real beauty.'' She felt a bit embarrassed and looked down at her paws but at the same time her heart raced from this compliment. ``Thank you, uncle Khara.'' She whispered and it took her a while to look up again and meet his gaze.\n\n``Let me introduce you to the others.'' Khara said. ``These two are my sons. Bahg...'' he pointed at a big wolf with black legs and the same black eyes than his father. ``... and Chael. He is your age.'' It was the younger wolf with the white snout.\n\n``Then we have Jeliso of the Southern Pack.'' He introduced a big wolf with green eyes. ``And Paqu of the Northern Pack.'' Niera looked at the intimidating young wolf. He was the biggest of the young wolves and had red eyes that looked like they burned into her, even though the wolf was smiling and clearly not hostile.\n\n``They will be your classmates in the alpha school.'' Khara added. ``Be sure to be nice to her. It is rare for a female to be chosen for the alpha training, so consider yourself lucky that you have one in your class.''\n\nNiera felt the pride of being a very rare case dwell up inside her again. She smiled up to the other wolves and the howled as a greeting to their young classmate.\n\n``I will be on my way back.'' Her father interrupted the welcome ceremony. ``Niera, be strong and work hard to become a fine alpha. We are proud of you. We know you can do it and will learn to take your place in the pack.''\n\nNiera nuzzled her father one last time, before he jumped into the sea. It was a very short goodbye, and his words were uncommon, but at this moment Niera did not think about them. She already had her heart set to the training.\n\nShe watched her father jump out of the water at the other side and with a last gaze back to her and a howl, that all of them returned, he vanished in the forest.\n\n``We will also depart now. The training area is far to the south, outside the valley. Consider yourself lucky, because only alpha candidates are ever allowed to leave the valley.''\n\nThey all followed the big wolf and swam towards the west to then follow the river to the south a bit, before turning to the right and leave the territory of the southern pack on their side to enter a small gorge that led to a hidden cave with tunnels through the mountain. They took one day to pass the mountain tunnel and get out to the open again.\n\nThe first intimidation of the other young wolves soon vanished from Niera, and they were all nice to her. After they travel through the tunnel, she already saw them like big brothers, and they seemed to have adopted her like a little sister as well.\n\nShe had an especially good understanding with Chael, who was a bit bigger than her even though he was her age, but Niera knew that from her pack. She had only been the smallest of the age group.\n\nTwo days after walking through the mountains outside the valley, they reached another small valley, with a sea in the middle, a small river flowing down the mountains and a big den, that Khara led them to.\n\nNiera could smell the remains of other wolves, but the scents were so faint that it must have been months since they had been in the cave.\n\n``Welcome to Alpha Camp!'' Khara introduced when they all stood outside the cave and looked over the valley.\n\n``Here you will learn all you need to know as an alpha!''\n\n\n\n[b]Chapter 2: The Training begins[/b]\n\nNiera waited for her turn. Exhausted she looked at the other candidates eat. It was the first big catch of them in the last weeks.\n\nFinally, the young wolves had their team work down to move like one body and they circled the deer. Split it from the herd and while Niera and Chael chased it, Bahg, Jeliso and Paqu waited in different directions for the ambush.\n\nIt had been Bahg that got the kill. They had chased the deer right into his fangs and the strong young wolf killed it fast and efficient. Khara had praise for all his students.\n\n``That was good work. Remember, teamwork and trust are important as an alpha. The hunt needs you to work as one.'' The old alpha lectured them, while they dragged the deer back to the den.\n\nEven though Niera had been exhausted, she had no time to rest when they arrived at the den. While Khara started to eat, he had them fight for the right to eat next. It was like every day.\n\nHe had them figure out the ranks by fighting and like every day, Niera had no chance against the older wolves. She and Chael felt the one year between them and the others and even though the young wolves trained even harder than the rest, it was not that easy to catch up.\n\nNiera's stomach growled, and she watched Chael slowly approaching the carcass after all the others had their fill. She knew the rule. The strongest fighter could eat first.\n\nThe times, where she could get the first bite because she was a pup were gone. Here she had to fight for the right to eat. Khara explained them, that this was the path of the alpha. They had to learn how to fight for their place.\n\nFinally, it was her turn and hungrily she dug her fangs into the flesh and gulped it down. Luckily, even though it was a small deer, there was enough left and so she would not get hungry like in the last days, where there had only been a little left.\n\nIt was thanks to Khara, that she had have food at all in the last week. He taught them, that an alpha needed to regard the wellbeing of all and make sure that even the weakest had enough to survive.\n\nNiera did not like being called the weakest. She had always been the best in her age group. Her brothers and the others had never been a match, but here she was the lowest rank. Between all the other alpha candidates, she had to admit defeat every day.\n\nThis push into her pride was the hardest to bear for Niera. She started to sneak away at night to train in secret, but the progress she made was only very slowly visible. Because of her lack of sleep, her body felt weak, and she seemed to lose more easily.\n\nThere was no comment by Khara for that. He knew that she was training half the night, because, unbeknown to her, he followed her and made sure she was safe.\n\nDuring their training at daylight, he taught them tricks and made them run for miles to gain more endurance.\n\nThey spend hours of jumping over the small river back and forth for miles, and it was not only once but multiple times that one of them fell into the water.\n\nIt was not a nice experience, because winter was coming, and the first snow already started. The water was freezing cold and when they got wet, it meant running extra hard to get warm again until the fur was dry.\n\nWith the snow slowly covering the land, it became even harder to keep the balance in the fights and to get a firm grip on the ground to jump.\n\nBut without noticing, Niera got used to the hard training and her body started to steel itself. Her legs did not shiver and wobble under her in the evening anymore and even after miles of jumping back and forth over the river, which she managed with very few incidents of getting wet now, she did not get out of breath.\n\nBut still she had to admit defeat every day the male wolves when fighting over the food, because they too got stronger.\n\nBut Khara saw, even if the young ones did not notice yet, that the fights got much closer each day. With her body picking up the endurance and her mind getting used to the lower sleep circles, Niera made progress fast.\n\nAt some nights, Niera also just lay outside the den and looked to the sky. She had a bit of home sickness for her mother, her father, and her brothers. But between the exhaustion of the increasingly hard training and fighting for the food, she had less and less time to think about her home.\n\n``Listen, you have improved a lot since coming here. I can see the right attitude in all of you.''\n\nKhara was again giving one of his speeches to the pups, after they had eaten. They just lay there, satisfied from the food, and listened to the old wolf.\n\nChael licked the snout of Niera to help her get rid of the blood from when she had pushed her nose into the deer, that they managed to hunt this day. She let him be, thankful for the help as it was more complicated to clean her own nose alone.\n\n``You fight for the rank every day here, but don't think this will stop when you get back. There will be fights for the ranks every week and you will have to find your place and defend it.''\n\nKhara smiled at the sudden attention he got and looked into the eyes of everyone. Just Chael was still occupied with cleaning Niera, but his ears twitched and were turned into the direction of the older wolf, so he knew that his son was listening.\n\n``When you are finished with the training, you will not become alpha. After all there is only one alpha male and one alpha female in each pack.'' He explained.\n\n``You will start as Beta, the closest rank and only ones that can become alpha. All that you learn here will be, what you will do as a beta.\n\nYou will hunt, you will fight for the pack to protect them, and you will defend your rank under the betas.''\n\nHe chuckled and finally Chael was finished with cleaning the face of Niera, and he directed his full attention to his father.\n\n``If you want to become an alpha one day, and I am sure you want, you need to never stop training. You need to grow stronger than any other beta. Only then you will have a chance to become the alpha.''\n\nKhara looked into the eyes of the young ones and smiled.\n\n``The strongest beta has the right to fight the alpha when he wants to take over the pack. But it is rare for an alpha to be challenged, because a responsible beta will not disturb the peace of a pack for his own gain, but only for a good reason.''\n\n``What is a good reason?'' it was Jeliso, who glues his green eyes on the old teacher.\n\nKhara nodded to him and continued. ``That is a good question.\n\nWell, often an alpha, that is getting weaker, will step down. Then the strongest Beta will fight for the right to be the new alpha.\n\nBut sometimes alphas lose their strength and judgement but cling to the role. Only then a beta might challenge them. Only if the actions of the alpha are hurting the pack.''\n\nHe looked around and all the pups still gave him the undivided attention.\n\n``Strength is not everything as an alpha. A lot of alphas are accepted and respected for their experience and their leadership. Therefore, an alpha is rarely challenged until he steps down or dies from age.''\n\n``So, we should not challenge an alpha at all?'' a bit of disappointment was audible in the voice of Paqu. His red eyes glimmered in the dark den.\n\n``If it is for the good of the pack, you might challenge an alpha, but always think about the pack, not about yourself. An alpha is the soul of a pack. Every change of the alpha and any chaos created in the process will weaken the pack until the new order is set.''\n\nThe big young wolf still looked a bit confused, and the old wolf chuckled.\n\n``This is hard to understand, I know. But how about this. When a new alpha takes over through a fight, there might still be others in the pack, that do not agree.\n\nA pack has a big loyalty to their alpha, and some might not accept the new alpha, even though he won the fight.\n\nIf this happens, betas will challenge him every day and it is not rare for new alphas to lose the position after a few days again in a fight, because they took it by force.\n\nYou can proof that you are the strongest but gaining the trust of the pack is not so easy.''\n\nNow all young wolves nodded and understood what their teacher meant.\n\n``This is why a responsible beta usually does not fight the alpha if there is no direct danger for the pack caused by the alpha's actions.\n\nThey strengthen their position under the betas, to be second in command and when the time comes for the alpha to step down, they take the reins.\n\nA good alpha also includes his beta. Going from a beta to an alpha means taking on more responsibility and the leadership over the other betas.\n\nWhat you will learn in this camp here is to be great betas and rise in the ranks, but you will have to watch your alpha carefully and learn from him to really understand, what you need to do to become an alpha.''\n\nEven though Niera got tired, and her eyes became heavy, she forced them to stay open and listening to the old alpha. Every word sunk into her, and she tried to understand everything that would help her to become a good alpha and make her parents proud.\n\nKhara continued to talk about responsibilities as a beta and an alpha and that even as a beta, they might have to assume responsibilities for the pack and proof their worth as alpha candidates when the alpha is not there, like Khara who was training them now.\n\nThe lecture of Khara only ended just before Niera was not able to keep her eyes open and drifted off to sleep. She did not even notice the other wolves looking for their favorite sleeping spot but just sunk into the darkness.\n\nShe was already sleeping when Chael snuggled up with her and kept her warm and shielded her from the wind that entered the cave in a gust every now and then.\n\nEven though they all were rivals, and they fought hard against her when they had to, she was always the youngest and smallest and as such the others helped her.\n\nIn addition, she was the only female, and the affection of Chael might have had other reasons as well, but Niera did never spare any thought on that. Her mind was set to train harder and become stronger than any of the others.\n\nThe winter began to bare it claws and it became colder. Unbeknown to Niera, the valley where they lived always had milder winters than outside the protected mountains and soon, she had to learn how to survive in an unfriendly environment.\n\nEvery day became a fight for survival now. Not only food was a concern, but also water, even though they could also eat snow to get a bit of moisture in.\n\nThe ground became hard and slippery and Niera learned fast to run on the snow. Even though her paws felt cold and became numb, it was better than running on the frozen ground directly, that hurt her frozen pads and, if she was not careful, even had painful spikes and edges waiting for her.\n\nIt was not just stones or branches laying traps for her, but the earth itself, hard and cold, became an enemy and for the first weeks she looked at every step on the ground.\n\nThe other pups were no different and she was not the only one licking her paws groaning every evening.\n\nWith the days going by and Khara taking them to hunts and runs around the frozen mountains, Niera and her companions learned quickly to avoid the dangerous parts on the ground.\n\nThey did not even have to look after the first week. The paths they ran every day were known to them by heart and they knew where they could run.\n\nIn addition, they developed a six sense where they could feel the right path to take without stepping on any stones, hard earth, or branches. They started to even feel the ground beneath the snow.\n\nTheir paws also became more resilient, building corneal to protect itself. Not only did their paws not hurt anymore, when they came back exhausted from a full day of running, but they also moved much more silent.\n\nRarely, one of them stepped on a branch and made it break and echo in the forest with a cracking noise or they groaned from a misstep.\n\nBut the ground was not the only thing they got more sensible for. It was all their senses that improved in the coming weeks, and at the end of January, they knew every smell in their training grounds.\n\nThey could tell the different smells apart, even the anticipation of their alpha, when he was about to jump, had its own smell and they reacted to it and followed without a command during the hunt.\n\nThey got more efficient and got their prey without major sprints now. Every day another adolescent wolf took the lead, and they became a trained team that was as deadly as they were silent.\n\nNiera's muscles did not ache at the evening, even if they ran the whole day and she could feel how her strength increased with every day.\n\nAt the daily fights amongst themselves, the fights got much closer, and she noticed that she caught up to the others.\n\nShe could still not match them with raw strength, but she enhanced her agility and flexibility and used it to outmaneuver her opponents and dodge their attacks.\n\nHer yaws and paws had become so strong, that unlike in the past, the others could not ignore them anymore and they yowled when she bit harder after they ignored her warning fangs.\n\nShe was happy when at the end of January, she finally managed to beat Chael in a duel and got very close to beating Jeliso.\n\nNiera did not notice the time flying by. She was so occupied by the training and her own goal to become stronger, that she did not notice the weather getting milder. She thought it was her getting used to the cold.\n\nThey left the den before the first light now and went one round through their training grounds. This was for training to patrol the pack grounds later and they took in any change and reported it.\n\nKhara sent them out alone a lot of times now, in teams of two. One always went with the experienced alpha and got a special training to improve their fighting skills or to get a lecture on how to lead a pack.\n\nThere was no fight amongst them or jealousy because Kahara made sure that he gave them each a personal training every day and the order was decided by their daily fights for the ranking every evening.\n\nNiera's mind and muscles became like steel in the next weeks and she finally managed to win against Jeliso and Paqu a few times as well.\n\nIt was not like she won every fight against them. The only one she still had problems with was Bahg, but for the others she was about as strong as they were and at some days, she even managed to get the second place of the daily fights.\n\nEven though Niera was much stronger and did not need any protection anymore, Chael still snuggled up with her every night. They had become like siblings during the camp, because they were both the youngest and when the others rested, they still were out training their fighting abilities.\n\nThey became comrades in arms and analyzed the fighting style of the other wolves and even of Kahara, when he showed them a few tricks in combat training, and tried to come up with strategies on how to beat the others.\n\nNiera only noticed the end of winter and the warmer weather, when on the morning rounds, she and Chael discovered, that the small river was not frozen anymore and that the ground around it was nice and soft.\n\nBut there was something else Niera noticed. There was a rock near the river that they passed every day, but now she noticed how much she grew over the winter. In the past, she had not even been able to look over it and now she could easily jump over the rock with ease.\n\nBut not only she got bigger, but the others as well. The most noticeable was Chael, who was good a head higher than she was and even outgrew his big brother and was nearly the size of his father.\n\nThe older pups had grown a bit, but not as much, as they were older already, and therefore the difference in their size was less now. This could have been one of the reasons, why Niera gained the upper hand in their duels more and more.\n\nHer biggest rival right not was Chael, who improved his fighting, also thanks to their secret personal trainings together, and he even beat Bahg every now and then, something that Niera still did not manage.\n\nChael himself still lost regularly to Niera. His father Khara scolded him often, saying that he should not hold back against Niera, but she knew that Chael did not hold back at all.\n\nThe reason she outmaneuvered him most of the time was, that she knew his fighting style very well from their everyday training and she knew his weak spots.\n\nNaturally, she did not tell Khara or any other about it. Telling them his weak spot would not only make it harder for him to win against the others, but also diminishing her chances to beat him, because he would then work on covering them.\n\nThe hunts became much easier now, that the ground was not frozen anymore, and the snow retreated more and more. With the same accuracy that they used in winter, they now evaded branches or small plants to avoid any noise when moving around.\n\nNiera's daily routine now started with an intense grooming, because they lost their winter fur, and a nice and refreshing bath in the river.\n\nShe noticed that the other wolves followed her with their eyes, whenever they rested, and she felt that they finally acknowledged her strength and that she was on the best way to become a good alpha candidate.\n\nKhara changed the daily schedule a bit. He now went on patrol and training with one of them for a full day and let the others patrol in teams of two.\n\nNiera enjoyed the times when it was her time to learn from the old alpha. She learned so much from him, that she looked up to him like a second father now.\n\nShe soaked in all the lectures he gave her, and she was a fast learner. So fast, that she managed to soon beat Bahg for the first time and for once got the leader role for the hunt, which was now decided by the daily fights, and was proud when they came back with a big deer this evening.\n\nShe enjoyed every day, even though the training was still as hard as in the beginning, but with her improved fitness and endurance, the training was more like a daily walk for her now. She did not feel right without running a few miles every morning and her body was eager to run free after a longer rest.\n\nMost of the times, when it was not her turn to go with Khara, she was accompanied by Chael, who still was her closest friend of them all and cuddled with her at night, even though there were no cold winds he needed to protect her from anymore.\n\n\n[b]Chapter 3: The duty of an Alpha[/b]\n\nSpring finally was there, and the air became warmer and more fragrant with the smells of flowers and many animals that got out of their dens after the long winter.\n\nNiera was happy to investigate each different smell and took much longer on the morning runs to get every change since the last morning.\n\nShe developed into a very fast runner and only Chael was able to barely keep up with her when she was sprinting through the mountain forest. She was as fast as she was agile, and she could change directions in an instant and dodge a sudden branch or hole in the ground with ease.\n\nIn the daily fights, Niera won more and more and even Bahg had to admit defeat more often now, not only to her but also to his younger brother.\n\nKhara expressed his praises to the young wolves and made them examples for the others, but even so the older pups were not angry or treated them bad.\n\nOne of the reasons was most likely, that the younger ones got stronger than them, but it seemed also that they were as proud of their development as the alpha himself.\n\nThey all saw Niera and Chael as their younger siblings and they were happy about their development, even if they tried hard to get the upper hand again.\n\nIt was the third week of February when Niera woke up with a weird tingling feeling inside her. She went out of the cave, because she felt a bit hot, and she sighed when the cold breeze blew around her nose.\n\nShe felt exhausted, even though she had rested the whole night. She remembered waking up a few times at night and concluded, that maybe the rough night was leaving its mark on her, unless she got ill for some reason.\n\nAt the breakfast, the rest of the deer they caught the previous day, Khara announced that Niera would be coming with him this day and that they would leave directly.\n\nNiera had a bit of troubles this day to keep up with Khara. The tingling and the hot feeling inside her increased and she felt tired and exhausted pretty fast.\n\nFinally, a good mile into their patrol, she stopped and Khara directly stopped as well and turned to the girl.\n\n``I am sorry.'' She panted. ``I don't know what is wrong with me today, but I am not feeling well.''\n\nThe older alpha came closer and licked over her head. ``Does anything hurt?'' he asked with a smile.\n\n``No... it is just... I woke up a lot this night and I feel hot and there is a weird tingle in my stomach.'' She was a bit embarrassed to admit her weak state to the alpha.\n\n``I don't understand why, but it seems I got ill.'' She picked up the scent of Khara, who was now next to her and licked over her back to comfort her.\n\nThere was something different about his scent, but in her confused state she could not decide what it was. His scent for some reason made the tingling inside her stronger, or it was just her imagination.\n\n``You are not ill.'' Said Khara after a while and his voice sounded happy.\n\n``What is wrong with me then?'' she asked, breathing heavily through her nose, and taking in the scent that was suffocating and alluring at the same time. She did not understand why, but she liked the smell for some reason.\n\n``You just went into your first heat.'' Said the alpha and licked over her head again. ``I expected this to happen in spring.''\n\nShe looked up to the big wolf, who circled around her. Niera only knew a bit about heat. Her mother had mentioned it once, but she had not really listened to her mother back then. She had been a little girl with no worries about the future.\n\n``I have been waiting for this.'' Khara said and something in his voice sounded excited, a sound Niera did not hear in his voice before.\n\n``Your real training will begin now.'' Khara said and confused by these words, Niera looked up to the older alpha.\n\nHe was gone, or at least he was not in front of her anymore. His scent was still around her and made her mind swim.\n\nThen she felt it. A piercing dull pain in her neck and something big moving over her. She felt how her body reacted on its own without her even processing what happened yet. Her tail moved up and so did her hind, while her legs spread a bit further to the side.\n\n``Good girl.'' She heard Khara's muffled voice above her and then she emitted a painful screech when something thick pushed into her untested pussy.\n\nShe felt her nether lips giving way and just now felt that they were soaking wet. Something inside her was ripped apart, that for a short time stopped the advance of the big thing, but now it pushed deeper into her.\n\nNiera was confused and totally overwhelmed by the feeling, so that she only groaned. The tingling inside her got stronger as well as the scent in her nose.\n\nThe organ, that entered her, established a slow pace, and pushed in and out again and again. There was pain, but it slowly faded away and there was another feeling, quite pleasant, that filled in for it.\n\nThe tingling inside her grew more and more with each push and she could hear the huffs of Khara above her.\n\nShe could do nothing more than moan and shiver under the alpha, while he taught her firsthand about mating by taking her hard.\n\nThe tingling inside her reached a peak and she felt her body convulse around the intruder and massage it. She moaned loud and a soft howl even escaped her, while her insides tingled happily, and she milked whatever was inside her.\n\nShe felt the thing poke some second barrier inside her, that with the spasms seemed to open slightly, and then it pushed extra strong and further inside her.\n\nThe intruder was a bit bigger at the end that now pushed through her cunt, and she felt it stretching wide around the big thing and make her groan under her moans.\n\nThen her lips closed behind the big bulge, that she noticed it was, and while she felt the intruder throbbing, she also felt the bulge increasing and filling out her entrance to the brim and stretching it even further.\n\nNiera expected pain, but the stretching somehow stimulated her in addition and her insides, that already stopped spasming, returned to the climax and started to milk the throbbing thing again.\n\nThen Niera mewled loud when something hot hit her deepest inside and spilled out of the intruder in spurts. Her insides directly started to burn in a good way and her mind became clouded. She only focused on the hot feeling inside her womb and the pulsing of the big member inside her.\n\nKhara let go of her scruff and started to lick her ears and head, but Niera only felt the hot liquid inside her, burning like lava in her sensitive cavern, and moaned from all the unknown feelings inside, that overwhelmed her young senses.\n\nAfter a while, she felt Khara shifting on top of her and leaving her back. The heavy weight on her, that she unconsciously supported, went away and she felt him turning around and his tail brushing over her hind.\n\nNiera collapsed there from the overwhelming feeling and felt a tug at her pussy. Her hind was held high by the thick thing inside her, that tied her to the big alpha, who now lay down to allow her to lay down as well.\n\nNiera still did not understand what happened and her mind swam in the endorphins and pleasure from her first time and the climaxes she achieved.\n\nShe lay there, silently huffing and moaning, feeling the hind of Khara against hers and his tail softly brushing over her hind which made her tingle inside again.\n\nHer mind slowly cleared up, but she still felt the big bulge inside her. She had so many questions, but it took a moment before she could ask the first one.\n\n``What happened?'' she looked confused to her hind, where she saw herself being pushed against the hind of Khara and the big wolf looking back at her.\n\n``I think I should explain it to you.'' He chuckled, something she did not hear him do yet.\n\n``You see, a female alpha, or beta, has another duty that males do not have.'' Niera perked her ears. This was the first time she heard that she had more to do than the others.\n\n``What is that?'' she asked, when Khara did not continue, and it seemed he had waited for this question.\n\n``You see, the females have the duty to bear strong cubs for the future of our pack. This is the most important thing to ensure that the pack survives.'' \n\nShe looked at him and could see at the corner of her eyes, that he grinned at her.\n\n``And the heat of a female shows that she is ready to bear pups and it is upon the alpha, or in case of a beta female also the beta's, to ensure she got a healthy pup inside her.\n\nNiera still did not completely understand. She only understood that what they did had something to do with pups.\n\n``What we are doing is called mating it helps you to have pups. This means you will have pups in a few weeks.'' He still smiled and she saw that he looked at her reaction.\n\n``It is the females' responsibility to keep the alpha and betas happy. An alpha female is chosen by an alpha and only he mates with her. But beta females will make sure to mate with the other betas, or the alpha if he chooses so, to relieve their stress. Mainly during her heat, but also sometimes at other times.''\n\nKhara lifted and she felt a tuck at her snatch and after some slight pain she felt the bulge, that got much smaller now, slip out with a plop.\n\n``I will train you good to accept the love of an alpha.'' He continued and she felt him lick over her hind and her snatch and for some reason the tingling inside her, that slowly faded away, peeked up again.\n\n``And I will also make sure that you are full of pups when we leave here.'' He moved over her again and bit into her scruff. Her insides shivered and her hind, by itself, lifted and her tail went up.\n\nShe still felt the slimy hot content, that he poured into her, tickle out of her snatch, when he already lined up with her again. She could barely see, with turning her head to the side, that something big and red swung between his legs before he moved over her and pushed.\n\nIt did not hurt as much as the first time, but her insides still stretched reluctantly. It was much more slippery now and his big member slipped inside her easily and even poked through her cervix, but she groaned the first few pushes, until the endorphins and her heat made the tingle increase and let her moan and mewl under the big alpha while he took her with a faster pace than at the first time.\n\nNiera did not remember many details of the following hours. Khara talked to her, when he was knotted and resting, waiting for them to part, but the tingling and burning inside her from his spunk kept her occupied and so she forgot most of it right away.\n\nAfter his third knotting, she started to enjoy every second of it, even the slight pain when he pushed the growing knot through her sore and overstretched labia.\n\nFor some reason, her body really liked and wanted this. When she got enough energy after his third time parting from her, she presented to him voluntarily, without knowing why she did this. Her body just moved by itself on instinct.\n\nAfter he parted the fourth time, while Niera was resting, he moved to her head and presented his dick to her. She had, for the first time, a close view on his massive member and while thoughts of disbelieve, that he fitted into her, went through her head, she did not even hesitate to extend her tongue and lick the slimy layer off his big fleshy rod.\n\nShe pushed her nose into his balls, enjoying the scent and taking it in deeply. She moaned when she tasted their combined flavor on the member.\n\nAll reasoning left her, and her body just moved on itself, while she did not even understand why she was doing this.\n\nIt became a test of endurance and Niera barely kept up with the eager alpha that mounted her again and again, only interrupted by a small walk to a nearby river to take in some water before continuing.\n\nNiera lost the sense of time, and her mind began to swim. The constant stimulations of his member or his tongue inside her snatch made her twitch slightly all the time and bounce between heavy moans and yowls during her climax and whimpers while she just twitched under him.\n\nHer womb felt full of the goo that he splashed into her and whenever his knot popped out of her snatch, it gushed out on the ground, because her snatch was not able to contain the loads anymore.\n\nShe even felt the liquid push further inside her and into the fallopian tubes, making sure that her eggs were bathed in the live giving seed of the alpha.\n\nNiera did not remember where she was at first, when she woke up.\n\nShe had the smell of Khara in her nose and felt something warm against her back.\n\nSlowly, she opened her eyes and saw a few trees and bushes. She heard the soft whistling of the wind.\n\nKhara rose when he noticed that she woke up and licked her cheeks. Niera closed her eyes. For some reason she enjoyed the caring act of the alpha. Her insides tickled a bit and she tried to remember what happened.\n\nShe had felt weird this morning and somehow a bit weak and then she had gone on patrol with Khara.\n\nThe caring licks of the Alpha moved over her eyes and ears and to her neck. Niera moaned softly from the soft touch of his tongue. Her whole body began to tingle in a good way.\n\nVery slowly, Niera remembered that Khara had explained her something, even though she could not remember what it was because her head was occupied from the wonderful warm feeling of her body.\n\nThe tongue of Khara moved further towards her hind and when it hit the base of her tail, the tail raised and Niera moaned again. She remembered that Khara and her had been very close. They had done something that had made her forget anything else and felt wonderful.\n\nHer body and her mind came to the same conclusion at the same time and her body rose and presented to the alpha, while Niera opened her eyes again and turned to the side over her shoulder with a longing gaze towards the alpha.\n\nShe saw that Khara was taking a deep breath from under her tail and from the scent of him, that picked up strongly, it seemed he liked her smell.\n\n``I see, you are ready for lesson two.'' He just stated, before he jumped on the back of the willing bitch and moved his snout into her scruff.\n\nNiera felt the light piercing of his fangs, but they just triggered the endorphins and made her body twitch in pleasure. Then the big meaty rod of him pushed through her quivering and waiting folds and invaded deep inside her tunnel up to her cervix, breaking into her sacred cavern in one go.\n\nNiera's world began to spin and swim again. Her mind did not care about remembering what happened, but just concentrated on the wonderful feeling inside her.\n\nHer legs moved a bit more apart, while her front was crouching to hold his weight. Her hind pushed against his thrusts eagerly.\n\nNiera moaned, sighed, whimpered, mewled, and huffed under the big wolf and enjoyed every second, even when he knotted her. Her insides felt super sensitive, and every friction made explosions of joy run through her body and at the same time made her longing for the next, even more intense, push of Khara and feel satisfaction from having the longing of the last push fulfilled.\n\nShe was on a rollercoaster of feelings while the big wolf humped her. Not only the pleasure of the flesh, but also her mind began to submit completely to the alpha.\n\nShe always had looked up to him and loved him somewhat like an uncle or a second father, but at this moment, she loved him as a lover and submitted to him to do whatever he pleased with her body.\n\nHer affection, that she felt for him before the heat, totally merged with the heat and the newfound, still confusing, and not completely understood, feelings and she stopped thinking straight but only thought about the next push and the next wonderful tingling inside her.\n\nShe howled with him, when he pushed his knot in and it filled her out, while his spurts painted her womb, that emptied during her sleep, with his spunk.\n\nHe turned around again and with the tingling and burning of his shots slowly winding down, she slowly noticed that Khara was trying to get her attention.\n\nShe shook her head a few times and took a deep breath, shaking off the dizziness in her head and making her vision clear up.\n\nShe looked over her shoulder and saw that Khara turned around, but he was still tied with her.\n\n``Niera?'' he asked again, and she let out a soft ``Yes?''.\n\n``Oh, there you are. You enjoyed yourself quite a bit as it seems.'' There was the chuckle of Khara again and Niera could not help but feel a bit embarrassed.\n\n``I will teach you something, that might come in handy later.'' He said, while he laid behind her, his still throbbing knot inside her.\n\n``Whenever a male is tied like I am right now, you shall take the time to get a good rest. It will take a while until we can part and you can use these times to gain energy. You will need it later.''\n\nNiera nodded and put her head on her front paws. She could not sleep or calm down. Her insides were twitching around Khara's member and knot and the tingling, even if it was fading away, kept her mind occupied.\n\nIt only appeared her like a short time, before she felt Khara tugging and pulling out of her. The slimy content of her womb tickled through her tunnel, but before Niera, who prepared to now sleep, that she was not so distracted, could fade away, she felt a lick at her pussy.\n\n``Rump up, the next round is starting.'' Was all that Khara said and even before her mind processed what he said, her hind rose, and she went into the mating position with him climbing on top of her right away.\n\nKhara took her again and again, multiple times in a row. He did not spend much time with grooming her or licking between parting and climbing on top of her. She barely had time to raise her hind every time before he was on top of her, humping away.\n\nSlowly she managed to let her body rest, even though it was still twitching around him, every time he turned around. She closed her eyes, drifted off into a light slumber that was interrupted when he pulled out and urged her to present again.\n\nEven though the mix of feelings and the act itself were very exhausting for the girl, physically and mentally, she gained enough energy in the rest in between to get through the next mating without dropping out.\n\nShe did not count how many times he filled her. With less time between him pulling out and pushing in again, her insides had not much time to empty, and she felt bloated from his cum, that filled her womb to the brim.\n\nNiera did not know how much time had passed, but she was sure that more time passed than at the first time he took her and that they did it many more times. She lost count and she also did not care.\n\nDeep inside her, she longed for him to take her again every time, even though she did not understand that a lot of these feelings were directed by her heat and her instincts.\n\nFinally, Khara parted for the last time, and she did not feel the anticipated nudge of his nose. She tried to rise her hunches with shaky legs, but Khara licked over her head and whispered into her ear.\n\n``Sleep a bit, I will keep watch.'' He said. ``There is a lot of more exhausting training waiting for you and you need to get back your energy for that.''\n\nThe last thing she felt, before a deep slumber took hold of her, was Khara, who lay down next to her and the warm feeling of his body next to hers. She trembled a bit from exhaustion and the pleasure, that still coursed through her, but finally she faded away and went to sleep, just like he asked her to.\n\nThe sky between the treetops was filled in a deep red color when Niera woke up. The evening had come without the girl ever realizing the passing time.\n\nKhara already was up and when he noticed that she woke up, he came to her and licked over her face. Niera moaned and closed her eyes to enjoy the affection until it stopped and left a cold feeling of the wind on her damp fur.\n\n``Clean yourself before we depart. We need to take a hurry if we want to arrive before it is getting dark.'' Khara told her and she, still a bit sleepy, began to groom herself.\n\n``Just your hind is enough for now.'' Said the big alpha and Niera moved more to her hind and smelled him on her.\n\nMore of his spunk had been leaking out over her slumber and the fur on her legs and the area around her snatch were covered in slimy and half dried spunk.\n\nLike she was asked, Niera cleaned herself up and her heat made her get turned on by the taste of Khara. She even plunged her tongue a bit into her snatch and scooped out a bit of the still warm spunk inside her.\n\n``Good.'' Was all that Khara said and Niera just noticed that he had observed her the whole time.\n\n``Now follow me. There is more training waiting and we need to get back before the sun sets.''\n\nKhara let her run in front and lead the way, while he followed her.\n\nEvery now and then, she looked over her shoulder and found him very close to her with open nostrils and keeping close to her.\n\nSomething in her tingled and her instinct wanted to stop and let him atop of her again. She remembered most of the second mating session they had, or at least the pleasure and the affection.\n\nShe always had seen Khara as some kind of an uncle or second father, but her affection and her feelings had changed a bit this day. Her heat was calling out to her, and he had been the first male to take her.\n\nHer heart somehow submitted to him as her first lover. As the one who introduced her to this pleasure and she had fallen for him not only as a discipline.\n\nEven though her mind did not grasp it yet, but her heart also longed to stop and have him take her once again.\n\n\n\n[b]Chapter 4: Special Training[/b]\n\nIt was already getting dark when they returned to the den and the other trainees greeted them happily with a howl.\n\nKhara went to the boys while Niera had a hard time to fight her instinct to push her tail up and present to the alpha right away after they stopped.\n\n``I had a small special training with Niera today, but it is not finished yet.'' The alpha started. Niera only listened half to him because she felt hot and in need.\n\n``She entered her heat and I introduced her to the duty of a female to help the pack with repopulation.'' Kahara explained further.\n\n``For the next part of the training you will help me to train her. When she returns, she will have to help not only the alpha but also the betas to vent their needs and therefore she needs to learn how to be open to more than one wolf.''\n\nNiera moaned and raised her tail directly, crouching and presenting to Khara, when he closed in to her and licked over her hind. She could smell her own heat scent getting stronger.\n\n``I will show you how to handle a bitch in heat and then you will take her in turns.'' He explained while he spared a few licks over her snatch and made her moan, and her insides explode in pleasure.\n\n``This will be as much a training for you as for her, because it is also your duty, when you are alpha one day, to produce strong litters for the pack.''\n\nNiera whimpered in need, peeking over her shoulder to the alpha. She did not listen to his words but just hoped he would stop talking and starting to take her. She did not even mind, that the others were around, even though she felt embarrassed about being seen during the act.\n\nFinally, she felt the heavy weight of him on top of her and she sighed when his big member moved between her lips and finally, after she held in the urge for so long, she felt his member inside her again.\n\nHer mind clouded and her vision got blurry, but she was in heaven. The feelings inside her exploded with each of his pushes and she pushed back, meeting his thrusts every time. Her snatch squelched and slurped in the rhythm of his tosses and his balls clashed with her drenched lips with a smack every now and then.\n\nShe felt the expanding bulge press against her lips and assumed a wider stance to make it easier for him to push in.\n\nWhen he got stuck inside her and both were hit by their climax, she collapsed below him in ecstasy and twitched around his pumping member, that pushed more of his spunk into her.\n\nNiera closed her eyes and concentrated on the feeling of the goo inside her and the smell in the air.\n\nIt was not only her and Khara, but she also smelled the musk of the other boys pick up.\n\nLike she learned this day, she rested while they were tied and her insides slowly winded down from the stimulations.\n\nWhen Khara pulled out, she directly felt a tongue lick her snatch again and she assumed the mating position, without even opening her eyes.\n\nThe weight, that hit her back, was a big lighter than before and the bit in her neck a bit clumsy. When the rod was pushed through her folds, it did feel different. Not so powerful and experienced but rather eager and hastily.\n\nNiera opened her eyes and her vision got back enough to look over her shoulder and see Bahg on top of her. Her eyes went wide, and she did not understand. The stimulations of his dick inside her made her world spin again, but it did not feel quite as nice as with his father's before.\n\n``You seem to not have listened before and be surprised now.'' Niera directed her gaze back in front of her and she saw Khara.\n\n``I only showed them how to do it and for the rest of the night, they will take you. This will be an extended test of endurance for you and a training for them on how to be an alpha.''\n\nThe older wolf chuckled while she moaned from the stimulations in her tunnel. She opened her muzzle for a big moan, but her eyes were fixated on the wolf in front of her.\n\n``See it as a training for you to what will await you as a beta and it is also a training for them, because they will have to make sure to give their genes to the next generation, even as betas.''\n\nThe head of Niera did not take in all the information because her heat and the pleasure inside her made it hard for her to concentrate on the words.\n\nInside of her she felt the affection for Khara, and her nostrils took in his scent. She closed her eyes and tried to imagine that it was him, but it felt different.\n\nShe extended her head and pushed her nose into the fur of Khara, taking deep sniffs of his scent which made her body heat up even more.\n\nThe alpha still chuckled and laid down in front of her, which allowed her to push her nose closer to his rear and under his belly.\n\nShe found his member, that was only half out of the pouch and her nose smelled his strong musk and her own scent in the fur.\n\nHer tongue moved out by itself, without her even planning anything like that. She started to lick over his limb member, bringing it back to live, tasting their combined liquids from his member.\n\nWhile she enjoyed the taste and scent and moaned into the fur of Khara, Bahg hammered her hard, but his inexperience showed. Not only did he not hit all the spots of the girl below him, but he also did not bother to pay attention to his knot.\n\nNiera began to groan when he pushed his big bulge, he waited too long and it was already nearly max size, through her folds but even though he was less endowed than his father, his bulge was at this state too big to enter.\n\nFinally, she felt hem spurt and spasm inside her snatch, pushing his maybe first ejaculation into her, with his knot resting against her wet and sticky folds. Her insides were not at the climax yet, but she felt quite exhausted from his fast and inexperienced advance.\n\nThe disadvantage for Niera from him not knotting her was, that he pulled out right after his climax and without any delay and some rest for her, Jeliso was ready to take his turn.\n\nShe just buried her muzzle in the fur of Khara, while she whimpered and groaned from the fast advance of the southern pack wolf.\n\nHe was even less endowed than Bahg and he was as eager and uncaring for her.\n\nHis member pushed in and out at a fast pace, splashing her heat juice and the semen of Bahg all over the ground.\n\nLike the other youngster, he did not pay much attention to her or her reactions but just hammered her, thinking about his own pleasure.\n\nLike Bahg, he also missed the cut of when to push into her snatch and because of this, he waited too long and was locked outside with his knot.\n\nPaqu was no different from the other boys that took her. He had always been the calmest of them, but the scent of her heat and seeing the others take her had him in overdrive and he did not care at all about her wellbeing.\n\nAgain, she was denied the climax, and even groaned in pain because the first push of Paqu missed the mark and poked into her backdoor, spreading her sphincter hard pushing in half his tip, before he pulled out and struck gold with his second push.\n\nWhile Paqu worked out eagerly with her trembling exhausted under him, she heard the voice of Khara speaking to the others.\n\nHis tone sounded as if he was scolding the boys, but if he was, Paqu surely did not listen to him, just like she herself. They were too occupied and Niera was happy when the young wolf finally stopped and spurted inside her tunnel, like his friends not even reaching her womb, because the spunk stopped short on her cervix, and pulled out leaving her shivering and leaking the spunk.\n\nShe felt a warm tongue wash over her twitching cunt, licking away the spunk that leaked out of her. The tongue was caring and if not for the scent still around her nose and feeling the fur, she would have thought it was Khara.\n\nShe moved her legs into a steady spread, still shivering exhausted and pulled her nose out of the fur of Khara, looking back over her shoulder so see who was so caring with her.\n\nShe saw the head of Chael, who seemed to be more caring and considerate with the girl than his friends or brother.\n\nShe raised her tail high, giving him the best access, and taunted him with her quivering folds that produced more heated juice and increased her scent.\n\nFor a moment, her vision got clear, and she saw the black eyes of Chael lock with hers when he moved over her.\n\nHis weight was heavy on her back. He has had a growth spurt and even outdid his brother in size now but soon after, she noticed that not only his body exceeded his brother.\n\nHis fangs gripped in her neck, and it seemed he observed carefully before, because he hit the right spot at the first time, making her shiver in pleasure from the endorphins traveling down her spine.\n\nShe closed her eyes and pushed her snout back into the belly of Khara, while she felt the big wolf moved over her completely and holding his big member just at her entrance.\n\nShe could feel him shiver from trying to hold himself back. When her lips gripped around his tip, he moaned loud and pushed. His push was eager, but not as fast as that from the others. He was clearly trying to control himself and slow down, even though he did not manage to hold back with the tight vice grip of her around his tip.\n\nNiera left the fur of Khara again to push her nose up in the air and moan lustful when she felt the member push through her tunnel up to her cervix. \n\nIt felt even bigger than Khara. She was not sure if this only was the case because the others had been less endowed or if Chael really outgrew his father in size, but it felt incredible for her.\n\nHe held himself back shivering for the first five pushes but with every push he used more force and went faster.\n\nBut despite that, Niera moaned and mewled under him. She was not sure if it was by chance or if Chael observed his father better than the others, but he hit all the right spots inside her.\n\nBefore she felt his knot inflating, she already reached her climax and with her climax, he pushed further into her, breaching her cervix, and pushed his growing knot through her snatch.\n\nAfter he was stuck inside her, his pushed became faster but also very limited because he could only move a few millimeters at a time.\n\nShe moaned and milked his member and finally he stopped, and she felt his knot and rod twitch and tremble and then spurt after spurt entered her sacred chamber and mixed with the seed of his father.\n\nShe felt him let loose of her scruff and heard a howl and in her climax, she also pushed her head into her neck and emitted a tired short howl while her insides milked every drop of the content of Chael's balls into her.\n\nWhen Chael turned around, after he spared a few licks over her ears, she dropped down on her fore legs with her snout still in the fur of Khara and drifted off into a light slumber. Finally, she was able to get some rest.\n\nShe heard Khara talk to the others, and his voice sounded much less scolding now, but Niera did not care what Khara had to say. She felt exhausted and wanted to rest.\n\nShe was barely rested when Chael pulled out and woke her up. Licks over her hind signaled her, that she should present directly again and without opening her eyes she just moved herself into position and soon felt the eager pushes of one of the others inside her.\n\nAfter their first time fueling their curiosity and eagerness, and most likely also because of the scolding of the Alpha, the boys improved with each time they took her. For Niera it still was very exhausting, but luckily, they finally managed to knot her all and she was able to rest a bit after each of their fast advances.\n\nShe did not get a climax every time, but at least Chael always managed to make her squirm under him.\n\nSoon she was able to tell who was inside her just by the size and feeling of their dick inside her, without even having to check on them.\n\nChael was by far the biggest, still feeling even bigger than Khara for Niera. After that came Bahg, who was clearly smaller than the alpha, and after this Paqu and Jeliso.\n\nEven though their members were smaller, they soon picked up the right techniques to not only take more pleasure themselves, but also make her get something out of it.\n\nNiera stopped caring half through the night and just lifted her hind whenever she felt one pull out and the licks of the next in line.\n\nThe boys sure worked up some endurance, even though they had it easier than her, because they could rest 3 turns in between, until it was their turn again.\n\nBut even their endurance slowly faded, and, in the end, there were only to left, to took turns. Bahg and Chael, the brothers who seemed to not be wanting to give in to the other.\n\nFinally, even Bahg went to sleep and Chael took her a few more times until he fell asleep on top of her with his twitching knot inside her quivering snatch while the light of the morning already invaded the cave.\n\nInstead of turning around, he just had her lay down and lay over her, framing her smaller body and licking her cheeks before they both drifted off to sleep together.\n\nNiera did not even notice when his member, while shrinking down inside her, dropped out of her snatch followed by some juices. Both youngsters were fast asleep with the small female being totally covered by the big wolf, making it hard to see her at all.\n\nNiera slowly woke up feeling someone moving and a cold breeze brushing over her fur.\n\nWhen she opened her eyes, she saw that the cave was in bright light from the sun, and she blinked a few times until her eyes got used to the bright light.\n\n``Good morning!'', Niera turned around to the voice of Chael, who greeted her. When she rolled on her back to look behind her, she saw the bigger wolf already closing in. He seemed to have stood at the entrance.\n\n``Good Morniiii...'' she moaned loud when his head went straight between her legs, that she had slightly open from spinning around, and licked over her slick pussy.\n\nShe could not help but spread her legs a bit further, giving him best access to please her but after a few licks he pulled back and with his teeth pinched into her flank and side.\n\nIt took three pinches until she reacted and rolled around, presenting her hind to the male. He continued to lick over her snatch a few times before he mounted her without any further words.\n\nThe eager youngster went faster than the last night and pushed into her with powerful thrusts, but he mewled with each of them because he hit the right spots and her heat was catching fire under his pushes.\n\nIt did not take him long to push his knot into her and she started to climax the moment she felt his spurts inside her.\n\nShe still twitched and milked him, when he already turned around and lay down, which she also did to rest up for what was sure to come when he would be able to pull out.\n\nHer twitches revived, when a tongue licked over her tail base, her back and then her ears and cheeks and when she looked up, she saw Khara standing next to her with a soft gaze in his eyes.\n\nHe said something but her mind was still fuzzy and when Chael finally was able to pull out, the big wolf directly took his place and Kiera barely was able to lift her hunches again before his member pierced through her labia.\n\nShe cried out in a moan and the alpha also picked up a faster pace. Her world spun around nonstop, and she barely saw a third wolf appearing next to her, licking her head, and getting affectionate.\n\nThe scent told her, that it was Bahg, but her senses blurred out and she only sensed the feeling of the dick moving in and out of her snatch.\n\nWhen Khara stopped and pushed his semen into her womb, she dropped down to rest instantly and she had been right to do so, because Bahg was not losing any second after his father dismounted her and jumped her instantly and pushed into her.\n\nThe older son of the alpha slowly picked up some skills and soon Niera was moaning just as intense as with Chael under the big wolf.\n\nShe did not notice who jumped her after the first few times. She did not recognize that it was only Khara, Bahg and Chael who were with her the whole day, while the others went on a patrol.\n\nJeliso and Paqu only joined in the evening, and they were even more eager, while the other youngsters were quite exhausted.\n\nThey did not ask if Niera was exhausted or not but just took her nonstop in turns and after she shivered a lot after ten times, she got used to it more and more.\n\nShe managed to really fall asleep every time they knotted and sleep until they pulled out. The feeling of them pulling out had her wake up by instinct each time and she presented for her males and took the next one just to get a short new rest after they knotted.\n\nThis evening it was Khara who took her the last time and then laid next to her to hold her warm while sleeping. Niera felt protected and guarded and had a very deep and regenerating slumber.\n\nThe next days were a repetition again and again, with just the youngsters that took her during the day, together with the alpha, changed. Two were always on patrol and the other two experienced the wolfess in heat to their hearts content.\n\nKhara made sure that Niera got a short rest in between to eat and drink but he was as demanding and eager all the other times, when he moved on top of her and mated with her as hard as the younger wolves.\n\nFor Niera it was normal already and she could not remember a time before her heat as long as it lasted.\n\nOnly when her heat slowly declined, her mind got a bit more clearheaded and she felt each lick and heard each affectionate word of the males during the act and the next day, she woke up with the nagging feeling inside her gone and her snatch only being wet from the spunk of Chael, who spurted last into her before they went to sleep.\n\nKhara had her roll on her back and licked over her dugs and belly. It did not stimulate her as much anymore, but it still felt nice and massaged her belly in a good way.\n\n``You did great, like a real alpha candidate.'' He praised her and the tail of Niera swished back and forth on the ground, and she yipped happily.\n\n``For the next two month and something, your belly will get bigger and bigger with our litters and then you will give birth to our pack's new pups.'' He announced to her full of pride.\n\nThe other males also came close to her and licked over her belly, which made her giggle. From this day on they all became extremely affectionate and caring for her and they all behaved like her lover, making sure she always got the best food and was shielded from the wind when sleeping.\n\n\n[b]Chapter 5: End of Training[/b]\n\nNiera groaned a bit, when Chael, who mounted her, pushed his thick member inside her. Without the heat, she did not feel the rush of pleasure and the soothing tingle inside her.\n\nIt did not mean, that she did not also get some pleasure out of it, but the first entry and the knotting hurt a bit now.\n\nIn addition to her not being in heat, Chael was by far the most endowed wolf. By now, because she had an opportunity of direct comparison, she knew that the member of Chael even outgrew his father's. \n\nShe had gotten used to the thick member of him by now, because it was most of the time Chael who took her every day.\n\nRight after her heat, Khara still hat every boy take her once every evening. He told Niera that this was to have her getting used to the life in the pack. As a beta, which she would be after returning, she would have to allow the betas and alphas on top of her, sometimes even outside her heat.\n\nOn the one hand, a new beta was always celebrated by every beta and the alpha ``breaking her in'' how Khara named it. It was a welcome ritual for new beta females.\n\nLater, she would only have to offer her assistant, if the heat of another beta was driving the males crazy and they needed a release but could not all take the female in heat at the same time.\n\n``The beta females are a team, that helps each other. To make sure that a beta female in heat gets some rest in between, when she is too exhausted, the other females offer themselves to the males to protect her.'' Khara had explained her.\n\nTo make sure, that she was prepared for that, she had to accept them on her for a few weeks and then Khara made the boys fight for the right to take Niera every day in order to have them learn how to rise in ranks as betas.\n\nNiera took part in the ranking fights and Khara set the rule, that every male who beat Niera would be get the reward of mating with her.\n\nChael was by now the strongest of them and even Niera won against him very rarely.\n\nWhen she won, Khara took her for a round, telling her that she needed to keep in training even if she won.\n\nOn a few days, Niera lost even to the others, but she and Chael were in general much stronger and therefore higher in rank than the others.\n\nThe groaning of Niera turned into moans with the next push of Chael and she closed her eyes and took a deep sniff of his scent.\n\nShe had grown to love the scent of Chael, just as much as she loved the scent of his father, Khara.\n\nLike all the others as well, Khara and Chael also took a liking on her. One big reason for this was surely the belly of Niera, which already showed a clear small bulge and was growing from one week to the other.\n\nNiera felt the knot clash against her snatch, which was wet from the saliva of Chael and a bit from her own juices. Even though the feeling of him inside her had something nostalgic, she liked it less with every passing week of her pregnancy.\n\nAt least she knew, that Chael would not knot her. One week ago, Khara told them to not knot Niera anymore, because her pregnancy was quite far already, and they did not want to hurt the litter by mistake.\n\nShe moaned, when Chael hit a sensitive spot inside her snatch, and she felt her inside twitch a little from the pleasure.\n\nThe boy eagerly pumped his dick in and out of her sloppy snatch and she felt the combined juices running down her legs while Chael increased the pace to come to the climax.\n\nShe felt his knot clash with her snatch with a loud and wet smack, but Chael held back and did not push further. At the start he had knotted her by mistake, but after a lot of scolding by Khara, he had the trick down now on how to prevent such an accident.\n\nThe thick cream of Chael shot into her moist tunnel and drenched it with the hot spunk. She moaned from the feeling of the goo pushing against her closed cervix and being denied entering.\n\nChael huffed a few times after his spurts subsided and pulled back. Niera felt the warm liquid ooze out of her snatch and drip on the floor below her.\n\nThe tongue of Chael was there to clean her up and make her moan and her lips twitch under his rough tongue bath.\n\nAfter Chael was finished bathing her, he laid down in front of her, presenting his half erect member and the fur around it that was sticky from their combined juices.\n\nIt was a ritual they did every day. First Chael cleaned her, then she cleaned him, after they had sex. Niera even started to like the taste, that she tasted so often already now that she could not think of a time where she did not have it in her mouth every day.\n\nAfter they were finished, Niera rolled on her back and put the legs in the air, emitting a small whimper. This was as well a ritual they established. It marked the end of her duty and showed the other males that she was ready to get their affection.\n\nEven as a cub, she had been looking for attention of her mother or her father, surely in a different meaning, and she still loved to be nuzzled and caressed and everyone had their eyes on her.\n\nShe emitted a low and happy growl, when the males huddled around her, licked her teats, the bulging belly and nuzzled her flanks or her cheek. Some of them even licked over her nose and muzzle and showed their affection in other ways.\n\nThis ritual started when her belly started to show, and the males became overprotective over her. Even though she still went to the hunts with the group, they had her run in the middle all the time and most of the time, Chael or Khara were right next to her.\n\nShe giggled from the tickling of Jeliso's nose. The boy always teased her by nudging her under her hind legs, where she was ticklish.\n\nNiera also licked back every head that came into her range until the males stopped and started to lay down for the night next to the girl. Every night, they framed her with their bodies, keeping her protected from the wind that blew inside the cage from outside and from possible predators that might come across the cave by chance.\n\nThe next day, Khara told them that Niera would stay in the den with him, while the others would go on a hunt. He wanted to talk with Niera, and her pregnancy was so far, that she should take it easier from now on.\n\nWhen they were alone, Khara lay down and told Niera to do the same. She rolled on her side, showing off her big belly to Khara with a proud smile.\n\nHe nuzzled her belly a bit and made her giggle, before he straightened his neck and looked at the girl for a while and then started to talk.\n\n``The training will soon end, and we will return to the valley.'' He announced and Niera smiled at him, listening to his words. ``Then everyone will join their pack again, except...'' he paused a bit.\n\n``Listen Niera, there is one thing I did not tell you yet about an alpha female.'' Niera perked her ears and looked at the older alpha with interest.\n\n``There is something else that is different for female alpha candidates from their male parts. It has to do with the end of the training and what happens after that.\n\nKhara leaned forward and nuzzled her cheek and licked over her ear to make the girl feel comfortable before he continued.\n\n``You know, staying just with your own pack will over time make the blood thin, because you need fresh blood to keep it strong. In the past, packs stole females from other packs or some of the pack wandered off and joined other packs on their own, but in the valley, we introduce a different way to live in peace.''\n\nNiera looked at the older wolf with her ears perked forward. ``You see, when a female alpha is being trained, it is always trained by an alpha of a different pack and after the training...'' he still found it hard to push this news on her. ``... well, after the training the female will join the pack of the alpha that trained her.'' He finally told her.\n\nNiera had a questioning look on her face, not fully understanding yet. ``So, I will visit your pack before I go home?'' she asked, but Khara shook his head. ``No Niera, you will return with me to my pack, and you will live with my pack from now on.''\n\nNiera looked at him with shock. Sure, she loved Khara and Chael as well, but she already missed her mother and her father, and she had been sure to see them again soon.\n\n``But... does this mean... I will never see my parents again? And my brothers and sisters?'' Her eyes started to fill with tears, and she sniffed. Khara ran his head along hers and her neck to comfort her and licked over her eyes to clean the tears.\n\nIt took a few minutes of Khara cleaning her eyes and face until the girl slowly got back a bit of her countenance and Khara began to talk again.\n\n``It does not mean, that you will never see them again. You might not see them for a while, maybe even a few years, but there is always a chance of meeting them in the future. It just means, that you do not belong to the Eastern Pack anymore. With this training, you are a Wester Pack wolf now.''\n\nNiera looked up to the alpha, still with very sad eyes and not too fond of the idea. ``Look, it will be hard at first. Especially, because our pack's beta females can be a bit difficult...'' Khara chuckled. ``... you will have to stay strong and fight your way up through their ranks, but I am sure you will. If you need anything, you can always come to me or my wife. We will make sure to help you, okay?''\n\nNiera nodded and sniffed again. She tried to process what he said. She would not see her family, her whole pack, for a few years at least and she had to join his pack. What he said about the female beta wolves of his pack also concerned her a bit. She wished she could just stay here in this cave forever with the boys and Khara.\n\n``Are you okay?'' Khara asked softly and stood up to lay down behind her with his warm body pressing against hers. He put his head over her neck and snuggled his cheeks against hers and licked her nose.\n\n``I... I don't know.'' Admitted Niera, still confused by all this and not sure if she wanted to go with Khara to his pack. She loved him. She felt that being apart from Khara and Chael, and from the others, would make her sad, but she had been so excited about meeting her father and showing him how much she grew, that this news came extra hard.\n\n``I should have told you earlier.'' Khara mentioned and nudged her yaw with his nose while he rubbed his throat against her neck.\n\n``I am sorry. You were just so beautiful, that I always forgot when I saw you.'' She chuckled under her tears and Khara let out a grumbling warm growl that comforted her a bit.\n\n``We will not see each other much in the first time, because I have to lead the pack and do a lot after being away for so long.'' Khara whispered. ``But I am sure that you will be fine. You are one of the strongest female candidates I have seen. And even of the males. Competing with you was the reason, why Chael got so strong and...'' he raised his head and scratched her between the ears with his snout.\n\n``... having a female alpha candidate always makes the males grow so much stronger.'' He closed the sentence and started to lick her head.\n\nNiera slowly stopped to cry and started to moan under his strong licks. She closed her eyes and enjoyed his bath and feeling his warm body next to hers. He licked over her head, her ears, her face, her neck and then down to her shoulder and front leg.\n\nShe felt his tongue travel to her chest and belly, licking over each of her teats and making her body heat up in a pleasurable tingling. Niera moaned his name more than once while he bathed her, and she rolled against him to open her belly for more of his licks.\n\nWhen he licked over her hind, her tail began to twitch, and her body prickled. She slowly got her thoughts off the future and just enjoyed the company of Khara at this moment and she felt like she wanted to feel it even stronger.\n\nWith another moan, she rolled aback on her belly and rose to her paws. She pushed her tail high up, her front crouched close to the ground and her hind held high, to taunt him and signal him that at this moment, she needed her alpha inside her.\n\nHe started with licks and made her pussy juice up under his tongue. Niera felt her folds being parted by his tongue and heard his moans from her taste. The feeling was wonderful for Niera, because it hushed away the thoughts about the future and the feeling of being all alone with strangers when this was over.\n\nShe groaned a bit, when Khara mounted her and slowly pushed in his big member. But the moment he hit her closed cervix and bottomed out in her tunnel, she started to moan and let her tongue hang out while Khara slowly got into a rhythm.\n\nThe alpha went very slow and caring with the pregnant girl, while he moaned into her ears, and she joined him with the same low moans every time he pushed forward.\n\nNiera's tunnel started to lubricate strongly, and she felt his member glide in and out easily.\n\nShe felt her tunnel twitch, while the cubs in her belly moved a bit and touched the inside of her womb, making her feel extra stimulation.\n\nHer moans got stronger, and she mixed Khara's name into the moans every few seconds. \n\nThe experience of Khara clearly showed. He knew how to mate a highly pregnant lioness and making her feel good, without overdoing it or endangering the litters in her womb.\n\nHis movement was strong, but also controlled. He only kissed her cervix with his tip every time he pushed in.\n\nHis big orbs touched her leg with each slow swing forward, and his knot softly snuggled against her wet folds, but did not advance to push in.\n\nBut even though he went slow, or maybe even because of that, Niera felt her whole inside tingle. Her snatch, her tunnel, her clit, her cervix, her womb and even the rest of her body.\n\nWithout him even biting her neck, she felt it tingle in anticipation and arousal. This was her mate, her lover, her alpha.\n\nNiera forgot everything around her. The other adolescent wolves that would soon come back. The future, the whistling of the wing in the trees, the mumbling of the river, just everything.\n\nAt this moment, she just felt the warm closeness of Khara, the pleasure inside her, his member gliding back and forth through her drenched tunnel and the tingling stimulation of every fiber of her body with each new push and pull of her mate.\n\nHer worries went far away, and nothing was important for her anymore, other than the big wolf on top of her, their connection, his litters inside her and that this moment would last forever.\n\nEven though she could not be sure if the pups inside her were his, she did not doubt it one second while she moaned and mewled under the big alpha.\n\nThe happy tingle and warm smell around her felt like it lasted for an eternity, but when he finally came to a halt, his knot just barely touching her engorged clit, and his spunk filled her cannel, build up pressure with at her cervix and then gushed out of her snatch, when he climbed down from her to not let the pressure of his spurts get too strong, she felt like it went over in a flash and she was ripped of the wonderful connection they had.\n\nHer body, which started to climax the moment he came into her, prickled, and twitched and she rolled on the ground, showing off her pregnant belly, while Khara sprayed a few more spurts over her leg, her snatch and belly, standing next to her and watching her beautiful body sprawled out for him.\n\nHe nudged her erect nipples with his muzzle and started to make her moan with a few licks over each nipple and her belly, her legs, cleaning all his spunk of his fur, and even if she moaned, the pleasure of his licks were by far inferior to the feeling he caused her earlier.\n\nSomehow this one mating had been magical. She had not been in heat but her inside responded to each friction of his thrusts. Because the mating did not confuse her mind, she also felt each little friction, each stimulation, and each breath of her loved Alpha, while her mind had been captured in a kind off daze, that increased her focus and concentration on the pleasure and stimulations.\n\nNiera did not know how she got into this state, but now that it was over and her body started to cool down, only twitching every now and then in a last wave of her dying down orgasm, she felt like being thrown into a cold river on a very hot day.\n\nShe longed for this moment again but also realized, that it was over. But what lingered still deep inside her, with the litter in her belly that moved a few last times and then seemingly went to sleep, was an affection and love for this big wolf, that stood next to her and now presented his slimy member for her to lick clean, that went far deeper than before this magical mating.\n\nA realization hit her inside. She belonged to him and on his side. Even if it would take years, she would walk straight towards him. Even if she would have to fight and go through many hardships.\n\nShe would gain the right to stand next to him in his pack. She would become his official alpha someday and only bear his litter.\n\nWhen the other trainees came back, Niera just finished a short sleep, that she drifted into after Khara and her had finished cleaning each other. She opened her eyes and saw the big figure of the alpha standing in the entrance of the cave, talking to the boys, which brought a big okapi.\n\nNiera felt the strong hunger inside her and when she raised, the other wolves did not interfere in her approaching the carcass and starting to eat.\n\nEvery male nudged her lovingly into her side, licked over her flank and over her neck and ear, while she was eating. None of them interrupted her or went for the food themselves, while she satisfied her hunger.\n\nOnly after she was finished and lay down a few steps away from the okapi, first Khara ate and then, when he returned to her side, lay down and snuggled against her side, engulfing her with his warm scent, the other males ate and filled their hungry stomachs.\n\nThis evening, Khara told them, what he told Niera before. That they would go back to the pack at the end of the week and that Niera would join his pack.\n\nWhile Chael and Bahg celebrated and already welcomed Niera to their pride with a lot of licks and nudges, Jaliso and Paqu looked a bit sad and discouraged. They snuggled close to the female this night, enjoying the warm touch of her body. Niera realized, that for those two, it was a goodbye and that she might not see them again, or only very rarely. Just like her father or her mother. She did not realize that this goodbye at the morning, when she left with her father towards the middle of the valley, had been a final goodbye with her mother and siblings. Or at least a possible final goodbye.\n\nWhile this made Niera sad, the excitement of joining Khara's pack overwhelmed her at this moment, and the depressing feeling had no chance to enter her heart. She snuggled her body against each of the wolves, that lay around her, for a few minutes, until she found a comfortable position to sleep, and then drifted off while the litter in her belly also calmed to with its kicking and went to sleep as well.\n\nThe end of the week came fast. They climbed the mountain and went through the tunnels to get back to the valley again. Around them, the snow already pulled back and green was sprouting everywhere, when they exited the tunnel and entered the valley.\n\nJen felt the air caress her nose and so many scents, that she never noticed before, when she lived in the valley, played around in her nostrils. Jeliso and Paqu had their heads hanging and looked at her every now and then.\n\n``This is where we part.'' Khara said finally. They were in the middle of the valley, where Niera had been given to Khara by her father.\n\n``Don't look so weak and defeated. You are alpha candidates now.'' Khara scolded Jaliso and Paqu.\n\n``Push out your chest and feel proud. You are strong and if you keep up your training and engage every challenger with all your power, you will rise in the ranks soon.\n\nThe boys nuzzled Niera and licked over her face one last time, showing their affection. They had grown close to Niera. As friends, as companions and as mates. As possible fathers of her litter and as protectors in the last weeks.\n\n``We need to hurry. I think Niera needs to rest in the den.'' Khara said to his sons, when Jeliso and Paqu left for their pack, faking a happy face and a strong posture despite how hard this goodbye especially from Niera must have felt for them.\n\nNiera smiled to the caring alpha, and he came close to her.\n\n``Listen Niera. You know that I love you and that you are special to me, right?'' the girl nodded, and he ears turned to the side to better understand his whispering voice.\n\n``This will not change, but when we get to the pack, I cannot favor you anymore. I got my own lovely alpha to care for and the whole pack. It would cause a huge uproar, when I would favor you and care for you every day.'' Niera nodded again, but let her head hang down.\n\n``The betas will care for you. Chael and Bahg will be there, so I am sure, you will be fine. Make sure to get into the circle of the beta females fast. And remember, no matter if the litter in you is from me or from one of the others. Officially, they do not count as my pups, because you are not the alpha, do you understand?'' Niera nodded. He had explained it to her before. She could not tell others, that these were his pups.\n\nIt was not, that the other wolves did not know what happened during the training. It was a tradition, that most adult wolves knew about, especially the betas and alpha, but she was not allowed to call her pups the litter of the alpha until she got the rank of an alpha herself.\n\nIt did not matter, who the father was. As a beta, her pups were only betas or lower and would not be alpha candidates, no matter how strong they were.\n\nKhara told her, that a lot of the pups in his packs had his genes, and even maybe a few from other packs, because some of his sons had been trained by other pack leaders and when he had his training many years ago, he was lucky enough to have a female candidate in his group as well.\n\nBut only a few, those he had with his alpha, were his children. Only they would get the honor of an alpha litter and the right, if they were strong enough, to visit alpha school.\n\n``But I do love all pups the same, if they have my genes, may they be officially my litter or not.'' He closed his speech. ``For me, the whole pack are my pups. I do love them all.'' And Niera felt the sense of responsibility from her alpha, which made her fall in love even more with the old wolf.\n\nShe smiled at the thought, that she would be part of his pack and she would work hard to get the right to be his alpha female at one time in the future. She just hoped that she would manage to do so before he would retire.\n\n\n[b]Chapter 6: Being a Beta[/b]\n\nThe travel back through the valley was faster than their initial journey to the training grounds. Niera looked down to the den and bid her farewell to the place she lived in for a few months.\n\nNow, that she knew that she would not return home, this was somehow a goodbye to her home. This den had become somewhat of a home, and she would not have minded staying there with the other youngsters and Khara.\n\nBut they had to return, and she followed the alpha closely, while the other males ran behind them. She was the most valuable trainee after all and therefore had the place right behind the alpha.\n\nShe looked down the valley, when they got out of the cave at the top of the surrounding mountains again. She saw the sea in the middle, where the alpha met and where she had been given to Khara. It seemed like an eternity since she last saw her father and her mother.\n\nIt was hard for her to accept, that she would not return to them, even though she also was a bit excited to meet the new pack.\n\nThey climbed down the path and soon they reached the bottom and drank from the lake in the middle of the valley. No one was there except them and Niera wondered if there would be no one to get the youngsters back to the pack.\n\n``This is the end of our training.'' Announced Khara, sitting on a rock and facing the young wolves. The youngsters looked up to him and their tails wagged softly.\n\n``You learned a lot. Now will be the time, that you put that into action and use it to join your pack and climb the ranking.'' He looked at Niera. ``There is just one more rule you need to follow. We always lived by this rule: What happens during the training camp is only for those who participated. We do not talk about it to others.'' He looked back to the other adolescents.\n\n``I am proud of you. You worked hard and I think you have the best chances to be at the top of your packs very soon. Maybe even the alpha.'' He smiled. ``Make sure to always stay strong and continue to make me proud. Maybe we will see each other in the future.''\n\nHe climbed down the rock and nuzzled everyone once more and then Jeliso and Paqu turned their heads towards South and North, after they said goodbye to the others as well.\n\n``Dad?'' Chael turned to his father and his eyes looked at him with a questioning gaze. ``Why shouldn't we talk about the training camp?''\n\nThe alpha chuckled. ``First of all, former every alpha candidate knows basically what happens at alpha camps.'' His gaze fell upon Niera. ``Well, maybe not about everything that we did, because it is rare for a female to be a part of the group.'' He admitted.\n\n``But in every alpha school, there were things that happened, that would be embarrassing for the graduates. Most of this happens in the first month, when the trainees are messing up a lot.'' He looked at his sons and they lowered their gaze, because they remembered a few situations like this themselves.\n\n``And in addition, what happens with a female during these camps is a secret for only those to share who take part in the same training.'' He closed and nuzzled Niera. ``So don't go around and tell anyone, okay?''\n\nBahg chuckled. ``You mean, don't tell mom?'' Khara growled. ``I said no one, you understand?'' and the young wolf winced and then all of them laughed. ``Okay dad.'' He agreed and after they all licked the cheek of Niera to show a bit of their affection for the last time before returning, they made their way towards the west.\n\nThey arrived at the home of the pack very late, and the sun already vanished over the mountain tops above the hill of the western pack.\n\nNiera winced surprised when a big howl started. The first guard that saw them, announced their return with a long and high howl and soon the whole pack started to tune in and they moved through the lines of wolves of all ages, while the sang their welcome to the group.\n\nNiera looked around curiously. Most of the adults seemed to be bigger than the eastern pack, even though there were a few of the same size.\n\nShe had never paid too much attention to her fellow pack members at the eastern pack, but she did not remember any welcoming concert like that for her father. It seemed though, from the reaction of Khara, that this was his usual welcome, when he had been away for a while.\n\nEvery now and then, the wolves put their head down to look at the group, but they soon raised their voice again. Niera noticed that the young male wolves observed her with interest and made haste to stay close to her new alpha.\n\n``Welcome home!'' came a strong but warm voice through the howl and as if this were a sign for everyone, they stopped the howl and gave their attention to the small group.\n\nA female wolf, with a very light fur and white belly fur and snout, closed in on them, while Khara stopped, and the younger wolves respectfully stopped as well.\n\n``I am happy that you are all well.'' The she-wolf nuzzled Khara, and this left no question of who she was. Niera had never seen her, but she knew, that Khara's alpha female was called Vinya and the stories about her beauty, that her father had told her once, had not been a lie.\n\nHer green eyes sparkled in the twilight, and she ran her head gracefully along the head of Khara.\n\nThen she gazed towards her sons and closed in on them, repeating the affectionate welcome with both.\n\nFinally, her gaze fell upon Niera, and it was so strong and sharp, that she wanted to hide behind Khara, but managed to fight down this instinct.\n\nShe knew, that she would have been a laughingstock, if she would have hidden behind the alpha when facing the alpha female like a small pup.\n\n``Our sons have grown big.'' She still had her voice raised, so everyone of the listening wolves could hear her. ``I can see that they have mastered their training. But it seems, you brought us someone else as well.''\n\nShe circled around Niera and sniffed at her. The young she-wolf let her be and tried to not look into the sharp green eyes.\n\nShe notices that the alpha female nudged her flank a few times and sniffed under her belly and under her tail. She wondered if the alpha female knew something of what happened.\n\n``This is Niera, the princess of the eastern pack.'' Explained Khara. ``And not only that. She might not look like that, but she is the one who passed the training as the best.'' There was a mumbling in the crowd of the watching wolves.\n\n``Come here Niera. Let the pack see you.'' And he nodded towards a small rock that was right in front of him. He hopped up and looked down to the girl.\n\nVinya also stopped her observation and left the girl a bit space to follow the command and Niera was happy to oblige.\n\nShe bent her knees a bit and took a wide stance, calculated the distance to the top of the rock and then she jumped. She even adjusted to the light additional weight in her belly, that made it bulge so faint, that it was not noticeable under her fur.\n\nAll followed the agile movements of the young she-wolf, and an entranced sigh went through the masses, when she stood there on the rock in the light of the just emitting moon. Her red-white belly fur started to glow a bit in a light red glimmer and her eyes looked over the wolves, that looked up to her, like sapphire gems.\n\n``I hope that you all will help me to welcome out new alpha candidate and beta female: Niera!'' he introduced her and Niera felt a bit embarrassed, when the howl of all wolves started again.\n\nShe imagined hearing a very faint response of howls across the howling valley, but if they were an echo or if the other packs answered the howl, she was not able to tell.\n\nAfter a few minutes of howling, Khara had Niera jump down again and together with Vinya and his sons, he stayed next to the rock, also making Niera sit next to Chael, to have the pack welcome them back.\n\nIt was an event, which Niera never had seen before. If her own pack had such customs, she had most likely been too young for them at the last spring.\n\nEach wolf, male and female, came forward and bowed their head towards the alphas and sniffed at Bahg and Chael to take in the scent of the new betas.\n\nThey took much more time to observe Niera and she began to get a bit nervous from all the wolves sniffing at her and looking her up and down. Chael told her the names of the wolves, but Niera forgot most of them in a flash, because there were just too many names, and she was anxious.\n\nOver thirty wolves passed her and finally, a group of four females, the ones that greeted them as the last, stayed there and Vinya introduced them to Niera.\n\n``These are our beta, females.'' She introduced. ``Pinya currently is the leader.'' She pointed at a brown eyes she-wolf, that looked like she was around 6.\n\n``The others are Saliza,'' she introduced a 5-year-old wolf with light blue eyes, ``Nena, ``equally 5 but with mint green eyes, ``and Mirya.'' The last wolfess was clearly older than the others and had yellow eyes.\n\n``Mirya joined our pack over the alpha school like you four years ago at age of 3.'' Vinya added and she smirked.\n\nNiera greeted the older girls and let them sniff at her to take in her scent, which she equally did with them to recognize them.\n\nThe ears of the beta females were pressed to their head while they observed the new beta, and their gazes were cold. Niera felt a shiver run down her spine and she felt like they were not so happy about her arrival.\n\n``Niera will stay with us for the first nights, until she is used to our pack and knows everything.'' Vinya said and her voice had some undertone, that made clear for Niera that she had to pay attention. It sounded dangerous to miss a single word the alpha said.\n\n``You will have to learn the rules of our pack and our customs before we can let you mix with the others. I am sure, Khara did only teach you to fight, but not the proper behavior of a lady of our pack, right?'' she looked to her husband, and he put on an apologetic gaze.\n\n``It is better this way anyways. Don't give a man a job of a woman.'' She alpha female chuckled. ``I will personally teach you what is expected of you and make sure to not tarnish the name of my husband by behaving bad, do you hear me?'' Niera looked up into the eyes of the alpha.\n\n``Yes ma'am.'' She responded fast and felt the pressure of her gaze. The alpha female made her at the same time feel safe and extremely nervous. She felt like she was dancing on a tight cliff. One step to the wrong side could have serious consequences.\n\nThe alpha female held the gaze for a bit longer and Niera felt her tail twitch nervously before the gaze softened and she turned her head uphill. ``You all must be exhausted. How about you rest a bit.'' She said and Khara nodded and followed her closely.\n\nNiera felt a bit lost, standing there and watching them climb uphill. ``Are you coming Niera?'' Khara asked and looked back, and she understood that she had been meant to follow them. With a last gaze towards Chael and Bahg, who seemingly already walked away with a group of younger wolves, she bounded after the pair, feeling the cold eyes of the beta females in her back.\n\nShe sighed a bit relieved, when she followed them into the den and felt safe from the gazes. The den was big, even bigger than the den of her father and her mother had been, and even though Niera had expected a few pups in here, it was empty other than the three wolves that just entered.\n\nShe looked around, with her eyes beginning to get used to the dark den, but she could not spot anyone else.\n\n``No, we don't have pups right now.'' She winced and looked up to Vinya, who apparently observed her behavior.'' Chael was from my last litter. I am already quite old and will not have any more pups.''\n\nNiera felt a bit uncomfortable in the silence that build up after these words, until Khara let himself fall on a few branches and dry grass, that was softening the sleeping place of them.\n\n``I noticed that she is pregnant already.'' It was neither a question, nor did it sound aggressive, but rather like a stated fact by the alpha female.\n\n``Oh, yes.'' The alpha stated and smiled up to his wife, while Niera stood next to them, unsure what to do.\n\n``I suspect that she is trained in the customs of a beta then as well?'' the alpha female asked and Niera began to suspect that the alpha female knew very well what happened at the training camp.\n\nShe now also remembered, that this was most likely something that happened to every female trainee at the alpha training and being an alpha, Vinya most likely had have such an encounter as well in the past.\n\n``That is good. The beta males have been restless in the last weeks and without training it would have been a lot for her to take.'' Niera understood, that she would soon have to raise her haunches for the beta males to satisfy their lust.\n\n``Mind to give me a rundown on her skills?'' she asked her husband, still not facing Niera.\n\n``Sure thing, my love. I know how much you love to watch me.''\n\nWith these words, he raised to his paws again and bounded over to Niera. A small pinch in her flank told Niera what he wanted, and she was not even hesitating. She ripped herself out of the thoughts and raised her tail while spreading her hind legs and crouching down with her front legs.\n\n``She is well behaved.'' Vinya commented and Niera heard her laying down behind her. The next thing she noticed was the big wet tongue of Khara and she moaned loud when he washed over her snatch.\n\nIt lasted far too short, before he removed his tongue and left her huffing and dripping.\n\nBut he did not let her wait long for the next phase. She felt his weight on her back, when he jumped her, and balanced out the extra with her legs, steadying her hind legs in the spread position.\n\nWhen he entered her slick pussy, she groaned a bit, because without the heat the first entry hurt a bit when he spread her apart, but after a few pushes, she began to moan again, and her insides started to juice up.\n\n``She seems well trained.'' Came a comment from behind them but Niera decided to not think about Vinya, because it made her embarrassed, that the alpha female watched them mate.\n\n``And even though we trained her hard, she is still wonderful tight.'' Khara grunted on top of her.\n\n``She is by far the best female our pack has to offer right now.'' A short growl made him wince and chuckled. ``After you of course, my love.''\n\nNiera knew that he would not knot, because she was pregnant and this might invade too far into her and damage the pups, and therefore she enjoyed the ride to her fullest, after her insides got accustomed to the stretching.\n\n``Bahg and Chael also got very attached to her. I would not wonder if they would mess up the ranks in the beta quarter, just to call dibs on her.'' Vinya chuckled. ``It seems that a female under the trainees is still the best motivation for ironclad results. We need to thank Holo for admitting her this year.''\n\nKhara howled when he stopped and Niera felt him spurt deep into her tunnel. ``Yes...'' he huffed, after he calmed down a bit and pulled back to slip out of the girl. ``I will make sure to do just that at our next meeting.''\n\nNiera felt a tongue wash over her snatch and clean the semen that gushed out. She moaned and closed her eyes, until she erupted in a small climax under the tongue and then collapsed on the ground.\n\nWhen she looked over her shoulder, she saw Vinya stand behind her, while Khara lay on the ground and groomed his retreating dick.\n\n``Your turn.'' She just stated, after Niera caught her breath a bit, and faced her hind towards the young female with her tail raised.\n\nNiera did not think about it but just complied with the request of the alpha female. She had never done this to another female before, but she extended her tongue and started to lick over the snatch of the she-wolf in front of her, feeling insecure if she was doing it right.\n\nA moan from the female in front of her told her, that she at least managed to make her feel a bit good and Niera started to get bolder. She pushed her tongue through the lips and licked the inside of the vagina, which started to juice up a bit.\n\nThe taste of the girl juices was mild, not as strong as the taste and scent of the males had been when she had cleaned their dicks after their mating sessions during her heat.\n\nHer tongue caressed the inside of the tunnel of the she-wolf in front of her, making her moan and push against her snout.\n\nThe walls clenched around her tongue, when she pushed it as far as she could, and she felt juice splash against her nose and into her muzzle.\n\nNiera was not sure if she could pull out her tongue and waited for the alpha to voice her wish, but the said female just started to move forward, pulling away from her tongue, after her clenches got weaker and faded away.\n\n``Inexperienced, but not too bad.'' She commented with a huff. ``I think she is a good addition to our pack.'' She faced her husband again and let Niera glide down to the ground exhausted again.\n\n``Yes, indeed. She is also very strong. Overall, very good breeding material.'' Khara mentioned and nuzzled Vinya, who lay down behind him and snuggled her back against his.\n\n``Come here Niera.'' He called out to the girl. ``It is spring, but the nights can still be cold. Snuggle up with us.''\n\nNiera lifted and felt the exhaustion of the tension and the day of running in her muscles. She went the few steps towards the lying pair and let herself sink on the branches and grass in front of Khara, which felt wonderful warm and soft.\n\nNiera did not think about anything or that Vinya was there as well. Like in the last weeks, she just lay down next to Khara the same way she did the last weeks. Her nose pushed between his legs, soaking in his strong musk while he as well pushed his head over her frame and his nose between her legs, touching her belly with his cheek, to take in her warm scent.\n\nNiera did not think about anything else after this. The scent, the warm touch of Khara and the darkness, that fell over them, was so familiar for her, that she fell asleep instantly.\n\nThe next days were exhausting for Niera. During the day, Vinya showed her around in the pack territory and showed her where the dens of the wolves were. She also got a peek at the beta den, where she was to stay after the week.\n\nThe other beta females greeted them, but Niera had the feeling, that they avoided her. They left the den soon after they greeted Vinya and did not return while the alpha showed her around the cave.\n\nVinya also showed her the dens of the beta males and the other regions of the sleeping places. They did not go closer to the dens of the males, but Niera saw Chael and Bahg from the distance. They to youngsters were in the middle of a group of wolves, who looked over to the two females, but did not come closer.\n\nNiera could see, that they were interested in her, but it seemed that the alpha female made sure that they did not approach them without being asked to.\n\nIn the nights, Vinya continued to enhance the training of Niera and asked her to lick her before they went to bed. ``You will have to learn how to get on the good side of other females, as long as you are not at the top of the ladder.'' She mentioned and Niera did not like the sound of that. She was unsure what to expect after the week.\n\nShe only saw Khara in the evening and when they lay down to sleep, it felt a bit like home, like at the training camp, with his scent around her and his warm touch.\n\nDeep inside her, Niera wished that this week would not end. Even though she had problems at first to get used to Vinya, she soon adjusted to the requests of the alpha female and listened to every word.\n\nDespite her being rather dominating, the alpha also was very wise. She was one of the oldest wolves in the pack and she taught Niera a lot of things and even a few more tricks for fighting.\n\nThe older female also told her to make sure to rest well while she could, because her pregnancy would draw a lot of energy from her very soon.\n\nThe week went by in a flash and then came the day, that Niera was to move to the beta den and live with the other beta females. She felt a bit reserved and was not sure what to expect. She had not lived with only girls before and she knew none of the betas yet, because they always avoided her when the alpha and Niera visited their den.\n\nThe first day in the beta den already was exhausting. On the order of Vinya, all the beta females met up with them and were tasked to show her to ropes and support her. They did not look to happy, when the alpha left and snarled at her, so that Niera was unsure what happened or what the problem was.\n\nThere was no long time for any talks, because shortly after, a few male betas came into the den and talked to Pinya. By the face she made and her nod towards Niera, she was sure they had come to introduce the new beta female.\n\n``She is pregnant, and I am sure you know the order of the alpha.'' Pinya said with spice in her voice. The males just nodded and approached Niera.\n\n``Hello... Niera, right?'' she saw the lust in the eyes of the boys. ``Hello...?'' she responded, but they seemed to not have the patience to wait. The male directly went towards her flank and with a small pinch he told her to turn around and lift her tail, which she did obediently.\n\n``I love new betas.'' The male growled happily. ``They are so obedient, not like the old bitches.'' Niera groaned when he mounted her and pushed in. He was by far not as caring as Khara or his sons. He was here only for one mission, to pound her pussy, and that he did.\n\nIt was over quite quick, but new males came, and they all seemed to have just one goal. To get inside of the new female. When she got a small breather during the evening, she huffed exhausted and was happy to have survived the first day, but it was far from being over.\n\nWhen the males left the den and Niera wanted to find some comfy place to sleep, Pinya and the others approached her. ``You sure did not think you are finished already, do you?'' Pinya asked and when Niera looked up, she saw that they had not been avoiding her before, but they hated her.\n\nThe anger and hate spew from the eyes of the beta-leader and she turned around and lifted her tail.\n\n``Because you stole away the beta males from us, you will make sure to at least show us your tribute.''\n\nNiera was too exhausted to fight and understood now, why Vinya had trained her in pleasing another female. She did not complain but just went to work and started to lick Pinya until she moaned.\n\nAfter Pinya, each of the females demanded her to tend to their needs. Judging from them only demanding it once, she suspected, that they only wanted to dominate her. Their bellies were big as well and so Niera was sure, that they were just as pregnant as she was.\n\nAfter an hour, Niera dropped down totally empty and fell asleep, not regarding the girl juices on her face and the spunk that leaked out of her snatch.\n\nThings got worse in the next days. Not only did the males come back, and the whispering they did with Pinya she suspected, that the beta leader even invited them to fuck Niera, but they were more and more discontent with not being able to knot Niera.\n\n``You sure can knot her.'' Pinya suddenly said, while Niera was already exhausted enough to have her legs wobble, because she had been taken non-stop without a rest, because they pulled out instantly and were replaced with a different male.\n\n``But the alpha said...'' started the male who took Niera first, she did not remember their names, because she had been very exhausted, when they told them to her.\n\n``You can't knot her honey pot, but she got two other holes to fill, right?'' Pinya said with an evil grin, that was returned by the beta male.\n\nNiera groaned under the pushes into her rectum a few seconds later and the male did not go soft or caring. It felt like he wanted to punish her or was told to do so.\n\nNiera cried out loud when he popped his big knot into her ass and shivered, when she dropped down. The only advantage of this was, that she was now able to rest a bit and gain enough energy for the next male, that stood in line already.\n\nWhen the males left, all females still requested their tribute from their new addition to the group and Niera was happy, when she could drop to sleep this evening.\n\nThe next days were not much better, but Niera got used to the abuse of her tail hole and she groaned less when the males took her. What she discovered, while she was moaning under Chael, who finally paid a visit as well, was that she gained energy by this and did not feel as exhausted in the evening.\n\nWhile he lay on top of her and slowly grinded into her pussy, Chael whispered to her and told her about Bahg and Chael already trying to rise in ranks in the beta group.\n\nHe also confirmed, that Pinya had put the leader of the beta males up for this and that she wanted to break Niera to make sure she would not gain in ranks over her.\n\nChael and Bahg came every day from this day on and they used their time with Niera to give her even more of a breather, while grinding into her slowly. Niera actually preferred these two over the rest and felt her energy rising again, even though she made sure to not show this to any of the other beta females.\n\nThe brothers also explained her, why Pinya was so focused on Niera.\n\nNot only was Niera a real beauty and had all males look after her, but as a graduate from alpha training, she was the only female, next to Mirya, who however was quite low in the ranking as well, who would be a potential alpha candidate.\n\nWith Vinya being very old, the beta females all looked forward to replacing her, if she would die in a few years.\n\nBefore Niera came, naturally Mirya would have been the only option, however the other females held her low and grouped up on her in the past, which broke the girl, and she was not alpha material anymore.\n\nPinya tried to use the other girls, to demoralize any possible rivals, in hope that even though she was not a graduate from alpha school, she would be the only option left for Khara, when his wife would be gone.\n\nNiera felt anger inside her, when she heard about the intrigues, that Chael was able to uncover by inquiring the other beta males, who all seemed to know about the rotten nature of the beta leader.\n\nNiera was also sure, that Vinya knew about this and therefore had prepared her as good as possible for joining the beta group. It seemed, that not even the alpha could help her with that, and she had to solve this herself.\n\nIf anyone would protect her and safe her, she would lose face and would be seen as week, because the alpha or anyone else needed to rescue her. This would for sure make her even drop down from the beta ranks into lower ranks.\n\nBut she already thought about a counterattack, while Chael and Bahg were taking it easy with her and helped her to gain as much energy as possible for her actions. They were the only allies she had, even though they did not voice this openly.\n\nNiera felt her belly grow strong and it took additional energy just to move around with this big belly and the extra weight. She understood that she had to act fast, because she did not want her cubs to be born while she was still under the constant attacks of the other beta females.\n\nNiera had planned for this for a whole week, when she finally set her counterattack into action.\n\nShe had told Chael and Bahg to visit her as the last this evening, to ensure that she could rest up and they helped her with drawing out the time they lay on top of her for a few more minutes to help her gain additional energy.\n\nSure enough, as soon as the males left, Pinya approached her for the daily tribute and all the females were not on guard because Niera had been submissive the hole week to make them feel secure.\n\nWhen Pinya had time to react, Niera already had jumped her and pushed her to the side, her fangs in the throat of the female, but not for the kill but just to hold her.\n\nPinya needed a few seconds to understand what happened, as well as the other females who looked at it in a shock, before she shouted: ``Get her off me girls!''\n\nNiera evaded the tackle of Saliza and jumped off Pinya, with her fangs bared and a dangerous growl in her throat.\n\nMiya and Nena came from the sides, attacking the young girl. Pinya sure had the girls under her control and even though she had been defeated just before, the others did not submit to Niera.\n\nShe understood instantly that she had to fight for her life at this moment and that she had to kill or injure each of them to make it out alive.\n\nPinya also got up and her growl echoed in the cave and was mimicked by the other three. Niera saw herself in front of four older wolves, ready to attack her together.\n\nIn the glimpse of her eye, she saw someone enter the den, but then the attack started. She had not time to check who entered or if it meant friend of foe.\n\nShe evaded the fangs of Mirya and spun around to send her flying against the wall. Knowing, that Mirya was the only other graduate of the training, she had been extremely careful about the female, but her movements showed, that she was not in training anymore and that Mirya lost the edge of a fighter.\n\nSaliza followed up. What they did not have in fighting power, they tried to compensate in teamwork. Niera was able to evade the fangs if Saliza and send her flying, but Nena hit her leg with her fangs and bit.\n\nNiera howled and let herself roll to the side, forcing Nena to follow her. She used the energy of the motion to throw the female off, who let go of her leg.\n\nPinya used this seemingly vulnerable situation to attack with a jump, but Niera had seen it coming.\n\nShe rolled on the ground to evade the paws and yaws of the beta leader and her movement was quick like a flash when she snapped forward with her fangs and her fangs pierced through the ear of the female and cut it open. Blood splashed over the coat of the beta leader.\n\nThe other three females tried to help her, but in their haste, their teamwork diminished, and they were hindering each other rather than helping.\n\nNiera hit Nena with her paw and her claws dug into the leg of the female, who howled in pain.\n\nThe young female ducked under the jump of Saliza, who collided with Mirya. She dug her fangs into the flank of Saliza and used the force of the jump, that pulled her head back, to do a summersault backwards and with her hind legs caught Mirya in her motion and send her flying against the walls of the den, where she groaned loud and only got up with wobbling legs and humping on the left hind leg.\n\nThe females around her were groaning and the only one still standing was Pinya. She tried to attack again, but Niera just danged around her and with quick snaps of her fangs she added more and more cuts into the coat of the beta leader, until she finally let her run into the void and tackle her, so that Pinya fell on her back, and she had her fangs on her throat again, this time with a harder grip.\n\nNiera cold taste the blood on her fangs and smell the iron scent of the blood in the fur of Pinya. Her fangs pierced through the skin and made the throat of the female turn red.\n\n``One step closer of any of you, and she will breathe her last breath.'' Niera growled from her chaps.\n\nNina and Mirya, who humped towards them, stopped in their tracks, and looked shocked, laying on her side and groaning from the pain of her wounded flank.\n\n``I think this is enough.'' A voice behind Niera shouted and it took a second for her to realize, that it was the voice of Khara. ``Let her go.'' He commanded and Niera instantly let go of Pinya and jumped back, allowing the female to get up.\n\nA growl from the throat of Pinya and her body, that crouched, showed Niera, that she prepared to attack again and Niera put a wider stance with her hind legs to evade to any direction if needed.\n\n``I said it is enough!'' Pinya winced from the loud voice of Khara. ``Pinya, if you continue this, I will not stop her from killing you next time, and you should have noticed that none of you, and not even all of you together, are a match for Niera.''\n\nPinya whimpered and let herself sink to the ground. Niera also relaxed finally and let herself sink down and licked over a scratch at her leg, that she just noticed.\n\n``Good thing Chael told me about this.'' Khara said and looked at all the females with a stern face. ``I was afraid, that I came too late to save the girls.'' He sounded genuine. It seemed he had not been afraid about Niera but rather that she would hurt his pack members.\n\n``And you four should take this as a lesson. Niera did not get best of the class for nothing. She is much stronger than even my sons, and if you did not hear already, they are on top of the beta males' group now, so you should understand just how strong this girl is.'' Niera felt a bit proud about the praise.\n\n``I don't want any of you to be injured but let me make this clear. If any of you attack Niera again, she has my full approval to kill. Because I am equally concerned about her. She is part of the pack now and I can't ask her to keep herself back, when you gang up on her with four to kill her.''\n\nA long silence, only broken by a groan of one of the females every now and then. The silence lasted for a full minute, before Khara started to talk again.\n\n``Good, it seems you all understand. I think it is best if I get you separated for tonight.'' His voice sounded a bit softer and not so angry anymore.\n\n``Niera, you will come with me. Pinya, I will send someone to help you with your wounds and just to be clear. Niera will be the beta leader from now on. And if you cannot accept that, you can always challenge her for an official duel in front of everyone else, like the rules of the pack say.''\n\nPinya lowered her gaze. ``Niera, come.'' The alpha turned around and got out of the den, leaving the whimpering, and groaning girls behind. Niera made haste to follow closely and followed the alpha. Part of her was a bit afraid, that he would punish her for injuring them. She had been a bit too hard on the other girls. She tried to think hard if there would have been a way to solve this differently.\n\nKhara send a few other females to the beta den to care for Pinya and the other girls, while he led Niera to the alpha den.\n\nOnly when they were out of sight of any others, Vinya, who had been in the den, left after a few words with Khara to look after Pinya, Saliza, Mirya and Nena, Khara looked at Niera with a soft gaze and licked her cheek and the scratch at her leg.\n\n``I was afraid you would be injured as well.'' He admitted and sighed relieved. ``Not that I did not know that you are strong, but it is quite something different to fight four at once.'' He chuckled and lay down on his bed.\n\n``Come and lay down and rest. You have earned it.'' She said with a warm and caring voice, and Niera lay down next to him, put her snout into the warm fur at his belly and took in his familiar scent. It did not take long for her to fall asleep.\n\nThe pups of Niera were born a few weeks later and by then, she was recognized as the beta leader female already.\n\nShe got four pups that, from the looks, were from four different fathers, but because the kids did not always follow the traits of their parents, it was hard to tell.\n\nAbu, the only male in the mix, had a black snout and black eyes, like the alpha himself.\n\nLeila and Tinya both had blue eyes like Niera, but while Leila had a white snout like Chael, the other one had black legs like Bahg and Niera's red-brown nose.\n\nNiera gave the last one the name Mint, because she had wonderful mint green eyes, just a big lighter than Jeliso's eyes had been.\n\nNiera loved the pups all the same and with Pinya and the others finally accepting her, she learned a lot from the experienced mothers about the care and education of the young pups.\n\nNiera sure had a lot of learn and she did a few mistakes, like any young mother, but overall, she had a keen eye on the pups, whenever she was home with them.\n\nWhen she recovered from giving birth, she started to join the hunting squad. Often it was one of the beta males leading the hunt, but she had to lead a few as well, as the highest-ranking beta female.\n\nDuring these times, when the betas were out hunting, the lower ranking females watched over the pups. Niera slowly got used to the new pack and even though her start had not been the happiest, she grew attached with the beta group soon and there was no bad blood between them.\n\n\n[b]Chapter 7: Family ties[/b]\n\nNiera's right ear flicked, and she let her tail swipe silently two times. Her sensitive hearing picked up the soft steps behind her, that broke away from the group and circled to the right.\n\nNow she flicked with the left ear and her tail brushed back and forth four time. Three of the steps were as silent, but the step of one wolf was clearly audible. The gras rustled under the steps and the claws dug into the ground, making a slight scratching noise.\n\nNiera squinnied her eyes and directed her ears towards the area in front of her.\n\nIt seemed, that the herd of deer did not pick up the sound, but she knew it was only a matter of seconds until they would pick it up. The steps were just too loud.\n\nShe knew that three wolves were still behind her and just hoped, that Pinya was fast enough. After all, she had given Pinya and Bahg the job of the beater because they were the fastest.\n\nThe herd in front of her started to get nervous and drift a bit to the right. This could become dangerous for the two if they were not in place and started the hunt with their signal.\n\nNiera stopped and readied herself for the jump, expecting the herd to panic any moment.\n\nA loud howl echoed over the clearing of the forest, that they now surrounded, and she could hear the growl of Bahg and Pinya from her right and in front of her. They had made it in time and, like it had been planned, the herd started to run towards the left.\n\nA loud growl from her right of the four, she sent there, should send them towards them any time, but something went different than the plan.\n\nShe heard a yowl instead and knew directly, that something went wrong on the left side. With a growl, she jumped forward and heard the other females behind her follow.\n\nThey broke into the clearing and saw what happened.\n\nInstead of keeping the spread formation and driving them towards the group of females, one wolf had left the formation and was too wide out, which made him a weak link and instead of running towards the trap, the buck had led the herd towards the lone wolf and their hooves trampled over the poor guy.\n\n``Chael! Push them off!'' she shouted and turned her head to the right. ``Saliza, you three will try to bring some down.''\n\nThen she jumped forward to help the trapped wolf.\n\nLuckily for him, he found cover behind a small rock, but the hooves hit his flank and legs while they were passing him.\n\nNiera sprinted towards him, taking the risk of running directly into the herd of deer.\n\nShe snapped with her fangs right and left, and managed to hit one of the moving legs. She felt a small pain when the fast movement of the leg jerked her head forward, but she did an extra hard bite, before she let go. The wound, or just the pain, was enough for the young buck to stumble and the deer behind him crashed into the injured animal and a moment later, three bodies crashed on the ground.\n\nSaliza, Mirya and Nena were experienced hunters, and they did not give them any chance to recover. Niera did not need to look back to identify the growl and the fearful cry of the three deer as a well-placed attack of their fangs towards the throat of the prey.\n\nShe reached the rock and saw Shawn, the unlucky wolf, lay there with blood between his ears and one leg twisted and trying to pull it back into the protection of the rock.\n\nBut the left of the rock was free now because the other deer, while trying to evade the falling prey, spread out even more. Two of them ran directly into the fangs of Chael and the other two male betas, that tried to come to their aid. The others had joined the herd, that ran away at the right side of the rock. But Niera knew, that there was not much time. Soon they would spread right and left of the rock again.\n\nShe barely reached the rock before it happened and closed her fangs in the scruff of the injured wolf. Shawn whimpered in pain, when her fangs pierced the fur and skin of the other beta, and she dug the front paws into the ground.\n\nWith a strong push with both hind legs, as if she wanted to jump, it sent her into a fast summersault, and she pulled the yowling wolf with her.\n\nA second time, she felt a strong resistance and her neck hurt for a second, before the heavy body followed her and fell on her body, that curled around the other wolf.\n\nTogether they rolled a few meters, until they hit a small bush, that softened their crash a bit, but Niera still hit her shoulder against a tree.\n\nShe let go of the neck of Shawn and growled from the pain in her leg, when she jumped on her paws and jumped a meter forward, to place herself in front of the wolf in the bush.\n\nChael appeared next to her and joined her in growling and showing their fangs towards the herd, to make sure none of them were heading towards their direction.\n\nIt took nearly a minute, until the dust slowly cleared up and they could only hear the herd breaking through the forest in the distance.\n\nNiera relaxed her face and looked around. Bahg and Pinya came straight towards her and Chael.\n\nSaliza, Mirya and Nena stood next to the three killed deer and licked their bloody jaws and a few meters away from them, Argento and Malte still had their fangs in the throat of the two unlucky prey that evaded into the wrong direction.\n\n``Five!'' she said and growled a bit, when she put weight on her leg. ``We were lucky!''\n\nPinya and Bahg passed her and went towards Shawn and Niera also turned around. She limbed a bit from the pain in her left shoulder.\n\n``How is he?'' she asked, when she finally reached them with Chael, who did not say anything, but looked at Niera with a worried gaze.\n\n``Better than he will be tonight.'' Bahg growled at Shawn and bared his fangs. ``You idiot. You nearly got yourself and Niera killed.''\n\nThe wolf whimpered and his voice sounded blurred from the pain, and it shook a bit. ``I did not ask her too...'' but he could not end the sentence. Pinya growled loud and make him wince and stop in the middle of the sentence.\n\n``You should be thankful, that she came to your aid. Do you know that she ran into the middle of the heard to create a chance for you to escape?'' she shouted at the injured wolf. ``And she even injured herself when she got you out of the danger zone.''\n\nNiera could hear that Pinya was angry and so were all the others. The females had pulled their prey towards the edge of the clearing and let them fall next to the two of Argento and Malte and then joined the group around Shawn together with the males.\n\nAll looked at the whimpering guy with their eyes sparkling in anger.\n\n``Drop it.'' Niera said when Chael just wanted to bark something at Shawn again. ``We need to get back to the pack. Can you walk?''\n\nShe closed in and first licked over the wound at his head. It was not critical but just a small bruise and the skin was cut for a few millimeters.\n\nThe leg looked a bit more serious. The wolf whimpered, when she nudged it with her nose, but her nose could not make out any broken bone. It seemed just that he pulled a muscle or one of the tendons got strained. The leg joint of the hind leg however was big and swollen, most likely from a bruise of some hooves that trampled over it.\n\n``I.. aaahh... don't think so.'' Shawn whimpered. His whole body shivered from the pain and Niera stopped pushing against the leg.\n\n``I don't think it is serious, but I think it is best if we carry him. Who will do it?'' she asked and looked into the round. There was no volunteer. They all still looked angry at him.\n\n``Just leave him here. Serves him right.'' growled Argento. ``He nearly got us killed with his stunt.''\n\n``We do not leave anyone of the pack behind.'' Niera said with a stern face and snarled towards Argento before she bent her front legs into a kneeling position with a growl from the stinging pain in her shoulder.\n\n``Well, then I will carry him...'' she started but before she could drag the wolf in her back, Chael was next to her.\n\n``You are crazy Niera. You are also injured. My father will eat us alive if we let you carry him in your condition.'' He pushed her to the side and pushed his head under the front leg of the laying wolf.\n\n``I will carry him. Bahg, help me to get him on my back.'' And just like Niera before, he crouched on his front legs, pushed his neck and then his shoulders under the chest of the wolf and used his fangs to pull the leg over his shoulder and hold it when he lifted him up.\n\nShawn cried in pain. Not only did his injured leg collide with the flank of Chael, but Bahg, who pulled it over the hind of his brother, and then helped to pull the body of the wolf on the big back of the youngest male, he maybe bit a bit harder than needed and seemed to not care for any pain he might cause the other male.\n\nNiera sighed. Sure, they were angry. Even though Shawn was older than Chael and Bahg, with his 5 years, he was by far the most inexperienced in the beta clan of the males. He just joined them a few weeks ago and not through the alpha training.\n\nHe was strong and fast, but not silent. He was brave, but often a bit overeager and still did a lot of mistakes. Even though, the mistake today was by far his worst.\n\nNiera also knew that her getting injured was the reason all the males were angry. Not only was she the leader of the beta females, but there was not a day that went by without a beta male flirting with her. Being the leader of the beta females, only Chael and Bahg as the highest beta were able to request a mating from her openly, but a lot of betas, and even lower males, had a crush on her.\n\nNiera smiled at Chael and turned to the others.\n\n``Even though I could have lived without this accident, I am proud of you. You pulled off a kill of 5 deer in the middle of all this chaos. This is the biggest catch we had in a while.\n\n``I think it was thanks to one crazy girl, that jumped into the middle of the herd and brought three of them to fall.'' Pinya chuckled and the others joined in and soon they all laughed. Niera was happy, that this lightened up the atmosphere.\n\nShe growled a bit when she took a few steps, but the pain faded a bit while moving. She only limbed a bit, because she avoided to put her full weight on the left leg.\n\n``It was not planned this way, but we got a result.'' She chuckled to overplay the growl and turned towards the west.\n\nThe others took turns with pulling the prey with them and they only went with a slow pace. Niera was happy for the pace, because even though the pain faded a bit, she knew that she would not be able to run any faster.\n\n``Are you okay?'' Bahg stepped next to her and kept his voice low to make sure the others would not hear it.\n\n``I think that I will need a few days' rest.'' Niera admitted. She always had been honest to Bahg and Chael. They were comrades from the training camp, and they knew each other well.\n\n``I am more concerned about Shawn.'' She said. ``I think it will take a bit longer for him to heal up.''\n\nBahg snarled but did not respond.\n\n``Mama!'' Niera smiled at the picture of the four cubs that ran towards them, when they passed the den of the lower females, that had cub watching duty while they were on the hunt.\n\nAbu, the only male cub, was the fastest and reached her first. He weaseled through her legs and brushed against her left front leg, which made her clench her teeth.\n\nMint, Leila and Tinya, the girls, followed him and snuggled against their mother. She let out a huff from the pain but suppressed a growl.\n\n``I am back.'' She announced. ``Did you behave?'' she asked, and the four cubs bared their fangs and smiled at her innocently. She could see from the twitching of the eye of Abu and the smirk in the eyes of them, that they for sure had played some pranks again.\n\nThe cubs of the other beta females also closed in and greeted their mothers, and they joined them up to the beta den, where Pinya and Niera entered with the cubs, while Chael carried Shawn to their den and the others brought the prey to the feeding ground. Niera knew, that the other beta females would bring them, and the cubs, some parts of the prey and her first thought was a good rest.\n\nSure enough, her cubs had something different in mind, and it took a stern word from Pinya, revealing that she was injured, to keep them in check. Niera smiled towards her fellow beta female.\n\n``It is not so bad.'' She explained Leila, who started to cry when she heard, that her mother was injured.\n\n``Just don't jump around on me right now and in a few days, I will be like new.'' She locked the face of the girl and let her snuggle against her belly.\n\nNow, that she was a mother, she understood, why her mother had been so stern with her in the past, but she was still too young and inexperienced to show the same strong front towards her cubs. She was so filled with love for them, that she always got soft and could not scold them for long.\n\nPinya however was always happy to do it for her and she was a much stricter mother, and teacher, than the younger female.\n\nThe hardest part of the winter was over. Niera was happy, that the winter in the valley was much milder than on the training grounds. She had guarded her pups with all the care of a young mother.\n\nThey also finally managed to complete the training of Shawn, so that he would not bring them into a dangerous situation during hunting again. The hunts were successful, and the bellies were filled with enough food to keep everyone satisfied.\n\nOne day, Khara appeared in the den of the beta's and requested Niera to join him in his den. She followed the request, leaving the pups in the care of Pinya and the other female betas.\n\n``We will soon go on a journey, and I like you to stay here in the den until then.'' The alpha just explained. Niera felt a bit lightheaded from being around her alpha again. She still had strong feelings for Khara, and she snuggled up with him, after the alpha female allowed her, at night, taking in his musky scent.\n\nNiera had expected that Khara wanted to mate with her, but the alpha did not request it from her. During the day, he asked her to stay inside most of the time and she got lectures and lessons from Vinya.\n\nA few days later, Khara announced, that Niera would join him on a mission, and he made her follow him through the night away from their pack grounds.\n\nNiera had felt the start of her heat this morning and was sure that her alpha also smelled it, so she imagined, that Khara wanted to be alone with her to mate her and make sure the pups were only from him this time.\n\nHe did not talk, and she just followed him, heaving a heard time to suppress the growing heat.\n\nThey stopped at the lake, which her father had brought her to for the training, and Khara let a short howl echo through the valley.\n\nThe alpha ignored all the presenting and tries of Niera to get him to mate her. She was hard in need, and she felt her girl juices drip from her swollen and drenched snatch.\n\nThe only curtsey the alpha gave her were a few licks over her spade, which made her moan in pleasure.\n\n``Niera, I am so happy to see you.'' Niera winced and looked to the direction of the new voice. It only took a short moment for her head to clear up from the pleasure, before she noticed her father.\n\n``Papa!'' she shouted and closed in towards her father to nuzzle him as a greeting.\n\n``You got big.'' He mentioned and looked at her from all angles and sniffed at her.\n\nNiera got a bit flustered, when she remembered, that she reeked from heat.\n\nIt was even more embarrassing, when she noticed that her father was affected by her smell and showed a big red boner between his legs.\n\n``You see, I promised your father something, when he agreed to give you to the alpha training.'' Khara rose his voice. She looked over her shoulder and saw him on laying on a rock.\n\n``I promised him to bring you here on your first heat after the training.'' He smirked and Niera still did not completely understand what he meant.\n\n``And you kept your promise.'' Her father replied from behind her, and she suddenly felt a tongue wash over her snatch and make her moan. It took a moment for her pleasure-soaked mind to realize that it was her father's tongue, and she pushed her tail over her pussy and did a step forward.\n\n``No...'' she moaned. ``You are my father...'' the rest of the sentence was lost in another moan, after her father pushed his nose under her tail, lifted it and plunged his tongue between her lips.\n\n``Forget about him being your father for now.'' Said Khara, who took deep breaths through his nostrils. ``Show him how you serve an alpha.''\n\nNiera could not refuse a command from her alpha and reluctant she lifted her tail and crouched down, while she held her hind high.\n\nShe closed her eyes and tried to imagine it being Chael or Bahg, but the fact that it was her father popped up in her head every time she felt his licks.\n\nThen the licks suddenly stopped, and she felt something climb on her back. She kept her eyes shut and waited for the inevitable.\n\nShe felt the bite in her neck, that made her shiver in arousal and her body assume a wider pose. Her snatch was drenched and dripping, eager to welcome the dick of the wolf on top of her.\n\nHer mind clouded and the pleasure, that coursed through her body, washed away her concerns about this being her father. She turned into a willing and needy bitch and moaned while she felt the wolf on top of her shifting.\n\nShe let out a long moan when her father pushed forward for the first time. He was thicker even than Khara or Chael. He had the thickest dick she ever had in her tunnel, and it stretched her soft and wet mound while the rod advanced further inside her.\n\nShe could not deny that this member was causing her a lot of pleasure and she whimpered in ecstasy under her own father, that increased the pace with each push.\n\nShe felt the growing knot collide with her pussy lips with each push of the big wolf on top of her and heard his huffs and grunts in the same rhythm.\n\nIt all mixed into a constant sound in the world, that began to spin for her in the pleasure, while she kept her eyes shut the whole time, just moaning, and chirping under her own father.\n\nShe climaxed around him, but he continued to push into her, and she felt the knot invade more and more with each push, until it popped in and started to grow fast while he still pumped with smaller movements now.\n\n Her father only stopped when his knot was maxed out and stretched the pussy of Niera. It was only now, that she noticed his tip, that breached her cervix and rested in the middle of her womb, spraying spurt after spurt of thick goo into her sensitive sacred chamber.\n\nWhile her father celebrated his climax with a low howl, she moaned strongly and another orgasm gripped her, making her milk her father's pulsing member for more and more of his spunk.\n\nHer father licked her ears a few times, before he turned around and moved down from her back. Niera let herself sink to the ground, feeling that her father lay down behind her as well, and rested, like she had learned.\n\n``You are the tightest fuck I had in my life. You felt wonderful Niera.'' The girl just moaned from him shifting inside her when he turned his head towards her. She kept her eyes shut and felt embarrassed. It was her father inside her, and she felt his sperm still gushing in fading spurts into her womb.\n\n``You trained her good, my old friend.'' She heard Khara chuckle. ``This was the most fun part of the training, but she also was an eager learner.'' He praised his trainee, but Niera tried to not listen to the conversation of the older wolves. She huffed and tried to catch her breath because she knew what would happen, when her father would pull out.\n\nShe could smell the arousal of Khara and her father under her own spicy heat scent, that was like a cloud around her.\n\nWhen her father left her with a pop, she got up and directly presented towards Khara, who came down from the rock.\n\nThe alpha chuckled and licked over her spade a few times, before he took a step back.\n\n``This heat is only for your father.'' He said, and Niera could hear in his voice, that he fought down the arousal and tempting thoughts about jumping the female in front of him.\n\n``Present for him, will you Niera?'' he suggested and Niera knew, that she had to present for her father again.\n\nBut she did not care anymore. The fire of her heat was lit by her father, and she had to admit, that his thick rod felt wonderful inside her. She knew that this was the heat calling for her, but she needed a male to push into her. She turned towards her father with her hind and presented for him, feeling his spunk drip out of her snatch.\n\nHer father let a pleased growl out of his throat and closed in to lick over her snatch and make the girl squirm in pleasure.\n\n``Beg me for it.'' Her father whispered and retreated, just marveling in the view of his daughter presenting to him.\n\n``Mate me please.'' She whimpered, knowing what the male wanted to hear.\n\nBut Holo still did not advance. ``Who do you want to mate you?'' he teased her, and the girl felt her heat act up and make her squirm.\n\n``Daddy, please breed me.'' She cried and the male did not need any more encouragement. He jumped on top of her and bit down in her scruff, which made her moan loud.\n\n``Oh daddy.'' She squealed when his big member pushed through her folds. ``I love you daddy.''\n\nNiera was totally lost in her heat and pleasure. She stopped caring that it was her father on top of her. She always had loved her father, but never in this way. But at this moment, she did not mind it anymore.\n\nShe called him out with each of his pushes and he whispered her name multiple times, until his knot pushed inside her again and inflated to lock him in.\n\nNiera had her eyes open, but her vision was blurry. She did not see the stars in the sky or the movement of Khara, when he closed in and licked over her head, while her father turned around again and lay down to wait until he could pull out.\n\nShe smelled the warm smell of Khara, felt his loving licks and the spurts inside her womb, that filled it to the brim and made it stretch out from the quantity.\n\nNiera had to proof the endurance she learned in the last year with her father, because the older wolf was without limits this night.\n\nAs soon as he pulled out of his daughter, he already started to lick and stimulate her again, to urge her to present to him and she complied.\n\nNiera stopped thinking about the weirdness of her allowing her father to mate her and just sank into the pleasure and warm embrace of her father. The love, that she felt for her father, mixed with the heat and the urge to mate and she was soon nothing but a moaning bitch under him, while Khara showed her his caring love by comforting her while she rested.\n\nNiera returned the loving licks of Khara every now and then and even licked his big erect member, when the alpha turned his flank towards the girl.\n\nShe was reminded of the time in the den during the training, when she served the four males and she submitted to the two alphas, who took advantage of her heat.\n\nWhen Holo started to lose endurance, Khara joined in. He did not mate Niera in her snatch, but he pushed into her tail hole for a few rounds, while the other alpha rested, and soon Niera had to endure both males on top of her in both her holes.\n\nThe heat however made her submit and let them do everything they liked with her. She just stood there presenting and lay down panting and with her eyes closed to have a short nap, whenever they were stuck and turned around.\n\nBecause her view was blurry for most part and her senses only concentrated on the warm smell and wonderful feeling of the males around her, she did not notice how the sun rose and set again.\n\nShe also did not notice, that Khara went for a hunt a few times, to keep them fed. A night turned into a day and a night, then to days and before Niera even noticed it, her heat already was declining and even though she still moaned when her father was on top of her, she also started to groan when the please retreated and pain took over from his heavy stretching.\n\n``You are the best and tightest lay I ever had.'' Her father told her when they said their goodbye one week later. Niera became a bit more reserved towards her father now.\n\nNow, that the heat was not nagging and making her mind clouded, she felt shy and embarrassed about the fact, that she not only let her father mate her but had been a willing bitch for him and would carry his pups.\n\n``Not even mom?'' she asked shy, and her father winced, but then smiled to her and closed in to lick over her cheek. ``No, not even your mom. Oh, and this is our secret, okay? Don't ever tell her what we did or what I said, okay?''\n\nNiera nodded, retreating shy. She did not know how to face her father right now and was happy, when Khara stepped next to her, and she could lean against him.\n\nEven though it had been his command, that she should mate with her father, she still loved him and longed for his affection.\n\n``I hope that you are happy with this.'' Khara mentioned towards Holo. ``I kept my promise, even though it was hard to share her during her heat.'' He admitted and Niera's father laughed.\n\n``I could not be happier.'' He said. ``And I wish you all the best luck my little girl. And you make sure to make her happy Khara.'' - ``You bet!'' was the answer of the alpha and both males laughed while Niera was in her thoughts and the feeling of her womb still being filled to the brim with the spunk of her father.\n\nThe way back to the pack was interrupted a few times, where Khara claimed the young girl and mixed his spunk into the spunk of her father. Sure, he would not be able to impregnate her, because her heat already ended, but the big wolf felt like claiming his female to remind her that she belonged to him and Niera submitted to him from the bottom of her heart, even without her heat.\n\nIt took a few weeks, until Niera stopped pondering about her father being the father of the pups, that started to grow in her belly, but finally, she returned to her own playful self and accepted the fact that she would bear her own father's pups.\n\n\n[b]Chapter 8: Stepping up[/b]\n\nThe time flew like the eagles over the valley. Niera got her second litter a few weeks later. After she had stopped thinking about who the father of them was, she had been excited to have them and was happy when they were born.\n\nShe got two more girls and two more boys out of her father's contribution. One boy and one girl had the typical red markings of her father, the girl with a dark red and the boy with a light red fur. The belly of the girl, Nenya, was white, where the belly of the boy, Nico, was dark.\n\nThe other two pups looked like the slit image if Niera. To the markings at her snout and her belly fur, they looked like a small version of her. She named them Haku and Hina.\n\nHer older cubs, of the first litter, already started to play with the other young wolves and were outside the den for the most parts of the day, only coming back in the evening.\n\nNiera again had all the help she needed with the cubs from the other beta females, who also had their own cubs to care for.\n\nBut now Niera also had more experience and contributed just as much at looking over the pups of the other females. It was hard to tell the mother of the young litters other than for those who looked exactly like Niera, because the pups just went to the next female in range to get their drink and they all cared for them as if they were their mothers.\n\nBecause her first litter was still just one year old, they came back to the den in the evening and Niera had a keen eye on them being on time. She remembered how strict her mother had been in the past and began to understand the reasons after she got her own pups.\n\nShe had to scold especially Abu and Pietro, a black furred pup with mint green eyes like his mother Nena. The two boys were very adventurous and often stayed past daylight before returning to the den.\n\nThese two were also clearly the strongest of last year's cubs. They clearly took the lead in the group of the young wolves and often ventured far beyond the protected area of the dens.\n\nOne day, Niera got a shock, when she suddenly saw the two boys appear in the middle of a hunt, a good mile away from the dens. In their drive to explore their surroundings, they had lost the orientation a bit and went the wrong way, further away from the dens.\n\nNiera and Nena tucked them into a bush until the hunt was over and then picked them up by their scruff and carried them home, while the hunting party was pulling back the prey.\n\nWhen they got back to the dens, Niera put down Abu and started to scold him so loud, that all wolves heard about it and came to watch. Nena just stood next to her, also having placed Piertro next to his friend, and looked at the pups with a stern face, but left it to Niera to give them a word or two.\n\nThe pups shivered from embarrassment and the fierce look at the face of Niera, who gave them a lecture for nearly an hour, before she told the pups to follow them home. Both boys had to stay close to the den for three days, with one of the beta's watching over them. They were not allowed to leave the eyes of the caretaker for even a minute and after that, they never got near the hunting grounds again.\n\nIt was not, that the pups did stop their exploring. They just made sure to stay within sight of the safe pack grounds to not run into their mothers when they were on a hunt.\n\nThe second litter grew up just as fast as the first one and the next winter came with the cold grasp and frozen paws. Hunting became harder again and the weather got even colder than in the previous winters Niera had experienced.\n\nThe pups of the pack met every day at the big plateau, just below the beta den, because the parents did not want to get lost and freeze to death. There were always at least five females around the plateau to have a watch over the pups and Niera also lay at the edge of the small path in front of the beta den to look down on the playing pups.\n\nThe cold weather did not take away the playful drive of the pups and they were fighting and brawling all over the plateau. The smaller pups, of the last litter, were in a corner with a few females, protected from the rough games of their older siblings.\n\nLike every winter, a few of the pups already had died. Some slipped and hit a rock, others got lost, because they did not listen to their mothers, and froze to death before they could be found. Luckily, Niera's pups were not under these casualties.\n\nKnowing the danger for the pups, she had a keen eye on all of them and even caught Abu and Pietro a few times, when they tried to sneak away. She did not want to lose any of her pups.\n\nShe knew, that after the winter, the two boys would most likely leave the pack. They had talked about this with her, and it was not rare for young wolves to leave the pack, and the valley, to venture outside and see the world. Most of the young wolves that went outside were those, who had promise in strength but would never come past a beta rank in their life because of their heritage.\n\nBut to allow them to take their life into their own paws, Niera was very careful to ensure they survived this winter.\n\n``Niera, can we leave you alone with the other females to watch over the pups?'' Pinya came down from the alpha den, where she had been called earlier.\n\n``Sure, I have been doing it up to now, and I have no problem continuing, but what happened?'' she asked and looked to the older female.\n\n``Abu?!'' her cry was so loud, that her pup winced and stopped in his tracks. When he saw his mother turn her head, he tried to sneak out of her vision and escape the playground again. With his tail tucked between his hind legs, he turned around and ran back to the other pups, mumbling something that Niera could not understand from her spot.\n\n``We will put together a search party for Vinya.'' The beta said. ``She went after Ian, who went missing this morning, but she did not return yet, and neither did any of the others of her search party. Khara will lead the search party and he asked all betas to participate, while you take the command here and make sure none of the other pups go missing.''\n\nNiera growled a bit. All the betas were on the search party, but she had to babysit? Then again, she was sure that the reason for that was, that Niera had proven herself to be very good at keeping the pups in check. She had been trained a lot by the constant tries of Abu to escape and her son was the biggest troublemaker under them.\n\n``Okay.'' She said after a while of silence, following her son with her eyes, who noticed his mother's gaze and instead of following the direction he took before, he turned around and pounced on Pietro, who followed him and soon the pups were in a playfight with each other.\n\nPinya left and she saw her joining a group of wolves who silently rushed down the path towards the exit of the pack habitat.\n\nNiera was a bit worries about Vinya. It was not usual for her to overstay a leave without any message, and it was weird that she did not even send any of her search party back. Sure, she most likely had taken a few capable trackers of the lower ranks, but even if they were no betas, Niera knew that a few of the lower ranking wolves were nearly as capable in hunting and fighting than the betas.\n\nA lot of adult wolves came up to the big plateau and placed themselves around the edges, blocking all paths. Niera was sure, that Pinya told them to support her. It was good to make sure no additional pups would go lost.\n\nMost of the wolves were females, but a few males were mixed in as well. A bit further down, on a smaller plateau, Niera saw the playfights of the younger wolves, who stayed behind and trained their fighting power to someday challenge one of the betas for their rank.\n\nThere were, after all, only two ways to become a beta. One way was, if an alpha candidate finished alpha training, just like she did, and the second was to defeat a beta in a fight for the ranks and take the place of this beta. This was the reason, why many capable fighters were not betas and the ranks changed sometimes.\n\nUsually, only alpha and beta females got pups and only the alpha and beta males could breed with them, which was why these ranks were that popular. Even Niera had to fend off a few challengers, because even if she finished alpha training, she could still lose her rank to a challenger.\n\nSaliza barely defended her rank at the start of the winter. The only rank, that was not chosen by a fight, was that of the alpha female. This was always chosen by the alpha, but only from the ranks of the betas and it was a rule, that everyone knew, that alphas only chose a beta that completed the alpha training as their alpha female.\n\nAn alpha male was barely challenged, at least not in the Western Pack. The most prominent reason for that was, that the alpha was respected by the whole pack. The only fights for the right to be the alpha would come, if the old alpha stepped down because they felt ill or if they died.\n\nNiera heard stories, that in the past there had been some rogue wolves coming from outside the valley, or from one of the other packs, who challenged the alpha, but Khara fend of multiple of them before Niera joined the pack and since she joined, no foreign wolf came here.\n\nThe pups under her got nervous. The tension from the adults was noticeable strongly and it made the pups feel just as tense, even more, because they did not know what was going on.\n\nThat so many adults guarded them was also very unusual and Niera did her best to not show her own worries and looked down at the playing cubs with a forced smile and a warm gaze to not make the atmosphere even worse. She was the highest-ranking wolf here at this moment and the thought of having the sole responsibility for all these wolves below, made her even more nervous than the other adults.\n\nShe tried her best to not show any of this and while she listened to the fast beating of her heart, she observed the nervous games of the pups and the silent watch of the other adults.\n\nIt was creepy, that most of the talking between them died down and they just watched the kids without the usual chatter, but she knew why the adults were silent. It was the same reason that she had her ears perked up and waiting.\n\nThey all wanted to make sure to not miss a single sign of either the search party, or of the guards, that were at the entrances of the sleeping grounds to make sure no enemy would enter at these vulnerable times.\n\nNiera understood, that if now of all times some other wolf or another predator entered their sleeping grounds, she would have the responsibility to lead the attack to defend their pups and pack.\n\nHer tail nervously swished back and forth, but over time, her heart slowly calmed down with lack of any warning howl or other noise from the borders of their pack ground, that she could barely see from her location.\n\nThe return of Pinya and the other beta females was a shock not only to Niera but to the whole pack. Niera saw a small group returning and a short howl of the guards told her, that they were allies. But the howl had sounded painful and ended as fast as it started.\n\nNiera rushed towards the returning group and the moment she met them, shortly before they reached the big plateau, she froze in her steps. On the back of Pinya was Vinya, the alpha female and Mirya had a pup in her muzzle, which Niera identified as Ian.\n\nThe deep wounds and the dried blood, in addition to a missing leg for the cub, showed clearly, that they were dead.\n\nNiera stumbled and nearly hit the ground but in the last second, she fortified her mind and stood strong. She was the one in charge now and she could not show weakness or terror.\n\nShe could not move a muscle, but she also avoided from showing any weakness and causing chaos in the wolves around her that looked just as stunned towards their leading female body, that now was softly let drop down in front of Niera.\n\nWith a shaking voice, Pinya explained what happened. All the females looked exhausted and Pinya and Saliza had scratches at their hind legs. They were not deep or life threatening, but Niera could see that they hurt, and blood was still tickling out of them.\n\nThe report took a while and all, even the cubs, were silent and listened to the shaking voice of Pinya.\n\nThe group under Khara tracked down the scent of Vinya and finally found her at a river. A bear somehow had made it into the valley and around Vinya were the dead bodies of her search group. Five wolves, including the alpha, were dead in under Vinya was the dead body of Ian and another pup that traveled with him.\n\nKhara fought with the power of anger and together with the betas, he drove off the bear. In the explanation from Pinya, the bear had been massive.\n\nA lone long howl got to their ears over the silence when Pinya made a pause. Everyone knew this howl. Everyone knew what it meant.\n\nIt was the howl of their Alpha, but it was not directed towards them. It was the call for the other alphas. And a call for arms for a threat. Niera never had heard it before and even, so she felt the tension in the howl.\n\nShe imagined hearing the anger and sadness in the howl, but a few seconds later she was sure that it was her own anger and sadness, that made the howl sound like that.\n\nWithout thinking, she put her nose into the wind and started a very low, mourning howl. At first it was just her soft and calm voice.\n\nHer voice did not shake, but it had all the sadness, that she felt over the loss of Vinya, in it.\n\nIn this moment, Niera understood how much the she-wolf had meant to her. She had been a mentor, a friend and a second mother for her. Stern, but caring. Powerful but sensitive.\n\nHer voice echoed from the rocks around her and a few seconds later, Pinya also pushed her head into the neck and joined in.\n\nMore and more of the wolves joined in with a soft, calm melody.\n\nEach single howl was silent, more silent than ever before, but together they grew into a buzzing noise, like a swarm of bees, traveling over the valley and joining with the angry howl of Khara.\n\nEven the pups imitated their mothers and joined into the howl. Niera could see from the corner of her eye that the other pups of Vinya stood a few steps away from her and with tears in their eyes joined into the last respectful goodbye to their mother.\n\nThe sun slowly vanished behind the edges of the mountains, but they still howled for a while, until the darkness sank around them, and the stars started to show their beautiful glimmer.\n\nNiera picked the alpha female up and brought it to the alpha den. They placed her inside and the pup next to her.\n\nNiera did not have to say anything. All the other wolves followed her. The pups of Vinya were directly behind her and her own pups as well.\n\n``Take all pups with you to the beta den and care for them. Get a few of the lower ranking she-wolves to help you.'' She told Pinya.\n\n``Saliza, Mirya and Nena, get the stronger wolves and secure the entrances to our sleeping grounds. If anyone approaches, howl and I will come.''\n\nThe beta females nodded and while Pinya, with the help of a few other females, made sure to bring all pups to the beta den, Niera lay down around the mourning pups of Vinya, who lay in the middle of the den, crying and whimpering.\n\n``I will stay with you tonight.'' She reassured them and licked over the faces of the little ones. The older pups of Khara and Vinya lay down next to her and snuggled against the older she-wolf.\n\nShe heard the other wolves leaving the den, just two females staying in front of the den to be three in case Niera had to leave.\n\nHer ears faced the entrance of the den and listened to each noise from the outside. She heard the howl of a big group of wolves. She knew that this was the call for war, but they were not fighting against each other. It was the hunting party, compromised only from the alpha and beta males of each pack, to hunt the bear.\n\nNiera was sure, that the alpha and beta females were protecting their sleeping grounds just as Niera just ordered. In times of crisis, it was the job of the males to fight the intruders and the job if the females were to protect the pack and, most importantly, the pups.\n\nShe heard the calls of different hunting parties from the different directions of the valley. They circled to find the bear and around midnight, she heard a long howl that signaled that one group found him and that they called the others in for the attack.\n\nThe growls and howls mixed with the roars of the bear were audible for over an hour, until it finally stopped. The pups between Niera's legs cried themselves into sleep, but the older pups looked frightened to the entrance of the den with each roar and howl. When the noises finally piped down, that looked with big eyes into the night, just like Niera.\n\nThe silence did not tell them the outcome of the fight. Niera was sure that a hunting party of wolves from all packs could never lose, because of the high number, but she felt her heartbeat strongly, waiting for any indicator for the outcome.\n\nShe took a deep breath when she heard a strong howl. It was clearly Khara and shortly after the howls of the other wolves joined in. It was the triumphant howl of victory and she heard some of the wolves outside in the sleeping ground replying to the howl.\n\nThere were more howls from all edges of the valley.\n\nNiera sighed. It seemed that the danger that they had been in was over now and at least Khara, she recognized his howl, was alive. She hoped that all the others were also alive and healthy.\n\n``You can sleep now.'' She whispered to the older pups next to her, that also looked quite relieved. ``I am sure your father will come home soon.''\n\nNiera did not close her eyes but kept her ears faced to the outside while she watched over the pups, who soon all slept tightly snuggled up to her.\n\nHer duty was not over yet. She had to react to any possible warning the guards would utter and get out of the den to protect the pack, if another threat would arise, but the night stayed silent, until the morning dawned with the first red rays of sunlight that directly fell into the den.\n\nThe return of the beta males and Khara was silent. Only a low howl greeted the warriors back to their home.\n\nNiera waited in front of the alpha den and joined Khara, Bahg and Chael to go inside, where the yearlings and the smaller cubs waited, snuggled together.\n\nNiera left the family alone to mourn for Vinya and left the den to organize the pack together with Pinya and the other alpha females.\n\nThey also got shortly briefed by one of the other betas how the hunt for the bear went.\n\nLuckily, all of them made it back, but they reported, that two betas of other packs had been seriously wounded in the fight with the bear. None of them, not even Khara, had come off unscarred. The bear had been massive, by the report of the beta, and it had been a fierce warrior.\n\nThey had fought nearly the whole night, chased the bear, surrounded him, attacked him, and then chased again, until they finally brought him down.\n\nThe exhausted groups of wolves split up again when the morning dawned and returned to their packs to mourn their deaths.\n\nThe days that followed were very silent and it was mostly Niera who led the pack now. She took the task without asking, making sure that Khara had the time to mourn for his wife and take care of his pups. She sent one of the beta females to him every day to make sure he ate something and that the pups were alright. Even though Vinya had been quite old, it came as a shock for Khara, that she died, and the pack understood that he took his time to take his last goodbye.\n\nUnder Niera the pack slowly got back to the daily life, even though a curtain of sadness hang upon them all. The hunt and the daily work they had to do was much more silent than before and there was very little joy. \n\nEven the beta-males did not visit the beta females' den to have some fun and lose some of their energy. The energy they had in the past seemed to have been spent with the fight against the bear and Niera made sure to give them time to recover, while she got a few lower ranks to join in the hunts to keep the pack well fed.\n\nBut the days of sorrow went by and at one day, Khara appeared in front of his den again, his eyes focused and warm again, like they knew him. His howl echoed between the rocks when he greeted the pack and the response sounded much happier than they felt the last days.\n\nWith the recovery of their alpha, and the healing of the last wounds of the bear, happiness slowly got back into the pack and the live began to normalize again.\n\nBut Niera still was busy these days, because even if Khara was back, she continued to organize everything and continue with the responsibilities he left her with.\n\nIt was no surprise to anyone in the pack, when a few weeks later, Khara announced, that Niera would change to the alpha den and be his next alpha female.\n\nEveryone had been expecting this and even though Niera had worked for two years towards the goal of becoming an alpha, her heart was heavy from the thought that she only got there because Vinya died.\n\nShe had loved the old alpha like a mother, and it took her a few more weeks to get used to lay next to Khara in the cave, with the smaller pups of Vinya and her own cuddling against her altogether and watching over the yearlings of herself and Vinya.\n\nThe kids always had loved her, so they transitioned to the new situation much faster than the older wolf.\n\nThey had brought the body of Vinya and her dead pup to the waterfall and let it drop down with their last howl. This was a tradition for saying goodbye to members of the pack.\n\nNow there was only a faint scent of the she-wolf left in the den and Niera's scent started to cover it more and more.\n\nNiera still felt insecure in the new position. She sure loved Khara, and she found comfort in cuddling against the big wolf and taking in the scent of his fur, but other than the job as the leading beta, that she had known for a while, being the alpha was very new for her.\n\nShe was not sure if she could fill the role, even though she found it much like what she had done since Vinya died. She just felt the responsibility and the tension of everyone relying on her and comparing herself with her second mother as a heavy load.\n\nThe beta females supported her as much as they could and she visited the beta den every day to play with the pups, that she cared for in the last months together with her fellow beta females.\n\nShe even brought her own pups and Vinya's pups there to join in and with the laughing of the playing pups and the many wolves that asked her for decisions or opinion, she soon found herself losing the sadness in her heart and growing more accustomed to the role as an alpha female by each day.\n\nDespite her size, that still was quite small, she was respected by anyone in the pack, and they trusted her calls and commands as much as they did trust Khara's and after a few months, it felt normal for everyone that the old wolf and the young she-wolf led them, and she became the center of the pack.\n\n\n[b]Chapter 9: Circle of Life[/b]\n\nNiera lay in the cold den, shielding the four little pups that cuddled against her chest. The last week had been very hard for the family but they slowly got used to the missing spot next to Niera.\n\nTwo years had passed since she became the alpha and the four bundles of fur between her legs were the second litter since then. All of them were Khara's kids, a last reminder for the great alpha.\n\nTanya, Minka, Hanyo and Ponyo had taken some time to understand, that their father would not come back.\n\nThe previous week, the old wolf had passed away from his old age and left Niera with their cubs.\n\nBehind her, cuddled up against her back, were Maja, Illu and Malka, the three cubs of her first litter with the big alpha wolf. They slowly got over the sadness and helped their mother to care for their younger siblings.\n\nNiera looked at the little pups in front of her belly and a silent tear rolled out of her eye. She still was mourning for Khara and took much longer than her pups.\n\nOne of the reasons for this was surely, that she only was able to mourn at night, when her pups slept, and she was alone with her thoughts about her former husband.\n\nDuring the day, she was too busy to think about it and she had to hide her emotions to lead the pack. She was the one wolf, everyone looked at right now.\n\nShe had many wolves coming to her to bring their condolence and share warm words. They all lost a strong and loved alpha.\n\nThrough the entrance of the den, she could hear the distant growling of the male wolves. It started the day before, that the beta wolves began to fight for the succession of Khara.\n\nWhile the alpha male chose his alpha female, the succession of the alpha male role was decided by fights between all candidates. All betas and even a few of the lower ranks threw themselves into the election and throughout the day, fights started every few hours and then took for a while until it calmed down again.\n\nSurely, the males were eager to proof themselves to be worthy of leading the pack and be the respected head of the family, but this was only one of the reasons for the high interest of nearly all male wolves in the pack.\n\nEveryone knew that the price of becoming the alpha was, that they were able to choose their alpha female and it was also clear, that whoever would win, would win Niera.\n\nShe was by far the one female that was respected the most by the pack and there was no doubt for anyone, that whoever would win the alpha race, would also win Niera. She was the most wanted female and those, who had the luck of making out with her during her beta days, were bragging about the past and their encounters and threw all their power into the fights to get the price.\n\nThe growling faded away and the night began to get silent. Niera tried to hear any sign of who the contestants had been and who won, but the only thing she heard, before falling asleep, was the cry of an owl.\n\nThe next day was as busy as the previous ones. Niera spend the morning with her pups, until Nena came to take the kids to the beta den and watch over them, while Niera started her round through the pack grounds.\n\nShe saw Shawn with a scratch at his flank and humping a bit and stopped.\n\n``Are you okay?'' she asked in a silent voice, to not make this more embarrassing for the beta. The wolf winced shortly and then grinned.\n\n``Yea.'' He said. He looked a bit down, but that she cared for his wellbeing seemed to have cheered him up a bit. ``I was no match for Chael, but I did not want to give up, until I got this. I should have stopped when I noticed the difference between us.''\n\nNiera nudged his head with hers and licked over the fresh wound.\n\n``You always have been more brave than clever.'' She joked and the wolf had to laugh by this remark.\n\nNiera felt how he relaxed a bit, and a warm and comfortable growl entered his throat.\n\n``You can always count on me, when you need a brave wolf.'' He joked and the few wolves around them laughed with them.\n\nNiera checked on everyone in the pack. The females, the males, and the pups. She made sure, that everyone was okay, before she gave Pinya the command until she would return and headed out with the hunting party to catch the daily food.\n\nShe left Shawn to help the female beta leader, which Pinya became again after Niera became alpha, because he was not fit enough for the hunt, but she took all other alpha males with her.\n\nThe hunt was fast and successful. They brought back enough food for the pack when the sun was not even at the zenith.\n\nShe had enough time to have some talks with the beta males to get updated on the rankings for the alpha succession.\n\n``The fight yesterday was something to be seen.'' Mentioned Argento. ``It was clear that Chael would win, but Shawn just did not want to give up. He really had Chael fight for the win.''\n\nNiera smiled and looked to Chael. He surely looked a bit more exhausted today, but he held his head high and pushed out his chest to show his full size and bulkiness.\n\nChael sure was the biggest of all alpha wolves. He looked very similar to Khara, just that he was even bigger than the old alpha had been, and that his snout was white.\n\n``Who is still in?'' asked Niera to keep the conversation running.\n\n``Me, Argento, Chael, Bahg, and Tito of the Beta's.'' Malte responded from her other side. Behind them, Bahg and Tito were carrying the two deer that they caught.\n\nTito was the youngest of the beta males and just recently rose to the rank.\n\n``And in addition, Sanyo and Olek'' Niera remembered the two strong black wolves. They were only gamma and with being very old already, they were past their prime, but if anyone was close to being beta, it was these two.\n\n``So, all the beta's except of Shawn are still in?'' she asked and turned her head to Malte.\n\n``Yes, but only because the beta's have so far avoided to clash with each other, before Shawn took the initiative yesterday.'' Responded the brown wolf. ``We agreed to let those, who fought, rest for a day before anyone challenges them. But I think that I will show Argento who is boss tonight.'' He boasted and both wolves to her sides started laughing.\n\n``Just try!'' Argento taunted him. ``If you want to be the second beta to leave the race.''\n\nThe males continued to play fight with words and Niera had to giggle when she noticed that they tried to impress her by clashing with each other.\n\n``I am sure, that the fight will be great.'' She mentioned. She knew that she would not be able to watch it. She had to watch over her pups and there were surely a lot of requests for her decision again this evening.\n\n``I will tell you all about my win.'' Boasted Argento and Malte countered. ``Too bad, that you will lose!''\n\nWhen they put down one of the deer at the food deposit and went to the beta den with the other one, she looked around to check the faces of the wolves they passed.\n\nThe shock and mourning of the pack seemed to have vanished and they smiled again and lowered their head in respect when she passed them.\n\nShe knew that the excitement of the fights for the alpha position made everyone forget about the sadness. This was another thing that was different for the death of an alpha male and the death of an alpha female.\n\nThe fights for the succession also functioned as entertainment for the other wolves and because it happened so rarely, that a new alpha male was selected, everyone showed big interest and even the younger wolves and older pups looked in awe when the adult males clashed and fought over dominance.\n\nThe fights usually took long and were more of an endurance match. Injuries, like the one of Shawn, happened, but they were rather rare, because injuries were bad for the pack.\n\nNiera only saw one of the fights from afar yet and it looked like the males were dancing around each other, jumping, and sliding or just standing in front of each other, staring at each other and baring their teeth.\n\nThey were games of intimidation and stamina. Whoever got tired first or showed an opening would be jumped. At this point, the weaker opponent usually gave up and accepted the loss. Cases like with Shawn, where the weaker wolf fought until they got injured, were not the rule.\n\nNiera understood, from the explanation of Malte and Argento, that the males had put up some rules to ensure, that they were fit enough for the hunts and that the fights were fair. This also showed her that, even though everyone seemed eager to win the alpha spot, they were in no rush.\n\nShe felt a nice warm shiver running down her spine, because this meant, that everyone trusted her so much, that they risked having no alpha male for a few more days and leaving the leading of the pack to her.\n\nIt took a few more days, until the fights finally were over. Niera watched the last fight, which was a brotherly duel between Chael and Bahg.\n\nNiera knew both very well. She had trained together with the brothers and knew all their strength and weaknesses just as well as they knew each other.\n\nIn the end, it was Chael, who won, after a fight of over an hour that brought both wolves to the brink of exhaustion. Bahg finally had to give in, with shaky legs and a heavy breath. But even Chael was breathing hard and looked tired, but proud to have come out on top.\n\nThe howling and cheering, that celebrated the win of Chael, stopped, when Niera got up and run onto the plateau, which was surrounded by the whole pack, including all the pups.\n\nShe first went to Bahg and gave him a playful and encouraging nudge at the shoulder, before she continued her way to Chael, who stood there, with his neck straightened up to hold his head as high as possible, looking towards the nearing Niera.\n\nAll wolves were silent and the only thing, that was audible, was the heavy huffs of the two males, that slowly calmed down.\n\nNiera nudged first the shoulder, then the chest and the flank of Chael. She circled him and took in his scent, which she knew all too good already, and ran her body against his. She allowed him to take in her scent as well and he lowered his head to sniff at her.\n\nWhen she returned to his head, she nudged his head and licked over his cheek and nose before their noses met in a short nudge.\n\n``Long live Chael, our new alpha!'' She all wolves started to throw their head in the neck and howl to celebrate the new alpha of their pack.\n\nChael stepped next to Niera and pushed his big body against her small one. She looked nearly half as big as the male, now that they stood next to each other, and he bent down his head to lick her muzzle.\n\nNiera felt, how his legs trembled from the exhaustion and understood, that part of him pushing so hard against her was, to keep standing and not showing any weakness.\n\nShe had accepted him as the new alpha already and this mean, that at least for the moment, she was his alpha female, until he would select another one, if he did not want to keep her.\n\nAnd as the alpha female, it was her job to support him and make sure, that he looked his strongest.\n\nShe supported his big body with her small frame. Luckily, despite her small built, she was the strongest female in the pack and therefore it was no problem for her to hold his weight until the trembling of his legs stopped.\n\nThey stood there, listening to the howl of all other wolves in the pack. Even the pups joined in with their tiny and cute voiced.\n\nWhen Chael calmed down enough and his breath was not going so heavy anymore, they looked at each other for a short while and then lifted their head in unison.\n\nThey joined into the night howl of the pack and their strong voiced climbed to the top of the voiced and echoed through the valley.\n\nAfter minutes of constant howling, the whole gathering calmed down again and every wolf came by the couple, that now stood in the middle of the plateau like statues, to show their respect to the new alpha male.\n\nOne of the last ones was Pinya and she had the pups of Niera in tow.\n\n``Does brother Chael live with us now?'' asked Illu, one of the two years old pups of Niera and she nodded. ``Yes dear, he will live with us now. He is now the new alpha.''\n\nNiera knew, that the pups would not see Chael as their father, because they only had known him as their half-brother. But she also knew that the pups loved him and that there would surely no problem with him joining them in the alpha den.\n\n``I kind of knew it would be you.'' Said Pinya and Niera started to giggle, which Pinya joined in right after. ``Listen Chael. Make sure to learn from Niera what you must do and be up to task quickly. She had been doing all the work for weeks now and needs some rest. You need to make sure, that she does not overdo it.''\n\nChael smiled at Pinya and threw his chest out again. ``You can count on me. You will be proud of me as your alpha.''\n\nThe beta female giggled again and turned around to join the other beta females, that went around to collect their pups and bring them to the beta den.\n\n``Who would have thought that we would end up here, after all this training, right?'' Niera whispered, when they slowly went up the hill, passing all the wolves that made way for them and bowed their head to the alpha couple.\n\n``This has always been my goal since the first day I saw you.'' Chael whispered back and Niera felt her blood rush into her head. ``I always loved you and I will never give you away.'' He licked her muzzle and rubbed his body against her, while they slowly advanced towards their den.\n\nThe pups bounded off, when they saw the den's entrance and the two adult wolves slowly followed.\n\n``I would love to claim you right here, right now!'' Chael said with a smirk and Niera licked his muzzle and then nudged him into the throat. ``Stupid!'' she laughed. ``You are exhausted, it is time to sleep, and we've got 7 pups to watch.\n\nChael looked a bit disappointed, as if he were robbed off his price for the win, but then showed her a hesitant smile.\n\n``As you say!'' he replied. ``But better be ready, when we are rested.'' Niera smirked. In the last year, with the energy of Khara getting weaker from age, the old alpha did not mate much with her, but she was sure, that Chael would be totally different and that she had some exciting days in front of her.\n\nNiera groaned softly when Chael pushed hard to pop his knot through her folds, until it was being sucked in by the moist insides of her tunnel and held deep within her by the lock of her lips. When she felt the big organ inside her throb and the balls, that snuggled up with her drenched pussy, contract, she moaned together with her new alpha, who emptied spurt after spurt into her already filled womb.\n\nThey had left the pups with the beta females this morning and since then, Chael had been on top of Niera nonstop. The female was still adjusting to the sudden eager actions of the male. At the first few times, it had hurt a bit, because Chael not only was much bigger than Khara, but she also was not in heat and it had been a while, that she had mated outside her heat.\n\nThe last ride however had been pleasurable, after all his spunk, that he pumped into her, made her more slippery and helped him to glide into her more easily.\n\nNobody disturbed them the whole day, while Chael claimed Niera again and again, testing her endurance. The female still knew all the tricks to keep up with multiple males, and therefore, when the sky began to darken, Chael was exhausted and lay huffing next to Niera, while she licked his muzzle lovingly.\n\nChael had always been the one, beside Khala, she had loved the most of all males. She was happy, that he won and became the new alpha.\n\nIn the evening, Pinya brought the pups over, just after Niera and Chael had cleaned each other and were presentable again. The older female blinked an eye to Niera, and the girl giggled, while her pups cuddled up with her and started to tell her all about their day.\n\nThe rest of the week was hard work for Chael. Niera led him around the pack grounds and shared with him the responsibilities, that they had as alphas.\n\nOnly at night, when the pups slept, Chael found some time to take Niera once or twice, before they went to sleep to gain energy for the next day.\n\nThey split the work as an alpha between them and Niera made sure, that Chael looked great. Most of the wolves still came to her with questions or for decisions, but she encouraged Chael to give his opinion and slowly trained the wolves to rely on him just as much as they relied on her.\n\nIt was not, that they did not trust Chael or looked up to him as their alpha, but Niera had grown into the role in the last years and therefore it felt natural for the pack to come to her with every important decision.\n\nThe alpha female organized the day and how they split their works and made sure, that Chael got more exposure, by giving him the responsibilities of most hunts or the rounds through the pack grounds, while she took a bit more time to spend with her pups and the beta females.\n\nEven though Chael was respected more and more as the leader, every wolf felt, who the stronger partner in the pair was and who was giving the final decisions in their relationship.\n\nIt was not only because Chael knew, that Niera beat him in all of the playfights they had, after their training, but also because Chael was so affectionate and enchanted from his new female, that he tried to make every wish of her true.\n\nIt took a month, until they grew together as an unbeatable team and even though some wolves still preferred Niera for some topics, it was the other way around as well and both were equally asked for advice by their fellow pack members.\n\nChael still was not giving up on daily fun with Niera, but because of their responsibilities, and because of the pups, they often just did it once or twice, after the pups went to sleep.\n\n``The three from last year have grown quite strong already.'' Mentioned Chael, when he watched Maja, Illu and Malka play. ``Especially Maja clearly the daughter of you and dad.'' She nudged him and looked at the three older pups playfighting, while the younger pups already lay cuddled up at her stomach, after having their dinner.\n\nMaja surely was the strongest of the three, but Malka was nearly as strong. Only Illu seemed to be a bit shyer and not so dominant.\n\n``You want to tell me something with that, right?'' she asked with a warm smile. She knew Chael too good to have missed, that he did not just casually mention that.\n\n``Well...'' he looked at her and caught her smile and could not help to smile back. ``I was thinking of sending Maja and Malka to alpha school, what do you say?''\n\nNiera pondered a bit. ``I think that it is time, yes. What do you think about Hina and Haku?'' she asked. The 3 years old pups were the result of her own father claiming her in the year after she came to the pack.\n\n``Well, they sure are strong, but you were not an alpha back then and they do not look like they are my fathers' pup, even though he vanished with you during this heat.''\n\n``You are right.'' Niera whispered and blew some air into his ear. ``They are my fathers' pups.'' She continued and the look at Chael's face showed, that he was surprised and a bit shocked.\n\n``What? How? Why?'' - ``Schhhh!'' she silenced him and looked at the little pups in front of her belly, that already had fallen asleep.\n\nNiera told him about the deal, that Khara apparently had with her father and how her father had traded her for alpha school for a chance to get his own daughter.\n\n``Your father is a sly old man.'' Chael chuckled. ``But I am thankful for him to send you to the training this year.'' He licked the cheeks and muzzle of Niera, and she pushed her nose into the fur at his throat and ran the upper side of her nose along his yaw. ``Me too.'' She breathed.\n\nThey cuddled for a few minutes, while the older pups continued their games.\n\n``I think you are right.'' Chael finally said. ``Hina and Haku are already the strongest of the three years old pups and I am sure, Paqu will be delighted to even have two females in his alpha group.\n\n``Paqu?'' asked Niera. Chael had been at his first alpha meeting this day and returned a short while ago, so he had no time to tell her about it yet.\n\n``Oh, yes. Let me tell you about it.'' Chael replied and he told her about the meeting.\n\nHer father still was the leader of the eastern pack, and the old father of Jeliso also was still ruling the southern pack, but just as Chael, Paqu also won the race for the alpha recently and took over the Northern pack. From the story of Chael, it seemed that he did not select an alpha female yet.\n\nApparently both the alpha male and female died together when they were saving some pups at the big waterfall in the north.\n\n``So, you think he will pick one of my pups as his new alpha females?'' she asked and Chael grinned. ``I am sure. He specifically asked about you. I think he originally planned to ask me to send you over to him. But after I told him, that you are my alpha, he asked, if I don't want to send some of your pups to alpha school.'' \n\n``This sly dog!'' Niera chuckled. ``Well, I am not sure if they are ready for alpha school.'' She sighed and looked how Maja just beat her brother Malka in a fight.\n\n``Were you ready?'' asked Chael and licked over her head and ears.\n\n``You are right, I was not.'' Admitted Niera and closed her eyes to enjoy the loving touch of her alpha male.\n\n``Okay, I think it is time. Hina and Haku have asked me a few times already if they could go to alpha school. After all, they are already 3. And even though I think it will be hard for Maja, I am sure, that she will manage. After all, she got her older sister with her.''\n\nNiera put her head on her paws and Chael placed his head on hers. Both watched the pups play, until they stopped exhausted and joined them for the nights rest.\n\n``I will tell them tomorrow.'' Niera whispered, while she felt the warm body of her older pups cuddle up with her back. Then she closed her eyes and fell asleep, with the scent of Chael all around her.\n\nOne week later, Niera watched her 4 pups leave with Chael. He would bring them to the lake in the middle of the valley, so that Paqu would take them to alpha school.\n\nShe had told them to train hard and not make a shame for her or the pack and then let them go, knowing, that she would probably not see her daughters again.\n\nWhen Chael came back, she asked about every detail and heard, that one of her brothers would also join alpha school, as well as 3 wolves of the norther pack and two of the southern pack.\n\n``Quite a lot more than in our class.'' Niera mentioned but Chael only nudged her and answered. ``But they are two girls this time. I am sure they will manage.''\n\nNiera thought about her pups a lot while the winter came over the pack and they all worked hard to keep the bellies fed.\n\nWhen her heat came, Chael surely claimed her new patch of litters and for the full week of her heat, they had organized for Pinya to take over the daily work, so that they were undisturbed for the full days.\n\nAt the end of her heat, Chael even invited the three years old Nenya, one of the pups of Niera and her father, into the den and Niera understood his intention the moment she smelled the heat of her daughter. But as an alpha, he had the right to mate with any female in the pack, especially when they were in heat, and therefore she did her best to make the first experience with mating of the young female as easy as possible and supported her by drawing the attention of Chael away, when she saw that her daughter needed a rest.\n\nAfter the winter, Malka and Haku returned to the pack. They had surely grown stronger, and it did not take long until they had fought their way into the ranks of beta wolves.\n\nLike the rule of the alpha training said, they did not talk about anything they did there regarding their sisters, but from the smile on their face and the way they checked out all the other females, Niera knew exactly, that that must have had a wild ride with their sisters.\n\nA few years later, when Chael was holding the alpha trainings and came back, she encountered her granddaughter Layla for the first time. Apparently, Maja had had the same transformation that Niera herself had gone through in the past and right after the training, Paqu had made the young wolfess his alpha female.\n\nAnd it seemed, that Paqu had a deal with Chael as well to send his first daughter to alpha school, which was why the proud alpha came back with a strong young wolfess, that looked very similar to Niera.\n\nAnd so, the circles of life continued in the packs. Alphas died and were replaced, and new alphas were trained, keeping the packs in the valley strong and healthy for decades.\n\nBut even after Niera died of an old age, and her granddaughter Layla became the new alpha female and many after her, the pack still talked a lot about the small wolfess, that once had been their alpha. She had been one of the most loved and respected alphas the pack ever had, and many mothers gave their daughter the name ``Niera'' in respect to the legendary alpha.\n\n", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Chapter 1: The Chosen

``Niera'' The ears of the young wolf perked up. It was her mother who was calling her, and she turned toward the mountain trail that went up to the dens.

She did not want to go home already. She just got started with the fights with her brothers and the other kids and she already won twice.

Niera was a young wolfess who would soon turn 2 years, but she was still considered a pup by all the adults. With 2 years she would have to work and hunt with the others and help the pack.

Not that she did not help with hunts already, or at least she considered herself to be a help, but only after their graduation ceremony before the pack they were accepted as a part and were expected to work with the others.

Now she still could play with the other cubs, unless her mother was interfering.

``Niera, come here this moment.'' The voice of her mother sounded a bit angry for her not to respond at the first time. Niera sighed, let a short bark out to signal that she heard her mother and with a last envious gaze towards the other pups, that continued their game without her, she turned towards the trail up to their den.

Because Niera's father was the Alpha of the pack and her mother was the Alpha female as well, they had the cave at the top of the small mountain. It had a nice view on the valley, but the way up was always a hassle for Niera.

She had 3 older brothers that were still with the pack and two her own age. She was the only daughter of the alphas.

When Niera was nearly at their cave, she looked over the valley. The white snow that covered most of the treetops and the grassy land reflected the sun and she had to close her eyes half not to be blinded by it.

The valley was so big, that it was not possible to see anything clear at the other edges. It was a valley surrounded by mountains, but Niera had only seen the eastern side of the valley yet.

Four packs ruled over the ``Howling Valley''. It had been named this way because the night howls of the packs echoed through it every night.

But there was peace between the packs, and they respected each other's borders. There was enough food for all of them and the packs rarely met with each other.

Only when they hunted in the middle of the valley, it happened that two hunting groups circled the same prey, but they had come to agreements on working together when this happened and sharing the prey afterwards.

All wolves in the valley were timber wolves and Niera was part of the ``Eastern Pack'', that ruled, like the name said, the eastern side of the valley.

The other packs had the same kind of clear name, which was given to simplify their territory. The Northern Pack, the Southern Pack, and the Western Pack.

The Alpha's met regularly and Niera knew that her father had been at such a meeting this day but came back a few moments ago.

Niera took the last turn and looked into the stern face of her mother. Like Niera, her mother Amira had a red-brownish nose. Niera was often compared to her mother and other told her that she was cute and will be as beautiful as the alpha female one time.

``Why did you not react the first time?'' asked her mother and Niera winced. ``Sorry Mom.'' She said with a slightly annoyance in her voice. ``We were in the middle of fighting.''

Her mother waited for Niera to get in front of her and then she started to use her tongue to groom her daughter.

``Mom?!'' Niera said annoyed and tried to get away, but the alpha female blocked her path with her paw and continued to groom her until she was satisfied. Niera was not fully grown yet and even compared to her brothers of the same litter, she was on the smaller side.

``Your father has something to discuss with you.'' Her mother said after she took a step back and observed the result of her efforts. ``Don't let him wait any longer.''

Niera just shot an angry gaze at her mother, for forcing the bath on her, and bounded towards the cave entrance, with her mother following her on the heels.

``Welcome back, Dad!'' she greeted her father. Holo was a big wolf with black ears and legs. His gaze fell on his daughter, he did not look stern like her mother, but he smiled. Niera sighed and was happy to see that. Maybe it was nothing bad that he wanted from her.

``Hello my girl.'' He greeted her. ``Come her and sit with your old father, won't you?'' The atmosphere in the den seemed a bit tense even though her father was still smiling.

``What is the matter? Mom said you wanted to tell me something?'' her father's gaze went to her mother who still looked stern, but this time to her husband.

``Yes, it was just decided at the Alpha meeting today.'' - Niera looked up to her father with anticipation. ``What did you talk about?'' she asked but her mother rustled and swatted her tail.

``Let your father continue and listen silently without interrupting him.'' The young she-wolf noticed that her mother was tense and on the edge. She did not dare to defy this order.

``You see, we decided on the young wolves who will go to Alpha training this year.'' He father continued and looked at his daughter again.

``You still are a bit playful and need to learn how to listen better, but you are strong and if you want you can be disciplined.'' Her father explained her. It was true, that even though Niera was smaller, she never lost a fight with any of her brothers or the other pups her age.

``We decided that you will be one of the few to get the Alpha training this year.'' Niera jumped up excited and her tail began to wag.

``Really? I am going to Alpha School?'' she asked and bounced around.

``Niera! An Alpha does not raise such a havoc. Keep your dignity. Do you really think that she is ready for this Holo? I mean... you know...'' but her father interrupted his wife.

``I know Amira, but this is what was decided. For the future of the peace and for a strong pack, she needs to learn and take her place. She is a strong girl, and I am sure, that with a little training, she will be a great alpha sometime in the future.''

Niera disregarded the worries in the voice of her mother. She knew that Alpha training was hard and dangerous. One of her older brothers came back from it with scars and told her that he nearly killed himself at a hunt.

Her heartbeat strongly, and she was super hyped about getting a chance to go to Alpha school.

It was very rare for females to be chosen. There was at most one female of any pack each year, sometimes even in two years.

The girl also knew, that even if you could rise to be a Beta with hard work and training, there had never been an Alpha female that did not go to alpha school.

Usually, the girls who went to alpha school also were three and she might be one of the youngest accepted females for the training.

``When does it start?'' she asked her father excited. She could not wait for it to begin.

``In two weeks, you will meet with the other candidates and your teacher in the neutral area in the middle of the valley.'' Her father explained.

``Who will be the teacher this year?'' was the question from her mother and her father smiled before her turned to Amira and answered.

``It is my old brother in arms Khara.'' He said. ``None could be better to train a strong alpha.''

Niera knew Khara. He was the Alpha of the Western Pack and had visited them a few times.

She often had called him uncle Khara, because he and her father had been very good friends, like brothers, in their youth.

Khara was, like her father, a leader of his pack. It was a tradition, that each year a different Alpha was looking over the training of the selected few candidates. This was also to deepen the bonds between the packs and make sure the peace, that lasted for generations already, would continue.

``Can I go and tell my friends?'' Niera asked and her father chuckled. ``It seems you are excited already, right? Well run along but be sure to come back right after. It is starting to get dark.''

``Thank you, dad!'' She shouted over her shoulder, already making her way out of the den.

``Be here by the dark!'' her mother reminded her and with the voice of her mother in her ears the young wolf dashed down the hill to the place where the other pups were playfighting.

When the girl left the cave, her parents sat together and had a long talk, until the girl returned with her siblings at the last light of the day.

The two weeks went by in a flash and Niera held her chest pushed out and her head high when she played with the other pups. They all had been surprised and congratulated her and her brothers had been a bit jealous.

But despite the pride she felt, she started to change her behavior already, like her mother told her. Every evening, her mother talked sense into her and reminded her to show respect for elders and responsibility in her actions.

Niera decided that it would be the best preparation to act like an alpha with the other pups, overseeing their fights, stepping in when two of the pups were in a quarrel and trying to show everyone how responsible she could be.

She even rescued one of the younger pups, that nearly fell down a cliff and her head was hot from pride when her mother praised her for her sense of responsibility. But every evening, after she had her long talks with her mother, the eyes of the older she-wolf looked a bit sad, even though Niera could not think of a reason why this was, and she did not dare to ask.

She felt much more like a grown up already, even ordering around the other three years old pups. The news that a female was chosen for the alpha training, and in addition as only one for the Eastern Pack, got around like a wildfire and soon everyone in the pack knew about it.

The other kids approached her with respect and awe, when she bounced by and nodded to them as a greeting. Most of the older wolves smiled at her and some even had a weird grin on their muzzles, but Niera did not pay them many thoughts.

Daily she trained her strength and agility, took part in fights with her friends and brothers and trained by hunting rabbits, which she already managed to do successfully.

The princess set her mind to make sure to not embarrass her father at the alpha training and to impress uncle Khara with her progress. The last time she had seen him had been half a year ago.

Her body did not grow much in this time, but she was sure that her uncle would be impressed at how ladylike and alpha-like she had become.

Every day she spent hours of grooming her fur to make it silky and shiny, just like the fur of her mother. In the past, she had not paid much mind at her outer appearance, because for fighting it had never been important, but now, that all the eyes were on her, she bathed in the ``Ahs'' and ``Ohs'' when she walked down the hill freshly groomed and with slow and dignified steps.

Then the day had come to say goodbye to her mother, brothers, and friend and to follow her father the long climb down into the center of the valley, where they would meet in the middle of the day with all the other candidates and uncle Khara.

``Are you exited?'' her father asked her, when they left the pack behind and walked through the forest. The wind was blowing softly and made piping sounds in the trees, that did not have their leaves yet.

It was quite warm for the end December. Usually at this time of the year, there was snow all around, but this winter had been very mild, much different from the last one. The ground under her paws felt soft.

``Yes!'' Niera answered and the excitement was clearly audible in her voice. ``This is what I have been training for.''

Her father chuckled a bit. ``The training will start now.'' He mentioned. ``You have to promise me something my sweetheart.'' He stopped for a moment, waiting for her to catch up.

``What is it?'' she asked and looked into the black eyes of her father.

``You have to promise to never forget that you are representing our pack.'' He said and his voice sounded a bit concerned. ``Endure the training with dignity, whatever will come and be strong. Don't give up and give your best for the future of the packs and the valley.''

This sounded very important and serious, much different than his usually talks. In general, it was her mother that had serious talks like this, while her father always had been playful with his little girl and comforted her.

``I will do my best and won't bring disgrace on me or the pack.'' She answered and showed her toothy smile. Her blue eyes glistened in excitement for the training.

``Good.'' Was all her father said and he nuzzled her muzzle and ears before he turned around and continued to lead the way.

The rest of the way, her father was very silent and Niera looked around and took in the scents and pictures of the surrounding. She had never been to these parts of the forest, but now in Winter it did not look much different than their own.

Only the scents were different. There were very few scents of wolves and they mixed with other animals. She could smell that her father had been here and wolves she had never sniffed before. This journey alone was already an existing adventure for the little wolf.

In the distance she heard the mumbling of a river, but it sounded bigger than the one near their dens.

``We are at the meeting point soon.'' It was the first sentence her father said since he reminded her of her duties. ``You can see it over there, where the rivers meet.''

Niera followed the direction her father pointed with his head and saw the forest shy away and open for a grassy plain. There was a sea that was filled from three rivers, coming from the east, the west, and the north. They all filled the big water and then the liquid turned south and continued in a bigger river.

Niera could already see a few wolves on an island in the middle of the sea. She followed her father, who went to the edge of the sea and then started to swim towards the island.

A howl greeted them, coming from the big wolf with the black snout and scars all over the left leg, that stood at the coast of the small island and waited for them to get out of the water.

Niera shook her fur to get the water out and was a bit disappointed that the water ruined her carefully groomed fur. She did her best with a few licks to get the fur silky and shining again.

``Hello Holo!'' Niera perked her ears and saw the big wolf greet her father. She recognized him. It was uncle Khara.

``Hello Khara, sorry that we are a bit late. It seems everyone else is here already.''

Both leaders laughed and Niera stole a glance around. There were only four other wolves, all bigger than her. One of them looked younger than the others, a young boy with black eyes and a white snout.

``Is this your daughter Niera?'' her ears perked up and she looked back at Khara, who now stood in front of her. ``By the moon, she has grown up quite a bit since I last saw her.''

``You mean since last year? Sure, she has.'' Her father responded and to Niera's joy she heard the pride in his voice.

``Welcome little Niera.'' Khara smiled at her. ``You have become a real beauty.'' She felt a bit embarrassed and looked down at her paws but at the same time her heart raced from this compliment. ``Thank you, uncle Khara.'' She whispered and it took her a while to look up again and meet his gaze.

``Let me introduce you to the others.'' Khara said. ``These two are my sons. Bahg...'' he pointed at a big wolf with black legs and the same black eyes than his father. ``... and Chael. He is your age.'' It was the younger wolf with the white snout.

``Then we have Jeliso of the Southern Pack.'' He introduced a big wolf with green eyes. ``And Paqu of the Northern Pack.'' Niera looked at the intimidating young wolf. He was the biggest of the young wolves and had red eyes that looked like they burned into her, even though the wolf was smiling and clearly not hostile.

``They will be your classmates in the alpha school.'' Khara added. ``Be sure to be nice to her. It is rare for a female to be chosen for the alpha training, so consider yourself lucky that you have one in your class.''

Niera felt the pride of being a very rare case dwell up inside her again. She smiled up to the other wolves and the howled as a greeting to their young classmate.

``I will be on my way back.'' Her father interrupted the welcome ceremony. ``Niera, be strong and work hard to become a fine alpha. We are proud of you. We know you can do it and will learn to take your place in the pack.''

Niera nuzzled her father one last time, before he jumped into the sea. It was a very short goodbye, and his words were uncommon, but at this moment Niera did not think about them. She already had her heart set to the training.

She watched her father jump out of the water at the other side and with a last gaze back to her and a howl, that all of them returned, he vanished in the forest.

``We will also depart now. The training area is far to the south, outside the valley. Consider yourself lucky, because only alpha candidates are ever allowed to leave the valley.''

They all followed the big wolf and swam towards the west to then follow the river to the south a bit, before turning to the right and leave the territory of the southern pack on their side to enter a small gorge that led to a hidden cave with tunnels through the mountain. They took one day to pass the mountain tunnel and get out to the open again.

The first intimidation of the other young wolves soon vanished from Niera, and they were all nice to her. After they travel through the tunnel, she already saw them like big brothers, and they seemed to have adopted her like a little sister as well.

She had an especially good understanding with Chael, who was a bit bigger than her even though he was her age, but Niera knew that from her pack. She had only been the smallest of the age group.

Two days after walking through the mountains outside the valley, they reached another small valley, with a sea in the middle, a small river flowing down the mountains and a big den, that Khara led them to.

Niera could smell the remains of other wolves, but the scents were so faint that it must have been months since they had been in the cave.

``Welcome to Alpha Camp!'' Khara introduced when they all stood outside the cave and looked over the valley.

``Here you will learn all you need to know as an alpha!''



Chapter 2: The Training begins

Niera waited for her turn. Exhausted she looked at the other candidates eat. It was the first big catch of them in the last weeks.

Finally, the young wolves had their team work down to move like one body and they circled the deer. Split it from the herd and while Niera and Chael chased it, Bahg, Jeliso and Paqu waited in different directions for the ambush.

It had been Bahg that got the kill. They had chased the deer right into his fangs and the strong young wolf killed it fast and efficient. Khara had praise for all his students.

``That was good work. Remember, teamwork and trust are important as an alpha. The hunt needs you to work as one.'' The old alpha lectured them, while they dragged the deer back to the den.

Even though Niera had been exhausted, she had no time to rest when they arrived at the den. While Khara started to eat, he had them fight for the right to eat next. It was like every day.

He had them figure out the ranks by fighting and like every day, Niera had no chance against the older wolves. She and Chael felt the one year between them and the others and even though the young wolves trained even harder than the rest, it was not that easy to catch up.

Niera's stomach growled, and she watched Chael slowly approaching the carcass after all the others had their fill. She knew the rule. The strongest fighter could eat first.

The times, where she could get the first bite because she was a pup were gone. Here she had to fight for the right to eat. Khara explained them, that this was the path of the alpha. They had to learn how to fight for their place.

Finally, it was her turn and hungrily she dug her fangs into the flesh and gulped it down. Luckily, even though it was a small deer, there was enough left and so she would not get hungry like in the last days, where there had only been a little left.

It was thanks to Khara, that she had have food at all in the last week. He taught them, that an alpha needed to regard the wellbeing of all and make sure that even the weakest had enough to survive.

Niera did not like being called the weakest. She had always been the best in her age group. Her brothers and the others had never been a match, but here she was the lowest rank. Between all the other alpha candidates, she had to admit defeat every day.

This push into her pride was the hardest to bear for Niera. She started to sneak away at night to train in secret, but the progress she made was only very slowly visible. Because of her lack of sleep, her body felt weak, and she seemed to lose more easily.

There was no comment by Khara for that. He knew that she was training half the night, because, unbeknown to her, he followed her and made sure she was safe.

During their training at daylight, he taught them tricks and made them run for miles to gain more endurance.

They spend hours of jumping over the small river back and forth for miles, and it was not only once but multiple times that one of them fell into the water.

It was not a nice experience, because winter was coming, and the first snow already started. The water was freezing cold and when they got wet, it meant running extra hard to get warm again until the fur was dry.

With the snow slowly covering the land, it became even harder to keep the balance in the fights and to get a firm grip on the ground to jump.

But without noticing, Niera got used to the hard training and her body started to steel itself. Her legs did not shiver and wobble under her in the evening anymore and even after miles of jumping back and forth over the river, which she managed with very few incidents of getting wet now, she did not get out of breath.

But still she had to admit defeat every day the male wolves when fighting over the food, because they too got stronger.

But Khara saw, even if the young ones did not notice yet, that the fights got much closer each day. With her body picking up the endurance and her mind getting used to the lower sleep circles, Niera made progress fast.

At some nights, Niera also just lay outside the den and looked to the sky. She had a bit of home sickness for her mother, her father, and her brothers. But between the exhaustion of the increasingly hard training and fighting for the food, she had less and less time to think about her home.

``Listen, you have improved a lot since coming here. I can see the right attitude in all of you.''

Khara was again giving one of his speeches to the pups, after they had eaten. They just lay there, satisfied from the food, and listened to the old wolf.

Chael licked the snout of Niera to help her get rid of the blood from when she had pushed her nose into the deer, that they managed to hunt this day. She let him be, thankful for the help as it was more complicated to clean her own nose alone.

``You fight for the rank every day here, but don't think this will stop when you get back. There will be fights for the ranks every week and you will have to find your place and defend it.''

Khara smiled at the sudden attention he got and looked into the eyes of everyone. Just Chael was still occupied with cleaning Niera, but his ears twitched and were turned into the direction of the older wolf, so he knew that his son was listening.

``When you are finished with the training, you will not become alpha. After all there is only one alpha male and one alpha female in each pack.'' He explained.

``You will start as Beta, the closest rank and only ones that can become alpha. All that you learn here will be, what you will do as a beta.

You will hunt, you will fight for the pack to protect them, and you will defend your rank under the betas.''

He chuckled and finally Chael was finished with cleaning the face of Niera, and he directed his full attention to his father.

``If you want to become an alpha one day, and I am sure you want, you need to never stop training. You need to grow stronger than any other beta. Only then you will have a chance to become the alpha.''

Khara looked into the eyes of the young ones and smiled.

``The strongest beta has the right to fight the alpha when he wants to take over the pack. But it is rare for an alpha to be challenged, because a responsible beta will not disturb the peace of a pack for his own gain, but only for a good reason.''

``What is a good reason?'' it was Jeliso, who glues his green eyes on the old teacher.

Khara nodded to him and continued. ``That is a good question.

Well, often an alpha, that is getting weaker, will step down. Then the strongest Beta will fight for the right to be the new alpha.

But sometimes alphas lose their strength and judgement but cling to the role. Only then a beta might challenge them. Only if the actions of the alpha are hurting the pack.''

He looked around and all the pups still gave him the undivided attention.

``Strength is not everything as an alpha. A lot of alphas are accepted and respected for their experience and their leadership. Therefore, an alpha is rarely challenged until he steps down or dies from age.''

``So, we should not challenge an alpha at all?'' a bit of disappointment was audible in the voice of Paqu. His red eyes glimmered in the dark den.

``If it is for the good of the pack, you might challenge an alpha, but always think about the pack, not about yourself. An alpha is the soul of a pack. Every change of the alpha and any chaos created in the process will weaken the pack until the new order is set.''

The big young wolf still looked a bit confused, and the old wolf chuckled.

``This is hard to understand, I know. But how about this. When a new alpha takes over through a fight, there might still be others in the pack, that do not agree.

A pack has a big loyalty to their alpha, and some might not accept the new alpha, even though he won the fight.

If this happens, betas will challenge him every day and it is not rare for new alphas to lose the position after a few days again in a fight, because they took it by force.

You can proof that you are the strongest but gaining the trust of the pack is not so easy.''

Now all young wolves nodded and understood what their teacher meant.

``This is why a responsible beta usually does not fight the alpha if there is no direct danger for the pack caused by the alpha's actions.

They strengthen their position under the betas, to be second in command and when the time comes for the alpha to step down, they take the reins.

A good alpha also includes his beta. Going from a beta to an alpha means taking on more responsibility and the leadership over the other betas.

What you will learn in this camp here is to be great betas and rise in the ranks, but you will have to watch your alpha carefully and learn from him to really understand, what you need to do to become an alpha.''

Even though Niera got tired, and her eyes became heavy, she forced them to stay open and listening to the old alpha. Every word sunk into her, and she tried to understand everything that would help her to become a good alpha and make her parents proud.

Khara continued to talk about responsibilities as a beta and an alpha and that even as a beta, they might have to assume responsibilities for the pack and proof their worth as alpha candidates when the alpha is not there, like Khara who was training them now.

The lecture of Khara only ended just before Niera was not able to keep her eyes open and drifted off to sleep. She did not even notice the other wolves looking for their favorite sleeping spot but just sunk into the darkness.

She was already sleeping when Chael snuggled up with her and kept her warm and shielded her from the wind that entered the cave in a gust every now and then.

Even though they all were rivals, and they fought hard against her when they had to, she was always the youngest and smallest and as such the others helped her.

In addition, she was the only female, and the affection of Chael might have had other reasons as well, but Niera did never spare any thought on that. Her mind was set to train harder and become stronger than any of the others.

The winter began to bare it claws and it became colder. Unbeknown to Niera, the valley where they lived always had milder winters than outside the protected mountains and soon, she had to learn how to survive in an unfriendly environment.

Every day became a fight for survival now. Not only food was a concern, but also water, even though they could also eat snow to get a bit of moisture in.

The ground became hard and slippery and Niera learned fast to run on the snow. Even though her paws felt cold and became numb, it was better than running on the frozen ground directly, that hurt her frozen pads and, if she was not careful, even had painful spikes and edges waiting for her.

It was not just stones or branches laying traps for her, but the earth itself, hard and cold, became an enemy and for the first weeks she looked at every step on the ground.

The other pups were no different and she was not the only one licking her paws groaning every evening.

With the days going by and Khara taking them to hunts and runs around the frozen mountains, Niera and her companions learned quickly to avoid the dangerous parts on the ground.

They did not even have to look after the first week. The paths they ran every day were known to them by heart and they knew where they could run.

In addition, they developed a six sense where they could feel the right path to take without stepping on any stones, hard earth, or branches. They started to even feel the ground beneath the snow.

Their paws also became more resilient, building corneal to protect itself. Not only did their paws not hurt anymore, when they came back exhausted from a full day of running, but they also moved much more silent.

Rarely, one of them stepped on a branch and made it break and echo in the forest with a cracking noise or they groaned from a misstep.

But the ground was not the only thing they got more sensible for. It was all their senses that improved in the coming weeks, and at the end of January, they knew every smell in their training grounds.

They could tell the different smells apart, even the anticipation of their alpha, when he was about to jump, had its own smell and they reacted to it and followed without a command during the hunt.

They got more efficient and got their prey without major sprints now. Every day another adolescent wolf took the lead, and they became a trained team that was as deadly as they were silent.

Niera's muscles did not ache at the evening, even if they ran the whole day and she could feel how her strength increased with every day.

At the daily fights amongst themselves, the fights got much closer, and she noticed that she caught up to the others.

She could still not match them with raw strength, but she enhanced her agility and flexibility and used it to outmaneuver her opponents and dodge their attacks.

Her yaws and paws had become so strong, that unlike in the past, the others could not ignore them anymore and they yowled when she bit harder after they ignored her warning fangs.

She was happy when at the end of January, she finally managed to beat Chael in a duel and got very close to beating Jeliso.

Niera did not notice the time flying by. She was so occupied by the training and her own goal to become stronger, that she did not notice the weather getting milder. She thought it was her getting used to the cold.

They left the den before the first light now and went one round through their training grounds. This was for training to patrol the pack grounds later and they took in any change and reported it.

Khara sent them out alone a lot of times now, in teams of two. One always went with the experienced alpha and got a special training to improve their fighting skills or to get a lecture on how to lead a pack.

There was no fight amongst them or jealousy because Kahara made sure that he gave them each a personal training every day and the order was decided by their daily fights for the ranking every evening.

Niera's mind and muscles became like steel in the next weeks and she finally managed to win against Jeliso and Paqu a few times as well.

It was not like she won every fight against them. The only one she still had problems with was Bahg, but for the others she was about as strong as they were and at some days, she even managed to get the second place of the daily fights.

Even though Niera was much stronger and did not need any protection anymore, Chael still snuggled up with her every night. They had become like siblings during the camp, because they were both the youngest and when the others rested, they still were out training their fighting abilities.

They became comrades in arms and analyzed the fighting style of the other wolves and even of Kahara, when he showed them a few tricks in combat training, and tried to come up with strategies on how to beat the others.

Niera only noticed the end of winter and the warmer weather, when on the morning rounds, she and Chael discovered, that the small river was not frozen anymore and that the ground around it was nice and soft.

But there was something else Niera noticed. There was a rock near the river that they passed every day, but now she noticed how much she grew over the winter. In the past, she had not even been able to look over it and now she could easily jump over the rock with ease.

But not only she got bigger, but the others as well. The most noticeable was Chael, who was good a head higher than she was and even outgrew his big brother and was nearly the size of his father.

The older pups had grown a bit, but not as much, as they were older already, and therefore the difference in their size was less now. This could have been one of the reasons, why Niera gained the upper hand in their duels more and more.

Her biggest rival right not was Chael, who improved his fighting, also thanks to their secret personal trainings together, and he even beat Bahg every now and then, something that Niera still did not manage.

Chael himself still lost regularly to Niera. His father Khara scolded him often, saying that he should not hold back against Niera, but she knew that Chael did not hold back at all.

The reason she outmaneuvered him most of the time was, that she knew his fighting style very well from their everyday training and she knew his weak spots.

Naturally, she did not tell Khara or any other about it. Telling them his weak spot would not only make it harder for him to win against the others, but also diminishing her chances to beat him, because he would then work on covering them.

The hunts became much easier now, that the ground was not frozen anymore, and the snow retreated more and more. With the same accuracy that they used in winter, they now evaded branches or small plants to avoid any noise when moving around.

Niera's daily routine now started with an intense grooming, because they lost their winter fur, and a nice and refreshing bath in the river.

She noticed that the other wolves followed her with their eyes, whenever they rested, and she felt that they finally acknowledged her strength and that she was on the best way to become a good alpha candidate.

Khara changed the daily schedule a bit. He now went on patrol and training with one of them for a full day and let the others patrol in teams of two.

Niera enjoyed the times when it was her time to learn from the old alpha. She learned so much from him, that she looked up to him like a second father now.

She soaked in all the lectures he gave her, and she was a fast learner. So fast, that she managed to soon beat Bahg for the first time and for once got the leader role for the hunt, which was now decided by the daily fights, and was proud when they came back with a big deer this evening.

She enjoyed every day, even though the training was still as hard as in the beginning, but with her improved fitness and endurance, the training was more like a daily walk for her now. She did not feel right without running a few miles every morning and her body was eager to run free after a longer rest.

Most of the times, when it was not her turn to go with Khara, she was accompanied by Chael, who still was her closest friend of them all and cuddled with her at night, even though there were no cold winds he needed to protect her from anymore.


Chapter 3: The duty of an Alpha

Spring finally was there, and the air became warmer and more fragrant with the smells of flowers and many animals that got out of their dens after the long winter.

Niera was happy to investigate each different smell and took much longer on the morning runs to get every change since the last morning.

She developed into a very fast runner and only Chael was able to barely keep up with her when she was sprinting through the mountain forest. She was as fast as she was agile, and she could change directions in an instant and dodge a sudden branch or hole in the ground with ease.

In the daily fights, Niera won more and more and even Bahg had to admit defeat more often now, not only to her but also to his younger brother.

Khara expressed his praises to the young wolves and made them examples for the others, but even so the older pups were not angry or treated them bad.

One of the reasons was most likely, that the younger ones got stronger than them, but it seemed also that they were as proud of their development as the alpha himself.

They all saw Niera and Chael as their younger siblings and they were happy about their development, even if they tried hard to get the upper hand again.

It was the third week of February when Niera woke up with a weird tingling feeling inside her. She went out of the cave, because she felt a bit hot, and she sighed when the cold breeze blew around her nose.

She felt exhausted, even though she had rested the whole night. She remembered waking up a few times at night and concluded, that maybe the rough night was leaving its mark on her, unless she got ill for some reason.

At the breakfast, the rest of the deer they caught the previous day, Khara announced that Niera would be coming with him this day and that they would leave directly.

Niera had a bit of troubles this day to keep up with Khara. The tingling and the hot feeling inside her increased and she felt tired and exhausted pretty fast.

Finally, a good mile into their patrol, she stopped and Khara directly stopped as well and turned to the girl.

``I am sorry.'' She panted. ``I don't know what is wrong with me today, but I am not feeling well.''

The older alpha came closer and licked over her head. ``Does anything hurt?'' he asked with a smile.

``No... it is just... I woke up a lot this night and I feel hot and there is a weird tingle in my stomach.'' She was a bit embarrassed to admit her weak state to the alpha.

``I don't understand why, but it seems I got ill.'' She picked up the scent of Khara, who was now next to her and licked over her back to comfort her.

There was something different about his scent, but in her confused state she could not decide what it was. His scent for some reason made the tingling inside her stronger, or it was just her imagination.

``You are not ill.'' Said Khara after a while and his voice sounded happy.

``What is wrong with me then?'' she asked, breathing heavily through her nose, and taking in the scent that was suffocating and alluring at the same time. She did not understand why, but she liked the smell for some reason.

``You just went into your first heat.'' Said the alpha and licked over her head again. ``I expected this to happen in spring.''

She looked up to the big wolf, who circled around her. Niera only knew a bit about heat. Her mother had mentioned it once, but she had not really listened to her mother back then. She had been a little girl with no worries about the future.

``I have been waiting for this.'' Khara said and something in his voice sounded excited, a sound Niera did not hear in his voice before.

``Your real training will begin now.'' Khara said and confused by these words, Niera looked up to the older alpha.

He was gone, or at least he was not in front of her anymore. His scent was still around her and made her mind swim.

Then she felt it. A piercing dull pain in her neck and something big moving over her. She felt how her body reacted on its own without her even processing what happened yet. Her tail moved up and so did her hind, while her legs spread a bit further to the side.

``Good girl.'' She heard Khara's muffled voice above her and then she emitted a painful screech when something thick pushed into her untested pussy.

She felt her nether lips giving way and just now felt that they were soaking wet. Something inside her was ripped apart, that for a short time stopped the advance of the big thing, but now it pushed deeper into her.

Niera was confused and totally overwhelmed by the feeling, so that she only groaned. The tingling inside her got stronger as well as the scent in her nose.

The organ, that entered her, established a slow pace, and pushed in and out again and again. There was pain, but it slowly faded away and there was another feeling, quite pleasant, that filled in for it.

The tingling inside her grew more and more with each push and she could hear the huffs of Khara above her.

She could do nothing more than moan and shiver under the alpha, while he taught her firsthand about mating by taking her hard.

The tingling inside her reached a peak and she felt her body convulse around the intruder and massage it. She moaned loud and a soft howl even escaped her, while her insides tingled happily, and she milked whatever was inside her.

She felt the thing poke some second barrier inside her, that with the spasms seemed to open slightly, and then it pushed extra strong and further inside her.

The intruder was a bit bigger at the end that now pushed through her cunt, and she felt it stretching wide around the big thing and make her groan under her moans.

Then her lips closed behind the big bulge, that she noticed it was, and while she felt the intruder throbbing, she also felt the bulge increasing and filling out her entrance to the brim and stretching it even further.

Niera expected pain, but the stretching somehow stimulated her in addition and her insides, that already stopped spasming, returned to the climax and started to milk the throbbing thing again.

Then Niera mewled loud when something hot hit her deepest inside and spilled out of the intruder in spurts. Her insides directly started to burn in a good way and her mind became clouded. She only focused on the hot feeling inside her womb and the pulsing of the big member inside her.

Khara let go of her scruff and started to lick her ears and head, but Niera only felt the hot liquid inside her, burning like lava in her sensitive cavern, and moaned from all the unknown feelings inside, that overwhelmed her young senses.

After a while, she felt Khara shifting on top of her and leaving her back. The heavy weight on her, that she unconsciously supported, went away and she felt him turning around and his tail brushing over her hind.

Niera collapsed there from the overwhelming feeling and felt a tug at her pussy. Her hind was held high by the thick thing inside her, that tied her to the big alpha, who now lay down to allow her to lay down as well.

Niera still did not understand what happened and her mind swam in the endorphins and pleasure from her first time and the climaxes she achieved.

She lay there, silently huffing and moaning, feeling the hind of Khara against hers and his tail softly brushing over her hind which made her tingle inside again.

Her mind slowly cleared up, but she still felt the big bulge inside her. She had so many questions, but it took a moment before she could ask the first one.

``What happened?'' she looked confused to her hind, where she saw herself being pushed against the hind of Khara and the big wolf looking back at her.

``I think I should explain it to you.'' He chuckled, something she did not hear him do yet.

``You see, a female alpha, or beta, has another duty that males do not have.'' Niera perked her ears. This was the first time she heard that she had more to do than the others.

``What is that?'' she asked, when Khara did not continue, and it seemed he had waited for this question.

``You see, the females have the duty to bear strong cubs for the future of our pack. This is the most important thing to ensure that the pack survives.''

She looked at him and could see at the corner of her eyes, that he grinned at her.

``And the heat of a female shows that she is ready to bear pups and it is upon the alpha, or in case of a beta female also the beta's, to ensure she got a healthy pup inside her.

Niera still did not completely understand. She only understood that what they did had something to do with pups.

``What we are doing is called mating it helps you to have pups. This means you will have pups in a few weeks.'' He still smiled and she saw that he looked at her reaction.

``It is the females' responsibility to keep the alpha and betas happy. An alpha female is chosen by an alpha and only he mates with her. But beta females will make sure to mate with the other betas, or the alpha if he chooses so, to relieve their stress. Mainly during her heat, but also sometimes at other times.''

Khara lifted and she felt a tuck at her snatch and after some slight pain she felt the bulge, that got much smaller now, slip out with a plop.

``I will train you good to accept the love of an alpha.'' He continued and she felt him lick over her hind and her snatch and for some reason the tingling inside her, that slowly faded away, peeked up again.

``And I will also make sure that you are full of pups when we leave here.'' He moved over her again and bit into her scruff. Her insides shivered and her hind, by itself, lifted and her tail went up.

She still felt the slimy hot content, that he poured into her, tickle out of her snatch, when he already lined up with her again. She could barely see, with turning her head to the side, that something big and red swung between his legs before he moved over her and pushed.

It did not hurt as much as the first time, but her insides still stretched reluctantly. It was much more slippery now and his big member slipped inside her easily and even poked through her cervix, but she groaned the first few pushes, until the endorphins and her heat made the tingle increase and let her moan and mewl under the big alpha while he took her with a faster pace than at the first time.

Niera did not remember many details of the following hours. Khara talked to her, when he was knotted and resting, waiting for them to part, but the tingling and burning inside her from his spunk kept her occupied and so she forgot most of it right away.

After his third knotting, she started to enjoy every second of it, even the slight pain when he pushed the growing knot through her sore and overstretched labia.

For some reason, her body really liked and wanted this. When she got enough energy after his third time parting from her, she presented to him voluntarily, without knowing why she did this. Her body just moved by itself on instinct.

After he parted the fourth time, while Niera was resting, he moved to her head and presented his dick to her. She had, for the first time, a close view on his massive member and while thoughts of disbelieve, that he fitted into her, went through her head, she did not even hesitate to extend her tongue and lick the slimy layer off his big fleshy rod.

She pushed her nose into his balls, enjoying the scent and taking it in deeply. She moaned when she tasted their combined flavor on the member.

All reasoning left her, and her body just moved on itself, while she did not even understand why she was doing this.

It became a test of endurance and Niera barely kept up with the eager alpha that mounted her again and again, only interrupted by a small walk to a nearby river to take in some water before continuing.

Niera lost the sense of time, and her mind began to swim. The constant stimulations of his member or his tongue inside her snatch made her twitch slightly all the time and bounce between heavy moans and yowls during her climax and whimpers while she just twitched under him.

Her womb felt full of the goo that he splashed into her and whenever his knot popped out of her snatch, it gushed out on the ground, because her snatch was not able to contain the loads anymore.

She even felt the liquid push further inside her and into the fallopian tubes, making sure that her eggs were bathed in the live giving seed of the alpha.

Niera did not remember where she was at first, when she woke up.

She had the smell of Khara in her nose and felt something warm against her back.

Slowly, she opened her eyes and saw a few trees and bushes. She heard the soft whistling of the wind.

Khara rose when he noticed that she woke up and licked her cheeks. Niera closed her eyes. For some reason she enjoyed the caring act of the alpha. Her insides tickled a bit and she tried to remember what happened.

She had felt weird this morning and somehow a bit weak and then she had gone on patrol with Khara.

The caring licks of the Alpha moved over her eyes and ears and to her neck. Niera moaned softly from the soft touch of his tongue. Her whole body began to tingle in a good way.

Very slowly, Niera remembered that Khara had explained her something, even though she could not remember what it was because her head was occupied from the wonderful warm feeling of her body.

The tongue of Khara moved further towards her hind and when it hit the base of her tail, the tail raised and Niera moaned again. She remembered that Khara and her had been very close. They had done something that had made her forget anything else and felt wonderful.

Her body and her mind came to the same conclusion at the same time and her body rose and presented to the alpha, while Niera opened her eyes again and turned to the side over her shoulder with a longing gaze towards the alpha.

She saw that Khara was taking a deep breath from under her tail and from the scent of him, that picked up strongly, it seemed he liked her smell.

``I see, you are ready for lesson two.'' He just stated, before he jumped on the back of the willing bitch and moved his snout into her scruff.

Niera felt the light piercing of his fangs, but they just triggered the endorphins and made her body twitch in pleasure. Then the big meaty rod of him pushed through her quivering and waiting folds and invaded deep inside her tunnel up to her cervix, breaking into her sacred cavern in one go.

Niera's world began to spin and swim again. Her mind did not care about remembering what happened, but just concentrated on the wonderful feeling inside her.

Her legs moved a bit more apart, while her front was crouching to hold his weight. Her hind pushed against his thrusts eagerly.

Niera moaned, sighed, whimpered, mewled, and huffed under the big wolf and enjoyed every second, even when he knotted her. Her insides felt super sensitive, and every friction made explosions of joy run through her body and at the same time made her longing for the next, even more intense, push of Khara and feel satisfaction from having the longing of the last push fulfilled.

She was on a rollercoaster of feelings while the big wolf humped her. Not only the pleasure of the flesh, but also her mind began to submit completely to the alpha.

She always had looked up to him and loved him somewhat like an uncle or a second father, but at this moment, she loved him as a lover and submitted to him to do whatever he pleased with her body.

Her affection, that she felt for him before the heat, totally merged with the heat and the newfound, still confusing, and not completely understood, feelings and she stopped thinking straight but only thought about the next push and the next wonderful tingling inside her.

She howled with him, when he pushed his knot in and it filled her out, while his spurts painted her womb, that emptied during her sleep, with his spunk.

He turned around again and with the tingling and burning of his shots slowly winding down, she slowly noticed that Khara was trying to get her attention.

She shook her head a few times and took a deep breath, shaking off the dizziness in her head and making her vision clear up.

She looked over her shoulder and saw that Khara turned around, but he was still tied with her.

``Niera?'' he asked again, and she let out a soft ``Yes?''.

``Oh, there you are. You enjoyed yourself quite a bit as it seems.'' There was the chuckle of Khara again and Niera could not help but feel a bit embarrassed.

``I will teach you something, that might come in handy later.'' He said, while he laid behind her, his still throbbing knot inside her.

``Whenever a male is tied like I am right now, you shall take the time to get a good rest. It will take a while until we can part and you can use these times to gain energy. You will need it later.''

Niera nodded and put her head on her front paws. She could not sleep or calm down. Her insides were twitching around Khara's member and knot and the tingling, even if it was fading away, kept her mind occupied.

It only appeared her like a short time, before she felt Khara tugging and pulling out of her. The slimy content of her womb tickled through her tunnel, but before Niera, who prepared to now sleep, that she was not so distracted, could fade away, she felt a lick at her pussy.

``Rump up, the next round is starting.'' Was all that Khara said and even before her mind processed what he said, her hind rose, and she went into the mating position with him climbing on top of her right away.

Khara took her again and again, multiple times in a row. He did not spend much time with grooming her or licking between parting and climbing on top of her. She barely had time to raise her hind every time before he was on top of her, humping away.

Slowly she managed to let her body rest, even though it was still twitching around him, every time he turned around. She closed her eyes, drifted off into a light slumber that was interrupted when he pulled out and urged her to present again.

Even though the mix of feelings and the act itself were very exhausting for the girl, physically and mentally, she gained enough energy in the rest in between to get through the next mating without dropping out.

She did not count how many times he filled her. With less time between him pulling out and pushing in again, her insides had not much time to empty, and she felt bloated from his cum, that filled her womb to the brim.

Niera did not know how much time had passed, but she was sure that more time passed than at the first time he took her and that they did it many more times. She lost count and she also did not care.

Deep inside her, she longed for him to take her again every time, even though she did not understand that a lot of these feelings were directed by her heat and her instincts.

Finally, Khara parted for the last time, and she did not feel the anticipated nudge of his nose. She tried to rise her hunches with shaky legs, but Khara licked over her head and whispered into her ear.

``Sleep a bit, I will keep watch.'' He said. ``There is a lot of more exhausting training waiting for you and you need to get back your energy for that.''

The last thing she felt, before a deep slumber took hold of her, was Khara, who lay down next to her and the warm feeling of his body next to hers. She trembled a bit from exhaustion and the pleasure, that still coursed through her, but finally she faded away and went to sleep, just like he asked her to.

The sky between the treetops was filled in a deep red color when Niera woke up. The evening had come without the girl ever realizing the passing time.

Khara already was up and when he noticed that she woke up, he came to her and licked over her face. Niera moaned and closed her eyes to enjoy the affection until it stopped and left a cold feeling of the wind on her damp fur.

``Clean yourself before we depart. We need to take a hurry if we want to arrive before it is getting dark.'' Khara told her and she, still a bit sleepy, began to groom herself.

``Just your hind is enough for now.'' Said the big alpha and Niera moved more to her hind and smelled him on her.

More of his spunk had been leaking out over her slumber and the fur on her legs and the area around her snatch were covered in slimy and half dried spunk.

Like she was asked, Niera cleaned herself up and her heat made her get turned on by the taste of Khara. She even plunged her tongue a bit into her snatch and scooped out a bit of the still warm spunk inside her.

``Good.'' Was all that Khara said and Niera just noticed that he had observed her the whole time.

``Now follow me. There is more training waiting and we need to get back before the sun sets.''

Khara let her run in front and lead the way, while he followed her.

Every now and then, she looked over her shoulder and found him very close to her with open nostrils and keeping close to her.

Something in her tingled and her instinct wanted to stop and let him atop of her again. She remembered most of the second mating session they had, or at least the pleasure and the affection.

She always had seen Khara as some kind of an uncle or second father, but her affection and her feelings had changed a bit this day. Her heat was calling out to her, and he had been the first male to take her.

Her heart somehow submitted to him as her first lover. As the one who introduced her to this pleasure and she had fallen for him not only as a discipline.

Even though her mind did not grasp it yet, but her heart also longed to stop and have him take her once again.



Chapter 4: Special Training

It was already getting dark when they returned to the den and the other trainees greeted them happily with a howl.

Khara went to the boys while Niera had a hard time to fight her instinct to push her tail up and present to the alpha right away after they stopped.

``I had a small special training with Niera today, but it is not finished yet.'' The alpha started. Niera only listened half to him because she felt hot and in need.

``She entered her heat and I introduced her to the duty of a female to help the pack with repopulation.'' Kahara explained further.

``For the next part of the training you will help me to train her. When she returns, she will have to help not only the alpha but also the betas to vent their needs and therefore she needs to learn how to be open to more than one wolf.''

Niera moaned and raised her tail directly, crouching and presenting to Khara, when he closed in to her and licked over her hind. She could smell her own heat scent getting stronger.

``I will show you how to handle a bitch in heat and then you will take her in turns.'' He explained while he spared a few licks over her snatch and made her moan, and her insides explode in pleasure.

``This will be as much a training for you as for her, because it is also your duty, when you are alpha one day, to produce strong litters for the pack.''

Niera whimpered in need, peeking over her shoulder to the alpha. She did not listen to his words but just hoped he would stop talking and starting to take her. She did not even mind, that the others were around, even though she felt embarrassed about being seen during the act.

Finally, she felt the heavy weight of him on top of her and she sighed when his big member moved between her lips and finally, after she held in the urge for so long, she felt his member inside her again.

Her mind clouded and her vision got blurry, but she was in heaven. The feelings inside her exploded with each of his pushes and she pushed back, meeting his thrusts every time. Her snatch squelched and slurped in the rhythm of his tosses and his balls clashed with her drenched lips with a smack every now and then.

She felt the expanding bulge press against her lips and assumed a wider stance to make it easier for him to push in.

When he got stuck inside her and both were hit by their climax, she collapsed below him in ecstasy and twitched around his pumping member, that pushed more of his spunk into her.

Niera closed her eyes and concentrated on the feeling of the goo inside her and the smell in the air.

It was not only her and Khara, but she also smelled the musk of the other boys pick up.

Like she learned this day, she rested while they were tied and her insides slowly winded down from the stimulations.

When Khara pulled out, she directly felt a tongue lick her snatch again and she assumed the mating position, without even opening her eyes.

The weight, that hit her back, was a big lighter than before and the bit in her neck a bit clumsy. When the rod was pushed through her folds, it did feel different. Not so powerful and experienced but rather eager and hastily.

Niera opened her eyes and her vision got back enough to look over her shoulder and see Bahg on top of her. Her eyes went wide, and she did not understand. The stimulations of his dick inside her made her world spin again, but it did not feel quite as nice as with his father's before.

``You seem to not have listened before and be surprised now.'' Niera directed her gaze back in front of her and she saw Khara.

``I only showed them how to do it and for the rest of the night, they will take you. This will be an extended test of endurance for you and a training for them on how to be an alpha.''

The older wolf chuckled while she moaned from the stimulations in her tunnel. She opened her muzzle for a big moan, but her eyes were fixated on the wolf in front of her.

``See it as a training for you to what will await you as a beta and it is also a training for them, because they will have to make sure to give their genes to the next generation, even as betas.''

The head of Niera did not take in all the information because her heat and the pleasure inside her made it hard for her to concentrate on the words.

Inside of her she felt the affection for Khara, and her nostrils took in his scent. She closed her eyes and tried to imagine that it was him, but it felt different.

She extended her head and pushed her nose into the fur of Khara, taking deep sniffs of his scent which made her body heat up even more.

The alpha still chuckled and laid down in front of her, which allowed her to push her nose closer to his rear and under his belly.

She found his member, that was only half out of the pouch and her nose smelled his strong musk and her own scent in the fur.

Her tongue moved out by itself, without her even planning anything like that. She started to lick over his limb member, bringing it back to live, tasting their combined liquids from his member.

While she enjoyed the taste and scent and moaned into the fur of Khara, Bahg hammered her hard, but his inexperience showed. Not only did he not hit all the spots of the girl below him, but he also did not bother to pay attention to his knot.

Niera began to groan when he pushed his big bulge, he waited too long and it was already nearly max size, through her folds but even though he was less endowed than his father, his bulge was at this state too big to enter.

Finally, she felt hem spurt and spasm inside her snatch, pushing his maybe first ejaculation into her, with his knot resting against her wet and sticky folds. Her insides were not at the climax yet, but she felt quite exhausted from his fast and inexperienced advance.

The disadvantage for Niera from him not knotting her was, that he pulled out right after his climax and without any delay and some rest for her, Jeliso was ready to take his turn.

She just buried her muzzle in the fur of Khara, while she whimpered and groaned from the fast advance of the southern pack wolf.

He was even less endowed than Bahg and he was as eager and uncaring for her.

His member pushed in and out at a fast pace, splashing her heat juice and the semen of Bahg all over the ground.

Like the other youngster, he did not pay much attention to her or her reactions but just hammered her, thinking about his own pleasure.

Like Bahg, he also missed the cut of when to push into her snatch and because of this, he waited too long and was locked outside with his knot.

Paqu was no different from the other boys that took her. He had always been the calmest of them, but the scent of her heat and seeing the others take her had him in overdrive and he did not care at all about her wellbeing.

Again, she was denied the climax, and even groaned in pain because the first push of Paqu missed the mark and poked into her backdoor, spreading her sphincter hard pushing in half his tip, before he pulled out and struck gold with his second push.

While Paqu worked out eagerly with her trembling exhausted under him, she heard the voice of Khara speaking to the others.

His tone sounded as if he was scolding the boys, but if he was, Paqu surely did not listen to him, just like she herself. They were too occupied and Niera was happy when the young wolf finally stopped and spurted inside her tunnel, like his friends not even reaching her womb, because the spunk stopped short on her cervix, and pulled out leaving her shivering and leaking the spunk.

She felt a warm tongue wash over her twitching cunt, licking away the spunk that leaked out of her. The tongue was caring and if not for the scent still around her nose and feeling the fur, she would have thought it was Khara.

She moved her legs into a steady spread, still shivering exhausted and pulled her nose out of the fur of Khara, looking back over her shoulder so see who was so caring with her.

She saw the head of Chael, who seemed to be more caring and considerate with the girl than his friends or brother.

She raised her tail high, giving him the best access, and taunted him with her quivering folds that produced more heated juice and increased her scent.

For a moment, her vision got clear, and she saw the black eyes of Chael lock with hers when he moved over her.

His weight was heavy on her back. He has had a growth spurt and even outdid his brother in size now but soon after, she noticed that not only his body exceeded his brother.

His fangs gripped in her neck, and it seemed he observed carefully before, because he hit the right spot at the first time, making her shiver in pleasure from the endorphins traveling down her spine.

She closed her eyes and pushed her snout back into the belly of Khara, while she felt the big wolf moved over her completely and holding his big member just at her entrance.

She could feel him shiver from trying to hold himself back. When her lips gripped around his tip, he moaned loud and pushed. His push was eager, but not as fast as that from the others. He was clearly trying to control himself and slow down, even though he did not manage to hold back with the tight vice grip of her around his tip.

Niera left the fur of Khara again to push her nose up in the air and moan lustful when she felt the member push through her tunnel up to her cervix.

It felt even bigger than Khara. She was not sure if this only was the case because the others had been less endowed or if Chael really outgrew his father in size, but it felt incredible for her.

He held himself back shivering for the first five pushes but with every push he used more force and went faster.

But despite that, Niera moaned and mewled under him. She was not sure if it was by chance or if Chael observed his father better than the others, but he hit all the right spots inside her.

Before she felt his knot inflating, she already reached her climax and with her climax, he pushed further into her, breaching her cervix, and pushed his growing knot through her snatch.

After he was stuck inside her, his pushed became faster but also very limited because he could only move a few millimeters at a time.

She moaned and milked his member and finally he stopped, and she felt his knot and rod twitch and tremble and then spurt after spurt entered her sacred chamber and mixed with the seed of his father.

She felt him let loose of her scruff and heard a howl and in her climax, she also pushed her head into her neck and emitted a tired short howl while her insides milked every drop of the content of Chael's balls into her.

When Chael turned around, after he spared a few licks over her ears, she dropped down on her fore legs with her snout still in the fur of Khara and drifted off into a light slumber. Finally, she was able to get some rest.

She heard Khara talk to the others, and his voice sounded much less scolding now, but Niera did not care what Khara had to say. She felt exhausted and wanted to rest.

She was barely rested when Chael pulled out and woke her up. Licks over her hind signaled her, that she should present directly again and without opening her eyes she just moved herself into position and soon felt the eager pushes of one of the others inside her.

After their first time fueling their curiosity and eagerness, and most likely also because of the scolding of the Alpha, the boys improved with each time they took her. For Niera it still was very exhausting, but luckily, they finally managed to knot her all and she was able to rest a bit after each of their fast advances.

She did not get a climax every time, but at least Chael always managed to make her squirm under him.

Soon she was able to tell who was inside her just by the size and feeling of their dick inside her, without even having to check on them.

Chael was by far the biggest, still feeling even bigger than Khara for Niera. After that came Bahg, who was clearly smaller than the alpha, and after this Paqu and Jeliso.

Even though their members were smaller, they soon picked up the right techniques to not only take more pleasure themselves, but also make her get something out of it.

Niera stopped caring half through the night and just lifted her hind whenever she felt one pull out and the licks of the next in line.

The boys sure worked up some endurance, even though they had it easier than her, because they could rest 3 turns in between, until it was their turn again.

But even their endurance slowly faded, and, in the end, there were only to left, to took turns. Bahg and Chael, the brothers who seemed to not be wanting to give in to the other.

Finally, even Bahg went to sleep and Chael took her a few more times until he fell asleep on top of her with his twitching knot inside her quivering snatch while the light of the morning already invaded the cave.

Instead of turning around, he just had her lay down and lay over her, framing her smaller body and licking her cheeks before they both drifted off to sleep together.

Niera did not even notice when his member, while shrinking down inside her, dropped out of her snatch followed by some juices. Both youngsters were fast asleep with the small female being totally covered by the big wolf, making it hard to see her at all.

Niera slowly woke up feeling someone moving and a cold breeze brushing over her fur.

When she opened her eyes, she saw that the cave was in bright light from the sun, and she blinked a few times until her eyes got used to the bright light.

``Good morning!'', Niera turned around to the voice of Chael, who greeted her. When she rolled on her back to look behind her, she saw the bigger wolf already closing in. He seemed to have stood at the entrance.

``Good Morniiii...'' she moaned loud when his head went straight between her legs, that she had slightly open from spinning around, and licked over her slick pussy.

She could not help but spread her legs a bit further, giving him best access to please her but after a few licks he pulled back and with his teeth pinched into her flank and side.

It took three pinches until she reacted and rolled around, presenting her hind to the male. He continued to lick over her snatch a few times before he mounted her without any further words.

The eager youngster went faster than the last night and pushed into her with powerful thrusts, but he mewled with each of them because he hit the right spots and her heat was catching fire under his pushes.

It did not take him long to push his knot into her and she started to climax the moment she felt his spurts inside her.

She still twitched and milked him, when he already turned around and lay down, which she also did to rest up for what was sure to come when he would be able to pull out.

Her twitches revived, when a tongue licked over her tail base, her back and then her ears and cheeks and when she looked up, she saw Khara standing next to her with a soft gaze in his eyes.

He said something but her mind was still fuzzy and when Chael finally was able to pull out, the big wolf directly took his place and Kiera barely was able to lift her hunches again before his member pierced through her labia.

She cried out in a moan and the alpha also picked up a faster pace. Her world spun around nonstop, and she barely saw a third wolf appearing next to her, licking her head, and getting affectionate.

The scent told her, that it was Bahg, but her senses blurred out and she only sensed the feeling of the dick moving in and out of her snatch.

When Khara stopped and pushed his semen into her womb, she dropped down to rest instantly and she had been right to do so, because Bahg was not losing any second after his father dismounted her and jumped her instantly and pushed into her.

The older son of the alpha slowly picked up some skills and soon Niera was moaning just as intense as with Chael under the big wolf.

She did not notice who jumped her after the first few times. She did not recognize that it was only Khara, Bahg and Chael who were with her the whole day, while the others went on a patrol.

Jeliso and Paqu only joined in the evening, and they were even more eager, while the other youngsters were quite exhausted.

They did not ask if Niera was exhausted or not but just took her nonstop in turns and after she shivered a lot after ten times, she got used to it more and more.

She managed to really fall asleep every time they knotted and sleep until they pulled out. The feeling of them pulling out had her wake up by instinct each time and she presented for her males and took the next one just to get a short new rest after they knotted.

This evening it was Khara who took her the last time and then laid next to her to hold her warm while sleeping. Niera felt protected and guarded and had a very deep and regenerating slumber.

The next days were a repetition again and again, with just the youngsters that took her during the day, together with the alpha, changed. Two were always on patrol and the other two experienced the wolfess in heat to their hearts content.

Khara made sure that Niera got a short rest in between to eat and drink but he was as demanding and eager all the other times, when he moved on top of her and mated with her as hard as the younger wolves.

For Niera it was normal already and she could not remember a time before her heat as long as it lasted.

Only when her heat slowly declined, her mind got a bit more clearheaded and she felt each lick and heard each affectionate word of the males during the act and the next day, she woke up with the nagging feeling inside her gone and her snatch only being wet from the spunk of Chael, who spurted last into her before they went to sleep.

Khara had her roll on her back and licked over her dugs and belly. It did not stimulate her as much anymore, but it still felt nice and massaged her belly in a good way.

``You did great, like a real alpha candidate.'' He praised her and the tail of Niera swished back and forth on the ground, and she yipped happily.

``For the next two month and something, your belly will get bigger and bigger with our litters and then you will give birth to our pack's new pups.'' He announced to her full of pride.

The other males also came close to her and licked over her belly, which made her giggle. From this day on they all became extremely affectionate and caring for her and they all behaved like her lover, making sure she always got the best food and was shielded from the wind when sleeping.


Chapter 5: End of Training

Niera groaned a bit, when Chael, who mounted her, pushed his thick member inside her. Without the heat, she did not feel the rush of pleasure and the soothing tingle inside her.

It did not mean, that she did not also get some pleasure out of it, but the first entry and the knotting hurt a bit now.

In addition to her not being in heat, Chael was by far the most endowed wolf. By now, because she had an opportunity of direct comparison, she knew that the member of Chael even outgrew his father's.

She had gotten used to the thick member of him by now, because it was most of the time Chael who took her every day.

Right after her heat, Khara still hat every boy take her once every evening. He told Niera that this was to have her getting used to the life in the pack. As a beta, which she would be after returning, she would have to allow the betas and alphas on top of her, sometimes even outside her heat.

On the one hand, a new beta was always celebrated by every beta and the alpha ``breaking her in'' how Khara named it. It was a welcome ritual for new beta females.

Later, she would only have to offer her assistant, if the heat of another beta was driving the males crazy and they needed a release but could not all take the female in heat at the same time.

``The beta females are a team, that helps each other. To make sure that a beta female in heat gets some rest in between, when she is too exhausted, the other females offer themselves to the males to protect her.'' Khara had explained her.

To make sure, that she was prepared for that, she had to accept them on her for a few weeks and then Khara made the boys fight for the right to take Niera every day in order to have them learn how to rise in ranks as betas.

Niera took part in the ranking fights and Khara set the rule, that every male who beat Niera would be get the reward of mating with her.

Chael was by now the strongest of them and even Niera won against him very rarely.

When she won, Khara took her for a round, telling her that she needed to keep in training even if she won.

On a few days, Niera lost even to the others, but she and Chael were in general much stronger and therefore higher in rank than the others.

The groaning of Niera turned into moans with the next push of Chael and she closed her eyes and took a deep sniff of his scent.

She had grown to love the scent of Chael, just as much as she loved the scent of his father, Khara.

Like all the others as well, Khara and Chael also took a liking on her. One big reason for this was surely the belly of Niera, which already showed a clear small bulge and was growing from one week to the other.

Niera felt the knot clash against her snatch, which was wet from the saliva of Chael and a bit from her own juices. Even though the feeling of him inside her had something nostalgic, she liked it less with every passing week of her pregnancy.

At least she knew, that Chael would not knot her. One week ago, Khara told them to not knot Niera anymore, because her pregnancy was quite far already, and they did not want to hurt the litter by mistake.

She moaned, when Chael hit a sensitive spot inside her snatch, and she felt her inside twitch a little from the pleasure.

The boy eagerly pumped his dick in and out of her sloppy snatch and she felt the combined juices running down her legs while Chael increased the pace to come to the climax.

She felt his knot clash with her snatch with a loud and wet smack, but Chael held back and did not push further. At the start he had knotted her by mistake, but after a lot of scolding by Khara, he had the trick down now on how to prevent such an accident.

The thick cream of Chael shot into her moist tunnel and drenched it with the hot spunk. She moaned from the feeling of the goo pushing against her closed cervix and being denied entering.

Chael huffed a few times after his spurts subsided and pulled back. Niera felt the warm liquid ooze out of her snatch and drip on the floor below her.

The tongue of Chael was there to clean her up and make her moan and her lips twitch under his rough tongue bath.

After Chael was finished bathing her, he laid down in front of her, presenting his half erect member and the fur around it that was sticky from their combined juices.

It was a ritual they did every day. First Chael cleaned her, then she cleaned him, after they had sex. Niera even started to like the taste, that she tasted so often already now that she could not think of a time where she did not have it in her mouth every day.

After they were finished, Niera rolled on her back and put the legs in the air, emitting a small whimper. This was as well a ritual they established. It marked the end of her duty and showed the other males that she was ready to get their affection.

Even as a cub, she had been looking for attention of her mother or her father, surely in a different meaning, and she still loved to be nuzzled and caressed and everyone had their eyes on her.

She emitted a low and happy growl, when the males huddled around her, licked her teats, the bulging belly and nuzzled her flanks or her cheek. Some of them even licked over her nose and muzzle and showed their affection in other ways.

This ritual started when her belly started to show, and the males became overprotective over her. Even though she still went to the hunts with the group, they had her run in the middle all the time and most of the time, Chael or Khara were right next to her.

She giggled from the tickling of Jeliso's nose. The boy always teased her by nudging her under her hind legs, where she was ticklish.

Niera also licked back every head that came into her range until the males stopped and started to lay down for the night next to the girl. Every night, they framed her with their bodies, keeping her protected from the wind that blew inside the cage from outside and from possible predators that might come across the cave by chance.

The next day, Khara told them that Niera would stay in the den with him, while the others would go on a hunt. He wanted to talk with Niera, and her pregnancy was so far, that she should take it easier from now on.

When they were alone, Khara lay down and told Niera to do the same. She rolled on her side, showing off her big belly to Khara with a proud smile.

He nuzzled her belly a bit and made her giggle, before he straightened his neck and looked at the girl for a while and then started to talk.

``The training will soon end, and we will return to the valley.'' He announced and Niera smiled at him, listening to his words. ``Then everyone will join their pack again, except...'' he paused a bit.

``Listen Niera, there is one thing I did not tell you yet about an alpha female.'' Niera perked her ears and looked at the older alpha with interest.

``There is something else that is different for female alpha candidates from their male parts. It has to do with the end of the training and what happens after that.

Khara leaned forward and nuzzled her cheek and licked over her ear to make the girl feel comfortable before he continued.

``You know, staying just with your own pack will over time make the blood thin, because you need fresh blood to keep it strong. In the past, packs stole females from other packs or some of the pack wandered off and joined other packs on their own, but in the valley, we introduce a different way to live in peace.''

Niera looked at the older wolf with her ears perked forward. ``You see, when a female alpha is being trained, it is always trained by an alpha of a different pack and after the training...'' he still found it hard to push this news on her. ``... well, after the training the female will join the pack of the alpha that trained her.'' He finally told her.

Niera had a questioning look on her face, not fully understanding yet. ``So, I will visit your pack before I go home?'' she asked, but Khara shook his head. ``No Niera, you will return with me to my pack, and you will live with my pack from now on.''

Niera looked at him with shock. Sure, she loved Khara and Chael as well, but she already missed her mother and her father, and she had been sure to see them again soon.

``But... does this mean... I will never see my parents again? And my brothers and sisters?'' Her eyes started to fill with tears, and she sniffed. Khara ran his head along hers and her neck to comfort her and licked over her eyes to clean the tears.

It took a few minutes of Khara cleaning her eyes and face until the girl slowly got back a bit of her countenance and Khara began to talk again.

``It does not mean, that you will never see them again. You might not see them for a while, maybe even a few years, but there is always a chance of meeting them in the future. It just means, that you do not belong to the Eastern Pack anymore. With this training, you are a Wester Pack wolf now.''

Niera looked up to the alpha, still with very sad eyes and not too fond of the idea. ``Look, it will be hard at first. Especially, because our pack's beta females can be a bit difficult...'' Khara chuckled. ``... you will have to stay strong and fight your way up through their ranks, but I am sure you will. If you need anything, you can always come to me or my wife. We will make sure to help you, okay?''

Niera nodded and sniffed again. She tried to process what he said. She would not see her family, her whole pack, for a few years at least and she had to join his pack. What he said about the female beta wolves of his pack also concerned her a bit. She wished she could just stay here in this cave forever with the boys and Khara.

``Are you okay?'' Khara asked softly and stood up to lay down behind her with his warm body pressing against hers. He put his head over her neck and snuggled his cheeks against hers and licked her nose.

``I... I don't know.'' Admitted Niera, still confused by all this and not sure if she wanted to go with Khara to his pack. She loved him. She felt that being apart from Khara and Chael, and from the others, would make her sad, but she had been so excited about meeting her father and showing him how much she grew, that this news came extra hard.

``I should have told you earlier.'' Khara mentioned and nudged her yaw with his nose while he rubbed his throat against her neck.

``I am sorry. You were just so beautiful, that I always forgot when I saw you.'' She chuckled under her tears and Khara let out a grumbling warm growl that comforted her a bit.

``We will not see each other much in the first time, because I have to lead the pack and do a lot after being away for so long.'' Khara whispered. ``But I am sure that you will be fine. You are one of the strongest female candidates I have seen. And even of the males. Competing with you was the reason, why Chael got so strong and...'' he raised his head and scratched her between the ears with his snout.

``... having a female alpha candidate always makes the males grow so much stronger.'' He closed the sentence and started to lick her head.

Niera slowly stopped to cry and started to moan under his strong licks. She closed her eyes and enjoyed his bath and feeling his warm body next to hers. He licked over her head, her ears, her face, her neck and then down to her shoulder and front leg.

She felt his tongue travel to her chest and belly, licking over each of her teats and making her body heat up in a pleasurable tingling. Niera moaned his name more than once while he bathed her, and she rolled against him to open her belly for more of his licks.

When he licked over her hind, her tail began to twitch, and her body prickled. She slowly got her thoughts off the future and just enjoyed the company of Khara at this moment and she felt like she wanted to feel it even stronger.

With another moan, she rolled aback on her belly and rose to her paws. She pushed her tail high up, her front crouched close to the ground and her hind held high, to taunt him and signal him that at this moment, she needed her alpha inside her.

He started with licks and made her pussy juice up under his tongue. Niera felt her folds being parted by his tongue and heard his moans from her taste. The feeling was wonderful for Niera, because it hushed away the thoughts about the future and the feeling of being all alone with strangers when this was over.

She groaned a bit, when Khara mounted her and slowly pushed in his big member. But the moment he hit her closed cervix and bottomed out in her tunnel, she started to moan and let her tongue hang out while Khara slowly got into a rhythm.

The alpha went very slow and caring with the pregnant girl, while he moaned into her ears, and she joined him with the same low moans every time he pushed forward.

Niera's tunnel started to lubricate strongly, and she felt his member glide in and out easily.

She felt her tunnel twitch, while the cubs in her belly moved a bit and touched the inside of her womb, making her feel extra stimulation.

Her moans got stronger, and she mixed Khara's name into the moans every few seconds.

The experience of Khara clearly showed. He knew how to mate a highly pregnant lioness and making her feel good, without overdoing it or endangering the litters in her womb.

His movement was strong, but also controlled. He only kissed her cervix with his tip every time he pushed in.

His big orbs touched her leg with each slow swing forward, and his knot softly snuggled against her wet folds, but did not advance to push in.

But even though he went slow, or maybe even because of that, Niera felt her whole inside tingle. Her snatch, her tunnel, her clit, her cervix, her womb and even the rest of her body.

Without him even biting her neck, she felt it tingle in anticipation and arousal. This was her mate, her lover, her alpha.

Niera forgot everything around her. The other adolescent wolves that would soon come back. The future, the whistling of the wing in the trees, the mumbling of the river, just everything.

At this moment, she just felt the warm closeness of Khara, the pleasure inside her, his member gliding back and forth through her drenched tunnel and the tingling stimulation of every fiber of her body with each new push and pull of her mate.

Her worries went far away, and nothing was important for her anymore, other than the big wolf on top of her, their connection, his litters inside her and that this moment would last forever.

Even though she could not be sure if the pups inside her were his, she did not doubt it one second while she moaned and mewled under the big alpha.

The happy tingle and warm smell around her felt like it lasted for an eternity, but when he finally came to a halt, his knot just barely touching her engorged clit, and his spunk filled her cannel, build up pressure with at her cervix and then gushed out of her snatch, when he climbed down from her to not let the pressure of his spurts get too strong, she felt like it went over in a flash and she was ripped of the wonderful connection they had.

Her body, which started to climax the moment he came into her, prickled, and twitched and she rolled on the ground, showing off her pregnant belly, while Khara sprayed a few more spurts over her leg, her snatch and belly, standing next to her and watching her beautiful body sprawled out for him.

He nudged her erect nipples with his muzzle and started to make her moan with a few licks over each nipple and her belly, her legs, cleaning all his spunk of his fur, and even if she moaned, the pleasure of his licks were by far inferior to the feeling he caused her earlier.

Somehow this one mating had been magical. She had not been in heat but her inside responded to each friction of his thrusts. Because the mating did not confuse her mind, she also felt each little friction, each stimulation, and each breath of her loved Alpha, while her mind had been captured in a kind off daze, that increased her focus and concentration on the pleasure and stimulations.

Niera did not know how she got into this state, but now that it was over and her body started to cool down, only twitching every now and then in a last wave of her dying down orgasm, she felt like being thrown into a cold river on a very hot day.

She longed for this moment again but also realized, that it was over. But what lingered still deep inside her, with the litter in her belly that moved a few last times and then seemingly went to sleep, was an affection and love for this big wolf, that stood next to her and now presented his slimy member for her to lick clean, that went far deeper than before this magical mating.

A realization hit her inside. She belonged to him and on his side. Even if it would take years, she would walk straight towards him. Even if she would have to fight and go through many hardships.

She would gain the right to stand next to him in his pack. She would become his official alpha someday and only bear his litter.

When the other trainees came back, Niera just finished a short sleep, that she drifted into after Khara and her had finished cleaning each other. She opened her eyes and saw the big figure of the alpha standing in the entrance of the cave, talking to the boys, which brought a big okapi.

Niera felt the strong hunger inside her and when she raised, the other wolves did not interfere in her approaching the carcass and starting to eat.

Every male nudged her lovingly into her side, licked over her flank and over her neck and ear, while she was eating. None of them interrupted her or went for the food themselves, while she satisfied her hunger.

Only after she was finished and lay down a few steps away from the okapi, first Khara ate and then, when he returned to her side, lay down and snuggled against her side, engulfing her with his warm scent, the other males ate and filled their hungry stomachs.

This evening, Khara told them, what he told Niera before. That they would go back to the pack at the end of the week and that Niera would join his pack.

While Chael and Bahg celebrated and already welcomed Niera to their pride with a lot of licks and nudges, Jaliso and Paqu looked a bit sad and discouraged. They snuggled close to the female this night, enjoying the warm touch of her body. Niera realized, that for those two, it was a goodbye and that she might not see them again, or only very rarely. Just like her father or her mother. She did not realize that this goodbye at the morning, when she left with her father towards the middle of the valley, had been a final goodbye with her mother and siblings. Or at least a possible final goodbye.

While this made Niera sad, the excitement of joining Khara's pack overwhelmed her at this moment, and the depressing feeling had no chance to enter her heart. She snuggled her body against each of the wolves, that lay around her, for a few minutes, until she found a comfortable position to sleep, and then drifted off while the litter in her belly also calmed to with its kicking and went to sleep as well.

The end of the week came fast. They climbed the mountain and went through the tunnels to get back to the valley again. Around them, the snow already pulled back and green was sprouting everywhere, when they exited the tunnel and entered the valley.

Jen felt the air caress her nose and so many scents, that she never noticed before, when she lived in the valley, played around in her nostrils. Jeliso and Paqu had their heads hanging and looked at her every now and then.

``This is where we part.'' Khara said finally. They were in the middle of the valley, where Niera had been given to Khara by her father.

``Don't look so weak and defeated. You are alpha candidates now.'' Khara scolded Jaliso and Paqu.

``Push out your chest and feel proud. You are strong and if you keep up your training and engage every challenger with all your power, you will rise in the ranks soon.

The boys nuzzled Niera and licked over her face one last time, showing their affection. They had grown close to Niera. As friends, as companions and as mates. As possible fathers of her litter and as protectors in the last weeks.

``We need to hurry. I think Niera needs to rest in the den.'' Khara said to his sons, when Jeliso and Paqu left for their pack, faking a happy face and a strong posture despite how hard this goodbye especially from Niera must have felt for them.

Niera smiled to the caring alpha, and he came close to her.

``Listen Niera. You know that I love you and that you are special to me, right?'' the girl nodded, and he ears turned to the side to better understand his whispering voice.

``This will not change, but when we get to the pack, I cannot favor you anymore. I got my own lovely alpha to care for and the whole pack. It would cause a huge uproar, when I would favor you and care for you every day.'' Niera nodded again, but let her head hang down.

``The betas will care for you. Chael and Bahg will be there, so I am sure, you will be fine. Make sure to get into the circle of the beta females fast. And remember, no matter if the litter in you is from me or from one of the others. Officially, they do not count as my pups, because you are not the alpha, do you understand?'' Niera nodded. He had explained it to her before. She could not tell others, that these were his pups.

It was not, that the other wolves did not know what happened during the training. It was a tradition, that most adult wolves knew about, especially the betas and alpha, but she was not allowed to call her pups the litter of the alpha until she got the rank of an alpha herself.

It did not matter, who the father was. As a beta, her pups were only betas or lower and would not be alpha candidates, no matter how strong they were.

Khara told her, that a lot of the pups in his packs had his genes, and even maybe a few from other packs, because some of his sons had been trained by other pack leaders and when he had his training many years ago, he was lucky enough to have a female candidate in his group as well.

But only a few, those he had with his alpha, were his children. Only they would get the honor of an alpha litter and the right, if they were strong enough, to visit alpha school.

``But I do love all pups the same, if they have my genes, may they be officially my litter or not.'' He closed his speech. ``For me, the whole pack are my pups. I do love them all.'' And Niera felt the sense of responsibility from her alpha, which made her fall in love even more with the old wolf.

She smiled at the thought, that she would be part of his pack and she would work hard to get the right to be his alpha female at one time in the future. She just hoped that she would manage to do so before he would retire.


Chapter 6: Being a Beta

The travel back through the valley was faster than their initial journey to the training grounds. Niera looked down to the den and bid her farewell to the place she lived in for a few months.

Now, that she knew that she would not return home, this was somehow a goodbye to her home. This den had become somewhat of a home, and she would not have minded staying there with the other youngsters and Khara.

But they had to return, and she followed the alpha closely, while the other males ran behind them. She was the most valuable trainee after all and therefore had the place right behind the alpha.

She looked down the valley, when they got out of the cave at the top of the surrounding mountains again. She saw the sea in the middle, where the alpha met and where she had been given to Khara. It seemed like an eternity since she last saw her father and her mother.

It was hard for her to accept, that she would not return to them, even though she also was a bit excited to meet the new pack.

They climbed down the path and soon they reached the bottom and drank from the lake in the middle of the valley. No one was there except them and Niera wondered if there would be no one to get the youngsters back to the pack.

``This is the end of our training.'' Announced Khara, sitting on a rock and facing the young wolves. The youngsters looked up to him and their tails wagged softly.

``You learned a lot. Now will be the time, that you put that into action and use it to join your pack and climb the ranking.'' He looked at Niera. ``There is just one more rule you need to follow. We always lived by this rule: What happens during the training camp is only for those who participated. We do not talk about it to others.'' He looked back to the other adolescents.

``I am proud of you. You worked hard and I think you have the best chances to be at the top of your packs very soon. Maybe even the alpha.'' He smiled. ``Make sure to always stay strong and continue to make me proud. Maybe we will see each other in the future.''

He climbed down the rock and nuzzled everyone once more and then Jeliso and Paqu turned their heads towards South and North, after they said goodbye to the others as well.

``Dad?'' Chael turned to his father and his eyes looked at him with a questioning gaze. ``Why shouldn't we talk about the training camp?''

The alpha chuckled. ``First of all, former every alpha candidate knows basically what happens at alpha camps.'' His gaze fell upon Niera. ``Well, maybe not about everything that we did, because it is rare for a female to be a part of the group.'' He admitted.

``But in every alpha school, there were things that happened, that would be embarrassing for the graduates. Most of this happens in the first month, when the trainees are messing up a lot.'' He looked at his sons and they lowered their gaze, because they remembered a few situations like this themselves.

``And in addition, what happens with a female during these camps is a secret for only those to share who take part in the same training.'' He closed and nuzzled Niera. ``So don't go around and tell anyone, okay?''

Bahg chuckled. ``You mean, don't tell mom?'' Khara growled. ``I said no one, you understand?'' and the young wolf winced and then all of them laughed. ``Okay dad.'' He agreed and after they all licked the cheek of Niera to show a bit of their affection for the last time before returning, they made their way towards the west.

They arrived at the home of the pack very late, and the sun already vanished over the mountain tops above the hill of the western pack.

Niera winced surprised when a big howl started. The first guard that saw them, announced their return with a long and high howl and soon the whole pack started to tune in and they moved through the lines of wolves of all ages, while the sang their welcome to the group.

Niera looked around curiously. Most of the adults seemed to be bigger than the eastern pack, even though there were a few of the same size.

She had never paid too much attention to her fellow pack members at the eastern pack, but she did not remember any welcoming concert like that for her father. It seemed though, from the reaction of Khara, that this was his usual welcome, when he had been away for a while.

Every now and then, the wolves put their head down to look at the group, but they soon raised their voice again. Niera noticed that the young male wolves observed her with interest and made haste to stay close to her new alpha.

``Welcome home!'' came a strong but warm voice through the howl and as if this were a sign for everyone, they stopped the howl and gave their attention to the small group.

A female wolf, with a very light fur and white belly fur and snout, closed in on them, while Khara stopped, and the younger wolves respectfully stopped as well.

``I am happy that you are all well.'' The she-wolf nuzzled Khara, and this left no question of who she was. Niera had never seen her, but she knew, that Khara's alpha female was called Vinya and the stories about her beauty, that her father had told her once, had not been a lie.

Her green eyes sparkled in the twilight, and she ran her head gracefully along the head of Khara.

Then she gazed towards her sons and closed in on them, repeating the affectionate welcome with both.

Finally, her gaze fell upon Niera, and it was so strong and sharp, that she wanted to hide behind Khara, but managed to fight down this instinct.

She knew, that she would have been a laughingstock, if she would have hidden behind the alpha when facing the alpha female like a small pup.

``Our sons have grown big.'' She still had her voice raised, so everyone of the listening wolves could hear her. ``I can see that they have mastered their training. But it seems, you brought us someone else as well.''

She circled around Niera and sniffed at her. The young she-wolf let her be and tried to not look into the sharp green eyes.

She notices that the alpha female nudged her flank a few times and sniffed under her belly and under her tail. She wondered if the alpha female knew something of what happened.

``This is Niera, the princess of the eastern pack.'' Explained Khara. ``And not only that. She might not look like that, but she is the one who passed the training as the best.'' There was a mumbling in the crowd of the watching wolves.

``Come here Niera. Let the pack see you.'' And he nodded towards a small rock that was right in front of him. He hopped up and looked down to the girl.

Vinya also stopped her observation and left the girl a bit space to follow the command and Niera was happy to oblige.

She bent her knees a bit and took a wide stance, calculated the distance to the top of the rock and then she jumped. She even adjusted to the light additional weight in her belly, that made it bulge so faint, that it was not noticeable under her fur.

All followed the agile movements of the young she-wolf, and an entranced sigh went through the masses, when she stood there on the rock in the light of the just emitting moon. Her red-white belly fur started to glow a bit in a light red glimmer and her eyes looked over the wolves, that looked up to her, like sapphire gems.

``I hope that you all will help me to welcome out new alpha candidate and beta female: Niera!'' he introduced her and Niera felt a bit embarrassed, when the howl of all wolves started again.

She imagined hearing a very faint response of howls across the howling valley, but if they were an echo or if the other packs answered the howl, she was not able to tell.

After a few minutes of howling, Khara had Niera jump down again and together with Vinya and his sons, he stayed next to the rock, also making Niera sit next to Chael, to have the pack welcome them back.

It was an event, which Niera never had seen before. If her own pack had such customs, she had most likely been too young for them at the last spring.

Each wolf, male and female, came forward and bowed their head towards the alphas and sniffed at Bahg and Chael to take in the scent of the new betas.

They took much more time to observe Niera and she began to get a bit nervous from all the wolves sniffing at her and looking her up and down. Chael told her the names of the wolves, but Niera forgot most of them in a flash, because there were just too many names, and she was anxious.

Over thirty wolves passed her and finally, a group of four females, the ones that greeted them as the last, stayed there and Vinya introduced them to Niera.

``These are our beta, females.'' She introduced. ``Pinya currently is the leader.'' She pointed at a brown eyes she-wolf, that looked like she was around 6.

``The others are Saliza,'' she introduced a 5-year-old wolf with light blue eyes, ``Nena, ``equally 5 but with mint green eyes, ``and Mirya.'' The last wolfess was clearly older than the others and had yellow eyes.

``Mirya joined our pack over the alpha school like you four years ago at age of 3.'' Vinya added and she smirked.

Niera greeted the older girls and let them sniff at her to take in her scent, which she equally did with them to recognize them.

The ears of the beta females were pressed to their head while they observed the new beta, and their gazes were cold. Niera felt a shiver run down her spine and she felt like they were not so happy about her arrival.

``Niera will stay with us for the first nights, until she is used to our pack and knows everything.'' Vinya said and her voice had some undertone, that made clear for Niera that she had to pay attention. It sounded dangerous to miss a single word the alpha said.

``You will have to learn the rules of our pack and our customs before we can let you mix with the others. I am sure, Khara did only teach you to fight, but not the proper behavior of a lady of our pack, right?'' she looked to her husband, and he put on an apologetic gaze.

``It is better this way anyways. Don't give a man a job of a woman.'' She alpha female chuckled. ``I will personally teach you what is expected of you and make sure to not tarnish the name of my husband by behaving bad, do you hear me?'' Niera looked up into the eyes of the alpha.

``Yes ma'am.'' She responded fast and felt the pressure of her gaze. The alpha female made her at the same time feel safe and extremely nervous. She felt like she was dancing on a tight cliff. One step to the wrong side could have serious consequences.

The alpha female held the gaze for a bit longer and Niera felt her tail twitch nervously before the gaze softened and she turned her head uphill. ``You all must be exhausted. How about you rest a bit.'' She said and Khara nodded and followed her closely.

Niera felt a bit lost, standing there and watching them climb uphill. ``Are you coming Niera?'' Khara asked and looked back, and she understood that she had been meant to follow them. With a last gaze towards Chael and Bahg, who seemingly already walked away with a group of younger wolves, she bounded after the pair, feeling the cold eyes of the beta females in her back.

She sighed a bit relieved, when she followed them into the den and felt safe from the gazes. The den was big, even bigger than the den of her father and her mother had been, and even though Niera had expected a few pups in here, it was empty other than the three wolves that just entered.

She looked around, with her eyes beginning to get used to the dark den, but she could not spot anyone else.

``No, we don't have pups right now.'' She winced and looked up to Vinya, who apparently observed her behavior.'' Chael was from my last litter. I am already quite old and will not have any more pups.''

Niera felt a bit uncomfortable in the silence that build up after these words, until Khara let himself fall on a few branches and dry grass, that was softening the sleeping place of them.

``I noticed that she is pregnant already.'' It was neither a question, nor did it sound aggressive, but rather like a stated fact by the alpha female.

``Oh, yes.'' The alpha stated and smiled up to his wife, while Niera stood next to them, unsure what to do.

``I suspect that she is trained in the customs of a beta then as well?'' the alpha female asked and Niera began to suspect that the alpha female knew very well what happened at the training camp.

She now also remembered, that this was most likely something that happened to every female trainee at the alpha training and being an alpha, Vinya most likely had have such an encounter as well in the past.

``That is good. The beta males have been restless in the last weeks and without training it would have been a lot for her to take.'' Niera understood, that she would soon have to raise her haunches for the beta males to satisfy their lust.

``Mind to give me a rundown on her skills?'' she asked her husband, still not facing Niera.

``Sure thing, my love. I know how much you love to watch me.''

With these words, he raised to his paws again and bounded over to Niera. A small pinch in her flank told Niera what he wanted, and she was not even hesitating. She ripped herself out of the thoughts and raised her tail while spreading her hind legs and crouching down with her front legs.

``She is well behaved.'' Vinya commented and Niera heard her laying down behind her. The next thing she noticed was the big wet tongue of Khara and she moaned loud when he washed over her snatch.

It lasted far too short, before he removed his tongue and left her huffing and dripping.

But he did not let her wait long for the next phase. She felt his weight on her back, when he jumped her, and balanced out the extra with her legs, steadying her hind legs in the spread position.

When he entered her slick pussy, she groaned a bit, because without the heat the first entry hurt a bit when he spread her apart, but after a few pushes, she began to moan again, and her insides started to juice up.

``She seems well trained.'' Came a comment from behind them but Niera decided to not think about Vinya, because it made her embarrassed, that the alpha female watched them mate.

``And even though we trained her hard, she is still wonderful tight.'' Khara grunted on top of her.

``She is by far the best female our pack has to offer right now.'' A short growl made him wince and chuckled. ``After you of course, my love.''

Niera knew that he would not knot, because she was pregnant and this might invade too far into her and damage the pups, and therefore she enjoyed the ride to her fullest, after her insides got accustomed to the stretching.

``Bahg and Chael also got very attached to her. I would not wonder if they would mess up the ranks in the beta quarter, just to call dibs on her.'' Vinya chuckled. ``It seems that a female under the trainees is still the best motivation for ironclad results. We need to thank Holo for admitting her this year.''

Khara howled when he stopped and Niera felt him spurt deep into her tunnel. ``Yes...'' he huffed, after he calmed down a bit and pulled back to slip out of the girl. ``I will make sure to do just that at our next meeting.''

Niera felt a tongue wash over her snatch and clean the semen that gushed out. She moaned and closed her eyes, until she erupted in a small climax under the tongue and then collapsed on the ground.

When she looked over her shoulder, she saw Vinya stand behind her, while Khara lay on the ground and groomed his retreating dick.

``Your turn.'' She just stated, after Niera caught her breath a bit, and faced her hind towards the young female with her tail raised.

Niera did not think about it but just complied with the request of the alpha female. She had never done this to another female before, but she extended her tongue and started to lick over the snatch of the she-wolf in front of her, feeling insecure if she was doing it right.

A moan from the female in front of her told her, that she at least managed to make her feel a bit good and Niera started to get bolder. She pushed her tongue through the lips and licked the inside of the vagina, which started to juice up a bit.

The taste of the girl juices was mild, not as strong as the taste and scent of the males had been when she had cleaned their dicks after their mating sessions during her heat.

Her tongue caressed the inside of the tunnel of the she-wolf in front of her, making her moan and push against her snout.

The walls clenched around her tongue, when she pushed it as far as she could, and she felt juice splash against her nose and into her muzzle.

Niera was not sure if she could pull out her tongue and waited for the alpha to voice her wish, but the said female just started to move forward, pulling away from her tongue, after her clenches got weaker and faded away.

``Inexperienced, but not too bad.'' She commented with a huff. ``I think she is a good addition to our pack.'' She faced her husband again and let Niera glide down to the ground exhausted again.

``Yes, indeed. She is also very strong. Overall, very good breeding material.'' Khara mentioned and nuzzled Vinya, who lay down behind him and snuggled her back against his.

``Come here Niera.'' He called out to the girl. ``It is spring, but the nights can still be cold. Snuggle up with us.''

Niera lifted and felt the exhaustion of the tension and the day of running in her muscles. She went the few steps towards the lying pair and let herself sink on the branches and grass in front of Khara, which felt wonderful warm and soft.

Niera did not think about anything or that Vinya was there as well. Like in the last weeks, she just lay down next to Khara the same way she did the last weeks. Her nose pushed between his legs, soaking in his strong musk while he as well pushed his head over her frame and his nose between her legs, touching her belly with his cheek, to take in her warm scent.

Niera did not think about anything else after this. The scent, the warm touch of Khara and the darkness, that fell over them, was so familiar for her, that she fell asleep instantly.

The next days were exhausting for Niera. During the day, Vinya showed her around in the pack territory and showed her where the dens of the wolves were. She also got a peek at the beta den, where she was to stay after the week.

The other beta females greeted them, but Niera had the feeling, that they avoided her. They left the den soon after they greeted Vinya and did not return while the alpha showed her around the cave.

Vinya also showed her the dens of the beta males and the other regions of the sleeping places. They did not go closer to the dens of the males, but Niera saw Chael and Bahg from the distance. They to youngsters were in the middle of a group of wolves, who looked over to the two females, but did not come closer.

Niera could see, that they were interested in her, but it seemed that the alpha female made sure that they did not approach them without being asked to.

In the nights, Vinya continued to enhance the training of Niera and asked her to lick her before they went to bed. ``You will have to learn how to get on the good side of other females, as long as you are not at the top of the ladder.'' She mentioned and Niera did not like the sound of that. She was unsure what to expect after the week.

She only saw Khara in the evening and when they lay down to sleep, it felt a bit like home, like at the training camp, with his scent around her and his warm touch.

Deep inside her, Niera wished that this week would not end. Even though she had problems at first to get used to Vinya, she soon adjusted to the requests of the alpha female and listened to every word.

Despite her being rather dominating, the alpha also was very wise. She was one of the oldest wolves in the pack and she taught Niera a lot of things and even a few more tricks for fighting.

The older female also told her to make sure to rest well while she could, because her pregnancy would draw a lot of energy from her very soon.

The week went by in a flash and then came the day, that Niera was to move to the beta den and live with the other beta females. She felt a bit reserved and was not sure what to expect. She had not lived with only girls before and she knew none of the betas yet, because they always avoided her when the alpha and Niera visited their den.

The first day in the beta den already was exhausting. On the order of Vinya, all the beta females met up with them and were tasked to show her to ropes and support her. They did not look to happy, when the alpha left and snarled at her, so that Niera was unsure what happened or what the problem was.

There was no long time for any talks, because shortly after, a few male betas came into the den and talked to Pinya. By the face she made and her nod towards Niera, she was sure they had come to introduce the new beta female.

``She is pregnant, and I am sure you know the order of the alpha.'' Pinya said with spice in her voice. The males just nodded and approached Niera.

``Hello... Niera, right?'' she saw the lust in the eyes of the boys. ``Hello...?'' she responded, but they seemed to not have the patience to wait. The male directly went towards her flank and with a small pinch he told her to turn around and lift her tail, which she did obediently.

``I love new betas.'' The male growled happily. ``They are so obedient, not like the old bitches.'' Niera groaned when he mounted her and pushed in. He was by far not as caring as Khara or his sons. He was here only for one mission, to pound her pussy, and that he did.

It was over quite quick, but new males came, and they all seemed to have just one goal. To get inside of the new female. When she got a small breather during the evening, she huffed exhausted and was happy to have survived the first day, but it was far from being over.

When the males left the den and Niera wanted to find some comfy place to sleep, Pinya and the others approached her. ``You sure did not think you are finished already, do you?'' Pinya asked and when Niera looked up, she saw that they had not been avoiding her before, but they hated her.

The anger and hate spew from the eyes of the beta-leader and she turned around and lifted her tail.

``Because you stole away the beta males from us, you will make sure to at least show us your tribute.''

Niera was too exhausted to fight and understood now, why Vinya had trained her in pleasing another female. She did not complain but just went to work and started to lick Pinya until she moaned.

After Pinya, each of the females demanded her to tend to their needs. Judging from them only demanding it once, she suspected, that they only wanted to dominate her. Their bellies were big as well and so Niera was sure, that they were just as pregnant as she was.

After an hour, Niera dropped down totally empty and fell asleep, not regarding the girl juices on her face and the spunk that leaked out of her snatch.

Things got worse in the next days. Not only did the males come back, and the whispering they did with Pinya she suspected, that the beta leader even invited them to fuck Niera, but they were more and more discontent with not being able to knot Niera.

``You sure can knot her.'' Pinya suddenly said, while Niera was already exhausted enough to have her legs wobble, because she had been taken non-stop without a rest, because they pulled out instantly and were replaced with a different male.

``But the alpha said...'' started the male who took Niera first, she did not remember their names, because she had been very exhausted, when they told them to her.

``You can't knot her honey pot, but she got two other holes to fill, right?'' Pinya said with an evil grin, that was returned by the beta male.

Niera groaned under the pushes into her rectum a few seconds later and the male did not go soft or caring. It felt like he wanted to punish her or was told to do so.

Niera cried out loud when he popped his big knot into her ass and shivered, when she dropped down. The only advantage of this was, that she was now able to rest a bit and gain enough energy for the next male, that stood in line already.

When the males left, all females still requested their tribute from their new addition to the group and Niera was happy, when she could drop to sleep this evening.

The next days were not much better, but Niera got used to the abuse of her tail hole and she groaned less when the males took her. What she discovered, while she was moaning under Chael, who finally paid a visit as well, was that she gained energy by this and did not feel as exhausted in the evening.

While he lay on top of her and slowly grinded into her pussy, Chael whispered to her and told her about Bahg and Chael already trying to rise in ranks in the beta group.

He also confirmed, that Pinya had put the leader of the beta males up for this and that she wanted to break Niera to make sure she would not gain in ranks over her.

Chael and Bahg came every day from this day on and they used their time with Niera to give her even more of a breather, while grinding into her slowly. Niera actually preferred these two over the rest and felt her energy rising again, even though she made sure to not show this to any of the other beta females.

The brothers also explained her, why Pinya was so focused on Niera.

Not only was Niera a real beauty and had all males look after her, but as a graduate from alpha training, she was the only female, next to Mirya, who however was quite low in the ranking as well, who would be a potential alpha candidate.

With Vinya being very old, the beta females all looked forward to replacing her, if she would die in a few years.

Before Niera came, naturally Mirya would have been the only option, however the other females held her low and grouped up on her in the past, which broke the girl, and she was not alpha material anymore.

Pinya tried to use the other girls, to demoralize any possible rivals, in hope that even though she was not a graduate from alpha school, she would be the only option left for Khara, when his wife would be gone.

Niera felt anger inside her, when she heard about the intrigues, that Chael was able to uncover by inquiring the other beta males, who all seemed to know about the rotten nature of the beta leader.

Niera was also sure, that Vinya knew about this and therefore had prepared her as good as possible for joining the beta group. It seemed, that not even the alpha could help her with that, and she had to solve this herself.

If anyone would protect her and safe her, she would lose face and would be seen as week, because the alpha or anyone else needed to rescue her. This would for sure make her even drop down from the beta ranks into lower ranks.

But she already thought about a counterattack, while Chael and Bahg were taking it easy with her and helped her to gain as much energy as possible for her actions. They were the only allies she had, even though they did not voice this openly.

Niera felt her belly grow strong and it took additional energy just to move around with this big belly and the extra weight. She understood that she had to act fast, because she did not want her cubs to be born while she was still under the constant attacks of the other beta females.

Niera had planned for this for a whole week, when she finally set her counterattack into action.

She had told Chael and Bahg to visit her as the last this evening, to ensure that she could rest up and they helped her with drawing out the time they lay on top of her for a few more minutes to help her gain additional energy.

Sure enough, as soon as the males left, Pinya approached her for the daily tribute and all the females were not on guard because Niera had been submissive the hole week to make them feel secure.

When Pinya had time to react, Niera already had jumped her and pushed her to the side, her fangs in the throat of the female, but not for the kill but just to hold her.

Pinya needed a few seconds to understand what happened, as well as the other females who looked at it in a shock, before she shouted: ``Get her off me girls!''

Niera evaded the tackle of Saliza and jumped off Pinya, with her fangs bared and a dangerous growl in her throat.

Miya and Nena came from the sides, attacking the young girl. Pinya sure had the girls under her control and even though she had been defeated just before, the others did not submit to Niera.

She understood instantly that she had to fight for her life at this moment and that she had to kill or injure each of them to make it out alive.

Pinya also got up and her growl echoed in the cave and was mimicked by the other three. Niera saw herself in front of four older wolves, ready to attack her together.

In the glimpse of her eye, she saw someone enter the den, but then the attack started. She had not time to check who entered or if it meant friend of foe.

She evaded the fangs of Mirya and spun around to send her flying against the wall. Knowing, that Mirya was the only other graduate of the training, she had been extremely careful about the female, but her movements showed, that she was not in training anymore and that Mirya lost the edge of a fighter.

Saliza followed up. What they did not have in fighting power, they tried to compensate in teamwork. Niera was able to evade the fangs if Saliza and send her flying, but Nena hit her leg with her fangs and bit.

Niera howled and let herself roll to the side, forcing Nena to follow her. She used the energy of the motion to throw the female off, who let go of her leg.

Pinya used this seemingly vulnerable situation to attack with a jump, but Niera had seen it coming.

She rolled on the ground to evade the paws and yaws of the beta leader and her movement was quick like a flash when she snapped forward with her fangs and her fangs pierced through the ear of the female and cut it open. Blood splashed over the coat of the beta leader.

The other three females tried to help her, but in their haste, their teamwork diminished, and they were hindering each other rather than helping.

Niera hit Nena with her paw and her claws dug into the leg of the female, who howled in pain.

The young female ducked under the jump of Saliza, who collided with Mirya. She dug her fangs into the flank of Saliza and used the force of the jump, that pulled her head back, to do a summersault backwards and with her hind legs caught Mirya in her motion and send her flying against the walls of the den, where she groaned loud and only got up with wobbling legs and humping on the left hind leg.

The females around her were groaning and the only one still standing was Pinya. She tried to attack again, but Niera just danged around her and with quick snaps of her fangs she added more and more cuts into the coat of the beta leader, until she finally let her run into the void and tackle her, so that Pinya fell on her back, and she had her fangs on her throat again, this time with a harder grip.

Niera cold taste the blood on her fangs and smell the iron scent of the blood in the fur of Pinya. Her fangs pierced through the skin and made the throat of the female turn red.

``One step closer of any of you, and she will breathe her last breath.'' Niera growled from her chaps.

Nina and Mirya, who humped towards them, stopped in their tracks, and looked shocked, laying on her side and groaning from the pain of her wounded flank.

``I think this is enough.'' A voice behind Niera shouted and it took a second for her to realize, that it was the voice of Khara. ``Let her go.'' He commanded and Niera instantly let go of Pinya and jumped back, allowing the female to get up.

A growl from the throat of Pinya and her body, that crouched, showed Niera, that she prepared to attack again and Niera put a wider stance with her hind legs to evade to any direction if needed.

``I said it is enough!'' Pinya winced from the loud voice of Khara. ``Pinya, if you continue this, I will not stop her from killing you next time, and you should have noticed that none of you, and not even all of you together, are a match for Niera.''

Pinya whimpered and let herself sink to the ground. Niera also relaxed finally and let herself sink down and licked over a scratch at her leg, that she just noticed.

``Good thing Chael told me about this.'' Khara said and looked at all the females with a stern face. ``I was afraid, that I came too late to save the girls.'' He sounded genuine. It seemed he had not been afraid about Niera but rather that she would hurt his pack members.

``And you four should take this as a lesson. Niera did not get best of the class for nothing. She is much stronger than even my sons, and if you did not hear already, they are on top of the beta males' group now, so you should understand just how strong this girl is.'' Niera felt a bit proud about the praise.

``I don't want any of you to be injured but let me make this clear. If any of you attack Niera again, she has my full approval to kill. Because I am equally concerned about her. She is part of the pack now and I can't ask her to keep herself back, when you gang up on her with four to kill her.''

A long silence, only broken by a groan of one of the females every now and then. The silence lasted for a full minute, before Khara started to talk again.

``Good, it seems you all understand. I think it is best if I get you separated for tonight.'' His voice sounded a bit softer and not so angry anymore.

``Niera, you will come with me. Pinya, I will send someone to help you with your wounds and just to be clear. Niera will be the beta leader from now on. And if you cannot accept that, you can always challenge her for an official duel in front of everyone else, like the rules of the pack say.''

Pinya lowered her gaze. ``Niera, come.'' The alpha turned around and got out of the den, leaving the whimpering, and groaning girls behind. Niera made haste to follow closely and followed the alpha. Part of her was a bit afraid, that he would punish her for injuring them. She had been a bit too hard on the other girls. She tried to think hard if there would have been a way to solve this differently.

Khara send a few other females to the beta den to care for Pinya and the other girls, while he led Niera to the alpha den.

Only when they were out of sight of any others, Vinya, who had been in the den, left after a few words with Khara to look after Pinya, Saliza, Mirya and Nena, Khara looked at Niera with a soft gaze and licked her cheek and the scratch at her leg.

``I was afraid you would be injured as well.'' He admitted and sighed relieved. ``Not that I did not know that you are strong, but it is quite something different to fight four at once.'' He chuckled and lay down on his bed.

``Come and lay down and rest. You have earned it.'' She said with a warm and caring voice, and Niera lay down next to him, put her snout into the warm fur at his belly and took in his familiar scent. It did not take long for her to fall asleep.

The pups of Niera were born a few weeks later and by then, she was recognized as the beta leader female already.

She got four pups that, from the looks, were from four different fathers, but because the kids did not always follow the traits of their parents, it was hard to tell.

Abu, the only male in the mix, had a black snout and black eyes, like the alpha himself.

Leila and Tinya both had blue eyes like Niera, but while Leila had a white snout like Chael, the other one had black legs like Bahg and Niera's red-brown nose.

Niera gave the last one the name Mint, because she had wonderful mint green eyes, just a big lighter than Jeliso's eyes had been.

Niera loved the pups all the same and with Pinya and the others finally accepting her, she learned a lot from the experienced mothers about the care and education of the young pups.

Niera sure had a lot of learn and she did a few mistakes, like any young mother, but overall, she had a keen eye on the pups, whenever she was home with them.

When she recovered from giving birth, she started to join the hunting squad. Often it was one of the beta males leading the hunt, but she had to lead a few as well, as the highest-ranking beta female.

During these times, when the betas were out hunting, the lower ranking females watched over the pups. Niera slowly got used to the new pack and even though her start had not been the happiest, she grew attached with the beta group soon and there was no bad blood between them.


Chapter 7: Family ties

Niera's right ear flicked, and she let her tail swipe silently two times. Her sensitive hearing picked up the soft steps behind her, that broke away from the group and circled to the right.

Now she flicked with the left ear and her tail brushed back and forth four time. Three of the steps were as silent, but the step of one wolf was clearly audible. The gras rustled under the steps and the claws dug into the ground, making a slight scratching noise.

Niera squinnied her eyes and directed her ears towards the area in front of her.

It seemed, that the herd of deer did not pick up the sound, but she knew it was only a matter of seconds until they would pick it up. The steps were just too loud.

She knew that three wolves were still behind her and just hoped, that Pinya was fast enough. After all, she had given Pinya and Bahg the job of the beater because they were the fastest.

The herd in front of her started to get nervous and drift a bit to the right. This could become dangerous for the two if they were not in place and started the hunt with their signal.

Niera stopped and readied herself for the jump, expecting the herd to panic any moment.

A loud howl echoed over the clearing of the forest, that they now surrounded, and she could hear the growl of Bahg and Pinya from her right and in front of her. They had made it in time and, like it had been planned, the herd started to run towards the left.

A loud growl from her right of the four, she sent there, should send them towards them any time, but something went different than the plan.

She heard a yowl instead and knew directly, that something went wrong on the left side. With a growl, she jumped forward and heard the other females behind her follow.

They broke into the clearing and saw what happened.

Instead of keeping the spread formation and driving them towards the group of females, one wolf had left the formation and was too wide out, which made him a weak link and instead of running towards the trap, the buck had led the herd towards the lone wolf and their hooves trampled over the poor guy.

``Chael! Push them off!'' she shouted and turned her head to the right. ``Saliza, you three will try to bring some down.''

Then she jumped forward to help the trapped wolf.

Luckily for him, he found cover behind a small rock, but the hooves hit his flank and legs while they were passing him.

Niera sprinted towards him, taking the risk of running directly into the herd of deer.

She snapped with her fangs right and left, and managed to hit one of the moving legs. She felt a small pain when the fast movement of the leg jerked her head forward, but she did an extra hard bite, before she let go. The wound, or just the pain, was enough for the young buck to stumble and the deer behind him crashed into the injured animal and a moment later, three bodies crashed on the ground.

Saliza, Mirya and Nena were experienced hunters, and they did not give them any chance to recover. Niera did not need to look back to identify the growl and the fearful cry of the three deer as a well-placed attack of their fangs towards the throat of the prey.

She reached the rock and saw Shawn, the unlucky wolf, lay there with blood between his ears and one leg twisted and trying to pull it back into the protection of the rock.

But the left of the rock was free now because the other deer, while trying to evade the falling prey, spread out even more. Two of them ran directly into the fangs of Chael and the other two male betas, that tried to come to their aid. The others had joined the herd, that ran away at the right side of the rock. But Niera knew, that there was not much time. Soon they would spread right and left of the rock again.

She barely reached the rock before it happened and closed her fangs in the scruff of the injured wolf. Shawn whimpered in pain, when her fangs pierced the fur and skin of the other beta, and she dug the front paws into the ground.

With a strong push with both hind legs, as if she wanted to jump, it sent her into a fast summersault, and she pulled the yowling wolf with her.

A second time, she felt a strong resistance and her neck hurt for a second, before the heavy body followed her and fell on her body, that curled around the other wolf.

Together they rolled a few meters, until they hit a small bush, that softened their crash a bit, but Niera still hit her shoulder against a tree.

She let go of the neck of Shawn and growled from the pain in her leg, when she jumped on her paws and jumped a meter forward, to place herself in front of the wolf in the bush.

Chael appeared next to her and joined her in growling and showing their fangs towards the herd, to make sure none of them were heading towards their direction.

It took nearly a minute, until the dust slowly cleared up and they could only hear the herd breaking through the forest in the distance.

Niera relaxed her face and looked around. Bahg and Pinya came straight towards her and Chael.

Saliza, Mirya and Nena stood next to the three killed deer and licked their bloody jaws and a few meters away from them, Argento and Malte still had their fangs in the throat of the two unlucky prey that evaded into the wrong direction.

``Five!'' she said and growled a bit, when she put weight on her leg. ``We were lucky!''

Pinya and Bahg passed her and went towards Shawn and Niera also turned around. She limbed a bit from the pain in her left shoulder.

``How is he?'' she asked, when she finally reached them with Chael, who did not say anything, but looked at Niera with a worried gaze.

``Better than he will be tonight.'' Bahg growled at Shawn and bared his fangs. ``You idiot. You nearly got yourself and Niera killed.''

The wolf whimpered and his voice sounded blurred from the pain, and it shook a bit. ``I did not ask her too...'' but he could not end the sentence. Pinya growled loud and make him wince and stop in the middle of the sentence.

``You should be thankful, that she came to your aid. Do you know that she ran into the middle of the heard to create a chance for you to escape?'' she shouted at the injured wolf. ``And she even injured herself when she got you out of the danger zone.''

Niera could hear that Pinya was angry and so were all the others. The females had pulled their prey towards the edge of the clearing and let them fall next to the two of Argento and Malte and then joined the group around Shawn together with the males.

All looked at the whimpering guy with their eyes sparkling in anger.

``Drop it.'' Niera said when Chael just wanted to bark something at Shawn again. ``We need to get back to the pack. Can you walk?''

She closed in and first licked over the wound at his head. It was not critical but just a small bruise and the skin was cut for a few millimeters.

The leg looked a bit more serious. The wolf whimpered, when she nudged it with her nose, but her nose could not make out any broken bone. It seemed just that he pulled a muscle or one of the tendons got strained. The leg joint of the hind leg however was big and swollen, most likely from a bruise of some hooves that trampled over it.

``I.. aaahh... don't think so.'' Shawn whimpered. His whole body shivered from the pain and Niera stopped pushing against the leg.

``I don't think it is serious, but I think it is best if we carry him. Who will do it?'' she asked and looked into the round. There was no volunteer. They all still looked angry at him.

``Just leave him here. Serves him right.'' growled Argento. ``He nearly got us killed with his stunt.''

``We do not leave anyone of the pack behind.'' Niera said with a stern face and snarled towards Argento before she bent her front legs into a kneeling position with a growl from the stinging pain in her shoulder.

``Well, then I will carry him...'' she started but before she could drag the wolf in her back, Chael was next to her.

``You are crazy Niera. You are also injured. My father will eat us alive if we let you carry him in your condition.'' He pushed her to the side and pushed his head under the front leg of the laying wolf.

``I will carry him. Bahg, help me to get him on my back.'' And just like Niera before, he crouched on his front legs, pushed his neck and then his shoulders under the chest of the wolf and used his fangs to pull the leg over his shoulder and hold it when he lifted him up.

Shawn cried in pain. Not only did his injured leg collide with the flank of Chael, but Bahg, who pulled it over the hind of his brother, and then helped to pull the body of the wolf on the big back of the youngest male, he maybe bit a bit harder than needed and seemed to not care for any pain he might cause the other male.

Niera sighed. Sure, they were angry. Even though Shawn was older than Chael and Bahg, with his 5 years, he was by far the most inexperienced in the beta clan of the males. He just joined them a few weeks ago and not through the alpha training.

He was strong and fast, but not silent. He was brave, but often a bit overeager and still did a lot of mistakes. Even though, the mistake today was by far his worst.

Niera also knew that her getting injured was the reason all the males were angry. Not only was she the leader of the beta females, but there was not a day that went by without a beta male flirting with her. Being the leader of the beta females, only Chael and Bahg as the highest beta were able to request a mating from her openly, but a lot of betas, and even lower males, had a crush on her.

Niera smiled at Chael and turned to the others.

``Even though I could have lived without this accident, I am proud of you. You pulled off a kill of 5 deer in the middle of all this chaos. This is the biggest catch we had in a while.

``I think it was thanks to one crazy girl, that jumped into the middle of the herd and brought three of them to fall.'' Pinya chuckled and the others joined in and soon they all laughed. Niera was happy, that this lightened up the atmosphere.

She growled a bit when she took a few steps, but the pain faded a bit while moving. She only limbed a bit, because she avoided to put her full weight on the left leg.

``It was not planned this way, but we got a result.'' She chuckled to overplay the growl and turned towards the west.

The others took turns with pulling the prey with them and they only went with a slow pace. Niera was happy for the pace, because even though the pain faded a bit, she knew that she would not be able to run any faster.

``Are you okay?'' Bahg stepped next to her and kept his voice low to make sure the others would not hear it.

``I think that I will need a few days' rest.'' Niera admitted. She always had been honest to Bahg and Chael. They were comrades from the training camp, and they knew each other well.

``I am more concerned about Shawn.'' She said. ``I think it will take a bit longer for him to heal up.''

Bahg snarled but did not respond.

``Mama!'' Niera smiled at the picture of the four cubs that ran towards them, when they passed the den of the lower females, that had cub watching duty while they were on the hunt.

Abu, the only male cub, was the fastest and reached her first. He weaseled through her legs and brushed against her left front leg, which made her clench her teeth.

Mint, Leila and Tinya, the girls, followed him and snuggled against their mother. She let out a huff from the pain but suppressed a growl.

``I am back.'' She announced. ``Did you behave?'' she asked, and the four cubs bared their fangs and smiled at her innocently. She could see from the twitching of the eye of Abu and the smirk in the eyes of them, that they for sure had played some pranks again.

The cubs of the other beta females also closed in and greeted their mothers, and they joined them up to the beta den, where Pinya and Niera entered with the cubs, while Chael carried Shawn to their den and the others brought the prey to the feeding ground. Niera knew, that the other beta females would bring them, and the cubs, some parts of the prey and her first thought was a good rest.

Sure enough, her cubs had something different in mind, and it took a stern word from Pinya, revealing that she was injured, to keep them in check. Niera smiled towards her fellow beta female.

``It is not so bad.'' She explained Leila, who started to cry when she heard, that her mother was injured.

``Just don't jump around on me right now and in a few days, I will be like new.'' She locked the face of the girl and let her snuggle against her belly.

Now, that she was a mother, she understood, why her mother had been so stern with her in the past, but she was still too young and inexperienced to show the same strong front towards her cubs. She was so filled with love for them, that she always got soft and could not scold them for long.

Pinya however was always happy to do it for her and she was a much stricter mother, and teacher, than the younger female.

The hardest part of the winter was over. Niera was happy, that the winter in the valley was much milder than on the training grounds. She had guarded her pups with all the care of a young mother.

They also finally managed to complete the training of Shawn, so that he would not bring them into a dangerous situation during hunting again. The hunts were successful, and the bellies were filled with enough food to keep everyone satisfied.

One day, Khara appeared in the den of the beta's and requested Niera to join him in his den. She followed the request, leaving the pups in the care of Pinya and the other female betas.

``We will soon go on a journey, and I like you to stay here in the den until then.'' The alpha just explained. Niera felt a bit lightheaded from being around her alpha again. She still had strong feelings for Khara, and she snuggled up with him, after the alpha female allowed her, at night, taking in his musky scent.

Niera had expected that Khara wanted to mate with her, but the alpha did not request it from her. During the day, he asked her to stay inside most of the time and she got lectures and lessons from Vinya.

A few days later, Khara announced, that Niera would join him on a mission, and he made her follow him through the night away from their pack grounds.

Niera had felt the start of her heat this morning and was sure that her alpha also smelled it, so she imagined, that Khara wanted to be alone with her to mate her and make sure the pups were only from him this time.

He did not talk, and she just followed him, heaving a heard time to suppress the growing heat.

They stopped at the lake, which her father had brought her to for the training, and Khara let a short howl echo through the valley.

The alpha ignored all the presenting and tries of Niera to get him to mate her. She was hard in need, and she felt her girl juices drip from her swollen and drenched snatch.

The only curtsey the alpha gave her were a few licks over her spade, which made her moan in pleasure.

``Niera, I am so happy to see you.'' Niera winced and looked to the direction of the new voice. It only took a short moment for her head to clear up from the pleasure, before she noticed her father.

``Papa!'' she shouted and closed in towards her father to nuzzle him as a greeting.

``You got big.'' He mentioned and looked at her from all angles and sniffed at her.

Niera got a bit flustered, when she remembered, that she reeked from heat.

It was even more embarrassing, when she noticed that her father was affected by her smell and showed a big red boner between his legs.

``You see, I promised your father something, when he agreed to give you to the alpha training.'' Khara rose his voice. She looked over her shoulder and saw him on laying on a rock.

``I promised him to bring you here on your first heat after the training.'' He smirked and Niera still did not completely understand what he meant.

``And you kept your promise.'' Her father replied from behind her, and she suddenly felt a tongue wash over her snatch and make her moan. It took a moment for her pleasure-soaked mind to realize that it was her father's tongue, and she pushed her tail over her pussy and did a step forward.

``No...'' she moaned. ``You are my father...'' the rest of the sentence was lost in another moan, after her father pushed his nose under her tail, lifted it and plunged his tongue between her lips.

``Forget about him being your father for now.'' Said Khara, who took deep breaths through his nostrils. ``Show him how you serve an alpha.''

Niera could not refuse a command from her alpha and reluctant she lifted her tail and crouched down, while she held her hind high.

She closed her eyes and tried to imagine it being Chael or Bahg, but the fact that it was her father popped up in her head every time she felt his licks.

Then the licks suddenly stopped, and she felt something climb on her back. She kept her eyes shut and waited for the inevitable.

She felt the bite in her neck, that made her shiver in arousal and her body assume a wider pose. Her snatch was drenched and dripping, eager to welcome the dick of the wolf on top of her.

Her mind clouded and the pleasure, that coursed through her body, washed away her concerns about this being her father. She turned into a willing and needy bitch and moaned while she felt the wolf on top of her shifting.

She let out a long moan when her father pushed forward for the first time. He was thicker even than Khara or Chael. He had the thickest dick she ever had in her tunnel, and it stretched her soft and wet mound while the rod advanced further inside her.

She could not deny that this member was causing her a lot of pleasure and she whimpered in ecstasy under her own father, that increased the pace with each push.

She felt the growing knot collide with her pussy lips with each push of the big wolf on top of her and heard his huffs and grunts in the same rhythm.

It all mixed into a constant sound in the world, that began to spin for her in the pleasure, while she kept her eyes shut the whole time, just moaning, and chirping under her own father.

She climaxed around him, but he continued to push into her, and she felt the knot invade more and more with each push, until it popped in and started to grow fast while he still pumped with smaller movements now.

 Her father only stopped when his knot was maxed out and stretched the pussy of Niera. It was only now, that she noticed his tip, that breached her cervix and rested in the middle of her womb, spraying spurt after spurt of thick goo into her sensitive sacred chamber.

While her father celebrated his climax with a low howl, she moaned strongly and another orgasm gripped her, making her milk her father's pulsing member for more and more of his spunk.

Her father licked her ears a few times, before he turned around and moved down from her back. Niera let herself sink to the ground, feeling that her father lay down behind her as well, and rested, like she had learned.

``You are the tightest fuck I had in my life. You felt wonderful Niera.'' The girl just moaned from him shifting inside her when he turned his head towards her. She kept her eyes shut and felt embarrassed. It was her father inside her, and she felt his sperm still gushing in fading spurts into her womb.

``You trained her good, my old friend.'' She heard Khara chuckle. ``This was the most fun part of the training, but she also was an eager learner.'' He praised his trainee, but Niera tried to not listen to the conversation of the older wolves. She huffed and tried to catch her breath because she knew what would happen, when her father would pull out.

She could smell the arousal of Khara and her father under her own spicy heat scent, that was like a cloud around her.

When her father left her with a pop, she got up and directly presented towards Khara, who came down from the rock.

The alpha chuckled and licked over her spade a few times, before he took a step back.

``This heat is only for your father.'' He said, and Niera could hear in his voice, that he fought down the arousal and tempting thoughts about jumping the female in front of him.

``Present for him, will you Niera?'' he suggested and Niera knew, that she had to present for her father again.

But she did not care anymore. The fire of her heat was lit by her father, and she had to admit, that his thick rod felt wonderful inside her. She knew that this was the heat calling for her, but she needed a male to push into her. She turned towards her father with her hind and presented for him, feeling his spunk drip out of her snatch.

Her father let a pleased growl out of his throat and closed in to lick over her snatch and make the girl squirm in pleasure.

``Beg me for it.'' Her father whispered and retreated, just marveling in the view of his daughter presenting to him.

``Mate me please.'' She whimpered, knowing what the male wanted to hear.

But Holo still did not advance. ``Who do you want to mate you?'' he teased her, and the girl felt her heat act up and make her squirm.

``Daddy, please breed me.'' She cried and the male did not need any more encouragement. He jumped on top of her and bit down in her scruff, which made her moan loud.

``Oh daddy.'' She squealed when his big member pushed through her folds. ``I love you daddy.''

Niera was totally lost in her heat and pleasure. She stopped caring that it was her father on top of her. She always had loved her father, but never in this way. But at this moment, she did not mind it anymore.

She called him out with each of his pushes and he whispered her name multiple times, until his knot pushed inside her again and inflated to lock him in.

Niera had her eyes open, but her vision was blurry. She did not see the stars in the sky or the movement of Khara, when he closed in and licked over her head, while her father turned around again and lay down to wait until he could pull out.

She smelled the warm smell of Khara, felt his loving licks and the spurts inside her womb, that filled it to the brim and made it stretch out from the quantity.

Niera had to proof the endurance she learned in the last year with her father, because the older wolf was without limits this night.

As soon as he pulled out of his daughter, he already started to lick and stimulate her again, to urge her to present to him and she complied.

Niera stopped thinking about the weirdness of her allowing her father to mate her and just sank into the pleasure and warm embrace of her father. The love, that she felt for her father, mixed with the heat and the urge to mate and she was soon nothing but a moaning bitch under him, while Khara showed her his caring love by comforting her while she rested.

Niera returned the loving licks of Khara every now and then and even licked his big erect member, when the alpha turned his flank towards the girl.

She was reminded of the time in the den during the training, when she served the four males and she submitted to the two alphas, who took advantage of her heat.

When Holo started to lose endurance, Khara joined in. He did not mate Niera in her snatch, but he pushed into her tail hole for a few rounds, while the other alpha rested, and soon Niera had to endure both males on top of her in both her holes.

The heat however made her submit and let them do everything they liked with her. She just stood there presenting and lay down panting and with her eyes closed to have a short nap, whenever they were stuck and turned around.

Because her view was blurry for most part and her senses only concentrated on the warm smell and wonderful feeling of the males around her, she did not notice how the sun rose and set again.

She also did not notice, that Khara went for a hunt a few times, to keep them fed. A night turned into a day and a night, then to days and before Niera even noticed it, her heat already was declining and even though she still moaned when her father was on top of her, she also started to groan when the please retreated and pain took over from his heavy stretching.

``You are the best and tightest lay I ever had.'' Her father told her when they said their goodbye one week later. Niera became a bit more reserved towards her father now.

Now, that the heat was not nagging and making her mind clouded, she felt shy and embarrassed about the fact, that she not only let her father mate her but had been a willing bitch for him and would carry his pups.

``Not even mom?'' she asked shy, and her father winced, but then smiled to her and closed in to lick over her cheek. ``No, not even your mom. Oh, and this is our secret, okay? Don't ever tell her what we did or what I said, okay?''

Niera nodded, retreating shy. She did not know how to face her father right now and was happy, when Khara stepped next to her, and she could lean against him.

Even though it had been his command, that she should mate with her father, she still loved him and longed for his affection.

``I hope that you are happy with this.'' Khara mentioned towards Holo. ``I kept my promise, even though it was hard to share her during her heat.'' He admitted and Niera's father laughed.

``I could not be happier.'' He said. ``And I wish you all the best luck my little girl. And you make sure to make her happy Khara.'' - ``You bet!'' was the answer of the alpha and both males laughed while Niera was in her thoughts and the feeling of her womb still being filled to the brim with the spunk of her father.

The way back to the pack was interrupted a few times, where Khara claimed the young girl and mixed his spunk into the spunk of her father. Sure, he would not be able to impregnate her, because her heat already ended, but the big wolf felt like claiming his female to remind her that she belonged to him and Niera submitted to him from the bottom of her heart, even without her heat.

It took a few weeks, until Niera stopped pondering about her father being the father of the pups, that started to grow in her belly, but finally, she returned to her own playful self and accepted the fact that she would bear her own father's pups.


Chapter 8: Stepping up

The time flew like the eagles over the valley. Niera got her second litter a few weeks later. After she had stopped thinking about who the father of them was, she had been excited to have them and was happy when they were born.

She got two more girls and two more boys out of her father's contribution. One boy and one girl had the typical red markings of her father, the girl with a dark red and the boy with a light red fur. The belly of the girl, Nenya, was white, where the belly of the boy, Nico, was dark.

The other two pups looked like the slit image if Niera. To the markings at her snout and her belly fur, they looked like a small version of her. She named them Haku and Hina.

Her older cubs, of the first litter, already started to play with the other young wolves and were outside the den for the most parts of the day, only coming back in the evening.

Niera again had all the help she needed with the cubs from the other beta females, who also had their own cubs to care for.

But now Niera also had more experience and contributed just as much at looking over the pups of the other females. It was hard to tell the mother of the young litters other than for those who looked exactly like Niera, because the pups just went to the next female in range to get their drink and they all cared for them as if they were their mothers.

Because her first litter was still just one year old, they came back to the den in the evening and Niera had a keen eye on them being on time. She remembered how strict her mother had been in the past and began to understand the reasons after she got her own pups.

She had to scold especially Abu and Pietro, a black furred pup with mint green eyes like his mother Nena. The two boys were very adventurous and often stayed past daylight before returning to the den.

These two were also clearly the strongest of last year's cubs. They clearly took the lead in the group of the young wolves and often ventured far beyond the protected area of the dens.

One day, Niera got a shock, when she suddenly saw the two boys appear in the middle of a hunt, a good mile away from the dens. In their drive to explore their surroundings, they had lost the orientation a bit and went the wrong way, further away from the dens.

Niera and Nena tucked them into a bush until the hunt was over and then picked them up by their scruff and carried them home, while the hunting party was pulling back the prey.

When they got back to the dens, Niera put down Abu and started to scold him so loud, that all wolves heard about it and came to watch. Nena just stood next to her, also having placed Piertro next to his friend, and looked at the pups with a stern face, but left it to Niera to give them a word or two.

The pups shivered from embarrassment and the fierce look at the face of Niera, who gave them a lecture for nearly an hour, before she told the pups to follow them home. Both boys had to stay close to the den for three days, with one of the beta's watching over them. They were not allowed to leave the eyes of the caretaker for even a minute and after that, they never got near the hunting grounds again.

It was not, that the pups did stop their exploring. They just made sure to stay within sight of the safe pack grounds to not run into their mothers when they were on a hunt.

The second litter grew up just as fast as the first one and the next winter came with the cold grasp and frozen paws. Hunting became harder again and the weather got even colder than in the previous winters Niera had experienced.

The pups of the pack met every day at the big plateau, just below the beta den, because the parents did not want to get lost and freeze to death. There were always at least five females around the plateau to have a watch over the pups and Niera also lay at the edge of the small path in front of the beta den to look down on the playing pups.

The cold weather did not take away the playful drive of the pups and they were fighting and brawling all over the plateau. The smaller pups, of the last litter, were in a corner with a few females, protected from the rough games of their older siblings.

Like every winter, a few of the pups already had died. Some slipped and hit a rock, others got lost, because they did not listen to their mothers, and froze to death before they could be found. Luckily, Niera's pups were not under these casualties.

Knowing the danger for the pups, she had a keen eye on all of them and even caught Abu and Pietro a few times, when they tried to sneak away. She did not want to lose any of her pups.

She knew, that after the winter, the two boys would most likely leave the pack. They had talked about this with her, and it was not rare for young wolves to leave the pack, and the valley, to venture outside and see the world. Most of the young wolves that went outside were those, who had promise in strength but would never come past a beta rank in their life because of their heritage.

But to allow them to take their life into their own paws, Niera was very careful to ensure they survived this winter.

``Niera, can we leave you alone with the other females to watch over the pups?'' Pinya came down from the alpha den, where she had been called earlier.

``Sure, I have been doing it up to now, and I have no problem continuing, but what happened?'' she asked and looked to the older female.

``Abu?!'' her cry was so loud, that her pup winced and stopped in his tracks. When he saw his mother turn her head, he tried to sneak out of her vision and escape the playground again. With his tail tucked between his hind legs, he turned around and ran back to the other pups, mumbling something that Niera could not understand from her spot.

``We will put together a search party for Vinya.'' The beta said. ``She went after Ian, who went missing this morning, but she did not return yet, and neither did any of the others of her search party. Khara will lead the search party and he asked all betas to participate, while you take the command here and make sure none of the other pups go missing.''

Niera growled a bit. All the betas were on the search party, but she had to babysit? Then again, she was sure that the reason for that was, that Niera had proven herself to be very good at keeping the pups in check. She had been trained a lot by the constant tries of Abu to escape and her son was the biggest troublemaker under them.

``Okay.'' She said after a while of silence, following her son with her eyes, who noticed his mother's gaze and instead of following the direction he took before, he turned around and pounced on Pietro, who followed him and soon the pups were in a playfight with each other.

Pinya left and she saw her joining a group of wolves who silently rushed down the path towards the exit of the pack habitat.

Niera was a bit worries about Vinya. It was not usual for her to overstay a leave without any message, and it was weird that she did not even send any of her search party back. Sure, she most likely had taken a few capable trackers of the lower ranks, but even if they were no betas, Niera knew that a few of the lower ranking wolves were nearly as capable in hunting and fighting than the betas.

A lot of adult wolves came up to the big plateau and placed themselves around the edges, blocking all paths. Niera was sure, that Pinya told them to support her. It was good to make sure no additional pups would go lost.

Most of the wolves were females, but a few males were mixed in as well. A bit further down, on a smaller plateau, Niera saw the playfights of the younger wolves, who stayed behind and trained their fighting power to someday challenge one of the betas for their rank.

There were, after all, only two ways to become a beta. One way was, if an alpha candidate finished alpha training, just like she did, and the second was to defeat a beta in a fight for the ranks and take the place of this beta. This was the reason, why many capable fighters were not betas and the ranks changed sometimes.

Usually, only alpha and beta females got pups and only the alpha and beta males could breed with them, which was why these ranks were that popular. Even Niera had to fend off a few challengers, because even if she finished alpha training, she could still lose her rank to a challenger.

Saliza barely defended her rank at the start of the winter. The only rank, that was not chosen by a fight, was that of the alpha female. This was always chosen by the alpha, but only from the ranks of the betas and it was a rule, that everyone knew, that alphas only chose a beta that completed the alpha training as their alpha female.

An alpha male was barely challenged, at least not in the Western Pack. The most prominent reason for that was, that the alpha was respected by the whole pack. The only fights for the right to be the alpha would come, if the old alpha stepped down because they felt ill or if they died.

Niera heard stories, that in the past there had been some rogue wolves coming from outside the valley, or from one of the other packs, who challenged the alpha, but Khara fend of multiple of them before Niera joined the pack and since she joined, no foreign wolf came here.

The pups under her got nervous. The tension from the adults was noticeable strongly and it made the pups feel just as tense, even more, because they did not know what was going on.

That so many adults guarded them was also very unusual and Niera did her best to not show her own worries and looked down at the playing cubs with a forced smile and a warm gaze to not make the atmosphere even worse. She was the highest-ranking wolf here at this moment and the thought of having the sole responsibility for all these wolves below, made her even more nervous than the other adults.

She tried her best to not show any of this and while she listened to the fast beating of her heart, she observed the nervous games of the pups and the silent watch of the other adults.

It was creepy, that most of the talking between them died down and they just watched the kids without the usual chatter, but she knew why the adults were silent. It was the same reason that she had her ears perked up and waiting.

They all wanted to make sure to not miss a single sign of either the search party, or of the guards, that were at the entrances of the sleeping grounds to make sure no enemy would enter at these vulnerable times.

Niera understood, that if now of all times some other wolf or another predator entered their sleeping grounds, she would have the responsibility to lead the attack to defend their pups and pack.

Her tail nervously swished back and forth, but over time, her heart slowly calmed down with lack of any warning howl or other noise from the borders of their pack ground, that she could barely see from her location.

The return of Pinya and the other beta females was a shock not only to Niera but to the whole pack. Niera saw a small group returning and a short howl of the guards told her, that they were allies. But the howl had sounded painful and ended as fast as it started.

Niera rushed towards the returning group and the moment she met them, shortly before they reached the big plateau, she froze in her steps. On the back of Pinya was Vinya, the alpha female and Mirya had a pup in her muzzle, which Niera identified as Ian.

The deep wounds and the dried blood, in addition to a missing leg for the cub, showed clearly, that they were dead.

Niera stumbled and nearly hit the ground but in the last second, she fortified her mind and stood strong. She was the one in charge now and she could not show weakness or terror.

She could not move a muscle, but she also avoided from showing any weakness and causing chaos in the wolves around her that looked just as stunned towards their leading female body, that now was softly let drop down in front of Niera.

With a shaking voice, Pinya explained what happened. All the females looked exhausted and Pinya and Saliza had scratches at their hind legs. They were not deep or life threatening, but Niera could see that they hurt, and blood was still tickling out of them.

The report took a while and all, even the cubs, were silent and listened to the shaking voice of Pinya.

The group under Khara tracked down the scent of Vinya and finally found her at a river. A bear somehow had made it into the valley and around Vinya were the dead bodies of her search group. Five wolves, including the alpha, were dead in under Vinya was the dead body of Ian and another pup that traveled with him.

Khara fought with the power of anger and together with the betas, he drove off the bear. In the explanation from Pinya, the bear had been massive.

A lone long howl got to their ears over the silence when Pinya made a pause. Everyone knew this howl. Everyone knew what it meant.

It was the howl of their Alpha, but it was not directed towards them. It was the call for the other alphas. And a call for arms for a threat. Niera never had heard it before and even, so she felt the tension in the howl.

She imagined hearing the anger and sadness in the howl, but a few seconds later she was sure that it was her own anger and sadness, that made the howl sound like that.

Without thinking, she put her nose into the wind and started a very low, mourning howl. At first it was just her soft and calm voice.

Her voice did not shake, but it had all the sadness, that she felt over the loss of Vinya, in it.

In this moment, Niera understood how much the she-wolf had meant to her. She had been a mentor, a friend and a second mother for her. Stern, but caring. Powerful but sensitive.

Her voice echoed from the rocks around her and a few seconds later, Pinya also pushed her head into the neck and joined in.

More and more of the wolves joined in with a soft, calm melody.

Each single howl was silent, more silent than ever before, but together they grew into a buzzing noise, like a swarm of bees, traveling over the valley and joining with the angry howl of Khara.

Even the pups imitated their mothers and joined into the howl. Niera could see from the corner of her eye that the other pups of Vinya stood a few steps away from her and with tears in their eyes joined into the last respectful goodbye to their mother.

The sun slowly vanished behind the edges of the mountains, but they still howled for a while, until the darkness sank around them, and the stars started to show their beautiful glimmer.

Niera picked the alpha female up and brought it to the alpha den. They placed her inside and the pup next to her.

Niera did not have to say anything. All the other wolves followed her. The pups of Vinya were directly behind her and her own pups as well.

``Take all pups with you to the beta den and care for them. Get a few of the lower ranking she-wolves to help you.'' She told Pinya.

``Saliza, Mirya and Nena, get the stronger wolves and secure the entrances to our sleeping grounds. If anyone approaches, howl and I will come.''

The beta females nodded and while Pinya, with the help of a few other females, made sure to bring all pups to the beta den, Niera lay down around the mourning pups of Vinya, who lay in the middle of the den, crying and whimpering.

``I will stay with you tonight.'' She reassured them and licked over the faces of the little ones. The older pups of Khara and Vinya lay down next to her and snuggled against the older she-wolf.

She heard the other wolves leaving the den, just two females staying in front of the den to be three in case Niera had to leave.

Her ears faced the entrance of the den and listened to each noise from the outside. She heard the howl of a big group of wolves. She knew that this was the call for war, but they were not fighting against each other. It was the hunting party, compromised only from the alpha and beta males of each pack, to hunt the bear.

Niera was sure, that the alpha and beta females were protecting their sleeping grounds just as Niera just ordered. In times of crisis, it was the job of the males to fight the intruders and the job if the females were to protect the pack and, most importantly, the pups.

She heard the calls of different hunting parties from the different directions of the valley. They circled to find the bear and around midnight, she heard a long howl that signaled that one group found him and that they called the others in for the attack.

The growls and howls mixed with the roars of the bear were audible for over an hour, until it finally stopped. The pups between Niera's legs cried themselves into sleep, but the older pups looked frightened to the entrance of the den with each roar and howl. When the noises finally piped down, that looked with big eyes into the night, just like Niera.

The silence did not tell them the outcome of the fight. Niera was sure that a hunting party of wolves from all packs could never lose, because of the high number, but she felt her heartbeat strongly, waiting for any indicator for the outcome.

She took a deep breath when she heard a strong howl. It was clearly Khara and shortly after the howls of the other wolves joined in. It was the triumphant howl of victory and she heard some of the wolves outside in the sleeping ground replying to the howl.

There were more howls from all edges of the valley.

Niera sighed. It seemed that the danger that they had been in was over now and at least Khara, she recognized his howl, was alive. She hoped that all the others were also alive and healthy.

``You can sleep now.'' She whispered to the older pups next to her, that also looked quite relieved. ``I am sure your father will come home soon.''

Niera did not close her eyes but kept her ears faced to the outside while she watched over the pups, who soon all slept tightly snuggled up to her.

Her duty was not over yet. She had to react to any possible warning the guards would utter and get out of the den to protect the pack, if another threat would arise, but the night stayed silent, until the morning dawned with the first red rays of sunlight that directly fell into the den.

The return of the beta males and Khara was silent. Only a low howl greeted the warriors back to their home.

Niera waited in front of the alpha den and joined Khara, Bahg and Chael to go inside, where the yearlings and the smaller cubs waited, snuggled together.

Niera left the family alone to mourn for Vinya and left the den to organize the pack together with Pinya and the other alpha females.

They also got shortly briefed by one of the other betas how the hunt for the bear went.

Luckily, all of them made it back, but they reported, that two betas of other packs had been seriously wounded in the fight with the bear. None of them, not even Khara, had come off unscarred. The bear had been massive, by the report of the beta, and it had been a fierce warrior.

They had fought nearly the whole night, chased the bear, surrounded him, attacked him, and then chased again, until they finally brought him down.

The exhausted groups of wolves split up again when the morning dawned and returned to their packs to mourn their deaths.

The days that followed were very silent and it was mostly Niera who led the pack now. She took the task without asking, making sure that Khara had the time to mourn for his wife and take care of his pups. She sent one of the beta females to him every day to make sure he ate something and that the pups were alright. Even though Vinya had been quite old, it came as a shock for Khara, that she died, and the pack understood that he took his time to take his last goodbye.

Under Niera the pack slowly got back to the daily life, even though a curtain of sadness hang upon them all. The hunt and the daily work they had to do was much more silent than before and there was very little joy.

Even the beta-males did not visit the beta females' den to have some fun and lose some of their energy. The energy they had in the past seemed to have been spent with the fight against the bear and Niera made sure to give them time to recover, while she got a few lower ranks to join in the hunts to keep the pack well fed.

But the days of sorrow went by and at one day, Khara appeared in front of his den again, his eyes focused and warm again, like they knew him. His howl echoed between the rocks when he greeted the pack and the response sounded much happier than they felt the last days.

With the recovery of their alpha, and the healing of the last wounds of the bear, happiness slowly got back into the pack and the live began to normalize again.

But Niera still was busy these days, because even if Khara was back, she continued to organize everything and continue with the responsibilities he left her with.

It was no surprise to anyone in the pack, when a few weeks later, Khara announced, that Niera would change to the alpha den and be his next alpha female.

Everyone had been expecting this and even though Niera had worked for two years towards the goal of becoming an alpha, her heart was heavy from the thought that she only got there because Vinya died.

She had loved the old alpha like a mother, and it took her a few more weeks to get used to lay next to Khara in the cave, with the smaller pups of Vinya and her own cuddling against her altogether and watching over the yearlings of herself and Vinya.

The kids always had loved her, so they transitioned to the new situation much faster than the older wolf.

They had brought the body of Vinya and her dead pup to the waterfall and let it drop down with their last howl. This was a tradition for saying goodbye to members of the pack.

Now there was only a faint scent of the she-wolf left in the den and Niera's scent started to cover it more and more.

Niera still felt insecure in the new position. She sure loved Khara, and she found comfort in cuddling against the big wolf and taking in the scent of his fur, but other than the job as the leading beta, that she had known for a while, being the alpha was very new for her.

She was not sure if she could fill the role, even though she found it much like what she had done since Vinya died. She just felt the responsibility and the tension of everyone relying on her and comparing herself with her second mother as a heavy load.

The beta females supported her as much as they could and she visited the beta den every day to play with the pups, that she cared for in the last months together with her fellow beta females.

She even brought her own pups and Vinya's pups there to join in and with the laughing of the playing pups and the many wolves that asked her for decisions or opinion, she soon found herself losing the sadness in her heart and growing more accustomed to the role as an alpha female by each day.

Despite her size, that still was quite small, she was respected by anyone in the pack, and they trusted her calls and commands as much as they did trust Khara's and after a few months, it felt normal for everyone that the old wolf and the young she-wolf led them, and she became the center of the pack.


Chapter 9: Circle of Life

Niera lay in the cold den, shielding the four little pups that cuddled against her chest. The last week had been very hard for the family but they slowly got used to the missing spot next to Niera.

Two years had passed since she became the alpha and the four bundles of fur between her legs were the second litter since then. All of them were Khara's kids, a last reminder for the great alpha.

Tanya, Minka, Hanyo and Ponyo had taken some time to understand, that their father would not come back.

The previous week, the old wolf had passed away from his old age and left Niera with their cubs.

Behind her, cuddled up against her back, were Maja, Illu and Malka, the three cubs of her first litter with the big alpha wolf. They slowly got over the sadness and helped their mother to care for their younger siblings.

Niera looked at the little pups in front of her belly and a silent tear rolled out of her eye. She still was mourning for Khara and took much longer than her pups.

One of the reasons for this was surely, that she only was able to mourn at night, when her pups slept, and she was alone with her thoughts about her former husband.

During the day, she was too busy to think about it and she had to hide her emotions to lead the pack. She was the one wolf, everyone looked at right now.

She had many wolves coming to her to bring their condolence and share warm words. They all lost a strong and loved alpha.

Through the entrance of the den, she could hear the distant growling of the male wolves. It started the day before, that the beta wolves began to fight for the succession of Khara.

While the alpha male chose his alpha female, the succession of the alpha male role was decided by fights between all candidates. All betas and even a few of the lower ranks threw themselves into the election and throughout the day, fights started every few hours and then took for a while until it calmed down again.

Surely, the males were eager to proof themselves to be worthy of leading the pack and be the respected head of the family, but this was only one of the reasons for the high interest of nearly all male wolves in the pack.

Everyone knew that the price of becoming the alpha was, that they were able to choose their alpha female and it was also clear, that whoever would win, would win Niera.

She was by far the one female that was respected the most by the pack and there was no doubt for anyone, that whoever would win the alpha race, would also win Niera. She was the most wanted female and those, who had the luck of making out with her during her beta days, were bragging about the past and their encounters and threw all their power into the fights to get the price.

The growling faded away and the night began to get silent. Niera tried to hear any sign of who the contestants had been and who won, but the only thing she heard, before falling asleep, was the cry of an owl.

The next day was as busy as the previous ones. Niera spend the morning with her pups, until Nena came to take the kids to the beta den and watch over them, while Niera started her round through the pack grounds.

She saw Shawn with a scratch at his flank and humping a bit and stopped.

``Are you okay?'' she asked in a silent voice, to not make this more embarrassing for the beta. The wolf winced shortly and then grinned.

``Yea.'' He said. He looked a bit down, but that she cared for his wellbeing seemed to have cheered him up a bit. ``I was no match for Chael, but I did not want to give up, until I got this. I should have stopped when I noticed the difference between us.''

Niera nudged his head with hers and licked over the fresh wound.

``You always have been more brave than clever.'' She joked and the wolf had to laugh by this remark.

Niera felt how he relaxed a bit, and a warm and comfortable growl entered his throat.

``You can always count on me, when you need a brave wolf.'' He joked and the few wolves around them laughed with them.

Niera checked on everyone in the pack. The females, the males, and the pups. She made sure, that everyone was okay, before she gave Pinya the command until she would return and headed out with the hunting party to catch the daily food.

She left Shawn to help the female beta leader, which Pinya became again after Niera became alpha, because he was not fit enough for the hunt, but she took all other alpha males with her.

The hunt was fast and successful. They brought back enough food for the pack when the sun was not even at the zenith.

She had enough time to have some talks with the beta males to get updated on the rankings for the alpha succession.

``The fight yesterday was something to be seen.'' Mentioned Argento. ``It was clear that Chael would win, but Shawn just did not want to give up. He really had Chael fight for the win.''

Niera smiled and looked to Chael. He surely looked a bit more exhausted today, but he held his head high and pushed out his chest to show his full size and bulkiness.

Chael sure was the biggest of all alpha wolves. He looked very similar to Khara, just that he was even bigger than the old alpha had been, and that his snout was white.

``Who is still in?'' asked Niera to keep the conversation running.

``Me, Argento, Chael, Bahg, and Tito of the Beta's.'' Malte responded from her other side. Behind them, Bahg and Tito were carrying the two deer that they caught.

Tito was the youngest of the beta males and just recently rose to the rank.

``And in addition, Sanyo and Olek'' Niera remembered the two strong black wolves. They were only gamma and with being very old already, they were past their prime, but if anyone was close to being beta, it was these two.

``So, all the beta's except of Shawn are still in?'' she asked and turned her head to Malte.

``Yes, but only because the beta's have so far avoided to clash with each other, before Shawn took the initiative yesterday.'' Responded the brown wolf. ``We agreed to let those, who fought, rest for a day before anyone challenges them. But I think that I will show Argento who is boss tonight.'' He boasted and both wolves to her sides started laughing.

``Just try!'' Argento taunted him. ``If you want to be the second beta to leave the race.''

The males continued to play fight with words and Niera had to giggle when she noticed that they tried to impress her by clashing with each other.

``I am sure, that the fight will be great.'' She mentioned. She knew that she would not be able to watch it. She had to watch over her pups and there were surely a lot of requests for her decision again this evening.

``I will tell you all about my win.'' Boasted Argento and Malte countered. ``Too bad, that you will lose!''

When they put down one of the deer at the food deposit and went to the beta den with the other one, she looked around to check the faces of the wolves they passed.

The shock and mourning of the pack seemed to have vanished and they smiled again and lowered their head in respect when she passed them.

She knew that the excitement of the fights for the alpha position made everyone forget about the sadness. This was another thing that was different for the death of an alpha male and the death of an alpha female.

The fights for the succession also functioned as entertainment for the other wolves and because it happened so rarely, that a new alpha male was selected, everyone showed big interest and even the younger wolves and older pups looked in awe when the adult males clashed and fought over dominance.

The fights usually took long and were more of an endurance match. Injuries, like the one of Shawn, happened, but they were rather rare, because injuries were bad for the pack.

Niera only saw one of the fights from afar yet and it looked like the males were dancing around each other, jumping, and sliding or just standing in front of each other, staring at each other and baring their teeth.

They were games of intimidation and stamina. Whoever got tired first or showed an opening would be jumped. At this point, the weaker opponent usually gave up and accepted the loss. Cases like with Shawn, where the weaker wolf fought until they got injured, were not the rule.

Niera understood, from the explanation of Malte and Argento, that the males had put up some rules to ensure, that they were fit enough for the hunts and that the fights were fair. This also showed her that, even though everyone seemed eager to win the alpha spot, they were in no rush.

She felt a nice warm shiver running down her spine, because this meant, that everyone trusted her so much, that they risked having no alpha male for a few more days and leaving the leading of the pack to her.

It took a few more days, until the fights finally were over. Niera watched the last fight, which was a brotherly duel between Chael and Bahg.

Niera knew both very well. She had trained together with the brothers and knew all their strength and weaknesses just as well as they knew each other.

In the end, it was Chael, who won, after a fight of over an hour that brought both wolves to the brink of exhaustion. Bahg finally had to give in, with shaky legs and a heavy breath. But even Chael was breathing hard and looked tired, but proud to have come out on top.

The howling and cheering, that celebrated the win of Chael, stopped, when Niera got up and run onto the plateau, which was surrounded by the whole pack, including all the pups.

She first went to Bahg and gave him a playful and encouraging nudge at the shoulder, before she continued her way to Chael, who stood there, with his neck straightened up to hold his head as high as possible, looking towards the nearing Niera.

All wolves were silent and the only thing, that was audible, was the heavy huffs of the two males, that slowly calmed down.

Niera nudged first the shoulder, then the chest and the flank of Chael. She circled him and took in his scent, which she knew all too good already, and ran her body against his. She allowed him to take in her scent as well and he lowered his head to sniff at her.

When she returned to his head, she nudged his head and licked over his cheek and nose before their noses met in a short nudge.

``Long live Chael, our new alpha!'' She all wolves started to throw their head in the neck and howl to celebrate the new alpha of their pack.

Chael stepped next to Niera and pushed his big body against her small one. She looked nearly half as big as the male, now that they stood next to each other, and he bent down his head to lick her muzzle.

Niera felt, how his legs trembled from the exhaustion and understood, that part of him pushing so hard against her was, to keep standing and not showing any weakness.

She had accepted him as the new alpha already and this mean, that at least for the moment, she was his alpha female, until he would select another one, if he did not want to keep her.

And as the alpha female, it was her job to support him and make sure, that he looked his strongest.

She supported his big body with her small frame. Luckily, despite her small built, she was the strongest female in the pack and therefore it was no problem for her to hold his weight until the trembling of his legs stopped.

They stood there, listening to the howl of all other wolves in the pack. Even the pups joined in with their tiny and cute voiced.

When Chael calmed down enough and his breath was not going so heavy anymore, they looked at each other for a short while and then lifted their head in unison.

They joined into the night howl of the pack and their strong voiced climbed to the top of the voiced and echoed through the valley.

After minutes of constant howling, the whole gathering calmed down again and every wolf came by the couple, that now stood in the middle of the plateau like statues, to show their respect to the new alpha male.

One of the last ones was Pinya and she had the pups of Niera in tow.

``Does brother Chael live with us now?'' asked Illu, one of the two years old pups of Niera and she nodded. ``Yes dear, he will live with us now. He is now the new alpha.''

Niera knew, that the pups would not see Chael as their father, because they only had known him as their half-brother. But she also knew that the pups loved him and that there would surely no problem with him joining them in the alpha den.

``I kind of knew it would be you.'' Said Pinya and Niera started to giggle, which Pinya joined in right after. ``Listen Chael. Make sure to learn from Niera what you must do and be up to task quickly. She had been doing all the work for weeks now and needs some rest. You need to make sure, that she does not overdo it.''

Chael smiled at Pinya and threw his chest out again. ``You can count on me. You will be proud of me as your alpha.''

The beta female giggled again and turned around to join the other beta females, that went around to collect their pups and bring them to the beta den.

``Who would have thought that we would end up here, after all this training, right?'' Niera whispered, when they slowly went up the hill, passing all the wolves that made way for them and bowed their head to the alpha couple.

``This has always been my goal since the first day I saw you.'' Chael whispered back and Niera felt her blood rush into her head. ``I always loved you and I will never give you away.'' He licked her muzzle and rubbed his body against her, while they slowly advanced towards their den.

The pups bounded off, when they saw the den's entrance and the two adult wolves slowly followed.

``I would love to claim you right here, right now!'' Chael said with a smirk and Niera licked his muzzle and then nudged him into the throat. ``Stupid!'' she laughed. ``You are exhausted, it is time to sleep, and we've got 7 pups to watch.

Chael looked a bit disappointed, as if he were robbed off his price for the win, but then showed her a hesitant smile.

``As you say!'' he replied. ``But better be ready, when we are rested.'' Niera smirked. In the last year, with the energy of Khara getting weaker from age, the old alpha did not mate much with her, but she was sure, that Chael would be totally different and that she had some exciting days in front of her.

Niera groaned softly when Chael pushed hard to pop his knot through her folds, until it was being sucked in by the moist insides of her tunnel and held deep within her by the lock of her lips. When she felt the big organ inside her throb and the balls, that snuggled up with her drenched pussy, contract, she moaned together with her new alpha, who emptied spurt after spurt into her already filled womb.

They had left the pups with the beta females this morning and since then, Chael had been on top of Niera nonstop. The female was still adjusting to the sudden eager actions of the male. At the first few times, it had hurt a bit, because Chael not only was much bigger than Khara, but she also was not in heat and it had been a while, that she had mated outside her heat.

The last ride however had been pleasurable, after all his spunk, that he pumped into her, made her more slippery and helped him to glide into her more easily.

Nobody disturbed them the whole day, while Chael claimed Niera again and again, testing her endurance. The female still knew all the tricks to keep up with multiple males, and therefore, when the sky began to darken, Chael was exhausted and lay huffing next to Niera, while she licked his muzzle lovingly.

Chael had always been the one, beside Khala, she had loved the most of all males. She was happy, that he won and became the new alpha.

In the evening, Pinya brought the pups over, just after Niera and Chael had cleaned each other and were presentable again. The older female blinked an eye to Niera, and the girl giggled, while her pups cuddled up with her and started to tell her all about their day.

The rest of the week was hard work for Chael. Niera led him around the pack grounds and shared with him the responsibilities, that they had as alphas.

Only at night, when the pups slept, Chael found some time to take Niera once or twice, before they went to sleep to gain energy for the next day.

They split the work as an alpha between them and Niera made sure, that Chael looked great. Most of the wolves still came to her with questions or for decisions, but she encouraged Chael to give his opinion and slowly trained the wolves to rely on him just as much as they relied on her.

It was not, that they did not trust Chael or looked up to him as their alpha, but Niera had grown into the role in the last years and therefore it felt natural for the pack to come to her with every important decision.

The alpha female organized the day and how they split their works and made sure, that Chael got more exposure, by giving him the responsibilities of most hunts or the rounds through the pack grounds, while she took a bit more time to spend with her pups and the beta females.

Even though Chael was respected more and more as the leader, every wolf felt, who the stronger partner in the pair was and who was giving the final decisions in their relationship.

It was not only because Chael knew, that Niera beat him in all of the playfights they had, after their training, but also because Chael was so affectionate and enchanted from his new female, that he tried to make every wish of her true.

It took a month, until they grew together as an unbeatable team and even though some wolves still preferred Niera for some topics, it was the other way around as well and both were equally asked for advice by their fellow pack members.

Chael still was not giving up on daily fun with Niera, but because of their responsibilities, and because of the pups, they often just did it once or twice, after the pups went to sleep.

``The three from last year have grown quite strong already.'' Mentioned Chael, when he watched Maja, Illu and Malka play. ``Especially Maja clearly the daughter of you and dad.'' She nudged him and looked at the three older pups playfighting, while the younger pups already lay cuddled up at her stomach, after having their dinner.

Maja surely was the strongest of the three, but Malka was nearly as strong. Only Illu seemed to be a bit shyer and not so dominant.

``You want to tell me something with that, right?'' she asked with a warm smile. She knew Chael too good to have missed, that he did not just casually mention that.

``Well...'' he looked at her and caught her smile and could not help to smile back. ``I was thinking of sending Maja and Malka to alpha school, what do you say?''

Niera pondered a bit. ``I think that it is time, yes. What do you think about Hina and Haku?'' she asked. The 3 years old pups were the result of her own father claiming her in the year after she came to the pack.

``Well, they sure are strong, but you were not an alpha back then and they do not look like they are my fathers' pup, even though he vanished with you during this heat.''

``You are right.'' Niera whispered and blew some air into his ear. ``They are my fathers' pups.'' She continued and the look at Chael's face showed, that he was surprised and a bit shocked.

``What? How? Why?'' - ``Schhhh!'' she silenced him and looked at the little pups in front of her belly, that already had fallen asleep.

Niera told him about the deal, that Khara apparently had with her father and how her father had traded her for alpha school for a chance to get his own daughter.

``Your father is a sly old man.'' Chael chuckled. ``But I am thankful for him to send you to the training this year.'' He licked the cheeks and muzzle of Niera, and she pushed her nose into the fur at his throat and ran the upper side of her nose along his yaw. ``Me too.'' She breathed.

They cuddled for a few minutes, while the older pups continued their games.

``I think you are right.'' Chael finally said. ``Hina and Haku are already the strongest of the three years old pups and I am sure, Paqu will be delighted to even have two females in his alpha group.

``Paqu?'' asked Niera. Chael had been at his first alpha meeting this day and returned a short while ago, so he had no time to tell her about it yet.

``Oh, yes. Let me tell you about it.'' Chael replied and he told her about the meeting.

Her father still was the leader of the eastern pack, and the old father of Jeliso also was still ruling the southern pack, but just as Chael, Paqu also won the race for the alpha recently and took over the Northern pack. From the story of Chael, it seemed that he did not select an alpha female yet.

Apparently both the alpha male and female died together when they were saving some pups at the big waterfall in the north.

``So, you think he will pick one of my pups as his new alpha females?'' she asked and Chael grinned. ``I am sure. He specifically asked about you. I think he originally planned to ask me to send you over to him. But after I told him, that you are my alpha, he asked, if I don't want to send some of your pups to alpha school.''

``This sly dog!'' Niera chuckled. ``Well, I am not sure if they are ready for alpha school.'' She sighed and looked how Maja just beat her brother Malka in a fight.

``Were you ready?'' asked Chael and licked over her head and ears.

``You are right, I was not.'' Admitted Niera and closed her eyes to enjoy the loving touch of her alpha male.

``Okay, I think it is time. Hina and Haku have asked me a few times already if they could go to alpha school. After all, they are already 3. And even though I think it will be hard for Maja, I am sure, that she will manage. After all, she got her older sister with her.''

Niera put her head on her paws and Chael placed his head on hers. Both watched the pups play, until they stopped exhausted and joined them for the nights rest.

``I will tell them tomorrow.'' Niera whispered, while she felt the warm body of her older pups cuddle up with her back. Then she closed her eyes and fell asleep, with the scent of Chael all around her.

One week later, Niera watched her 4 pups leave with Chael. He would bring them to the lake in the middle of the valley, so that Paqu would take them to alpha school.

She had told them to train hard and not make a shame for her or the pack and then let them go, knowing, that she would probably not see her daughters again.

When Chael came back, she asked about every detail and heard, that one of her brothers would also join alpha school, as well as 3 wolves of the norther pack and two of the southern pack.

``Quite a lot more than in our class.'' Niera mentioned but Chael only nudged her and answered. ``But they are two girls this time. I am sure they will manage.''

Niera thought about her pups a lot while the winter came over the pack and they all worked hard to keep the bellies fed.

When her heat came, Chael surely claimed her new patch of litters and for the full week of her heat, they had organized for Pinya to take over the daily work, so that they were undisturbed for the full days.

At the end of her heat, Chael even invited the three years old Nenya, one of the pups of Niera and her father, into the den and Niera understood his intention the moment she smelled the heat of her daughter. But as an alpha, he had the right to mate with any female in the pack, especially when they were in heat, and therefore she did her best to make the first experience with mating of the young female as easy as possible and supported her by drawing the attention of Chael away, when she saw that her daughter needed a rest.

After the winter, Malka and Haku returned to the pack. They had surely grown stronger, and it did not take long until they had fought their way into the ranks of beta wolves.

Like the rule of the alpha training said, they did not talk about anything they did there regarding their sisters, but from the smile on their face and the way they checked out all the other females, Niera knew exactly, that that must have had a wild ride with their sisters.

A few years later, when Chael was holding the alpha trainings and came back, she encountered her granddaughter Layla for the first time. Apparently, Maja had had the same transformation that Niera herself had gone through in the past and right after the training, Paqu had made the young wolfess his alpha female.

And it seemed, that Paqu had a deal with Chael as well to send his first daughter to alpha school, which was why the proud alpha came back with a strong young wolfess, that looked very similar to Niera.

And so, the circles of life continued in the packs. Alphas died and were replaced, and new alphas were trained, keeping the packs in the valley strong and healthy for decades.

But even after Niera died of an old age, and her granddaughter Layla became the new alpha female and many after her, the pack still talked a lot about the small wolfess, that once had been their alpha. She had been one of the most loved and respected alphas the pack ever had, and many mothers gave their daughter the name ``Niera'' in respect to the legendary alpha.

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