The Alpha and The Vigilante novel Chapter 4

They started off by running 10 miles, with me running ahead of all of them. 10 miles may seem like a lot, but it's not that bad with their werewolf stamina. Also, I didn't really care if it made them tired. Their enemies wouldn't care how tired they are in combat. And trust me when I say that everyone is tired in combat.

Then, they practiced hand to hand combat in human form. Each individual chose a partner, and they would fight each other until one submitted. Occasionally, the wolves would get too wound up and would have to be separated before they seriously could get hurt. However, I was not against people being hurt in training. Training was the best time to get hurt, because then they would learn from their mistakes. After they fought their partner, they would rotate and get a new partner to fight until they all had fought each other. I would step in occasionally to correct their form, or tell them why their opponent was able to best them.

After the fighting in human forms, they would each fight in their wolf forms. This tended to be way bloodier, and way more entertaining for me. When their wolves took control, there was almost certainly blood to be shed. It was harder to make their opponent submit, since it is not in a wolf's nature to submit to someone who isn't above them.

I preferred fighting in human form, partially due to my Gift, but also partially because fighting in wolf form was not always an option. Sometimes, wolves will get poisoned with wolfsbane, prohibiting them from shifting, and they need to know how to fight as a human in case if that were to ever happen to them.

After they fought in wolf-form, the ones that weren't too injured would be able to practice their weapon-wielding skills. Typically, only 10-15 wolves made it to this portion of the training day. However, this was many of the wolves favorite part of training lessons with me.

I am the master of wielding weapons due to my gift. I have been summoning knives, bows and arrows, swords, and many other weapons since I could walk. This has made me incredibly familiar and incredibly accurate with them.

Many of the wolves also enjoyed using weapons, and have gotten really good at using them due to my training. Typically, packs don't stress the importance of using weapons, as it is hard for them to obtain large quantities of them, and there is no guarantee that pack members would be good at using them. This gave us an edge.

Training ended after about 4 hours, and I went to the Pack House to eat lunch before I had another training session with wolves ages 5-10. Another thing that made our pack different was training pups to fight. However, the pups mostly only learned self defense and shifting mechanisms, and there was hardly ever any blood spilt during their trainings, which were significantly less intense than the 18+ or 11-13 or 14-17 trainings.

I enthusiastically accept the challenge, I mindlinked to both Alpha Wilson and John.

"John has also requested that the duel is in wolf form, rather than human form, as human form would give you an unfair advantage." Alpha Wilson stated, probably expecting me to argue.

I could beat John with one paw tied behind my back, like I cared which form it was in. I knew he thought him being in wolf form would give him the advantage, since his wolf was huge, and people from the pack rarely see me fight in wolf form. Little do they know, I stay in human form because my wolf has violent tendencies that completely surpass me in human form. The wolf part of me is much more violent, cruel, and uncontrollable; and I valued being in control above all else. This fight was sure to end gruesomely, when my wolf wants blood, she gets it.

John also likely requested to fight in wolf form because they we wouldn't be able to use our Gifts. If I was able to summon weapons, he knows I would bludgeon him to death. His Gift was only the ability to glow in the dark.