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Hey I'm back! And with part 5! This part will be in Collin's view and we will learn his past. Based on the way of how these stories are being written i can guarantee that there will be at least 10 parts to this stories so it looks like i have alot of work and writting to do! Enjoy!

Two weeks have past since Talbain told me he was an exiled prince and wanted to start a rebellion against the current king and his brother. After the story i was fasinated by werewolf belief and traditions. Raoul, Talbain's older brother, decided he wanted his father to be eliminated from the throne and wanted Kregan, a old army general, to take his place.

According to Talbain, a werewolf can take in any member of the same pack as long as the parents are dead. Raoul wanted his middle aged father gone so Kregan a much older werewolf, appearently in his mid 60's to take the throne and hopefully die sooner of old age. I knew for a fact now that this Raoul character was an evil son of a bitch and must be defeated.

Kregan himself was an innocent fooled by Raoul. Using false documents and bribing guards to tell lies, he convinced Kregan that Talbain's father was paranoid and evil and was planning to kill many innocents to eliminate a assassination group bent on killing him. Then the trusted guards killed a few 'innocent' who were actually criminals untold to Kregan and convinced him that these were the first victims in a mass killing to come.

Talbain said he holds no grudge to Kregan for what he did. He was only doing what he believed was right at the time and fighting for the good of the people. The farmers that tried to take up arms after the takeover were put down and the casualties drastically lowered to show that what Kregan did was right. The list only showed about 30 werewolfs were killed during the takeover but the actual number was close to 300.

I think i will be proud to follow Talbain and his rebellion to take back his throne. He clearly is a better person then Raoul is and has even promised equal rights to the hunters who join us and will offer them a great amount of gold coins and large chunks of land to us. Talbain would be a fair and kind king.

As for now the days were quickly passing us by. My days were spent at school and at home training with Talbain on how to fight off werewolf's, while Talbain's were filled with even more training and spell research.

Another interesting thing about werewolfs is that anyone with a skill for magic is considered a useful tool and a mighty warrior. So even if you were born a beggar or poor, if you had magic you could then be treated and have all of the needs of royalty. Some kingdoms had more magic users then others and the Krisa kingdom was a bit low on them so Talbain was a great person to keep indeed.

He admits he wasn't the best with magic he could only cast a fireball at best because mastering magic was very hard for a werewolf. So in the past he only focused on weapons at the time. Now he believes that every skill he has will be needed for this coming battle and i don't blame him. Better to die from complete exhaustion rather then be captured by a werewolf, their tortures are legendary and horrible from accounts of werewolf hunters.

As if we don't torture our own.

Talbain started to respect my space and allowed me to were my muscle shirt when we were training hand to hand. He trusted me now and had a great respect for me and I respected him. The room he damaged was beyond repair so I gave the only guest room i had left for him. He toke it and promised he wouldn't do anything bad to the room. No offense to Talbain of course but i wouldn't count on it.

Talbain was a great 'person' to talk to he had many views on things and must of which i agreed with. I am truly starting to believe our friendship could be the first step to peace between our species. He gave me alot of info and layout of his kingdom and shared the secrets of werewolf fighting to me. He was really giving everything to me and i was happy to help him........but

He told me his past and a not to great one at that. He trusted me with his story and i haven't revealed mine......I think.....I think it's time I revealed my past too.

It was a Saturday night and Talbain was resting on the chair nearby the lite fireplace trying to control the flames. I approached him with a distant, sad, stare on my face. He noticed this too.

"Hello Collin.......is something wrong?" he said looking a bit concerned

".....Talbain.....you know i trust you right?"

"And i trust you Collin, but what's wrong?"

"You shared your past with me and.......i think......i should tell you mine" I was struggling with the words.

"Collin....I know it probably had to do with werewolfs and i know it must be-"

"Please......just listen" I said already close to tears

I sat on the couch beside him and looked at my hands rather then his face.

"You know i was born as a werewolf hunter and that my parents and my 3 brothers and sisters were also hunters and are dead now but not in the way you may think. I was the last born in the family which meant i was already at a complete disadvantage to the others. My family comes from a very tough and proud line of werewolf hunters and we have always taught our kids how to hunt and train to kill werewolfs and vampires. Then training would begin when we were just 5 years old. We would be trained to run fast and carry heavy objects that wasn't so tough for me I actually did quite well in it. Then at 8 we would learn to fight with knifes and guns, again i did a good job in learning it.......I had the usual signs of being a hunter but then............at 10 we are submitted to the physical torture of a hunter. My own parents.........my own parents locked my into the basement on chained me to the wall hardly giving me food for days at a time........my own parents........and my bothers and sisters just watched sometimes even laughing on how skinny i was and tormenting me by eating food in front of my eyes."

I was letting the tears flow from my face........it was just so painful i couldn't bear to look at Talbain, but i had to continue the story.

"Then when i would be tortured be my own parents........i would be whipped, stabbed, and burned......by my own parents who told me they loved me no matter what i did when i was an infant........They were killing me and saying horrible things like 'we should have never had you' and ' we want you to die' my mind was being slowly ripped apart by them. my feelings and emotions were betrayed and left to rot. I begged them to stop, i begged to just let me go. I didn't care at the time i just wanted to get out of here. I wanted to live a normal life and get a normal life......my parents had 5 kids all willing to become hunters.......why couldn't they have just one kid who wanted a normal life?......Why?..........The torture was only done to my back with whipped covered with metal spikes at the end and each blow destroying the inflicted area and cutting chunks of flesh with it. Then they would put the knifes in the fire until it glowed a bright orange and press it against my back and me.........whaling and screaming at the top of my lungs in agony.....i was crying like a baby.......my words stumbling and broken.......i begged for a quick death just to be finished off. They only laughed at my weakness and left me in complete darkness of the basement waiting for another day of torture.........sometimes it was just my parents who tortured me, sometimes just my brothers and sisters, but worse sometimes they all would be beating me in some way and finding even more horrible things to do to me and my wrecked back.......a whole year of that.......a whole year of my life gone.........but then a new test came.....

I finally worked up the strength to look at Talbain who was looking right at me with his forest green eyes and clearly felt horrible for me.

"They........they captured a young werewolf one day and brought him down to the basement to me. He was so young hardly any bigger then me and his eyes.........those eyes of fear i knew them.......i felt them...........After a year of torture i was finally let go of my chains and they handed my a revolver with a single bullet in it and ordered me to kill the werewolf.......i thought i wanted too....i thought i would be willing to do anything to end this torment.......but the werewolf.......he was so young, so innocent.......i looked right into his eyes i didn't see a monster i saw a terrified kid....a person who knew my fright and felt a fear you couldn't escape. When i refused to pull the trigger the knocked me unconscious and tied the wolf up outside.They called me a complete disgrace to life and hunters everywhere. Each week for a month they gave me the gun to kill the wolf and each time i refused. But one day i was given a single chicken wing to keep me alive for more torture. I spat out a chicken bone and with my weak hands and wrists picked the lock to my chains and went outside......I wanted to run for it. Even if no one would take me in it was much better then that hell. but then I saw the same werewolf tied to a tree and looked like he was hungry too......... I knew i wouldn't make it far but this werewolf still had a chance. When i approached him he cowered and whimpered thinking i was going to kill him but then i picked the lock with the same chicken bone i used for mine and released him from his chains. I saw he was confused and amazed that i freed him and with my broken words i said"

"Run.....get.......away......be.....free"

I never quite knew for sure but i thought i heard the wolf say

"I promise i will come back with help."

"I passed out there and when my parents found out i freed the werewolf they were furious. They put me into a closet and took shifts watching me to see if i would try to escape......they all held guns and were ready to kill me if i tried to run for it. They even told me they digged a grave outside for me with a tombstone and everything. 2 days past and the didn't feed me at all i thought i would strave to death but.....then......the front door burst open and werewolfs with shining armor and weapons drawn killed my entire family before my eyes and started searching the house for things."

I looked at Talbain again and saw he was comtemplating something but i didn't care for what. I didn't want to seem crazy but i smiled when i told him the rest.

"I was happy to see my family get cut to shreds, i was happy to hear them cry and moan like injured dogs on the ground. Every blow the werewolfs gave to my family i screamed inside saying 'yes yes!' I don't care you thought i was crazy for thinking that because they were crazy to do that to their son in the first place. I wanted to go out and hug one the werewolfs and say 'THANK YOU ,THANK YOU! YOU FREED ME! THOSE MONSTERS ARE DEAD AND ARE ROTTING IN HELL!' but i was sure they were here to kill everyone so i remained hidden and quite. They looked like they were searching for something but i saw only disappionted faces on them and a few shoke there heads to the other and left the house. I walked cautiously around the house and looked at my dead family.........I felt nothing for them.......they got what they deserved..........i took what remaining food and a handgun and ran outside. I saw from a distance the werewolfs set fire to my house destroying everything. It was like they were trying to make me like them and it worked.........i loved werewolf's since then. I made an internal vow that i would never harm an innocent werewolf since then."

I looked at Talbain how had a more distant look on his face as if thinking very hard about something.

"Then after over a year of hunger i ate my food and gained some weight. Then I saved a old women from a mugger and see let me stay in one of the hotel apartments see owned for free and i was happy for the first time in my life. But only when i was 13, I saw signs of vampires coming to Glendale and i was only person in town with vampire hunting training. I killed that pack quickly and found a large arsenal of weapons they kept and decided to protect the town even if i wanted to leave that life behind me. I made a commitment, i would only hunt vampires not werewolfs. Then when i was 14 a second group of vampires attacked a rich group of people and nearly killed them but i saved them and they gave me this very house we live in right now and they paid all the bills for me and promised to keep my living here and vampire existence a secret. I was happy to be gone of my parents but that didn't mean i wanted to always be alone so i guess that was the 'personal' reason i wanted you to stay here Talbain."

"That's my story Talbain and if you don't believe it, look at my back"

I turned around and pulled off my muscle shirt and i heard a sudden yelp from Talbain when my back was completely exposed. I did the same when i saw it too. It was completely discolored from the torture, it had many different streaks of different shadings of a light purple or weak blue. Then the whip marks were a dark purple and were scattered everywhere all over my back. Not a single part of it was undamaged and strangly enough it was still smooth despite the torture and it didn't hurt when i took a shower or anything, but then again i hardly felt anything with my back ever since. My back was truly damaged beyond repair.

"Talbain?" I asked waiting to hear what he had to say about all of this

"..........." Talbain was speechless and his eyes were in shock at everything.

"Talbain?"

"How long ago was this Collin?" he seem ernest to know.

"About 6 years ago when i was 11, why?"

"That werewolf kid you saved....." he said with a blank face but was shaking slightly

"Yea? what about him?"

"That werewolf was me."

Please let me know what you think and I will continue to write this story with many more suprises to come.