Rise Of The Black Ranger

Meanwhile, in the Everfree Castle, Shade sat on his throne many creatures had been entering and leaving throughout the day, many of them catching glances as a second figure sat beside him on the floor.

The figure was covered in a red latex outfit that had a fake dog muzzle as well as a fake tail whose limbs were also bound upward seeming to only let them move by crawling, besides that there were also two bowls next to the throne, one that had food in it and the other having water.

Shade’s hand was constantly reaching down rubbing the bound figures head every once in a while scratching the side of one of the ears causing them to nuzzle into his hand with what looked like satisfaction, “I was not expecting you to enjoy this as much as you are,” Shade states as he listens into the bound figures mind, a method they had agreed on.

“What can I say I tend to defy expectations” he heard from the bound figure

“Even the fact that you are being treated like a dog for all aspects… I thought dealing with your urges would have embarrassed you more than it had, that and being led around with your tail raised and private parts on show constantly,” Shade responded, as his hand moved down her body rubbing against her chest.

Her body jolted a noise coming from her as the muzzle made said noise sound like a dog bark with the other parts of her body shaky, “G-guess I just have thick skin then”.

Shade didn’t respond as his hand moved away again as he placed his hands on the throne’s armrests, “Still how are you enjoying the fifth day of this Nadine?”

“Honestly it’s been getting more and more enjoyable with each day but I think today may have been my favourite” she replied as she crawled in front of him laying her head on his lap.

“And why is that?”

“I don’t know, it's just how I feel, I don’t know how to explain it” He heard her reply rubbing her head against his legs, before feeling Shade’s hand rub her ears again.

A few moments later one of the doors could be heard slamming open as Shade looked to see that it was Pitch, “Alpha, we need help!” Shade heard the desperation in his voice.

“Slow down. Take a breath. Then speak,” Shade requested as he looked at Pitch.

Pitch doing what he was told took a deep breath, “Another pack attacked us they must have been scouting us out because they picked off our hunters the night before” Pitch spoke before taking a breath again “ T-the next day they came at us full force with some monsters and captured everyone no one was able to fight back I was the last one left if I stayed they would have got me too”.

Shade went silent for a moment taking a single slow breath, “Pitch… tell me where were Dillon, Ziggy and Axel?”

“Dillon decided to try and find the missing hunters and Ziggy went after him, and during the attack, Axel got overwhelmed by their numbers he didn’t stand a chance, and since I didn’t see Dillon or Ziggy in the cages with the other they were probably captured before the attack”.

“Do you know where they went to look for the hunters?” Shade asks gesturing for Nadine to move to the side.

“N-no I don’t” Pitch responded while Nadine did what she was told.

“It was a den not far from our own, on the border with our territory,” A new voice responded as a white-coated timberwolf appeared beside Shade rubbing up against his leg, “I know Dillon at least arrived there but I know the other one didn’t.”

“How do you know that and who are you?” Pitch asked confused.

“You are a foolish pup you know that,” the new wolf responded, “I’m Harmony, one of Shade's other Omega for the other pack he’s caring for. A pack who was supposed to help protect you but failed to act.”

Pitch just looked to Shade and harmony in confusion.

“I’m the new Omega until we get the others back,” Harmony explains, “I would recommend trying to recover the kidnapped hunters first and to take at least one capable wolf with you.”

“Who would we bring then?”

“I have a suggestion for someone in mind. I had him prepare himself to be deployed as soon as I realised what had happened,” Harmony responds gesturing to the wall as a hole opened before a figure walked out.

The figure in question was TW-BER78 as Pitch just looked at him with wide eyes, “I was told that I was needed for an operation?”.

“If you want to call it that,” Shade responds, “the main pack was attacked, and everyone bar this one was taken. We know that some of them were taken by another pack so I want to rescue them first. I would find it useful to at least have someone else beyond him with me.”

He nodded “Understood, when will we be leaving?” TW-BER78 then asked looking to Shade and waiting for an answer.

“Immediately,” Shade responds raising to his feet, before pausing to look at TW-BER78, “Say… Did we ever get your name?”

TW-BER78 only shook his head in response, “No I believe you became busy with other matters before you could, but… I do remember something faintly concerning a name”.

“Would you mind telling me so I don’t have to rely on what the cult called you?” Shade requested.

“It’s… Sol you can call me Sol” he replied.

“Okay then. Sol, will you come with me to rescue the others?” Shade asked.

“Of course Shade,” Sol said, nodding towards Shade.

“And Pitch,” Shade said now looking towards him.

“Y-yes alpha?” Pitch said, looking back towards Shade.

“You're coming with us,” Shade ordered, “And depending on how things go maybe you’ll get a reward.”

“U-understood” Pitch responded with a nod the fear from before still on his face for a moment before he took another breath.

“Depending on what happens… you may like it,” Shade responds before looking to Nadine, “And Nadine.”

She looked up towards Shade, “Yeah Shade?”

“You're not coming with me… but in case something does happen I would recommend going to my sister and getting that removed and redressed with actual clothing and armour. If you do well I’ll allow you to do this again as a treat. Maybe with some more improvements to the costume or accessories.”

Shade saw her eyes widen in response before he heard her say, “Got it!”.

“Good now get going,” Shade ordered rubbing Nadine's head again.

The woman nodded towards him as she crawled out of the room Shade turned his attention back to the others once she was gone.

“Now let's get moving, place your paws against me,” Shade ordered.
Doing what they were told they placed their paws against Shade before he ignited his horn and teleported them away back into the forest.

As the group reappeared they were at a large stretch of the forest with multiple footprints heading north of them but suddenly stopped but the area where said footprints stopped had a large imprint next to them, a body was there previously.

Pitch approached the imprint and began to smell it as he then recognized the scent, “Ziggy was here…”.

“If he was taken from here, he must have been close to where Dillon was,” Sol said looking over the footprints again.

“You got any other nearby scents we can follow?” Shade asked as he looked around carefully.

“All the other wolves nearby are all currently near their den,” Harmony calmly stated to Shade who kept Sol and Pitch linked to their conversation, “There's a lot of them as well.”

“Any idea on the exact number?” Sol asked.

“Not sure… it seems most of them are either kept inside the base… and have a lot of lives in one spot, guarding said spot or waiting outside,” Harmony responds, “In fact… I can sense at least a few of them are biologically close to you Pitch.”

“W-what?” He said with a stutter before realization showed on his face, “I was hoping I wouldn’t have to go back there, but I guess you have to confront your past at some point…”.

“You sure you are going to be okay?” Shade asks looking at Pitch.

“No I'm not, but I still have to do this I need to stop my monster of a father from hurting anyone else” Pitch replied before asking, “Would you be willing to help me?”.

“Oh trust me… If said father is the Alpha, and has done anything to our packmates… well let's just say he won’t be harming anyone else ever again.” Shade responded starting to walk forwards towards where the other pack's den is.

Sol and Pitch follow close behind him as the group walked towards the enemy den.

Once the group reached the den they saw some wolves waiting outside of said den guarding while some of the other members were faintly seen inside of the den the group was unable to discern their numbers.

“Yeah, this place definitely hasn’t changed,” Pitch said before looking to Shade, “What are we gonna do?”.

“You two are going to stay here for now… I’m going to negotiate with them,” Shade responds starting to step towards the den, transforming into his form comprising of a Timberwolf and Alicorn.

“Alpha with all due respect this pack isn’t one to negotiate, how are you going to get them to agree?” Pitch asked.

“Did I ever say I was going to talk,” Shade responded, “I was thinking more aggressive kind of negotiation?”

“Fair enough”

“Make sure they regret what they did Shade” he heard Sol say before walking out of the bush towards the den.

Once he did some of the wolves that were guarding the outside of the den noticed him immediately and growled at him, some of which he recognised and once they saw him just backed away from the wolves who continued to growl at him.

Shade however did not stop moving toward them, “I would recommend you get your Alpha out here right now for your safety… If you don’t you will not like the consequences.” He then looked at some of his hunters finding the ear with their marks having been bitten off, his voice already sounding angrier in tone by what he saw, “And my hunters behind you can attest to my warning.”

“We’d recommend listening to him you won’t like what happens if you don’t” One of the hunters spoke before she flinched from getting growled at.

“I’d stop threatening my pack if I was you,” Shade suggested, his eyes focused on the wolf who had growled at the hunter.

“Or what?” One of the wolves says before ordering two of them behind him, “You two take care of him” the two wolves immediately ran forward lunging toward Shade with a snarl

“Strike Two,” Shade calmly stated glaring at the wolves as their bodies instantly ignited black flames enveloping their forms as they fell to the ground the two letting out yelps of fear and pain as they attempted to put out the flames.
.As soon as Shade was standing over them he glared down at them before the flames stopped, but their bodies had changed their fur turning black with a visible red brand on their backs their heads being the only parts not changed, “Stay pups.”

The two wolves stayed in place their eyes looking up at him in fear as he heard the wolf from before say, “What the hell did you do!?”.

“Do you want a firsthand experience,” Shade warned, “If not bring out your Alpha now, or yours will be much more thorough.” As soon as he had finished he placed his hand on the nearest wolf's head as her entire body turned black as the wolf rubbed their head against Shade’s hand affectionately.

The wolf flinched in response as he looked at Shade after seeing him do that, fear slowly showing on his face as he stumbled back stuttering before he ran into the den, the hunters outside took the chance to run behind Shade.

“There you all go. Your safe now,” Shade calmly states as the wolf he had turned dragged the second one towards Shade's feet as he looked at the second wolf before after a few moments of waiting they then heard a pained yelp from inside the den as they saw the den’s alpha slowly walk out of the cave seeing blood near the corners of his muzzle.

“Who are you, why are you attacking us? ”

“I would ask the same to the tyrant who attacked my pack and kidnapped my hunters,” Shade responded coldly, as he completed the changes to the second wolf, getting the same reaction as the first from her.

“You're the alpha, I thought we already took care of him when we attacked the den?”.

“Well thank you for confirming my suspicions,” Shade responds with a glare at the wolf. “That makes this a lot easier.”

“What are you going to do we captured your entire pack. Your alone,” The alpha replied as some of the wolves that were inside the den stepped out coming up behind him.

“I suppose I’ll take yours as repayment first,” Shade calmly said looking at the wolves that had appeared, “Honestly you all don’t look like much of a threat to me. I’d hardly call you all a starter to be honest.”

The wolves who were behind the alpha just growled at Shade in response to him saying this as the alpha then pointed towards Shade, “Get him” they hear him say as they all charged towards him.

“Idiot,” Shade responded once again glaring at the approaching wolves as just like the first two their bodies ignited changing all but their heads before he stopped as they collapsed to the floor by Shade's feet, “Honestly it didn’t work last time, what made you think it would this time?”

Some of the wolves' voices were one of fear for their own lives, some of them saying that they didn’t have a choice, while the majority just yelled out in anger at what had just happened.

Shade ignored them walking past the downed wolves, “The rest of you… take a bite of them,” Shade ordered the freed members of his pack.

He then heard some of the wolves begin pleading out towards the freed members of his pack who slowly approached them, “You don't have to do this!” one of them plead but this plea fell on deaf ears some of the wolves still trying to stop them,

After a moment though Shade heard the sound of flesh tearing as he heard the wolves one after another let out yelps of pain.

“You want this to stop. Give me back the others and I’ll leave,” Shade states looking at the Alpha ahead of him.

In response, the alpha just frowned “I refuse” before he took out a familiar object from behind him, it was a morpher and it had a brown cartridge inside the slot in the centre, “Let’s get this over with already” Shade then heard him say before seeing him transform.

Once he finished transforming it showed what looked to be a brown ranger suit with the added feature of a fur coat around the neck of it and the gloves having a sharp set of claws, “I assume you know tradition right?”.

Shade simply smirked at him, “That I do… my question is what are you wanting me to place on the line?”

“You win, you get my pack and my loyalty, I won’t fight back against what happens, what are you willing to place on the line?”.

“Considering you already kidnapped my pack… Whatever you desire is on the table. So you pick your prize” Shade replies calmly without a hint of fear in his voice.

“If I win I get the wolves you took back and….you as my slave that seems fair enough?” he responded as the hunters looked towards Shade before backing up, giving them room.

Shade simply nodded at the hunters before looking to the Alpha, “I can agree to those terms, but no running away when things don’t go your way.”

“I won't, I may be a bastard but I keep my end of the bargain” The alpha replied as he and Shade walked over to a more open segment of the area so they could have room as the hunters just watched from nearby.

“I’m going to ask one last question before we begin. What have you done with my sons.” Shade asked his eyes still focused on the Alpha.

“Your talking about those hybrid runt’s right, well after I got the first one who found his way here I subdued him and gave him over to one of the monsters the second one was just found nearby by the monster and incapacitated by him”.
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Shade paused for a moment before saying, “Monsters from where?”

“The Cult of Shade. They told me if gave them over we would be rewarded”.

Shade did not respond for a moment, before looking at the Alpha, his voice no longer hiding his feeling, as his glare solely focused on the wolf ahead of him, “You are going to suffer for the rest of your life for this.”

“Guess that pissed you off huh?,” he said with a smirk before baring his claws toward Shade.

Shade did not respond as his belt formed on his waist and he held his Eyecon out, “You have no goddamn idea how much you have doomed yourself with what you have done,” Shade added before transforming.

As the Alpha ahead of him heard the words "Kaigan: Shade! Let's Go! Kakugo! Akuma-tekina Shade!" he looked directly at Shade's armour before seeing the icon on his chest the alpha tilted his head in confusion before saying, “Who are you, what's with that symbol and suit?”.

At first, Shade did not answer as his chains shot out striking the Alpha’s chest and sending spark flying from the suit, knocking him back slightly the alpha gasped out from the hit since he had no time to react at all, “W-what the hell”.

“My name… You want to really know. It’s Shade. I assume you can guess the rest,” Shade responded coldly as his chains continuously struck the Alpha with no mercy as sparks endlessly came from all parts of his suit.

He tried to counter or move away from the chains but each time he did he was just hit again and again with them he couldn’t do anything they were too fast and was then struck in the chest knocking him into the side of the den causing any of the wolves inside to feel it quake his suit disappearing. He was then yanked from the wall as he felt the chains tightly grab his limbs pulling them tight and spread outwards as he was carried towards Shade.

“Do you know who I am?” Shade asks still looking at the Alpha who didn’t say anything before feeling the chains giving a painful tug at his limbs causing him to let out a muffled groan of pain with Shade repeating the question, “Do you know who I am?”.

The chains were pulled again once the alpha didn’t reply again but this time a lot rougher as a loud snapping sound came from one of his legs getting a shout of pain from the alpha who gasped out, “Y-your Shade”.

“And what am I to you now pup,” Shade said as he grabbed his face and forced him to look at Shade.

He didn’t say for a moment before another sound snapping could be heard causing him to yell in pain as he gritted out “Your…my alpha” the pain lingered in his voice as he continued, “I-i follow you by tradition a-and I-i listen to you without question, ok I said it happy?”.

“Not by a long shot,” Shade replied coldly.

“What are you going to do now then?…”.

“Pitch! Sol! Over here now!” Shade shouted over to both wolves.

Doing what they were told walked out from the bushes and went towards Shade the two were quiet before Sol spoke to Shade “What do you need?”,

“Sol hold him in place,” Shade requested before reaching down behind Pitch’s head towards his collar.

“What are you doing?” Pitch asked confused while he felt Shade’s hand on his collar before the weight was suddenly released from it as he saw Shade raise the collar infront of his eyes.

“Please help restrain your father,” Shade requested, making it clear what he was about to do.

He nodded as he and Sol kept his father in place so he wouldn’t move away from Shade Pitch hearing him say, “So you decided to come back and help my downfall, huh, I'm surprised you didn’t stay away Pitch”.

“I wanted to be here to see your downfall father. And to see you get every bit of what you deserve” Pitch replied before going silent.

“You know your mother was turned into birthing cattle by the cult but they decided to give her back to me as a thank you for my constant supply of subjects,” the Alpha said with a smirk, “You should have seen her when I got her back. She definitely helped in raising our numbers.”

Pitch growled at him as he spoke before he bit down on the spot he was holding him down in retaliation causing him to let out a grunt of pain, “Little bastard…”.

The Alpha shook off the pain quickly as his grin appeared again, “You know with how she acts now she doesn’t have much of a mind left she just spreads her legs for us on command like the good little whore she is.”

The Alpha was quickly cut off before he could say more as his mouth was grabbed by Sol who just growled out, “You just like the sound of your voice huh?” before he looked to Shade prompting him to put on the collar before the Alpha could react.

“You can let him go now,” Shade responded as Pitch and Sol let him go, Pitch just glaring at his father before calming himself down.

“Now mutt. Sit,” Shade ordered glaring at the Alpha as he rubbed Pitch’s head.

The alpha immediately sat himself down in front of Shade, before he realized what he did, “What is this?”.

“Maybe your former son wants to explain this to you. After all, he wore it for a while and knows the effects well,” Shade states gesturing for Pitch to explain.

“That collar makes that no matter what you will follow any order given to you, you won’t have a choice in the matter and you won’t have any control” Pitch coldly said to his father who he then saw clawing at the collar before Shade shouted him, “Stop!” causing him to stop doing that action entirely.

“You can’t take it off either only he can” Pitch then added motioning towards Shade.

“And when we say any order… we mean any order and unless it is ordered to be cancelled you can’t stop it,” Shade adds, “For example… From now on you are not allowed to try and kill yourself to escape your punishment, and you must answer any question from any higher ranking member of my pack honestly without hesitation.”

“What!?” he shouted as once he raised his hand his arm stopped in place preventing him from moving it.

“He meant when he said any order” Pitch commented.

“The hell do you know runt!?”

“A lot actually because I had to wear that thing and let me tell ya its really effective” Pitch said before getting up in his father’s face, “Just because you had the pack with you doesn’t mean your strong, without them your just a scared pup trying to claw at some power that’s clearly out of your reach, your pathetic”.

“I think theirs more we can do to him,” Shade responded cancelling his transformation and turning into his pure timberwolf form, “Pitch… you take one ear… I’ll get the other. And you… sit up and don’t move a muscle.”

The alpha sat himself up and stiffened in place as Pitch and Shade went to the sides of his head as he realized what they were about to do, “N-no no don’t do this please!”.

“You lost any chance when you did all of this” Pitch said towards him as he opened his maw near his father's ear, and Shade did the same both their teeth making contact with his ears at the same moment.

He continued to try and plead to the both of them but that stopped once he felt them sink their teeth into his ear the two being very slow about ripping it off as Pitch and Shade slowly pulled their heads back from his head.

“N-no stop please!’ He begged before he felt both Shade and Pitch rip both his ears off in a quick motion the two then spitting them out to the ground.

“And done… for the first time,” Shade calmly said. “After all… we need to take an ear for each of my hunters you kidnapped.”

“W-what?” he whispered fear in his voice finally.

“Yeah, you thought we were done with you, no not yet” Pitch replied.

“P-please no” they heard him whimper out before Sol spoke up again, “Stop being a coward and take your punishment with some dignity it’s not like you’ll have any once this is over”.

Shade could only smirk as he rehealed the Alpha’s ears before blowing into them, getting a flinch from the alpha the fear showing in his eyes, “and after that, we will be repeating it equal to the amount of your own pack you’ve harmed… so it’ll take a few days of us doing this constantly to complete it I think.”

“D-days?” they heard him stutter out as he looked up to see all three of them smirking down at him.

“Although I have a life beyond you so there will be breaks between removing the ears… so it may take a few months to a year… if you're lucky.” Shade says before clicking his fingers, “Oh that reminds me. From this day forth any pain you feel with be felt tenfold.”

The alpha in response just looked down with a helpless look on his face as he sat in place not making noise before he heard Pitch ask him a question, “What happened to mom”.

“She passed not too long ago” he heard him reply as Shade saw Pitch shaking in place.

“Tell the truth mutt,” Shade ordered grabbing him by the throat.

“She's in the back of the den, most likely mid birth” they heard him choke out as Pitch looked to Shade, who dropped the Alpha back to the ground.

“You know Pitch what do you hope to accomplish with her she’s just a mindless slut who bends to my whim do you plan on taking her with you, do you think she’d even recognize you after all you did run away what makes you think she won’t despise you like Snow?,” He said to Pitch whose face dropped Shade seeing a look of pure hatred in his eyes the alpha letting out a laugh shouting “There he is, there’s the angry runt that was raised in this den!”.

“You really do like the sound of your own voice too much,” Shade responded before kicking him hard in the chest knocking the wind out of him, “If you must know I don’t take kindly to lowly creatures like you speaking of my pups that way.” Shade stopped again kicking him in the chest again, “And need I remind you mutt. I can do what I wish to you and you can’t fight back or complain. So… what to do to you now?”

He then heard Pitch speak, “Alpha can I do something to him? Afterward you can do whatever you want with him”.

“Depends what you want to do,” Shade responds his foot resting on the Alpha’s head forcing him to look at him with one of his eyes.

Pitch glanced at the alpha for a moment before replying, “I want to take one of his eyes”.

“Go right ahead,” Shade said without hesitation taking his foot off the wolf before saying, “I forbid you from moving from this spot or position.”

The alpha let out a growl when he saw Pitch walk up towards him the wolf spoke, “You won’t do it Pitch you were too scared back then what makes now any different?” Pitch not saying a word to him and extends one of his claws out and digging it into the alpha’s face and trailing it up towards his eye Pitch makes this moment agonizingly slow before swiping up slashing the alpha’s eye causing him to let out a scream of pain.

“Y-you damn runt!” The alpha said in pain blood seeping down from where his eye was before seeing the look in Pitch’s eyes again hearing him say, “Shut up you mutt…” before seeing him walk back next to Shade.

“You know maybe we should keep it like that,” Shade responded looking down at the Alpha. “Personally I think it’s an improvement.”

“Go to hell….” They heard him say as they still saw him shaking from the pain.

“Is that any way to speak to your alpha mutt?” Shade asked kneeling beside him. “I want a response from you now.”

“Screw you..” He spoke.

“So you're playing that game,” Shade replies with a shake of his head, “I order you to tell me your name now.”

“My name is Hex” He blankly replied any emotion in his voice gone.

“Good boy,” Shade replied in a demeaning tone before patting him on the head. “You can sit up now.”

Doing what he was told he sat himself up and looked down to the collar as the realization of the lack of control he had sunk in, Shade had all the control and he couldn’t do a thing about it.

“It looks like you finally understand,” Shade calmly said.

“It’s not fair…” Hex muttered.

“What did you say?” Shade asked looking back down at Hex.

“It’s not fair!” He heard him shout followed by him screaming, “This is not what we agreed, I never agreed to be your slave!”.

“So much for keeping your end of the bargain” Pitch commented with a sneer, “You really are a coward Hex”.

“Oh trust me. This isn’t turning you into my slave. Right now this is only a punishment,” Shade responded placing his hand over Hex’s missing eye before it healed, his new eye being red with the pupil being Shade’s mark. “There. Now we can all see who you serve.”

Hex looked confused as to what Shade was talking about before he saw Pitch looking at him with a smirk, “Honestly the new eye’s definitely an improvement too bad it’s attached to him”.

“What?” Hex said, confused.

“Do you want a look,” Shade asked as a mirror appeared in his hand and he held it up to Hex allowing him to see his new eye. “I personally think it’s a good start for now.”
“I can agree with that” They heard Sol comment as Hex just looked in silence.

Shade then turned a band on his arm as Valkyrie appeared at his side, “Valkyrie, please head back to the castle and tell everyone to push up the timetable. We are moving on the cult today. Get Twilight to send a message to Celestia as well.”

“Yes Lord Shade,” Valkyrie responded before flying away back towards the town.

“Now… I think you have someone to lead us to.” Shade responds as he heals Hex’s legs.

“Sorry I think after all that I forgot where I put her…” Hex replied.

“Have you not learnt a thing about your little gift,” Shade asked tapping the collar, “Do I need to spell everything out to you?”

Flinching he just looked down, “F-fine” he replied in a mumble as Shade had him stand up.

“And the rest of you from this pack. Who am I to you now?” Shade asked looking at the wolves whose ears the hunters had bitten off.

“Your…our alpha we follow you and only you…” One of them spoke in response while the others did the same.

“Good I want you all to tell the entire pack of what happened. If any don’t believe you tell them I will be publicly marking him as mine outside the den after I’m done dealing with other matters.” Shade ordered.

“U-understood,” another one of them said as they could then be seen walking into the den.

“How Hex. Lead the way,” Shade ordered, “Or I will make sure you do become an actual slave by the end of this.”

Hex was shoved forward by Sol as they followed behind him into the den the group followed close behind as they went all the way to the back of the den, the closer they were the more they began to hear the noises of someone straining, that someone's voice sounding familiar to Pitch who quickened his pace slightly until they came up to a small segment of the den that had a timberwolf with white and black fur.

“M-mom?” Pitch stuttered out in a mutter.

The Timberwolf almost seemed to not notice their presence as they saw a single small shiny body between her legs, with many others by her side. The wolf's eyes looked blank almost lifeless as she kept her legs wide her entire body on display for everyone to see.

Pitch looked at this as if he was about to cry before he looked away and Sol just looked in silence as the wolf blankly spoke towards them, “Spread for alpha?” as she attempted to make her body more easily accessible causing Sol to also look away.

“I told you she’d be like this” They heard Hex speak seeing him walk towards her with an almost lustful look in his eyes.

“Hex… I order you to sit and stay. You are forbidden from touching her.” Shade stated glaring at him.

The wolf immediately sat down staying in place as he heard a low growl come from both Pitch and Sol.

After a moment Shade then heard Pitch ask, “Can you help her?”.

A smile formed on his face, “I can… but it depends on what you want me to do… I can’t promise she’ll be completely fine with what I do.”

“As long as she isn’t like this anymore I accept what happens” Pitch replied.

“Even if your mother becomes mindlessly attracted to me and wants me to breed her as he did?” Shade asks, “I can’t be sure that I can completely stop her from being like that again. I don’t know how far the Cult pushed her mind before this point.”

“I've come to learn that you can’t always get what you want as long as she is free of him and can actually live a life that isn’t this, I accept what happens” Pitch admitted.

“Okay then,” Shade responded as he walked towards the timberwolf her blank eyes following him, as she said, “Breed?” with a tilt of her head

“No, I’m not here to do that. I came to talk. Can you understand me?”

She tilted her again giving him a look of confusion in response.

“Are you okay?” Shade asked as he stopped next to her body and knelt beside her.

“Yes,” He heard her say while she looked towards him but could tell that she didn’t know what she was saying.

“Okay. I’m going to try something to help you. It may feel strange,” Shade responded placing his paw on her forehead and closing his eyes.

As he reopened them he found himself in a faded room he looked around to see that the place looked to be in complete disarray, with what looked to be hundreds of cracks filling the area with collapsed doors filled with static or void of any kind of features as he heard what seemed to be lustful moans echoing around the area.

“Why do I feel this is a bad sign, to begin with?” Shade muttered to himself seeing an open door at the far end of the hall, with what looked to be two shadowy figures inside one on top of the other, the sounds Shade could hear making it obvious what was happening.

As he began to make his way down the hall towards the door as he heard two voices ringing out from the room ahead.

The first voice was that of Hex’s, while the second sounded almost like the female Timberwolves although it sounded much more lively than before.

“I hope you're ready for your next litter slut! Because I am,” He heard Hex’s voice shout while moans could be heard from the other wolf below him.

“Yes! Please fill this worthless slut up to fulfil her purpose. I exist only to serve you master Hex! I am your loyal plaything! I exist only to bear your pups for my entire life!” the wolf screamed out in pleasure.

“Damn right you do slut! Now take your reward!” Hex shouted as he saw the shadow thrust forwards locking in place.

“Thank you, master Hex! This slut is not worthy of the honour!” the female voice screamed back as Shade heard multiple smacking sounds being heard as he reached the door.

“Your right slut! Your not. But even then you….” Shade hear the voice of Hex shout before he entered the room the shadows being clear as he saw Hex atop a female wolf the colours matched that of the real-world version of the Pitch’s mother.

“Yeah… this is going,” Shade said to himself as he walked towards the two of them.

“How dare you interrupt me you insignificant creature if I-” Hex began to say turning still locked in place before Shade’s hand struck its body before it disappeared into a black mist fading away.

“That's that done now to fix…” Shade began to say before looking down at the female wolf to find that she had turned around glaring at Shade her teeth bared towards him. “This mess.”

“Who are you, what did you do!?” he heard her growl out towards him.

“I’m just an Alpha here to check on his newest mate,” Shade responded looking at her, “and I didn’t want that messing with your mind.”

She didn’t speak in response her eyes glancing around the area quickly before they glanced up Shade’s eyes followed her glace upwards seeing a small swinging metal cage above them.7

“Why am I getting a feeling you are not the one who is supposed to be in control of this mind,” Shade responded his eyes lowering to look at the wolf again.

The wolf in response just snarled at him and attempted to lunge toward him, only for Shade’s magic to pin her to the table they had been on, merging her legs into the table.

She just writhed on the table attempting to get free her snarls could be heard as Shade directed his attention back to the metal cage above them, “So mind telling me what's in the cage above us?”

She didn’t answer still attempting to get free and after a few moments she stopped moving, “Just someone that isn’t needed anymore…” she said with a growl towards him before immediately backtracking and saying the opposite attempting to have Shade not look up there.

“So it’s the real one of you then,” Shade responded flying up towards the cage.

As soon as he left the ground the bound wolf shouted towards him, “You won’t find anything up there!” she shouted still attempting to stop him, as sweat visibly dripped from her head.

“You reactions say otherwise,” Shade responded as he reaches eye level with the cage as found a bound wolf inside it. The wolf's body was covered entirely in a white suit hiding all of the wolf features, a small ball-shaped object in her jaws under the mask, while a loud buzzing noise was heard under the suit.

“Yeah I’m not standing for this,” Shade responded as the lock on the cage disappeared and the door opened Shade lifted the wolf out of the cage in his arms, as she squirmed in his grasp.

“Damn you!” He heard the other wolf shout toward him

“Nothing in the cage eh?” Shade responded as he landed in front of the wolf, “Your right there isn’t.” He then shifted the wolf his arms reaching to a lock keeping the mask over her head as it disappeared the mask fell to the ground revealing the wolf's face to Shade.

Her eyes were very hazy as if she hasn’t seen any light at all for a very long time and her mouth still had that ball-shaped object in it and any noise she made was muffled by it.

“I’m going to remove the gag now okay,” Shade responded reaching behind the wolf's head before unclipping the gag as it fell into Shade’s hand freeing the wolf's jaw. “How are you feeling?”

She let out a low cough, “I-i don’t know…” she replied Shade noticing she was trying not to make a noise.

“I’m going to try and get your limbs free okay, then we can get that thing out of you,” Shade states as he begins removing the locks from the suit each one hitting the floor as straps began to loosen around the wolf's body.

The other wolf just looked on in silence with a glare while the wolf that Shade was removing the locks from was twitching every few seconds.

“You’re doing very well. Just a bit longer okay,” Shade says in a calming tone as he rubs the wolf's head, as she just gave a faint nod while Shade continued to remove the locks until the last lock on her body fell to the floor, “Now I’m going to get this suit off you. Are you ready?”

He got another faint nod from her as she still attempted to stay quiet the buzzing still being heard.

The second the wold had nodded Shade began removing the suit from her body as slowly bit by bit it began to loosen from the wolf's body until the lower part of the suit fell away and the buzzing got louder as he saw multiple wires sticking out of her leading to a small object with a dial on it, the number 0 to 5 being visible on it as he dropped the dial to 0 and the buzzing ceased.

“T-thank you…” She said to Shade attempting to catch her breath after all that time from stopping herself from making noises.

“No problem. Take as long as you need to catch your breath okay,” Shade responded still rubbing the wolf's neck. “Once you're ready I’ll get that thing out of you.”

Nodding she then took a deep breath over and over before she quietly spoke, “I-I’m ready…” as she slightly braced herself, before Shade reached behind her reaching to where the wires were pulling whatever was inside the wolf out before a loud pop was heard followed by a loud moan that came from the wolf who couldn’t hold it in as the object inside her was removed, the object turned out to be a large phallic-shaped object that looked almost to large to have fit into the wolf.

As soon as it was out he placed the object onto the table he wrapped his arms around the wolf, her entire body now free of her bindings, “There we go. Everything is over now.”

He could hear her let out a slight gasp of air afterwards before hearing her breathing get back to normal after a few seconds of her catching her breath during this she attempted to say something she struggled at first but over time she was able to get what she wanted to say out, “T-thank you f-for helping me” as the look on her face indicated that she was tired.

“No problem. Do you have a name I can call you by?” Shade asks looking at the wolf as he rubbed her neck, letting her head rest against his arms.

“My name is…Juno,” She quietly replied her voice unable to go higher.

“Juno. I’m glad to meet you. I was asked to help you by your son. Pitch.” Shade responds as he rubs her neck again, “He’s been missing you for a very long time.”

“P-pitch he came back?” She said confused before immediately asking, “Is he ok?”.

“He is… and his father is no longer in control anymore… He lost in an Alpha’s challenge with another pack. He offered the entire pack and himself if he lost and he did. Spectacularly.” Shade explained.

“So everyone’s free from him?” Juno asked getting a nod from Shade. “After all that happened I didn’t think something good would happen I lost any hope of that a long time ago” she then said.

She then asked, “Who was the one who beat him and became the alpha?”.

“Your talking to him,” Shade responded with a smile, “I’m the Alpha who beat him.”

“What did you do with him afterwards?” He heard her ask.

“Let's just say we had a special object that makes him behave and do as he’s told without question… He’s suffering a fate worse than death for him from this day forth.” Shade responded before looking at the wolf on the table as he pointed to her. “But for now… what do you want me to do with that?”

It took Juno a moment to formulate her thoughts before saying “Get rid of her” the other wolf on the table writhing in place, “No!”.

“Or… how about she is treated just like you were instead?” Shade asked looking at the object he had removed from Juno’s body. “I can even set this thing even higher than it was for you.”

She didn’t say anything to him before looking at the same object and the other wolf as she said, “Go ahead” the other wolf’s eyes widened in response, “W-what?”.

“Okay then,” Shade replies placing Juno down and grabbing the object walking before the wolf on the table.

“Don’t even think about it you bastard” She shouted towards him trying to set herself free before she felt the object get pressed against her, “W-wait don’t-” She attempted to plead before feeling him shove it inside in one push causing her to let out a loud moan.

“And it’s in,” Shade responded with a smile before turning the dial from zero to two. “Let's start you low while we prepare the rest of you.”

Meanwhile, she just bit her lip while attempting to stifle her voice., As Shade began to cover the rest of her body in the outfit that had been on Juno before grabbing the gag and holding it infront of her face “Open wide.”

She attempted to move her head away from the gag but Shade stopped her by grabbing her head and forcefully putting it into her mouth, before tightly sealing it around her head before looking into her eyes, “You’re getting closer to your treat.”

The look in her eyes showed that she was confused by his statement before felt his hand move down her legs towards the dial before she heard the buzzing get louder causing her to let out a loud but muffled moan while she attempted to keep quiet but not faring as well as Juno, but before she could get used to it she heard Shade say something she was dreading, “Now to set it to the highest setting.”

He got muffled protests from her before he twisted the dial the wolf immediately moaned out as they were the only muffled noises she made with her eyes rolling back, as she felt the rest of the suit cover her body until only her head was free her limbs having been released for only a moment before being bound to her sides, as she saw the blindfold being held infront of her face.

“Now to seal you in and place you in your home before we lose the keys.” Shade states with a smile, “Hope you enjoy yourself.”

She let out muffles of protest as her eyes widened her vision being obscured slightly by the blindfold before it completely covered her eyes the only thing she saw was complete darkness Shade leaving her in the state that Juno was left in.

“What do you think Juno?” Shade asked placing the figure on the ground and allowing her to look at her, “Prod her if you like she can’t do anything to stop you.”

“I'm good just leaving her like that, what happens now?” He heard her ask.

“I’ll lock her in the cage just like she had you, then you can have your life back,” Shade responded placing the wolf in the cage and prodding her a few times as she squirmed in response before he locked the cage and destroyed the key.

Shade then landed back beside Juno, “Now… just a warning when you wake up you may see a lot of small pups around you. You had… a lot of them with that former Alpha.”

“Given how Hex is I'm not really surprised by that” Juno replied.

Shade then kissed her on the forehead before saying, “I’ll see you when you wake up.” getting a nod from her before Shade disappeared from her mind.

Once Shade's eyes reopen he finds himself back in the den as he removed his hands from Juno’s head taking a step back from her as she opened her eyes blinking a few times before she looked directly at Shade and the others before her eyes landed squarely on Pitch, “Pitch?”.

“H-hey mom,” he said towards her a sad smile on his face as he slowly walked towards her and nuzzled his head against her before she attempted to stand herself up the wolf almost fell to the ground but was stopped by Pitch who held her up while she got back onto her feet.

It took her a moment but she nodded to Pitch who moved away from her as she then looked to Shade and smiled, “I can’t thank you enough but I'll say as many times as I need, thank you so much”.

“It was my pleasure Juno,” Shade responded rubbing her head.

“What did you do!?” they heard Hex say who just looked at them in shock.

“He freed me Hex, I'm, not your toy anymore,” Juno said to him with a glare Hex was seemingly about to say something before noticing that Shade and the others were glaring at him making him keep his mouth shut.

“Juno. Any requests for the fallen Alpha. I can force him to do anything we wish,” Shade offered as he moved the newborn pup near her legs towards her head, so she could see it.

“No, I think he’s plenty humiliated from how he stayed quiet” Juno replied as she nuzzled against the pup.

“You sure mom because we that thing on his neck he wouldn’t be able to refuse an order hell if you tell him to not speak unless spoken to he won’t be able to” Pitch suggested.

She thought it over before asking, “Can you have him do what Pitch suggested?” looking to Shade.

“Of course I can,” Shade responded looking at Hex with a smirk on his face, “Hex. From this day forth you are forbidden from talking unless you are spoken to first. Respond if you understand.”

“I understand” they heard Hex say blankly before seeing his face go back to normal his face showed that of shock before attempting to speak but no sound came out of his mouth.

“Nice he doesn’t get to talk for once” Pitch commented with a smirk Juno giggled.
“Or ever again unless someone starts to talk to him first unless I rescind the order. But who would want to start a conversation with him normally.” Shade added, “Isn’t that right Hex.”

“That’s right alpha” Hex replied again before he went back to normal again his frustration showing as Juno and the others looked at his predicament with amusement.

“What’s the matter sad you can’t hear your own voice by your own choice anymore?” Pitch said to Hex as he then add, “Good because you deserve every bit of this” getting a glare from Hex before Juno looked to Shade.

“What are you going to do now?” She asked Shade.

“Well… We have a former Alpha to mark as mine infront of the pack. Then I have the group that harmed you to wipe out,” Shade responds, “I’d say for you to watch but I think you have a lot of pups to care for.”

“Yes I’ll still stay here to watch over them you do what you need to” Juno replied with a nod.

“Pitch… I assume you’ll want to stay with her,” Shade states looking at him.

“Yes, I do” Pitch replied to Shade with a nod.

“Okay then,” Shade responded with a nod before turning to Hex, “Now it’s time for us to go and give my pack a good show. I hope your ready pup.”

Hex just looked away in response as Sol pushed him forward prompting him, Shade and Hex to walk out of the den.

Once they reached the outside of the den they found fifteen wolves outside as they immediately noticed the group with the wolves muttering amongst themselves before hearing Shade speak “I assume most of you are aware of what transpired earlier and the fate of this one.”

He waited for any response from the wolves his eyes looking between them before one of them replied, “Y-yes you and our previous Alpha had dueled and you won and you're going to be marking him”

“And do any of you have anything you wish to say regarding this? If so you are free to say so,” Shade added waiting for any responses from the surrounding wolves.

The wolves surprisingly had nothing to say about the matter, “Huh surprising” Sol commented with a brow raised.

“So none of you wants to defend your former Alpha and is fully accepting me in his place along with my judgement for him,” Shade asked looking at them all again.

He had gotten nods from them, “Yes we fully accept you in his place you won the duel” one of them spoke as Hex just looked towards the entire group in disbelief Sol chuckling at his expense.

Hex being as stubborn as he is, shook in place trying to fight the effects of the collar as he attempted to open his mouth but it was like it was glued shut muffled shouts being heard from him panic showing on his face as he realized what’s happening looked towards Shade to find him smirking.

“As you can all see he has nothing to say in response to his fate and has fully accepted that he will be serving me for the rest of his life, and do as I ask of him without question” Shade stated still smirking at Hex, before transferring a new order into his mind ‘from this day forth you will always agree with me no matter your feelings on the matter.’

“W-what no wa-” Hex attempted to say in his thoughts but they immediately changed to agree to them, “Yes I will no matter what”.

“Hex. Do you have anything to say in response to what I have said so far?” Shade asked knowing he couldn’t argue back against him anymore.

“No, you won and I will follow you for the rest of my life” He responded with a blank tone as all the wolves that watched looked in shock to see him admit them all of their eyes wide

“Before we continue do any of you anything you wish to say to your former Alpha before I mark him as mine for the rest of his life?” Shade asked.

Not even a second passed before some of the wolves insulted Hex who just sat there and took this moment lasted for a few seconds before they died down and went quiet.

“Now I think it’s high time for me to seal the deal,” Shade responded his hand moving towards Hex’s ear, Shade listening in to Hex’s thoughts as his hand moved closer and closer to its target.

“This is it, after this I’ll be nothing but someone who has no say or control ever again” He heard his thoughts having a tone of hopelessness to them.

Shade’s hand then reached Hex’s ear sparks moving through them as a new mark was placed behind the ear as the cult mark on his body began to change as well, Hex’s eyes instantly being drawn to the change.

The mark itself changed from its normal white to a bright red as he then turn itself upside down a moment passes as the change was done and it was official he belonged to Shade for the rest of his life.

Afterwards, Shade decided to listen in onto Hex’s thoughts again but he couldn’t hear anything only seeing the hopelessness in his eyes from his silent demeanour before Shade heard one of the wolves ask, “What happens now that you’ve done that?”.

“Well… the rest is up to you. You can either stay here or join me at my den… after I recover the other that you all helped kidnap and give to the cult that is,” Shade responded glaring at Hex again while looking at the others with a disappointed look on his face.

They just look away with looks of shame on their faces as they all went quiet while Sol then spoke up, “We should probably prepare to get everyone back then right?”.

“It is about time to sort that yes,” Shade responds before looking to the others, “Do any of you want to ‘play’ with this fool? I give you my full authority to do what you wish to him as long as he stays alive.”

Some just looked at Hex with glares while the others didn’t really do anything, “lets head out then” Sol replied as he and Shade stepped away from Hex some of the wolves glared at Hex who looked at the two with a pleading look on his face which said, “Please don’t leave me here I’ll do anything!”

Shade and Sol paused their steps, a smirk on Shade’s face, not looking back as he said “Are you willing to destroy the very cult you gave my pack to? I fully intend to destroy that whole group.”

Hex’s eyes widened before they heard him reply, “N-no” he replied as Sol and Shade continued walking again Hex saw the wolves inch closer and closer to him before he backtracked on that choice, “YES, I’ll help you just don’t leave me here!”.

Shade and Sol looked at eachother, before Shade said, “You're not convincing me. The rest of you. His eyes, ears and limbs are all on the table!”

The Wolves from before then began to yell out specific parts of his body causing the fear Hex was experiencing to go on overdrive, his eyes darting between the approaching wolves and Shade, as he saw Shade take a step further away from him.

“Please I’ll do anything I’ll let you change me however you want ill surrender every fibre of my being to you since I have that device I'll fight for you til the day I die!!” Shade heard him say in a panicked tone.

“So you agree to debase yourself to the point of being my personal slave for the rest of your existence, and I can change you. Use your for any desire I wish with no arguments from now on?” Shade asked once again stopping and waiting for a response.

“Yes I agree!” he heard Hex shout.

“I assume the rest of you heard my new slaves admission,” Shade said to the wolves that had been approaching Hex as he turned around walking back towards them.

The wolves had stopped in place nodding in confirmation towards Shade.

“Hex. From this day onwards you will serve me following my orders without question and will find no greater pleasure in life than pleasing your Master like a good obedient pet.” Shade stated standing over Hex whose head was lowered to the ground between Shade’s feet.

“Y-yes m-master” he heard Hex stutter out as Hex saw his collar glowing the emblem on the front glowing brighter it fused with the skin on his neck before dropping from Hex’s neck, however below where the collar had been now being strange red markings matching that of the collar that still glowed the fur around it turning black making the markings instantly visible.

“Hex. Bring me your collar.” Shade ordered.

Hex doing what he was told grabbed the collar and slowly walked towards Shade and presented the collar.

“Thank you Hex,” Shade responded taking the collar in his hands before it disappeared. “How do you feel?”

“I feel…great master” He heard Hex reply, before feeling Shade pat him on the head, as the wolf’s eye widened for a moment before he nuzzled into Shade’s hand.

“That's a good boy,” Shade responded before saying, “The rest of you. Look after everyone here. Once I fix what you all did to the rest of my pack I will come back and decide what to do with you all.”

“Understood we’ll wait until then” one of the wolves replied with a nod the rest of them doing the same, as Shade nodded back before teleporting him, Sol and Hex away.