Chapter One (True Alpha)

## The Wolf Moon

"*There's a cure... at least I've heard of one, but I'm not sure if it'll work. Rumor has it... for bitten werewolves if you kill the one that bit you. You'll be cured of your affliction and return to your previous human state. You help me find the one that bit you, and I promise I'll help you kill him*."

― La'Mont Valet Jr. to Scott Delgado

The Wolf Moon is the first chapter of True Alpha.

## Summary

The chapter begins with a police reporting to another deputy that they found the missing girl the department had been looking for. Dirk Schroder is sitting in his house listening to the call and decides to rush to Scott’s place. Scott is preparing to head to sleep to get rest for the start of his sophomore year and for varsity soccer tryouts. Scott finds Dirk outside his house, and the two decide to go out and see what’s going on with this missing girl the police are looking for. Scott and Dirk catch up and discuss the summer (including La’Mont Claire) and their goals and aspirations for the upcoming school year.

Scott and Dirk travel through the dark woods and search for the missing girl. The two eventually get separated and get lost while trying to find each other. Dirk eventually runs into Sheriff Wingham and the rest of the police department. The Sheriff asks one of the deputies to take him back to his car so he can leave. And the rest of the police end their search for the body. After Scott is left alone in the woods of Primal Hills, he runs into the missing girl whose body is bisected. He runs into her by stepping on her internal organs. Scott then encounters the Enhanced Alpha, who attacks him and bites him viciously on the right side of his stomach.

Scott wakes up the next day to find himself in better shape with his wound fully healed. He speaks with his mother before heading out to school. After arriving at Primal Hills High School, Scott encounters Jackson Thompson, who begins to bully him and throws racist remarks towards him. Jackson also nearly injures Scott with his car by ramming into him. Scott meets up with Dirk, who walks into school with him. They encounter their classmate, Lydia Miller, who doesn’t recognize either of them as they walk through the packed hallways. Scott and Dirk then soon run into their best friend, La’Mont Valet Jr., who had returned to Primal Hills from his trip to his home state of New Jersey. Scott tells LJ about him getting bit, but he tells him not to worry about it.

Scott starts to experience his powers kicking in right when he meets new student Allison King, who had moved from Seattle, Washington, to Primal Hills, California. After their classes, Dirk, La’Mont, and Scott meet in the hallways to discuss their first days. Scott mentions to Dirk and La’Mont that he has met a new girl named Allison King. And to La’Mont’s surprise, he reveals that Allison is his cousin. Allison joins up with the boys and becomes acquainted with Dirk and Scott while reuniting with her cousin for the first time around three to four years. Allison informs the boys about the house party later that week on Friday at Jackson Thompson’s place. The party is to celebrate the beginning of the soccer season. Two hours later, Scott, Dirk, and Jackson participate in tryouts for the varsity soccer team. La’Mont and his friend Connor try out for the cross-country team.

During the endurance portion of the tryouts, Coach Austin Flintlock puts Scott and Jackson together as part of the first group to run the 400m dash. Scott taps into his powers to give him an additional performance boost, and he dominates his 400m run. Scott gains praise from Coach and is proposed the role of team captain or co-captain. Allison cheers for him, and Lydia also notices and pays attention to him. After finishing his tryouts, La’Mont notices something off about Scott from the other side of the field. In the woods, Scott and Dirk encounter Derek Knight, a student who is a year older than them, whose family, minus his older sister and uncle, died in a house fire five years before the beginning of the story. Dirk explains to Scott that Derek has a deep hatred for La’Mont due to thinking his family was the one who started the house fire.

Scott is closing up shop at his place of work, the local YMCA, when Allison comes knocking on the door with an injured rabbit she almost ran over and killed. After tending to the injured rabbit, Scott bonds with Allison for the rest of the night. Scott, the next morning, suffers a dream he has of the monster who bit him two nights prior. A few days later, Jackson confronts Scott in the locker room and asks him where he’s getting his supplements from due to his strange increase in performance during the soccer tryouts. While at home later in the day, Dirk researched werewolves by searching for werewolf movies such as Underworld, The Wolfman, and Dog Soldiers. Scott arrives at his place ready to go to the party when Dirk tells him it’s not a good idea and that he should cancel going with Allison.

Scott pissed gets extremely angry and hurts Dirk. He apologizes and rushes back out of the room to head home. Dirk’s suspicions are confirmed when he notices the claw marks from his bloody injury. Later that evening, Scott talks with his mom, Eliza, and tells her about Allison. He then leaves to pick her up, and they head to the party at Jackson’s. Scott begins to suffer the full moon's effects during his time with Allison at the party. He leaves her hanging and rushes back home with Dirk, Derek, and La’Mont taking notice. Scott, at home, begins to transform into his stage two werewolf shift in a brutally agonizing transformation. His cheeks split open, and his lips sank into his morphing skin as new teeth formed from bone marrow produced from his spark, growing in place of where most of his cheeks and his mouth used to be.

He escapes onto the streets and wreaks havoc in Primal Hills on his way to the Primal Hills Woods to search for Derek Knight (the person who he assumes bit and turned him into a werewolf). Scott encounters La’Mont in the woods of Primal Hills after failing to search for Derek and realizes that his best friend is also a werewolf. Hunters begin to open fire on Scott, and La’Mont leaves the area. Scott, after panicking, goes into a berserk, blood-lusted state as he picks off and kills most of the hunters violently and brutally, one by one. This literally leaves the lead hunter as the only survivor as he tears the men apart.

La’Mont returns to help him and tells Scott that he can help him control his powers, but he has to be able to work with him. LJ then leaves to go find Derek. The next day, Scott apologizes to Allison for ditching her at Jackson’s party. The two makeup, and Allison announces she has to leave as a car arrives that she recognizes. The man who exits the car is the lead hunter from the night before, as Scott remembers who he is.

## Characters (Introduced) By Appearance

* Dirk Schroder
* Scott Delgado
* Sheriff John Wingham
* Lara Knight †
* The Alpha
* Eliza Delgado
* Jackson Thompson
* Lydia Miller
* La'Mont Valet Jr.
* Connor Lahey
* Allison King
* Coach Austin Flintlock
* Derek Knight
* Cyrus King