"I don't see why I have to do this stupid ritual! It's pointless I can already stay transformed for a week straight. On top of that I can already pretty much control all of the elements of nature. So what's the point?!" Zane yelled and threw a fireball at the nearest tree.<br/>"Watch where you throw fireballs Zane!" His sister Ella yelled from her perch in the tree next to that the fireball hit. "You know why you have to do the ritual. If you don't do it then the nature spirits will never let you use their power to the full extent. Plus no one in the pack will acknowledge you as Alpha when the time comes, if you don't. Why are you so mad about it in the first place? You get to leave the castle for awhile and you don't have to sneak out all of the time." She said as she jumped down and landed next to him. "You're right. I'm just frustrated because Mother doesn't think that I can do the trial without the assistance of the elders. I still don't see why you don't have to undergo the trial too. We are twins." Zane said and went over to the tree that he had burned and leaned against it. "I know, but the only one that will inherit the throne and become Alpha is you since you are a boy. I have reached the extent of my connection to the nature spirits. While you have not, now come on it's getting late and Father won't be happy if you are late." Ella replied and then left Zane alone in the clearing. 'She's right I can't be late for my meeting with Father and the elders.' Zane sighed and left to go meet his father.<br/><br/>"You were almost late, Zane." Zane's father, Derrick Gealach said trying to restrain his annoyance at his son's almost tardiness. "But I wasn't Father. That should count as something." Zane sighed out trying to sound obedient to his father and Alpha. 'I still don't see why I can't wear more clothes than this loincloth at the moment, though.' Zane thought as a gust of wind blew against his naked chest. "Well as you can see the elders have decided to not attend today. They said that this way there can only be one outcome, either you prove that you have what it takes to be Alpha or you don't. I hope that you are ready and that the mark of Alpha that you carry is not just a fluke." Derrick explained. Zane moved his left hand to cover the Celtic crescent moon mark that proved that he was the next alpha, at his father's words. "I am ready to undergo my trial and prove that I am the next Alpha, Father." Zane said and then stripped off the loincloth and waited for his father to tell him to leave. "Then prove to me and to the nature spirits that you can survive as a wolf. If you can survive in your wolf form for two nights without shifting back until the sunset of the third night; then and only then will the nature spirits allow you to use their power to the full extent. Also you will show that you are my true and rightful heir as the next Alpha. Now go and don't come back until the sunset of the third night."  With those words Zane shifted into a dusty red colored wolf with almost glowing blue eyes and then set off into the forest. His only thought was that of course his dad had changed the rules yet again.