[i]Aethos sighs as his face turns a slight red.[/i] "Because I've been her best friend since I can remember. We used to play together all the time and she'd slways beat me, but never gloated. Eventually the stupid runt thing happened when we both turned eight. All werewolves learn to transform at age six and she was eight. Lucky for me, I actually could transform at five years old because I'm a so called prodigy. Now, at eight it became apparent that she was never transforming and because of her mother being dead her father would never have more children. Her father was outraged, he's the last of the strongest bloodline in the clan and his daughter can't transform? Who would mate with her? He thought his bloodline was doomed, so he blamed Artemis and gave her the lowest social ranking possible, runt. I continued to be her friend, but eventually she stopped seeing herself equal to me and then even later thought she wasn't worth my time. I was crushed by what they had done to her. Breaking her and reshaping her into a slave to fit any need? Despicable. When we turn eighteen I'll be old enough to challenge her father and if I win I can save her. That's why I'm training out here, for her. To get my friend Artemis back."