Abbie charged into the fray. All around hir was a wild melee consisting of the majority of the pack. The air sang with the triumphant growls of werehyenas and the pained screams of their humbled opponents. Abbie scanned the free-for-all, searching for an opponent.
Suddenly, Hailey Wallerstedt came charging over to Abbie. "Hey, Abbie. Still untested?"
"Yeah," Abbie nodded. "I just got here."
"I just clobbered Katelynn," said Hailey. "I guess that makes me a delta werehyena. For now, anyway."
Abbie smiled wickedly. "Yeah, Hailey. For now."
The two werehyenas began to slowly circle each other, menacingly baring their claws as they scanned each other for weaknesses. Suddenly, Hailey lunged at Abbie, slashing at hir side with blinding speed. Abbie winced as blood poured from the stinging wound. Thinking quickly, the basketball captain sank hir own claws into Hailey's upper left tit while shi was still off balance. Hailey stumbled, grabbing Abbie by the waist as shi fell.
Both werehyenas toppled to the ground, where they began to roughly wrestle. Hailey felt hir dick beginning to harden as Abbie's bulging muscles rippled on top of hir. Hir sudden arousal gave Hailey an idea. After wriggling hir knee into position, Hailey kneed Abbie in the ballsack.
Abbie shrieked as shi reflexively released Hailey. "Shit, not cool! You wanna ruin my cub factories?!"
"I didn't knee you that hard, Abbie," Hailey chuckled as shi pounced on the vulnerable Abbie. Shi plunged hir razor-sharp teeth into Abbie's shoulder.
It looked for a second like Abbie had been beaten. Riley O'Connell paused from hir near victory over Sofia Rivera-Lopez to savor the sight of hir archrival being thrashed by Hailey. Hailey looked at Abbie expectantly, waiting for hir to yield. Abbie, however, still had a lot of fight left in hir. Mustering all of hir strength, Abbie roughly threw Hailey off of hir. When Hailey got up to try again, Abbie was ready for hir. Shi met Hailey's second charge with a powerful kick, hir footclaws painting crimson stripes across Hailey's belly.
Now it was Abbie's turn to charge. Shi bounded over to Hailey and yanked down hard on hir dark red mane and threw all of hir weight on Hailey, knocking the startled werehyena flat on hir back. Abbie then bit down hard on Hailey's upper right breast. Shi looked at Hailey and smiled victoriously, hir sharp teeth painted red with Hailey's blood. "Do you yield, Hailey?" Abbie asked.
Hailey tried to wiggle out from under Abbie, but the muscular werehyena had too tight a grip. "Fine, Abbie. I yield. I guess you're a delta now. Fuck, I must've lost so damn much status in this spar! One more loss and I'll be a fucking gamma."
"It's alright, Hailey," Abbie smiled sympathetically. "You fought well. Hell, I thought you'd beaten me for a second. Thanks for a damn fun fight... and for the status."
Abbie released Hailey from hir pinning and went looking for another opponent. Abbie shined throughout the proving. By the end of the battle royale, Abbie had fought in seven brawls and one all of them. Shi was covered in bleeding gashes, but she was happy. After all, shi was one of the most high-ranking werehyenas in the pack.
"Good sparring, guys," said Selena. "Alright, here's how it breaks down. Ashlee, Taylor, Beck, Brianna, Layla, Riley, Jazmyn, Cassidy, and Lily are deltas. Zoey, Jenna, Ellie, Harper, Kadie, Chloe, Summer, Sofia, Maddison, Naomi, Hailey, and Katelynn are gammas. Naturally, I'm an alpha, Skyler's a beta, and Hannah's an omega. Remember, gammas, there will be other provings in the future. If you get better at fighting, you can challenge deltas for status and hopefully join them. I mean, breeders may be locked as gammas, but I'll have to ask Zuri about that."
"Who cares?" Jenna giggled as shi felt Selena's firm bicep. "I happen to like being a gamma hyena, Alpha."
"Good to know," said Selena. Shi then turned to face the pack. "Okay, now we've got our deltas and gammas. Now we need a Mistress of the Hunt. I would like to nominate Abbie Peterson. Anyone who disagrees can spar with hir."
Riley marched into the clearing and stood facing Abbie. "Me! I challenge Abbie Peterson."
Abbie crossed hir muscular, gold-furred arms and stared coolly at Riley. "Bring it, O'Connell."