Ash Adakai

"'How many secrets can you keep?'"""Ashley Warren Adakai is a 29 year old Werewolf born in Holbrook, AZ.. He is the second eldest son to the current leader in his tribes reigning royal family and is the current alpha to his pack.

He is one of the eight protagonists in Nexus.

Early Life
Ashley was born into a very wealthy and privileged family in Holbrook, AZ. He is a direct descendant of Paul Adakai - whom was one of the first wolves to ever shift making his lineage royal - extremely so. His father Billy Adakai was the legendary 'Alpha of Navajo' responsible for the highest kill count of Vampires on American soil to this day. His mother was a more modest waitress, Sun Adakai who was a full blooded human. He has an older brother, Jay and a younger brother Emmy.

Growing up Ash was a talented sports player, excelling in a large range of hand, feet and contact sports. Just like his older brother he was his graduate years valedictorian and the school wide MVP. Although he was not inclined academically superior this was made up through his almost 'inhuman' talents for sports, receiving multiple offers to play ball at many prestigious colleges all over the country - just as his older brother Jay did; however Ashley felt obligated to stick around home and pick up the slack he felt that his brother had abandoned when he left on his own for college.

A few weeks after his high school graduation when Ashley was 19, he and his girlfriend accidentally became pregnant. Neither of the teens knew about it until his dad, Billy had told his mother that he could hear a heartbeat inside his sons girlfriend's womb. Billy begged Ashley to tell Brooke to get rid of it because he feared that she wouldn't be able to handle the truth about their family but blinded by his first love, Ashley defied his father and insisted that she would understand and keep the secret just as his own mother did. Sun urged Billy to let Ashley make his own decisions but being as stubborn as he is, he just couldn't bless his son and soon-to-be-daughter-in-laws decision to keep the baby. This motivated a rifling tension between the father and son forcing Ashley to temporarily move in with his girlfriend. When Ashley had become a fully changed wolf everything about his physiology and personality either changed or became more intense. He took a week away from his girlfriend and spent majority of it out in the deserts acclimating to life on four paws, his father coached him on controlling his anger - since that's now an issue he would have to diligently watch and showed him the ropes on what it's like to be a wolf. Upon returning he now understood the world from how his father always described it, everything was suddenly more sensitive to his eyes, ears, mouth and nose; he was now triple the strength and speed he was prior to shifting and in wolf form it rivaled those of the undead themselves. So upon returning back to his girlfriend, Ashley still hadn't told her about what he really is - what the baby in her stomach really was, and now that everything seemed to have fallen into perspective he wasn't so sure that he wanted to make the commitment anymore.

Neither Billy or Ashley said anything about the faint heartbeat, the baby had miscarried in the following week. Ashley was surprised at how the loss of this baby he never met upset him but it mentally destroyed his girlfriend that ended up being a contributing factor to the separation of the young couple. Although heartbroken he was a little relieved to know that he wasn't going to have to raise a baby - a wolf baby with a human women he wasn't so sure on anymore. About two years pass, when he turned 22, Ashley decided to pursue a career in law enforcement to both help keep his mind and body active while he was still adjusting and learning to live with his new ''abilities. ''Billy was worried about the potential triggers Ashley might face but it turned out being something that he was extremely good at. Ash isn't particularly fond about what he does but the sole fact that it aids greatly in keeping his urges in check is what keeps him motivated in what he does.

In late October in 2016, the Adakai's get a phone call from an Oracle Company worker telling them that Jay had been killed by a vampire - in which looked like a freak, sporadic attack. The Oracle Company had covered up the attack so that the authorities would find the scene of an accidental murder but of course the Adakai's knew that wasn't the case due to an on-going beef they had with a vampire clan from Southern California. Ashley was the worst affected by the death of his brother. He felt guilty that he never forgave his brother for giving up the name and coat making him also feel like he was responsible for his death. After Ashley had finally grieved his brother, he requested leave from his father to go out and search for his brothers killer as he had predicted, Billy denied the request so he went to the Calypso to inquire about being legally spared to hunt down his brothers killer; and after making a deal with Casimir he was granted full immunity from any repercussions and a mysterious benefactor gave Ashley a no budget grant for funds to complete this task, although apprehensive he still took the money and has been on the hunt ever since.

These days now Ash has taken a strong liking and connection to his motorcycle that his brother gifted him, feeling closer to his brother whenever he rides it.

Random Trivia

 * Ashley is the middle child of three boys
 * He got his highschool girlfriend pregnant when he was seventeen but she miscarried almost instantly and that's how he found out she was a witch.
 * He's an avid motorcycle rider with his pride and joy bike being a Norton Commando Sport 961 MK II that was gifted to him by his older brother Jay in 2013.
 * He was expelled from school four times for starting fights but ultimately kept going back because there was no other school to attend.