Between Two Mates

(River) “Again” mom said as I got up from the floor. I got into a fighting position. My mom lunges at me with a flying punch, but I dodge her. She grabs a hand full of hair, yanking me back. I turned, grabbing her arm and flipping her over, landing on her back with a loud umph. “s**t, mom are you okay?” I knelt down in front of her. She chuckles while getting up and I hear someone clapping behind us. I looked up to see dad looking at me with his eyes full of pride. “That’s my girl. You took down the toughest warrior we have in our pack, your own mother”, dad says, extending his hand to my mom and giving her a kiss. I can see the love in their eyes for each other. I pray that one day I get to have the same love as my parents do with my mate. Mom pulls back, blushing and her eyes flash red, letting dad know her hellhound is on the surface. Yes, you heard right. Mom is a hellhound and dad is a werewolf. Dad is the Alpha of the Moon Hope Pack. We are the eighth largest pack on the world. We take care of our own and keep to ourselves. All men and women train equally in this pack and even mom trains the kids who are close to shifting, getting them ready for their first transition. “I do have amazing teachers. I just hope to one day make you both proud”, I said to my parents. “I have been proud of you since I first found out your mom was pregnant with you”, dad ruffles my hair. “I’m going to go shower” I said. I kissed them both on the cheek, then went inside. Excuse me, where are my manners? Let me introduce myself. My name is River Lisset Moon. I’m sixteen years old. I’m five feet nine inches, with midnight black hair, and dark brown eyes. I walked into my room, grabbed some underwear, a bra, gray joggers, and a white tank top. I walk out of the closet and smile when I see a picture of myself looking up at the blood moon. Mom always says I was blessed by the blood moon. See, I was born during the blood moon and when I shifted for the first time, it was also during the blood moon. I won’t lie to you and tell you that my shift was easy, no, it was longer than any other transition before in this pack and incredibly painful. I felt like every bone in my body broke three times before I was able to shift completely. I just thought that my shift was longer because I’m a mixture between a werewolf and a hellhound. The first one ever of my kind. There’s never been a werewolf hellhound hybrid before. My canines and claws are slightly longer and sharper than any normal werewolf. My tail is as long as my body and bushy. My fur is midnight black with glowing red swirls. My parents were astonished at how I shifted and how beautiful and unique my wolf was. My pack accepted me with arms wide open and never treated me differently. We are a tight pack and family. Once I have finished showering, I turn off the water. Suddenly, I hear the sirens. I quickly got dressed. I ran to my room, and I could see rogues fighting with our pack warriors. I see dad on the far side fighting four rogues while mom is by the pack house fighting two. I saw another sneaking up on her. I opened the window and jumped out of it, landing on the rogue that was sneaking up on mom and I broke his neck. I stand back to back with my mom as more rogues come towards us. ‘Young lady, you should be in the house with the others’, mom linked me. ‘I’m where I need to be mom. This is why I have been training. I will fight by your side’ I link back. I grab another rogue by his throat and rip it out. Someone tackled me to the ground. We both fall with the person on top of me. By the scent, I know it’s my mom. “Mom?” I called. She doesn’t answer me so I move her to see a knife stuck to mom’s chest right where her heart is. “I love you, my daughter. I’m proud to have fought by your side”. Her eyes flicker from red to gray rapidly before they stop at gray, and she lets out her last breath. “Mom? No, no, no, no. Mom wake up” I said, patting her cheek and I felt her teether break. I hear a heart breaking howl and I know it’s my dad. I got up, my eyes scanning everything until my eyes landed on my dad. I scream, running towards him while two rogues rip dad’s arms off and the other breaks his neck. I scream, feeling dad’s teether snap and I fell to my knees. I feel pain and anger consuming my body. I feel my eyes change making the rogues gasp. I see my pack members run to mom and dad. “Alpha”, the warriors shout and I hear their pain, but I focus on the rogues. My eyes scan each and every one of them as I feel my anger reach another level. The wind blows my hair. My wolf growls and snarls, but I feel something else inside of me stir and this something… whatever it is also wants to get out. It wants blood and so do we. I looked at my hands and I saw my hands covered in a red fire. The fire spreads through my body and I scream in anger, pushing the red fire towards the rogues. They scream in pain and agony. I slowly close my hands into fists as the rogues drop to their knees. They then drop to the ground… dead. ***  ~Six Years Later~ (River) “Alpha, are you sure about this?” Miguel, my best friend, and Beta asked. “We have no other choice. We need more land and the witch that was helping us had already found her mate. El Yunque is big but it is only a matter of time until the humans find us”, I tell him. I’m the only pack in Puerto Rico and my pack is located deep in El Yunque. I had a witch working with us, cloaking our pack from the humans, but the spell only worked if she was in our pack. She found her mate when she went to visit the States and now we are exposed. “Sabes que si lo haces todos van a saber quien es River” (You know that if you do it everyone will know who River is) he says. Everyone in the states heard about what happened six years ago to my parents and pack. They also knew that a sixteen year old River had taken over as Alpha. What they didn’t know was that River was a female. An Alpha female and that sixteen year old Alpha female is me and I’m willing to do anything and everything to protect my pack. “Pues ya es tiempo de que sepan quien es River” (Then it’s time for them to know who River is) I smirked. ****