The Forgotten Twin

Chapter 2: Warrior

.............3 months later............

I was training with the warriors on Friday afternoon when Alexa and her new crew walked up, they were instructed to train once a week. Alexa was fast and light on her feet thanks to her wolf, but she was no match for the warrior I had become in only three months. I was already the second ranking warrior behind Ed in the pack, but all anyone cared about was how natural fighting came to Alexa. I was sparring with future Alpha Cillian, who was almost 18, when Alexa walked over to us. I ignored her presence and flipped Cillian on his back when he lost focus.

"Focus Cillian, should you turn your back on a blood rouge, your dead." I snarled at him. He groaned from the ground and hopped back up, he tried to catch me off guard but I caught him with a left hook by surprise. I knocked the wind from him as my hand impacted with his lower abdomen.

"Show-off." Alexa's friend Kim said laughing and rolling her eyes.

"Dead meat." I sneered knowing she couldn't fight for s**t. Alexa growled and I snarled at her letting my eyes change from grey to silverish yellow. Usually when a wolf takes over the human's eyes go black, mine went the color of Crescents eyes. Alexa's eyes went round and she shut her mouth before walking away, I laughed to myself, Crescent and I had been working on that trick for a while. I walked to the lockers and got a drink of water before heading back to the sparring circle to see Alexa pitted against Dimitri, he was a good warrior but not skilled enough to beat Alexa. I looked over at Ed and rolled my eyes when he looked at me, he shrugged his shoulders and I gave him an evil smirk. He shook his head and I rolled my eyes and stuck my tongue out. I watched as Dimitri tried to grab at Alexa who side stepped and kicked the back of his knee making him fall to the ground. While he was incapacitated she flipped him and sat on his chest crossing her legs with a fake yawn. 

Before I could growl I felt the hair on my arms stand up. I took a deep breath and smelled something like blood and rotting flesh. On instinct I howled signaling blood rouges before shifting and running toward the smell, I found myself in front of a large brown wolf with patchy dull fur and blood red eyes. I snarled and attacked catching him off guard. I snapped his neck and snarled as a second wolf approached me, I let Crescent have fun and attack him, ripping the soft skin of his stomach open. His guts spilled out and he layed on the ground trying to put them back in. A smaller rouge tried to dart past me but I caught her by her tail and pulled back ripping the tail from her body. She cried out painfully as I jumped back on her and ripped out a section of her spine. I heard howls near the training grounds and killed the rouge who was still trying to fix his intestines. 

I ran back to the training grounds already covered in blood and attacked a large rouge who was trying to kill Cillian, I hopped on his back and ripped into his neck, blood went everywhere. I spat out the disgusting liquid and ran over to Alexa who was cowering in front of a mid sized, mangy tan wolf. Kim's headless body was at it's feet. I plowed into it's side with my head, sending it rolling 100 ft away, I snarled loudly and arched my back. The wolf came back and I easily ripped its front right leg off, making it crash to the ground. I ripped into its neck and pulled out the trachea with my canines. I probably looked more red than grey now, but I didn't care. I took a step back as two more rouges came at me, one from the left, one from the right. I accidently stepped back scratching Alexa with my extended claws, I heard her whine and I snarled. The rouge on my left charged and i grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and threw him into the now charging rouge to my right. They tumbled for a minute before Ed, grabbed the top one and snapped his neck. I pounced on the second one and shook him until I heard his spine snap in many places. I heard a howl and the blood rouges began retreating. 

I was caught off guard by a rouge who decided to ram my side with it's head, not to be defeated I kicked up my back paw and gutted him before ripping his throat out. I pushed him up and hobbled over to Alexa who was being tended to by a doctor, for a tiny scratch. I shifted and nearly passed out from the pain in my side. 

"Others need more help than Alexa, if anything she has a tiny scratch, the rouges didn't get near her." I said to the doctor. Alexa shifted and revealed a small almost completely head cut on her leg. "See?" I said pointing at the cut.

"It wasn't a rouge who did it either." Alexa snapped. "It was you." Our parents glared at me as they walked over.

"Would you rather have a scratch or would you like to have been killed by the three rouges I saved your ass from." I snarled at her. She looked down at the ground and I began to cough, I put my face in my arm to see blood in the crook of my elbow. The doctor had moved on the other more injured parties so I felt my side for the damage. I had at least five broken, and judging by the blood cough a punctured lung. I looked at my parents for maybe a bit of assistance, but they were too busy coddling Alexa. I turned away and painfully shuffled to the pack hospital. I was met by an over worked nurse and was brought to an exam room.

A doctor came in after a second and he felt my ribs, knowing I was a wolf and was healing quickly, he cut into my flesh in the exam room, instead of moving me to the OR. He reached into my opened side as I bit down on a belt. He re-broke my rib bones and set them properly, when he was done he sewed up my open wound and gave me a shot of antibiotics for all the infections the blood rouge gore on my body could cause. The nurse came back in and put a large white bandage on my side before giving me the all clear. I was still naked from shifting, but I walked home and went to the bathroom to find Alexa taking a bath. 

"Get the f**k out." She growled at me.

"Unless you want to get covered in rouge blood, you should be the one to leave." I snarled taking the bandage from my still healing ribs. Mother walked in and turned me to face her by my bad ribs, I yelped and slashed her arm with my claws.

"What the hell was that for?" My mother squealed clutching her bleeding arm. 

"I have five broken ribs and a punctured f*****g lung! Of course you wouldn't know about that because while I was coughing up blood you were busy fretting over a baby scratch." I snarled grabbing my injured ribs making sure my ribs were still in place. Both Alexa and my mother were staring at me, I growled at them, I was getting sick of smelling like rouge. "Get The f**k Out!" I screamed at them, I coughed up more blood as I stressed my lungs. They both scrambled out of the bathroom, I let the water out of the tub and turned the shower head. I washed away the rouge blood and watched as the water went from red to clear. When i was done I dried off and re-wrapped my dark purple side, I brushed my snarled hair and brushed and flossed the rouge flesh from my mouth. I walked to my room wrapped in a towel and pulled on some clothes before walking to the kitchen finding my parents and Alexa speaking to Alpha Mike and Cillian. They all looked at me as I grabbed an apple and bit into it.

"Thanks for the assist Ash." Cillian said. 

"Couldn't let my Alpha die now could I?" I asked him with a smirk. He chuckled and his dad looked between us and sighed. 

"Ashlyn, I hear you attacked your mother." Alpha Mike said. I laughed grabbing my ribs, from the pain it caused. 

"Don't make me laugh, it hurts." I said.

"I don't see what is funny." My mother snarled.

"How can you not? Alpha Mike I came home hoping to wash off the rouge blood I was covered in, reasonable right? Apparently not seeing as Alexa was soaking in the tub, relaxing from the hard work she did today. I was told her to leave so I clean myself, and Mary grabbed my injured side roughly. I swiped her arm away because it hurt like a son of a bitch." 

"Huh, May I see your side?" I nodded and undid the wrap beneath my shirt, I didn't have a bra on, because of my ribs. I put it on the counter and I lifted my shirt as Cillian gasped at my healing side.

"s**t that looks bad." Cillian said as Mike walked over and looked at the injury.

"Those look like stitches." He said inspecting it.

"The doctor had to re-brake the bones that were healing wrong and properly set them, a total of five broken ribs and a punctured lung." I said as I looked down at the dark splotch on my side. 

"I can see why you swiped your mother." Alpha Mike sighed, he went back over to my family and Cillian who I beckoned over with my hand.

"Hold my shirt up while I re-wrap." I said he held it up like a gentleman and I wrapped my tender side again. 

"I'm guessing training tomorrow is off the table." Cillian said raising an eye brow.

"If Ed says so. I'll hang out and watch, seeing as I have nothing better to do." I said as I took another bite of my apple. Cillian chuckled, his blue eyes lighting in amusement. 

"This is going to be fun." He laughed.

"What is?" I asked cautiously.

"Watching your wolf on the side lines, limping and growling trying to get into a fight."

"I mean we can still kick your ass, even in our condition." I said lowly. He smiled and ruffled my hair. I pushed him lightly and took another bite of my apple.

"Come on Cillian, lets allow these guys to get some rest." Alpha Mike said walking toward the front door.

"Later Ash." Cillian said.

"Later." I responded my mouth full of apple. As soon as they were out the door I sighed and moved stiffly behind the counter and grabbed the disinfecting spray and paper towels and cleaned up the blood I coughed up. I sprayed it and wiped it with my foot, not able to bend down. When I was done I lifted the paper towel with my right foot, the uninjured side. I grabbed it and tossed it in the trash before putting the spray away and managing my way back to my room. I walked in and crawled into bed and fell asleep, I had my reoccurring nightmare of the woman being burned at the stake, this time the pain was worse as I shifted to my bad side. I couldn't help but cry out in pain. Then the dream changed and I was looking into glazed over Amber eyes. A sense of calm and peace washed over me, I sighed and I heard a small growl.

"How are you in my head?" A strong voice rumbled.

"I don't know. I was in pain, then I saw your eyes and it sort of went away." I said sleepily.

"I don't know your voice." The voice said.

"I don't know yours either." I said as I curled up into a ball.

"Name." He said

"Goo......" I said as I fell asleep.