The Alphas Moon Warrior

CHAPTER ONE Seriena’s pov “It’s so bright out today and the breeze feels amazing!”, i giggled to myself as I laid in the grass as i looked up into the clouds, i love my home but i love laying out here at the edge of the village by the forest line. My name is Seriena Everthorn , i live in a big village in the middle of the forest with my mother the villagers call her Lady Linda and the people call my father Lord Ren, and i also have an older brother his name is link but he's only 5 years older than me and i just turned ten a few weeks ago, mommy ad daddy threw me a really big birthday party and all the villagers came to see me, well except for Mrs.Phillips she wasn’t feeling too good so Mr. Phillips stayed home to keep her company, so me and mommy made a goody basket for them to last a few meals, brother took it to them because he didnt want me or mother risk getting sick. Mommy didnt like the idea but everything worked out at the end and he said they loved it : she should be feeling better in just a few days. I continued to lay in the soft grass until i slowly drifted to sleep, i slept soundly for a little until i was startled awake by a bird shrieking in panic, it flew right over my head. My heart skipped a beat but i was shortly settled and began rubbing my eyes until i heard someone calling to me. “Run! Seriena run!”, i heard a boys voice in the distance. “What?”, i whispered in a daze turning slowly to see who was yelling to me. I saw a young man with white hair and green eyes-, he’s cluching his arm and yelling at me to run. “Seriena run! They’re coming!”, he barked at me, fear filled my heart and it showed on my face when i realized the man was my older brother link, his arm is bleeding and hes telling me to run into the forest away from the village because we are being attacked and this time there’s too many for us to handle. I went to turn and run but at the corner of my eye i saw one of them jump out from behind the burning huts and charge straight for my brother, my feet moved first towards my elder brother and i let out a piercing scream, “Brother behind you!” I shoved him out of the way but my back was now in the path if the blade, it cut and it cut deep. I let out a tear filled holler as my brother swiftly got into protective stance over me. Anger, guilt, and worry evident on his face. I laid there in agony , every little movement hurt, just the slightest motion from my staggered breathing made my back feel like it was burning. I saw my brother launch forward as he draws his sword, the pain in his arm putting him at a disadvantage but he still prevailed, after 3 minutes of attack after ack he finally stuck the bad man in the stomach deriving the final blow, the bad mans body laid lifeless on the grass. My brother ran to me, “Seriena you foolish girl what in the gods name where you thinking”, he whispered to me, tears threatening to fall from his eyes as he gently tried to help me sit up, he flinched every time i whimpered from the pain. “ i know it hurts but we have to go, i cant carry you i need to be able to fight. Let’s go my brave little warrior”, he spoke softly as he helped me to my feet and gave me a second to adjust to the pain. We heard a large explosion towards the center of the village, my brother took that as a sign to leave, he grabbed my hand so i can keep up with him, i tried to fight the tears but i was in excruciating pain and my brother knew but all he could do was look back at me sadly and push forward. We were getting deeper and deeper into the forest and i tried asking m brother questions like what happened, where are we going; where are our partners and where they going to me us at a safe place, he wouldn’t answer a single question but when he flinched as i asked about our parents i felt i already knew and stayed silent the rest of the time. Trees kept whipping past us until it was finally night fall, i looked up to my brother after he stopped running , after he looked around the area around us he said in a hush as we both were gasping softly for air, we’ve been running for hours, my back felt hot and numb after the first hour it felt like every step i took tore the cut even more but after the 3rd hour it felt like tingling needles until it just felt numb, it seemed my brother felt the same sensations with his arm. We gathered some quick herbs and tried mending our wounds the best we could afterward we huddled together by a group of trees, too scared to light a fire we just held each other close and after a little we softly sobbed knowing our home was taken, our people slaughtered, our parents dead, and our village burned to the ground. *rustling in bushes* I grunted as i opened my eyes looking into my brothers sleeping face. *snap — snap*, i heard something past the trees, it sounds like someone’s coming, I jolt up and shake my brother while whisper yelling at him to wake up, his eyes snap open and he quickly looks from me to the area the sound is coming from. He swiftly got to a crouching position and slowly crept up to the bushes, with his sword drawn he signals me to get down and hide than he emerges from the shrubs with expectation to sneak up on the enemy but what he was met with was a group of six bad men, one of the bigger ones had a big scar running across his eye. The scary one with the scare looked my brother up and down as if he were a kid waving a stick around while the other five laughed to themselves. “You’re a dark elf aren’t ya boy-o, perhaps from the village that burned down a few miles down east?”, the scary man asked my brother but link stayed silent and just eyed all the men still in his defensive stance. “my boss asked you a question you demon child”, one of the other men spat. Link gave him a death glare that made the man flinch which only seemed to anger him more, i stayed behind the tree unsure of what to do until i heard the scared man speak up. “Be silent mut, he maybe a dark elf but hes still but a child, you couldnt be more than 16 is that right?”, my brother glared at the man , he tried to take a step back but one of the men took it as a sign of defiance and drew his weapon in an instant, in a mere second he was standing just a few steps away from link and they started in a one on one duel, my brother and his sword against that man and his axe. Link saw an opening and used his gift of control over the wind element to blow dirt in the big man eyes, afterward he took at shot the the mans chest but because the scared man interfered the cut wasn’t fatal unless infected. Wolves have a bad habit of playing dirty or unfair but rouge wolves are the worst all they do is destroy and take from others, the winded man fell to the side with a loud grunt, link turned to the boss man and gripped his sword as he looked around, he tried to look my way to cheek on me but two of the men took advantage of his unawareness and lounged towards him armed and ready. Seeing the fright on my face through the leafs he turned to the men and quickly responded by ducking under one man sword and the others mace he dodged to the side and kicked swiped one of the men so he fell backwards into the other, the group as a whole was clearly irritated and i knew my brother was in for a fight. Five of the men charged at my brother all at once he was clearly out numbered, i felt something inside me snap deep in my core and i felt a building warmth from my stomach, i watched as the men attacked my brother all i could hear was the clashing of metal and the grunts of the men putting their all in to hurting my big brother. The longer i looked the angrier and the more scared i was, the warmth in my stomach turned hot and it built to the brim until i unconsciously ran out from the tree and rushed into battle i pulled my little hands back as i felt a building energy i my body i focused it to my hands and forced the energy to emerge which made bright blue flames burst out of my hands into two stream of pure hot fire from my soul. Every elf is born with a gift unless they are too weak and die early in life, my brother had the gift to control the air element but he didnt have much practice him only being 15 at the time, my mother could speak to animals and my father could control the weather. Normally and elf doesn’t get their gift until they become 13 or if they are faced with a life and death situation but that case is rare. Im only 10 but the thought of losing my brother is unbearable, I’ve already lost my home, my people, my mom and dad i can't lose him he's all i have and i need to keep him safe like he keeps me safe! The moon Goddess gave me this gift , the gift of fire but did she not realize dark elves are already looked down on but a dark elf with the gift of fire is not only rare but its common for the user to be enslaved or killed as trophies. For now though all i care about is saving my brother. The flames engulfed 3 of the men and they ran off in separate directions until all three fall to their knees lifeless, my brother looked to me in shock but quickly came back to the battle and charged one of the men that where too distracted trying to put the fire out on his cloak, my brother pierced him as i kept try to attack the other man but my body became heavy and i felt dizzy, that one attack took so much energy i felt i was going to faint from exhaustion, i fell to my knees holding myself up on my arms I collapsed on the dirt and watched with a blurred vision as the man i attacked kept walking towards me, he stood hovering over me as he lifted his axe over his head, i couldnt even flinch i was slowly sercoming to the darkness. Seeing my brother run to me i thought my life was coming to an end but my brother kicked the man in the ribs so he’d stumble to the side dropping his weapon and my brother dropping his sword he quickly scooped me up in his arms throwing me over his shoulder he ran through the forest as fast as he could. He breathed heavily as he ran and i could hear the panic in his breath but it only made him run faster but he paid less attention to his footing so he stumbled on a tree root and we hurled down a slope until we hit the bottom. I crashed head first into a tree stump with the tree that has fallen right beside me, i hear my brother grunt from the pain but when i looked over to him i was met with the sight that would scar me for life, the man with the scare on his eye was holding my brothers head up by his hair with the blade to his neck as he struggled to get loose. “Where is the girl!”, the man growled in my brother ear, the mans eyes turning red as his inner wolf threatened to surface, he pulled tighter on his hair. Hearing my brother in pain hurt me deeply but i couldnt move, i could bearly keep my eyes open my vision is getting darker and blurrier from my streaming tears , i stretched my arm to my brother, he could see me, but he didnt let the big rouge wolf notice. “Long live princess Seriena, may she live long and rebuild our fallen kingdom, i love you so much my sweet, innocent little sister”, link said through gritted teeth and ended with a saddened grin with a tear soaked face. Thats the last thing my brother said before the man slid the blade down and across his neck, he let his body fall face down into the leaves . “Useless elf, she’ll be a fine trophy if the Boss dosent end up using her as a guard dog”, the man gushed to himself, my sobs are heavy but only after a moment i slipped into sleep hidden safely beside the fallen tree. I awoke several hours later, the sun was already going down, i meekly used the tree to stand to my feet, i looked over to the lifeless body of my beloved brother and my heart sunk and shattered as i clumsily ran to him i pulled him to my lap and cried, with my grief my common sene was gone and i mourned loudly for my fallen family, i screamed and cried begging the goddess to give him back but my prayers fell upon deaf ears, yet the skies above seemed to feel my anguish and began to weep as to morn with me; and that’s how I stayed throughout the night.