1. Cold Alpha
Alice POV:
It’s 7:30pm. My Dad is the Alpha of the Black Moon Pack.
We’re both in the dinner room eating silently. I’m not allowed to leave the Pack House for whatever reason and almost nobody comes here. On the Alpha’s meeting days, my Dad makes sure that I’m locked up inside my bedroom.
Our Pack House is huge and it isn’t rustic, even though it’s all over woody, it makes our Pack House different from the other ones I guess.
We have a small fancy city about 30min from here that my dad takes care of. He built it a long time ago along with his pack members, he really is a good leader and he was also a great father when I was younger, but something changed.
My alpha dad is tall, about 6'7, he has natural blond ash, blowout hair, natural tan skin, blue with some green flecks eyes and he is very strong. He is also a very handsome man and I’m sure she-wolves flirt with him all the time.
I barely see him and he barely talks to me about whatever the subject is, he leaves and stays out for a day or two every couple of weeks to the Royal Pack meetings. He only leaves our pack after he makes sure there are plenty of warriors around, guaranteeing no one gets in…or out. My Dad screams at night sometimes like he’s in extreme pain. I’m getting worried. I know I shouldn’t ask about it, but I can’t help it.
“Dad, we need to talk about the nightmares you have at night.”
“Enough. I don’t want to talk about it, one more word and I’ll lock you up in your bedroom again.” He yells back at me.
“But I think I can help. Just talk to me, you barely talk to me, let alone ask me how my day was when you’re home. Why do you keep me locked up like a prisoner? I don’t know anyone, even my professor that home-schooled me doesn’t come to visit anymore, only Doctor Susan comes and you make sure it’s always quick. I miss her.” I tried to sound as nice as I could.
“SHUT UP, ALICE. GO TO YOUR ROOM AND STAY THERE UNTIL YOU APOLOGIZE, I WON’T ALLOW ANYONE TALKING BACK TO ME, EVEN IF IT’S MY OWN DAUGHTER.”
I looked down and I did as I had been told. I knew better than to try to argue with him. Besides, he’s my father and I knew I had to respect him. We have more technologies than the Human Realm, all thanks to the Wizard Realm that intersect the connection between the Realms with blue energy, a natural energy from the galaxy that we use for anything, electricity and all kind of connections. It made our life easier because we could only mind-linking beings from our pack.
This kind of energy is yet to be discovered by Humans but they will get there.
I took a bath once in my bedroom, got my hair dried, wore a white T-shirt and white knickers only and laid down on my bed to sleep.
“Good night, girlfriend.”
“Good night, I love you, be back in a few hours” my wolf Hope chuckled in my mind.
Damn, I forgot I made a promise to take her for a run tomorrow, I better get to sleep as soon as possible.
I fell asleep quickly and in my dreams all I could see were dark-smokes trying to possess me and then I saw a sparkling and powerful amethyst-like fire surrounding me as if it wanted to protect me, I waved my hand like a Witch flowing a light from my fingers and the dark smokes disappeared.
It’s the same dream over and over again ever since I was a little pup but it’s happening more often than before and so as my Dad crying and screaming like he’s in extreme pain when he’s sleeping.
All of a sudden, I hear…
“Oh! I smell a deer, I’m so hungry…” Hope said pacing and swirling side to side, back and forth in my head. I checked my cellphone and snorted sadly.
“Please Hope, it’s 4am, just 1 hour more” I muttered with a very sleepy voice in my mind as I yawned in my bed.
“C’mon, you promised! I'd rather do it while it’s still dawn.”
“Goddess! Fine, you always get your way with me, huh? Lucky you’re part of me, my best and only friend and I can’t live without you”.
I stretched, made my hair a bun since it’s early and I washed my hair last night…I mean, a few hours ago, I didn’t need to do it again, I took a quick shower to try to wake up and get my day started…I mean, my dawn, my bathroom and my room were very spacious and luxury and fancy décor, the only different room from all over the house, I wasn’t the one who decorated it though, I was never allowed to.
It was the only room on the third floor of the Pack House, it also had a very beautiful and spacious balcony, if my dad was trying to compensate me for something, I could even tell that he truly loved me. I always spent my time reading lots of books about the Realms and studying about pretty much everything at the cozy suspended bench, my wolf was happily whining and pacing all the way on my head, I didn’t even know it was possible.
“Are you ok, Hope? You’re giving me a headache with all this whining and pacing around.”
“Sorry, I’m just anxious to hunt and I have a good feeling about this, Alice.” My wolf said before all the pacing around started again.
I never thought she’d miss hunting that much, I mean, we last did it in a couple of weeks past. We’ve been too busy training on our own all day every day. I brushed my teeth, brushed my auburn hair and tied it half-up as usual and wore black legging pants and white tank top instead of one of my cute floral dresses, I stared at myself in the mirror and kept staring at my brown hazel eyes, I’m a very small lady 5’2, I’m sure I’m the smallest of my pack, my skin is brighter than the regular wolves because I barely get out.
Whoever sees me don’t ever figures I’m the daughter of the "ruthless" Black Moon Pack’s Alpha Randall Blackford.
Most of the wolves said my dad was ruthless.
He kills anyone who tries to run away from our pack or either the ones who comes in without invitation or scheduled, he was merciless on rogues. He kept me locked most of the time at the Pack House but I always ended up finding my way out without him knowing, obviously.
I still have my doubts about my dad’s behavior. I’m sure there might be worse beings.
Like in the Vampire’s Realm’s past King background was not pretty, he did awful things on the war and got all the dragons extinct before the current King dethroneed his father, things got better on their Realm but some says that the King could pierce a soul only by looking at his eye and that the King killed his own mother. This thought made a shiver ran down on my spine.
Actually, all the Realms fought against the Dragon’s Realm and it collapsed, the antique books said that the dragons were about to attack our Realms and they were extremely strong and no species would stand a chance.
My dad never hurts me, let alone he lets anyone sees me and he’s over protective but I must follow his every command inside the Pack House. Our Omegas were very afraid of him and they walked around the Pack House always looking down, I tried to talk to them many times but they just smiled and simply avoided me. My dad changed, he wasn’t always like that…
Darkness took him over after his mate, my mom, died 20 years ago when I was 2, nobody ever talks about it, I didn’t even know how she died, I’m currently just 22y old and haven’t found my mate yet. How could I if I spent most of my time around here?
My Dad had found his mate at the late age of 500y old, we’re immortals ever since my Dad is the Alpha and I’m his daughter, other ranked-wolves has a 1000 years life expectancy, just like others ranked species that aren’t royal or leader besides the Elves and Vampires which are all immortals, unranked and omegas wolves has 300 years life expectancy but we all get old physically until the age of 30 when we reach our maximum potential and unlock all our powers and strength, every wolf had an special power to unblock, my dad was an Alpha, so he had two special power, one was being immune to magic and spells as defense and I never saw he using the other one so I have no idea.
Surely my mate isn’t from our Pack and my Dad doesn’t take me with him on the meetings in the Royal Pack, it might take centuries for me to find him like anyone else and again, besides the Elves, they were the species that are closest to the Moon Goddess and they find their mate as soon as they turns the mating age which means 18 years old.
It was already a miracle my Dad could survive his mate’s death, it was unheard of, last time it happened, it was with the past King of the Vampire Realm.
My father always cursed the Goddess and said that the reason Goddess didn’t take his life was because of me, but he didn’t mean it in a “thankful” way, it was more like a “cursed” way. He felt guilty because he didn’t think he was a good mate for her and because of my size he was always ashamed to train me in front of his pack members I guess, he was the strongest Wolf, maybe even stronger than the King itself. Even though my dad isn’t one of the best references, I just couldn’t treat peoples in the same way, I guess I have my mom’s side, she was always so caring and lovely, I miss her deeply, I have some blurry memories but I already heard lots of wolves talking about her in a very tenderness way when I made my way out to our small city disguised and hidden from everyone, they kept talking about how great those 4 years with a wonderful Luna was.
Sadly, I never heard anyone talking about me, as if I don’t even exist.
“Alice…don’t cry, I’m here with you now, woman. We’re adults, strong and we will always be facing it all together, we are one. Dad and Shadow will come to his senses sooner or later.” My wolf said and only now I realized the tears falling from my eyes. Shadow was my dad’s wolf.
“Thank you, Hope. You’re the best wolf and friend anyone could ever think of having”, I whispered in my head.
“I know, look at us, we’re beautiful and we’ll find our mate soon.”
“…oh, careful or we’ll end up high on the sky with your ego…” I laughed, today was all about shifting and Hope’s fun, not training.
I checked myself one last time in the mirror and then the clock on my cellphone, it was 4:30am already, got my bag with some stuff to eat for breakfast and rushed to the forest by my window as I always did on my way out the Pack House, I’m very sneaky, skillful and fast but I can’t get away with the feeling that someone is always watching me, I shook off this thought.
I didn’t want to face anyone this early, nobody was going to miss me at home anyway, since I’m always on my own and my small-sized lady has its benefits.
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Liam POV:
It’s 4am now.
A couple of hours ago, I came near the nasty wolves’ borders with my second in command to watch their every move but Alec was roaring all the time, making it hard to concentrate.
“Focus, Alec! We need to get to the bottom of it for our kind’s sake” I whispered in my mind.
“We will. I just can’t help the feeling that we’re about to experience something very good and special for us today. I think we will find our mate.” Alec grinned at my head. Goddess, I don’t need to see it, I even get scared sometimes when he grins like that.
“Right, if we will, please don’t grin at her like that or you’ll scare her away.”
I put him in the back of my mind, I needed to focus and I had no time for fairytales stories anymore after so many years waiting for my mate, I just gave up and got used to it. I don’t want and don’t need any mate, we have been living in the Human Realm for centuries, everyone here thinks we didn’t survive the war and my mate wasn’t there with us. Also, there was never such a thing of mates from different species, but if there was and I ever found my mate, I'd surely going to reject her for my kind’s safety, I had to be a great King and put our survival above anything, I barely spent my time on romances and when I feel like it, I get satisfied sleeping around and that’s enough, no names and no feelings included, specially where we are now…close to the mutts’ territories, I don’t even want to think about it.
I only came all the way here because we got robbed. I was minding some business in my office at work until very late at night when my second in command, Prospero, mind-linked me about a wolf scent in our place. We live in a Mansion in the Human Realm hidden from everyone.
I’m the CEO of a very famous jewelry enterprise. We have been very worried about this robbery ever since nobody has any speculation of our kind anymore. They surely had forgotten all about us after so many centuries since the war. Other species couldn’t possibly know we’re alive, the idea of a traitor turning us over didn’t escape from my mind at all. But what’s in it for this traitor?
We survived, we’re safe and alive. All we got to notice was a werewolf scent in my office in the Mansion. He surely didn’t act on his own, we didn’t even know if someone set us up, anyone but our species couldn’t have ever entered the Mansion, I made sure of it.
“I’ll burn the traitor when we find.” Alec roared in my mind. Now that’s more like it.
Flashes from the war started to come into my mind…
Every species knew we were the strongest of them all and they all decided to attack us at the same time without even planning it with each other.
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***flashback
400 years ago, it was dawn and everyone was sleeping but me. I couldn’t help the feeling something was wrong. My instinct was greater being a King and the dawn was way too quiet, quieter than ever.
Our barriers were strong and no species besides our kind could pass through, but still, all of a sudden, we heard kids crying, women screaming and yellow and white flames through the windows all over our realm. There was nothing we could do.
“What’s going on?” I mind-linked my second in command as he hurriedly entered my office at the same time the chaos started. My horde always followed obediently my every command and they didn’t spend time when something serious was happening.
“Sir, we’re under attack” he replied.
“What? How could they've entered our realm? Who’s attacking us?”
“We’re still investigating, Sir and…” he was hesitant. “All the Realm’s army are attacking us it seems, I don’t think we stand a chance, we’re unprepared, our army isn’t mustered up and the Vampires are killing the horde at this very moment” he continued saying in a very shaking voice.
If we had fought, we’d lose more of our kind because we couldn’t protect everyone.
“We don’t have a choice other than to guarantee our kind’s safety. I think that is why the Goddess sent us this rune”, I said, while opening a golden chest.
“Everybody, this is an emergency and I have a restricted order to all of you, lay your bodies on the dead ones now” I mind-linked everyone as I triggered the emergency rune the Goddess herself sent from Olympus to our Fortress some days ago to flash everyone to the Human Realm, a Realm where anyone could never imagine we could go to live.
Nobody knew about the Goddess’ defense Rune but us, it would flash everyone from the same species that it’d first be used, there was no way they would know about us anymore among all the chaos and dead bodies.
We survived and could make it through. It was my duty as the King of Dragons to make sure everyone was safe and instruct my second in command, Prospero, and his mate Kathlyn and soldiers to help the injured and learn everything we could about the Humans from that day on.
But the unanswered question still lingers in my mind until nowadays.
“Why?”
***end of flashback
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Now there I was with Prospero and three soldiers dragons hiding behind each tree. Not much, we must be and act sneaky and stay quiet just mind-linking each other. But right now there was not much to be said. I gave a quick look at my watch and it was already 5:30am. I sneakily checked the gates myself since I’m the fastest one here and I was getting back to the safe spot with the soldiers. Suddenly, the most delicious wild rose and lily scent floated so tenderly into my nose, mouthwatering me and I just lost it.
