The Female Alpha (on going)

Chapter 2

The next morning, I woke up excited, implementing changes to our warriors training should hopefully build up the men. Having women join the ranks will help us as well, no other pack uses women, and hopefully the men will adapt quickly. I already received word from my best friend Irmele that she would be joining training. I grabbed a pair of black yoga pants for today, slipped into a neon green sports bra and called it good. I will be leading our first Yoga flow and wanted everyone to have a clear visual on the movements. I was shutting the door to my room turned and bumped right into my mother.

            “Hette, thank the goddess I caught you. Leonhart brought something to my attention about training being changed, is this correct?” she asked with worry in her eyes.

            “Yes, as a matter of fact I have added to the warrior’s training with high hopes of improvement.” I paused before adding; “why is Leonhart bringing a matter such as this to you? I am alpha if I want to change something within the pack it’s within my right.” At this point I was becoming a bit agitated, there was no reason for any pack member to go to my mother. If it regarded the pack, it was to be brought to me, the alpha.

            With compassion in her eyes mother softly said; “Hette, dear, I of all pack members know the role that you have just taken on. It comes with a heavy weight to bear. Just do not make too many changes to fast. Some may jump on board right away; others are likely to become terribly upset holding on to the way your father ran things. Please dear, I don’t want to see your first week become a fight for your position.”  

I took a minute to process what she had just said and with a heavy heart responded with; “Mother, I realize this is going to be a hard transition, father warned me. This is exactly why he was so adamant about me finding my mate before he passed the title to me. I will be as mindful as I can to everyone’s feelings however, they are either going to accept me or not. If they cannot accept taking commands from a female alpha, then I will give them the choice to find another pack to move to.”

Mom’s face was pure shock at what had just escaped my mouth. “How could you say such a thing?” mom gasped. “The members of this pack have been with us for years and everyone has been loyal to this family. Giving them the choice to leave is saying, we don’t care for them or their families.”

            “I am not going to argue or have disloyal wolves within my ranks just because I want to try and improve our pack. Keeping us safe and thriving is what’s on my agenda, no one should fault me for that.” At this point I was fuming; how dare she not support me? “Mom I have to get to the training field if you must, we can discuss this further at a later time.” I turned away and started jogging towards the training field I could not believe what my mother had just said to me.

            Fye softly said; “Do not get to upset with her, she too is probable having trouble with the changes, give everyone time. I am here for you. You’re going to need my strength at times and maybe even my teeth.” She said with a giggle.

            “Thanks, Fye, now let’s see how training goes.”

Before I could even reach the men Burghart and Leonhart were running towards me.

            “Alpha.” Burghart belted out, “the men are very displeased with women joining us for training.”

Rolling my eyes; “that is not a surprise. They will have to get used to it. I have been training with them for three years now, I have proven to be a good fighter, the men have been supportive and allowed me to grow. I expect the same now. Just because they are not of alpha blood does not mean they won’t prove to be great fighters. Now go prepare everyone with a warm-up.”

Burghart grinned but Leonhart sighed while turning to head back. Just then out of the corner of my eye I caught my best friend Irmele skipping over to me. She was a sight, the male werewolves loved her, standing at 5’1”, blond hair, blue eyes, petite with an ample bosom. Irmele was always friendly and took center attention no matter where we went. Like me she had not found her mate either. My father granted her permission to go on the summer tour in hopes of finding our mates. A benefit of being best friends to the alpha’s daughter. She’s going to be disappointed when I explain we can no longer go. Hopefully, she will except my offer of being my second betta. It is extremely unconventional to have two bettas, but I feel having her by my side will be beneficial.

            Smiling as she bounced up to me, “Hette this is so exciting! I have been wanting to expand my fighting technique and you have given me and the other females the opportunity to do that. By the way Ayla could not be any more excited, she is spinning in my head with excitement.”

Ayla was Irmele’s wolf and just as bubbly and outgoing as her.

            “I am so glad you are excited and to see we have a good turnout. Looks like including you, ten females have come to join. I will be interested to see if any apply to join the warrior’s ranks. Even if they don’t it will be nice to know that we as women can defend ourselves. Let’s head over and get this party started, the men are not happy with my changes,” I said as we walked over to everyone else.

It was such a perfect morning for training it was still cool, but the sun was out in all its glory. Leonhart led us through some warm-up drills, then we moved on to some strength building. We then broke off into groups to start sparing. Since I had been training for a few years, I decided to stay with the new group of females and get them started. Luckily, Irmele and I had been secretly training so she was off to a great start and just as I figured she was being an immense help. Sitting back watching them spar I felt good about my decision to do this, now to see how the rest of this plays out.

Just then Leonhart belted out, “Five mile run out and five mile run back in wolf form.”

I swear I heard almost every. single. man, grumble at Leonhearts words. I stood up, and hollered out, “Okay ladies, let’s go!”

We took off leaving all the men standing around dumb founded.

As werewolves we had great stamina and strength, but we do have to work at building ourselves even stronger. It also helps when we include our wolves, something my father never encouraged. He figured if the man exercised, the wolf would be fine. The land our pack was on was a vast mixture of open rolling fields and forest. The warriors had worn down a running trail over the years that covered both. Open fields were great for stretching the legs for speed and the up and down of the hills, built strength. Going through the forest allowed us to merge with our wolves without fully transforming, thus helping the human side to dodge trees, and jump over logs. Prior to me taking over the group, we would run in a circle 2.5 miles out and 2.5 miles back, without allowing our wolves out. This was going to change that.  

Irmele, myself and the other females stopped behind some trees, to take off our close so we could give control over to our wolves. The men were right on our heels.

“Fye, let’s do this,” as I threw my clothes to the ground.

            “No problem girl, we she wolves are going to show these pigs what we’re made of,” Fye taking over and pushing me to the back of our mind.   

Bones started shifting into various positions, I could feel the hair sprouting from my arms and legs, my face contorted as it elongated into a snout. Goddess Fye was gorgeous. Red flowing fur, smoky grey eyes and we were just as large as the male wolves, thank you alpha ancestors.

Fye gave a toothy smirk to the females, dug her claws into the dirt and took off.  Ayla a blond wolf, with crystal blue eyes, was a tad smaller than Fye, but just as beautiful; was right on Fye’s heels, with the biggest grin. Like her human Irmele she had a bounce to her.

            “Fye,” I came to the front of our mind to speak to her. “Can we stay in front?”

            “I don’t see why not, we are alpha, keeping these fools behind us should be a breeze. Now sit back and let me focus,” she snapped.

Fye and even Ayla were awesome. We could hear the males coming up behind us and knew they were taking over the females, Fye and Ayla were not about to let them take them over.

The last mile was upon us. Glancing back, I could see my betta Burgharts wolf Bodi and right behind him my General Leonharts wolf Finn take Ayla. Bodi was a nice grey with black socks, Finn was deep brown with a black mask. Out of nowhere Fye took off even faster. It was like she hit the NOS button in a race car. Before I knew it, we were back at the training area.

            “Fye, that was remarkable, where did that speed come from? We have never had that before.

            After, giving a howl of victory she responded, “now that we have taken over, the alpha powers were transferred to us. We are faster, and stronger.”

            “With fathers’ death and not holding the ceremony it slipped my mind, Fye you sneaky thing.”

We giggled together and soaked in the victory of showing the warriors that we can run this pack. Now on to the final training this morning.

            Everyone came in shifting back into their human form and grabbing a set of extra workout clothes that are always lying around the training area.

            “Okay,” in a tone which everyone could hear me. “Please line up make sure you are arm distant away from the person’s next to you. I know you are hesitant about doing this, I ask that you give it at least two weeks. Leonhart and I will evaluate at that point. Take in a deep cleansing breath and let it out. Relax your body and clear your mind. Inhale, lift your arms, exhale forward fold, inhale flat back, exhale jump back chaturanga, inhale upward facing dog, exhale downward facing dog.”

Continuing to run them through a quick 30-minute Asana felt great. Hopefully, the men would learn to appreciate and see the benefits to this. I already knew the women would not have an issue with this part of the training.

After, we dispersed for showers and breakfast. Irmele and I after showering and changing met up in the dining room for breakfast. This is where I loved being a werewolf. Our metabolism burned at such high rates we had to eat a lot of calories to support our bodies. There is nothing like Belgium waffles, hash browns and bacon in the morning. The kitchen omega’s set everything up continental style.

            “Good morning, Patty. Good morning, Beatrice,” smiling and grabbing scoops full of hash browns.

            “Good morning alpha,” both replied in unison. Patty was setting out the bacon, “how is everything this morning alpha?”

            “Really couldn’t be better Patty, thanks for asking.”

            “Hette, are you going to hold up the line and take all the bacon or do you think some of us could get some of that mouthwatering, crispy goodness?”

            “Tell you what bestie if you put some of your waffles back, then I might put a few pieces of bacon back.”

Irmele and I busted up laughing while walking to sit at the table.

Beatrice at this point hollered from the kitchen, “girls don’t fret Patty and I can always whip up some more.”

Now everyone was laughing at us, because that is one thing there is never a shortage on in this packhouse, food.