The Alpha and His Second Chance Mate

A Luna Lost to War

He saw her from across the training fields, fighting against three enemy warriors. He had to get to her, now. He ruthlessly tore the head off the wolf he was fighting and started running in her direction. Alison, his mate, his Luna, the mother of his son. She had been sparring with the Beta Female, Claire, moments before the fighting broke out.

"Where is Claire? Shouldn't she be helping her Luna?" His wolf, Rider, growled roughly in his head.

As Alpha Damien ripped the heart out of another enemy with his claws, a fine mist of blood spraying to cover his face and upper torso, he saw Claire not far away protecting a young pup.

"What the f*ck is a pup doing here?" Rider yells into his head.

"How the hell am I suppose to know Rider?" He asked in a growl to his wolf.

Damien ran full speed at a warrior that was about to grab the pup Claire had been protecting. She was momentarily distracted fighting off two other enemy warriors. Alpha Damien ran into the enemy with so much force it sent the warrior flying through the air into a tree a few hundred yards away. Knocking the man unconscious and cracking the tree down the middle.

"Get the pup out of here, NOW!" He yelled at Claire through mindlink as he killed another enemy combatant.

She quickly picked the pup up, running towards the pack house. Damien's Beta, Jay, seeing his mate run away with a child, follows her, killing anyone who got close to them.

Damien turned in the direction his Luna had been fighting moments ago, only she was nowhere in sight. Just then, he felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck. He knew by the familiar, intense burn that it was wolfsbane. If his pack warriors didn't train to withstand it's effects, he would already be unconscious, leaving his pack vulnerable.

"Is that what happened to Alison? Did someone drug her too?" Rider asks faintly in Damien's mind. The drugs briefly weakening his wolf's strength.

With a swift spin, he backhanded the aggressor who was not prepared for his assualt to be unsuccessful. The warrior fell to the ground and Alpha Damien took the opportunity to kick him in the throat with great force, collapsing his trachea and causing a esophageal perforation. The warrior flailed around while holding his throat, gasping in desperation to get oxygen in his lungs. Damien ending the man's suffering, bent down and snapped his neck.

"Damien..." He heard Alison say feebly through mindlink.

"Alison baby, where are you?" He asked her.

He waited for a second but she didn't answer.

"ALISON!" He yelled through the mindlink as he ran in the direction she had been.

He decided he would just have to follow her scent to find her. Damien mercilessly slashed and tore through warrior after warrior, getting to where Alison had been before he stopped to help Claire and the pup. When he got to the spot, he followed her scent through a nearby women's locker room and out of a side door by the forest's edge.

In the distance Damien saw two men carrying off an unconscious Alison. Rage consumed him. He shifted mid-air into his midnight black wolf, running as fast as his paws would take him. Alpha Damien mindlinked his Gamma, Ray, while running of where his location is and to get there as fast as possible.

He was getting closer, the kidnappers couldn't run very fast carrying an unconscious she-wolf. He lost sight for a second when they abruptly changed direction, ducking behind a large tree. As he rounded the corner he immediately came to a hault, his heart dropping to his stomach. On the ground in front of him was his mate, laying motionless, with a enemy warrior holding a large sliver knife to her heart. He felt his Gamma run up behind him, stopping only a few inches to his left.

"Don't move! If either of you come any closer, she dies." The warrior holding the knife said.

"What do you want?" Damien asked, shifting back and putting a stoic look on his face.

The warrior opened his mouth to list their demands, but Alison started to stir on the ground under him.

"Damien" She moaned lightly, moving her head to one side slowly. She doesn't open her eyes, but she is clearly starting to wake up.

"Thank the Goddess!" Rider said breathlessly.

Only, the warrior plunged the sliver knife deep into her heart at that exact second. She tensed, grabbing at the sliver knife and letting out a blood curdling scream, before falling to the forest floor bleeding and unresponsive. Ray ran after the men, leaving Damien behind holding his mate in his arms, bleeding.

"Alpha, we need to get her to the pack hospital." One of Damien's warrior's said.

He was so lost in sorrow he hadn't even heard the group of warriors coming up with a stretcher. He lifted her carefully so not to cause any more damage and placed her on the stretcher, gently. The warriors sped off in the direction of the pack house, Alpha Damien was handed shorts and dressed quickly before taking off hot on their heels.

"FASTER" He yelled at them. "Your Luna is bleeding out!"

"I understand Alpha, but if we go much faster we might cause more damage to her already pierced heart." The warrior, named David said hesitantly.

Damien could feel the mate bond weakening. He knew she didn't have much time. They got to the entrance of the pack hospital, a team of doctors and nurses were already waiting to take her into surgery. The surgical team barely got Alison in the surgical suite for preparation when she flat lined. The doctors tried everything to save her, but it was too late, their Luna was dead.

"NOOOO" Damien screamed loudly, feeling the excruciating pain of losing a mate deep in his chest. Falling to his knees, he howled in pain before seeing black spots and being consumed by darkness.