Alpha's Secret

The picnic

The picnic area is very close to the east border so I ask Tania to meet me there after I finish with my visit. I decided to do one today since yesterday I left Beta. He didn't lie, the warriors were actually worried when I didn't show up. And I can't blame them. Running in my wolf form is the only occasion when I actually feel free so I visit the borders even when I'm dead sick, just to be able to be alone and myself for a little while.

I wave at Tania who is already waiting for me under a tree. She has a huge picnic basket. It looks like she took the whole kitchen. But she was so excited that she woke up before me this morning, trying to cook the entire meal by herself. I even got a small taste of it before leaving for the visit, but she slapped my hand saying it's for later. I have no regrets, tho. It was delicious.

"Am I late?" I ask out of breath. I hurried as much as I could.

"Not at all, I came early to admire the place." she says with a smile as she invites me to sit on the fluffy blanket next to her. "Why didn't you tell me about it?"

She hits my arm playfully. I look around. The place really is gorgeous.

"Actually, I forgot about it. I haven't been here since I was ten." I say.

"What?" She looks shocked. "Why?"

"My father was always busy with work and after I grew old enough he would take me with him all day. It wasn't really the time for distractions."

"And your mother?" She asks.

"I wasn't really close to her. She didn't talk much and was a delicate and fragile person. We didn't have much in common." I answer trying to remember the sound of her voice but all that comes to my mind when I think about her is her smile. She had a really kind and comforting smile. I forgot about it, but lately, I'd remember it more and more. Probably because it was a lot like Tania's.

"I didn't get the chance to know mine. She died shortly after I was born. But my father would often talk about her. She was a real badass. One of the best warriors of the pack. "

"But were you closed with your father? You always mention him." I ask as she unpacks the food. She really cooked everything you could imagine. We could do a pack's dinner with all this.

"Yes, he was amazing. And he was great Alpha too. I learned a lot from him. He used to encourage me in everything I wanted to do. When I was little I wanted to be a ballerina and he would dance with me, then I wanted to be a soldier and he would train me every day. After I got tired o that I wanted to become an astronaut and he bought me a spacesuit for Christmas." She answers looking in the distance, lost in her happy memories.

I think about my childhood and try to find something like this too, but all the memories have the shadow of my secret. My parents couldn't encourage me to be everything I wanted because it was one thing that I had to stay away from: being associated with anything slightly considered girly.

"Did something happened?" Asks Tania concerned. She puts a comforting hand on mine.

"I was thinking. The more times it passes since then, the more disturbing some things that I saw as normal become." I answer truthfully.

She gets quiet for a while, wrapping her hands around me, only comforting me in silence.

"It's good to see you, Alpha, Luna! Are you enjoying this beautiful day, too?" A voice interrupts my thinking.

"Laura! What are you doing here?" Asks Tania jumping from the blanket to hug Laura.

"We were showing little Eric the pack territories." She says.

"Actually, Luna, that is an excuse to get out of bed aginst doctors orders." Says her husband kissing Laura's head lovingly while holding their little baby.

"It's such a beautiful day. How can I stay in bed?" Laura asks rolling her eyes but smiling at her husband. They seem so in love.

While I watch them arguing and joking around, a strange smell hits me. It's a dirty smell, like garbage For a second I can't figure out what it is, but then...

"Rouges!" Someone screams and all the people around start to panic, running in all directions.

"Take Laura and the baby back to the pack hose and tell Beta that rouges attacked from the east border. Now!" I shout at Laura's husband.

He transforms into his wolf form and takes Larua and the baby on his back, rising in the direction of the pack house.

"Go with them!" I shout over my shoulder at Tania while already running towards where the screams come from.

Some of the pack members transformed already, trying to hold the rouges back until the rest can take the children and the older people out of there.

"Stay together! Pack warriors will be here soon!" I scream and then transform myself to join the fight.

There aren't many rouges and a few of them run away when they see me. I try to make my program of visiting the borders as chaotic as I can so they can't memorize it and use my absence to attack, but probably today had had spies that sent word when they saw me leaving.

Thanks, Moon Goddess that I stayed here, or else it could have been a disaster. This spot is mainly for families with children and older people to enjoy sunny days. There aren't many warriors.

I bite the first rouge I see and I hear his spine c***k under the pressure of my fangs. More and more are coming from the woods, probably getting more courage seeing there are not many warriors, but still try to avoid me, forming just a circle around so they can block me from helping the others.

One jumped on my back and I throw him off, breaking his neck with my pow. But others take this as an opportunity and try to bite my back legs. I shake them off, but there are too many. I have ten rouges surrounding me while the few warriors that were around are asking for my help using our Bound communication.

I take a leap of fate and jump over the rouges, to help the warriors closer to me. She is already hurt and is holding a leg up, bleeding, but still fights fiercely.

I fight back to back to her until I hear one of the others scream. He is down. If I don't get to him right now I will lose a life today. I push against the wall of rouges, but once I bring three down, four take their place.

Alpha...

No no no!

A loud growling distracts me for a moment, thinking a more powerful rouge comes from my left, but no. A huge white wolf jumps off the rock next to us, right next to the wounded warrior.

Tania...

My gorgeous Luna joined the fight.

Her wolf form is bigger than mine and unlike her human ego, she is not sweet at all. Three rouges lose their lives in seconds.

She puts herself so the injured wolf can be safe under her. The rouges are surprised by another powerful wolf coming into the fight so they look at each other for a few seconds. A lot of them retreat and the few that reminded behind are easy to deal with.

Even more, I hear the sound of warriors coming towards us.

The rest of the rouges run away.

I take a deep breath. We overcame this.

I look at Tania. Her white fur is covered in blood, but after a closer look, I realize it's not hers. Now all I have to worry about is the injured warrior. I turn to look at it and I hear Tania growling. I look around, expecting to see the rouges coming back, but she's looking at me. I follow her eyes and see she is looking at my back.

And then, I feel the pain.

It's so sudden and so sharp that for a second I forget to breathe, falling on my knees.

I feel Tania's pow pushing against the point that hurts and I scream in pain. She is probably doing it to stop some bleeding that I can't see, but still, the pain makes me lose my mind.

My vision is starting to get darker.

No! I have to stay awake. My father teaches me how to take care of my own wounds since letting the doctor touch me would mean another person finding out my secret. I went through two wars and endless scars, I stitched my own wounds using my bathroom mirror to see the ones on my back. I will not fall now.

"Alpha!" I hear my Beta scream.

Oh no! Anyone but not him right now.

"Doctor! Now!"

I see the pack doctor coming towards me and I try to raise my head and tell him to stop and that I don't need help, but I feel too weak. I lost too much blood.

That means...

My body is not capable to support my wolf form anymore, I feel slowly transforming back to a human form. Without clothes, it will be impossible for them not to notice I am a woman.

I am screwed!