GATECRASHER
1576 Words
DWAYNE.
I have taken risks all my life and it's not by luck that I am the Alpha of the Sandbank pack. I have been through a lot, fought battles, won some and lost some but in the process our pack has grown stronger and stronger. We have so many enemies and a few friends and it's by being strong that we haven't fallen to the enemies.
I trained as a fighter when I was so young and by the time I was mature I had already fought many battles. We fight mainly for territory but some other times we fight with rogues who are always looking out to conquer us. We border a big forest where these rogues live and they are a constant threat to our peace.
The worst battle I ever fought was against the leader of the rogues. He is a very powerful rogue who fights using sorcery. His name is Ivan the horrible. I was leading our fighters against him because he had crossed into our territory without informing the Alpha, at that time my father. We fought for three days and eventually I got to fight him myself. Physically he was strong, and so was I. Everyone stood aside and the whole battleground went silent as they watched us. Two invincible warriors, one with experience, and me with youthful vitality.
Many times I brought him down and just as I was about to unleash the final blow and annihilate him, he chanted some magical words and I went into a stupor. All of a sudden I stopped seeing anything and the world started going round in circles. That's when he attacked me until I almost died. Were it not for the intervention and treatment I got from a healer, I would be dead now. Since then Ivan has retreated into his forest, possibly to strategize.
Later my father stepped down and installed me as the Alpha. Since then we have enjoyed calm in my pack and I am happy, but deep down I know about the threat posed by Ivan, that leader of rogues in the forest. I may need extraordinary powers to vanquish him and his lot so that I can stay in absolute peace.
I am also not happy. Sometimes I feel sad because I haven't met my mate yet. All my age mates have mates and I wonder why not me. I have attended several parties and functions but still I haven't found her.
Tonight I am going to do the unimaginable. I am going to gatecrash on the Riverine pack where they'll be holding a party and look around. Maybe I will get lucky. They are holding a party to announce that the son to the Alpha, my age mate Robert, is getting engaged. I find it a desperate gesture because he should also wait like me for his mate.
I have known the Riverine pack for a long time and I know this Robert and his father. Our packs are enemies, and at one time we almost fought. We don't share boundaries, and our enmity came after they expelled some members who later sought refuge in our pack.
They followed after them in hot pursuit, led by the Alpha himself and Robert and I repulsed them as I was the leader of the fighters back then. Since then I have been a wanted person in the Riverine pack and setting foot there tonight will be an act of war. If they see me or recognize me then my life will be in jeopardy, but as a warrior who has seen the inside of a battleground, I can afford to jeopardize my life in order to get what I want. I want a mate and am ready for everything.
I am heavily disguised. No one can recognize me, not even my own father. I don't look like an Alpha, I look just like any other random person. It's in this state that I walk into the ballroom where the party is already getting started.
There are already many people in attendance. I mingle with them and I take my time to walk around, looking to see whether I'll find my mate. There is this feeling that I have and I am hopeful that I'll be lucky tonight. That raises my spirits because a mate is the only aspect that is missing in me so that I become a strong Alpha. My pack seriously needs a Luna.
The dais is packed with serious dignitaries. I know most of them because as an Alpha I know many other Alpha's because I deal with them frequently to discuss pack matters. But since I am in heavy disguise, they can't notice me and I can't risk talking to them.
Then my wolf, Azam, starts stirring at the back of my head, something he doesn't do without good reason. I get more alert and concentrate on what is going on. The curtains are raising and in comes the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. She's wearing a cream dress and a red jacket. Her black hair is tied into a bun and she walks in high heels which augment her already tall and slim figure. I am transfixed at the spot as I behold this extraordinary beauty. Then my wolf Azam starts stirring again.
“Our mate. That's our mate. That's our mate." It's as if he's singing a chorus, whispering.
I can't move. I am dumbfounded. The girl is my mate no doubt because Azam has already confirmed. But she's the same girl that is being engaged to Robert.
It's as if the Alpha reads my mind because he announces them as a couple in haste to the ululation of all those present. Bottles clash as they propose toasts, expensive wine is splashed around and the whole ballroom is a controlled pandemonium. I can't believe that I can be that unlucky. To find my mate just when she is being coupled with another man is the least of what I expected. I can't move. I am at the same spot where I stood when I saw the girl. My vision is hazy, because I am not even thinking straight. My wolf is uncontrollable, with whispers of how our mate has been found filling my head.
In that haze I notice that the girl is restless too. She's looking around and I keep an eye on her. Even though she has been engaged, I still have some hope. I follow the movement of her eyes keenly and the inevitable happens. Our eyes meet. I see a glow in her eyes and I can't keep quiet.
“Mate." I mutter
“Mate."
I can see the movement of her lips and even though I know very little about lip reading I am certain that is what she has said. She has acknowledged me as her mate. I don't care whether she's the girlfriend of the Ivan the horrible himself, as long as she is my mate, I am going to get her. I can fight a thousand Roberts to get my mate. I decide to move to the dais and take her. It's going to be a war right now, a war to get my mate.
But hell breaks loose. As I walk to the dais I see the Alpha already consulting with other pack members. They are talking in low tones, pointing in my direction in an animated discussion. Robert has broken loose on his grip on the girl and now he is animatedly talking to his father. The girl looks at me, her beauty glowing. It's as if she is hoping that I do something.
Looking at the males, I can tell that they are scheming something bad against me.
I must make a hasty choice.
I am faced by two options, staying here and getting my mate will be risking my life and hers in the process. Escaping and saving both our lives is the other option. As a fighter who knows that retreat is also a battle technique, I decide to get out slowly. I turn to leave only to find out that it's already too late for that. Guards are streaming in from every door and Robert has left the dais and he approaches me accompanied by other guards. Time for me to do the unimaginable.
I jump on top of one table, toppling a few bottles that clash on the floor, breaking with a lot of noise just as Robert issues instructions for the guards to strike.
The guards are only a few feet away from me, baying for my blood. That's when I jump from the table, grab the chandelier and using it's cord as a swing I crash into the glass window. It's a tough glass and it doesn't break on the first attempt. The chandelier is still strong and it bounces back.
The guards attempt to grab me but miss me by a fraction of an inch. The chandelier is swinging again and this time the glass shatters on impact, sending me to the floor outside. The chandeliers chord snaps and sparks erupt as the naked wires meet. Shards of glass fly around as the ballroom is engulfed in darkness. I hear animated sounds and screams inside as the party comes to an abrupt end.
I get up quickly and run towards the stone perimeter fence with the guards in hot pursuit.
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