Chapter 2 Attack

The forest rustled as they ran. Silvia looked to her left and right. She was alone. She could have sworn her elder brother was right beside her a while ago. He must have run ahead leaving her behind. Damn alpha.

She did not stop to scrutinize her surroundings. She knew was still in her pack. She hadn't crossed the border yet.

The air around her smelt of blood, rogues, and smoke. Everything she hated. She could feel the heat behind her. It had intensified, scorching her. The once-clear forest was covered in clouds of smoke, making it difficult to see. Her eyes stung.

Their pack, Red Crescent, was attacked while they gathered for a pack meeting. They set their houses ablaze. Stupid rogues. How did they even get into the pack undetected? Did they think they could take over the strongest pack in the city!

They were fighting machines, trained to kill. Some measly rogues could not fight them. This was the doing of an insider. That snitch was dead meat.

A howl resonated through the air. Another Pack member had died and It couldn't have been the rogues who did it. They were too weak to murder anyone of them.

It was the fire. That darn fire. Silvia watched it swallow a house in seconds, burning down everything it touched. It looked... alive. That was when chaos ensued and everybody scampered to safety.

"Let me go!" Silvia skidded to a stop and examined her surroundings. She was at the border of her pack. She crouched down and crept to a bush. She smelt five rogues and a pup. Was it one of her pack members? No, it couldn't be. "I want my mummy."

"Shut that pup up." One of the rogues growled. They were armed to the teeth. Silvia could spot silver knives with them and arrows. She wondered where they got arrows in the twenty-first century.

They were prepared for a fight.

"We can't hurt him, Cynthia's orders." A tall dark rogue replied. He was holding a cute little boy in his arms, he should be about five years old.

Cynthia? Of course, it would be her. That snitch. Silvia always hated her. Something about that girl just smelt fishy. She picked fights, bullied people weaker than her, tried to seduce the alpha, when he had a mate, and was mated to a rogue.

A Savage to be precise but she still insisted he join the pack even though she knew he was a potential threat. When the alpha refused, she went ballistic. Silvia honestly felt sorry for her at that time, everyone did. They offered to take him to a healer but she refused.

'My mate won't be used as an experiment,' she said. They should have killed them when they had the chance, now see what happened.

"Why are we taking orders from a woman? Does she think she is better than us because she came up with a shitty plan? Half of my men are dead because of her. If she had told us about Red Crescent defense, we would not have lost so miserably but thank God we have this little fellow." He said referring to the child in his arms.

He tried to pat the child's head but the pup bit him. The rogue growled loudly, his claws extended from his hands. He was going to hit the child. If he did, it would leave a nasty scar on his cute face. Silvia had to do something.

She surveyed her surroundings. If she acted fast, she could take all five of them. Without making much sound, in the blink of an eye, she snapped the neck of the rogue closest to her. This alerted the rest.

"It's a terminator." The dark rogue exclaimed, pointing at Silvia. They backed away from her in fear making Silvia smirk. Yes, they ought to be afraid because they were dead men walking.

"Let the child go," she told them.

"Do you think you can take the four of us on your own? Really?" The same rogue laughed when he saw she was alone.

"I think I can," she stalked closer to them, flexing her arms. Two of them pointed their arrows at her while the others brought out their knives. She watched that dark rogue drop the child beside a tree, a rookie mistake in their path. Now she could kill them without restraint.

She dodged the first arrow shot her way. She extended her claws and swiped the neck of the rogue closest to her, ripping his throat out. Rogues were weak.

She jolted in pain when she felt a sting on her left shoulder, an arrow was embedded in it. She went after the rogue who shot her. He swiped at her with his silver knife but she dodged it, smashing his face with her fist. She winced when she felt teeth pierce her skin, one of the rogues had transformed.

She kicked the wolf off her only to be shot by another rogue yet again. She stabbed her hands into the chest of the rogue whose face she smashed and brought out his beating heart then threw it away in disgust.

As she turned to face the other two rogues, chills went down their spines as they could taste their imminent death. The rogue in his human form lunged for the child with his knife but she acted fast and blocked the blow. She was stabbed in the stomach instead. She cringed in pain as she felt the the poison from the silva creep into her veins but she wasn't going to give up yet.

She pulled the knife from her stomach and jabbed it into the rogue's neck. Seeing this, the last rogue in wolf form tried to run away. She picked up a bow from the ground and aimed at him. It pierced through its skull. She stared at the bodies around her before collapsing on the forest ground. The exhaustion finally sank in.

There were two arrows with wolfsbane stuck in her back, her left leg was bleeding profusely, and she was stabbed. Not to mention the annoying cloud of smoke making it difficult to breathe. If she didn't get the poison out of her body fast, she would die soon.

"Miss, are you okay?" The little boy whispered, his eyes shimmering with tears. His blue eyes were so pure that she could see her reflection in them.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." she patted his head gently with a smile that resembled a grimace. "Where did you come from and why are you here?"

"I am from the Silver Moon pack. Those men took me when my nanny was asleep." He muttered.

"What's your name?"

"Jamie."

"Jamie, who are your parents?"

"Alpha Peter and Luna Grace. They went to the party and then some strange men came into my room and took me."

Her eyes widened in surprise. Silver Moon pack was their neighboring pack. The largest pack in the city, mostly because they welcomed rogues who stumbled into their territory. Their pack was so-called kind and peaceful.

Silvia scoffed. How weak was the Silver Moon pack's defense that rogues could sneak in and kidnap their future Alpha? Why would rogues steal their future Alpha of the only pack that tolerates them though?

"Okay, let us get you back home, buddy." she stood and picked him up. Thankfully, he wasn't heavy. "You have to be quiet, okay. I don't think I can fight off any more rogues." He nodded and they started walking.

Every step she took felt like death. It felt like a thousand needles were pricking her skin. The pain blurred her vision. If not for the harsh training she had undergone all these years, she would have been dead by now. Wolfsbane and silver alone could not kill her but when combined, not even the strongest wolf would go unscathed. Not to mention the amount of blood she had lost and the darn fire burning behind them.

"Miss, are you sure you are okay? Don't die." Jamie whimpered, hugging her neck gently.

"I won't die." she had no confidence in her words.

She stopped walking when she heard someone running towards her. She froze and prepared to attack but she released a breath when she caught the scent of the person approaching. It was Selena, her brother's mate and also the Luna of the Red Crescent pack. Her brown hair fluttered in the wind as she ran. The rims of her blue eyes were dyed red, indicating she was trying to control her wolf. She had some scratches here and there but she looked fairly okay. The rogues she fought probably were not with weapons.

"Silvia, what happened? You look terrible." Her voice was laced with worry.

"Rogues." Silvia managed to voice out. "Take him. That's Alpha Peter's son. He was kidnapped." she handed Jamie over to her.

"Why would rogues kidnap Alpha Peter's son?" Selena voiced in confusion. Unfortunately, Silvia was just as confused as she was. Selena's eyes then glazed over. She was mind-linking someone.

"Joshua is in Silver Moon pack. There is a situation over there."

"Take him and go. I will catch up."

"Are you sure? You need a healer."

"He is more important. You have to go."

Selena hesitated, "I will come back for you." She said before sprinting off.

Silvia sat back down on the forest ground to catch her breath. She wasn't going to die without seeing the last of this fight.