"Sasha's POV:
'Wake up darling... it's almost 2 in the afternoon' my mother said, waking me up from my beauty sleep. 'Mom, 10 more mins, I replied to her while covering my head with my pillow.' Sasha Lina Vanders, it is a beautiful day out there and you are wasting it away by sleeping.
Urggghh, my mother is one of those parents that wants you to enjoy the beauty of what nature has got to offer. Instead of being cooped up all day on your phone, she would rather you be out there having a picnic and basking in the warmth of the sun. She shook me again, harder this time...'okay, okay I'm up' with my hands up in surrender. She just shakes her head and laughs, turning on her heels while I follow suit out of my room.
Following her down to the kitchen, my father was already seated at the table, ready for lunch? Oh yeah, I slept through the morning so I missed breakfast. 'Good morning Dad', I greeted ,giving him a hug while he looked at me with a funny face, smiling, 'you mean Good afternoon''? He corrected me and of course I giggled.
My dad is 6 '4 and has a lot of muscle, I mean, he is the Alpha. He always has a serious face on, if you do not know him well, you would think he is the scariest person in the room and probably be afraid of him but then, if you know him ,you would realize that he is the sweetest person ever with such a big heart. But don't get on his bad side, he can turn to one big bad Alpha real quick.
My mother is 5"8 with very beautiful brown hair cascading her shoulders with matching brown eyes. She is kind, beautiful and like my father, has the biggest heart. Her smile could literally light up the whole room when she walks in.
After having lunch, I decided to do just as my mom had suggested and make the most of the beautiful day... I decided to go drag my best friend Emelda to enjoy the beautiful day with me. We decided to let our wolf out for a run in the garden. Mel was a beautiful 5'6 girl with a cropped shoulder length, sandy blonde hair with emerald eyes. Her wolf was also sandy blonde with emerald eyes.
As for me, I am 5"5 with a really long mixture of brown and black hair with brown eyes while my wolf is gray with white ears, paws and a little white on the tip of her tail. We are both 18 yards old and haven't found our mate yet. I know one day I'm going to find my Knight in shining armor but for now, let me enjoy the company of my best friend running in our wolf form under the sun.
Hey Sasha, my wolf Lina (yes our wolves have their own names, and most times it is always our middle names except on rare occasions where they have a different name entirely) called out while we were chasing Mel, damn that girl is very fast. Yes Lina what's up, you sound edgy girl, are you okay? I responded. I'm not sure why I feel this way but I feel like something is going to happen. Just keep your guard up. 'Okay' was my response.
The run was great, both for us as humans and for our wolves too. Mel and I decided to go back to the pack house to see everyone as well as refuel our energy back up with food. The pack house was opened for anyone in the pack to move in but if any pack member desires privacy or just wants a place to call their own, then they can build a house. Like my family, it is just Dad, Mum and I, which means that I'm next in line to be Alpha only when daddy retires or I'm ready to take over seeing as I am the only child. But then, I'm in no rush to be one at all.
I do have my own room in the pack house as well. Our pack consists of 500 werewolves but that is actually small in comparison to other packs. We were one of those peaceful packs, though we had alliances but we tried to stay neutral.
Walking into the pack house, we were greeted by my father's beta, Alex. He smiled at us and gave Mel a hug, ooh I forgot to mention that my best friend is the Beta's daughter. Unlike me who is an only child, she has an older brother named Kyle 23 and he was the future beta. 'Where are you headed, Pops?' Mel asked her father. 'Pack business, take care of yourself sweetie, see you later at home' her father replied waving goodbye to the both of us.
"Weird , my father has been working a lot these past weeks, wondering what pack business he has going on that has got him so overwhelmed.' Mel said out loud. 'Now that you mentioned it, my dad has been busy too, today was the first time in weeks that I have seen him come home for lunch.' I also replied out loud. We brushed it off and headed straight to the kitchen. Grabbing some cookies and other snacks we could find, we stuffed our faces and thanked the Pack chef for the treat. We headed down to the game room where our other friends were.
'You fucking cheater' Sam said after he lost to me for the third time in a game of Mortal Kombat. 'How can I cheat in this stupid easy game, stop being a sore loser. Just admit you lost to a girl.' I replied while sticking my tongue out to him. 'Sasha, you cheated and I'm not admitting anything you stinking cheater', Sam said while flipping his middle finger to me. That asshole, I stood up from the couch ready to throw the game console at him but Mel came in the middle of us, shaking her head, 'you guys know this is just a fucking game right, she said lifting her eyebrows up with a grin. She was always the peace maker. We all continued playing the play station until it was dinner time.
We all decided to have dinner at the pack house rather than go to our various houses to eat seeing how famished we were after a series of game marathons. 'Hey, are you going to go home after dinner or stay at the pack house tonight?', Mel asked me. 'I don't know, what about you?' I asked her too. We looked at each other and as if we practiced, squealed and screamed 'Slumber party'. Got my room in the pack house ready with a lot of junk foods and had Netflix on. My room was one of the biggest rooms in the pack house, one of the perks of being the Alpha's daughter. We both got in under our blankets, ready to continue from where we stopped watching the Season 4 of 'Stranger Things'. Tonight was going to be a great night...or so I thought.
Sasha's POV:
It was around two in the morning, when I was woken up through the mind link by my Father, 'GET UP NOW, WE ARE UNDER ATTACK' my father said loudly. Emelda woke up quickly beside me and we looked at each other with confused, terrified faces. We then scrambled to our feet, and ran all the way downstairs, outside to the front of the pack house.
It was pure chaos. Pack members were running helter skelter, screaming and shouting. Some were with children in their hands. There were a lot of dead bodies of my pack and theirs... I was beyond shocked, like completely out of words. Like who would do this to us? We were a peaceful pack, we never made any enemies or even tried to start a war. I stood there, I could not process what was going on, everything was happening really fast and swift. The smell of blood was overwhelming, the screams were deafening, I could no longer hear, I was so lost and confused, the only question on my mind was simply 'Why'.
My mother mind linked me, 'Sasha where are you sweetie?', her panicked voice asked. 'Mom, what is going on?' I asked her. 'Sweetheart, now is not the time to be asking questions, where are you?'. I didn't even realize I was crying until I fell to my knees, combing through my hair with my hands and discovered my hands were shaking. 'Sasha now is not the time to sulk and be weak, our people need us'.. my wolf Lina said. 'Tell me what to do,' I asked her. "Give me control," she replied. So I shift into my wolf and let her take control. Lina started fighting, heck I don't even care if I die. I would gladly die with honor knowing I died while defending the people I love and cherish. I turned to see that Mel had also turned into her wolf and was fighting.
We got near the border where the attack was mostly happening and mind linked my father, 'Daddy where are you?'. No response. I was terrified. Please moon goddess, don't let anything happen to my family. Then I spotted my father and mother fighting alongside the Beta and his family (Mel's mum and brother Kyle). I joined the fight along with Mel, we were completely outnumbered. Like way out numbered. My father then noticed us and mind linked me, 'SASHA, GET OUT OF HERE NOW. RUN'. 'NO, I'M NOT LEAVING YOU GUYS OUT HERE ALONE. I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY DADDY, I'M FIGHTING ALONGSIDE YOU GUYS'. He turned to me in his wolf form and shook his head.
Just after that happened, Emelda's mom was bitten in the throat, with her neck in the other wolf's mouth, she mind linked everyone', I love you Emelda Cassie Jones, and Kyle Adams Jones. I love you so much Alex, don't forget that, I love you all'. And her eyes went black. The wolf had ripped a chunk of her throat out, he then threw her lifeless body to the side like it was nothing. The next thing we heard broke my heart, it was Beta Alex howling in pain, for the loss of his mate, the loss of the love of his life, you could hear multiple howls laced in pain after this, it was our pack howls, the pain of losing someone close to us, someone that is like family.
The howling stopped, then I turned to Mel in my wolf form rubbing my head against her neck to try and comfort her. At that point, my mother shifted back to her wolf form and ran down to us, 'Sasha darling listen up... you and Emelda need to go..." she was abruptly cut off by someone. 'Tsk Tsk Tsk, now now now, Mrs Vanders, if your pack could just comply with our new contract, this alliance would still be strong and this would never happen'. I turned to see the one person I would never have thought to see...
XAVIER.
Xavier is one of the few packs we have an alliance with. His father was a good friend of my father, they made an alliance to always keep each other's pack safe from external attacks. If one pack needs reinforcement, the other would jump in and help. They were our trusted ally. About two years ago, Xavier's mother died from a rogue attack which led to his father becoming lost (kind of like a lost soul, he is not dead). Once you've lost your mate, it's hard to remain sane, though it is not impossible.
This ended up making Xavier an Alpha at the age of 22. It was always Xavier, Kyle, Emelda and I growing up. Every time Xavier came over to our pack with his father either for business or random visitations, we would always run around together, play video games and even see who was better at what games. Xavier was like the older brother I never had, he was someone I was comfortable with, someone I trusted. We even thought we would be mates at one point but when he turned 16, he knew we weren't mates which was better for me because like I said, I viewed him like an older brother I didn't have.
'Xavier please let the girls go', my mother pleaded with him. I was so confused, why was Xavier attacking and killing my pack, my pack was like his pack. We were neighbors, we were practically family. 'You want to know why I'm attacking your pack Sasha?', Xavier asked, turning to face me, I nodded my head up and down saying yes, seeing as I was still in my wolf form. 'It was time to make a new contract, if we still need to be in Alliance, then your Alpha would need to give you up to me, to be my mate. You have Alpha blood, and I have Alpha blood, so our pups would grow up to be strong werewolves, so you see my dear, none of these would have happened if your father was to put his pack and duty as an Alpha first by giving you up rather than choosing to be a father first, this is all your fault.' I stood still, I was dumbfounded.
I was brought back by my mother's piercing screams 'Sasha Run'. I looked and saw one of Xavier's pack wolf lunges for my mother, grabbing her by the throat and before she could say anything else, snapped it thus killing her. It was easier because mom was in her human form. I heard my Dad howl in pain from the loss of his mate, his wolf going crazy, killing everyone from the other pack around him in a frenzy. I was frozen, My mother... the woman that gave birth to me, the woman that loves me unconditionally, the woman that taught me right from wrong, the woman that couldn't even hurt a fly, the woman with a pure heart. The woman that always had a smile on, one that always put her mate, her daughter and the pack first, before herself. The woman I truly love with all my heart...is gone. Gone in a blink of an eye and I couldn't even get to say goodbye. I was lost in my own little world. The screaming stopped, the vile smell of metallic blood also gone. Everything was gone, I couldn't wrap my head around what was happening. I was in serious shock.
I was brought back to reality by my father, he was in human form. He probably changed back when he noticed I was having a mental breakdown. 'Sasha, Emelda, leave, run until you can't run anymore. You guys need to leave now. I love you and your mother loves you too. We are definitely proud of the woman you are becoming. He said in his Alpha voice before morphing into his huge wolf. 'No daddy, you can not do this to me, you are all I have left. Daddy please.' but my legs were already moving on their own accord.
A couple of Xavier's pack wolves lunged at us, but my father, Beta Alex and Kyle killed them before they got to us. We were running straight towards the border and just before we crossed it, I heard Xavier scream, 'Sasha wherever you go, I will find you. I promise you that. And I will kill everyone that is helping you. MARK MY WORDS'. I took one last look at my home, a place I've called home for the whole 18 years of my life, the place that I grew up in, my pack, it is all gone. Houses were being burnt, dead wolves and children that didn't even grow up to experience having their own wolf.
It was all my fault. Xavier's words were embedded in my head,' It's your fault...'
It is my fault.
Sasha's POV:
We were running for hours. We were so hot as we were currently in the middle of summer. We stopped and stole some clothes, we didn't have anything. I mean we were attacked while we were sleeping, the last thing on my mind definitely wasn't to bring any spare clothes along just in case. Both Mel and I had lost our bonds with our fathers, meaning they didn't make it. We finally got to a clearing in the woods, and sat down, holding each other as we cried for hours while comforting ourselves. 'Sasha', Mel called, 'yeah' I responded, 'What are we going to do now?, she asked. 'I don't know Mel, everything is just so messed up', I said. 'But one thing I'm so certain about is that I am going to kill Xavier Emile Conoway'.
'I will avenge every single person that died. He took everything away from me Mel, he killed everyone I loved. How could someone we trusted do this to us?' I was curled up with my knees to my chest crying out loud. 'I killed everyone Mel, it is my fault. If dad had just agreed to this stupid contract, none of this would have happened, everyone would still be alive.' I spat. 'Sasha, don't say that. It is not your fault. We didn't know why our dads were working so late, we had no idea about this new contract. We didn't know that Xavier was so evil and capable of being a monster, that he wouldn't even consider honoring the moon goddess and respecting the mate bonds.' Emelda said while she was trying to comfort me. She was right though. I doubt my father would have ever thought that Xavier was capable of doing what he did to our pack. Even so, I knew that my Dad would never sell me off or trade me for some stupid contract. We sat there and continued crying. We had no other person but each other.
After some hours had passed, we didn't know what else to do, we just kept walking and it was now getting dark. We were hungry, so we hunted for some rabbits and ate them raw in our wolf form. We also slept in our wolf form, but we took turns to sleep. Right now, I'm on watch while Mel is sleeping. 'Hey Lina', I called out to my wolf, 'Yes Sasha?' she responded. 'Are we ever going to be okay?' I asked her shakily, 'only time will tell but we need to be strong because that is what your parents would want.' my wolf said. 'Yeah you are right, thanks Lina', I told her. 'I know', she replied. If this were under normal circumstances I would have laughed, and said 'Cocky much', yeah Lina can be cocky.
'Wake up Sasha', Mel kicked me. 'Urggghhh, can't I sleep for five more minutes' I groaned...'No, it is time we find a place to call our home.' she said. We have literally been sleeping out in the woods for days. Since it was in the middle of summer, there was no need to have a blanket or an extra layer of clothing. We hunted and ate it raw in our wolf form. But summer is going to be gone soon, so we needed to figure out something fast. 'I don't want to put any pack in jeopardy. You heard him, he said he would kill any pack that helps us.' I said. 'Well it's been almost a week since the attack, we need to figure something out fast.' Mel said.
Where were we going to go...