Drake’s POV
Everyone was running around, trying to save my Luna except Simon. Thelma had been shot. I didn’t know how many hours she had stayed out there in the cold. The Prefect had asked me to stay put but I couldn’t restrain myself so she asked Simon to make sure that I wouldn’t come in while she was trying to save Thelma’s life.
I tried to fight my way through but Simon wouldn’t allow me. “Common, Alpha,” he said. “You need to stop this. She will be okay.”
“Can’t you see that she is bleeding, Sim?” I said, crying. “She could die.”
“We are not sure, yet,” he said. “Besides your presence wouldn’t change a thing. Let us wait here for Cecily. She knows what to do next.”
Cecily had only allowed Alpha Richard inside the room where Thelma was lying but wouldn’t allow me. That was unfair, I thought. I had every right to be there. Alpha Richards and the prefect came out to meet Simon and me talking in the lobby. I stood up and said, “How’s she?”
Cecily and Thelma’s father both shared a glance that I didn’t just like. “She’d lost too much blood,” Cecily said. “And the bullets were silver. It is 50-50 for her. She could make it, she could not.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?” I asked.
“It means that my daughter is at the point of life or death,” Alpha Richards said. There was an underlying sadness in the way he spoke the words and it made me wonder how he was able to comport himself- while I couldn’t.
“Which means that another doctor would need to be invited here if she will have the chance of survival and it has to be done quick,” Cecily suggested.
“So who do we call? Uh,” who?” I asked impatiently.
Simon cleared his throat. “I think it is time we seek out for Small Doctor.”
“Nice one,” Cecily said, nodding. “We haven’t seen him in ages. To boost your chance of finding him on time, I think you should leave now.”
“We heard that he dwells solitarily in the high mountains of the north. It might not be too hard to find him.”
I nodded. “Then, leave now, Sim. Find him and bring him home.”
He nodded. He turned to leave but then someone ran into the lobby. It was Princess. Her face looked sad. “What’s the problem?” Cecily asked.
“We are under massive attack.” She breathed.
“What?” I shouted. “Oh no. Not now.”
“Who is attacking us?” Richards asked.
“Werewolves are,” said Princess, quickly. “They are already inside.”
“How could they have possibly entered?” Simon asked.
Princess frowned and shook her shoulder. “I think someone might have opened the gate for them. Not far from someone that shot the Luna.”
“We don’t have time for debate. If they are in here already, then we need to start fighting,” Alpha Richards said. “Simon, I think you should leave. Focus on finding the doctor. Bring him home and make sure my daughter leaves. Alpha, I think we have capable hands here. Let’s go kick some ass.”
I nodded in agreement. “We have to move.” I called upon my wolf immediately. I wouldn’t have if we hadn’t been in danger. I turned into my wolf, Richards did the same thing. I rushed outside, anger blurring my vision. The fact that my Luna had been harmed presented the ground for my anger.
I saw Cynthia in her wolf form, fighting with two grey wolves. She had been pinned to the ground and left with no space to escape. I moved in immediately, hitting the greyer wolf atop her in the chest with my left paw. The wolf fell to the floor, blood gushing out the chest. Cynthia dealt with the other wolf and ended up killing the wolf singlehandedly.
I left there and moved into the other incoming wolves. I fought with two and dismantled their attack by blinding both enemy wolves. While I was fighting with the third, I felt a sharp claw dig inside my back. I winced, looking back quickly. I saw a dark-furred werewolf chittering in excitement. I left the other two, rushed the dark-furred, and mounted on it. I threw my weight at it and we both fell to the ground. I was on top, while the wolf was below. I tried to dig my paws inside the eyes, to blind them. It managed to evade the deadly attack and it tore the nose instead. Before I could launch another attack, a wolf brushed me on the hinge joint and I lost my balance. Cynthia came to my rescue, she fought the new wolf and I went back to the dark wolf.
The dark-furred wolf saw me coming and began to run away. I pursued it but was able to catch the wolf after we had come close to the main gate. I dived and gagged the asshole in the neck. He managed to throw me off its body. I rolled so hard that I hit my head on something very strong. I changed back to my human form immediately even when I didn’t plan to. The dark wolf changed too. Only then did I know who I had been up against.
“Rudolph,’ I said, panting. “You snitch! You brought enemies to my home.” I knelt with one leg, the other hand placed on my knee. The sight of the asshole irritated me.
“There are no rules in the jungle, Alpha,” Rudolph said. “Haven’t you heard of such philosophical terms before?” he laughed.
I rushed him again with the intent to kill him. Just that this time, it was hand-to-hand combat. I managed to get hold of him in the neck by wrapping my arms around him. I seized his throat. He wanted to speak but I didn’t allow him. We stayed on the floor until he could no longer breathe. I killed him.
I stood up from him and spat on his body. I left him immediately and went back to the field where the fighting had been intensively going on. Getting closer, I saw Alpha Rudolph bleeding. He had changed to his human form. I quickly rushed him.
“Oh my. . .” I said, my hands in my mouth. He had been shot. I hunkered down so I could cover his wound. “Just breathe, Alpha. Just breathe.” I looked around for help but I didn’t see one coming. “Let me go find help.”
He held me by the arm. “My time is over, young Alpha,” he said. “Listen to me. I will like you to have this.” He offered me the ring I had given him on the night I broke him out.
“I can’t take that,” I said.
He smiled, blood gushing out from his mouth. “It belongs to you now. I want you to have it but with a promise.”
I frowned but didn’t say a word. “Promise you will forever protect my daughter from harm. Promise me you will forever keep her safe.” He clenched his hands around my palm.
Tears rolled down my eyes. “I promise.”
He smiled. “Thank you,” he said. “Watch out.” I looked and saw an incoming wolf wanting to attack me. I faced him and killed him. I looked around and I noticed that we were winning- with a huge cost. Some of the enemies who survived were retreating. I looked up just in time and found the vampire girl running. I looked in the direction of her run and saw a vehicle readied for her to leave. “It is her who shot me,” Richard said.
I didn’t turn to look at the dying Alpha before I pursued her. I caught her before she could enter the waiting car and managed to get the gun she was holding off her grip. I quickly picked it up and pointed it to her. The vehicle that had been waiting echoed and zoomed off, leaving the vampire prisoner under my command.
“If you move, then you have guaranteed yourself I won’t be keeping any prisoner.”
I handed her over to Bridget and Princess to lock her up for me. They obeyed. I rushed back to where I had left the Alpha in the field.
Unfortunately, when I got there, the Alpha was no longer breathing. I cried bitterly beside his corpse. It was so painful losing the man I assumed to be my father. When everything was over, I gave orders that the Alpha would be given a befitting burial ceremony- the highest that could be given in the pack. I assembled everyone who made it out alive in the field. I decided to speak to them.
“Today, the blood moon pack lost so many heroes,” I said. “So many people have put down their lives just to make sure that we leave.” I looked over the corpse of the Alpha who had been laid very close to where I stood. “The blood of these heroes would be avenged and those who brought this calamity upon us would be made to pay a great, great price.” After I was done talking, Cecily approached me and told me that Simon was back in the pack.
“Small Doctor had been able to wake the Luna,” she said.
“That’s good news.”
“Are you sure about that?”
True. I was not sure if I liked the fact that Thelma had survived. I didn’t just know how I was going to tell her that her father died almost on the same day she had been shot. Would you do me favour?”
“What?” she asked.
“Just tell the Luna everything that had happened. I have a business I need to attend to.”
“How do you expect me to do that?”
“Find a way, prefect.”
I left her. I went inside the prison the vampire girl had been kept inside. “In order not to waste both of our time,” I told her. “I would want you to tell me what I need to know.”
She looked at me for maybe ten seconds before she nodded. “Were you the one who shot my Luna?”
She shook her head.
“Who did?”
“The human girl,” she said.
“Which woman girl?”
“The same person who snitched your people up.”
“Bridget?”
“Is that her name?” she said. “That is my maternal grandmother’s name. She lived for three hundred years. The name belongs to the older generation. Or don’t you think so?” I didn’t respond.
“I will see you later,” I said. I left her and moved to Thelma so we could talk. She was crying when I arrived and alone.
I hugged her. I never wanted to cry but I did. “Who did this to us? Can you tell me who did this? Who shot my father?”
“The vampire girl did,” I said.
“Where is she?”
“Do not worry, she had been taken care of,” I said. “Who shot you?”
“Bridget.”
“Bridget?”
“Yes, Bridget,” she said. “I will find her, and I will end her.”
“True, but you need to take a rest first,” I said. “You need all the rest you can get.”
She does need all the rest in the world. I have a promise to keep and I wouldn’t allow her to put her life on the line just because she wanted revenge.
No.
No.
I will keep her on my side.
Always.