SWNOVELS Chapter ANA: She's gone
I stretched and quickly use the bathroom before changing my clothes. I was still at my father's home until Sinead turned 19 and took over as Alpha....or something happens before then. As I was brushing my hair, Snid bursts into my room.
"She's gone!" He said frantically. Once the words left his mouth, my ears began to ring. Gone....gone where? I attempt to mindlink her but she has blocked me out. I was starting to panic too and I could tell Sinead felt it through our bond. Confirmation to him I didn't know anything either.
Sineaf turns and races down the stairs with me close behind him. I follow him out of my house and run barefoot at his side. When we reach the pack house Sinead wastes no time storming up the stairs to the Alpha's office. He didn't even wait before he kicks the door in.
"Where is she!" His wolf was at the surface and I knew that even I wouldn't be able to calm them both. This was his baby sister. Alpha Druid pales at his out burst. "Where...where is who." The asshole has the nerve to play stupid in the face of his unhinged son and his wolf. Sinead circles the desk and grabs his neck.
"Don't toy with me you bastard! Where is Alexi!" Just then a warrior runs into the office. The warriors eyes grew large as he looks on at the situation before him. His wolf clearly acknowledging the true Alpha as he bares his neck to Snid. "Alpha its beta Harris." Sinead squeezes Druids neck tighter. "What about that scumbag." Sinead was practically foaming at the mouth. "He's dead sir." Sinead jerks his head towards the warrior and a cruel smile spreads across his face.
The warrior again bares his neck and turns to leave. "Luna" he bows politely to me and I'm stuck there, shocked. "You're next!" Sinead drops his fathers body to the floor. Druid gasps for air. Fear evident in his eyes. Sinead goes to the door and calls back the same warrior. "Get a group of your best trackers together and go search for my sister." The warrior went to leave and Druid finally finds his voice.
"I am the Alpha, you listen to me!" Sinead began to laugh manically as the warrior looks to him. "Go and search every where." The warrior nodd and leaves quickly calling to other guards as he goes. Sd turns back to Druid and stands at full height. His aura causing Druid to gasp for air again. My wolf just swooning at his dominance, purring with pride.
"Not for long! I, Snid Alexander challenge you Druid Alexander for Alpha of the Ridgewolf Pack!" Snid and his wolf bellow out. Druids eyes search frantically around the room. Before he schools his features. "Challenge accepted. We do this at dawn." Snid began to chuckle again. "No old man, we do this NOW! To the death!"
I gasp but feel Snid soothing my nerves through the bond. He has something on Druid. He grabs his father and drags him out to the front of the Pack house. He links his best friend, now Beta Ilad and she gathers the pack. "Ridgewolf pack. Before you is the lump of an "Alpha" who has tormented us all. But no one more then my mother whom he killed." The crowd gasps, some growl at him.
Snid contines. "My baby brother, whom he has neglected since he tore him from our mother's stomach, myself and lastly my sister whom he handed over to his sick, perverse "Beta" as a choosen mate...at 12!" The pack began to bare their teeth and move closer to druid in attempt to get him. Snid holds his hand up to stop them.
"He justifies his actions by stating he is the Alpha." Snid says with venom in his voice. "My sister is now missing a week before her 13th birthday and injured but to what extent we don't know." At that Ilad whimpers before focusing on Druid. her chest rising and falling as she fights her wolf for control. Snid must link her because she nods and calms down slightly. I guess he knows why she's upset.
"So family! I have challenged this pathetic excuse of an Alpha. Is there anyone here who objects?" I look around the group of people and no one speaks up. Looks of disgust and anger towards Druid were all you can see. Snid drags Druid to his feet. The two begin to cirlce each other. Druid swiping wildly at Snid but missing.
Snid slides between Druids legs and uses his arms to spin with his leg extended. Swiping Druids legs from under him, sending him to the ground. He quickly angles his knees and spins up right. Druid was growling from the ground, slipping as he tries to stand. As he got to his knees Snid kicks him in his ribs. A sick crunch sounds and Druid begins to wheeze.
Snid steps back and Druid staggers to his feet holding his side. He begins to shift and a golden brown wolf stands in his place. We all gasp. He wasnt black! We had never seen his wolf. He always patrolled with Harris and never did pack runs using treaties and work as excuses. Once the kids were to old to use of course. Snid looks shocked and then laughs. "My mother! You are an Alpha be marriage and marking! I could end this by claiming my title right now! I AM THE TRUE BORN ALPHA!" Snid chuckles and the crowd does too. "Pathetic." Just then Druids wolf runs and latches onto Snids shoulder. This pisses Snid off and he roars before shifting into his magnificent Black wolf Zeus. He dislodges Druid in his shift and snaps his jaws at him.
He starts to drag druid back and forth in the dirt while shaking his massive head. As Snids wolf locks his jaws around Druids neck the wolf whimpers. His eyes tell that he knows he's going to die. With one final snap Zeus comes and drops Druids body at my feet. He just publicly claimed he as his luna. Tears fill my eyes as I nod at him and smile.
The ground rumbles with the stomping of feet. Howls fill the space as Snid shifts back and turns to his pack. Every member present bares their necks to their new Alpha and Luna. Except for a few that will be handled later. Ilad comes to Snids' side. He extends a claw and slices both of their plams. As they clasp hands Ilad's Beta aura amplifies. She then bares her neck and smiles before hugging Snid.
Congratulations fill my head. But none of them are Alexi. "We'll find her, I promise my love." Snid whispers and holds me close. I just hope we aren't to late when we do.