Forgotten Alpha

by Alexi Maisonet

  Her look obvious, it worries her. “Gurl. You’re my dangerous BEYOTCH! will.” But I know why Carmen said dat. Sable’s a Celestial. Only mama Alpha can create a barrier to deflect his power. Both being Celestials. Their power, a gift from the Goddess herself, dwarfs all sups.

  I give Randall a look in my rush “Do I have to spell it out for you?” a growl in my tone. “ He is out for the rest of the day. But he will wake up. Let’s hope his mate gets here before then. If not, I might have reduced the barrier to protect just you, me and Bella.”

  ALMOST THERE

  Since learning of him, I’ve wasted all day in pursuit of my mate. It’s now 10 pm soon the full moon will appear, GODDESS NO. If Sable phases he will unleash his full might & will uncover all sups. I must get to him FUCK! I must make it in time to be with Alejandro. My frustration builds as I sit Inside my car, I yell a powerful wulf Speak growl “ENOUGH!! My name is Reuben ACOSTA!! ALPHA OF THE CRIMSON MOUNTAIN PACK!! The goddess has led me, my mate, & he needs me. I will NOT FAIL HIM NOT NOW Never!!

  Looking around, I see a motel right off the exit and signal my resolve to exit. One driver, however, decides he is going to cut me off and take the space. “SON OF A BITCH!“ slamming my Car gear in park. Pissed the hell off to his stupidity. I get out and walk over to his car. Seeing my deadly intent he rolls up the window. With one punch I smash the drives window grabbing him by his shirt collar “WHAT!! YOU DID NOT SEE MY FUCKING SIGNAL!!!“

  The smell of fresh urine climbs up into my nose, glancing downwards at his seat. The human literally PISSES himself saying “SO..SO.. SOR. SORRY.“ the terror in his voice evident. Without saying another glaring word. I walk back to my car. Once there I park my car in their property & pay a week for a room I will never use, (more for my car than the room itself) and make certain the room is as far towards the rear as possible, close to the backwoods. Adelphi had not gone inside with me. Choosing, instead to wait in the car until I came back to head to the room.

  I go around to the back of the inn following the row of numbers to my room. Reaching my spot, I go into the room pulling out the “DO NOT DISTURB HANGER” then come back out and place it on the latch. I open the car door get in and I undress tossing my clothes onto the passenger seat. I get out bare and close the car door. Standing naked now, I look around making certain the coast is clear then phase.

  “AT LAST!!” Crimson howls coming forth in a blink and bolts. I don’t stop or look back to check on Adelphi. I am gone heading to my mate. My thoughts are on my mate “He needs me and nothing or nobody will keep me from him!” Crimson howls as he continues running. Hoping the howl reaches our mate in time. The earth beneath my feet touches my paws before they pick up off again, the city lights are blinking past me in blurs as I keep to the shadows but speed past the light posts. I am heading north. Towards my mate.

  With cautious movements through alleyways. I remain in the shadows so as not to be seen. Coming into view. I see the woods just ahead. ALmost there. Till three huge disheveled hounds, strays, have the misfortune of crossing my path, causing me to stop. I growl, lips pull upwards jaws parted hackles raised “MOVE”. The largest says “hehe Make us”. “ You presume I will be food.” my malevolent tone reveals their fate “You have made a GRAVE MISTAKE!!.”Without another word. I launch myself to the trio. Within seconds Their throats ripped out no warning, no time to react, not even a sound.

  Done. I make for the edgeline, drawing closer to the woods… and my mate. Still, they have cost me precious time. Then I hear it in the distance, a howl, his howl, My Alejandro’s HOWL! It carries on the wind, picked up by my ears. Its resonance becomes the fuel spurring me on. Causing my footfalls to quicken, removing my fatigue, renewing my resolve, urging me to not stop or rest, as it will always be. Howling back to him my pace only further accelerates. I will never stop running “Sable, I am coming my love. We will be together at long last. Please hold on Amor Mio for I have found you and nothing will keep me from you.”

  I pick up his scent as it comes strong leading me through the woods, driving me forward still running never wavering in my stride, past a lake still running, up a mountain; still, I am running. Never do I weaken, never do I lose speed, nor once does my stride weaken. My chest throbbing from the lack of air, breathing heavy, my muscles burn from the exertion.

  Reuben speaks “let me take over Crimson you are not pacing yourself.” I yell “NO!” For the first time since discovering our mate, Reuben becomes quiet. Then he spoke with wisdom, holding my complete attention to what he says “At this pace my wulf companion, you will kill us before arriving at our mate and we will all die.” I halted. He’s right. Rueben now takes over.

  CELESTIAL GUARDIAN ERUPTION

  I come to, searching around and realized. I am sealed in the fucking cage!! Screaming “Randall, YOU DICK!!” I attempt to stand up only to realize I could not. The pain from the effort was excruciating. Forcing me to remain where I am. growling I pick up my head to look at my surroundings. Looking past my bars and out the window to my left, up towards the moonlight coming through. feel its overwhelming magnetic pull stronger than ever. The misery in my chest grows. Transforming into forging inferno seeking escape. With it, a profound voice whispers “Sable, I am coming my love. We are one please hold on Amor Mio (my love).” Shutting my eyes tight, I ignore it I am losing my mind.

  “Who would want me? Who would want to deal with a pathetic, lost soul like me? My answer is brief, No-one. No-one would want me like this, not even the Crimson wulf. A tear appears to come down my cheek as a whine escapes my throat, Confusion, lost, sad. That’s what I have become, sad. Not even good enough for a wulf to love.” From these thoughts, the pain in my chest expands. Hurting in its descent into the black desolation that is the blankness within me. From here it transforms to become a rage, rage wanting release.

  Anger turns to rage building till I can hold back no longer ... and I submit. Letting it burst free, I feel it swell climbing within. Rage. Tilting my head back to yell with force, but a howl bellows forth. A howl released with such vibrating power, force and intensity it shatters outwards, the glass of my window.

  Looking out through the smashed window, my gaze turns upwards to the beautiful moon’s warmth. Its intoxicating beauty caresses me, welcoming me like the woman in my dream. I want to empty myself of my emotions, so fucked up in the head. I don’t even know who I am. If only the Crimson wulf in my dream was real and here. But he isn’t. I am trapped. Lost in my own mind… …and alone.

  How did this happen? Why did it happen? I am so fucking tired of being lost, not knowing who I am, or remembering the people who love me. Being stared at with sympathy as if weak. The pain in my chest grows stronger. Mixing with growing bitterness, it throbs within me. I think of the red wulf again, knowing he would not want me either. Who am I kidding I WOULD NOT WANT ME! not like this? A knot in my throat develops from the fear I feel. Is this it? Is this how I will live? Lost in my mind? Forever living a life in a body I don’t know?

  “NO WE WILL NOT!” the power of another takes over me. A power surges through me. Taking control. My head creens back and releasing my being into another howl, howling for all I am worth. For the first time, I admit “GOD DAMN that FELT GOOD!” But in seconds something takes place that causes me to look outside the window again. Wind gusts join the weather assault, crashing into the barrier. Black clouds form over the cabin release blinding lightning bursts. Thunder booms rumble, having reflected in tune with my howl. Lightning pounds the barrier. In seconds, daylight surrounds the cabin. Illuminating everything in its rays. Again, and again, it rushes downwards with conviction. Again and again, it is repelled.

  Repelled, racing to the lake, or the surrounding woods, or the lake again. Not once does it pass through the barrier...for now. Turning my head towards the window, my burning neck tendons, I look towards the window, gazing at the moon my only consolation.

  But then for the first time, I heard a baritone wulf howl. The smell of fresh pi
ne and earth reaches and penetrates my nose. But it is all I need. My mind reels, producing an excitement that courses through me taking over. Because of him. His baritone voice distinct in wulf speak Crimson my beautiful red wulf Crimson. “Sable, I am coming my love. Please hold on Amor Mio For I will never leave you alone again.” and this time ...I know who it was.

  A powerful will of faith awakens, growing from within my essence. Filling me. with a surge so powerful, resisting it is useless. I cannot. It is a melody nourishing my soul. I accept this confidence and it restores me. Feeding my strength, Hastening up my pulse like a motor revving from 0 – 120 MPs. Pounding in my chest. SO much so I hear my blood pumping in swishes in my ears. This time I know why. CRIMSON!! And snarl “I cannot, I will not BE WEAK! MY wulf WILL NOT FIND ME LIKE THIS!” Outside the lightning, thunderstorms rain ferocious havoc on the cabin. Slamming with such increasing force. The ground beneath me quakes. “I WILL NOT SUBMIT!!! I CAME HERE TO UNLOCK MY MEMORIES. AND…. I…. WILL!!”

  Anger replaces fear. Intense electrical energy currents rip throughout my whole body to my core. A voice full of hidden power, tender yet happy tells me “soon Ale” I presume it is my dickhead brother Randall who shut me in this jail. Trying to yell but howl again, then growl? Ignoring the voice, my rage builds again, the wind, intensifying becoming gust blasts on the cabin. This, however, strengthens my conviction with a growl. But it sounds is a dark roar coming from the pit of my being, increasing strength and force. I cannot stand but I can VENT!!

  “RANDALL YOU BITCH!!! WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE!!”

  Outside, fierce lightning whip lashes across the clouds above me, developing much heavier. Their flashes, light up the night sky converting night to day. In my mind I watch it rocket downward striking the barrier and it obeys. The ground again trembles, quaking this time. But, once more it veers the lightning to the lake. But I am not done, my rage continues building. In response, so too does the strength & mounting frequency of the thickening lightning strikes. Attacking the barrier like a sledgehammer striking an anvil. Each time the barrier deflects it. But with each strike, it is building its power, force & repetition. I know because I can feel this happening IN ME. As if something is connecting me to the lightning.

  “Sable,” I say to myself, “Is this your doing? Is this why It hurts too much Sable that I can’t move.” From everything, I have experienced today? I no longer think my family is crazy. Still, I am left with only one question on my mind “Sable, why did you leave me?” Thinking of this wulf supposedly my wulf abandoning me? leaving me like this. My anger renews, mounting. Becoming full-blown rage. The force of the lightning attacking has become relentless. Almost as if responding to my growing rage and determination. “FUCK THIS I Will STAND UP!! The crimson wulf WILL NOT SEE ME WEAK!!” And once more, I try to stand.

  Once more searing pain immobilizes me “AHHHH”. I can’t, I can’t stand up. However, it also does not quell my inner fury. I release my final anger with a ferocious snarl GRRRAR!! The final lightning skyrockets downwards and slams full force responding to my anger. The barrier, it’s the target, assaulted with purpose. Creating an intense luminescence of light from each impact, its brilliance penetrates into the surrounding woods, creating daylight. In my mind I can see woodland animals, their bodies radiating different shades of electricity, running for their lives.

  Yet the lightning slams with the force of a sledgehammer, and SHATTERS THE BARRIER!! However, for one last time, the barrier holds. Electricity lashes in all directions, hitting nearby trees, shrubbery, and earth around the barrier, turning them to smoldering ashes. The Cabin stands alone now At the mercy of the next bolt of lightning. Which I see building within the clouds.

  Maybe it is for the best. The next bolt will destroy this cabin and me with it. I came all this way to find something and am no closer than when I started. My crimson wulf will find me weak. Chances are, he will reject me. I whine for a moment looking out through the broken window towards the moon. Who am I? Is what is happening with the weather my doing? I again getting agitated and I see the weather worsens. For a moment I think of the voice of my wulf Crimson. As I do, I feel better and calmer. As my eyes look out to the moon, the improvement in the weather shows. Guess it must be passing. My thoughts once again focusing on Crimson. Where are you? Then I hear him and I stop. His wulf speak soothes my fears for a few moments. “Sable, I am coming to you my love. The goddess has sought to unite us at last. Please hold on do not fear for I, AM COMING.” his wulf speak is almost pleading. As if fearing something will happen by not reaching me. He is coming. My Crimson wulf is coming and I whimper.

  -CRIMSON-

  A steady wind gust served as my guide. However, it passes. With it, so to does Alejandro’s scent. I am compelled to stop for and once more am gripped with anxiety. A second later, something else becomes my guide, something exhilarating rushes through my being. Causing me to dive into some shrubs racing forward. His scent no longer matters because he does something which causes my body to tingle telling me; he is close.

  A howl from far comes flooding, inspiring me with exhilaration unlike ever before in my life, calling I rush towards it. Racing in its direction, I come to a lake holding three cascading pools. Its beauty is enthralling. The night sky above glistens with dancing starlight. Combining its light off the lake. I halted here for a moment for reasons I do not know. I hear and feel Reuben’s anxiety in his wulf speak “Please. Please. We can do this later with Alejandro and Sable. Let's GO!”

  “Yes, your right.” Approaching the rim looking over the lake. It is from here I hear his call again, stronger. My mate’s call sends my nerves ablaze, overwhelming me like a tsunami and I set off once more. Plunging for the woodlands again, I leap onto a boulder above the surface of the waterfall in its center. Then leap again to the opposite bank. Snapping foliage branches passing into the thick underbrush. forth to my mate’s howl which is closer. And stronger.

  Reaching the summit of a small hill. I stop. His how faded. Straining my hearing, ears pricked forward. Body trembling ready to bolt at the slightest indication. “Come ‘ on Alejandro. Please Mate I am close. Tell me...GUIDE ME.” My only sign comes in his growing electrical power. I now feel coming off every single life form all around yet. It is my Sable I do not feel my mate. I am close. I know it. “I have sought you for many centuries my mate. Please do not despair. For I am coming. Show me a sign Sable anything. I will not live again without you. Not this time”

  I wait, remaining poised for Alejandro’s howl again. Something else it hits me, becoming my guide, his scent. Alejandro’s Night Blooming Jasmine, his scent envelops me, radiating through my nose down into my core being. My body radiates with anticipation, alive, energized. My mate’s scent gets even stronger when closing my eyelids, I am able to focus and better track him. Relying solely on my nose, I follow it. Turning my head, I seek it by its strength When I reopen them, I know exactly where he is.

  A few yards away. A dwelling is being barraged by increasing thickening powerful lightning bolts. But with each strike I see a barrier illuminate from the lightning strikes as it continues supporting the cabin from taking harm. THERE! That is where my Alejandro is. I trot forward, my mate is here. This lightning storm is his doing.

  Approaching, the cabin the spheres clear away. Forming a tunnel extending outwards towards me granting me safe entrance. This is when the tunnel extends to me; I am stripped of my senses. The smell is overwhelming. Alejandro’s powerful aroma lifts me to a state of Eurasia. Something I have never encountered. Then I understood, all my doubt relating to my mate’s condition… gone. Only three words, Crimson hears from me “Alejandro…….I am here”. I bolt racing inside, following it around to the back. Tracking the scent to where it is greatest and immediately I am brought to a stop.

  Looking in, past a shattered window with its fragments littered outside its frame…. I see him. Lying down just inside, whimpering, his eyes look upwards towards me “Crimson” I hear, my heart pound
s, my nerves become jittery, my legs threatening to give way from weakness. At that moment, I feel my soul together with my body. melt. Drawn into the most beautiful silver eyes I have ever seen. The only eyes I will always yearn for. Realizing then, I dreaded for nothing. All fear of what I would face. Gone. Such is the nature of the mate bond. Whatever his affliction, Alejandro is the only wulf I will ever love yet he remains unaware he has phased. This is the only wulf I will want and love. With one leap I pass over the remains of the shattered window shard’s. I walk tail wagging, whimper, over to the metal bars looking around for a means in.

  All the while SABLE follows me with his eyes repositioning his head to keep me within his field of vision. I am about to phase to human form when I hear footsteps approaching close from upstairs. A door opens, and from the top of the stairs, I hear a female voice with a tone of sorrow. “Welcome home Alpha. He’s been waiting for you. ” Having said this, I hear a click and in response, the enclosure door unlocks, itself jarring granting me admission. The female now closes the door and I hear retreating footfalls. Using my muzzle, I push my way further. Opening the cell door. From his first phase in years, my mate moved. walk over to him whining, tail moving so strong my whole rump is moving. But from what I see, I am not alone. His own tail is hitting the floor hard Thumping. For the first time, I hear his wulf Speak “Crimson wulf you found me.” and for the first time, I understand my feelings. Happiness.

  Laying now, next to my mate, licking his muzzle rubbing his forehead with mine. I pull back, taking in how beautiful he is responding “and I will never leave you. promise.” Sable whines as I continue “Mi Amor Bello (my beautiful Love), sleep. For I, am here and will always be here. You will never be alone again.” Like a blanket coming to console, I finally give in, allowing my exhaustion, at last, to take over me. As it does so, I fold myself close to my mates’ side, breathing a deep sigh. With the gentleness as if he were a baby, I place my head to rest across his collar, shrouded in his scent. A scent I will never become accustomed to. For I will crave to always smell him. Closing my eyes, with great inner peace in my soul and mind, I fall asleep…….Better Then I have…….. in years.