Born to be Alpha

Chapter 1: The Weak Alpha Daughter

I whimpered in pain as I clutch my stomach after falling into the ground. A few meters away from me I see Ariana, who is standing proudly, with her arms crossed and her famous sinister smile.

I hear Aries kneel beside me as he watches me and hears me groan in pain.

"Are you alright?" he asked, worried and lifts my head to rest it on his knee. I could not answer him. Ariana just threw me on the field, and I flew away from where we were standing, how can I be alright?

"Lyca!" I hear my best friend Kara running towards me.

I feel my joints dislocating and my bones cracking.

"Too weak to fight Lyca?" Ariana asked walking up to me, making fun of how much weaker I am compared to her. "Are you sure you're an Alpha daughter?"

"Enough." I hear Aries warns Ariana as he scooped me in his arms before lifting me up.

"When are you going to improve?" He muttered under his breath.

I held tight on his shirt as I stop my tears from crying. The words that came out of his mouth are not what he really meant. I know he wanted to say Why are you so weak? You're an Alpha daughter, younger sister of your pack's future Alpha and cannot even fight a Gamma?

I hear a sinister laugh among my trainee mates and hear my brother's heavy footsteps coming to me.

"What happened?" He asked Aries.

"She got a pretty bad blow from Ariana." Aries informs Mateo.

"Did you really have to pair them up?"

"They were free to choose their sparring partners." Their voices started getting softer as I succumb to the pain of sparring with Ariana.

I have always been physically weaker than most of my classmates. Despite my parents being the Alpha and Luna of the Suncrest pack, I can never be half as good as them. The only reason why I am weaker than my parents is because I am younger than them and lived less years, but that is not enough reason for me to be weaker than my other classmates who are of the same age as me, and some are even younger.

Most of them even had their wolves and shifted at the age of 13 to 14, while I don't even have my wolf yet.

Does she not want a weak human like me? Is that why it's taking her too long to come? I've been training day and night to get stronger, but the stronger I become, the stronger my classmates become as well. I could never catch up to them. Not even to the level of an ordinary pack member.

It initially did not bother me when my wolf did not come when I turned 13. But when I turned 16, I started getting anxious of not having her. I would blame myself every time I am reminded that I do not have wolf.

People started shunning me when they realised that I haven't had my wolf yet, but not my parents, not my brother and his friends and my friends. They all keep on telling me she will come at the right time. And now, I am starting to think that maybe not. Maybe she won't come at all. Maybe unlike them, I am after all a human, or a werewolf shunned by the moon goddess.

I woke up three hours later in my bedroom. I don't even know how I got home. Maybe it was my brother, like he always does. This is not the first time I passed out during training. This is not the first time I was questioned of who my parents really are.

"Weak." My classmates' voices ring in my head, giving me headache, but worse heartache.

"Time for dinner." Dolores, the house cook called from outside my bedroom. I told her I don't want to eat only for my brother to come in 5 seconds later. He must have heard what I said. He pushed my door open, I can feel his anger from where I am, but I didn't bother me. I just want to be alone, no matter how pathetic it sounds.

"No one's skipping dinner." He sternly tells me, but I ignore him, burying myself under the blanket. He suddenly yanks me out of my bed as dragged me out of my room.

"You're hurting me!" I bellowed at him and pulled my hand from his tight grip.

"Then stop being so stubborn." He glares at me as Kai, his wolf surfaces turning his eyes into red. Mateo quickly pushed him aside to take control.

"You need to eat."

"I don't want to." I answer to him. He did not say anything but continued to drag me into the kitchen. "I don't need to!"

"Why not?!"

My eyes started to feel wet as tears started escaping.

"It's not like skipping dinner tonight will make me any weaker than I am now, does it?" I sniffed, trying to stop my tears my I can't.

My parents and brother stood silent after what I said.

"Are we getting to that conversation again, Lyca?" My father asks me.

"You're not weak." My brother tries to reassure me.

"Yeah? Tell that to the Gamma who just threw me to the other side of the field today. And everyone who did the same."

No one spoke a single word. The words hitting them like a knife as they realise they can't. Their opinion doesn't matter anymore as I am already starting to sink into the pit of believing that I am what everyone says. Weak.

I turn my back away from them and started walking away from the pack house.

"Lyca!" I hear Mateo call, but I ignore him. He was about to run after me, but I could hear my father telling him to leave me alone for a while as I needed it.

Drinian Acoff is my father, the Alpha of the Suncrest Pack, my mother Mia Landre-Acoff is his Luna, the daughter of the Suncrest Pack's former Beta, before Beta Luca took over. My older brother Mateo is the next in line to be Alpha. All of them have reputations of being strong, both as a human and a wolf. A reputation that I am about to tarnish.

I reached my favourite spot of the forest, which is the lake that separates our pack from Clearwater Pack, Aries' pack. If I just cross the lake or walk around it and walk another kilometre, I'd be reaching Clearwater. But I will not do that. I don't have the courage to face Aries. He's been training me for almost a year now and has never seen an improvement. I am his weakest trainee. The weak link, both of his trainee group and my pack. Secondly, I do not belong to his pack, so once I cross the border, their patrols could detect an outsider's presence and alert them. I don't want that. I don't want to cause another trouble for my parents who already has a lot on their plates.

They are too busy keeping our territories safe because of the constant threat of the rogues and other feral packs, and they even have to worry about their daughter, being the weakest among the students and having no wolf to prove her worth.

As these words run in my head, more tears start flowing non-stop. I am such a disappointment to them. They've always wanted a daughter, that is why they never stopped trying until they had me, only to be a disappointment and embarrassment for them.

The only thing that's keeping me in the pack is that fact that my parents are the leaders. Had I been born into an ordinary pack member family; I will surely be banished.

I froze as I realise that the forest has suddenly gone still. The birds stopped chirping and I couldn't even hear the leaves moving along with the wind.

That's when I heard a low growl beside me.

I turn to see a humungous grey wolf, staring at me as if he was thinking how to end my life.

'Rogues' I whisper. Because I haven't had my wolf yet, no one can communicate with me through the mind-link, because you can only do that once you get your wolf.

I slowly got on my feet as the wolf slowly, but steadily approaches me. Tears would not stop running from my eyes and I can feel my heart about to jump out of my body. I smell death.

Is this the end of me? Being taken by a wolf and I couldn't even fight? Even to the last moment of my life, I am still the weak Lyca Landre-Acoff of Suncrest Valley Pack, the daughter of Alpha Drinian Acoff and Luna Mia Landre-Acoff.