THE RETURN OF ALPHA MYLES

THE ATTACK

Chapter 1

I'm woken up in the middle of the night by a sudden loud bang. As I try to figure out what it could be, it's banged again, this time even louder. It's my bedroom door, someone is outside, banging it to get my attention.

I hurriedly look at my bedside clock and it is a few minutes past midnight...something has to be wrong.

“Who is there?" I ask. I'm already in a panic mode.
It's unusual for anyone to be coming to my door at this time of the night, not to mention banging it with such abandon.

“Prince Myles, open up quickly, it's me." The unmistakable voice of my mother the Luna shouts from outside.

This is so unusual! What is my mother doing outside my room at this hour? Why has she come herself when she could send one of our many maids?

From her voice, I can tell she sounds panicked, adding up to my curiosity. Many factors doesn't add up.

I jump out of my bed, still on my pyjamas and bare feet and I walk towards the door and opened it. My mother, her hair disheveled and her face devoid of the usual beauty walks in, shutting the door behind her. She's obviously in distress, adding to my gut feeling that everything is not alright.

I want to ask her what the problem is but she speaks first.
“Listen my son, get dressed right now. We are leaving. Now." She tells me in a voice so commanding that my nerves shrink.

“But why are we leaving? Where is dad?" I asked her, curiousity taking over my ten years old self.

She scratches her head vigorously, further destabilizing her long hair, her eyes beginning to change color, her temper beginning to rise.
“Son, please do as I say." She says softly.
One look at her eyes scared me into submission.
“I'll be coming back in a while, be ready in ten minutes." She says as she walks out hurriedly, banging the door behind her.

I wonder what could have prompted my mother to make such a decision but there's no time...I make a mental note to ask her later.

Right now I need to do what she has ordered me to do, for the respect I have for her.

I have so many clothes to choose from, and I see no need to call in my guard who's in the adjoining room.

Hurriedly, I chose my best clothes and put them on, complete with some warm clothing because from my room's windows I can see heavy rains pouring outside.

I keep on wondering why we're needed to leave so abruptly but I can't find a reason. I just hope that the Alpha my father is fine, though I'm not sure whether he's leaving too.

As I put on my shoes, my mother bursts into the room again.

“Come, let's go. Don't take anything with you. Quickly, let's get out of here.”
She's already in a panic modes and I look at my room hurriedly, and I have a gut feeling that I'm seeing it for the last time. My mother grabs my hand and pulls me out.

“Come, we have to use the fire escape, the doors are unsafe." She tells me. A lone guard who's not the one allocated to neither mum nor myself escorts us to the roof and I wonder where the rest are. However, there's no time to ask question since this seems like a matter of urgency!

Ordinarily, the Palace is teemed with guards and maidens. Without asking questions, we follow him to the top landing where the fire escape is and mum commands him to go first.

The guard stands alert, his sword ready.
“But mum, why are we escaping? Where is dad?" I ask her, now uneasy about the sudden developments.
She eases up and walks away from me. Then she comes back to me, looking at me straight in the eye and decides it's fine to tell me the truth. My ten years are enough for me to handle it.

“Your uncle has toppled your father's leadership. The Alpha is dead, and so is his Beta, Gamma and their mates. His loyal guards, including mine and yours have been captured, and imprisoned and now they're looking for you, the heir to the throne and Pack leadership to kill you. However, I'll make sure that doesn't happen, that's why I'm sneaking you out. But you have to obey my orders without question. Now, go down the fire escape, I'm coming behind you." She commands.

I have no time to digest the devastating news therefore I start scaling down the ladder. After going down a few steps, my mother follows suit and minutes later we're on the ground, and the guard at the top is gone.

Just then, I hear a loud command. “They must be somewhere in here. Search for them and bring them to me, alive if possible, dead just as well!” The voice is unmistakably from my uncle, and it's clear what he's talking about.

I don't understand what's going on. Earlier, I couldn't believe my uncle could do the things my mother was accusing him of, but now I have heard him clearly giving out instructions for my mother and I to be killed!

What's a sudden twist of events!

Uncle Cedric, the Top Warrior of Riverside Pack has previously been good to me and we have been good friends, but now he has turned enemy, but why?

We're hiding behind some bushes in the palace courtyard, in the rain, watching as guards criss cross all over, holding long swords, obviously looking for us.

“If you utter a single word, we both die. Maintain silence,” my mother would whisper every now and then, a warning that is unnecessary because I already know all that.

Cedric could be heard every so often, barking instructions for the guards and warriors to keep looking and it'll only be a matter of time before our hiding place is discovered.

We have to move!

“We have to go up the wall, into the forest beyond, then escape to the East.” My mother whispers, pointing at the perimeter stone wall fence.
The guards are now combing the lawns, coming closer, now only a few meters away, closing in.
“Now. Let's go! You go first, I'll follow.” She whispers the order and I spring up and run the fifty meters to the wall.

Behind me, I can hear mum's footsteps as she follows closely behind.
“There they are. Get them!" An order is shouted and heard all over the gardens by a familiar voice...a voice I used to adore but now has turned bitter in my ears.

Looking around I can see some guards and warriors running, coming after us, swords ready, but I'm already at the wall.

I jump and grasp the top of the wall, then haul up my body over and land at the other side.

I anxiously wait for my mother who tries the same but she can't heave her weight to reach the top and the guards get to her before she can make it.

Looking through a small hole in the perimeter fence, I see the soldiers dragging my poor mother away, then I hear her shouting to me. I can't hear what she's saying as the rain and shouts from the guards and warriors drown her voice away..

One guard in particular catches my attention...he has been her mother's guard for years, but now he is leading in capturing and dragging her away!

His name is Michael name, always royal to her, until now when he has changed allegiance.

"Run Myles, run.”
I hear her clearly now. Even in her distress, she is brave enough to warn me.

Seconds later, I watch in horror as Michael drives a sword through her chest as the other soldiers hold her still, but even as she's dying she repeats her command, “Run my son, run.”

Michael draws out his sword, then looking through the wall where I have escaped through, he gives the order.

“After the boy and don't come back here without him.” He orders!