Noble and Proud

Prologue

"Adelaide! Please don't stray too far!" 

I turned my small snout around to take a peak at my mother in her human form. I was begging to go for a run in the forest all week now. For some reason it was hard for me to stay at the main camp, instead I always wanted to be out and about.

"Adelaide! Listen to your mother." My father shifted and bounded over to my racing shape of grey and auburn fur then grabbed my scruff. He brought me back to my mother and dropped me at her feet.
"Now now, Addie. No need to rush. Enjoy what you see around you. Warm days like this don't last long you know."

I shifted right in front of my parents and grabbed some spare clothes from the bag in my mother's hand. As I went to put on my clothes I heard my father voice his worries to his mate.

"It still bothers me how easily she shifts at this young age, Abigail. You know what that means, don't you?"
"Calm down, Nolan. So what if she's the mate of an Alpha. She's grown up with it with us, so it will be no problem for her to adjust."

My father sighed again, looking over to me throwing mud around the clearing we had settled into. My mother handed me a juice box and I took it in my small hands willingly.

The peace and quiet of our stroll was interrupted by a long howl from the south, the direction of our pack being watched by our Beta, Dean.

"Adelaide get up! Dean and the pack are in trouble!"

I scrambled to my small human feet and followed after my parents as they ran through the woods. After a few feet we shifted, my mother forgetting the bag of food and clothes after it was snagged on a tree branch.

She turned to me and barked to push my paws harder, and the thought of all my friends getting hurt made me listen to my mother for the first time in a few hours.

By the time we slammed through the tree line into the clearing where our pack house was located, I could already smell the fear from all of my family. Once I slid to a stop at the sight of wolves laying in their own pools of blood, I heard my friends howl for me over in a corner.

I ran over to them, once again ignoring the demand from my father that I stay behind him.

I grabbed a towel off of our clothes line and shifted quickly on my way over to my friends being shielded by an enforcer. I knew the enforcer, his name was Nathaniel.

"Where have you been, Adelaide!" He exclaimed after I slid in behind him to be with my friends.

I wrapped my towel around myself tighter and pointed to the woods, and then to my parents who were fighting hard to repel the rogues.

"Adelaide! I thought you and the Alphas were attacked in the forest! I kept howling for you but I got no replies!" my friend Porter told me while he shook my shoulders frantically.
"We're fine, Porter. It's just the Alpha blood in you that makes you so worried."

I turn around and notice that the fight has begun to push out to the forest. My parents are part of the party of the Red Willow pack that are fighting hard to protect their people from the rogues.

I didn't know then that this will be the last time I get to see my parents so brave.