The Protector

Chapter 2 - Always be prepared

Chapter 2 - Always be prepared

11 years later, being 15 years old

The last week I've been training every morning from 4 am til 6 am to gain muscles. I'm doing it because my condition is, well, pretty bad. That makes it really hard to train everytime, and when I'm done training I already know that my muscles will be sore the next day. I really hope that it'll be better soon! If not, than I'm screwed.

Nobody knows that I'm training actually. I already see it in the news 'Girl died of exhaustion because she was training for war. Nobody was able to stop her since there was not a single soul that knew about it'. The tragedy of the month. I'm doing it in secret because the rest of the pack has enough to do and to think about. They don't need to have another thing to take into account. All for one goal.

The War.

The War between creatures, known and unknown, is coming. We all know that. I have to be prepared if I want to survive it and right now I am not more than a silly red haired girl that can do nothing except killing a bug.
I have exact two weeks to get a bit condition and to learn how I can handle knives and how to shoot with a gun and actually hit the target. Right now I can shoot a little bit, but I have to take like 5 minutes before I hit the target. Even then I don't hit the centre.

Disappointing much?

Yup. You can say that.

It's a challenge though to get from the lowest rank to one of the highest. I'd like to get to the highest rank, Alpha Female, but last month a Female Alpha was killed by her own pack. There was said that she was weak and that she couldn't handle a pack because she was a woman, but there are rumours that she was killed from a high distance with a silver arrow. Not killed by a pack member. Nonetheless it made people doubt if woman are good enough to be Alphas.

I look at the clock. Damn, it's almost seven a.m. and I have to be ready in 15 minutes. I have to hurry to my room and change clothes.

While I'm walking towards my bedroom to get new clothes I'm thinking what I'm going to wear and my conclusion is that I have no idea.
That's not because I have too many clothes or something, but it's just that I really don't know what clothes I have. Uhm, oops?

Finally arived at my room I take a look into my closet and as result I see my favorite trousers, they're black with dark red stripes at it.
Definitely going to wear those today.
On top of it I'll take a nice warm sweater since it's still morning and kinda chilly outside.

As soon as I've changed my clothes I walk downstairs to the living room and see that nobody's up yet. Spontaneously I decide to make breakfast for the group.
Bread with bacon and egg. We all like that. It's like our favorite thing to eat. As soon as I have it done and have something to drink the pack warriors start to gather in the room, followed by the kids and the rest of the pack.

As soon as Lucas, my best friend, walks in he looks around to see me standing near the kitchen and walks over.

''Goodmorning Kendra. You're up early." Lucas says.

''Yeah well I was awake and couldn't get to sleep anymore, so I decided to make breakfast for everyone.'' I answer him, while looking at the pack member grabbing a plate with their food and eat it.

''Kendra?'' Lucas looks at me.

''Yes Lucas? What do you want to ask me?'' He looks worried.

''Is everything alright? I mean war is coming and you look really stressed sometimes and now you all of the sudden make breakfast for everyone.'' he says while putting his hand through his hair. I grab his hand so that he stops destroying his beautiful look. Well I have to admit, it does look kinda cute.

''I am fine. Really.'' He looks real serious and I see that he doesn't believe me.

''Kendra...''

''Lucas I know that you don't believe me, but I'm not going to say anything. You of all people should know that. You've seen me many times when I didn't say a thing but you knew that there was something wrong. But I can't tell you everything. Now go and eat your breakfast, it's getting cold.''

And with that I walk away to the group and eat my breakfast. The pack is staring at me and Lucas while we eat. When I'm done eating I've had enough of it. You know how embarrassing it is that everyone watches you eat? I believe my head is a tomato right now.

''What? Why are you all looking at us? Can't you go talk with each other or something? I'm really getting annoyed of you all staring.'' I see that no one knows what to do now. It looks actually a bit funny, because they always know what to say. Then I see that every one is starting to look sad. And ofcource right now the alpha walkes into the room.

The alpha adopted me when I couldn't stay at my pack. My whole pack was killed and I was the only survivor of the attack. My parents were good friends with the alpha. That's why he adopted me. It was really kind of him, it's very unusual that an alpha adopts someone from another pack.

He always knows when there's something wrong with the pack, but strange enough he doesn't know when there's something with me and I can tell you that he doesn't like that. After all, he is the Alpha and he is supposed to look after his packmembers. The Alpha and my parents were family, my mother was his sister, and because of that he's my uncle. That's why I always call him Uncle and not Alpha. The only times when I call him Alpha is when there is an emergency or when he's talking to people from other packs.

''Kendra would you mind to go with me?'' It isn't like I really have a choice, do I? You can't ignore an Alpha's orders unless you are a rouge and even then you can't always ignore it.

''Sure Uncle.'' I stand up and walk with him to the woods. He always goes there when he wants to talk private with someone, because after all, the walls have ears. Not real ears, but you have always people that, incidentally or not, listen to a part of the talk.

He doesn't always go to the woods though, I actually think I'm the only person that he talks with in the woods. The scent of it is also very calming, so you can just let everything else off your mind and concentrate on what you're talking about.

I look towards my Uncle and nod to him, telling him to start talking.

"Kendra, you know that there's a war coming, right?" He asks me. You could better ask someone if they don't know, but hey, checking if someone knows does no harm.

"Yeah, I know. It's a bit difficult to not know about it. People talk about it all the time and the trainings have gotten harder." I answer him, being honest.

He chuckles.

"That's true. There is something though that you don't know. Something from which I didn't found the right time to tell it until now, so listen good to what I have to say."

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I hope you liked this chapter. I don't really know if I'm a good writer but if you are happy with it, then I'm happy too.

-X- Bayleygirl