Lost Heir

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

6 hours ago

Felix and I never ended up sparring tonight. For some reason my dad said no. He seemed tense and didn't want to talk so I decided to be a good daughter and not question him.

Instead, I walked down the hall to Felix's room and knocked. A soft 'come in' sounded back.

As I opened the door, Felix was laying on the ground playing with his rubix cube. He looked up at me and grinned a "Hey."

"Sorry to be the loser of bad news but my dad says I can't sparr tonight. Apparently tonight has to be an 'early night' whatever that means. He is in a bad mood once again, so let's just do something else" I replied.

"Okay that's fine. I still have homework to do so we may as well just do that. We can always save sparring for another day."

"Yeah, if my dad stops being a bum and actually lets me go and do things" I sighed.

"Well, even though he is a bum we can still make this a non bum day" he laughed.

"Okay okay Mr. Non Bum. Lets do your homework. If we have to do homework I at least want to finish it before dinner."

Present Day

Everything after my dad walked away from us seemed to happen in fast forward. I had no idea what was going on other than that I need to be good. I held onto Harlow and Faye as tight as I could to make sure that we would not be separated from one another. Faye was dragging along, not understanding what was going on. She kept stumbling as we were pulled forward with the large crowd. At some point along the way we had gotten separated with the woman that dad left us with. We were on our own.

People wouldn't try to step on us on purpose, but there was a lot going on. My foot had been stomped on more times than Harlow would be able to count. It was a barely controlled chaos in the corridors as people ran through the halls like their lives depended on it. Probably because it did.

The three of us followed the crowd to find the bunkers. As we were nearing the big metal doors I heard my name being shouted.

"Athena! Athena! Wait!" I whipped my head around to see Feliz bopping his head up and down to try and reach me. I pulled myself and my siblings out of the steady stream of people to wait for Felix. As Felix neared me he grabbed onto Faye's other hand and redirected us back into the crowd. I leaned into him to shout into his ear "Do you have any idea what is going on?"

He pulled away from me for a moment to look around to make sure no one was listening to us. The hallway was loud enough that people could be screaming and no one would be able to tell. Felix said "Yeah. My dad told me that the Blood Moon pack is attacking us."

At the sound of the Blood Moon pack I gasped. No way could they be attacking us. We were not prepared for any sort of war, especially one coming from the most powerful pack.

"Why would they be attacking us?!" I screeched at Felix.

He hushed me as if anyone heard what I was saying. "My dad said that they are really mad and don't trust us. They don't believe that we are peaceful. There hasn't ever been a peaceful rouge pack and they aren't going to just accept that we have had a change in heart. They still view us as trash."

Felix's dad was the head pack warrior. He was the one in charge of choosing who had been selected for the training program and directing our education in that regard. Ben, Felix's dad, had only ever been nice to me, but I knew that he was not someone to be messed with.

One time Felix and I were playing in the woods when a stray wolf tried to attack us. We had no idea what was going on, but Ben showed up right in time. He pushed us away from the dangerous wolf and protected us. He told us to run home and find my dad. I only heard rumors of what happened to that wolf. People said that Ben took him to Alpha Blake and that there was a new grave in our woods. I never asked anything more about the wolf. I didn't really want to know what had happened.

The fact that Blood Moon was attacking us still made my heart beat a little harder. We didn't know a lot about other packs because we were not a recognized pack. The only information that we had heard of other packs was biased because the carriers of that information was from an exiled pack member.

The Blue Road pack had some numbers. There were around 300 members in our pack, but not one of them was from Blood Moon. I hadn't ever met someone from there. People said that they were a ruthless pack. That their alpha did not deal well with disloyalty. If anyone was to commit a crime offensive enough to earn exile, they usually were sentenced to death. Sometimes the older kids tell horror stories of things that go on in that pack. That the alpha drinks the blood of his victims. That no rogue has ever left his territory alive. That he will kill someone just because it suits him. The older kids haven't ever met someone from Blood Moon either, but the elders of our pack have never said that the stories that they are telling are false.

Shaking my head to rid myself of those thoughts, I tried to bring in more optimistic ones.With people like Alpha Blake, my dad, and Ben protecting us I knew that we were going to be okay. They were the strongest guys that I had ever met. The stories that the older kids said couldn't be true. They have no proof of what goes on in that pack. We were going to be okay. This family would fight together and we would win together. Tomorrow we would all laugh about how scared we were, and that we should have known we were going to be okay like we always are.

Once we neared the metal doors of the bunker we saw Luna Sandra standing above the crowd directing us where to go. She ushered the kids to the back of the bunker and all the women to the front. She said that in case anything were to happen that the women needed to protect the young.

Felix, Harlow, Faye, and I were directed into the back of the bunker with the rest of the kids. We lined up in rows and sat next to the kids that we had known since we were born. I looked up and down the rows and saw all the people that I had grown to call family. These were the people that we had gone to school with. That we had petty fights with on the playground. This was not just a pack to us, this was a family.

After all that this pack had been built on, no one got left behind. This pack was made up of a series of misfits. Ones who had suffered the ultimate betrayal by being exiled from their past pack. They lost all that they had grown to know as normal. Our pack was nothing if we did not have loyalty. We were one and would do whatever needed to be done to protect one another.

That same loyalty was one of the many reasons that I was proud to be a member of the Blue Road pack. I may not have gotten along with all of the people in that bunker, but there would have been no greater honor to lay my life down for theirs. I haven't been sworn in as a pack warrior, but if my training has taught me anything it is that that title cannot be taken away from me. Those traits that they used to pick me as a pack warrior are not ones that I can turn off. They are the very DNA to my being. With that being said, I knew that we were in a war. That something terrible had happened, but no matter what we would band together and fight just like Alpha Blake said.