KARINA
"You have to go now!"
The door of my cell opens, surrounding my room with a ray of bright light revealing the alpha's face.
"Alpha?"
I could hear a distant scream coming from the pack house. The cells are located far from the pack house and its purpose is to make sure that whoever is inside stays away from the rest of the pack. It should be far enough that not one wolf can hear whatever it is thats happening wHearing those screams from this distance, just speaks
"You have to go Karina. Run as far away as you could from this place. Do you understand me?!"
My eyes adjusted to how he looks and what my eyes saw didn't make sense. His clothes were torn, bite wounds were all over his arms and his hand, both of them, were covered with blood.
'Its not his blood. Its different. Not ours.'
Summer spoke in worry but she was restraining herself. The alpha sensed my wolf so he adjusted the way he was holding both or my arms.
He was about to say something but a loud growl disrupted all of our peace.
It was a growl from another Alpha.
Fear grew inside me and even with Summer trying her best to make me focus and listen to my alpha, but my mind was focused over what I heard. It was not an easy growl to ignore, a wolf knows an alpha order when he or she hears one.
"Karina!"
Crimson eyes. Someone I recognize. Eyes that I was used to.
"You need to focus Kari. You have to survive this, I know you suffered a lot but you're strong. If its you, you can make it out alive. This is your chance to live, to have your own freedom. So go. Don't look back just go."
His eyes refurned to normal and once again I was looking into two familiar orbs.
'Solstice'
I speak the name of the brother I used to play with. The person whom I admired the most, and the guy who first broke my heart. My own family who first turned his back on me.
He felt mg remorse but he kept watching.
"What's happening? Why is there an alpha causing havoc withing the pack? I may not hear them but I am still linked to all you and I can feel all their agony!"
Tears streamed down my face as I felt everyone's fear , and all their desires to be saved.
"That is not important right now. If you are to survive , you have to go. Travis, take her away from here. I have to hold them off."
He shakes his head and calls for his beta. He gives him an instruction then he pulls me out of the cells and went straight to where the exit is.
Summer didn't budge. Its like… no. It felt like she understood what was happening.
As soon as we were out and in the forest. I could hear everyone's cry and multiple howls from every direction.
"Kari, Travis will lead you to the quickest way out of our territory. I will hold them off but you have to survive. Please tell me you understand!"
Once we're far enough from the pack house and we're deep in the forest, I saw my alpha begged.
This is the first.
He is begging me to survive.
"Alpha, they are near."
Before I could even begged to stay and fight with them, the scene changes in my head and I was running.
Summer was begging for me to keep running while reminding ourselves over the last command we received from our alpha.
There its is then again.
Bloodshed. The scene that played in my head were faces of my old pack and their broken bodies floating over their spilled blood. I was at the center of everyone my very own hands were covered in blood.
I felt the air being sucked out of my body and that as I struggle to get out, different hands were trying to get me.
I was screaming but nothing came out of my mouth, I looked up to seek the light thats supposed to save me, but nothing came.
"Nooooo!"
I woke up fearing the memories that played inside my head. I'll never be able to erase any of the faces I saw that night. They've cause me so much pain in the past that I should be used by their faces, but with the recent events, I just couldn't erase their broken faces and their bleeding bodies.
I didn't run back and followed their instructions, I wouldn't have seen it.
The most ironic thing was, I should have been relieved when I saw them suffering. I should have celebrated while I hear them scream in pain and cry out for help, but instead I howled and cried out for them. That's when the attackers found me, Travis had to pull me out of the scene to wake me from my own anger boiling.
The mess that happened in my pack was not the revenge I had hoped and dreamed of happening.
I look around me and there was no one else inside the room. Everything was in white. No windows, two vents, one door, one couch. There is not much to see.
Where am I?
You're safe. They are just keeping you here for questioning.
'Summer?'
I'm sorry. I wish to aid you with everything that you saw, but I'm barely healed from what we went through. My own mind is a mess.
'There is no need for you to apologize. Keep resting. You've been through enough. Can you still feel him?'
I don't remember much about what happened as soon as I stepped in another territory, the last memory I could think of was me running.
Trying to recall the rest would lead me to recalling every detail that I saw back at the pack house. Back where I had to witness them slowly skinning my luna alive.
'We've been down for days. All I could feel now is this packs power. My heart feels heavy for some reason. I don't know if its because he is dead or something else.'
Summer's voice was low and timid. I can feel her hesitation but I didn't push. Whatever she's hiding she'll eventually tell me anyways so I just have to wait.
I heard a distant beeping sound and thats when I noticed the monitor besides the bed. I didn't even notice the needle punctured in my hand, which could only mean that I'm under in some kind of medication.
I was going to pull it out when the door suddenly opens and the light inside the room brightens. I had to blink a few times just to adjust my eyes and to see the bunch of people that came in.
"I suggest that you don't remove that needle, it's the only thing thats giving you the needed nutrients so your body can strive." The lady wearing a weird looking suit, spoke first. She sounded so gentle but her eyes, her whole demeanor, it was fierce.
Aside from her, there were two other guys behind her and judging by their identical outfit, they could be the guards.
"Do you know where you are?" the fierce lady asks me, but as I was still wary of her, I only manage to shake my head to respond.
"Do you remember anything? Like how did you end up within the grounds of our territory?" She asks me again but just like what I did earlier, I gave her another shake.
"Hmm not much of a talker huh." She pauses then she looks at the two guys behind her. "Call for the alpha, tell him she's awake. you can leave me here. She won't do anything to me."
"But Doc..." One of the guys wanted to appeal but the fierce lady was quick to raise her finger to stop them from talking.
"I can protect myself, plus, if she's planning to escape. She would've done so already." She takes a step towards the end of the room and leans her back to the wall. "Leave us be." That was her final word before the two guys left.
As soon as the guys left and there was only me and the Doc, though I only assumed that she's a doctor and that's not her name, hence the weird looking suit.
"Now then, we're alone and yes both of those guys are werewolves so they'll probably hear whatever you'll say while they guard outside but, this room is controlled by me and I can assure you that whatever you tell me in here, can't be heard outside or by any werewolf in the vicinity."
I don't think she understood what I feel right now. The reason behind my silence is not because I don't wish to tell her anything. Its because I am more accustomed to keeping my own thoughts to myself, to avoid being beaten or cursed by those stronger than me.
Being silent has been my shield and my escape, I don't know what they'll do to me once they knew what happened. I still do not know their plans with me, plus there is huge chance that I'll be dead soon.
I'm a rouge.
My old pack is massacred and my alpha...
Well, his gone.
I no longer belong to any pack and thats enough reason for them to kill me. I'm pretty sure they're just prolonging my death sentence.
"Listen, if you won't talk to me now, explain things, I cannot help you. When they brought you in, you're body was in a very worst shape. I'm surprise that you even survived." She pauses again and this time her tone was worried. Sad even. Like she really cares.
"Once the alpha gets here, you'll be force to speak. I don't think you're will is strong enough to withstand his power, you'll be in immense pain and knowing him, he won't stop until he know everything. Its your choice now. Speak now and explain what happened to you or we wait for the Alpha"
Though her tone is filled with worry, her threats speaks otherwise.
There was a moment of silence between us. She was waiting for me to speak up but I was doubting whether I should risk it.
Just tell her the truth. What else can we lose? If we die, we die, if we live, then it will be because of these people.
Summer was listening after all. She's right though, what else can I lose?
"I came from a pack known as Night Crawlers. My alpha..." I paused remembering his face "My alpha was Alpha Wilson Axon." I look at the fierce lady only to check if her reaction changes, but it stayed the same. "The last thing I remember before coming here was me running from the wolves who massacred the pack and the screams...the screams of the people who once tormented me. I still hear them."
I didn't notice the tears that streamed down my face as I recalled again the things that happened that night. It is my truth.
"I don't know if anyone survived from the attack but it was bloodshed. I don't know how they came, or how they manage to infiltrate our lands but when my Alpha ordered me to run, it was already too late."
I wipe the tears that streamed down my face, moreso because someone else is in the room and a moment of weakness is not what I need right now.
The door suddenly opens and the air inside the room changes. A man in track suit emerges from the door together with another guy wearing a plain shirt and shorts. They both a few years older than me and that heavy aura they bring, could only mean that they are of high status within this pack.
The years I spent secluded from the world should prove the reason why I'm not familiar with anyone else, but looking at them, I don't think it will be enough reason for them to consider letting me live.