The Alpha

~Fender~

Hope shot a fire by his hands and blew a wind by his mouth, causing the fire getting larger toward the alpha. On the other place, Norah always kept the distance from the alpha and shot her arrows. Some of those arrows successfully hit the alpha, but since the arrows were not silvers, those wounds were nothing to it. But somehow, it could slow it down a bit. Frank on the other hand, only depended on his fast movement. Since he didn’t bring his silver knife and he regretted it so much, his strength couldn’t get much attention to the alpha. But again, it somehow slowed it down a bit.

Evan ran toward the alpha, trying to give a brutal attack of his dual sword. But the alpha managed to dodge and gave a payback attack by its big fists, hitting Evan’s chest and threw him down. The alpha seemed not to stop his attack toward Evan, but Frank hit it with his fast movement until both of them rolling together on the ground.

Carter, with his half-shifted mode, ran toward the alpha who was still fighting with Frank, ready to give his scratch attack. The alpha jumped up and dodged Carter’s attack. Somehow, he managed to give a blowing fist to Carter’s face until he was thrown back.

I, still in my ugly appearance with fur all over my body and face like a dog, only saw them from afar. Frankly, I really wanted to help. But when I saw its glowing red eyes staring at me, I felt like I was the most coward person in this world. I was frightened. Its stare was killing me. I couldn’t do anything to help even if I wanted to. God, I felt so useless. Time had passed and I just do nothing, I thought in regret.

Hope seemed to be the mightiest among the good guys. He had given several massive attacks with his natural magic that almost effective against the alpha. But the alpha was quite fast and Hope sometimes felt a bit doubt if he launched the attack when the others are near with the alpha.

I saw Hope popping out his blue and sparkling but a bit transparent wings from his back. He floated a bit. In his right hand, I saw an electrical current charging. He raised that hand up, the electrical current seemed bigger than before. And suddenly, the electrical current was not only in his right hand, but also flowed through all his body.

“My friends!!! Keep away!!!” he screamed loudly.

Hearing the order from Hope, the others moved back fast, away from the alpha. The electrical current suddenly become a thunder that still flowing around Hope’s body. Hope flew toward the alpha and ready to give another massive attack. Seeing that it could be a danger, the alpha tried to ran away. But Hope didn’t give up. He kept flying to the alpha and suddenly a bolt of thunder was fired from his body. The alpha could dodge the first attack, but the attack still continued.

We saw them with a very fast heart beat and trembling. The light from Hope’s current thunder was getting larger, covering our sight. I could barely see.

Yeah! Actually, I really wanted to scream out loud like a cheerleader when I saw Hope’s thunder beam finally hit the alpha. I saw it even it didn’t clear. When the beam hit the alpha’s body, the white light was brighter than before, covering all of my sight. I couldn’t see anything for several seconds, until the light finally faded out.

Hope bended on his knees and lent on his hands, he gasped like a very tired person. It seemed that his attack before used all his strength. But what made the air getting tenser was when we saw a naked woman lying on the ground. In spite of being hit that massive attack, she could manage to stand up tall.

So, the alpha is a female, I shocked, and thinking how strong she was, it scared me.

But Hope’s attack seemed to have a very great effect to her. That attack could undo the full-shifted mode of the alpha, and I thought she lost almost all of her strength to keep maintaining the beast form. It only left her in half-shifted form.

Norah suddenly shot her with her bow quickly, trying to take good of the advantage. But it couldn’t take her down. She successfully caught the flashing arrow with her bare hand.

I was just fascinated by the way she could catch the arrow. It was really great skill.

Knowing that she was in a bad situation, she then decided to run away. Perhaps she thought that it was not a good idea to confront them then.

Norah yelled, “Someone get her!”

And since the position of her is quite far from the others, Frank initiated to move quickly since he was the only one who was outstanding in fast movement. Frank successfully grasped her hands and tried to stop her. But he didn’t think that the alpha was still stronger than him. She strangled him with his bare hand and pushed him hard to the trunk.

I yelled, “No!!!” because I heard the cracking sound of his neck.

The alpha threw him down and we saw him lying weakly. I quickly ran to him, didn’t know if I could made it in time. The alpha didn’t waste her chance to run away. Norah still kept trying to shoot her down, but she was too far away.

I didn’t care about the alpha. I was just frightened and worried about my best friend. He lied down without moving. I couldn’t forgive myself if there was something happened to Frank. I hugged him, holding his cold body. I couldn’t feel any pulse from him. I was panic. I just hugged him tightly and began to cry. I howled like a very desperate wolf.

But...

“Hey, Fender. Don’t hug me too tight. It hurts,” Frank whispered.

I stopped crying, looking at his open eyes. God, I felt so relieved. “How can you pretend to die and make me worry sick like an idiot, you moron?” I complained, but I was happy.

“I don’t pretend to die, Fender,” he said.

“But you have no pulse!” I protested.

“Vampire doesn’t have a pulse, Idiot!” he yelled at me and I felt like I was the most stupid person in this world. After that, I couldn’t complain anything to him.

The others were approaching us. Their face was a bit upset. Norah helped Hope to walk since he was really out of strength.

“Don’t worry, Fender. He’ll heal,” Norah said.

Evan walked to us and he said let me, so I just put Frank in the ground and let him did something. He held Frank’s head and a second after that, I heard again the cracking sound of Frank’s neck.

I think I got sick, I figured after I heard that twice.

Evan helped Frank to get up even he could barely stand. But somehow, finally Frank was able to stand up and he quickly leaned on me. It seemed that it hurt so much, making me trembling to imagine if something like that happened to me.

“You okay, Fairy?” Carter asked, “What you did was amazing. I understand you didn’t use that power from the beginning, looking at your condition now.”

Hope smiled, just like usual, “Hath no worry, my friend. I am very much well,” he said.

“But you still did great, Milord. I have heard that Rovals have a very great power, and I witnessed it now,” Norah said fascinatingly.

“Firstly, Milady, I humbly pray thou to call me Hope,” he asked, “And I am nothing like that thou all mentioned of me,” he said humbly.

“Actually,” Frank started to speak again, “Fairy’s power is greatly decreasing if they left the fairy world for a long time. Hope has been leaving his world since a very long time ago. Noble fairies are great, and I remember how great Hope was in the past,” he explained, “Just like vampire, fairy is immortal creature, lives for a very long time. But unlike the vampire, fairy is the power of youth and life.”

Another knowledge about fairy I got. First, fairy is immortal just like a vampire. But I still didn’t know the mechanism of their lifespan. And after hearing what Frank’s said about Hope, I thought that Hope perhaps was older than Frank. Second, I just knew that fairies have their own world. I imagined that the world was just like I thought in the kid’s stories or movies, full of forest and flowers.

“But unfortunately, we lost the alpha. She’s still too strong for us,” Evan said with regretted sigh, “I know that I promised you not to tell him about Fender, Norah. But I think we need Ino’s help. Do you think it’s possible not to involve Ino about this matter again?” he asked.

“Chill, Evan! We don’t get nothing,” Carter informed, “Even though we only saw her in her half-shifted form, I think I know her. However, I don’t know the name. I’m just sure that she is one from Grayson family,” he said.

Frank winced, “Grayson?” he thought, “My father told me that Graysons were also the one who started the betrayal.”

Carter nodded, “Yes. They and my family,” he replied, “But I don’t want to talk about that now. And Fender, I hope your role is over. But if we still need your help, please do help us. She still gets a connection with you. And it seems like she was watching you all this time. She came quickly when you called her. And hopefully, we don’t have to ask Ino for help. We still have to save Angelica.”

I agreed. I smiled widely, “Don’t worry, my friends. What’s best now is we just safe and sound,” I talked and relieved.