Alpha Rising: The Wolf Runs
Chapter 21

ALANA

I’m packing, there is no way I am staying here. I will try and get my brother out of here but I will not be a part of her slaughtering shifters. She is slowly losing her mind. I start shoving things into my bag and looking for what is necessary to make a quick exit.

Once I have a small bag ready I start looking for my medication. I can not afford to not have them with me. I don’t know what would happen.

“Looking for these.” Paling I turn around and a gush of air leaves me as I see my father standing in the doorway with my pill bottle. He tosses them to me and looks on my bed where my packed bag is. “You’re leaving aren’t you?”

I look at my dad and then down at my bag. “She’s gone too far, father. I don’t want to be here anymore. She has destroyed the family.” The look in his eyes, he knows what I am saying is true. Mother now has what she has wanted.

Alore will never forgive her for what she did. He will leave and be with her if they make it out alive which is my hope.

“You have to stop at the witch and have her give you enough pills to keep your powers suppressed, you know what she will do if she replaces out you have them.”

I sigh knowing he is right. She will try and trap me here forever. Right now she thinks I am powerless, but a long time ago when I was ten, my father and I went on a day trip after I was again rejected by her to be in the room with her and Alore while she taught him.

We were sitting in his boat and I was watching him fish. My father is not the best fisherman and whenever he had something on the hook, he would lose it. I had my hand in the water and the thought that I want him to catch some fish went through my mind. I glided it in imagining them jumping into the boat when they all started at once.

My father, stunned, turned and stared at me. Eventually he asked if I did it and, not entirely sure if I had, I tried again and watched in amazement as the fish jumped into the boat. My father stayed silent for a moment and it was weird watching his thought process. So many emotions ran through his head and when he finally turned to me and I could see the final look in his eyes.

“We are not telling your mother. I will replace a solution, just try not to do anything in front of her.” His eyes showed the fear and what he knew would happen if my mother found out. What she was doing with Alore was enough problems. He didn’t even get to be a kid and she ran him through magic drills like she was his queen and he was a servant.

Mother didn’t bother with me because she thought I had no powers and left me to my father like I wasn’t important enough to be in her presence. On some level I was jealous of Alore, but I was also saddened for him because while he got mother’s full attention, I could see the sadness in his eyes whenever father and I would leave to go on some sort of adventure.

Its not like father didn’t try to take Alore but mother always said no, that he needed to focus. Father and I spent the rest of the day on the lake and we released all the fish back only leaving a few to give to cook to make for dinner.

A week later father came to me and we visited a witch. She was beautiful with blonde hair and purple eyes. She never said her name and was friendly. She gave me pills and told me to take one a day and it will suppress the magic in me and mother wouldn’t know. I could also go back to her and she would teach me some basic things, and we would be undetectable because of the spell that she has on her home.

Father told me it was best not to say anything about the witch to mother, that the witch was just passing through and that she was only here to help. Well that was years ago and the witch is still here and I still have not said anything.

“I will go to her before I try and get Alore.” I finish packing my bag and turn back to face my father. “Come with me.”

I know he loves mom but I also know that she doesn’t love him as much as he wants to believe she does. She uses him for s*x and the comfort of not being alone at night.

“You know I can’t” He sighs moving closer to me. He wraps me in his arms and hugs me close to him. I take a moment to take in the warmth and the smell, knowing how much I will miss him. Orell will be coming with me I just haven’t told him yet. “I know about you and Orell, I will cover for you both just make sure you are able to get out Alore.”

“I will try father.” I would but first I needed to go to the witch.

“In that case.” Father pulls away and moves to my door, opening it again Orell is standing on the other side. “He will take you and carry your bag to look less suspicious.” Orell nods to my father and moves into the room taking my hand.

I look to my father. “How did you know?”

“Because I know you princess and whenever you look at him I see the love that shines in your eyes for him.” I thought that we were doing good with being secret but I guess we weren’t.

“Do you really want to run away with me Orell?” I look into his eyes waiting to see what his response will be. “You would be giving up your position and leaving what we know and possibly facing the wrath of my mother.”

“I would go wherever you go, no matter what. I love Alana and I always will.” He leans in giving me a brief k**s. “We need to go now though, I saw the witch packing her home up to leave as well.”

How strange that she would decide to leave now the same day I am trying to. I again hug my father goodbye, having a feeling this time that this isn’t the last time I will see him.

“I love you daddy.” I whisper.

Smiling, he k****s me on the forehead. “I love you too, Lana bear.” His nickname he hasn’t called me since I was five. Rushing past him we evade the guards taking the tunnel that we discovered two years ago and it leads out to the back garden.

Leaving the garden we make our way to the witch’s home, which sits right on the edge between the shifters’ land and the Redlands. Coming into view I see her radiant smile and it immediately calms me.

I have spent so much time with her learning and talking to her that it saddens me. Her arms open to me and I immediately take comfort in her embrace.

“Why are you leaving?” I ask her knowing I am too.

“The same reason you are dear. Its time to move on.” She k****s me on the forehead and places a small baggie in my hand. Looking down I see the pills.

“Will this be enough?” It doesn’t look like it will last me a week.

“Dear where you are going, this will be all that you need.” One of her secret smiles plays on her face and she doesn’t elaborate and usually I wouldn’t ask but this time the need to know is eating at me.

“Where am I going to go?” I ask her. “Have you seen where this path will take me?”

“I have and you need not worry. Things will get worse for those in your life before they get better, but for you my dear this is just the beginning, you will open up new worlds for people who are in need, even now you will open the world for myself. I was waiting on your decision and when you made it the path became clear.”

“I don’t understand.” I really don’t know what she is saying.

“Follow through with your plan, keep on this path. I can not tell you much in fear that you will stray from it, but I can tell you this.” She rubs her hand on my stomach and I look down in confusion before I look back at her with a smile on my face.

“Are you saying?” I don’t dare to hope.

“Yes dear I am.” I turn to look at Orell and smile, the look of confusion on his face makes me giggle out loud. I walk over to him and place his hand on my stomach.

“We are having a baby love, that is what she is saying.” For a moment there is a pause before he scoops me up in joy.

“I always wanted to be a father.” He sounds so happy that my heart bursts.

“Dear, a little more I can tell you. You need to wait until nightfall before you attempt to save your brother, you must leave by the time the moon lowers in the sky and along the way another guard will stop you. Take him with you. Now I must be on my way.” She hugs me again close and I watch her mount her horse and turn towards the shifter land and leave.

The witch has never steered me wrong before so I will heed her warning and wait for nightfall and be out by the time the sun rises in the sky.

The Witch of the Village

Her plan to save her brother will fail in the sense that she won’t save him. She will save her, opening the path to the shifters story. Everything has been leading up to this moment and now I see the clear path ahead of me.

One day this world will open up in such a way that it is almost scary the thought of how people will react to replaceing out there is so much more than their world. My story is beginning today as well, my journey will be far and I know that I will see Alana again.

Once outside the Redlands I turn my horse and cart to the North, I will be needed there soon as another story is in the making. I will be settling there for some time as well. I feel sad that I couldn’t tell Alana what she needed to do but I have every faith she will make the right decision.

I feel saddened that I am leaving with the knowledge I have with me right now. I wish I could have met the wolf shifter but it doesn’t seem to be in our timelines to ever cross paths. She will suffer for a while and it will hurt.

She will feel like she is losing her strength but she will replace it again. Her story will be one worth remembering. Tonight though is the key to see it all happen. Time is needed for everything to fall into place.

Alana will arrive right in time and her magic will help the outcome of what is needed. I keep on the dirt path and let my mind relax. I want to see if anything comes to me while my mind is unguarded. I allow the vision to come.

I see Alana sneaking into the cell and her making a choice, it doesn’t seem like she will derail from the course. I see the shifter clear as day, her heart longing and wanting to change what is happening but with the encouragement of her mates decides to take the correct path. The shifter will be fueled by anger for a long time. She will need her anger and her love for her mates to handle what is coming. Alana will need strength and be able to open her heart to love. She is essential to creating something so beautiful that being a part of it will be magical in itself.

That is where I will meet her again. When my story comes I will replace her again in this place. She will have made something where people aren’t afraid of who they are and are free to show what they are.

Smiling, I make sure to hurry along the path, with clear direction. I know that I will be in this new land by this time next week and I will pass along where Alana will end up and another’s story will start. I know that this is the best possible outcome for everyone, but then people make split decisions which change the course of what is to come.

I know my brother is waiting on me, he will be there at the crosspoint waiting to see me. He will want to know what I have seen and to make sure I am alright. Again smiling to myself I have a feeling that everything will turn out alright.