Sarah –

"Sarah where are you.” I hear Seth creeping up closer to me “Come out, come out wherever you are " he starts to giggle as he starts rounding the corner where I am inches away hiding in a gape in one of the walls surrounding the castle by the main courtyard trying my hardest not to start laughing.

“Sarah” he says one more time with a sarcastic tone in his voice before I gather myself and leap at Seth with full force pushing us both into the ground rolling a few feet away before we land next to each other on the warm grass laughing uncontrollably from deep in our stomachs.

“Why can I never sense you, it’s unfair?” Seth comments, “I will never tell you my secret” as I start laughing even harder looking at him remembering the scent masking perfume I sprayed just before coming outside to start playing hide and seek.

We lay there for a moment in the grass still laughing before Seth turns to me with a serious look on his face “Will I ever be as strong and as smart as you Sarah?” the concern in his eyes growing deeper.

“You are already very fierce Seth” I say while rubbing my hands in his hair playfully “ Keep on training hard and listen to your instinct and you will one day be a great fighter “Seth looks at me and he begin to get the biggest grin I have ever seen on him, he looks at me for a second before lifting himself in the sky and jumping on me with full force as we both start laughing at full force again. “You should really share some of your secrets with me someday, please Sarah.” I get the puppy dog eyes, before I push Seth away from me.

“Come on Seth, it’s time for lunch.” I lift myself on my feet before grabbing his arm and helping him off the ground and start walking towards the castle.

Me and Seth make our way to the castle, entering through the hallway and into the dining hall, joined by the other fighters and people living in the castle. As we sit down and start enjoying our lunch my mind wanders off and I start to think about how I missed playing with Seth and the other young wolves, I haven’t had much time to spend with them, since we have been training very hard the past few months preparing for the war that we all have dreaded.

“Sarah, you are coming?” I get broken from my thoughts by Jeremy, he is my best soldier and best friend “Yes, I will be right there Jeremy” I gesture to him before standing up to leave the dining hall “See you soon Sarah.”

A few moments later I make my way down the long corridor to the left of the dining hall entering a long hallway. As I am walking through the hallway, I take my time to admire the paintings of all the Alpha’s and warriors that came before me, walking these same hallways at the end of the hallway, I enter the big red doors and go into the meeting room where shortly after everyone is seated we are joined by my father Alpha King Brad Blackmoon and his Beta Nero.

Once everyone is calm and seated, I start, “Thank you all for joining me for our last meeting before the events of tomorrow. Gentleman this is what we have been preparing for these last few months.” I look to my left where I see my father grin with a sense of pride, but soon after his face turns sad and cold, not focusing too much on it I continue.” Alex does everyone know their positions on the Castle walls?”

“Yes, Sarah.” He answers.

“Nero is the bunker prepared for our woman and children.”

“The last of the supplies are being prepared and will be taken to the bunker after dinner.”

“Perfect, I have informed all the soldiers of the plan tomorrow, everyone also knows their positions on the battlefield. Please can each of you make the final preparations after dinner and please ensure everyone is prepared and know exactly what to do, we cannot afford anything going wrong tomorrow.” Everyone in the room looks at me simultaneously and all together nod their heads in an acknowledging fashion then one by one answering “Yes, Sarah” until everyone agreed. “Final thing gentleman” I pause before continuing, “We will be leaving before sunrise.”

Once the meeting is over, I hear my father’s mind link ‘Can we have a word in private please Sarah’ I turn around to look at him and we then share a look as I nod in his direction and wait for everyone to exit the meeting room.

“Sarah, I have some concerns about tomorrow” he begins the conversation, but I quickly step in. “Father, I have prepared everyone and went through the plan over and over and over, they are ready, so am I.” I answer with a certain dominance in my voice walking closer to him.

“My child, you have done such an incredible job as the head trainer of the pack house, you have stepped up a lot, easily rising through the ranks and you are a lot stronger than anyone have anticipated, not to mention that in a very short time since connecting with your wolf you have been able to learn and perfected your skills with very little effort_” before he can continue I cut him off “Father, what is going on?” he snaps his neck and look at me with an almost pale expression in his eyes, his lips turning into a deep frown, he hesitates for a moment before continuing.

“My child I am sure you can handle this fight and you have gone out of your way training everyone to be ready for anything, but” he hesitates again “I can’t help but have this unsettling feeling in my stomach like you should not be joining us_” I cut him off again getting annoyed “Father, I apologize but I have worked too hard to just sit back in this fight.” My eyes are turning black as my wolf is rising to the surface, how dare he want to keep me away from a war that I have been preparing for, for months. I look away trying to calm down my wolf down then look back at him to continue.

“Sarah you are my only child, I am saying this as a concerned father not your King.” He walks closer to me wrapping his arms around me and whisper in my ear.” I can’t lose you to that monster” He pulls me away slightly lowering his face and looking at me with tears rising to the surface of his eyes. I wrap my arms around him tightly, resting my head against his chest “Father, I understand the concern, but I need to do this” staring deeper into his eyes “For mom.” Without saying another word, he nods and start walking away until I am left alone with my thoughts in the meeting room.

Tomorrow will not be the first time our pack will be encountering the rouge wolf’s army. Little over a year ago, my parents went to one of our allies and friends Alpha Richard of the Goldleaf clan, while they were there discussing plans for expanding our routes into farther territories, they were attacked by the rouge wolves, my father and some of our troops managed to escape but my mother suffered a different fate. When our wolf pack was trying to escape one of the rouge wolves attacked my father and my mother jumped in to help him, another one of the rouges joined in and grabbed my mother by the throat, ripping out her spine with his teeth. Since that day I have sworn that if I ever crossed paths with this pack I will show them no mercy, I started training every day from first light till after dinner, sometimes not even having the appetite to go and eat. Shortly after this my wolf has made herself know to me, the first time I felt her she was driven by the same hate and anger my human form endured. I started practising meditation and me and her quickly started to bond, that is why I have such a strong connection with her, we know exactly what the other one is thinking and is then able to act accordingly. I do not care what my father say I am going to this fight tomorrow and I will avenge the death of my mother.

After dinner is over everyone start scattering around, Nero has already informed all the mothers in the kingdom to bring their children to the castle before sunrise tomorrow morning and he is now helping the cooks to take food and water to the bunkers, Alex is going over the plan with everyone for the last time and in this moment my heart can’t help but melt by how well the pack has been working together and getting everything ready for the war of a lifetime.

I make my way to my bedroom and head straight for the bathroom. I start the shower and wait for the water to heat up while staring at myself in the mirror when getting undressed, my body shaped has changed drastically over the last year, before I was this tiny girl with a petite figure, almost looking anorexic, but now, I have strong arms and legs with muscles shaped and toned and my stomach has slight tint of a six pack underneath my skin. I am almost embarrassed at the sight, but at least my body is not too masculine taking away my body shape of a woman with big hips. I turn to the shower and remove my underwear before getting in. Once in the shower I am not in a hurry to wash my body and hair instead I stand underneath the tap just letting the water run down my face and I start to think about the fate that lies in front of us, and I can’t help but wonder what are we getting ourselves into?

Noah Greenstone is the Alpha of the rouge wolf pack, he has now managed to take over multiple of our territories to the North and East of our castle, him and his pack have managed to invade most of our neighbouring packs, little to none of the warriors managed to escape and those who did escape managed to make their way here to our castle, warning us that they are on their way here. Three months ago, one of the elders from the castle closest to ours managed to escape the captivity of Alpha Noah and came straight here to warn us of the Alpha’s plan to attack on the full moon, and that’s when we started training everyone and preparing our kingdom for war. Alpha Noah is a savage Alpha and has no regard for fellow werewolf lives, everyone who dares not submit to him, he kills them in gruesome ways. He rips out the Alpha’s hearts and hang their heads on spears for his pack to carry them around as trophies from the pack houses, he has already over throned.

I break myself out of thought and finish with my shower, I put on my pyjama’s and get into bed hoping to get some rest for tomorrow. I lay there for several hours not being able to get any sleep replaying this plan over and over in my mind. After moments of debating with myself, I manage to get up and make my way to the balcony to breath in some fresh air, the nerves are killing me knowing what we are getting ourselves into, even though I am the daughter of the Alpha king and the strongest fighter in our pack I can’t help but be nervous, I can’t help but think we missed something. I can’t help this unsettling feeling in the pit of my stomach creeping up every time I think about what will happen once, we leave the castle.

Several minutes pass and I am now just standing on the balcony blankly staring at the moon in the sky. I start to feel the cold air creeping up against my skin and I start to realize just how tired I am. I start heading back into my room where I then slowly go back to bed trying to force myself to sleep knowing I cannot be tired in battle tomorrow. As I listen to the sound of the clock ticking on the nightstand I slowly start drifting away into a deep sleep.