The Escape

The shouts of fear and panic woke me up the next morning. When I look at the door it was totally open and I saw the other prisoners are already running. It's like there is a stampede.

What happened? How come they came out from their prisons? Who let them escape? Why does the door's open? I was so confused of everything right now.

One of the prisoner saw me and stop. She immediately run inside the room where I was in with a hammer in her hands. I wonder where she gets the hammer, though.

"Hey, what's happening?" I immediately ask her.

"Rouges attack. The pack is in a total chaos right now. We need to escape or else we will be a corpse later" she answered and start to hit the lock with her hammer. She's hitting it with a full force and strength until it breaks.

"Let's go" she hurried and I just follow her outside. Running with the rest of the prisoners.

I'm going to be free, At last!

I smile.

I roam my eyes as soon as I was out of the dungeon. Dead bodies are everywhere and I even saw some familiar faces including the two girls who brought me dinner last night. They're dead, already.

"C'mon! We need to hurry before the Alpha find out that we're escaping!" the girl who help me shouted when she noticed that I stopped from my track. I shake my head and sprint to her direction. We were fortunate enough to not have meet any single rouge or even a person from the pack. Or so I thought?

""They're escaping! The prisoners are escaping!" shouted by someone. A loud growl was then heard and I know that was from my brother. An angry growl. And that made our adrenaline rush more.

We didn't turn our back and continue to run as fast as we could. Whatever happens, I won't let myself be a captive again. I'm not going to come back in that damn fucking dungeon that makes my life turn into hell.

"We're almost there! Once we're outside the pack's border, we are fr—"

I stop when I noticed that she stopped. I look at her with horror as I watch her mouth full of blood. She has an arrows on her heart and forehead. She fell into the ground lifeless and wide eyed. A single tear escape from her blank eyes which make my heart broken.

I gasped and cover my mouth with my hands. Shit! She's already dead! I roam my eyes and saw a pack warrior with a bow and arrows on his hand, pointing at me. And before he could release it, I immediately run away from him.

"I'm sorry" I muttered as I go through with the woods. I didn't even know her name! I wish I asked her. I don't want to leave her even though she's dead. She help me to escape and I thank her a lot with that. She save me from that hell. It's just that I have no other choice because if I won't run, I will be the next to become a corpse in the middle of the woods.

I can feel the pack warrior chasing me so I double my speed. I just hope he won't transform to his wolf or else I will be damned. Our strength and speed will be doubled once we are in our wolf form. I still can't transform into my own wolf because I still can't contact Almira. The effect of wolfsbane is still affecting me bigtime.

I heard again an angry growl. It was still from my brother. He has a power to growl as loud as he could that can be heard in all places of the pack. Perks of being an Alpha.

I run and run until I can finally see the border. A wide smile appear on my lips. Here it is. I'm going to be free. My brother can't hurt me anymore. He can't hurt us anymore. And I crossed. I jump the border which is composed of barbwires and has a five feet tall. Before I could land on the ground I felt a sharp thing pierced my skin which made me groan in pain.

Damn it!

My right shoulder was hit by an arrow and blood is flowing out from it. I get blank for a second before I heard his voice.

"You can't escape us, weakling" he uttered as he slowly draw near to the border. I can feel his sharp stares giving me cold chills.

Weakling huh?

I pulled the arrow. I winced before I face him. I smirk.

"Really?" I said mocking him.

His face darkened. I could see how his jaws clenched. He pointed his bow and arrow to my direction and I immediately avoid it running towards his direction with a bloody arrow in my hand.

Shocked was evidence on his eyes when I appear right at his face. Even without my wolf, I still can fight him one on one because I have an Alpha blood which is stronger than him, a Gamma. Before he could utter a word, I grab his shirt and pull him into me, thrusting the arrow in his belly. He tried to get out of my grip but before he could do it I already touched his face.

His screams echoed in the woods as I let him fall to the ground. He keeps on screaming and screaming until he stop. I look at him. He is now lifeless with a face like a mummy.

I turn my back and run, away from the pack. The pack who didn't treat me as a family. For one last time, I looked back to the Riverside Pack that once became my home but never been a family. And I was surprised to saw my brother looking at me few meters away from me. I could see his clenched fist and I was taken a back when he smile, evilly.

I shrugged the thought before I continue to run, away from his pack.

"Good bye, Brother" I whisper before going through the dark woods.

The feeling of the wind touches my skin feels like heaven. Since I was five I was already in the dungeon. I didn't take a glimpse again of the sun and breath some fresh air until now. This is what I am praying for. My freedom. I widely smile.

'We did it, Almira! We're already free!' I told her even if our connection was temporarily cut.

I stop midway when I sensed some movements behind the bushes. I look around trying to calm my instinct which already shouts danger.

My heart raced when I heard a voice.

"Look what I have here?" the person at my back spoke. I face the person and it was a woman with a boy cut hair. She looks like a badass because of her piercing in the nose and a scar at the right side of the face. "A lost puppy in the middle of the woods, eh?"

She's a rouge. All rouges have the same stinky smell that denotes them as rebels of the kingdom or a cast out of a pack. And she has that stinky smell. And if I passed a day without founding a pack, I will also be like her. I will be a rouge.

"It's none of your business" I answered bravely.

"Enk! Wrong answer. Bravery in the middle of the territory of the rouges is not applicable. You should be humble, dear" she said as she walk around me, scrutinizing me.

I stand in my feet firmly, not being intimidated by her stares. She look at my arm where I got my wound that is now healed but the stains of blood remains in my shirt.

"I should go" I told her and starts to walk but she immediately stop me by blocking my way.

"Na uh! Not so fast"

I look at her irritated. "What do you want?"

"Feisty aren't we? Why don't you play with me first? I guess you'll be a good playmate" she smile evilly.

I ignore her. "I don't have time to play" I said sternly. She smirked and before I could notice, she already pointed her long nails in my neck.

"I really want to play with you but you kept on refusing me. I think I just have to kill you instead huh? How would you like that?"

"Let me go"

She was about to speak when an arrow hit her head. Headshot! She fall into the ground with a wide eyed.

I gasped.

"Are you okay?"