FIVE

I would have probably called it a nightmare if it were not for the fact that I was wide awake and my mind was forcefully awake. The alcohol had suddenly flashed out of my system when my eyes landed on the awful sight.

I could feel the bile rising up in my throat but I was more determined to find my parents.

As if with the chaos everything and the surroundings had gone dark, I knew that having a group of alphas in one place would only give birth to unfathomable chaos. How had they caused so much chaos? I only went for a drink and to pee.

I wiped the sweat off my forehead as I searched for any familiar faces in all the chaos but different bodies of wolves kept on flying in my direction. I tried to mind link my parents but I was totally blocked out and when I tried my mother, it was like...she was not even there.

My wolf whimpered as I tried to avoid other wolves and make myself unknown in the vast fields of battle. Most of the wolves had already shifted and those that had not shifted looked as if they were about to breathe their last breaths.

I growled under my breath when an ash brown wolf stalked towards me, it growled at me and I knew that I had to shift if I stood a chance. It was a warrior judging from its large size. I let Sasha take control and my bones snapped into place making my clothes snap and tear away off my body.

Sasha growled at the larger wolf in front of us and I grinned when I let her have full control, my eyes shifting to a bright rain forest green. She jumped on the brown wolf and tackled him down but he flipped us over and swiped at my snout.

I growled and swiped my claws at his leg making him lose balance. I bit into one of his front legs when I was on top of him and removed and proceeded to snap his neck.

I got off of the wolf and continued in my mission, the place that was smelling of flowers and expensive perfumes, was now drenched in the heavy metallic smell of blood. The smell wafted through the air and my wolf inwardly gagged. Different bodies were on the ground drowning in their own blood. What a mess.

I fought with two more wolves until I bumped into Vera's cobalt brown wolf fighting a black wolf with steaks of brown on its body and ears. I hit the wolf's back leg and it lost its balance, Vera finally finished it off when she dug her claws deep into its chest.

Her wolf turned to mine. "What the heck are you doing here?" She asked through our mind link.

"Helping you, that's what," I replied with sass in my tone.

"Didn't you feel it? She asked. "Your parents need you." She added.

"Where are they? And what caused this?"

"Let's go sit in that corner and maybe I might have every answer to your question. Shall we?" The sarcasm in her voice was enough to sip the questions out of me.

"Where are th-" I could not finish my question when a wolf pounced on me and pinned me down, luckily Vera was quick to act and had her canines already dug deep into the neck of the wolf.

I looked up and found Vera already fighting with another wolf. I guess I was not going to get my answers from her, I kept a low profile and tried to stay away from most of the fighting activity as my eyes scanned the whole area for any of my parent's wolves.

I finally saw them and when I did, I hoped so much that it was not them but it was. I strutted towards them and the pace of my heartbeat increased. I crouched down and joined my father who was holding my mother's frail body in his arms. His hands were covered in blood and so was his white shirt....my mother's blood.

My wolf whimpered and she let me take control, I involuntary shifted back into my human form. I did not care that I was naked as I held her hand in mine.

She could not be....she was supposed to be shouting at me and reprimanding me about taking alcohol relentless of her warnings.

I was broken but I could see from the anger on my father's face that the way his body shook portrayed the amount of pain he was feeling. Losing a soulmate...

I wiped my tears but when I looked down I noticed that my hands had my mother's blood and other wolves. I did not care that there was a war happening around us and that different wolves from different packs were motionless on the ground.

The pain was unbearable but all I did was look at my father and feel the tears roll down even more. He stood up with her in his arms and looked down at me before starting to walk away but he was met by a larger wolf.

A large wolf with a dark coat growled lowly at my father. I stayed rooted in my position. Judging from the size and the amount of power he was radiating: I knew that he was an alpha.

Probably every wolf here could feel the power that this one wolf was emitting. It was just too much power for a wolf or an alpha alone but my father only advanced towards him. I could not let him make impulsive decisions, I was not yet ready to lose another person in my life.

The larger wolf pulsed towards my father and everything seemed on pause and on a standstill. I did not want to lose my father.

In a decision of impulse thinking and hoping to defend my family, I shifted into my brown wolf tainted with grey on the tail and snout. I jumped in front of my father and stared into the dark wolf's eyes.

I felt an unnatural pang throughout my whole body as I stared at him and his eyes flashed from a deep hazel colour to an abominable shade of black with flecks of red. I was in a trance and drank on his wonderful scent, it was as though the horrid scent of blood was no longer surrounding me.

I was so deeply entranced with his presence and scent that I did not notice that I was down and he was now on top of me. I finally regained my senses when his large claws scratched my neck. I could not topple him off of me because he was large but as demented as it sounded, I liked the presence of his body on top of mine.

I cowered and whimpered but was only saved when my father's dark grey wolf scratched the Alpha's back making him get off of me and face my father with an angered growl.

I stood back to my feet on all fours and looked over to see my mother's body laid on the ground, she looked so peaceful even though she had a huge wound at her sides. I looked back to my father and growled under my breath. He was fighting with the Alpha...

Before I could jump in and stop them again; everything was already crumbling down. I knew my father had little or no chances as he fought that angry Alpha but we all live by hope, don't we? He had lost his mate and that did not only mean someone who is your companion or partner but someone who is meant solely for you and a bond stronger than anything.

But hope had disappointed me when I lost two of the most important bonds in my life within a day. The life was sucked out of me when large claws dug through my father's neck and side, his blood sipping down onto the floor and staining it.

I hit a dead-end in a very dark tunnel and the light was nowhere to be found. How could I live in a world filled with so much chaos and no one to call my family.

The very last thing I saw was those hazel eyes that caused so much pain in my heart.

It was only Annabelle.....