CHAPTER ONE

There was nothing but a fog of smoke everywhere and Mirabel was having a difficult time finding her way around. They had been attacked and it seemed like hardly anyone survived the attack, not even their most capable guards could protect them or even fight the infiltrators that had forcefully made their way into their pack.

Coughing from the excess smoke that had made its way into her system, she struggled to see through the fog of smoke so she could find her parents and help them find their way out of the pack but it seemed almost impossible. Regardless, she didn't want to just give up. She was the next Luna to be after her father since she had no brother and this was her time to show that she was capable of being Luna and leader of the Lycan pack.

“Bring me those Lycan werewolves now, I’m going to kill them myself with my sword because they don't deserve to exist. They are taboos and should be wiped out completely” Mirabel heard a deep and scary voice roar out not far from where she hid and she shivered in fear of being seen. 

“Moon goddess please I don't want to die, please save me and my family from their hands” she prayed on and on, repeating the same sentence on and on as she hoped that their attacker, king Mortis of Philia pack wouldn't find her parents but she knew that was close to being impossible because he had many guards that would go through every nook and cranny of their palace in minutes and easily find her parents in no time.

“We found the Lycan alpha and Luna, king Mortis” a guard suddenly yelled out and Mirabel’s heart dropped as she heard a thud followed by her mother and father’s grunts before they began to beg king Mortis for mercy but he only laughed.

Praying that they wouldn't see her from where she hid behind a wall, she peeped to see what was going on and she saw her parents were on their knees with their hands bound behind them and king Mortis who looked like he was in his mid-forties stood before them with blank heartless eyes but had a menacing and icy smile on his face… he didn't seem human at all and that alone was scary.

“King Mortis, please have mercy and spare our lives. We have done nothing wrong and have always stuck to our rules as Lycans. Please let us be and spare our lives, we swear on the moon goddess that we would never retaliate” Lycan king henry begged and king Mortis laughed in response.

“You won't retaliate, Henry? What even makes you think you can uh? Do not beg me for mercy Henry because I'm going to kill every single Lycan left in this pack. Look around you” king Mortis said to him and when king Henry didn't obey immediately, king Mortis slapped him hard across the face and king Henry fell to the ground due to how hard he hit him.

Mirabel, who was still watching, struggled to hold herself back from running for her father who just got hit. Rage filled her but she was angrier because she couldn't do anything. It was her father who ordered her to hide and not show herself until everything was over and the enemies were gone so she had to obey his wish to keep his mind at rest.

Slowly, king Mortis bent to look at king Henry who had finally gotten back on his knees after so much struggle and he grabbed his face by the chin to make him look at him as he dug his fingers into his flesh and he struggled to endure the pain.

“I said, Henry, look around!” King Mortis yelled in his face and shaking from his deep and scary roar, king Henry looked around and his heart sank. The whole pack was on fire, dead bodies of the Lycan werewolves were scattered around and the guards who were left and still tried to fight the enemies were killed so easily. Seeing all of that, he had never felt so much hopelessness before. He knew he was going to die but all he hoped for was that his daughter, Mirabel, was safe.

“Now tell me Henry, what do you see?” King Mortis asked him and king Henry didn't reply as he glared at king Mortis. Even if he was going to die by his hands, which he knew he eventually would, he wasn't planning to die without a fight just like that when he destroyed his pack.

“Curse you Mortis, we will come for you and we will end you so painfully for what you have done to us, we’re going to make sure you pay for this and that is my promise to you Mortis,” king Henry said and king Mortis laughed out loud in response.

“I’ve already killed every single one of your ridiculous Lycan followers so who exactly do you think would come for me Henry?” king Mortis asked him and king Henry growled in anger while the luna, queen Marcey whimpered in fear from where she knelt beside king Henry.

“You son of a bitch! Curse you!” King Henry yelled out in anger before he spat on king Mortis’s face and rage filled king Mortis's eyes immediately as he stood up and wiped his face with a handkerchief that a guard handed to him.

“Me? Son of a bitch? You little piece of shit” king Mortis cursed and he threw a punch at king Henry so he fell to the floor. Just as he was trying to get up, king Mortis began to kick him in the gut continuously and Mirabel didn't know when tears began to fall down her face as she watched helplessly.

 

He finally stopped after a while before he slowly drew his gun from beneath his coat with a chuckle then he pointed it at king Henry who was still glaring at him with so much anger as he writhed in pain and coughed out blood too.

“Why don't you join them then? The lovely members of your pack that you love so dear” he said before he pulled the trigger and Mirabel gasped from where she was as she watched her father fall dead to the floor with so much blood oozing from his head, then another shot was fired just as she heard her mother’s scream and she saw as she fell dead to the floor too.

She couldn't take it anymore, this man from nowhere had killed her parents and everyone in her pack. She couldn't just let him get away with it, she had to do what her father promised him… to make him pay for what he did.

Growling with anger, she broke through the wall where she hid and stomped off to meet king Mortis where he stood. She let her claws and fangs out and they were much bigger than that of regular werewolves. She was much stronger than normal werewolves too because she was a Lycan, an original and she was going to show it to him because nobody was going to mess with her family or pack and get away with it. Not under her watch.

She dug her claws into the necks or faces of the guards that came at her without hesitation as her light blue eyes blazed red instead and she felt nothing but fury because she was bent on getting her revenge.

“How dare you kill my parents you monster?” she yelled while tears fell from her angry eyes and she screamed as she went for him.

King Mortis who stood a few feet from her aimed his gun at her and he shot at her shoulder. Mirabel fell to the ground immediately but she stood up at once with a grunt and she saw she was bleeding from her shoulder. She looked at king Mortis with angry eyes only to see he was smiling at her and her anger grew.

“You shouldn't be smiling, you should be begging me to spare you because when I'm done with you, you are going to regret ever messing with my pack” she said as she hissed in pain, and king Mortis scoffed at her attempt to scare him.

“Says who buttercup? You, or the members of this pack that I already killed?” he asked before he began to laugh and Mirabel gritted her teeth before she began to shift and the rest of king Mortis’s guards began to step back in horror when they saw her size. She was definitely no ordinary werewolf.

“My name is Mirabel!” she yelled out before she fully shifted and lunged toward him. No guard could stop her as her claws dug into their flesh one by one and she finally got to where king Mortis stood. She scratched him across the chest before she pushed him to the ground and she shifted back to her human form once she had him pinned under her hold.

“Now, you should be begging me for mercy you mistake for a werewolf.'' She sneered at him and he grunted due to the scratch before he laughed again.

“Never buttercup, you would have to kill me because I would never beg you for mercy” he replied and she bared her teeth to him before she raised her hand up in the air and let her claw out while she stared daggers at him.

“Then you should die you motherfucker” she swore before she dug her claw into his stomach and he coughed out blood while she watched in enjoyment. She was about to attack for a second time when something hit her hard acros the back of her head and her eyes rolled to the back immediately before she fell to the floor and she whimpered in pain but she couldn't move.

She watched as the guards rushed to king Mortis and helped him up while another guard applied pressure to where she hurt him and she felt sad that she didn't get to kill him for what he did to her.

“Set fire to the whole palace now, the legacy of Lycans must end” king Mortis ordered as he struggled to speak and the guards bowed their heads before they went ahead to set fire to the palace. Mirabel whimpered as she helplessly watched and still couldn't move, they were burning what her parents had worked so hard to protect and she couldn't stop them.

“Do we kill her, my king?” One of the guards that stood with king Mortis asked and Mirabel froze before she closed her eyes, hoping they would think she was dead already.

“She would die without a pack or anything to eat eventually, just let her be to suffer until she ends.'' King Mortis replied and Mirabel had never felt more relieved on hearing those words. She was slowly beginning to lose her consciousness but she saw when the palace was set on fire and the guards left along with their alpha king so she was all alone in the middle of the mess that king Mortis had made her pack.

Still laying there helplessly, she watched as her palace began to burn down to ashes and she couldn't help but cry as she finally felt her loss and realized that her parents were really gone and would never come back to her again.

“I'm sorry, I'm sorry papa. I couldn't kill him, I'm so sorry” she cried out as she kept on repeating the same words weakly until she passed out and the palace kept on burning until everything went down to the ground in debris and ashes.

It was all over. King Mortis, a power-drunk alpha who always conquered any pack he attacked had conquered hers too because of his hatred for Lycans, he had killed her parents and helpless eighteen year old Mirabel who was still trying to learn about life and how to survive had lost everything that she ever had because of one man. She had nothing left and it was literally the end for her because she wasn't going to be able to survive alone. She was going to become a rogue with no place to belong to even if she survived, it was all over for her.