Alpha

**Alpha** is a non-leveled non-token arctic wolf with a black body and a teal face, legs, and tail-tip. She has light-teal eyes with eyelashes.

## About

She has a very strong sense of justice, hates when someone doesn't get what they deserve, and has a long standing rivalry with Solstice-her half-sister- which eventually sparked a war with them on opposing sides.

Alpha and Emerald grew up in the same pack and were childhood friends that eventually became mates. Alpha was very powerful even for someone in the Deltaverse, but used her power to help protect others. She had a lot of respect for Emerald, who was a healer and had no interest in learning any offensive magic. Alpha had a more intense personality, and was hurt by all of the injustices that she saw. The most painful for her to watch was when their queen, Alpha's half-sister, Solstice would mistreat wolves that were "beneath" her. Alpha couldn't do anything about it because acting against the queen would be seen as treason, and she would be exiled from the pack and separated from Emerald.

Alpha started having more and more problems with Solstice, enough to where some of the other wolves started to notice. Solstice had definitely noticed how she could get under Alpha's skin, and it was becoming increasingly obvious to Alpha that she was being picked out from everyone else. And after every altercation, Solstice would sneer at her and command her to bow, to show respect to her ruler. It made Alpha sick to her stomach, especially because she saw and experienced the harm that the queen was doing every day. But every day, Emerald would comfort her and convince her that it would be okay, until it would start again the next day. After one bad fight, Emerald had a vision of the future, and even though he never told her what it was, she could tell that it was about her, and it was bad. So, she doubled her efforts to help repair the damage Solstice was doing, trying twice as hard to feed her starving friends and building them shelters, sometimes sacrificing her own bed on particularly bad nights. when the cold and snow would be worse for the oldest and youngest members of the pack. In the absence of a proper ruler, survival of the fittest had become the most important rule, but Emerald was her beacon of light in the darkness- reminding her of what really mattered- and she would try her best to defend packmates who had fallen ill or gotten injured. It only took a few years for Alpha to earn her fair share of scars, scars she refused to let Emerald heal any more than absolutely necessary. She wanted them there, reminders as she trained that it didn't matter if she'd never lost a fight. It didn't matter if the other wolves had started to recognize her as someone they didn't want to mess with, because she could still slip up.

One night, as she was returning home (She was running because she didn't like leaving Emerald alone this long- it was too dangerous for anyone unwilling to defend themselves) she heard a low howling cry coming from just beyond some alcoves. Batting back her reluctance to leave Emerald for any more time, she headed towards the noise. Cautiously, letting her pawsteps fall completely silent and blending her coat to match her surroundings until she was completely hidden, she crept forward. It was a common scam at the time for a member of a smaller group within their pack to pretend to be wounded so that the other members could set up a perfect ambush for anyone who tried to help, but they would cry loudly, trying to attract anyone's attention to them. This sounded different- it was barely audible, more like someone gasping for air. As Alpha came around the corner, she let her defenses drop and rushed to kneel next to the small cub, laying crumpled on the ground in front of her. She frantically sniffed their coat, but could find no injuries. Alpha could tell that their coat used to be sleek and perfect, Dark Violet on their back, fading into bright orange on their stomach, like a sunset. Now, it hung in folds around a pitifully thin skeleton, clumps of fur missing here in their dirty, matted fur. Alpha nudged them, but the pup curled tightly into a ball and whimpered more loudly. Carefully, she grabbed the scruff of their neck and lifted her gently into the air. With a pang, she was that the grass where they'd been laying was long dead and flattened, as if the pup had been lying there, without moving, for several days. As she completed her journey to Emerald, she felt a familiar flare of anger that their queen, whose sole job was to protect them, would let something like this happen. When she set them down, Emerald immediately rushed to their side and pressed his nose to their flank. Alpha saw the golden glow she was used to rising around his paws and spreading towards the cub. She was about to breath a sigh of relief when Emeralds eyes flew open and he jerked back. "What?" Alpha asked, but he just shook his head and pressed his nose against the cub again, more forcefully it seemed, and the glow spread across them, fluffing up the cubs fur as she opened her eyes and blinked up at them. It took 3 days to get her to eat, and even then Alpha didn't admit to Emerald that she had used a little bit of her power to force it. She was even more worried that the cub never complained, never gave any indication that they wanted to play, but just lay in the corner, head slumped against the ground. Emerald had told her that first night that the cub had been trying to force his healing away from her. It was even more apparent the longer she stayed next to her that the cub had lost her will to live. After a week, Alpha couldn't take it anymore. When Emerald fell asleep, she crept next to the cub and pressed her face to theirs. She closed her eyes and let a little bit of her power slip into the cub's mind. Searing pain swept across her instantly, and she gasped, gripping the floor as powerful memories of the cub's life gripped her. She saw a large red wolf, FireStreak, the cub's father, protecting her, looking after her. Alpha had never known what it was like to feel so... attached... to a parent like that. To have that ripped away must have caused the little cub a kind of pain that she herself would never fully be able to understand. Collecting herself and focusing again, she pressed her nose to theirs again, this time projecting her own memories and emotions with them. When she opened her eyes again, the cub's, Soul's, green eyes met hers, and Alpha could see the pain in them as she blinked. Relief washed over her. It was far better than the blank stare she'd been giving them when they tried to interact with her. Pain meant she was feeling something again, slowly coming back to the world and giving herself the chance to recover.

Not long after Soul, she rescues Storm. She was watching Emerald explain a healing technique to Soul when she got a tingling feeling at the base of her neck and her lip curled involuntarily. It was a sense that she had unconsciously started developing, letting her power spread when she was in one place for too long, sensing when anyone in the pack's territory needed help. With one last glance at Emerald and Soul, she turned and darted into the trees. It didn't take her long to find where the feeling had come from. In her mind, she saw how just a few hundred yards in front of her, a large black wolf was towering over two trembling pups. Her snarling lips were frothing slightly, and her eyes were unnaturally bright. Alpha felt her paws pounding against the ground and burst into a clearing just in time to see the black wolf's jaws snap shut around the smaller pup's neck, killing it instantly and splattering its blood on the fresh green grass. The second pup, black like the bigger wolf, but with accents of red howled in terror, and Alpha barely managed to leap in front of him as the other wolf's gleaming teeth sunk deep into Alpha's front leg instead of the pup's petrified face. Alpha yanked her leg free and flung the other wolf onto her back, letting her power seep into the ground and calling up thick vines to twist around the black wolf so that they couldn't escape. Then she turned back to the remaining pup, who took a staggering step backwards. "I'ts okay," Alpha said reassuringly, trying to calm him down. "I'm not going to hurt you. You're safe now." She took another step closer to him, but the terrified pup darted forward and bit her leg, digging into the wound the older wolf had already created. Alpha bit back a howl of pain, gritted her teeth, and gently trapped the pup in a hug. Eventually, she was able to calm him down and bring him back to Emerald, who healed her leg and put the pup to sleep. When he woke up the next morning, he collapsed into tears again. Alpha wondered if he'd been hoping that it'd been just a bad dream. She was making sure to be gentle with him- he already had to be traumatized- but had to force her fury to subside when she asked what his name was and he replied that he didn't have one. The wolf who had been attacking them was their mother, and the pup who had died had been his sister. Alpha's heart sank as she realized that the small pup had died without ever receiving a name. That night, her and Emerald suggested the name Storm to the pup, who took it gladly with a wagging tail. Soul seemed thrilled to have a brother (even though she was too young to question why), and Alpha didn't miss the natural protectiveness that Storm displayed around her. She guessed that it made sense, after losing his first sister in such a horrible way. After that, when Soul trained with Emerald, working to heal any injured wolves that came to them, Storm would follow Alpha, protecting everyone they could.

## Trivia

* Alpha was meant to become queen instead of Solstice, which is where her name came from.