User blog comment:General MGD 109/Monster Strength Scale/@comment-87.249.167.240-20121105184228/@comment-1509826-20121106190448

The Alpha is simply the first one created by eve, and then goes on to create the rest of its species, its not a rule that its the most powerful. So yes all monsters have an alpha.

I know it seems odd, but then we don't know that she new that its ashes would kill her, I highly doubt when she makes a monster, she controls what it is down to a chemical level. Plus it has to be, because if it isn't what is it? And its also stated in the episode "the ashes of a Phoenix can kill the mother" as in the Phoenix's mother.