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Lots of love, Rose x
Demarcus and I never spoke about the vision after, mostly because I spent all my time trying to hide from the man.
I would listen carefully and the moment I sensed him coming I would run in the opposite direction and when he scheduled lessons I would tell him I was sick or tired or make up any other excuse to save me from talking to him.
It was bad and rude, I know, but I couldn't help it. Every time I saw him all I could remember was his last words to me and then the whole nightmare would flash in my head, not that I wasn't already thinking about it, all the goddamn time. Despite the fact I was still tired from the Revival spell, I still lay awake at night, unable to sleep, because the moment I closed my eyes, all I could see was Zac's dead body and his lifeless eyes.
Zac was still in his constant sleep, yet sometimes, when I focused so intently on him for a long period of time I could see small microscopic movements. These were basically what I was living for recently, anything to remind me that Zac was alive and that one day he would wake up again.
I haven't had another vision either and I wasn't sure whether that was a good thing or not.
When I wasn't helping out with the pack, or curled up next to Zac, waiting and watching for any signs that he was waking up, I was in the library, scouring the whole place for books on visions.
I had done my research and what I had learnt hadn't made me any more relaxed.
Visions are premonitions, sometimes they are variable to interpretations but sometimes the visions are simply a warning of what is to come.
I had tried my hardest to interpret the vision, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't understand what Zac's death and the death of my whole pack meant. As much as I hated to believe it, I knew that this vision wasn't supposed to be an interpretation- no this was a warning of what was coming in the future.
This realisation led me to be spooked for the next two weeks, practically jumping at everything, even hurting others because of it.
Carla had wanted to do something for me since she knew I was feeling low and so had planned to surprise me in the Library with a cake that she had made for me. It was a very sweet thought on her behalf but my nervous wreck of a self had thought she was an intruder and had knocked her unconscious using my magic, when she had jumped out from behind the door with a chocolate cake.
She was fine in the end and very forgiving of me, after she eventually woke up with a concussion and a very bruised head.
But of course, after this I realised I had enough of walking around, twitching and frightened of my own shadow.
Instead I made it so that everyone in the pack had training in combat. Usually it was just the pack warriors, but I didn't want a single person to be weak or vulnerable if what happens in my vision came true. It didn't matter how old or young they were, whether they were male or female I made sure Jayden and Jasper trained them as much as they would train the warriors.
I too got involved, waking up early in the morning to join the pack warriors in training and then going to sleep as late as possible. Working myself so hard meant that not only was I developing my physical strength, but I was also distracted from thoughts of my vision. It also meant I was so exhausted and tired that the moment I hit my mattress I was out like a light, no time to ponder about whether I would get another vision as I slept or not.
This routine worked for a while, it was nearly a month since Zac had been injured and it had practically flown past.
No matter how much I detested to admit it, but the vision had also saved this pack in a way. If it wasn't for the vision, I don't think I would have a clue about how to lead this pack. I would have been so lost and without a clear leader the Red Moon Pack would have been ruined before any destruction and chaos the vision promised could.
But thankfully my fear had driven me to a fight or flight response and so I decided to fight. I wasn't going to let everything fall apart in front of me. And I knew that when Zac finally woke up, he would be impressed. That was also another factor which kept me going. I wanted Zac to know that I deserved to be his mate and that I could lead this pack, equally beside him.
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I stared outside at the forest line from my bedroom window. It was late afternoon and the pack training had just finished, everyone was tired and hungry and when I closed my eyes and focused I could hear the loud laughter and general noise from pack dining area.
A small smile appeared on my face.
There hadn't been another attack or any signs of the hunters for a while now, and while this was good news, I had a worrying feeling within. While there had been no more visions, I still hadn't forgotten the one I had and this along with the lack of hunters presence made me believe this was just the calm before the storm.
But for now I was calm. I had heard some good news today and it had made everything a hundred times better.
Taliya had said Zac was nearly all healed, and this meant he would be waking up soon. I just wished that by 'soon' she meant he would be waking up any second now. I was tired of being alone. I was tired of falling asleep, watching him, knowing fully well that I would be the only one that woke up the next morning. I was tired of being strong, when all I wanted to do was be held in his arms and to cry.
I was tired.
I was about to turn away from the window when I felt it. It was like white noise, this constant low ringing in my head and then darkness. The last thing I remember was falling to the ground as my eyes closed.
"Help!"
"Help us Luna!"
I opened my eyes and I was back on the training fields, but this time there was no blood or dead bodies littered around. I looked down at my hands and again there was no red liquid covering them.
I swiveled around on my feet, my eyes darting around, but there was nothing to see and then suddenly two little kids appeared in front of me. One was holding the other in his arms, screaming, crying, his eyes wide in fear, his red cheeks streaked with tears.
The little girl in his arms, was pale and bleeding out from a wound in her abdomen, her clothes ripped, her little pigtails soaked in her own blood.
"Help her Luna! Help her!" The little boy begged me, still tightly holding onto his sister.
I looked at the children, my own body going into shock.
"Danny, Emma..."? I whispered.
And then as if I had been plunged headfirst into ice cold water, I was awake again, sprawled out on my bedroom floor.
It took me a moment to clear my head and then I jumped up on my feet, still dizzy and unsteady, but I knew I didn't have time to waste. It was another vision.
Once again I was reminded why not having mindlinking abilities were a problem, as I stumbled down the stairs, heading to the pack dining area. I passed through the kitchen, practically running into Carla who tidying up.
"Woah there!" she exclaimed as she steadied me when I rushed past her. She looked over me with wary eyes, "What's the rush?"? she asks.
"Where's Sven- No actually have you seen his kids, Danny and Emma?" I was rushing the words out, my eyes frantically looking around.
Carla shakes her head in reply, "No I'm pretty sure Sven is with the pack warriors," she says, "But I don't know where his kids are." she adds after.
I sigh, "Ok fine, go to Jayden and tell him that it's an emergency. I think the hunters are back. I need you to do that for me please." I tell her, not bothering to say anything more before rushing through the doors to the training grounds.
There was no one around and I realised something frightening. The training had ended an hour ago, meaning most of the members were inside having lunch. It also meant that it was time for the guards at the borders to switch over.
Everyone was distracted, meaning that right now would be a perfect time for an attack.
I felt my heart pound erratically in my chest as I looked around the barren fields, there was not a person in sight.
"Danny! Emma!!" I screamed, hoping that they could hear me.
Suddenly I heard the sound of children screaming in the distance and I moved so fast, my feet pounding hard against the ground, my hair flailing around my face. I had moved so fast, I hadn't even noticed I was already standing in front of a group of children.
They were all screaming, but not in fright.
"You're it!" someone screamed and the children ran away, screaming and laughing in joy. They were screaming because they were playing a game. I l clutched at my head, annoyed at myself.
Maybe I was overreacting. Maybe all this recent stress and late nights were playing tricks on me.
Yet still I felt uneasy, so I told the children that it was time for them to go back inside. I was the Luna, so of course they listened, making a quick
beeline straight in doors, but before all of them went in, I quickly stopped the last child, a little girl with short blonde curly hair.
"Hey honey," I said sweetly, "do you know where Danny and Emma are?"
The little girl looks up at me with her wide green eyes and then points in the direction of the forest.
"They went in there." she says softly and they quickly runs inside following her friends.
I turn my attention to the forest, a dark feeling bubbling inside me and slowly made my way towards it, but I didn't have to go far before two little familiar face appeared, running as fast as they could towards me.
"Danny! Emma!" I quickly rushed to them, kneeling in front of them when they both jumped into my arms.
They were crying so much they were struggling to breath, let alone speak, "Th-There-" Danny was trying his hardest to tell me something, but he was so out of breath he couldn't form a sentence, his cheeks streaked with tears.
I looked down at Emma, who looked like she was turning blue from exertion, but looking down her body I felt relieved to see no open, bleeding wound.
I was confused as I held them tightly in my arms. In my vision, I could still see it clearly, Emma was hurt and dying and Danny was begging me to help. Perhaps it wasn't a vision for today, maybe it was sometime further in the future.
I shook my head at the thought. In my vision Danny and Emma were dressed in the same exact outfits they were wearing currently. Danny was wearing a white top with blue sleeves and blue shorts and Emma was wearing a pastel pink top with white leggings, her hair in two little pigtails.
No, the vision I had was definitely of today.
But I didn't hesitate to think anymore on it, the children were safe and that's all that mattered. I had managed to change the vision.
"Go inside," I order, turning to Danny when the children didn't move from my side, "Danny take your sister inside...now!"
But even at my raised voice the children tried their hardest to bury themselves into my side.
"T-hey..are he-re." Danny stuttered as a whisper amongst his crying.
"Who? Who are here Danny?" I ask, but he didn't reply and looking up I already knew the answer.
While I was so focused on the children, I hadn't noticed the darkness that had followed them out of the forest.
Standing in front of me was a brown wolf, but not any normal wolf. No, I could tell from the red in their eyes and dirty, matted fur and just the dark presence about them that screamed 'EVIL', I knew this wolf was a rogue. There was a scent surrounding the wolf, which could only be described as rotting flesh, and it made the hair on my arms stand tall.
I let a warning growl rip, my eyes darkening, canines extending. Whatever part of me which was part werewolf emerged to the front as I pushed the two kids behind my body.
"YOU HAVE TRESPASSED ROGUE!" I growl as a warning, "Submit now and I will make your death quick and painless."
The wolf growled back, not in anger at my words but almost as if he was amused.
At first I didn't get it, but then as more and more rogue wolves began to emerge from behind him I realised exactly why he found my threat so funny.
Their pungent smell was suffocating and I reached behind to hold the Danny and Emma close against my back.
I dare to cast a worried glance around me.
Why weren't Jayden and the others here yet?
I might have been a lot more powerful now than when I was human, but taking on around twenty rogue wolves by myself while protecting two defenseless little children might just prove a little bit difficult.
But I didn't have time to ponder too much, because the moment I moved my attention away, the brown wolf that had first appeared pounced, his jaws open in a ferocious growl, spitting his drool everywhere.
I acted fast, extending my hands and swatting it in the air. An invisible force hit the wolf, smacking it away so hard that it smashed against the body of a tree, crumbling to the floor.
It was satisfying to say the least, but before I could revel in my actions another rogue attacked and I did the same to it, watching momentarily as it flew through the air before crumbling against another tree with a sickening thud.
This time, two wolves pounced at the same time and I whispered a chant forming two fireballs in both my hands. I turned to the wolves as they were in mid air and shot the fireballs at them watching as they fell to the ground, howling in pain as they burned alive. They tried to roll around on the grass, trying to put out the fire consuming them, but it was useless as I continued to chant under my breath, until their howling stopped and they were dead.
I felt a pinch of guilt in my chest, but I reassured myself by thinking that if I hadn't killed them first, then it would be me and the children dead on the floor.
However it did little to ease the pain but before I could think any further another three wolves lurched forward.
Emma screamed from behind me, as I raised both my arms out to either side, and then whilst chanting brought them together with a loud clap. The noise was so loud that the soundwaves reverberated around us with so much
force the wolves flew back a good distance. They were dazed and as they struggled to get back on their feet, I raised my index finger and drew a circle in the air and suddenly a ring of fire trapped them together. They howled and growled in anger but the more they tried to leap out of the fiery ring, the higher the flames grew, burning them every time they got closer to it.
"Luna look!" hearing Danny's warning, I turned just in time to see another wolf leap towards us and just as they got close enough, I reached up and grabbed their head, twisting it to hear a resonating crack. The dead wolf dropped in front of me, while I trembled with the adrenaline in my body.
Emma let out another scream at the sight of the dead wolf and I quickly covered her mouth and pushed her beside me.
I feared the worst when I realised there were still thirteen rogues circling us.
Where the hell is Jayden?! Has no one realised that there are rogues on our territory?
I was getting weaker, I could feel it. I was still recovering from the magic I had used for the revival spell to save Zac, and I wasn't sure how much longer I could hold out for.My eyes darted around, carefully surveying to see which wolf would attack next, but then they did what I feared the most.
They all attacked at the same time.
It almost felt as if time had slowed down. All I could see was a flash of black and brown as they attacked from all around us. All I could hear was Emma and Danny's piercing screams along with the deafening growls and roars as the rogues leaped through the air towards us.
I was frozen, my eyes wide as I watched the impending prospect of death looming over us, but then I felt Emma's tiny little hands clutch onto my shirt in fear and everything clicked.
I fell to the ground, my hands slamming hard against the wet grass, my head flung back and I opened my mouth and screamed.
An invisible barrier erected separating the rogues from us and no matter how many times they flung their bodies against it, the barrier stayed up. They growled and continued to circle us, but I didn't dare to move, afraid that a single movement would bring down the barrier giving the wolves the chance to rip us apart.
I felt something drip from my nose and casting my eyes down I realised my nose was bleeding.
Smelling the scent of my blood the wolves riled up again, realising I was getting weaker, and flung themselves against the invisible dome of protection and for a second my arms wavered against the ground because of the pressure.
My nose dripped again.
Five minutes, I can probably hold on for another five minutes. But that would be it, I couldn't do it anymore.
Please Jayden! Please! I beg internally.?
And then as if the Gods had heard my prayers and decided to generously answer, I saw in the distance some more wolves emerge, running towards us at great speeds. I felt relief flood me at the sight, recognising straight away that these wolves were from our pack.
Oh my god! I cried inside, as our wolves got closer, Jayden in his grey wolf form leading the rest.
"Are they here to save us?" Emma asks, her voice barely a whisper. I nod frantically, "Yes sweetie, they're here to save us. You are going to be fine, you're going to be safe."
There was a moment of silence before Jayden and our warriors leapt into the air, colliding with the rogues and from then on everything was a blur. It was just a mix of bloodshed and wolf against wolf, fighting to death.
Once I had realised all the rogues were preoccupied with fighting against Jayden and the warriors, I slowly let out the barrier, gasping for breath when I realised I had been holding my breath.
I looked around at the sight in front of me. It was clear the wolves stood no chance, for one, they were outnumbered anyway. Jayden had brought with him at least thirty of our men. The fight was over before they rogues even had a chance and I sighed in relief at the sight of the dead rogues scattered around.
"Luna!" I turned to a very naked Jayden who had shifted back to his human form. He rushed over, grabbing me quickly by the shoulders.
"Are you alright? Are you hurt?" He asked, worry deep in his voice. His eyes carefully roamed over my face and then down my body.
"Yeah well I'm fine, but I can't say that would have been my answer if you had arrived any later."
I felt nose drip again and I quickly raised my hand and wiped the blood away with the back of my hand.
"How did you not realise there were rogues on our land?" I was grateful that he had arrived and we were all alive, but the fact that no one had realised that we had trespassers was difficult to forgive.
Jayden looks down to the ground, ashamed, still completely naked.
"Usually it's easy to recognise when someone has trespassed because of the protection spell around the border," oh yeah, I had forgotten about the magical barrier that was put up around the pack, "but the only person that can sense when the barrier has been trespassed is Alpha Stone and well he's..."
He's lying unconscious in a coma.
I sigh, "What about the border guards, did they not realise?"
"I know it's not an excuse Luna," Jayden starts, "but they have been tired from the constant training so they were desperate to get back home from their shift. All I can say is they were distracted."
I run my hands through my hair, "It's not good enough Jayden, these children-" I turn to point at Emma and Danny but my heart drops when I notice they are no longer at my side.
"Danny, Emma!!!" I scream, suddenly running around. They couldn't have gone far, I mean I had only just turned around to speak to Jayden.
"Emma!!" I scream, jogging towards the pack house and from behind me I can hear Jayden shouting out for them too.
"Danny! Emma!" I scream once again and then I notice two little figures in the distance, heading towards the house.
I scream their names out once more and I see them turn around to my voice. I started to sprint towards them, holding my hands out to signal for them to wait for me. I was still a slight distance when I noticed it- a huge black wolf heading a top speed towards the children and even from that distance I could smell the scent.
A rogue.
I screamed at the top of my lungs, telling them to run, but the kids were frozen in fear at the sight of the beast hurtling towards them.
"Run!" I scream, but it was too late. Before I could even conjure up a spell the rogue had pounced, knocking the children to the ground.
Then all I heard was Emma's pained cry for help.
I swat my hand in the air and the wolf flew with great force away from the children, but one look towards them and all I could see was red and scared, pale faces. I reached just in time before the wolf regained its strength and jumped again, but I was ready and with one twist I snapped his head, its
limp body smashing to the ground, but my attention was no longer on the wolf, instead I turned back to the children.
Scenes from my vision flashed before me like a movie, but this time they were real.
"Help!"
"Help her Luna!"
I felt my whole body sway as I noticed Emma's limp body in Danny's arms, but there was nothing I could do. It was like I was having an out of body experience, I wanted to reach over and grab Emma, but my body betrayed me and all I could do was stare at the children in front of me in shock.
"Luna! Help her, Please!"
The vision was right and despite all my effort in trying to change it, it still played out the same.
Oh gosh guys, I really hope little Emma is going to be okay.
What did you think of this chapter? I'll be honest, I really struggled to write magic scenes, I don't know how to describe them well enough. So if you guys have any tips, please comment them below x