Prologue

I yelled out in pain. I was giving birth to our first child. I yelled again, pushing as hard as I could. I heard Luke beside me. He was holding my hand and giving me incouragement.

"You can do it hunny! Just a little bit more!" he said, tears falling down and kissing my hand.

"Ok. Now I need you to push one last time." the doctor said. "One, two,... three!"

I pushed with all the energy in my body! I felt the baby come out and relaxed. I was so tired but I wanted to see my baby. I heard it crying and I cried harder, and smiling.

"Here you go, Nala. Congratulations! It's a baby girl!" said the doc, wrapping my precious baby girl in some pink blankets. He then handed her to me.

I held her and cried tears of joy. She was so beautiful and soft, like an angel's wing.

"She is so beautiful." My husband Luke whisper, carressing her head softly, and crying still. "She looks like you." he said, kissing me on my forehead.

Then after a few minutes the doc took her and layed on this table on a wall next to the bed. He weighed her, then measured her.

"She is a healthy nine and a half pounds, but she is a little on the small side." said the doc, turning to me and smiling.

She just looked at the doctor, so calm and queitly, its hard to believe she was just born. The doc gave her to me, as a nurse was handing me a bottle. Luke took her and the bottle and said, "I'll feed her. You get some deserved rest." Kissing my forehead and sitting in the chair beside the bed.

"What shall we name her?" he asked, giving her the bottle. I saw love and devotion in his whole face, like he was willing to protect her from anything.

I sighed and looked at her for a good while then answered, "How about Alex?"

"Alex, Alex," he repeated, thinking. Then he looked at me smiling from ear to ear. "I think it's perfect!"

I smiled and looked at my husband feeding our daughter. I soon fell asleep and wished I hadn't, because little did I know what was coming next.

I was in the woods of the Quelite packs. A beautiful woman was standing in front of me. She had long, flowing chocolate-brown hair, sea blue eyes, and a white dress on. She was holding a bow and arrow at her side.

She slightly bowed and said, "Greetings Nala. I am Zoe. Gaurdian of hunters and protectors alike. I have come with disturbing news. Your daughter will grow up to be a werewolf like you, but not until you and your husband die."

She said this with such calmness, that I didn't think it was possible. I just stood there in shock. When I didn't answer she continued.

"You can not tell anyone about this. Not even your husband. You will die after she turns five years old. She will then grow up to be a powerful and wise young woman. She has great expectations of her. She will have to learn to control her anger and her emotions, at least toward her family. She will also have to learn to choose between the world and her family."

I stood there, listening, but with no response. Finally I squiked out, "So your telling me that me and my husband are going to die in five years and that my daughters life is already planned out for her?"

"Yes. I know this is alot to take in but you need to be strong. You only have a limited time with your daughter so make it count. I will see you again." and with that she was fading and then gone.

I felt darkness creep up on me and then I awoke back in the hospital bed.

Luke was asleep with ablanket around him and Alex was on the table soundly asleep. I layed there, thinking of how I would never be able to tell Luke that we were going to die after our daughter turned five or that she had her life planned out before she could even begin it. . .