Reach Out
By Sarah Jackson
Chapter 1
"Stop ma'am!" a woman of eighteen shouted as she grabbed the big branch as it almost hit its target.
"Let go! It needs to learn manners!" the older woman snarled.
"Hitting it will only give you a death wish." the younger one tried to tell the woman as she struggled with a branch.
"What are you talking about?" the woman asked, her eyes narrowed in suspicion.
"It's small, furry and cute. Do you think its clan will take it kindly if they find a wound on it?" she countered.
The struggling of the stick slowed, the girl continued.
"Not only that, think of what its mother would do when it tells her who had done it? Apologies for her son's behavior?" she said.
The struggle stopped, the girl threw the branch away from the older woman and patted her arm.
"The only thing we can do is tell Mr. Tallinn, he'll see to it that the others understand." the girl told the woman.
Mr. Tallinn was the one to report to when the changeling did something to disturb the peace of their own.
The woman nodded before picking up her half chewed up skirt and walked away. The girl sighed in relief before looking down at the little trouble maker.
A leopard cub, lively green-gold eyes watched her as she kneeled down him and looked at him straight in the eye.
She shook her head before getting up and grabbing hold of the scruff of his neck and lifted him up, he growled.
It only made her smile.
"Oooh I'm shaking in my shoes." she said to him, before putting him into her bicycle basket.
He poked his head out of the basket with his front paws, but stayed there.
"Thankfully, I know where your people resides, unfortunately, I have to pass through the MoonPaw territory." she told the cub.
The cub ducked his head into the basket.
"Good thinking," she said to it as she began her ride.
As she rode, she tried to calm the agitated cub by singing 'Two Worlds, One Family' it worked, and so she singed all the Disney songs she remembered, the cub looked at her as if in awe. She couldn't tell.
She felt herself entering the wolves territory, you didn't have to be a changeling to feel that you are not suppose to be there. But she kept on paddling her bike, the cub was in hiding. She had covered the basket with her jacket to keep the cub warm, and to hide his scent as much as she could.
The MoonPaw may have a truce with the jaguars, that didn't mean they'll like them being in their territory.
When they came to her town, the mayor; Mr. Samson, had warned the people not to cross them. The funny thing was, they knew of the wolves, but not the Leopards until a hunter came back swearing up and down about them. The humans and MoonPaw were not happy of not being told about this.
From then on, the town knew everything about them and vice versa. The wolves and humans had a bond, also with the FireShadows.
She had no idea why the packs had the weirdest names.
She was just finishing singing 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' when a shadow, no shadows, came out of the woods in the middle of the road and in front of her. She cursed under her breath as she slowed down to a stop.
One was in human form, but the other three were in their wolf form, as they got closer, she swore in her head.
'Juveniles.' she thought as she saw the teenage boy.
Her father made sure his daughter knew everything about the changeling, well almost, she knew Juveniles were not to mess with.
She watched as the one in human form came forward.
"State your name and business." the boy said.
The boy was nineteen at the least, brown with black specks in his hair, cold almond colored eyes, and about 5'9.
She raised an eyebrow. "I'm Alice, and I'm following the white rabbit."
If she didn't know any better, she could have sworn that the wolves on each side of him chuckled.
The boy scowled, growling, before sighing in annoyance. "I'm Dominick."
"Lila, Lila Deveau." she returned, "And I'm just passing through."
Dominick came closer to Lila, as did the wolves, he inhaled, and Lila prayed he didn't smell the cub. The cub in question was very still in her basket.
When Dominick opened his eyes, his eyes were wolf.
'Uh oh' she thought.
One of the wolves growled at Dominick, he was bigger then the others, with red fur. Lila recognized the fur anywhere.
"Fredrick?" she called out, tilting her head.
The red wolf went rigid and looked at her as if in shock, so did Dominick.
As she looked at the other wolves, they didn't look all that friendly, they looked pretty tensed.
Dominick got over his shock and was coming dangerously close. Fredrick whined.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
"None of your business." she told him.
He growled as he gripped her arm, she whimpered in surprise and hurt.
"Don't let me repeat myself." he warned
"You're not the alpha, and I'm not of the pack." she told him.
He was snarling now, gripping her arm tight making her cry out in pain. That was when the cub popped his head out and let out a baby leopard roar. If Lila wasn't in trouble, and the danger was too near for the both of them, she would have picked him up and hugged him to bits, squealing her head off.
Dominick sneered as he let go of grip on her and was tried to grab the cub. Tried being the word.
"No!" she screamed as she grabbed the cub before him and sprinted into the woods.
She smacked her mental self silly.
'YOU IDIOT!' she screamed.
Of course she wasn't suppose to run away from the wolves, but she had a cub to think about, if she could just reach where the FireShadows land, she could let the cub run from there.
She heard the sound of paws hitting the ground behind her, she forced her legs to go faster.
The cub continued to cry out, she tried to comfort the cub.
"It's okay, I won't let them have you." she swore to him.
Something grabbed her leg, sharp teeth. She cried out as she collapsed, she pushed the cub.
"Go! Run! Don't look back!" she told it as it ran.
She saw one of the wolves go after him.
"Oh no you don't!" she screamed as she leaped onto him.
The cub disappeared into the dark, Lila sighed in relief inside her as the wolf tried to buck her off.
That only made her grip his fur more.
The other wolves were tearing at her cloths to get off him, but she wouldn't.
The wolf under her finally got her off him and was pinning her as he snarled at her. They looked at each other for a second before he showed her his teeth, she knew this was her image before she died. She was hoping she died in a warm bed at an old age with all her children, grandchildren, and all the greats grandchildren.
'At least I saved the cub, it was too cute to die' she thought this with a smile as she closed her eyes and waited for his jaws.
A/N What do u think, was it alright, i'll update next sunday review please!