"You won't win," I promised. "I won't let you win."
"So sure of yourself, aren't you?" she asked me.
"You seem to be a little overconfident yourself, Emily," I pointed out.
"That's because you have no idea what I have in store for you, Aurora. If you had any idea what was coming for you, you wouldn't be so sure of your victory."
"You surprise me sometimes, Emily. Did you know that? What happened to our friendship, huh? We used to be best friends. Then I come here and you turn on me like the friendship never existed.
Why?" I asked.
She laughed.
"I turned on you when you came because they were about to make me official leader of the pack. Then you came and ruined it all. You are next in line for the throne. Everyone thought that you had died along with everyone else in the Vydia bloodline. But then you showed up and they decided to make you leader. You ruined my life, Aurora. You ruined everything that I had worked so hard to achieve here. Can you see, now, why that would make me hate you?"
"Yes, I can. But just because I came and took over what was rightfully mine is no reason for you to try to kill me. If you and I had been in each other's positions, I wouldn't have tried to kill you. Emily, we've been friends since the beginning of time, practically. How could one little thing change what you think of me? How could one little even make you want to kill me?"
"Because, Aurora, when we were little, you were always the one who stayed behind and was little miss shy-girl. You always stayed back to make sure that the coast would stay clear when we went on our little adventures. And while you were off playing with the other kids, I was by myself working on plans for our next adventure. But eventually, you started getting all the attention and what did I get? Nothing. Everyone ignored me. No one gave me the credit that I deserved. All that anger built up to the point where the one thing I wanted more than anything else was for you to be destroyed. So when I first came here and they made me leader, I realized that I had the power to control one of the largest werewolf armies. I started making plans to get you here. And after that, I made plans on how to kill you once I got you here. But somehow they all failed. They all failed, Aurora!"
"But that's not my fault, Emily. You know, I had been thinking about letting you be the beta wolf in the pack when I was to be announced as leader," I told her.
She got a hopeful look in her eyes.
"Really?" she asked.
"Yeah. I had been. But you pushed it a little too far, Emily. I have no choice now in what I must do for your punishment. I'm sorry, Emily," I said, and went to finish the job.