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Chapter 1 - The Story Begins
"Do you smell that?"
She lifted her nose into the air slightly and inhaled. Her pale green eyes flashed a bright electric blue as she recognised the scent. Death.
"The Alpha." She said simply.
He nodded in approval, already storming in the direction of the source of the rank smell. She followed, weaving between trees completely aware in her dark surroundings. She huffed as it started to rain slightly, the sound of thunder roaring in the distance.
He stopped so suddenly she ran into his back. When he didn't move after a second she looked up at her dark haired companion, full red lips pursed in annoyance. His pale eyes, almost identical to her own, were locked on something in front of them.
Then she saw it.
About five feet ahead, half covered with wet dead leaves and dirt from the Forrest floor and peeking out from behind a tall thick tree trunk, was a hand.
It was starkly pale in the night, the long fingers bent into an awkward claw shape. It was a female hand. The long slightly chipped nails were a chrome black colour with a random design of thin wisps of red on the thumb and ring fingers.
She squinted. It wasn't a terribly artistic design, more of a homemade style, but it looked familiar. She twirled the moonstone ring on her right pointer finger with her thumb. A nervous tick she'd developed last year after when she'd first been given it, as a birthday present from her cousin -
Her fidgety fingers froze when she glanced down at her beloved ring. Her chrome and red coloured thumb twitched.
Her head snapped up wide eyes searching for the pale hand in the leaves. The one that had shared her nail polish. The one that had handed her a pretty blue jewellery box that contained a pretty moonstone ring.
"Laura." She breathed into the suddenly thick icy air.
She stumbled past the tall solid form in front of her on unsteady legs. Her breath quickened as she drew closer to the limp limb, catching the sight of the long toned forearm as she rounded the trunk of the tree. The forearm led to a strong yet feminine bicep, then a bare shoulder until she could see strands of light brown swaying slightly in the breeze she couldn't feel in her numbness. The curtain of light brown waves lay, almost shielding the pale bare skin of an upper back from the cold and rain. She chose to ignore the smudges of dried red liquid that littered any bare stretch of skin and knot of hair.
She choked when she saw a thin pretty face beneath the waves, left cheek laying with the dirt, and pale green eyes staring at nothing, a glossy film covering the pupil. Her eyes rolled over the naked body laying on the ground. The wind had blown leaves over the top half that were scattered about the petite feminine back and were tangled in her hair, the bottom half looked to be buried beneath a thicker pile of leaves. She didn't stop to think further on it, instead her eyes were drawn to the expressionless face that lay amongst the dirt and mud.
"Lau-" she choked again. She stood still, over the form of her naked older cousin. In the rain her long black damp curls billowed out around her, ignored, in the wind, her unusually pale skin blotched red at the cheeks and nose due to the cold. Her perfectly sculptured black brows pulled together over large red and green broken eyes. She was hauntingly beautiful in this moment of tragedy.
"Laura?" She tried again in a barely there whisper.
When no response was given she lowered herself to her knees, careful not to disturb the still form laying there.
Where her heart felt like it was about to burst not a minute before, she didn't think it was working now. She reached out almost in slow motion, without her command. It was like watching someone else control her. She touched her hand to the pale exposed shoulder of her best friend and mentor and shook slightly, sickened at the way the form seemed to move limply all at once and not at all, at the same time.
"Laura." She whispered again looking into the open milky eyes, ignoring that she could not see anything behind them.
"Wake up." She commanded.
She shook slightly harder when , again, she was met with silence.
"Come on, Laura. We'll fix you up at home."
Nothing.
She shook again, feeling her heart start to pound again finally, though it felt constricting in her quickly tightening chest. Her damp hair clung to her cheeks that were now soaked with tears and rain.
"Oriana."
His voice went unheard, her ears deaf to anyone's voice but Laura's. Her hands were stroking the limp hair of Laura's back and head, and pushing and patting any expanse of skin in sight trying desperately to rouse her friend from this deep slumber.
"Oriana she's..."
The pain in the deep masculine voice went unheard as she started to chant Laura's name with commands to wake up and stop playing around.
"It's not funny Laura!" She reprimanded. "Get up!" She suddenly yelled.
"Oriana." He said loudly and firmly. She heard it then but ignored him anyway.
She felt strong hands on the tops of her arms behind her start to pull her away from Laura. So she held on. She quickly wrapped her arms as far around Laura as they would go, hands grasping onto the naked skin.
As he pulled her backwards she came surprisingly easily, as the weight in her arms wasn't as heavy as first expected. He landed with a dull thud, Oriana in his arms and Laura's top half in hers.
She screamed.
He desperately pried her shaking hands from the body, she let him, kicking his legs to scoot back as far away from the body and dead eyes as he could get until his back hit the trunk of a tree. His heart pounded as he held the smaller girl tightly to him, her back to his chest as she curled up between his legs, bent forward over his arms across her chest, hands clutching his as she screamed and sobbed she'd calmed slightly he pulled her up so her head fell back on his shoulder as she cried he turned his head down, burying into her thick warm hair, lips pressed against her both had their eyes squeezed shut, neither wanting to see the severed body that now lay on its back, arms splayed, eyes unseeing.
The woods were quiet again as Oriana's cries finally died out. After what felt like hours she was too exhausted to continue, content to just let tears roll down her cheeks and neck silently, blending in with the beads of rain water that sprayed her. With her head tipped up to the sky resign on his shoulder, eyes closed she spoke again her voice raw and shaky a barely there whisper."Derek?"
"Yeah?" He breathed into her hair.
"She's gone isn't she?"He drew in a shaky breath before nodding slowly.
She nodded almost in defeat and sighed deeply. She opened her eyes to see the huge silver orb hanging in the dark sky, surrounded by thousands of tiny twinkling lights. She closed her eyes.
"Let's go home." He spoke, looking down at his little cousin. She was sleeping against his shoulder, her face pale cheeks wet, lips slightly open, hair a wet mess hanging over her chest and his. Despite all this she looked peaceful. Deeply asleep.
He gave a quick kiss to her temple before standing up with her balanced in his arms. He held her bridal style, her curling up into his chest, seeking warmth.
He looked down at the dead form of his big sister. A tear rolled down his cheek, disappearing into his stubble.
He took a deep breath. He looked at Oriana in his arms, thanking any god that would listen that he had her. He didn't think he could go on now with out Laura, if he didn't have Oriana. The only family he had left. His only reason to keep going. He was the oldest now, which meant he had to step up and take Laura's place as her guardian and protector.
"I'll keep her safe." He told his sister, looking into her blank eyes. He heard a siren in the distance and forced himself one last look at her, before he walked away, his reason for living curled in his arms.
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