Hey there, DWK here and this is the first chapter for Shadow of the Moon. I hope you guys like this and I hope I still have readers around to do so. Soooo….anyways, here is the first chapter of Shadow of the Moon. I've kept you all waiting long enough.
The woods lay silent, not a bird singing to the sky, not a squirrel running around to find nuts. No creature stirs with the exception of one. A lone werewolf is digging a hole in the ground to hide its prey from other scavengers before hunting again to find more food. A twig snaps in two and it sounds echoes from near by. The werewolf's ears twitch and turn towards the noise with slight trepidation.
"Hello?" the werewolf calls out with their fur sticking out in slight fear. It senses that its not alone in the woods and it doesn't seem friendly at all. Suddenly, another twig snaps but this time much louder and closer then before. Their brown fur puffs out to make them look bigger. They then take one step back with their eyes sharp for any movement in front of them. The werewolf then growls deeply to hide the fear that is coursing through their body.
"Come out and show yourself!"
As if on command a shadow melts out of the darkness cast by the half moon in the sky tonight. The shadow silently walks up behind the wolf. The wolf is still staring ahead not knowing that death with soon take them. Then a black blade appears and is raised up in the position, ready to kill the unsuspecting wolf. Brown ears twitch slightly and as if sensing somebody behind them, the wolf turns around. Their eyes widen at who they see before them. It is not possible for them to be here. The wolf shakes slightly as if it knows that they won't be able to see the sunrise for the next day.
"You!"
That was the last thing the werewolf said before the blade silently fell and broke into the fur of the werewolf. Crimson blood splashes the ground and seeps into the ground, almost hiding the evidence of a murder that just happened. The shadow kneels down and closes the fear ridden eyes. Their voice whispers into the night.
"May your soul rest in peace"
The shadow then disappears into the darkness and all that is left is the body of dead werewolf. Some may see it as a sign of what is to come.
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Emeraude is walking down the hallway, humming a jaunty tune to herself. She is in good spirits today so she felt like celebrating for her accomplishment. She had a good training session with her fighting instructor. Actually, bested him twice in a fight, which is a hard thing to do once but twice is a rarity. He is as tough as nails and can sense any weakness that you would have then exploits it in with an uncanny ability. As the green woman walks down the hall she fails to notice a door opening by her. Suddenly a hand comes out of the door and grabs the arms of the green woman. Emeraude gives a loud yelp in surprise as she is pulled into the room. The door behind her closes with a slight bang.
Her heart is pound slightly while her eyes are adjusting to the dimly light. Her hands tighten up in fists as her body is ready to fight whoever pulled her into this room. There is a giggle and the smell of lilacs wafting into her nose. That smell alone makes her muscles relax and her body slumps into the warm presence that is front of her. A feminine voice floats into her ear.
"Always read for a fight, my love?" the voice asks gently. Emeraude looks down and sees a petite, blonde hair, blue eye vampire staring right back up at her. Ruby red eyes soften greatly as her fists return to hands that slowly wrap around the vampire's waist.
"Always, so I can protect you." Emeraude replies smoothly and with a smirk on her face. The vampire rolls her eyes at the slightly obvious charming of Emeraude, though she is not sway by it at all. She knows her too well. The blonde taps her on the shoulder.
" Not now, Em" she says coyly. Emeraude purrs softly as she pulls her closer to her body. The green woman takes pleasure when she sees a slight blush appear on the cheeks of the blonde.
"Then why did you pull me into an unoccupied room, Selena?"
Selena smirks slightly as she reaches up and plays with some of the raven locks. Her blue eyes darken a bit.
"I missed you that's all." Selena responded, her lips getting closer to the pouty, green lips. The green purrs deeply as it gets more sensual while she leans down closer to the blonde vampire's height.
"I missed you too."
Pink and green met in a middle of a chaste kiss. Emeraude is breathing heavily as the kiss deepens and their tongues move against each other in a loving yet dominate way. Green hands move deftly upwards towards the white shirt. Nimble fingers quickly make work of the buttons. Selena moans very softly as the hands remove her shirt and touch her cool flesh. Emeraude licks her lips as she watches her hands crawl up towards the hidden breasts that are covered by blonde locks. Suddenly there is a loud knock on the door and a barking voice.
"Emeraude, I know you are there. I can smell you and I can smell the blood coming off of you."
Emeraude curses slightly as Selena pulls away, puts her shirt back on and buttons it up. Her eyes are watching the scowling woman staring at the door.
"You're hurt and you didn't tell me?" The blonde asks with worry in her voice. The green woman sighs softly as she looks at the blonde before putting her hands on her hips.
"It's a scratch. There is nothing to worry about." She shot back as she opens the door revealing Glinda, her mom. She looks down at her mom with a slight growl. She didn't want to be interrupted with her time with Selena. Glinda's lips twitch at hearing the growl directed towards her. She never appreciated it when she is looking out for her daughter.
"Don't you growl at me. Now turn around. I want to see the injury." Glinda growled back as her eyes turn black, knowing that this look would make her daughter listen. Emeraude shrinks slightly and starts to whimper like a pup. That look always make her revert back to her pup hood days. The green woman slowly turns around, obeying her mom's orders at once. Selena is chuckling as she watches her girlfriend be reduce to a pup with one look. Its funny seeing knowing how tough the young werewolf acts all the time. Selena is pretty sure if Emeraude was in her wolf form her tail would be right between her legs. The green woman hears this and growls at the blonde vampire softly. She hates it when she is reduced to a pup like mind in front of her girlfriend. Glinda is busy lifting up her daughter's shirt to see what the damage is.
"Shut up."
Selena sticks her tongue out at her.
"Make me."
Emeraude opens her mouth to say that she will but stops when a gasp comes from behind her. She closes her eyes and exhales shakily. Her mom has found it.
"This isn't a scratch, Emeraude. This is a deep wound." Glinda says with a huge amount of worry and slight horrorification in her voice. Emeraude tries to stop her lover from going back there but Selena slips through her attempts with much ease. The blond vampire stands right behind Glinda and looks at the exposed green flesh before her. Her eyes widen greatly as seeing a six inch deep wound running down her lover's back. Her trainer must have went over the line again in the fighting courses. Both Glinda and Elphaba have told him not to draw blood on Emeraude. The green woman pulls away from them and fixes her shirt. She looks at the two concern blondes with a soft sigh.
"I'm fine. It'll heal in an hour or so." Emeraude says, trying to diffuse the situation at hand. Glinda puts her hands on her hips and she has that firm look in her eyes. Emeraude winces in the inside as she knows her mom will put up a fight.
"Infection could already have set in. That doesn't heal along with the wound." Glinda replies while rubbing her forehead slightly in frustration. Her and Elphaba have explain this concept many times to her but it never seems to sink in to that thick head. She blames Elphaba for that. The blonde werewolf looks at her daughter. There, Emeraude sees a look in the blue eyes that she sometimes sees but could never describe it.
"You're not as invincible like you believe you think you are."
Emeraude interrupts her with her nostrils flare slightly. She wanted to avoid this conversation with her parents yet again. She could recite it herself if she really wanted to be a smart ass.
"I'm a product of you and mother. How many times have you two "died" and still came back to life." Emeraude shot back with a valid point. It is true that the two of them as cheated death many times but the green woman is still not getting the point of it all. Glinda's eyes go black as she bares her fangs in anger. She hates that Emeraude has inherited Elphaba's stubbornness. It gives her a headache every single time.
"That's not the point! For Oz's sake Emeraude, will you stop and think why we are so concern? Now get your ass to the infirmary and get it cleaned." Glinda nearly shouted, her body twitches as she is repressing the urge to transform. Her blood pressure is through the roof, she just wishes that Emeraude would understand why Elphaba and her are like this when she gets hurt. The raven haired beauty looks at her and she exhales a bit. Her mom can get scary if push to that point. Emeraude's shoulders slump in defeat, something finally clicked in her mind and she just nods her head slowly. She then looks down like a defeated werewolf.
"Ok momma." She whispers before looking to Selena. Selena saw that her lovers wants her to walk her down there. The blonde vampire walks to her and takes hold of her hand. She looks to Glinda and smiles gently.
"I'll make sure she gets there."
Glinda nods her head as her eyes return to their normal light, blue color and she has stop twitching. She is glad that it finally sunk in.
'Hopefully' a little voice thought in her mind. The blonde haired woman hopes it won't happen again.
"All right." She replies while looking at her daughter. "I want you to rest once done there."
Emeraude just nods her head mutely as she looks to her mother. Glinda's eyes soften before she walks over to her daughter and hugs her gently. She whispers into her ear so only the green skinned woman can hear.
"I love you, Emeraude. We do this because we love you."
Emeraude starts to purr softly as she wraps her arms around her mom's small frame for a tight hug. She knows that her parents love her other wise they wouldn't be doing what they are doing to keep her healthy and happy.
"I know mom. I know you two do." She responds softly as she looks down with a small smile. The green woman then bends down and kisses the top of her mom's head before letting go of her. Selena takes a green hand and slowly guides her lover towards the infirmary to get medical attention. Glinda sighs softly as she watches her daughter disappear down the hallway.
"One victory out of a thousand fails." Glinda says to herself before walking down the opposite way until she gets to a door that seems to have a golden trimming around the door frame. She sighs some more before turning the golden know and walks into the bedroom. Her eyes sweep the room. Her blue eyes then stop on a bed, her eyes soften at seeing the bed still unmade. She is thinking about what happen there not too long ago. The blonde looks around some more as if looking for somebody.
"Elphie, you still here?" Glinda calls out. Silence meets her ears. Glinda sighs sadly as she hope to see Elphaba before they had to do their duties for the day. The blonde werewolf slowly walks towards the closet and opens it up to change her clothing. She starts to take it off. The shirt starts to slide off to the ground as the blonde reaches forward for a new one. While Glinda does this the door to the bathroom opens and Elphaba limps heavily out of the room. She stops on a dime when she sees Glinda semi naked before her. Her green ears twitch when she hears her lover humming to herself, a light smile graces the green woman's lips. She always enjoy hearing Glinda sing. It calms her. A deep purr rumbles up from the depth of her chest as the green woman grabs her cane that rests against the wall by the door. Glinda appears not to be hearing this as she goes to grab a pair of pants. She jumps greatly when a warm pair of lips hit her neck. The blonde woman whirls around with a hand over her heart. Glinda exhales sharply when she sees her grinning lover stand before her with twinkling, brown eyes.
"Elphie, you scared me." Glinda says with a deep exhale. Elphaba's eyes soften slightly as she leans down and gently kisses her on the lips.
"I'm sorry my love. I didn't mean to scare you." Elphaba replies as she tucks some of the blonde hair behind Glinda's ear. The blue eyes look up and Glinda smiles when Elphaba kisses her again. She gets on her toes and kisses her back in a loving way.
"Mmmm, Its ok. I wasn't scared." Glinda responds back with her chest puff out slightly to show that she has no fear. Elphaba rolls her eyes before she poking her in the chest. Glinda giggles as she rubs her chest.
"That "Elphie, you scared me." didn't mean a thing." The raven haired beauty shots back with a dark eyebrow slowly rising up to she show she wasn't convinced. Glinda nods her head firmly as she puts her hands on her hips.
"That's right. It was a ruse. I still got it." Glinda reply while puffing out her chest again. Elphaba just shakes her head as she goes to the closet and grabs a more dressy feely shirt for Glinda. She'll let her lover still have her pride.
"Here, wear this." Elphaba says as a smile starts to grown on her face. This is her favorite shirt for Glinda to wear. Glinda looks at the shirt before looking to her green lover with both eyebrows raised. Elphaba has never had any fashion sense at all. Hell, she was the one usually to pick out the green woman's clothing for her. So its very shocking when her partner picks out a good piece of clothing. Elphaba huffs slightly and pushes the hand, that is on her forehead that Glinda put on there to see if she had a fever.
"I'm fine." Elphaba says as she pushes the shirt into the blonde's hands. She looks at her with deep love in her brown eyes.
"I love this shirt on you, that's all." Elphaba says in a sheepish way. Her skin starts to take on a darker hue of green. Glinda tries not to smirk as she puts on the shirt Elphaba has given her. The green woman is so cute when flustered. Its these moments she really relishes because its only behind closed door does the vampire let her guard down at all. Once she is done button up her shirt the werewolf looks at her still blushing wife.
"Come on you." Glinda says as she pulls her along towards the door. She is giggling as she opens the door. Elphaba's deep chuckles soon join her light laugher as the door closes. The laughter is heard echoing down the hall to two happy lovers that are deep in love.
That is the end of chapter one and that was really long. lol. Any ways I hope you guys enjoy this starter chapter and I hope to update the next chapter soon. It'll only get better as it goes on and Raven will make an appearance soon. I promise. See you guys soon and review if you want to. I love to hear feedback and any ideas you guys might want to happen in the story. Till the next chapter.
DWK