Chapter 3=A Reason To Live
I woke up alert as ever and quick on my feet, my stomach roared like a lion, I was really hungry, I walked out of the cave with little 'pitter patters' of my paws against the hard earth. The sun light brightly shining through the tree branches full of beautiful green leaves[it must have been about mid-day] the air still cool with a light breeze passing making the trees and leaves shake making sounds like a rattle. I could hear light splashes of water against rocks, I took a sniff, and it was so refreshing I had to follow the scent. I was lead to a small stream of crystal clear water that the sun lit, I walked over and started drinking the lovely tasting water that gave me a burst of energy, it was like being on drugs, I was going high over the clouds with this water. After I had drank my fill I finally noticed the white wolf with violet eyes that both my brothers had, it made me remember my loved ones, I started to feel lonely and depressed, over whelmed that I would never see them ever again, tears were swelling in my eyes [if a wolf could cry] I sat on my two back legs with my head hung low and began to whimper.
I had no home, no friends, no family, I was all alone, probably lost, what would happen to my brothers, are they okay? Are they worried about me? Well they shouldn't be because I can more than take care of myself but what do I do now, why do I live? What is my reason for life?
I was still hungry and soon hunted down a deer from a nearby field, after I ate it was nearly night and you could barely see the sun, perfect I love staying up at night I could hopefully find a good place to call home.
I ran off away from home, I wondered everywhere but nowhere suited me. From running for one night became running for a day which became running for over a month, and nowhere was good, there was either to many vampire scents or a male wolf scent and I didn't want to fight.
I don't know where I was today but it had tall trees with dark green leaves and no snow like home so that proved I travelled really far, I sat on the edge of the bank with water flowing over my tail, I looked at the blue sky that I could barely see through all the towering trees, looking for an answer, a sign, anything but nothing not even a cloud. I sighed a wolf's sigh and dropped my head on my paws with my ears down at the side of my big head. Then a sound a mile away interrupted my silent thoughts, it was running of feat that were really fast but then I heard the padding of paws, the wind blew from that direction and all I smelled was the rotten frozen flesh of a vampires. I stood up immediately, I was ready to run, I would avoid a fight for as long as possible but they were too close, If could smell them they could more than smell my earthy dog scent that they hated. The sounds were louder and I could smell them clearly but also a wolf to my surprise, then it clicked to me they were hunting down a wolf, damn, poor thing maybe I should help, NO my conscience screamed at me, I should run, I could get away but it was too late before I could run two feet three female vampires with black long glossy, curly hair, orange hungry eyes, red lips and in black old time dresses that went to their feet, jumped in-front of me from the nearby bushes blocking my escape route, by the time I turned around to run the other way I was already surrounded by five vampires in total, two male blonds in dress shirts covered in blood and black pants, one that had a smug smile was holding a fearful small black wolf with white paws by its neck in a firm grip.
"Well guys seems we can have some more fun with this one" a short red eyed woman said while looking at me with her eyes going wild like a poor man getting gold.
I let out a loud growl and bending low, snarling at their feet, waiting for them to make the first move. The male with his hands free sprang towards me, I dodged quick as light but was then jumped by the three other women, I swiftly rolled under a fallen tree and flipped backwards avoiding their every move. They were beginning to get frustrated and they hissed showing off their sharp, long, white fangs. Then the man holding the wild wolf captive spoke up, all went still.
"She must be a shifter" he exclaimed in excitement, "That explains your swiftness and elegant moves" he said towards me. I didn't look at him, I was focusing waiting for one of the vampires to make a move.
"We'd leave her, it seems she doesn't mean us harm, plus I don't want trouble with her pack" he said to the others who seemed to be considering what was being said. 'Great, I can go free, what luck I have.' I thought to myself 'but what about the poor wolf, I can't just leave it to an unfair death' I was now in a pickle 'what should I do?'
The group of vampires started walking away but I growled and stood up tall and straight with my head held high, my eyes piercing into their cold ones. I then looked to the fearful wolf, it really needed help, I couldn't walk away.
The leader already guessed my thoughts, "So you want the puppy huh?" he almost whispered, I gave a little snarl that answered his question with a 'yes'. "No can do, she has caused us too much trouble for us to just let her go without a fight" he said while tightening his grip on the wolf's neck, making her whimper and try to squirm out of his hold, with no success. 'Great now I pity it and I'm gonna fight, risking my life for a dog, damn, I hate my good heart and soul' I shifted from paw to paw then crouched down low and let out a warning growl assuring them a fight was about to take place.
They all sighed then sprang at me for the second time, I dodged to the left, jumping over a vampire and onto another bloodsucker and bit down on its neck hard, feeling the cold flesh and iron hard bones crunch under my powerful jaw. I twisted my head ripping off the females head and sent it flying towards a blond man, who looked like he no longer had any sort of mercy for me. Another female tried to jump me but failed, then the other male and female jumped from above shocking me, I had barely been able to avoid their powerful punches as I rolled to the side, only to get myself closer to the other brunette, I had gotten on my four feet in time to jump onto a tree and bounce off into a clearing. In less than a second I was surrounded by the remaining three with free hands ' boy do I know how to get myself killed' I growled to myself in anger and frustration.
It was my turn to make the first move, so I got serious and put all my attention onto the female with bright red eyes, she seemed to be the most threat to me, If I took her down the others should be simple enough. I ran straight towards her with great speed that light can't begin to compare to, shocking all around me, I guess they didn't expect me to go first, 'sorry to break it to you but I love going first, it lets me decide how the match goes' I said in my head, I shocked her enough to be able to get her shoulder but she was good enough to dodge my bite to the neck, I was right about her being tougher than the others but at least she was now weakened. As I clamped her shoulder blade she shrieked in pain making my ears hurt but I didn't let go until she had hit the ground, giving me the chance to flip over her and focus on the others for a second. They were already up to my face by the time I turned, I was too slow, I got one good punch in my chin, the force made my body flip over and fly into a tree snapping it in two. I got up and shook my head a little, I could feel it fractured, and the tiny pieces of wood splinters on my back were uncomfortable and distracting me from my enemies. 'Perfect, three to one, the one is getting really tired, why did I even bother, I mean five against one, what were you thinking Anna! You most definitely can't walk away now that you killed a valid member of their group. YOU'RE SCREWED!' I screamed to myself, 'I have to end this quick or this is all over, everything will be all over, everything my brothers have ever done for me will be over, NOW FIGHT' I mademyself see what I had to live for, my brothers, my everything, they wouldn't want me to give up, they'd want me to die with a good fight.Then it came tome, my months nearly a year of personal magic training, let's see how good I actually am, with that thought, I turned into my frail human form with slight pain in my chin, I gave a little grunt pushing the feelings of pain away, I stood wobbly on my two feet for the first time in months, my bare body showing and white creamy smooth skin glistening from the small ray of sun shining through, I stood leaning slightly on the broken tree, my long black hair covering most of me all the way down to my thighs and my violet eyes with little spots of silver stared into the terrible souls of those before me.
They all looked at me shocked even the wolf had a confused looked etched over its face like a human. "It's time to end this" is said coldly, the vampires laughed, I bent to the ground silently without them evening knowing of my movement, I touched the dry, dark brown dirt, feeling the grainy like tiny objects at my fingertips. I closed my eyes slowly and focus all my energy into making my fingers hot, not long until small flames lit at my finger nails, at that moment all the laughing stopped leaving deafening silence that was like a soothing sound to my ears, I put more energy into it and the ground by my hand lit into a fiery red flame, I opened my eyes with a very serious look on my face, as I stood and the flames spread quickly, much quicker than I even expected and formed a circular wall of flames around us all. The blond dropped the wolf out of pure fear, his face got pale just like everyone else's, without a second thought the wolf had ran to my side and was ducking behind my legs, I slowly lift my hand, my eyes still locked with theirs, then the blond whispered so softly I could barely make out what he said 'witch' ,I knew what he said was true, I just raised my hand and pointed I my finger that now had a really long, dirty nail and whispered 'enfalamar', all the flames around us quickly did as it was toldand enclosed the vampires, then withtheclosing of my palm the flames fell onto them with a crash of fiery red, orange andyellow, I heard their agonising screams or more like screeches, I nearly covered my ears it was horrifying, the flames eventually ran out and left behind nothing but black hard soil. I let out a breath I didn't realise I was holding, thank god it worked, fire was the easiest of the elements I could control and summon with ease, however I was beat and needed sleep, I fell to my knees with a thud, it all went black, all I could hear was the wind whistle softly and warm breath by my neck but I couldn't move and soon I felt nor heard anything at all.