The moon came over the trees and above Corvinus Castle. Windows and doors to the Castle opened and Vampires bustled about inside and out of it, doing what they needed to do for the new night. Eric rose, sitting up in bed and looking to the side of the bed Luna should have been laying in by now, but she wasn't there, he frowned. Groaning as a knock rapped at the door of the chamber, Eric through on a bathrobe and pulled open the door to see a Vampire he didn't know standing there.

"Mr. Northman?" he asked.

"Yes, what do you want?" Eric asked.

"I'm Koda, Sirius's Vampire underling. I'm here to get you for Sirius, I can wait for you to get ready and I will take you down to him in the courtyard." Koda explained.

"For what?" Eric snapped.

"You can asked Sirius that when you see him, Sir." Koda answered.

Growling, Eric slammed the door in Koda's face, stripping off the robe and grabbing a fresh pair of clothing. Grumbling the whole time he got dressed and followed Koda outside to the courtyard where Sirius was waiting for him with two others.

"Good evening, Mr. Northman." Sirius smiled, shaking Eric's hand. "This is my Child, Tanner and his underling Logan." he introduced the other two.

"Pleased." Tanner smiled, nodding his head at Eric.

"Same." Logan shook Eric's hand.

"What are we doing here?" Eric asked looking back to Sirius.

"To get your wife, of course." Sirius beamed. "Luna, blacks out after a full moon and it takes her sometime to return to the conscience world. But being that she's here in the Coven we can speed that up and humans are increasing to roam around our woods, I don't want her to be out there alone and vulnerable to them."

Eric's body went on edge, he had no idea that Luna lost conscience after loosing control on a full moon, if he had he would have had his human underlings going after her in the wake of it. Sirius frowned at Eric, reading his body language.

"You did not know this?" he asked.

"No. Luna is very secretive about her runs with a full moon." Eric replied. "Last night was the first time she ever let me go out with her for a little bit and even then she almost ripped my head off."

Sirius nodded, "She's finally learning to control it. There would be a time she would have done just that." The group became uneasy. "Well, off we go."

The sun had just started to shine through the trees as Luna finished up on her last meal, a rather large elk. She looked up from the neck of the fallen animal and into the bright rays, starting to groan and whine and her body started to ache and creak back into human form. Though shifting back into original form never hurt as badly as shifting into Hybrid form, it was still agonizing as hell and took her days for recover from. Luna threw her hand back to the sky and whined low in her throat as bones snapped and creaked back. She stumbled back from the elk, scraping her back on the back of a tree and falling back, then crawling on her hands and knees whining and moaning with pain. She dropped to her side and curled into a ball as tears slipped from her eyes and her head throbbed. Creaking branched and leaves caught her attentions, opening her eyes she saw a human hunter pointing a gun at her.

"What are you?" he asked.

"Get away from me." Luna half growled, half moaned.

"I said, what are you, devil?" he barked, loading the gun to fire.

"I am the devil, so leave before I kill you." she howled, rolling onto her back.

The hunter stood over her, gun pointed at her chest. "You're a fanger?" he said, seeing her fangs. A smile crept over his face.

"How am I a Vampire in the morning sun without dying, stupid?" she groaned.

The man frowned, realizing she was right. He lowered his gun some, just enough for Luna to sit up quickly and send him flying backwards. But as he went back, the gun went off and struck Luna in the chest, she howled and screamed in agony as the bullet ripped through her skin and muscle, shattering her sternum and tearing through the organs in her chest. Blood flooded out of the bullet hole in her chest as Luna pressed her hands over it. She panted, lifting her head an looking at the damage.

"What a time to be shot in the middle of a change, where I don't heal right." she panted dropping her head back. She turned her head and looked at the guy, but he wasn't there anymore. Figuring he ran off, Luna tried to get up, but failed. She was looking to much blood to have any energy, she also knew Eric would have felt her injury...hopefully. But it was morning, he'd have to find a human to come find her and that take hours. But she also knew that he may have felt it and wrote it off a something to do with her shift. So, Luna laid back still holding her hands over the wound. Her shift back into human form was complete, but the damage was done, there was nothing her advanced healing could do, she needed blood, but that would take to much energy and cause her to loose more blood if her moved. She just laid there and waited.

"She's definitely been this way." Tanner said, kneeling by the cold carcass of a deer.

"The blood trail leads this way." Koda added.

"I don't understand why I can't find her through our bond." Eric said to Sirius, extremely annoyed.

"It's hard to find another Vampire that's unconscious at times. But we will find her none the less, Eric." Sirius assured him.

"Here!" Logan's voice yelled from out of view.

The Vampires shot to where he was kneeling beside Luna's body. She laid in a pool of blood, her hands still laying limply over the wound. Eric dropped beside Logan, gripping Luna's shoulders in his hands and squeezing them gently.

"Luna." he whispered

"She's been shot in the chest." Tanner observed, moving her hands from her chest.

"Why didn't she heal?" Eric demanded, looking up at Sirius.

"Between her shift of this form and Hybrid form, she's a normal human. If she was shot in that stage, she wouldn't have healed and she wouldn't have after she finished shifting because the damage could have been too much."

Panicked, Eric bite into his wrist and pressed it to her lips in hopes it would bring her back to him. "It's not working."

"It won't." Tanner said. "We need to get her back to the Coven and in her coffin. That's the only place for her to revive."

Eric picked Luna's limp and lifeless body up into his arms ans stood, he looked at the others who nodded and he took off, back to the Castle. The others stayed hot on his trail as they zoomed out of the woods, through the courtyard and halls to the Elder's Chambers. He waited for Sirius to bring up her coffin, talking to her soothingly and pressing kisses to her forehead as he did. When the coffin was out, Eric carefully laid her inside of it. He watched Sirius bite into his wrist and drip blood into Luna's mouth, then hit a secret button on the side of the coffin to close the lid to it. The lid clicked secure and the coffin disappeared into the floor.

"What makes your blood different from mine?" Eric growled jealous.

"I'm older." Sirius answered, ignoring Eric's jealousy. "And my blood was meant to revive Elders."

Eric looked at the seal that covered Luna's coffin and frowned, "How long will this take?" he asked not looking up.

"A day or so." Sirius replied ushering the Viking out of the room. "We will know when she's awake. We all will." he said as the Elder's Chambers doors closed and locked tight.