... I really need to stop forgetting to update things. -_-
(is anyone even reading this?)
Screams torn through the air of the Sun Village, mixing with the clash of swords into a hellish cacophony.
Sunfox spared herself a moment of horror, staring down at the corpse of a young Go-Back. How could this… travesty have started? Elves killing elves, slaughtering each other thoughtlessly, as humans did? A battle cry sounded behind her and Sunfox forced the confusion and pain away.
Time blurred, bodies fell and blood flew through the air, soaking into her clothes and staining her skin. Her muscles screamed in agony as her many wounds burned. How many Go-Backs had she killed? How many Sun-Villagers had she been unable to save? Lutei, Newstar's lifemate and Kimo's father, had fallen. So had Imbri, one of their first Jack-Wolfriders. Tears streamed down her face, mingling with blood and sweat.
"YOU, GO-BACK! YOU'RE MEAT TO BE WASTED!"
She whipped around at the sound. Surely such hatred and rage could never come from Dart! Hers eyes found him, and time slowed to a crawl. She saw Shushen writhing on the ground. She saw Dart pressing an attack on a frightened Go-Back. And she saw the Go-Back behind him, arrowed pointing straight at Dart.
She was moving, screaming his name into the death wails and battle cries. Her limbs felt impossibly heavy, body screaming for her to stop. She felt so cursed slow, like she was caught in one of their old stick-traps.
Somehow, she heard the twang of the arrow above the din. She saw Dart turn, too late to escape the deadly missile.
She reached him, his fevered, slick body pressing against her hands. Their eyes met, and suddenly, with a blossom of fire in her back, the world went white.
Pictures raced before her eyes. She blinked, looking up at the smiling faces above her, and the words 'Mama' and 'Baba' filled her mind. She toddled across their cave-den, falling to the ground with a wail, before she was caught up in her father's arms. Her hands ran through Tailchaser's fur, and she howled to the world that she was a true Wolfrider. She and Dart ran over the rocks, lungs burning with excursion and laughter as Scouter chased after them. Dart held her as she sobbed into Tailchaser's old, broken body. The huntsong pounded in her veins and as she watched Dart fell the bristle-boar, she realized that she had fallen in love with him. She cried alone under the moon, knowing that Dart had moved his possessions into Shushen's hut, and her heart shattered to bits.
"S…fo…! Sun… ple…! Sunfox!"
Her vision blurred again, the whiteness darkening to an ashy gray. A figure loomed above her, a pair of arms cradling her. **D…art?**
She heard his sob, felt it. **Sunfox hold on, just hold on please!**
A surge of fire tore through her body, **Dart… share… share with me…** she tried to focus her eyes on him, to fight the darkness just a bit longer. **Us… share us…**
His tears fell against her face, and she felt the shocked realization, the shame through the sending. **Dyrr.** the word swept through her, bringing at last the feeling she had longed for since he had stolen her heart. **I am Dyrr.**
**My Dyrr. I… I am… Poneen… my… Dyr-**
Alone under the dark sky and dirty rain, Dart clutched her lifeless body to his chest, and cried.
Just an epilogue to go, and then this is finished.
R&R!