I hope you are excited for this chapter! I spent the time after the THREE. FRICKIN'. TESTS. I had today to work on this! By the way, for those of you that read this, that new Backup Email thingy under Account is really important. My account corrupted about two months ago, and it took awhile (not to mention my techy geek skills) to fix. Go submit your backup email when you're done! So, I don't own anything! Yep! It sucks...
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That morning, I woke up early as normal, and decided to listen to some calming music. I could sense something was up, and I didn't want to know what at that early hour. Feeling around on my nightstand, I grabbed a blue iPod and rested my headphones on my ears. I then clicked on an album of instrumental pop music.
I nearly fell asleep again, but just as I barely drifted off to dreamland, I heard a startling noise. Not a low, deep thud like that of an accident, but a sharp, stacatto noise. Throwing my iPod on the ground as I leaped out of bed, I shifted into a raven. Silent, fast, and quite observent, it was one of my favorite animals.
Everyone else was already racing through the hallways, overturning rooms, shaking others awake, and leaving doors wide open. I flew above everyone, far overhead the din, so that I could listen for more thuds.
Eventually, only one door was closed; Dan's room. I shifted back into a human, standing in front of the entire pack. Jiako stood directly behind me, and beside him were Mariana and Mariah. In a burst of anticipation, Em took a deep breath and jutted forward to open the door.
We were presented with a scene nobody wanted to see. A possesed dog was attacking Dan, and he had evidentally expended all his power. By then, Dan was holding off the monster-like animal with only his staff. The staff was covered in bite marks and the black paint was nearly worn off.
Taking this in, I shifted into a hyena. Although hard to do, all I knew was that the animal would be fended off. I cornered it, and sneered and chomped at it, until it was too intimidated to do anything more. With a scream of, "Ha di!" CiCi sent little bits of the dog flying, hitting us all.
Different people screamed "Ew!" or "Cool!" for only a second. We then noticed Dan lying on the floor. Trying to avert my eyes from Dan in a respectful manner, I became human again. His shirt was torn, exposing deep flesh wounds in his skin. They oozed blood, dripping off his body at a nearly disgusting, horrifying rate.
Em healed the skin, but it was too late. "Too much blood. Besides, he experienced terrible brain damage due to bleeding in his cranium," she had said. We were only left to watch his body be drained of life, while his skin paled and limbs stopped moving.
Em and Bree began to cry, and the new Troy remained stoic. All of us were sad, but they had just lost a dear friend.
"We can't leave him here. We should give him a proper burial." The new Troy was the first to speak.
"Agreed," Bree replied. "It would be an injustice to him."
"It's settled," Jiako said. "But do we bury him, or mummify him, or what? I mean, what do we do?"
"Simple," Lily answered. "We ask a god. I mean, we are following them."
Were you expecting that? I hope not, because I was trying to give you an element of sadness that you didn't expect. Let me know what you think! Don't forget about the Backup Email that is REALLY IMPORTANT! In the next chapter, you will be meeting a god, and see another character speak! Fun, right? Okay, well, ciao, mon ami!
-Broadway4eva
