'Oh gods… what have I done?' I think to myself as I look down at my paw and see it covered in Sam's blood. I then look down at Sam who is lying on the ground clutching his reopened wound, the one I reopened.
"Look at what you did to him. You keidran really are monsters like everyone says!" Erin yells at me as she rushes over to Sam, rips up part of her shirt, and puts it against Sam's wound to try to stem the bleeding.
I look back down at my paws not knowing what to do. I see Ethel off to my right start to run towards Ylva's hut while the villagers start to gather around Sam to see what happened.
Soon some of the soldiers who were guarding the perimeter of the village in case of another attack come up and grab Erin. "Stop! Let me go! I'm trying to help him!" Erin uselessly yells at the soldiers.
"Stop! Let her go. She is just trying to help Sam" I hear someone say. I look up and see Ylva walking through the crowd. The soldiers hesitantly let Erin go. Almost immediately Erin runs back over to reapply pressure to the cloth on his cut.
I could hear Sam grunt in pain. Pain that I caused him to experience.
I couldn't move, I was absolutely petrified by what I had done to the person I loved. My mind was playing back what happened in slow motion. I lunged for Erin, Sam jumped in front, and I clawed him.
As I came back into reality I noticed I was on the edge of the village. I had ran… I left the man I loved behind and just ran as if instinctively. I started to slow my pace until I was completely stopped. I sat down on the ground, buried my head in between my knees, and started to cry… I didn't know what else to do at that point but cry.
(Sam's POV)
As I slowly opened my eyes I felt a burning sensation in my chest. I tried to sit up but my body responded with excruciating pain, forcing a cry out of me.
As the pain subsided I looked around and immediately recognized the familiar settings, I was in Ylva's hut. As if in response to me thinking of her Ylva walked in and gave me a strange look, it felt somewhat akin to compassion and caring, but I honestly couldn't tell.
"W-what happened?" I asked Ylva softly, finding it very difficult to talk any louder than I was.
"That human girl saved your life after Luna clawed your chest, reopening your wound." Ylva responds as she walks over and looks at my chest. "And before you ask Ethel is trying to look for Luna as we speak" Ylva says answering the question that was forming in my mind.
"The unfortunate thing is that this injury will scar a lot worse than before. The young girl, Erin i think her name was, is in the main area of my hut right now resting. She didn't leave your side the whole time you were out." Ylva continued.
"Wait how long have I been out?" I ask.
"About a day" Ylva responded before she looked at me "This is going to hurt but I need to change your bandages. Here to bite on this, trust me you will want to." she says before placing a bone in my mouth.
Immediately after she puts the bone into my mouth she moves her paws to my chest and does something that sends excruciating amount of pain through my body. I bite so hard into the bone that I could swear it was starting to break.
After 5 minutes, but what felt like hours, of unending pain Ylva finally finished doing what she needed to do.
"Wow you must've been going through a lot of pain." Ylva remarks as she examines the bone, noticing it was splintered..
Just then Ethel walks in with a disappointed expression. "I'm sorry Sam… I looked for her everywhere but I couldn't find her…" Ethel says sadly.
I slowly start to sit up, despite my body yelling at me to stop. I grab a walking stick next to the bed before slowly stumbling to my feet.
"Where the hell do you think you're going" Ylva says as she notices me making my way towards the hut's door.
"No matter how badly I'm hurt I have to find Luna. I made her a promise that I would never leave her alone." I respond before I push open the hut's door.
The sight that greets me as I walk out the door isn't a pleasant one. I see Wulfrik standing there, arms crossed, staring at me.
"I don't have time for this right now chief. I need to go find Luna." I say walking forward, stumbling a bit before catching myself with the walking stick.
He walks up to me and lightly places his paw on my shoulder "You are in no condition to search for Luna. I have already sent out the hunters to see if they can pick up her trail or scent. But for now you need to rest" Wulfrik explains, trying to calm me down.
"You know what? I don't have time to deal with you! I made a promise to your daughter and my lover that I plan to keep. Now why don't you get the fuck outta my way so I can search for Luna!" I snap at Wulfrik, pissed by his comment the other day and by him telling me to not go after Luna.
Wulfrik just stares at me in bewilderment as I shrug his paw off my shoulder and slowly walk past him.
I hear someone run up behind me and I am relieved when it's only Ethel. "Where do you plan searching? We searched what's left of the village and the surrounding woods." Ethel says as he walks beside me.
"You know her more than I do. Is there anywhere nearby she went to when she was feeling stressed? Any secret hiding spot?" I ask as I start to walk a little easier, due to the fact that the pain had turned into numbness.
"There is one spot she took me to once when we were still kits… and friends." Ethel responds.
"This way" he says before pointing down an almost overgrown path towards the nearby mountains.
After thirty minutes of slow paced walking we arrive at a large waterfall. The water was crashing down so quickly that there was a constant mist in the air, making it somewhat chilly.
"So you think she's here?" I ask, before I see him walking towards the edge of the waterfall. "Where are you going Ethel?" I ask before he puts his finger up to his muzzle, telling me to be silent. He then motions me to follow him as he walks through a part of the waterfall that was considerably slower than the rest.
When I walk through the waterfall my eyes go wide and my jaw drops. I look around and all I see are crystals everywhere. The coolest thing was is that they were generating their own light, which lit up the cavern.
Even over the pounding of the waterfall behind us I can hear soft whimpering. I look at Ethel and mouth "Stay here" to him, before he acknowledges it with a nod and stands by the cave entrance.
I slowly creep deeper into the cave while trying to stay as silent as possible. I round a corner and see Luna laying there in a ball, crying so much that her entire body was shaking. I continue to walk forward slowly, unfortunately I wasn't looking where I was going and stepped on a crystal causing it to shatter.
Not even a full second later Luna's ears popped up in search of the noise. She slowly sat up, wiping the tears from her eyes. She stopped moving as soon as her sapphire eyes locked onto me.
"S-Sam?" Luna asks hoarsely, her voice obviously strained from all the crying.
"W-wha… how did you find me?" she asked, clearing up her voice a little.
"Ethel showed me how to get here." I tell her.
As start to walk towards Luna, she begins to back away until she is against the wall of the cave.
"Why would you come look for me after what I did to you?" Luna asks, fresh tears flowing from her sapphire eyes.
"I promised you that no matter what I would ALWAYS stay with you. I will never leave you to be alone." I respond with determination as I continue walking forwards.
After a few more steps my pain returns in full force causing me to collapse onto the cave floor. Almost instantly Luna is right besides me looking at me with compassion.
"You are so hurt but you still made your way out here… you really are an idiot sometimes, you know that?" she says as she looks me over.
"Sam, I have an idea. Do you trust me?" Luna asks as she gets up and breaks a brightly glowing crystal from the wall.
"I trust you more than anybody else" I softly reply.
She comes back over to me with the crystal in her paw. "Ok Sam I'm going to need to take your shirt off for this to work." She explains as I nod.
She puts down the crystal, and as she begins to take my shirt off I can feel another wave of pain course through my body.
"I'm sorry Sam, the pain will be gone soon just hang in there." She says as she finally gets the rest of my shirt off.
"Sam this next part is going to really hurt. I need to take off your bandage." Luna says as she reaches for the bandage wrapped around my chest and begins to unravel it.
I hiss in pain as my wound starts to get exposed to the air.
As soon as Luna finished unraveling my bandage she grabs the crystal that she placed on the ground besides me.
"Ok Sam, I am going to perform a healing spell that my mom taught me when I was a kit." She tells me as place the crystal on my chest where the wound was and begins chanting a spell.
At first it stung quite a bit, but gradually the pain starts to subside. "My mom used to be the village shaman. She told me that this spell was so powerful that it could heal a dragon and not leave a scar." Luna said as she healed me, trying to keep my mind off the pain.
As I looked down at my chest I could see the wound closing right before my eyes.
After a couple more minutes of Luna performing that spell, I saw that the wound was completely gone, not even a scar was left behind. The light in the crystal had completely dissipated at the end of the spell, it was now a foggy black.
I slowly began to sit up to see Luna, sitting on her knees, looking at me with tears in her eyes.
"Hey, you have no reason to cry." I said as I went over and wrapped my arms around her in an attempt to comfort her.
Luna stares into my emerald eyes and says something unbelievable.