AN: Okay guys here's another chapter. Also I wanna address a confusing point of my story. So everyone knows that sonic and everyone are anthros right? (animals with human features i.e. walk on two legs yata yata) Well I don't like the word anthro or morbian, it doesn't sound right in the dialogue. Therefore I just want you all to know that all the characters are in anthro form, of cource accpet for when they turn into their werewolf/Lycan wolf forms. lol. So when you see the word 'human' it refers to non-werewolves and non-Lycans, but these 'human' characters are anthros not to be mistaken for actual human beings. Hope that clears things up. Sorry for not explaining sooner! Oh and please do review.

Chapter 9

Amy stared at Shadow, he was one of them, one of the few that was not made into a werewolf, but born as one. She wondered if that's why he was the leader. She watched him as he spoke to each one of his followers. She noticed that Rouge was nuzzling the red echidna she'd seen the night before. She blushed when she saw the echidna kiss Rouge's temple.

Amy felt a little chill run across her from the wind. As she stared at the group she felt a sudden sting of loneliness. Though she first thought them all a group of beasts, now she found herself thinking something slightly different. They seemed more like a family, the way they smiled and laughed. Even Espio, the echidna, and Shadow, though they didn't smile like the girls, they seemed to belong just as much.

She wrapped her arms around herself feeling a sense of isolation as she turned away. She walked a fair distant to the other side of the tents. She could still feel the late morning sun on her face as she entered the small field-like opening. Her eyes shifted around the open ground and she could see it was scattered with the same purple flowers Shadow had sent to her school. She felt some small tears well up in her eyes as another breeze blew by and invited the flowers to dance with it.

"I thought I told you no more running away." Shadow was leaning against a tree with his arms crossed, his eyes watching her.

"I wasn't running away." She said kneeling down, unable to face him at that moment, with so many tears wanting to pour out. It had been a long time since she had seen anything close to a family.

"Then where were you going?" He said watching her still.

"Nowhere." She said staring at the flowers in front of her. "It was just...hard." She said closing her eyes tightly. "Seeing people together like that...I haven't seen anything like it since...my only family died..." A hot tear fell down her cheek.

Suddenly there were two arms wrapped around her from behind. Shadow was sitting behind her as he pulled her backwards into his grip. She kept her eyes closed as he rested his chin on her shoulder and his cheek against hers. She was trying so hard not to cry as he hugged her to him. "Do you know the legend behind wolfsbane?" He asked. His voice was the same as before, no change in tone, only a simple level sound. Amy shook her head slightly as she hid part of her face in his shoulder. "They say that it comes from the same place where the first werewolf was created. He fought to save his Lycan wolf that he loved so much, he bleed for her, and she for him. Legend says that their blood mingled and covered the ground where they fought the Lycan queen, and from that blood soaked ground grew wolfsbane." His eyes were watching the purple flowers as he felt Amy resting calmly in his arms now. "It is said that Lycans distain for the flower is because it grows from the blood of their enemies. It is like a concentrated poison to them. It makes their skin crawl and their eyes burn; their stomach turns at the sight of it. Even the scent of it causes their ability to smell to fail them." He picked one of the flowers and stared at it. "All this from a few drops of blood and feelings that the Lycans could not understand."

"Shadow..." Amy said his name, but she still couldn't look up at him. "Do you really intend to keep me here...?"

"Yes." He said still looking at the flower he'd just picked. "You don't need to cry about losing your human home." He held the flower down for her to have. "You shall stay with me and become a member of this pack."

"But I...I'm not a werewolf..."

"You think you have to be a werewolf to be part of my pack?" He asked as he released his grip on her and fell back so that he was laying down with his arms behind his head.

"Well...to be in a pack..." She said with a confused tone.

"Tell me, have you thought of what you would do if I were to let you go?" He asked, his eyes closed, obviously relaxed.

"Um..." She looked down in thought. "Well..."

"You wouldn't be on the streets five minutes before you were captured." He said opening one eye. "Perhaps you sympathize with the Lycans and wish to aid them instead."

"No!" Amy protest suddenly. He looked at her seeing a blush on her face from her sudden outburst. "I don't feel anything for those monsters." She said with a somewhat angry look on her face. "How can anyone...after what they did." She thought such cruelty was beyond understanding. She closed her eyes. "Shadow...do the Lycans want me for the same reason you do...because I'm the Wolf Maiden."

"For similar reasons." He said sitting up, one arm resting across his knee. He motioned for her to come to him. She was hesitant at first, but as soon as she was in range Shadow reached out his hand and pulled her to him. "Just from a touch you've sated my hunger for blood." He held up her hand to the light as he twisted it in his own. "If this is what you're touch does for me, imagine what would happen if I took a few drops of your blood, or if I devoured you entirely." He said as he slightly nuzzled her neck. "Now imagine if a Lycan consumed your body." She heard a slight gasp escape her lips as she felt him bite her shoulder. It was soft and tender, more sensation than pain, and that sensation grew as his lips traced up her neck. She felt like he was erasing all the hurt and all the doubt she had about what would happen to her.

Amy felt her body turning hot as Shadow continued. "S-Shadow." His lips on her body were almost too much for her. 'W-What is this...I've never been touched like this before. He's making my body hot...why am I reacting to him so much?'

He finally stopped as he heard her say his name once more. He gently released his grip on her body. He saw her red cheeks, he could feel her quickened heartbeat, and even more he could smell the excitement of her body. Though she may not have known it, she was begging him to go on.

"Shadow." When he heard his name, he pulled back from Amy just a bit to see who it was, of course it was Rouge. "I hate to interrupt, but it's time for us to do the rounds of our territory, and prepare the other packs for the full moon, it is but a few nights away master."

He nodded and lifted to his feet. Amy's expression dulled just a bit as she realized Shadow had to return to his leadership duties, but before any sadness could creep into her heart. A commanding but soft voice was directed to her. "Come my human." Shadow said holding out a hand to her. "You will be where an eye can be kept on you, for you shall not escape me."