A/N I know that this should technically be Carys' POV but the story flows a lot better if Rhydian comes in here, plus I want the story to with Carys' POV because she is the protagonist of course.
Rhydian's POV
"Anwen? As in-"
"Carys' gir- ex-girlfriend." Anwen says. I kind of look her up and down and give her an unenthusiastic smile.
"Anwen, can you give us a second?" I don't wait for a reply before I tug Jana away. "What's going on? Carys is freaking out, she's run off, Maddy's following her."
"She's stressed, no surprise. As long as Maddy's with her she'll be fine." I'm worried but Carys clearly wants space right now. We walk back to Anwen.
"Let me speak to her."
"No, you shouldn't be here, go home Anwen. I'll get her to call you or something," I lie, "Now is a really bad time." I say, tugging Jana away again. I look over my shoulder, Anwen just stands there staring at us. We pick up our pace to a sprint until we're out of her sight and back at camp.
The pack seem a bit irritated at me, probably for sending them on a short wild goose chase. We ignore them and make our way to mum.
"Where's dad?" I ask.
"He's gone after Carys with Maddy. Can someone please explain what's going on?" She says.
"This girl that Carys used to, like date, came here. We've made her leave now, but Carys isn't happy, obviously. She'd basically been stalking her since she left Cardiff." Jana says.
"We need to go home, like ASAP." I make my way to the tent to get Bryn
"Rhydian, wait, we can't go yet." I ignore as I continue into the tent, mum and Jana follow me. I see Bryn lying down, he looks worse than he did before. He's covered in sweat and his wound has bled more. He's worn down. One of the pack healers is at his side, keeping him cool with a wet flannel. "He's getting worse, he can't make the walk back, not yet anyway. He needs rest."
I try to gather my thoughts.
"I'll carry him, me and dad, we'll both carry him."
"I'll help too," Jana adds, "Ceri, we can't stay here, it's getting to all of us."
"He can't make it, it's too much for him. There's no fighting me on this. Now, go help your dad and Maddy find Carys, calm her down as much as you can and bring her to me." She's deadly serious. Jana and I do as she says.
We head deeper into the woods, following dad, Maddy and Carys' scents.
"What if I took Carys home and you stay here until Bryn's better?" Jana asks.
"I mean, you could ask mum, but I don't think we should be split up, and I think mum would agree. Plus Carys needs all of us right now. We need to stay together. Bryn will get better and we'll be able to go home soon."
We pick up our face and we find ourselves heading up the mountain, the trees get further and further apart until there's none, and the slope gets steeper, we can almost touch the clouds. We get higher and higher and see three foggy figures at the top. Carys is crying. Maddy goes to her side and takes her hand. Dad stands back, unsure of what to do. I join him and Jana joins Maddy and Carys.
"I just need to get out of here!" She screams, and drops to the floor, burying her face in her hands. "I know, and we can as soon as Bryn's better, he's in the wars right now, we have to stay and support each other." Maddy says.
"All of this is just stuff, think about it this way, everything that's going on right now won't matter in 10 years." Jana kneels at her side.
"I can't stand to see her like this, especially when Bryn's in such a bad way." Dad says to me, making sure Carys doesn't hear.
"He'll get better, so will Carys." I reply.
"So you think this is her PTSS and Psychosis?" He asks.
"I don't know, she only went a few days with out her pills, and she got them back, but maybe they're just not strong enough any more. But she could just be stressed and tired. It's been a long week. I don't think we should jump to any conclusions just yet."
"Come back to camp Love, I'm here." Dad says, walking towards her. She suddenly pushes Jana and Maddy back, causing dad to stop in his tracks.
"Leave me alone." She scoots back. I worry for a moment that maybe dad was right, maybe the pills stopped working. "I just need to be alone."
"Bryn's not well, he needs you. You're his big sister." Dad says, walking closer to her. She looks up at him scared. "Come on Carys." He hold out his hand. She takes a minute, but eventually she lets him help her up. "We all have to stay strong right now, we're not going to let little problems tear this pack apart."
"I'm sorry." She says hugging him.
"You have nothing to be sorry for." She turns to me and give me a hug too. "Come on lets go back to camp and sort everything out." I take her hand and she lets us lead her back to camp.
Once we get back to camp, dad, Carys and I go in to the tent to see Bryn while Maddy and Jana decide to go and hunt, even though it still makes Maddy sick. But it's nice that she cares so much about my family that she would go and find red meat for Bryn.
Bryn's not unconscious, but he's not quite concious either. Carys takes over from the healer and keeps him cool with a rag. I help mum, who is still trying to stop the bleeding. It's slowed down but it's pretty thin.
"Maybe he needs human medicine? It worked for me, I know it's a different situation but it might do the trick, if the wound is too much for the moon to heal." Carys says, she seems to have gathered herself a little bit.
"There's something you both should know, I've told your father." I feel the blood drain from my face with fear, she's going to tell us he's dying. "There's a poisonous thorn in the wound, it looks like it was put there intentionally."
"Well, can't you just pull it out? If you can see it surely it's not that deep." I say.
"It's very small and if it moves any more it will only release more poison. It's from a very rare plant called Llwyn Marwolaeth." She starts to use some of her healing remedies on Bryn, taking it slow and keeping calm.
"So what are we going to do? Carys could be right about human medicine." I add.
"I think it could work, but we can't get him back in this state." She says.
"We need a phone, we could call Segolia."
"Mine was destroyed, the nearest phone for miles would be-" A look comes across her face.
"What is it Carys?" Mum asks.
"Anwen has a phone. She can't be that far yet, if I run I can catch up to her." She looks scared.
"I'll come with you, we'll save him mum." She doesn't have the chance to argue as we bolt past her and dad and out in the path of Anwen, we go in the general direction that she was going until Carys manages to pick up her scent, eventually I pick it up too. Carys speeds ahead of me.
"Slow down, she can't be far." It's getting dark out.
"I can see her Rhydian!" I squint my eyes and manage to spot her too. I start sprinting to catch up to Carys but she suddenly stops. "Wait." She pulls me behind a tree.
"What?" I look back to Anwen, then Carys points to a tree a few feet away from Anwen, Ingrid is stood there. "Ingrid? She'll hurt her." My suspicions are confirmed as we watch Ingrid pounce on Anwen transforming mid-leap, knocking her to the ground, we hear Anwen scream. We instantly bolt in their direction again, impulsivley we transform into wolves, working as a team to knock Ingrid off of Anwen. Anwen scrambles backwards and sits terrified against a tree. Ingrid stands on her paws. She goes for Carys who fights her off, I approach Ingrid, trying to scare her away. She growls back. I leap at her, biting her front right arm. She moans and runs off into the distance with some what of a limp.
Neither Carys or I take a second to think before transforming back into human form. We look at each other, then back at Anwen, who's breathing fast and heavily, with a confused and frightened look on her face.
"Anwen..." Carys says.
"Stay away from me!" Anwen gathers her things in a rush and shakily stands up. "You're a freak! You both are! This is what you've been hiding from me? No, no, it's not real, I'm going crazy."
"Okay, stay calm Anwen, you're not losing your mind." I say, keeping my distance. Anwen stares at Carys as if she's a ghost.
"So what? You're Werewolves?"
"I'm a Wolfblood, so is my brother."
"Wait what? Brother?" She paces. "This isn't happening I really am nuts." She whispers to herself.
"I met him when I moved here, we didn't know we were related until a few months ago and then... when my dad died, I discovered that he wasn't really my dad and my mum wasn't my mum either, Rhydian's parents are my parents, I have a little brother and a half sister too."
"So you're all Werewolves?"
"Wolfbloods, and yes." I correct her and she gives me evils.
"Look none of this is important, we need to use your phone, our brother is really sick, too sick to move, he needs human medicine and there's only one place we can get it. Please Anwen."
Anwen takes a moment to take in all this new information, but eventually hands Carys her phone who tries her hardest to remember the Segolia number, trying different combinations.
"Here," I take the phone, "Maybe I can try Maddy's house, the Smiths can call Segolia and they'll have someone out here soon." I dial the familiar number and after 3 rings, Daniel picks up.
"Mr. Smith? It's Rhydian, we need you to call Segolia, Bryn's in a bad way, we can't get him back without hurting him more, can you get them to send someone?"
"Oh, Rhydian, uh yes, I can do that - Emma, it's Rhydian, call Segolia now - Emma's calling now, where are you?"
"Where are we? Carys?" She shrugs. "Wait, Anwen, you said you had GPS on your phone, are you able to get coordinates?" She nods and takes the phone from me, putting Daniel on speaker phone, she opens her weird app and manages to find the coordinates.
"Good idea Rhydian, text me the coordinates and I can let Segolia know." Anwen texts the long number to him. "Okay, I've got them." He says the number to Emma. After a few minutes and being able to hear the muffled conversation that Emma is having with Segolia, he finally replies. "They're sending a medical team now, best of luck to all of you." He hangs up.
"Now all we can do is wait." Carys says, she's about to cry, so I hug her, hiding her face from Anwen. I know that she wouldn't want to show her emotions to Anwen any more than she already has. She pulls away, she's collected herself.
"Thank you for your help Anwen."
"Of course, anything to help."
"You can't tell anyone what we are." She becomes stern. "You have no idea what it could mean for or kind if the secret gets out."
"Well you're not very good at hiding it, you changed right in front of me." Anwen folds her arms.
"Hey, we saved your life, she would have killed you." I raise my voice slightly.
"How do I know you won't hurt me? You're the same as that thing. Killers." She doesn't seem scared, she pushing her luck.
"We're not all like her, most of us are kind, loving." Carys says. "People like her give the rest of us a bad name. We're not monsters, we're people too. Just please don't tell anyone, people will start experimenting on us, that could mean death."
"Okay, fine, I won't tell anyone."
"Thank you." I reply.
"I guess I'll leave then."
"I'm sorry that it has to be like this, some of the pack aren't accustomed to humans, it wouldn't go well for you."
"So you live in a forest now?"
"No, no I still live in Stoney Bridge, Jana's dad is the Alpha of this pack so we visit sometimes."
"I'm going to pretend I know what the means and get out of your hair, or... fur I suppose."
"Thank you, Anwen, and thanks for your phone, my family are grateful."
Anwen goes in for a hug but Carys takes a step back and extends her hand.
"Right, no hugging, sorry, it's easy to get back into old habits." They shake hands.
"Thanks again, and- you don't need me, you can make it on your own. I know you." She smiles at Anwen, a real smile. Anwen smiles back, gathers her things, and goes off into the wild on her own. Carys and I go back to camp. It's almost pitch black out now, the moonlight on the river is our only source of light. Carys goes to the healing tent to tell mum and dad that Segolia have sent a team out, and I go to our tent where Maddy and Jana are both sound asleep, until they smell me that is
"Hey, did you get to a phone? Ceri told us you went after Anwen." Maddy says, giving me a kiss.
"Where's Carys?" Jana says rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"She's gone to see Bryn, yeah we managed to get hold of Segolia thanks to the Smiths, they've sent a med team out to help Bryn." Jana sits up properly. "She said she'll be in to say goodnight but me and her are going to spend the night with Bryn, in case the team arrive tonight. Night Mads," I give her a kiss, "Night Jana." I leave them too sleep and head to Bryn's tent.