The Prophecy of the Starnik

Chapter 14: Motivation

Rosie's P.O.V

I don't know where I am, it was all black so I assumed I was dreaming as nothing happened before I fell asleep. Light started to flow around me and revealed that I was in a room. I was in a small white room with tiling on the walls; in front of me was a huge mirror. I tried to get up but couldn't, I was strapped to a table unable to move. The door then opened and a human came out dressed in white with something over his face. He walked up to me and stuck something sharp into my neck making me yelp a little. He pulled it out, I tried to bite him but my mouth had something around it stopping me from opening it. Slowly everything started to swirl and change colours until I eventually fell asleep. I woke up again to find Scott standing in the middle of a light clearing surrounded by black walls of nothingness. He saw me and ran towards me catching me in a hug. I told him what happened in my dream and he told me something similar happened to him. This wasn't a dream, this part was really happening. Mom then appeared to the side of us, a frantic, fearful look filled her eyes.

"Mom, what's going on?" I asked.

"I don't have time; you have to run now, they'll be here any day, their coming for you! You need to wake up! Wake up! WAKE UP!

"Scott wake up, you awake yet." We were woken up by the voice of Dean at the door knocking.

"Yeah, yeah, we're awake." Scott said still half asleep. Dean opened the door but instead of walking in, he ran in along with Skye and Tony and launched themselves across the room and onto the bed but before they could hit the bed and crushed us, Scott sat up and apexed them, catching them midair. They levitated in the air and began laughing. He lay back down groaning and put his pillow over his face.

"Err, your not going back to sleep are you?" Tony asked.

"That's what it looks like." Scott replied.

"But won't you drop us?"

"I don't know, lets find out." He fell back asleep after a few minutes but I stayed up wanting to see what happened. They didn't fall which was rather odd, somehow he was still keeping them airborne and able to sleep.

"So, is it comfortable up there?" I asked telepathically and chuckling. They all looked at me still shocked that I could do that.

"It's weird, has he not done this to you?" Skye asked.

"Not really, he did once, but that was when we had an argument. He sent me into a tree and broke my back." They all gave me wide eyed expressions and Dean asked.

"How are you still alive?"

"I can heal myself, but a shot to the head I can't and I'll die. Mom taught me that."

"Why did he do that? That's not like him." Tony asked

"I was really depressed and I ignored him for days, he tried to get me to talk and I wouldn't. He tried to get into my mind, just to get me to. I wouldn't let him so I lashed out at him and cut his neck." I said showing them the three deep scars on his neck, pointing to them with my tail." "He was defending himself, I don't blame him." Just then he began to stir in his sleep and mumbling words. His eyes fluttered quickly and underneath we could see how bright they were.

"Must be having a nightmare" Tony said.

"Wanna know what it is?" I said smiling. They all nodded wanting to know. I linked my mind with his, Dean's, Skye's and Tony's allowing us to all see his dream.

He was having a similar one to mine again. He was in a white room strapped to a table unable to move, also wearing blacked out glasses for some reason. A man came in wearing white and stuck a sharp thing into his arm. He reeled back to try and get it out of him, it didn't work. I felt he was going to wake up soon and it was dangerous to be in someone's mind when they wake up, god knows what could happen. We left his dreams to his own and back into our reality. We were unable to figure out what his dream was about. Just then he shot up breathing deep quick breaths, as he did so he dropped the levitating three who plummeted and hit the ground with a loud thud. Groans came from the bottom of the bed so I walked to the edge of the bed and peeked over to see them lying on top of one another in a giant pile." You ok?" I asked giggling. A hand just appeared from the middle of the pile doing a thumbs up. I laughed and turned back to Scott whose eyes were still green from the fear of his nightmare. "Scott it's ok, it was only a nightmare, take deep breaths."

"I know you saw it." He said back. "What does it mean?" I just shrugged and motioned for him to follow me. We both peeked over the bed and fell back laughing at the human pile. I looked left towards Scott and said.

"I know you had that nightmare again." He turned to me.

"I don't mind, it's only a nightmare. I don't know what your mom meant though "Their coming" What do you think she means?" I just shrugged and answered.

"Your guess is as good as mine."

We turned our attention back to the groaning pile. Scott had an idea and slithered off the edge of the bed and onto the pile, more groans and whines emitting from it. I laughed and took a few steps back before launching myself off the bed and onto the pile, crushing all those under me. We lay laughing and squirming trying to get off one another, our bodies and limbs bending in various directions. We hauled ourselves off one another and after Scott got changed (Don't worry we all left the room) we headed downstairs for breakfast. Tony cooked whilst everyone sat in the living room talking and joking about, mostly about me and Scott living out in the den for the last two years. Scott invited them to sleep at ours tonight, they all said yes seeing as it would be a really cool thing to do. Tony came back in carrying multiple plates of eggs and bacon; I've never had this before and let me tell you, it was the best thing ever, better then caribou. I ate mine in 15 seconds and afterwards I needed to visit the little girls' room so I looked at Scott and told him so. He got up and let me out so I could go.

Scott's P.O.V

I just let Rosie outside and then sat back down to finish breakfast. It was nice to be able to eat eggs again as I've been mainly living off meat for the past two years, I would occasionally grab something from a nearby field like corn, lettuce, anything I saw, but I really couldn't be bothered. Shortly after finishing, there was scratching at the door so I assumed it was Rosie, I got up and surly enough it was. But as she stepped in she turned and look back outside, I followed her gaze to see a man in hiking gear about 50ft into the woods. He looked like he was walking past but it was so blatantly obvious he was watching us. We watched him until he was out of site, I looked down and asked Rosie if she knew anything him, but she didn't, she only shrugged her shoulders, so we just brushed it to one side and agreed to say he was just a curious hiker. It was still a little weird though.

We went back into the living room and discussed what we should so today. I wanted to show them some of the sites and things around the valley, they agreed and couldn't wait. There were many things to show them so Tony, Dean and Skye left to get changed and we left when they were ready.

First we walked back to our den so I could collect my bow and arrows. On the way we past a small group of the Valley pack who were off hunting. Dean, Skye and Tony were still a little nervous around the wild wolves but I reminded them not to fear. They told us they were off hunting in a little while and if we would like to join them, we declined their invitation seeing as we wanted to spend time with our friends, but we would watch as I knew they would love to see it. They understood and continued on their way, I then told the others what they said and that we'd watch them from the cliff we were going to. They were ecstatic and couldn't wait. Seeing as we didn't run there like normal it took us 40 minutes to reach the cliff. Rosie and I sat right on the edge of the cliff me with my legs over the edge. We didn't worry if we fell as Rosie could heal herself and I could apex myself slightly to cushion my fall. I have been working on trying to lift myself but that hasn't really worked. The others sat a few feet from the edge, tired from the long walk up the slope and were exhausted, when I told them this was one of the few places I was planning on showing them, they all groaned and flopped to the ground, much to mine and Rosie's amusement.

Just then the Valley pack came stalking out of the trees and towards the Caribou herd in the centre of the valley, using the cover of the long grass to stalk the unsuspecting prey. "Hey guys, they starting, get over here!" I urged them. They crawled and dragged themselves across the ground, too tired to stand, and watched the pack hunt. I still found it amazing to watch wild wolves hunt; the others were just as astounded at the team work. But when it came to after they caught it however they couldn't watch, that's when I had another idea. "Hey guys, how would you like to learn how to hunt?" They all looked at me as if to say are you crazy. "This cliff is where Rosie and I learnt to control our powers and how I learnt to shoot, I was wondering if you would like to learn and we can have fresh meat for tonight." I added. They looked to each other before returning to me with a smile.

"Sure!" They all said in unison. Rosie walked up to one of the trees and using her claws carved a circular target on it. First up went Dean, I gave him some tips on aiming and stance, he slowing pulled it back and released hitting the edge of the target. "Not bad." I said with a smile. Next up was Tony, knowing him he told Skye that he was going to be really good at his trying to look cool. "It's harder then you think." I warned him.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just watch this rookie." He said pulling back the bow. The arrow flew straight past the target and into the woods.

"Thanks, now I'm one arrow down." I said teasingly. He put on a sheepish and embarrassed smile and admitted he needed help. Whilst I was teaching him Rosie went of to sniff out the arrow. She came back with it in her mouth, but we all burst out laughing when we saw there was a squirrel on the end of the arrow.

"I told you I was good!" Tony shouted proudly. His moment of joy was ruined when Rosie said

"Nope, I caught it put it there just to see your reaction." He went silent, but everyone else began laughing even harder in hysterics. He gave up his second shot and said to Skye.

"Let's see you do better." She got up and nervously made her way over to me taking the bow in her hand.

"I won't be good at this." She said. I told her not to worry and if she believes she'll do good, then she will. I gave her some pointers and she aimed at the target, she released the arrow and it went straight into the centre of the target. Everyone including Rosie's jaw dropped in awe. She was a natural. I wanted to see how good she really was so I picked up a big thick log and placed it on a rock. It was thinner then the target so it was more of a challenge.

"Shoot it." I told her. She nodded nervously. She aimed and the arrow flew of to the side of it.

"I can't do it, it's too hard, and I'm not that good." She said sadly. I looked to Rosie trying to think of something. One word came to mind, the same word we used to learn our powers.

"Motivation?" I said. Rosie nodded her head in agreement. I walked over to the log. The others looking at me unable to understand. I apexed it up holding it in front of my chest. "Hit the target." Was all I said.

"Are you crazy!?" She shouted at me in disbelief that I ask her to shoot it.

"You need motivation; if you hit the target then you'll know you can hit it. If you miss and hit me, I won't let Rosie come and heal me until you do. Hit the target." She looked back to Tony and Dean there faces just as amazed that I'd risk my life to teach her. She nervously picked up an arrow and strung it. She pulled it back and aimed it straight at me. My breathing increased as I watched my friend about to shoot me. She let the arrow go; it flew across the clearing and straight into my stomach. I screamed in pain and fell to my knees, dropping the log with me. My eyes had changed from the immense pain. Everyone came running up to me but I apexed them away, their feet dragged along the ground as i pushed them back without making them fall over, a slight booming sound emitting from me and up of pure Starnik energy stopping them in their tracks, reminding them of what I said, I wouldn't let them near me until she shot the target. Everyone had tears in their eyes as they watched me get up, Apexing the log back up to my chest, bleeding out with and arrow in my gut and protruding out my back.

"Breath, Skye, focus on the log." I said trying to ignore the pain. She prepared a new arrow and aimed it at me again, tears welling in her eyes. She fired the arrow and once again, it flew straight into my gut. I let out another agonised scream of pain as I feel once again to my knees. I wasn't sure what was worse, turning into a wolf or getting shot by Skye. They didn't try and run to my aid this time as they new I wouldn't let them. Rosie took a few steps but stopped when I looked at her. I stood up once more, blood staining my shirt and dripping onto the floor. I lifted the log up; I was starting to feel sick at this point. "Skye, you need to focus, breath." She took a moment wiping the tears from her eyes and strung another arrow. I wasn't sure I could take another one. She took a deep breath and pulled it back, looking down the arrow to get a clear shot. Finally she released it and I watched as the arrow flew in my direction, I closed my eyes waiting for another hit. I waited, and waited, and waited. I opened my eyes and saw the arrow in the log. I looked up at Skye. "I told you, you can do it." I seemed to have forgotten all about the arrows penetrating my stomach and coming out the other side. I looked back down and once more fell to my knees and onto my side. Skye dropped the bow and ran to my aid along with Rosie, Dean and Tony. "Pull them out." Skye wailed nearly crying. Tony pulled the arrows out which was quickly followed by a flow of blood. I grunted as he pulled both out. Rosie then placed her paws over the wounds and began healing them. Quickly, the sick feeling went away along with my pulsating eyes and the wounds were healed. I sat up and looked at the crying Skye.

"See, you're a natural." I said with a smile. I got up to be hugged by her and everyone else.

"Don't ever do that again!" She cried.

"I won't. That's how Rosie and I learnt how to use our powers. I slit my wrist and she threw herself over the cliff. It works you know." I finished with a chuckle. They all let go. "Now we know whose catching dinner tonight." I added smiling at Skye. She returned the smile but said that she couldn't bring herself to shoot something. I understood her as I didn't really want to either but had to in order to survive out here. I told her I would do it then.

We returned to the cliff edge and conversed the rest of the morning. We watched the whole valley pack below gorging themselves on the kill. The rest must have been watching and began eating when they caught it. There was a few more kills which they must have done whilst I was teaching with my extreme methods, after all, one caribou wasn't enough to feed 25 wolves. I noticed down below to the left movement, it was the hiker from this morning watching the wolves feasting; he then looked up at us. He was no hiker, what was he up to. He left when he saw us looking at him. I returned my attention to the gorging wolves when something else caught my attention. Three large blobs made their way out of the trees to the right of the valley making their way to the wolves oblivious to their presence. I knew what they were straight away, bears. They must have caught the sent of the caribou, they would kill the pack if they got a chance, and they had pups with them so they wouldn't stand a chance. "Guys, look over there, bears. We've got to stop them." I said pointing to the slow approaching bears.

"Are you crazy? They're bears, you can't stop them." Tony said as we all got up. I ran back to collect my bow and arrows and strapped them to my back but held onto my bow ready to use. I looked out across the valley; we won't make it in time if we ran. I looked down the one hundred and fifty foot cliff, I looked to Rosie with a smile, she knew what I was thinking, and we had done this before in a similar scenario.

"Have you ever been base jumping?" I asked walking behind them and placing hands on their shoulders. They shock their heads. "Well, first time for anything." I said and without any warning, I pushed all four of us with Rosie jumping of the cliff and plummeted to the ground. Rosie and I were laughing the way down but the others were screaming. It only took us 10 seconds before we would hit the ground. In the few seconds we had, I looked around at the screaming three, it was very amusing. Just before we impacted the ground, throwing our brains and guts everywhere, I Apexed us 2ft before impact and saving us. I dropped the 5 of us and we hit the ground with a thud. We couldn't stop to argue as that's what they'd defiantly do.

"Come on, get up we have to stop them!" I yelled pulling them all up. We ran straight to the pack. We could see the bears closing in. "Rosie, warn them!" I yelled. Whilst running Rosie let out a howl warning them of the impending danger. I saw all their heads look up and towards us. "Tell them I'm sending Dean, Skye and Tony to help them move the pups." I added. She howled once more as I explained to them what I wanted them to do and to wait for us to return. They nodded in agreement and ran for the pack. Rosie and I turned right to confront the three bears. I looked back to see the them picking up some pups and running to the Pack territory with the wolves, Tony actually picked up one of the wolves, I guessed it hurt itself whilst hunting and couldn't run. We turned our attention back to the bears padding 20ft ahead of us.

"They only want the kills, should we let them have it?" Rosie asked. I shook my head and said.

"No, the wolves need them to feed." I knew we could kill the bears but it didn't seem right, I'm not sure I could bring myself to do it. We couldn't just let them have the kills or the pack would go hungry. Rosie then looked at me with an idea.

"I could keep them back while you get them back to the pack, I'll catch you up." The bears were now 10ft away so I nodded and ran back to the kills to get them out of here and to the pack. I apexed them and carried them pack to the pack trying not the spill any blood for the bears to track.

Rosie's P.O.V

I told Scott my plan and he ran to take the kills back to the pack. I watched him apex them and run, but as I turned to distract the ferocious bears I was swiped by the powerful paw of the bear. I was sent flying 8ft, when I landed I sprung up to my paws and noticed I was bleeding heavily from the wound. That was soon fixed when it healed a few moments later, blood staining my fur. I looked back to see Scott disappearing onto the trees, I had to hold them off a little longer. Just then, time seemed to slow as I heard a faint voice in my head, "let it out, let out all your pain." I recognised the voice as moms. I focused back on the bears, time still slowed down, I felt rage and sadness build up inside me without thinking about it. When it peaked, time returned to its normal pace, I let out a growl before howling at the approaching bears. They were sent back dozens of feet as a shockwave hit them, sending them sprawling to the ground sending grass and dirt into the air. I watched them get up, they were fine, and whilst they were distracted I took this moment to run to the pack. As I ran across the valley, I thought back to what I did. That was the gift mom gave me, it was pretty cool and it was an offensive power!

I arrived at the pack territory panting in exhaustion. I found Scott, Tony, Dean and Skye sitting in the entrance of what the pack called the "pup den", the place where wolves would leave their pups in the care of others whilst they went out hunting or something. As I walked over panting, I noticed some wolves tucking into the rest of the kills Scott brought back. I also noticed as I got closer the others playing with the pups. I stopped for a moment watching them playing, It was really cute. Scott was playing with a pup who was trying to catch his hand Tony and Skye were playing similar games, whilst Dean was being tackled by three pups. It was really sweet to watch. One pup looked over to me.

"Rosie!" It shouted, as it did all the others heard and ran over to me tackling me to the ground, by 7 pups! I was a big hit with the pups, as was Scott. Now they had "fresh meat" in the form of Dean, Skye and Tony. I was rolling around laughing being tickled by the pups; they all found it very amusing. Thankfully, they were all lifted off by Scott apexing them and bringing them back to the den, finding that more amusing. I padded over to the den and sat beside Skye. I watched as the pups played together, with the others and me, it made me think. I would like to have pups some day; I'd like to be a mother. A smile grew on my face at all the happy thoughts; I was also faced with the negative side of motherhood. Would I be able to keep them safe, would they have powers themselves, would their father understand my abilities and accept its part of me. That was the worst part, finding a mate. I'll admit there were a few hot guys in the pack, and I know a few liked me. But did they just fancy me for my abilities or did they really like me. I was only 2 years, 7 months and most wolves become parents around three years, I still had time. I put all those thoughts to one side and spent the remainder of the day playing. I was connecting to my inner puppy running around the clearing being chased or doing the chasing. We conversed with each other and the other wolves, laughing and joking, me and Scott acting as translators for Dean, Skye, Tony and the other wolves.

We stayed until it was getting dark when we decided to head back home. Scott and I headed home whilst the others went back to the cabin and get pillows and stuff to sleep out in. Scott cooked some of our leftovers from the tree, some nice, big, mouth watering steaks. I head a whole raw bloody leg to myself. Before I finished Scott had a cruel joke he wanted to play. He took off his shoe and placed it on the bottom of the caribou leg, this gave it the impression it was his and I ate him. He then began to scream, but it wasn't realistic enough. He then thought he should turn, that would scare them even more and give off realistic sounds. "Can you even turn at will?" I asked him.

"Only one way to find out." He said. I was a little reluctant to say yes as I knew it would hurt a lot, but it would be funny. Before I could answer, he began psyching himself up, growling and going onto his hands and knees, breathing short, rasping breaths. Then it happened. He screamed in agony as the transformation began. He rolled around shouting and screaming, it was horrible to watch. I remembered what mom said, that each time he changed, it would be a little less painful, but it would still hurt, so thinking about it, it was actually good for him to do it. I watched as his body contorted in different ways, grew smaller, bones changed shape and black fur replaced skin. After 5 minutes of screaming, crying and thrashing about, it was over. He lay in wolf form, exhausted. It took a lot of energy out of him.

"You ok?" I asked padding over to him. He rolled over onto his front.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Man that hurt." He said laughing a little.

"Well, as long as you're ok." I said hugging him. We heard a voice in the distance shouting "Scott are you ok!"

"Quick their coming, hide!" He nodded and took of behind the den. I walked to the leg and began eating it, covering my face in blood to add to the appearance.

Tony's P.O.V

We had just collected or stuff form the cabin. We only grabbed essentials like a pillow and blanket. We were half way there, excited for the night to come when we heard screams which we recognised as Scott's. We were instantly worried and took off for their den and hoped we were heading the right way. We reached it and saw a fire going, but what we saw was disgusting. We rounded the corner and found Rosie eating something.

"Rosie, what happened to Scott, we heard screams!" Skye said frantically. Rosie turned to face us, her eyes swirling green, muzzle and teeth caked in blood. I looked at what she was eating, it was a leg. I pieced the evidence together, the screams, the leg, Scott missing, she ate him! We all dropped our stuff as she got up and slowly made her way towards us, a demonic smile on her face.

"I never knew humans were so juicy." I heard her say.

"What are you doing I thought he was you friend!" I barked in fear and anger whilst huddling close to Skye and Dean.

"He was, but we had a little argument. He said he was more powerful then me. I proved him wrong. Now you've seen I can't let you run home and tell the hunters there's a killer wolf about." She said. We started to walk backwards, trying to keep our distance away. Just then and growl came from behind us, we spun around and came face to face with a jet black wolf, the same killer look in its eyes. We were trapped. We ended up backing up into the side of the den with no where to go.

"Rosie please." Skye pleaded.

"Sorry, all out of mercy." She said.

"Then who is this other guy, does he do your dirty work as well?!" She stopped for moment as if thinking for an answer.

"He's my err…. He's my mate." She said giving him a quick lick on the cheek, His eyes went wide at the sudden move, as if she'd never done that before. "We've been together since I met Scott, I wanted him to meet you, and this was exactly how I pictured it." She added. The two wolves began snarling baring their large teeth, hackles up. I hugged my friends as they did to me waiting for it to end. We then heard a laughing in our heads. We opened our eyes to see the two wolves rolling about on their backs in hysterics.

"What's going on?" Dean asked.

"Gotcha!" We heard. I recognised the voice as Scott's, but he was no where around.

"Scott, where are you, get your butt out here so I can kick it!" I yelled. I looked back at the laughing two wolves and the black one turned around.

"Go ahead!" It said.

"Scott is that you?" I asked completely shocked.

"Yep, hey guys. So are you going to kick my butt or not?" He said laughing.

"I don't know, is it legal to kick a wolf?" I said chuckling. He just shrugged. We all walked back to the front of the den and sat around the fire. Rosie began cleaning her muzzle. I couldn't take me eyes off Scott, neither could the others. "How did you do that?" I asked completely dumbfounded.

"Just another one of my abilities, thank Rosie's mom for that. I only learnt about this a few days ago." He said.

"Why are you talking telepathically?" I asked shooting him with another question.

"Because I'm a wolf and wolves can't speak human, watch." He said, and then he started barking and whining. "I guess you heard the screams?" He continued. We all nodded. "Well, that was all real; it hurts like hell to do this. Your bones are changing after all. I'll be back to normal in the morning." He added.

"Then why did you do it?" Skye asked.

"Because Rosie and I thought it would be funny. And it was." Scott said as both he and Rosie broke out laughing again.

"How many times are you going to scare the hell out of us?" Dean said laughing as well.

Don't know, you can never be too sure with us. Seeing as we've never really spoken to anyone else but each other for two years, you're fresh meat." Rosie said teasingly.

"Talking of fresh meat, can you take that off the fire?" Scott said pointing with his paw to the stone slab with 5 large steaks on. Rosie went over and dragged the caribou leg over. It still had Scott's boot on, so I took it off and placed it in the den.

Scott's P.O.V

I ate the raw bloody leg that night sharing it with Rosie. It was really nice, my taste buds must have changed as well as normally this would be disgusting. The others ate the steaks and seemed to have enjoyed them. It was odd of course, but it still tasted great, if not better.

Rosie's P.O.V

The rest of the night we joked about, told stories. We decided tomorrow we should play predator and prey, I explained to them what it was and how it's played, no powers, no weapons and no cheating. Scott would turn again in the morning after leaving to give both teams an advantage of wolf senses. Scott would leave early in the morning with Skye whilst I'd stay behind with Dean and Tony. The teams were fair, the game would start at mid day and Scott and Skye would have to catch the rest of us. If they caught us before 3:00pm then they won if not, we would. We were up until gone midnight when we decided to hit the hay. Scott and I curled up on the bed, enough room for both of us. He put a blanket over him to cover himself when he changed back in his sleep. Neither of us wanted a repeat of last time again. The others found a spot on the skin carpets and got themselves comfortable. After bidding our farewells we all drifted of to sleep, excited for the next day to come.