Ember: The Past

**FIVE YEARS AGO**

"Come on slow poke!" I yelled to my fifteen year-old sister, Terra, as I run around in my wolf form. "Slow down Ember!" "But we're almost there and I can't wait!" I replied. Terra looked at me as her red hair gleamed in the sun that shined through the sun light. "Camp Half-Blood is still a few miles away and it's very dangerous out here for children of Hades," she told me. "Come on Terra, don't be such a big scaredy cat!" I said, "Besides, I'm a great fighter with claws and fangs, being a Wolfblood and all, and you're a great sword fighter!" "That won't always protect a twelve year-old and a fifteen year-old Ember, and being an over ego doesn't save you either," she tells me. "Whatever," I said and ran ahead.

"Ember! Wait!" Terra yelled to me, but I was already far away from her. "Can't catch me!" I yell back, but then I hear her scream and I skidded to a stop. "Terra?" I yelled to my sister, but I didn't like her reply. "EMBER! HELP ME!" "TERRA!" I yelled as I ran back to her. When I got to where she was, I horrified at what I saw. Ten feet in front of me was a large black or dark grey wolf with red eyes over my sister and Terra's leg covered in… deep cuts and blood? Herblood. "Well, well, well… I didn't think I would see more than two children of Hades here," the wolf said as it licking the blood off his lips and claws. My fear was soon replaced with anger and I growled/yelled, "Leave my sister alone!" "Oh, I'll leave all of you alone," the wolf replied, "When you're all dead!" My anger reached its highest and I charged at it. I was jumped into the air to attack, but then the wolf smacked me with its large paw while I was still in the air into a tree. As soon as I hit my head on the tree, I blacked out completely, the last thing I heard was someone that wasn't the wolf or my sister, faintly yelling my name. "ember…"

When I woke up hours later, I had found myself in wolf form still lying on the ground. "ugh… What happened?" I said to myself, but then I got a memory flash of the wolf over my sister. "TERRA!" I yelled, "Terra, where are–" That's when I saw her. That's when I saw her motionless body. "No…" I whispered, "no, no, no, no, no, this can't be happening…" I got closer, but then I immediately regretted it. Her eyes were closed and her leg was still injured and broken, but she wasn't moving…. or breathing…. She was… "No, Terra… please… Y-you can't be…" I couldn't even say the word. I didn't want to believe the truth. I start looking around franticly to see if anyone was nearby, "HELP! SOMEBODY! ANYBODY!" I yelled into the forest, but reality started to hit me, "help…" I started to cry before I looked back over at my sister. She gone, I thought, I'm all alone now… I walk over to my sister's body and lie near it, "It's my fault, I should have stayed by your side, but now you're dead and it's all my fault!" I buried my face into my paws and cried. First our mom made us leave our family to protect them, and then she gets killed protecting me and Terra, and now Terra is dead?! What did I do to deserve this?! What did I do to deserve no family, friends, or anything? I thought to myself as I cried into my paws. I'm just a curse that kills people that are close to me! What did I do to be alone?

A few moments later, I heard footsteps approaching me, but I did nothing. "Are you alright?" a young woman's voice asked, but I thought she was referring to my sister, so I didn't answer or look up at her. Then they put their hand on my shoulder, shook the fur, and said, "I know what you are and that you're alive. Now answer me, are you alright?" I looked up to see a girl that looked about sixteen, maybe younger, with either black hair or really dark brown hair and silver eyes wearing a silver camo jacket, shirt, and pants with a bow and quiver on her back. I nodded at her and then said, "m-my sister… she's… she w-was k-" then the girl pulled me into a hug and said, "You don't need to say any more young one. I'm sorry we didn't come here sooner." I just stayed there for a moment, but then a question began to form in my head. "W-who are you anyw-w-way?" I asked the girl, but another girl with short, spiky, black hair answered, "She's Lady Artemis, Goddess of the moon and leader of the Hunters of Artemis."

That's when I noticed that there were at least ten other girls between twelve to eighteen surrounding me, all wearing the same thing as the girl… err… Goddess who came up to me and with bows and quivers on their backs. Where did they come from? Artemis looked up at the girl who introduce her and said, "Thalia, who does this young Wolfblood reminds you of?" The girl named Thalia, who looked about sixteen or fifteen, started at me and answered, "I can't tell ma Lady. Could you turn human for me?" I got up and then turned back into my human form. Thalia looked at me for a moment, gasped, and finally said with wide eyes, "Wow, he looks a lot like Nico during the second Titian Wars." "Wasn't Nico Italian? This kid looks like he's a little bit Japanese, but yeah he does look like Nico." someone stated. "Do you think he's…?" one of the girls asked, but didn't finish the question. Thalia seemed to understand, because she turned back to me and asked, "Do you know who your Godly parent is…? Oh, we never did ask your name either." I looked at Artemis with watery eyes, which looked like she was silently encouraging me, then looked back at Thalia as I wiped my tears and said, "My name is Ember, Ember Wolfe. That's Wolfe with an E at the end. My mom told me and my sister before she die that our father was Hades." Thalia's face along with some of the other girls' faces became even more surprised when I said this. "Well I'll be darn," a girl with dark red hair said, "He's Nico's half-brother!"

"He's all alone too… I think we should take him to Camp–" Thalia started to say, but I interrupted. "NO!" both me and Artemis said in union, but then out of confusion I looked at her. "He could be useful," Artemis said, "What I would like to know," she turns to me as she spoke, "is why you don't want to go?" "I don't want anyone else to get hurt or… worst… because of me," I said slowly, "If the only way to protect a family member or friend was to stay away from them, would you do it?" Artemis's eyes narrowed when I asked that question. Everyone else was silent and surprised by the question. A few moments had passed before Thalia broke it, "There is another reason you seem so much like Nico… and… Jason." "Jason? Who's Jason? How am I like either of them?" I asked Thalia.

Just then, a dark grey wolf was running up to us, but to me, it looked like the one that killed my sister. I turned into a wolf and put myself between Thalia and the wolf. It stopped right in front of me and started to growl. I stood my ground, bared my fangs and growled, "Get out of here you murderer before I–" "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Ember wait!" Thalia said as she walked up to the wolf's side. "This is one of my wolves, Nightgale. Why are you calling him a murderer?" She asked. I looked better at the wolf and saw that it had bright silver eyes, not red. "I-I'm sorry… I thought he was the wolf that… that…" I said, but stopped. Artemis's eyes widen like she realized something and asked, "What did the wolf that attacked you look like Ember?" "It either had black fur or dark grey fur and it had red eyes and it was as big as a lion or tiger with large paws and claws and fangs!" I described. "Wow kid, you're quite lucky you survived," I looked over to find that Nightgale was the one who said that. "Nightgale, this is serious… but," Artemis said, "He is right Ember. You are lucky to face Lycaon and live." "Huh? Don't see that many wolves, Wolfbloods, or werewolves that aren't monsters with pure black fur or amber/gold eyes now days," Nightgale stated. "What are we going to do with him Artemis?" the girl with dark red hair asked.

"Wait a minute Ruby," Artemis said looking at the ground, "Ruby, how many wolf and human tracks are there?" The girl with the dark red hair looked around on the ground and then said, "Four different tracks Lady Artemis. Three wolves, two small tracks and one very large track, and one human… Lady Artemis, do you think that young black and white Wolfblood with the clawed eye was part of this?" Artemis walked over to something nearby that was furry. I started to walk over, but then Nightgale blocked my way.

"Ember, come over here," Artemis said still looking at the furry thing. I walked over to her and got a good look at what she was looking at. A piece of dark colored fur as if it was skinned off of something. She moved the fur next of me as if to compare the color to mine. "That other young Wolfblood must have put up a really good fight with Lycaon," Artemis finally said, "Your black fur matches the other young Wolfblood [that Ruby mentioned]'s black fur, but this is more of a really dark grey fur that I know is Lycaon's." I looked more carefully at the fur she held. "How do you know it was the same wolf that…?" I said, still not saying what happened to my sister. She then held the fur to my face and said, "See if you recognize the scent." At first I was hesitant, but then I sniffed the fur. I did recognize the scent. It was the exact same scent that the red eyed wolf had. I started to growl at the fur as it brought back the thought and fact that he's still out there alive. "Yep, I'm sure," Artemis said pulling the fur away from me, snapping me back into reality.

Then a new thought came to me. "Wait, what other Wolfblood are you talking about?" I asked. Thalia came up to me from behind and said, "About an hour ago, we ran into a young Wolfblood that was black with white on their head, muzzle, tip of his tail, and one of his paws. Poor kid, he looked about your age too. He had blood all over him with a few cuts and his right eye was clawed out too." "But when we tried to help him, he ran off in fear. I would be that scared too if I ran into Lycaon and my eye was clawed out," someone finished. I looked over to my sister and started to cry again. "What am I going to do?" I asked, "I'm all alone. I don't want to go to that camp, but I don't want to be alone."

A/N

OHMYGODS! A chapter about Ember's past, but is it the WHOLE story?!

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