All right, sweet, I got the 6th chapter up. This is based about a month or two later from the last chapter... I couldn't figure out a good way to slip that info into the story so I thought I would just put it up here. Hopefully people do read the authors note. Anyways, please review, I miss the comments.


"Reject! Get out of our territory!" my pack yelled at me as I fled from the village and away from their lands.

"But," Jagger tried to stand up for me as I was cast out as 'bad luck.' Yes, I was unfortunate enough to possess the 'unlucky' green eyes most lone wolves around our area had.

"Don't try to stick up for that thing," Silicemae replied to Jagger's attempts to convince the pack that I was not bad luck.

Mother looked on worriedly as one of her pups was cast out into the world, alone and rejected. She was thinking that I would not be able to survive on my own, but I don't see why it would matter if I was going to be hated anywhere I went.

The sounds of the packs' angry voices and growls haunted my thoughts as I ran through the forest, not even bothering to look back. I ran for as long as I could before I had to stop and catch my breath and even take a cool drink of water.

Tears streamed down my face as I sat against a tree in my human form. I had not known that I had cried myself to sleep as I woke up with the moonlight reflecting off the stream I had fallen asleep close to. As I sighed, streached, and sat up, I heard a familiar voice saying, "It's about time you woke up."

I jumped as Jagger rose up from leaning against the tree next to me. "I brought you something," he said, holding out a large slab of meat for me to devour.

"Jagger," I said pleadingly before gratefully taking the meat, "Is Mother mad at me, too?

"No, she just wishes that the pack would stop believing in such childish tales and myths," he replied, looking up at the moon.

"What about you? Do you think I'm bad luck?"

"Of course not. If you were, I'd probably be dead by now, by all the time we've spent playing around with our powers," he smiled., forcing me to smile back in return.

"C'mon, we need to figure out how to get the pack to accept you again," Jagger said, offering me his hand.

I took it and began walking with him, talking about random things on the way. A scream abruptly ended our conversation.

"It came from the direction of the den!" Jagger exclaimed, turning and running in the direction of the noise. He stopped and looked at me, who was just standing, not knowing whether to run back to the place that had just rejected me or to stay. "Aren't you coming?" he asked. I nodded my head in reply and ran after him.

Just like we had figured on the way there, the panthers were invading again, only this time they had grown stronger. Panther demons were laughing manically as they looked upon the lifeless wolves littered across the ground.

'Why didn't they fight back with their powers?' I thought to myself as a stared wide-eyed at the pack I once knew and loved until they had cast me out.

Jagger was awe-struck. I couldn't believe that he actually had tears in his gold eyes, for I had never seen him cry before. Everyone was dead from what we could see. Kai's silvery-white fur was soaked in blood, as was Mother's. Father laid in an odd, tangled postion, apparently he had tried to fight back. Others were scattered, as if they were trash, about the site.

"There's two more!" A pather demon pointed out, snapping Jagger and I out of our daze. Before we turned to run, I felt a sharp pain in my arm and fell. Jagger had also experienced a sharp, stab of pain, only in the back. I felt for the source of the pain, and ripped out a long, needle-like object from my arm.

Jagger had instinctively began clawing at the pain in his back, but couldn't reach. I helped pull out an identical needle-like object from his back.

"What the..." Jagger was beginning to say before I grabbed his arm and began dragging him away.

"I have no idea but there's no time to ponder about it right now! We have to get out of here!" I screamed, trying to drag him away.

He was resistant to my attempts and kept insisting that we should use our powers against the demons, since we had trained so hard and had almost perfected them. I reluctantly agreed and began to try to conjure a weapon from my powers.

"I can't get my powers to work!" Jagger said, looking frightfully over at me.

"Me neither!" I replied.

"That's the use of those poisons," the deep voice of Yuvinar, the panther leader, boomed.


Yes, yes, I know, ya'll hate cliffhangers and that was sort of a short chapter. I love leaving off with cliffhangers... it makes people want to read more, just to see what happens. But right now, it's a school night and I'm really tired and I wanted to get this chapter done tonight since I've been putting it off. So, there ya have it, 6th chapter. Tell me if it sucked or was pretty awesome (or decent... I'll go for decent. I know I'm not the best writer late at night)... review!