Chapter 7

The forest was quiet as the trees slept under the moon. I looked down to two black furry legs that were standing in a lake. When I looked into the rippling reflection I happened to see my own teal eyes on a black coated wolf. I splashed the reflection with one of my paws and felt myself laugh inside. Then a twig snapped in the distance.

I crouched down and snarled at the wind. I perked my ears up waiting for another sound. Nothing. I let my guard down and went back to playing in the water. I splashed, twirled, and slammed my tail around enjoying the feeling of the wolf's body; of my body. As I played I couldn't help but smell gun powder . . .

I snapped my head up and came face to face with a shot gun. I froze in place. The hunter was the same one I met at the bar. I never really caught his name . . . He had his finger on the trigger and his eye's on my heart. Damn, when can I ever have a normal dream? Before he could shoot me brown wolf sprung up from behind me and clawed the gun out of his hands. The hunter ran for it as I head for the bushes to shift.

By the time I threw on some pants and a t-shirt, more hunters had found their way too the lake. Drew was defending him self by knocking the guns out of the way. He wasn't even threatening to bite them. "Stop!" I yelled at the hunters but none of them where listening. While Drew was moving the guns away from their reach, a hunter on the side lines had a gun and was hidden behind the trees, and without warning the gun went off. Drew fell into the lake and transformed into his human self. "NO!" I screamed and ran to him.

"Young lady, stay back! Don't go near that . . . wolf?" I ignored the hunters warning and fell to my knees in the water. Drew was still alive but slowly dying. They shot him right under his collar bone. He would have died instantly if he would have stayed a shifter. I looked up and glared at the hunters. "What the . . . ?"

One of the hunters reached for his gun and aimed it at me. So our secret is out . . .

The gun went off and the last thing I heard was Drew's piercing roar.

"Drew!" I screamed. Then I heard Haden scream as well. She must have felt the pain I was in. I fell out of the bed realizing that Haden was hovering over me. "What in the world is your problem?" I snapped.

"Sorry, it's just your sweating and you really started to worry me." She explained helping me up. I was sweating. My forehead was wet as I covered it with my hand. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just another bad dream."

"Well, I sort of notice that. Is there anything you want to talk about?" She asked. I studied her for a moment before sitting down.

"No, not really."

"Not to be noisy or anything, but you talk in your sleep. You mentioned something about hunters before you had your little . . . nightmare." Hunters! The Elders, I need to speak with the Elders! I shot off the bed and to my dresser. "Okay . . ."

"No, I need . . . too talk to . . . the Elders . . . about the . . . hunters . . . in the mountains." I stuttered. I was flopping everywhere struggling to put on my pants. I heard her giggle before she took in what I had said.

"There are hunters in the mountains? But that's illegal!"

"I know! It's also why all the animals are moving to the forest." I pulled my shirt over my head in a hurry and slipped on my sandals. I brushed my hair, through the brush on the bed, and ran out. I practically knocked Drew over running through the court yard. "Um, uh, sorry!"

"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, where are you going?" He asked catching up with me.

"The Elders."

"Their not here."

"Are they ever here?" I pinched the bridge of my noise. "Okay, is Lucas here?"

"He just took some campers to the waterfalls." He explained.

"When we'll they get back?"

"Tomorrow afternoon-"

"Damn!" I snarled at myself. I should have gone to them as soon as I got back to Wolford last night. Maybe if I ketch up to Lucas . . . no, their probably already half way there by now. Well, maybe I could ketch them on their brake. No, Lucas is very demanding and pushy, who knows where they are by now. I ruffled my hair in frustration. Then a hand grabbed my wrist tearing me from my thoughts.

"Hey, can I show you something?" Drew asked pulling my hand out of my hair. He caught me off guard as soon as he entwined his fingers with mine. My arm tensed up but he didn't let go.

"But the Elders-"

"You'll probably get to Lucas before you get to the Elders." He announced. Then my stomach growled violently.

"I haven't even eaten in twenty four hours, I think I-"

"Oh, come on Olive, haven't you heard of fun?" His bright brown eyes grew larger by the minute.

"Bu- uh- fine.' I gave in and let him lead me down to the forest. He paused as soon as we reached the forest.

"This is going to take forever." He looked down at me and smiled. Before I could say, "Oh, too bad, let's go eat some breakfast," he ran off, discarded his clothes, and shifted into the shifter that would always appear in my dreams. He clenched his clothes between his teeth and tossed them into the closes bush. He snapped his head at me as if he was waiting for me to do something. It took me a few minutes to figure out what he wanted.

"No. No! I can barely ride a horse, this will not end well." For a moment it looked like he was laughing at me, but then his human eyes became stick and serious. So without further refusal I climbed on his back. I'm going to regret this.

The wolf stopped at an odd cave that was blocked off by huge poison ivy vines. I hopped off of Drew's back and found a thick branch. I pushed away some of the vines so we could walk through. We entered an area filled with different colored wild flowers that was surrounded with more trees. Still in wolf form, Drew shoved to the too the middle of the tiny meadow and pulled me to the ground with one paw. He hitched his head up and walked away.

I looked up towards the sky and couldn't help but notice that the trees caved in carving a star in the sky. The sun was behind two clouds that were bleeding sunlight. It was beautiful. Then Drew, human Drew, was sitting right next to me handing me a container of salad and water. He was wearing pants and nothing else.

"What's this?" I asked looking at the salad in its plastic container.

"You said you were hungry, didn't you?" He wondered.

"Yes, but its salad."

"Your vegan, sorry, it's the only thing I got that doesn't have meat or dairy in it. He announced.

"No, it's perfect." I pilled open the container and it was still fresh and cold. What did he have a refrigerator out here? There was already a fork in it. "Where are we anyways?"

"I really don't know to be honest. I found this place with I was a kid. I use to run away form home and one day I came across this place. It's been my favorite place ever sense." He explained. He was looking up at the star shaped sky.

"Why did you run away from home?" He shrugged and looked down.

"To get away I guess. I never really had a reason. I always came here to clear my mind form worries and problems." He looked at me this time. He was right this is a great place to forget things you didn't want to remember. I even forgot the whole reason why I was here. Why was I here? What was I running from? Trey . . .

"Can I ask you something?" He layer back in the grass and crossed his hands behind his head. I looked over at him and nodded, "whose Trey?" I froze and he closed his eyes as if he lost interest already. "It's okay, if you don't want to tell me. I don't want to listen." I remember him saying that in the library.

"Trey was my future mate in Alaska."

"Yeesh, Alaska." He said letting me know he was listening.

"It was hunting season shot with a silver bullet. We never found the hunters after that. Then my Uncle thought it would be a good idea if I moved back with mom, and some for gramps. So I moved back, technically against my own will." Drew propped himself on his elbows.

"So is this the stuff that the Elders were going to talk to you about?" He questioned and I nodded. He laid back down into the same position from before. "I guess this explains why your always think about him . . . I was right, this is some steep shit." I smiled at myself. It felt good telling him about Trey.

"What about you?"

"What about me?"

"Have you chosen a mate yet?" He didn't say anything for a while.

"I don't know you tell me." I looked at him confused. How can I tell him if I'm not him? Do I look physic? Then he released impatience sigh and sat up again. He turned his back towards me. Tattooed in the Celtic language on his right shoulder blade was a female's name, but sadly I couldn't read it. Looking at the name I felt a strange pain in my chest. The tattoo made me feel paranoid.

"Who is it?" I asked.

HEHE! I cliffhanger ending It will be continued . . . and yes I do know that Olive didn't notice he was reading her mind.

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