Maddy groaned as she rolled over, her head was swimming, the guy who grabbed her away from Rhydian has slammed some sort of chemical covered cloth in her face before she'd even gotten the chance to see who it was, she did however manage to see him be hit in the head by a rather large rock before falling to the ground.
'Hello?' Maddy called out softly, looking around, she was in some sort of underground prison, there was a bared door not too far in front of her, the room kind of reminded her of the den, except this was creepy and she was trapped.
'Finally, you're awake.' A voice said startling her, Maddy turned to the door facing the man who she knew had grabbed her.
Rhydians mind was in shambles, everything was blurry and unclear but his wolf senses were going crazy, the forest was screaming at his already pounding head, he could hear birds chirping, water running, even the sound of leaves tapping softly against each other in the breeze. Why was he here? Oh yeah, he was running with Maddy. Maddy! Rhydian shot up quickly, ignoring the swirling of his sight and the sudden sharpness of the world around him.
'Maddy!' The young wolf yelled, letting Eolas consume him searching for her face anywhere in the forest, the fire behind his eyes swarmed his mind, forcing him to his knees in pain, he couldn't use his powers right now, he had to get help.
He sped through the forest, his mind started playing tricks on him, Maddy's face came into focus, she was blended into the speeding trees.
'Rhydian!' She yelled at him, he turned to face her without stopping, he face kept changing directions, sitting just in the corner of his sight, he found himself running in circles trying to catch up with non-existent Maddy. Rhydian grabbed his head in confusion while stopping to swivel around to look at all the trees surrounding him, where was she? He had to find Dan and Emma, they could help, he couldn't see right now. He sprang back into action trying to ignore the flashed of Maddy, sitting, crying, yelling, running, she was everywhere.
'Daniel! Emma! Help me!' Rhydian yelled speeding into the Smiths backyard, Dan, Emma, Tom and Shannon piled out of the house towards him.
'Rhydian, what's wrong? Where's Maddy?' Emma asked rushing towards the out of breath boy.
'Someone took her! They just grabbed her and I think they hit my head, there must have been two of them!' Rhydian burst out. The others looked at each other in shock.
'Okay, you, Shan and Tom are going to go inside and Daniel and I will search the woods for her.' Emma said, trying to remain calm.
'No! It'll be quicker if we all search, the longer we take the less likely we are to find her!' Rhydian yelled back, standing up straight.
'Rhydian, you're bleeding and I think you've got a concussion.' Shannon said softly, stepping closer to the boy in front of her, he backed away from her.
'No! I'm fine we have to find her! If you don't want to fine, I'm going to look on the hills; you search the edges of the forest see if you can catch her scent.' Rhydian said to Daniel, turning and running away from the group, towards the hilly area near the edge of town.
'We'll go after him, you go search the area he said to.' Tom said to Maddy's parents who nodded and headed towards their car and Shannon and Tom headed after their distraught friend.
He couldn't breathe, how could he ever breathe again, she wasn't here? The wind was rushing so loudly in his ears he couldn't tell if it was just normal outside sound he was hearing or Maddy screaming at him for help. He kept turning on the top of the hill, searching for her, he face flooded his vision, stumping him for a minute, she looked so scared.
'Rhydian!' Tom called approached his friend cautiously; it was obviously the guy had some sort of head injury, even if it was simply by the dry blood caked against the side of his face.
'Tom, we have to find her, she's right here, I can see her.' Rhydian stressed and Tom nodded sharing a concerned look with Shannon.
'We'll get her back man, we're not going to give up but she's obviously not here and you need to have that injury looked at. We'll get her back, I promise.' Tom said softly, reassuring Rhydian and Shannon who both nodded, Tom opened his arms and pulled them in for a group hug.
The three made their way back to the Smith residence and barely made it through the door before Dan and Emma came through the front door.
'Did you find anything?' Rhydian asked quickly, Dan shook his head sadly, Emma looked distraught.
'What are we gonna do?' Shannon asked softly.
'Well firstly, Emma's gonna take a look at that bump on your head Rhydian then you're going to go through exactly what happened with us and then the three of you are going to sleepover in Maddy's room, we'll sort it out with your parents, it'll be safer for you to be here, we don't know who took Maddy or why and until we figure it out you should all be here. After that Emma will call up some wolfblood friends of ours and invite them down here to help us find and tomorrow you'll all go to school, we want to draw as little attention as possible to the situation if it is wolfblood related and we invite humans into the mix they could be in serious danger.' Daniel said calmly, Rhydian could read he and Emma's face, they were panicking on the inside, their eyes screamed of fear but he thought it best not to mention it with Tom and Shannon in the room who nodded at the adult and set to call their parents to arrange a rather long sleepover. Rhydian sat down at the table, hoping the stillness of the house and sitting down would stop his head from swirling.
'Rhydian' his name whispered into his mind as the fog of the concussion cleared a little, Rhydians head shot up, it was definitely Maddy's voice calling his name but he knew she wasn't nearby, he just had to trust his instincts and find her.
'Rhydian.'
'Rhydian.' Maddy whispered into the darkness. The man from before had thrown a bottle of water and a wrapped sandwich through the bars before leaving her along again.
'Calling for help is useless, no one will hear you, you're deep down in here.' The man said appearing out of nowhere on the other side of the bars.
'Who are you and why have you kidnapped me? Please just let me go, I won't tell anyone.' Maddy pleaded getting up and gripping the bars tightly.
'Sorry little miss wolf but you're not going anywhere.' He responded coldly.
'What are you going to do with me?' Maddy asked frightened.
'Well first we're going to get proof that you're a monster, a creature of the night and then we're going to rid the world of your kind. I always knew I wasn't crazy, werewolves, right here in Stoneybridge.' The man said shaking his head.
'I'm not a werewolf, okay, why would you think that?' She asked confused and worried, what if he knew about her parents? About Rhydian? Would he try and take them to, no he couldn't Rhydian had been with her when she was taken and he'd been left alone, or at least she hoped he had and wasn't in some other cage around here.
'Oh but my dear, I got the evidence from a most reliable source.' He said snarkily.
'Who?' Maddy ordered, no one who knew would have told on her, would they?
'My nephew, of course.' The man said smirking at the young she wolf, stepping back from the bars just enough to reveal another person in the room outside the cage, Maddy looked at him with disbelief, accusations and betrayal, she had tears in her eyes at what she knew her fate would be before she managed to gasp out one word.
'Liam?'.
