Lurked In Danger

Ava ~~~~

My eyes shimmered with unshed tears as I lurched deeper into the darkness. Frustration coursed through me as I reflected on my life.

How fate had been treating me was becoming unbearable.

I'm just a cursed girl with just a pretty face. No love, no family, no friends and no mate. All these thought crashed in my head and finally the tears rolled down my cheeks. I had been holding it for a long time, not wanting to allow myself look weak and dejected in front of him.

One would wonder if I could cry in the form I was but I did and my wolf soaked it all in.

At first, I thought he would see a new side of me after the clash but it seemed like I accelerated his hatred even more. He doesn't seem to have affection for me that at times I wonder if I was actually mated to him.

I didn't even know why contracted me as his Luna.

Although he rejected me, I had refused to accept the rejection because I thought he would be different from everyone. But what was I thinking, the ruthless Lycan who despised the werewolves to like me was impossible.

I forced back another bream of tears that had already clustered my vision, letting the wind wash my furs as I raced magnificently to an unknown destination.

I just wanted to stay far away from the pack. I wanted a lone moment for myself and my little brown wolf.

It felt my emotions too, it was equally sad that the world has abandoned us to strive alone.

Come to think of it, I haven't given her a name right?

How could I not give my beautiful wolf a name. Right now, she was the only companion I had in the world.

"Berry" I suggested within as I looked at her glittering dark yellows pupil. She let out a little growl, increasing her speed and I knew exactly that moment that she loved the name.

My wolf was special. Normally, people got their first shift when they turned eighteen but it was a different case for me. My wolf had surfaced this very year when I was already twenty two and incredibly fast and swift.

She halted on her track and I realized that we had stumbled upon the woods. This was the Lycans woods and mountain lions lived here.

Fear cloned me as my eyes scrutinized everywhere. I couldn't hear a sound, only the chirping of insects and the dwindling grasses that collided amongst the other. The gigantic trees which stretched towards the sky and the wild grasses gave it a glorifying yet horrifying look. I could see clearly in the dark because of my wolf and as my eyes rampaged the area, my breathing became unstable.

What if something happens to us, or the mountain lions comes here? My head panicked with unanswered questions. I didn't want to go back to the pack at all, I wanted to stay away from everyone so I pushed the thoughts away as my eyes searched for where I could lay down for the night and there finally, an oak tree stood in the middle of two other trees which had a small pond beside it. I advanced towards it quietly on tiptoes not wanting to awake even the smallest of ants as that would amount to huge problems for me.

Gently, berry made a small clearing with her paws and we settled down then she retreated back to my mind as I shifted back to nature, naked under the shining crescent half moon. I drowned my legs into the pond, lifting my gaze to the sky as I undid the band tied to my hair ponytail.

My ocean blue hair fell freely, cascading down to my waist and making me look like a mermaid under the bright half-moon which also shone on the trees casting their shadows on the ground and creating diverse shades of eerie glooms in the vicinity.

My mind drifted to my younger days when I was still twelve. I had the best family ever, with my mom and dad taking me out on many occasions and celebrating my birthdays in Grand styles but all of that went down to the brink when mom died trying to protect me. Ever since then, my dad hated me and took in a new wife. When he grew tired of seeing me, he gave me off to the Alpha of Blood Moon pack because he knew I had a crush on him.

I had always felt responsible for my mother's death. The memory of the very day she was ripped apart still replays frantically in my head. Her smiles and warm gestures was like a thread stitched to a torn dress.

I missed her, although it's been a long time but I still had her in my memory. Ever since I turned thirteen, I lacked love and care that I had even forgotten what those words meant.

I was barely hanging on a thin thread hoping that once I found my mate, he would fill those gaps of voidness yet everything turned even more sour.

Now I wasn't ready to be weak, I was prepared for any misfortunes that laid out for me in the future, I would gladly thread to it. After all, I've been through much worse situation than anything that is likely to happen in the future.

Suddenly my head began throbbing in pain, I ached my back to adjust my self to the tree I sat on, just then I felt the presence of something behind me. My heart beat began pounding quickly and fear pulsed through my veins. I didn't stand up as I couldn't conjure the morale to look back. I just sat there, slightly convulsing.

My fists tightened as I dug my fingernails into my palms drawing out blood. But just that moment, it seemed like I made a terrible mistake as a sudden roar echoed loudly in the woods and just then my mind gave me only one answer; the mountain lions, run ! and without warning I shifted and soared high disappearing into the darkness in a radical speed.

Unlike before, Berry was faster this time around, she knew that we were in danger. She raced past the wild grasses and some of the leaflets shrieked her limbs earning her wounds but she wasn't fazed as she kept racing. But just as were about to divert into an unknown narrow clearing in the woods, there the battalions dwelled; hundreds of mountain lions stood their sharp brown eyes piercing my own green ones.

I shifted and dropped to the cold ground naked.

I guess this was my very end '.

The glint of hunger that swept through their eyes was unmistakable. I could feel my heart stop for a few moments as they circled around me, each wanting to get a bite of me before the other.

Unanimously they roared and attacked me and I shut my eyes waiting for my end but just then, a mighty howl echoed through the shivering darkness and everything succumbed, I recognized the voice as I fluttered my lids open; it was none other than the Lycan himself.

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