: Was it a dream ?

~Several hours later~

I awoke,naked , covered in-blood next to the standing stone in the Neutral zone were I had stood the night before with my father. The sun was just barely peaking over the forbidden forests tree tops causing them to burst in colors of green, orange and yellow. Next to me lay the dead white stag as if placed there on purpose though I could see it had been dragged from the forest the trail of dried blood made that apparent .

(( ..... how did I get here ?...))

I brought my hand weakly up to where the wound in my chest had been as if to remember what now seemed to be a fading dream and to my surprise there was now a newly healed spear shaped scar right in-between my breasts.

I made myself crawl over to the stag and grabbed it by one of its horns standing with the little bit of strength I had left in my may legs, I began to drag it behind me. My mind was in a hazy fog unable to think, my instincts guided me home, while my legs wobbly tried to respond to my wishes

With what seemed like miles of hazed filled walking I reached the pack house.....Quickly my fathers beta Ralphel came rushing over to me,a look of sever panic on his face. As he placed his hand on the small of my back to try and support me ,I collapsed back into his arms, once again embraced a familiar darkness.

To weak to open my eyes again all I could hear was the beta screaming for my father and the hushed whispers of my clan as they began gathering around me .

Then like I lit a match in the darkness of my own mind , i flew back to the young girl who had held my hand as death began to take me. A strange heat washed over my body , feeling like I wanted to crawl and jump out of my skin.I had never felt this way before then I heard Xyon's voice weakly repeating what she had said before from the very back of the darkness to far in my mind I couldn't feel her (( ..mine ... Mate ...))

(( that's not possible Xyon ....I'm not even old enough to be affected by the haze yet ..... mate ? A girl ? it's impossible for us to find our mate yet your mistaken .....)) I thought to myself as I couldn't find my voice to respond to her , almost like I was too weak to even talk to apart of myself. Once again my mind was lost in the darkness this time no vision pulled me from it instead I was met with slumber.

.....A few days passed ....

I didn't awake, no, when I opened my eyes I was met with darkness as if I couldn't awaken from my own mind and instead was trapped inside it.

I could listen though .over the quite beeping of a machine I could hear my father speaking but I couldn't quite make out what he was saying .From the sound of the other voice it was our clan doctor Theodore he was speaking to ....

I strained my ears to try to hear what they were saying but was only met with the sound of my speeding heart everything else went silent right when the panic was about to kick in I was hit with another flash and pulled once again to that night. there she was holding my hand I began to remember I thought at one point she was an angel sent by the moon goddess. She looked so young maybe year younger then me. I remember it seemed to baffle me that she didn't even know me but she sat there holding my hand in all the chaos,then like a movie that I couldn't control my mind flashed forward.I was staring in her eyes they began to glow. As I began to give into the darkness I noticed her hair began to rise and the Runic tattoo on her face glowed just as bright as her eyes.

She was now so bright that she looked more like a star then a girl .... I felt a warmth spread through me as she clutched my hand tightly the pain in my chest burned making want to scream out then it all stopped and she collapsed to the ground beside me .... I slipped into the darkness again.. my mind flashed forward again this was to my shock because the darkness took me I died right ? .(... no we didn't die .... she saved us ...) I heard Xyons weak voice call out to me a bit closer then before then in a flash I remembered waking again to her staring at me her lavender eyes piercing into my while she still held my hand with concern and and I remembered the unhappiness I felt when she suddenly let go and the warmth of where it had been when she let go began to fade .I began to notice more about her as I lay there in a fevered confusion.she looked like a perfect hybrid of wolf and elf. Her ears looked like elf ears and elven looking features but she had a tail that lay unmoving at her feet.hovering over me she began listening to something in the distance then her face turned to one of fear ... I remembered her grabbing my hand again and rushingly helping me to my feet .... then more confusion my brain in complete hazy .....then running naked her hand still in mine . Just as we were about to make it to the wood line of the neutral zone I could feel her delicate has shake as we pulled the deer behind us with stumbling haste.. then I felt as she was yanked away from my grip, and me and the stag fell into the clearing of the neutral zone ... darkness took me over again.

(( ....they took her Ayanna they took her from our grip .... you have to get up ! ))

I felt her now my wolf she she was beside me once again and I felt her anger surge into me like fire , finally I was whole and I could see her in all her majestic black glory eager and ready to wake up from these constant and consuming dreams ... I was no longer alone in the darkness and I felt her strength mix with mine.

As I reached out in my mind to put my finger threw her fur she directed my attention to once again hear my father talking with the clan doctor I did my best to focus on them

(( we are going to have to do this together )) Xyon stated as she mustard all the strength she had helping me to focus clearly.... finally I could here them now..

" Dammit what happened why hasn't she woke up yet ?" My dads voice sounded harsh and full of anger and worry

" she has been through something traumatic give her time my lord not to mention it seemed she was separated from her wolf for a little while this to could explain what is going on " the doctor tried to calm him as a sliver of light shined into my heavy eyes as I pushed them open.

" Dad?...." my voice sounded foreign to me ,dry and unnatural . I looked up to see dark rings around his eyes. It clearly looked like he had been crying and awake for a while. I looked to the window next to my bed and saw that the sun had once again set.

" Ayanna ?!.. " he shoved his massive head into my neck and inhaling my scent clearly trying to come his wolf

" what happened sweet heart you have been unconscious for two days and when Raphael told me how you stumble into to town ...who did this to you Ayanna? Where are the others ? Did you see what happened to them ? The other never came back ...." his wolf finally began to calm once he felt Xyon Stirring clearly afraid that something had happened to my wolf.

I placed my hands next to me weakly using them to sit myself up against my head board. One of His hands braced my shoulder as if I was a delicate flower and the other took my long black hair and placed it behind my ear.

I Took in a shallow breath ,glancing around the room then back at him with my hunter green eye , the. releasing a shaky breath as I began to describe what happened

His eyes never left me as I told him about Alfredo saving me from Tradiius

His fist clenched in anger and I could smell blood form them as I told him that Tradiius had tried to take me forcefully and never intended to actually capture the deer, then his blue eyes filled with sorrow as I told him I saw Mikeal's body and Tradiius being captured, that Alfredo was missing.

I then told him of the girl that saved me and explained my confusion as to who she was or those people were since I didn't know anyone lived in the forbidden forest. I made sure to leave out xyons hallucination of that girl being our fated mate instead I just ended what I had to say by explaining how I wouldn't have never made it to the clearing without her.

His eyes narrowed at me in thought he then pushed back the chair he had been sitting in and quickly went to walk out of my room.

" Father ?.." i questioned as he hadn't said anything to me since I told him my account of what happened

" Rest Ayanna ... you did well my sweet ... I must speak with the elders" with that he closed my door behind him and I drifted back to sleep holding on to Xyons breathing in my head,afraid to fall back into the darkness I worked so hard to escape.....