I could feel my vision come and go. Time began to slowly melt into each other making it impossible to know how much had passed. It felt like hours when in reality it was but a few minutes.
Thomas tried to keep my awake. He would talk to me keeping me from losing conscious. He tried to switch places but I knew the hail was hurting him already and I would be able to resist longer if I had to.
After many hard pounding heart beats, I heard shouting and some I saw a distant light. "Over here." I heard a voice shout out followed by multiple hurried footsteps.
"Oh my god!" I heard gasps all around noticing the hail had stopped because I was being covered.
"Alpha? Rue?! Rue!" I opened an eye trying to stand up not feeling my limbs. I felt hands on my legs and hissed in pain. The person retreated their hands like they were the ones who felt the burn.
I stumbled before leaning on the rock besides me on my uninjured shoulder. I blinked to see Mason standing in front of me eye widen. The light hurt my eyes as I tried to see.
I shifted back to human form only to get more gasps. There was about a dozen men with coats and plastic cover over them to block the hail. Mason quickly wrapped me in a coat trying to be careful as I hissed at contact.
"Get them on the stretchers." I ordered the men with eyes lowered to the floor as Mason buttoned up the coat.
They moved quickly. "Get him to the doctor. Tell him he was in a car crash." I said breathlessly as they picked up my mate my blood still pounding in my ears. I leaned down kissing his forehead before flicking the group to get moving.
The next group got Thomas and carried him behind my mate. The last group waited for my instructions. I dismissed them but Mason told them to wait.
"Alpha get on the stretcher. You are injured and weak." He said trying to convince me to be carried. I only shook my head and began to limp to the direction the others had left. Mason scrambled after me protesting and holding up a shield from the showers of hail.
With each step more black spots entered my vision, but I just shook my head shaking them off and continuing.
I tuned out Mason focusing on my steps. So many pellets of ice covered the ground I occasionally stepped on them.
I stumbled most of the time but steadied myself and kept moving. Mason and the last group followed behind me never complaining of my slow pace.
My breathe soon began to come out slower and after it seemed forever I saw the bright lights of my pack. We walked out of the woods to see most of the pack before the pack house all in similar coats. Some of them on the porch of their house.
As we walked in the middle of the houses all the heads turned to us. They started to yell and shout in relief when they saw me, but when they fully saw me they gasped in horror pointing at the blood that flowed down my legs from all the injuries.
I wanted to stop and tell them I was alright but Mason pulled me forward as the group and some other warriors held the pack back forming a line to the pack house.
I let myself be pulled by Mason suddenly feeling drained. I saw the wooden floor beneath me go black as I enter the pack house no longer able to keep conscious.
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"Jake stop it!" I squealed jumping over the couch of the living room. He stood on the other side arms spread moving to left then right.
I mirrored his movement. "Jake if you tickle me I will tell daddy!" I told him trying to get him to stop but he only let out a small chuckle before jumping over the couch and tackling me.
I felt the air being knocked out of me as I landed on the floor with him on me. "Jake!" I squealed.
"No please no!" I suddenly felt hand over my sides making me let out a long laugh.
"Ja-," was all I got out before I entered another fit of laughter. I gripped his hand in mine trying to regaining my breathe begging him to stop, "Jake alright. Alright I am sorry okay I won't get your cookies next time and you can even chose the movie for today, alright?" I asked breathlessly smiling.
He gave me a grin. "That's all I wanted to hear." He said getting off of me.
I walked to the door before turning back to him and yelling, "Kidding, you big fat baby!" Before running to the kitchen hearing his footsteps behind me.
I got to the kitchen back door about to jump out when I saw my pack all running towards the front of the pack house in a hurry. Jake bumped against my back not expecting me to stop.
He gripped my waist about to tickle me when he looked up and noticed all the pack running.
I grabbed his hand pulling him to the direction they were all going.
We walked the middle of the village which was in front of our pack house. All the pack was surrounding the circle in the middle. We heard groans and fists. Jake pushed us through to see what was going on.
In the middle stood our father and a man who I had never seen.
I gasped when I saw my father fall to the floor coughing red blood.
The man that had been the strongest person in my entire life was hurt. I had believed him to be invincible. It hurt me to see him injured. I could feel my stomach cramp when I saw the strange man kick his side.
The strange man shifted and in his place stood a his pitch black wolf. An alpha.
All alphas had a coat of black fur to show their rank.
My father saw him and he too shifted. His charcoal black wolf replaced my father place. I had been taught the ways of the werewolf's enough to know what was happening.
It was a Challenge. A fight for the pack.
And my father was losing. I finally noticed that half of the circle had people I had never meet but a quick smell of the air and we knew they were rogues.
Jake and I looked at each other realizing what was happening. He gripped my shoulders tightly as we watched my father fight.
Minutes passed and my father had been badly beaten but he wouldn't give up. He continued to stand up and fight. The shouts from both sides encouraged their leader.
I looked at my father praying the goddess to help him. The strange man got his jaw around my fathers neck making my father submit.
I suddenly felt my fear turn to anger when the man dropped my father and kick him.
When he turned his back to my father showing the fight ended, he walked back to his pack as they yelped in congratulations. I ran to my father before Jack could get hold of my shoulders again.
I dropped down beside him. "Daddy. Daddy! Are you okay?" I asked him looking into his green eyes that seemed to look past me in defeat and shame.
"Look at what we have here!" The strange man stood over me. "Is this your little girl?" He asked chuckling. I gave him a glare as he laughed.
He growled at my sign of resistance. "Lower your eye, little girl. I am your new alpha." He said slapping me. My father growled at him getting another kick but this time so hard I heard some ribs in his midsection break.
He was about to kick my father again when I felt a raging hot fire burn in me. It light my insides burning hot. I screamed feeling like a burning steel knife was being cut down on my right shoulder. I gripped it as I felt it burn under my fingers.
I felt hands grip my shoulders but I was to busy screaming in pain to notice it. My gut seared in pain. Then I began to felt my bones break shifting to new places.
It made my bones ache as they broke. I let out a roar of pain as I felt my shoulder dislocated form it's original place. Then I felt my legs break. It all happened to fast to take notice of anything.
One second I felt every bone in my body break the next I was standing on four legs my vision some shade of red.
I opened my eyes to see myself surrounded by different people and wolves all staring at me.
I saw two wolves standing before me. One with deep blue eyes and the other with bright green eyes. The green eyed wolf moved closer to me.
I crouched tail cocked ready to attack. The wolf hesitated stopping eyes widening in surprise and realization. I saw a guy that had coal black hair and ocean blue eyes. I moved my eyes to him baring my fangs as he moved closer. He looked at me confused.
The green eyed wolf turned to the blue eyed guy conversing in a mind link.
I looked all around me to see people standing on all sides. I growled at anyone who got close to me. When I suddenly heard a growl from the blue eyed wolf making me look back at him. He growled at the green eyed wolf before stalking over to me. The other wolf tried to stop him but was held back by more wolves that mysteriously appeared.
I bared my fangs pushing my ears back. He snapped at me making me instantly jump on him. He seemed surprised but quickly shoved me off. I quickly stood back up eyes on his and I paced around him.
He seemed amused but when I bit off a chuck of his side he howled in pain pushing me to the ground harder this time. He looked at me in rage.
I noticed he was twice my size so I kept a distance between us so I could quickly jump out of the way if he were to attack me.
I could feel my blood begin to pump faster flowing with a fire that made my eyes burn blue. He paused for a second confused. It was all I need to jump on his back swiftly biting out his throat.
I felt his body jerk and then fall to the ground. Dead.
I pulled myself off of his back and stepped over him. I looked up to see them all staring at me in fear and some in awe.
I saw the green eyed wolf walk closer to me making me bare my fangs at him. I growled as the blue eyed guy next to him walked next to him closer to me.
I saw the other people edge closer to me too and I growled making them freeze. I looked around trying to find a way out but couldn't.
I kept an eye on them as I edged closer to the people in one side as they backed away from me.
The guy next to the wolf was saying something but I couldn't hear him. I felt like my ears we underwater and everything was muffled. He reached out at me making me crouch again ready to jump on him.
He stopped when he saw I was going to attack. I was to busy looking at him I didn't see one of the wolves in the crowd jump out at me. He was shaking in anger as he snapped at my sides. He gripped my leg in his jaw making me howl in pain.
I used my other leg to shove him off me moving away from him. I instantly felt the fire flow through every inch of my body urging me to attack.
I bit his side taking a chuck of his fur and skin. He roared in pain then he whimpered. I jumped on him clawing his leg as he bit mine.
I was about to go for his throat when I felt chains of silver being wrapped around me making me hiss in pain. I moved towards the direction of the pull confusing them before pulling against them freeing myself.
I turned to the people pulling me. They was a group of them I couldn't count. I heard them shouting only getting bits of it.
"Go...hurry.......sedation.....now!" I growled at the word sedation that came from one of the men in the crowded. I focused my eyes on him and tackled him.
Before I could do anything I was tackled by the green eyed wolf. I clawed at his side to get him off. I stood in front of the wolf with the guy besides him again. I growled at them.
I lunged at the wolf's throat seeing him make a move towards me. I ended up biting the guy's throat because he stepped in.
I saw the wolf look down at the guy and howl in the air. I was going to make a run for it as I saw a space between the crowd but the wolf stood covering the exit.
He lunged at me not giving me time to do anything except claw at him. I tried to get him off but couldn't.
I don't know how long I clawed not able to get him off when I felt the fire in my veins leave me. It was being sucked out of me slowly.
I soon felt my control back able to think probably. I noticed that my dad's wolf laid on me.
I looked over his shoulder scared I was going to lose control again. I saw my pack several feet back all running around screaming loudly. I caught the scent of blood realizing it was from my dad.
I laid him on the ground as he finally let go. His wolf didn't move. Ohh no. No! No!
I tried to speak only to hear a bark come out. I didn't know how to turn back only able to look down at my father begging him to be okay inside my head.
Rue.
I heard a voice in my mind. I was confused not knowing where it came from. I looked down to see my fathers wolf eyes on me.
Rue. Listen to me.
I looked down at him nudging him with my nose trying to get him to get up. He stayed down keeping only his eyes on me.
Rue, it's okay. You have to take care of them, alright?
I could hear his voice weaken as he tried mind link his words. I whimpered nudging his side so he would get up. Trying to tell him to get up.
Rue, my beautiful angel. It's okay, Rue.