Rise of a Queen

In No Man's Land

Delancey

I found a cave a few miles away from the river, I managed to find a rabbit on my way here but that was hours ago. Now I was starving and the rain was pelting down on everything in its way like rocks. But I was thankful, when you have little to nothing you have to be grateful for small mercies. Sigh, there's not much I could do now but go to sleep. Being awake is just tormenting me with vicious thoughts and hunger. A hunger that I've never felt before. Even in the prison, I had food, to abate the hunger that I felt. But now it wasn't a given that I would get food or survive at all.

But hey at least I was alive, right?

Closing my eyes I went to sleep. But I wish I hadn't.

Dream World

I was sitting on a rock outside, in the forest, there was the giggling of a small child and a man running around in happiness. The child looked so much like me. But she had his eyes. The eyes reminded me of my torment.

"Mommy!"

I looked around for the person she was talking to. Hoping that she was talking to a person behind me,  but my gut told me she was talking to me. When I turned around I screamed at the image in front of me. The beautiful girl in front of me didn't exist. It was replaced by a scared girl with a claw wrapped around her throat, with another arm keeping her in place. I looked at the figure behind her to find Jeremy in a half shift.

"Delancey, Delancey. You thought I would let you keep our child."

"Jeremy don't do this she's just a child"

"You're wrong, she's not a child she's a bastard."

"NO!!"

My screams of protest landed on deaf ears as I ripped her head off her body. She landed on the floor with a thud. I cried and crawled toward my baby girl while he laughed. The moment I tried to reach out to touch her, he dragged me away from her. I kicked and screamed for him to let me go but he just wouldn't. No matter how hard I tried to escape his grasp. Jeremy had me trapped.

I screamed myself awake, I searched frantically for signs that I was alone. That everything around me was real. My breathing was shallow, and I was finding it hard to breathe. I tried counting backward. I tried thinking of something that made me happy, but I came up blank. There was nothing that made me happy. I had nothing. No mate. No family. No chance of happiness. 

Eventually, I blacked out.

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I woke up again, this time it was morning, the rain had stopped and the forest animals came out to play. Unfortunately, that would mean other rouges as well, I might not have been out in the wild long, but I knew to stay away from other rogues. Whether feral or not, all rogues were dangerous to my survival in this place. 

SIGH 

That dream last night felt so real, I mean technically it did happen. That son of a bitch and his girlfriend ripped my baby away from me. I was never going to get him or her back. I don't know if I'm going to get the chance to have kids ever again.

*GRUMBLE*

On queue, my hunger decided to let its presence known. Now my first mission of the day was to get some grub and find a secluded area to take a bath. Although I was a rouge that didn't mean I couldn't keep proper hygiene while on the run right? I groggily got up from my cramped position in my little cave and stretched. The satisfying crack of my bones echoed throughout the cave as I yawned. I began my long journey to find something to eat.

It's been a couple of minutes and I'm pretty glad to say that I avoided other rouges throughout my entire walk. Especially with the game that I have my eyes set on. A small doe. A doe was easier to take down by yourself than a full-grown deer, and you have to take whatever you can get in this world. I crouched further in my wolf form and slowly crept closer to the unaware doe. I prayed to the moon that no other rouges came to this area to disturb my kill. I would be so pissed I'd kill them myself. In this place, it's every man for himself. And any threat against my survival will be taken to heart.

I sniffed the area ensuring it was empty of any other inhabitants except me and my meal. Satisfied with the discovery of being alone, I propelled myself forward, leaping at the doe but sadly missing just by a few inches. I chased after it though, there was no way am letting my meal escape I didn't know when I would get another opportunity like this. We dived and weaved through the forest until I took the chance to leap and successfully land on it. I clamped my teeth firmly into its neck and shook it until the sound of its heartbeat began to fade away. Laying down I began to dig into my meal.

I stopped and growled as the scent of the male wolf behind me wafted to my nose. I wasn't in the mood for a fight, I wanted to be left alone in peace, to enjoy my catch. Was that too much to ask? You know what screw it. Tearing off a nice piece offering, I threw it in his direction and continued my meal. I almost thought my little sacrifice went to waste, but the bark of thanks that I got told me otherwise. By his scent alone he was probably a pup, I don't want to think about what sick past he had to endure. After eating my fill I searched for a bathing area. 

Although I should be "used to" going without a bath for 10 years, being confined to 10 years worth of dead skin, muck and grime was the reason why I made it my mission to find even a drop of water to shower with. There was no way I was going to go back to smelling like death.