Millennium Academy - The Fractured Shadow - Novel I

Chapter 19 - Razz Martiez & Selene Lycaon

"Where are they?" Razz panicked. "Ohno ohno ohno!"

"How should I know!" Selene barked.

Razz was in a state of emergency. Everything they'd planned, everything she'd needed, the work she'd put in to finally get Emila on track- for nothing?! Ughhhhh.

"Are you ok?" Selene asked, her voice softening. "You ughed."

"No! I'm not ok, not by a long shot." That was out loud? "I'M MISERABLE."

"Yeah, me too."

"Well, whoop-de-doo. Which dimension is this, anyway?" she snapped, feeling slightly less angry after her rant.

"Um..." Selene looked around. It wasn't a very pretty dimension, yet it had a lush, wild feeling, owed to the overgrown jungle greenery.

"If I had to hazard a guess..." Selene said cautiously, "I'd say we're in the realm of flesh-eating bunnies. Not good."

"Are there a lot of them?" Razz asked, realizing that she hadn't taken Realm Studies in school and Selene had.

"The entire realm is covered in burrows." Selene mused. "The only safe spaces are in trees. Sorry," she added, when Razz's eyes widened in frustration.

Razz walked over to a tree crowned in fronds and kicked at its trunk. Something small darted out from beneath its roots and began snarling at Razz, who stumbled back. Blood dripped from her ankle and Selene saw the little creature salivate.

It was a small, pitch black bunny- barely bigger than Selene's hand. It was frothing at the mouth, and it was yapping and growling furiously. It wasn't very scary.

"Hey buddy." Selene knelt down. "Why don't you run along and spare us the chase." Her voice lowered to a deep growl.

The bunny chirruped and a sea of bunnies flooded into the glade.

"Shit." Selene swore, grinning with all her teeth, and pounced. Razz could see her flying across the bunny-black ground, frozen to the spot. She has this well in hand, Razz thought with a wince, as Selene tore through leagues of the animals. The ground was covered in corpses.

"There," Selene said, dusting off her hands. "All done. What, you didn't know about moon-rage? Damn, DeathWitch." She looked over her shoulder at a straggler from the burrow, pitch-black with white eye splotches. "Ooh, sneaky little bugger," she said, and before Razz could speak, she had the bunny dangling by the tail.

"Nasty, sneaky, and tiny? Well, mama's gotta eat." And with that, Selene opened her mouth to swallow the poor baby bunny. Razz snatched it away.

"Hey, that was lunch!"

"But it's tiny!" Razz protested.

"Then I'd have to sate the rest of my hunger with something else!" Selene growled. "Do you know nothing of werewolves? Gimme the thing."

"Nope! I'm keeping it. I've already named her." Razz stuck out a tongue.

"It's a him. And we're not keeping it. I'm eating it."

"No! It's so vulnerable. Please, please, can we keep it?" Razz whined, like a spoiled, five year old child.

Selene fired her hardest, sternest look at the bunny cowering on the ground. But then her eyes grew soft.

"Ok." She relented. "Fine. But it's on you if I eat both of you later!" She called, stalking away into the brush.

Razz squealed. "I'll keep you safe," she whispered to the rabbit, whom she'd named Moonspot.