Acceptance

Tenebris Angelus #

A/N: Yes, I've been a jerk and I've not updated. I'm sorry. I had exams :/

Anyways, please read on and don't hate me. This story is going under revision.

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"Homo homini lupus." *

-Geoffrey Gorer

White light was filtering through the deep woods in the darkness as the cold winds blew harshly over them, rustling the leaves.

Though Maia had been confident enough to form this plan with Joseph, she was still skeptical. Would it work? 

It has too work, she thought. 

But still, overconfidence was pretty harmful.

She wound her chilled arms around herself, unsuccessfully trying to block the cold.

"Shouldn't we walk faster?" whispered Joseph.

"Yes, sorry, I just got caught up," she muttered and quickened  her steps.

The moonlit night was not helping her to overcome her uneasiness. The night had a strange, eerie feeling to it. Something was terribly wrong.

The only sound which could be heard was their footstep and of the wind blowing gently over the leaves.

They trudged on silently, neither of them speaking due to inexplicable nervousness.

What was wrong?

They were nearing the end of the woods now, which meant that they hadn't been far inside.

What a short-lived relief.

They slowly walked in the clearing when the sound of heavy footsteps began to echo from their left.

Joseph looked at her as she met his eyes, her confusion mirrored in his eye.

Automatically, their pace quickened, and her breath hitched.

A low, bass growl emitted from behind.

There was the pack of werewolves, the leader standing in the front. Their scarred faces had a look of ferocious longing. One of the werewolf at the back licked his lips.

Uh oh.

"RUN!" bellowed Joseph, as he grabbed Maia's hand and sprinted in the front. Maia did not need any further advice.

Struggling to keep pace with Joseph in her dress, she stumbled and ran as fast as her legs could take her. 

Oh no. 

A sudden binding force creeped up her back, and she flew black and slammed into one of the female werewolf. She frantically turned her head and saw, to her dismay, that Joseph too, had been summoned and was currently struggling in one the werewolf's arms.

"You really did think you both idiots could get away so easily, eh? What did you make of us; think we're dunderheads who wouldn't decipher a silly plan made by two 11- year olds? You think you can be spared after what your parents have done?" snarled the werewolf who was clutching her.

They threw Joseph and her on the ground harshly. Maia winced again. She might have broken a bone again.

The pack leader raised his wand and muttered something under his breath, pointing it towards the pair of them.

It felt as though an invisible rope had been tightly wound around her. She couldn't move.

Her thoughts must have been evident on her face, as the leader simply laughed.

He banished them away from themselves.

Her eyes instantaneously moved towards the sky, her cheeks wet with tears she didn't realise that she had been shedding.

There was no escape now. Nothing could be done.  

The clouds cleared off quite dramatically, revealing the same thing that Maia now dreaded.

The moon. The full moon.

The clan members now began to convulse. Their skin stretched over their body, now rapidly growing. Fur was sprouting from  every inch of their skin. They had been dressed in loose clothes, which now began to fit their body, which now was of an animal. Their face was now of a wolf. The wolf, standing in the place of the clan leader, howled, followed by the others. They took off in other directions, running wildly on their legs, while two of them, ran towards them.

Even though it was impossible, she tried to wriggle away from there. There could be something that they could do. Anything.

And she knew nothing more than screams that filled the night: hers, Joseph's and the werewolf's howls, a searing pain in her neck and then- blackness.

A/N: DUN DUN DUN!!

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# Tenebris Angelus: Latin for 'Dark Angel'

* 'Homo homini lupus:' Latin for the following sentence:

'A man is a wolf to another man.'

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