Moon Wolf

Crossed the Line

 Your death was a brutal lesson to me that life is so fickle. I wish destiny had given this lesson to me in a different way.  

"When will you tell her?"

Maya and Summer were currently in Maya's large closet room, or as Maya renamed it, the 'small den.' Summer was working some healing magic for Maya's quickly fading injuries, which was hard to do with Maya continuously pestering her. 

"Hopefully not until I'm forced to," she replied quietly. "Now shut it mutt, I'm trying to concentrate." Maya's eyes widened and she scoffed before snarling, 

"Excuse me? I am breed from the finest alphas in my pack! There is no way you just called me a mutt!" Summer's eyes were closed but her posture easily expressed how she would have rolled them. 

"Yeah yeah whatever. Tomorrow I'll come back, Hershey, Sparkles, and Rebecca will leave for the theme park, I spill my life story, blah blah blah. Hershey knows I don't like theme parks all that much. And even if I go they'll just make me hold all their bags. Hershey doesn't want you to be alone just yet." Thank you Hershey, Maya thought as Summer's horn flickered and the magenta glow faded. She opened her eyes and raised a brow. "I don't need to muzzle you do I?" Maya fumed, fur bristling and ears flat. 

"I don't need a muzzle!" she exclaimed and Summer rolled her eyes for real this time.

Maya grumbled to herself things like "I'm not a dog" or "maybe you need a muzzle" while Summer walked towards the door.  "You can't fool me you know," she said pausing at the door and Maya look up at her with flattened ears. "You look tense," she said. She really was tense. The dark aura attached to Hershey was back and she was less than pleased. 

"I can feel it. It's like it stretched throughout the whole area when it came back," Maya said glaring around the room, shoulders hunched. "It has a predatory instinct and this is its territory." Summer's brow furrowed at the new information. 

"That's good to know," she said and Maya groaned. Her bedside manners sucked. "When we found you, I would have brought you anywhere else really, but you were badly injured and Hershey's apartment was the closest place to take you." She turned around further to look at Maya in the eye. "I don't know much about this demon you know. With your abilities, maybe the situation will change," she said thoughtfully and then opened the door and left. Maya huffed. 

Alone... Again... she thought. She opened the white curtains to the small window but the moon was out of view. Well... not entirely alone. She heard the front door shut and closed the curtains. I need some company. She limped towards the door and peeked out. No one was here, Summer gone and Hershey clattering pots in the kitchen. 

She closed the door silently and slid out onto the balcony, digging her hooves into the snow. She took a deep breath and stang her lungs with the cold air, basking in the purple moonlight from the moon in full view. It like it's always a full moon here, she pondered. It's a nice feeling. The sky was clear, despite some small clouds drifting around, and the stars could rival diamonds.

"Mom..." Maya started. "I'm really lost right now... I don't know where I am, or where the pack is... they probably think I'm dead," she said, lowering her head and flattening her ears. Maya ignored the snow and sat, wrapping her sleek tail around her hooves. As a wolf, her fur was always fluffy and thick enough to wield off the cold and it appeared to be that that trait also transferred to her pony form. It wasn't as thick as her wolf form, she was a pony after all, but she noticed she was fluffier than Hershey or Summer, so she barely felt the cold.

"Do you think I could ever become a wolf again?" she asked and looked up in time to watch a glittering star shoot across the sky, as if to answer her question. A small smile creeped on her face as she watched the sky. So empty yet so full, so silent yet so loud, so much yet not enough. "I hope so." Her eyes shined with unshed tears. "I hope for a lot of things," she whispered and continued watching the stars in a peace she had missed.