HER Young Mate (Completed)

Part One Hundred and Eight: Stars Above

When we return to the fight it is obvious my pack- their pack- is struggling. We've lost a few young recruits, but I see most of my family and confirm their well being. With the sight of us the rogues who still want blood begin to push towards the center of our property.

I let out a howl to tell my pack, including the new members, to protect the young ones. This is their first test to be sure they are now part of us. If they are they will sense where Durst is, and they will realize and defend where the children are. I lead them towards the property, on the tails of the rogues heading that way.

We catch up just a few miles from the perimeter of our main property. They turn to us and begin to fight, and now the other rogues and my families fight is pushing towards us. We are getting closer to home, and Durst let's Danny know, by warning him that he's just killed one close to home- a fearful howl, that puts me on edge.

I won't let them hurt the children.

I summon my strength and push forward, pulling a rogue from a wolf and snapping his neck. I need to get closer to the house. Danny doesn't reply to Durst, but I still sense him- I know he is in trouble, but that he can handle it. I need to protect the children. My need to be Luna outweighs my love for him- my need to protect him. I try to fight it like I fought being rouge, but this is a task I could never accomplish. I would die for our future if I had to- and our future was those girls. Durst is at the edge of the forest when I spot him, but I only see him for a brief moment fighting off three rogues, when I'm caught by two who want to stop me.

I can sense we are starting to get the upper hand, and that it is causing the rogues to fight more ruthlessly than I ever imagined anyone could fight. They are just as ready to die as we are for what they want. We have to want it more.

I begin to battle the two that have flanked me.

I toss the first to the side, but as I do the second bites me and pulls me down by my haunches, causing me to yelp and growl in anger. I feel that the red wants to return, taunting me with power that I could surely use now, but I don't allow it to enter my soul again. As the first rogue attacking returns I grab it by the shoulder with my jaws and toss it over my own, and he rolls down my back and hits the other off of me. I'm bleeding now, and limp for a moment as I turn back towards them. One stumbles on their paws to stand, as the other lunges. I bite into it's side, and it drags me as it tries to get away, but I don't release my grip.

The other jumps on my back and bites my shoulder and finally I release the one in my grasp as I yelp in pain again.

Suddenly it releases me as Durst jumps it, and he chases Durst as he returns to warding off the ones getting close to the house, a few of the new members of our pack helping him. We're winning now- but he has no time to protect me- and I wouldn't want him to. He looks back, but I howl at him to keep the girls safe and he doesn't look back again.

The wolf with my jaw marks in her side attacks me at half speed, and though it causes pain to rip through my shoulder as I do, I pounce at her and bite down on the first part of her I come in contact with.

It's her eyes and her skull. I clamp down and I keel my momentum jumping forward, and hear the thick rubbery sound of her flesh tearing from the bone.

Her scalp pulls off in my teeth and she drops as she whimpers and howls in pain, as she slowly dies from the blood leaving her. I don't stop, I keep running, because I feel the wolf on my heels that I've left behind. He's recovered from Durst's attack and is coming at me again. The rain has stopped, but the slick earth only propels him faster.

I lead him away a bit, but I sense he won't give up.

When I turn towards him he snaps at me, but doesn't grab ahold of me, so I snap back. We're too evenly matched, now that I'm hurt, and I don't catch him. The second time he snaps he catches me- right where he's already bit into my shoulder.