Kissing The Shadows

Chapter 5

Aryanna went to sleep only to have nightmares chase her dreams away. She walked slowly down the gravel off an old stoned path. Everything she passed was left cold. It was time in slow motion. She tried to sense her surroundings only to find that she couldn't read anything.

She looked around, everywhere, anywhere just to firgure out where she was. She didn't know and even though she knew it wasn't in her best interst, she freaked out. Aryanna's breath caught in her throat as she began to freeze in her current stature.

The earth moved and surrounded her. Vines grew up and wrapped around her, and in her pereferal vision she saw movement. It grew closer and she realized it wasn't really a person but a werewolf. A rougue. Shadowhunter enemy.

It drew closer to her and she tried her hardest to escape but couldn't find her stupid whip. Where are your enchanced weapons when you need them?

"Aryanna," Tommy's voice called around her,"Aryanna, Aryanna, Aryanna!"

"I'm here," Ayranna said jumping from her sheets.

"Aryanna," a tender voice asked," are you okay?"

"Yeah," she responded," Mom, hows Tommy?"

"It's a long story," her mother mummbled," why don't you get up and come meet some people, to uh,

explain."

Aryanna hurried down to the parlor room, to find out about Tommy.

When she reached the room their was a giant middle aged man with tousled blonde hair with gray showing a little in some places, his blue eyes showed knowledge, and he gave off an aura of power. That aura could only belong to a werewolf, an alpha werewolf.

"Aryanna come sit down Alpha Sanders was just about to begin his explanation." Her mother said from her chair in the right hand corner of the room.

Aryanna walked over and sat on the arm of her mothers chair. As soon as Alpha Sanders saw her settle into her spot he began.

"Now, I have went and spoken to young Thomas. Even though he was just bitten last night I can already feel the presence of a wolf stirring inside of him. As you shadowhunters know werewolves shift on full moons, in a weeks time Tommy will shift for the first time ever. This being his first shift it will be extremely painful. My son, Lance, is willing to come here and help Tommy through the shift."

"How can your son help Tommy while all the bones in his body are breaking." Aryanna asked with a hint of sarcasm.

"My son has an ability as all alpha's do. His ability is a very special gift to be able to take away pain."

"When is he arriving" Aryanna's mom asked with her eyes full of worry.

"In two days."

"We will be ready for his arrival." Aryanna's mother, Isabelle, stated.

"Mother can I go visit Tommy now." Isabelle gave a small nod and Aryanna hurried to go see her brother to ask for his forgiveness. If only she could have been there she could have saved Tommy from this horrible fate.