The Calling of the Dark Tides

Chapter Two: Shattering the Heart

Èva backed up staring at the cub. She began to shake out of utter fear. The youthful being seemed all too real t be part of her breaking mental state. "W-What could you need help with?" She asked trying to regain composure. Everything in her mind was telling her that this was a bad idea. To walk away before she does something foolish. Before she accidentally harm this cub who couldn't have been he one she thought of it to be. "H-how ar-are y-you he-here M- Miya?" Her tone became shaky then as now she needed to know where did she come from. Better yet how could she be here?

"Eva, I can't find my parents. Can you help me?" 'Miya' seemed to crawl out of the grass limping on one of her front paws, so innocent was her expression. "I got lost... I went playing again and I fell down on a spiky... thing and a quill got stuck , see!" The cub lifted it paw revealing the long black quill that dripped a black ooze that looked completely infected, "It hurts so bad.... I just wanna go home Eva... its scary here."

The black mist began to chill the air around the two making it practically freezing even though it was warm outside the 'circle' surrounding them. Within the realm of shadows one could clearly see that a lantern was within the heart of the cub, dew droplets on the grass began to become frozen solid.

Èva couldn't allow herself to walk away. She would not leave the cub when it's paw was injured. Maybe she could take it back to Eve so she could check it. More maybe her mother was roaming around to help. Yet feeling it seem to get Chilly Èva found no other way to help the cub than take her back to where she last remembered her pride to be at. She did remember them still living there so maybe she could make things right. Maybe she could help the Angel but she would have to be careful with it being so cold. "O-okay Miya. I-I will help you. Are you c-cold?" She asked before trying to et closer to the cub.

Miya smiled happily, "Nope! I am happy that you are helping me, I almost thought it was going to happen ag-..... well that it was going to happen like last time." She did her best to set the injured paw down in the soil only to recoil in tremendous pain making her cry out. "Ouch!" She moved back in the tall grass fearfully, "Please, show me where my parents are... I need their help and I am so scared Eva...." She began tearing up, on the verge of crying.

The violent spirit cackled in the shadows, the further she played this role the better the negativity sparked from this one....

The lioness gulped hearing the cub's original sentence. Again. That was all she had to say to cause that horrible day to play in her mind. The day Eva should have spared the Cub of her claws and fangs. And staring at Miya now made it only seem more vivid. "Okay." She said still aiming to regain her strong composer as in the beginning. The femme did not know what to do. She could not let it walk behind her seeing she would keep crying if her paw touched the ground. That hurt Èva seeing that she would hate for that to happen to her son. Kian! What if he came suddenly. The femme just remembered that so she would try to rush to take Miya home. Èva lowered her head to pick the cub up by the scruff. If the little one didn't move Èva would have them on their way.

As if by fate, claw marks began to seer their way across the cubs flesh, "No.... no please don't...." She began to become more scared of the lioness, Miya was backing away from Eva into the tall grass leaving behind bloody paw prints. "I.... I can walk... I promise.... I be a good cub... please don't hurt me again." Her voice beyond traumatized as her ears folded back, her body shaking violently at the sight of the older femme. The wounds on her back and sides looked so fresh as if they were just done....