Breaking the Madness

Thirty-Seven

Anna POV

Life had always been an abstract thing to me, I had never really put much thought into it, for I was alive and that was that.
I guess you could say that I took it for granted.

However, now that I was ten feet underwater, my lungs screaming in painful agony for air, I had to face the reality that life was fleeting.
As I slowly drowned I couldn't help but think of death, or should I say the absence of life. I wasn't afraid of death it's self, no, I was afraid of the unknown that would come after. I closed my eyes and my heart began to slow.

Because really, death is simply the organs in your body beginning to fade because of things such as a lack of oxygen, a blood clot or cancer. In the end it doesn't matter how it happens, death is death, and when your heart finally stops beating you step into the unknown.

Some people comfort themselves with things such as religion that tell them of the joys of an afterlife, where we are reunited with our loved ones and our creator. Others refuse to believe in anything, choosing that after death there is simply nothing.

I didn't know what I believed and I think that scared me the most. I was afraid that one of the many religions in the world were true and I would be punished for a lack of faith. But what I was most scared of is that there would be nothing and I would simply cease to exist. Becoming nothing more than a forgotten memory.

People had always told me that I shouldn't worry about dying. That It was in the future and I should focus on the now. But they were wrong. You should care about death, because it is always there, looming over your shoulder. Waiting.

It was too late for me though.

Too late for my baby.

Non-existent tears welled within me as i mourned the loss of the child I would never meet. I mourned the loss of Luc who I would never see again, of Jen who had been my best friend. And Jaiden, my soul mate, who I had just found but also lost long before this.

I mourned the life that I had only just begun to live.

And as water finally won the fight, it was sucked into my lungs against my will, filling them until there was no space for air. No space for life.

There was nothing more nothingness as I was ushered into deaths awaiting arms.

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Jaiden POV

For the past day I had had this feeling in my chest. it was as if someone had their hand tightly wrapped around my heart, squeezing it until there was no blood left to pump through my veins.

And no. I did not have heart burn.

This was something different, the kind of feeling you get when something terrible happens that you can't control and you are left with out the relief.

It was the kind of feeling that I had when people close to me die.

I pushed the terrible feeling away from inside of me for I didn't have time to ponder on what it meant. Today was the day that we took down the rogues for good.

With Ben, Jared and a whole army of wolves at my side, we snuck through the tunnels heading to the rogue camp. I was determined to finish this today.
Seeing my sister in such a state had spurred passion inside me for these people, my people. I realized that for me to be their leader, I had to care about each and everyone of them as though they were my family. A family that I would willingly die for.

Thankfully, Gemma was going to be fine but I didn't want that happening to anyone ever again.
The rogues crossed the line the moment they murdered innocents and enlisted vampires to do their bidding.

I took one last look around my comrades as I howled into the sky, signifying the start of the battle.

Tonight was a full moon meaning that we would be at our strongest and the rogues allies, vampires, would be at their weakness. Not to mention it was during the day.

We charges the camp startling the wolves posted at the look outs. They hadn't been expecting us to come from this angle.
As we descended upon them half the rogues panicked in fear and turned in their boots to run. While others called them cowards, shifted and met us in battle.

If you could even call it that.

For those who stayed to fight, they were slaughtered where they stood. A rogue pack full of omegas was no force compared to a pack of highly trained warriors.

I engaged in the fight, taking down rogue after rogue as that horrible feeling in my chest grew, threatening to swallow me whole.

From the corner of my eye I saw one of the vampires flee from the slaughter into the shade of the forest to escape the harmful rays of the sun.

I chased after it, dead on its heals until I found myself at the edge of the lake. The vampire had disappeared.

I slowly moved closer and closer to the water, transforming from my wolf to humans and picked up a branch to use as a stake.  I knew the vampire was here somewhere.

Speak of the devil and it shall appear, the vampire swooped out of the trees like a flash of lighting. Taking me down onto the hard rock the thing tried to sink its fangs into my throat. But I wasn't about to become vampire dinner.

Using all my extra werewolf strength, I braced against the ground and shoved the stake up under the vampire's sternum into its cold, still heart.

The vampire screeched as dark obsidian veins travelled up its neck from its chest, until the whole thing was covered.
I knew what happened next and I scrambled from underneath the monster, as its skin flaked off and it was turned to ash (a/N - think voldemort in hp7p2).

I groaned in disgust, what kind of idiot would hire such creatures?

Oh wait, the idiot named Gray.

I stretched my arms into the air as I began to relax. Through my mind link I heard that the battle had come to an end as the rogues surrendered. Their were minimal deaths and wounded.

Slowly, I turned around and welcomed the beautiful sight of the lake.
But to my horror I found something else.

Anna floated in the water surrounded by flowers. Her skin was deathly pain and her chest didn't move for she was no longer breathing.
I scurried down the rocks to the edge of the lake and dived in. I swum ferociously towards her cold body and dragged her through the water.

Pulling her into my arms, a gut wrenching cry left my lips as the feeling eloped me in the darkness of grief.

"No. no. no. no....."I sobbed pulling her close up against my chest.

This could be happening. No. Please. Not this.

I did everything I could, I begged, I cried, I called out to God.
But nothing was going to change it.

Anna was dead.

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A/N 
Hey,

I'm like totally crying right now... what about u?
It's just so sad... but it has to happen, you'll get why I did this next chapter I promise.
And now I can reveal the song that inspired me to write this.

It's called 'dead in the water' by elle Goulding.
Look it up, it goes with this chapter.

Again Thankyou so much for all your support and for reading this!!

Oh and I'm going to have a little Q&A session after I finish the book soooo send me s your questions and stuff and I'll answer them to the best of my ability. or.... I may just write an extra couple of chapter to answer you questions through the characters.... :D

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