The Moon Child

~Punishment~

I was completely right about the whole not going back inside the house without getting punished but I really wish I wasn't.

I hadn't moved from the spot my brother Laden and his friends left me, far from our house out in the woods somewhere. I laid in a soft patch of grass that was now covered by my dark red blood instead of the fluorescent green that calmed me. The cold wind was blowing across my skin ruffling my black matted hair while the trees swayed back and forth to the howling of the wind. I watched as the sun started to dip down behind the horizon leaving me in a cold darkness with only the light of the moon shining down threw the empty woods surrounding me.

I couldn't move or else my body would shake in pain. I was wheezing trying to get air through my lungs only making the burning sensation in my lungs from all the screaming and crying I did worse. My face was covered in dry blood from all the cuts that had been beaten onto my skin. My lip was busted along with my nose and once in a while I would pass out from blood loss or because the pain would be to much for me. I don't know how many times I passed out but I was starting to black out longer every time it happened.

My head was pounding which I assumed was because I had a heavy concussion that was probably going to take about a week to get over. Since I'm a werewolf I heal faster than humans but since I'm kind of weak and my wolf is much smaller than others my wolf takes longer to heal then everybody else. It would usually take about an hour for all these bruises and injuries to heal completely for a normal sized wolf but for me its going to take a minimum of 24-hours to completely heal.

I was sure that my right arm, three of my ribs, and my left leg were all broken or fractured. The amount of pain that was shooting through my body was evidence of my hypotheses. I'm not a doctor but I've had enough broken and fracture bones that I can tell by the amount of pain I feel if it's just bruised or something more serious.

My white shirt was all ripped up and bloody along with my sweat pants that looked like I had found them in a pile of rags. I looked like a hobo that was just mugged and beaten to an inch of his life then just left there to die alone, cold, and in pain inside some dark wet mildew smelling alley. Which if you think about it is kinda what happened to me only I didn't get left in an alley and I'm not a hobo. My stomach was growling from starvation since I didn't eat anything but a cup of yogurt today and that was a long time ago. If I didn't get moving soon I was probably going to die from blood loss or because how low the temperatures were starting to drop.

It had been about around three hours since Iv'e been out here and I knew that my mom and dad were getting worried that I wasn't back from my run. I told them that I was gonna let snow out because he was getting restless from the knowledge that we were gonna meet our mate soon. They believed me only telling me to stay close to the house. I wasn't really going for a run and the guilt of lying was starting to get to me. I really hated lying but it was for everybody's best interest.

Laden had told me after practice to meet him in the woods some where and to not disobey him or else the punishment I was going to receive would be much worse then it already was. Once I got to the tree line of the woods I shifted into my silver white wolf and sniffed around the tree line looking for Laden's scent so I could meet up with him. After catching his scent I trotted into the woods hoping to waste enough time to mentally and physically prepare for the beating I was about to feel. I didn't smell or sense the other five people my brother had brought with him until I saw all of them pop out at once forming a cage around me leaving no room for an escape. Leaving me where I am now.

My head ached to much to even try and use the pack link to contact one of my friends to come help me. Snow had stopped ranting on about how I should tell my parents about all the abuse and bullying after I calmly but sternly told him to shut up because he was making my throbbing head even worse with his annoying bickering. Ever since then he has been quite except for the few little chats he had with me to help get my mind of all the pain or asking me where it hurt the most so he could focus all his healing to that specific area. I could feel snow's worry for me and anger towards my brother and his friends radiating of him in waves.

I don't understand how somebody who is supposed to protect you, love you, make you happy could only make you sad and afraid. My brother wasn't always this way, he used to be funny and very protective of me but something or someone changed him into a completely different person. The caring and warm eyes I once used to love to look at became cold and hard. The happy look on his face that would make me happy when I was sad now only caused me fear because he was never happy unless he was about to bring somebody pain. I don't know why he hates me so much but I don't care anymore. I've tried to make him happy by doing whatever he asked me to but he still beats me so I'm giving up. I'm just going to keep my head down and stay out oh his way because I cant take it anymore.

I'm done.

By now I had missed dinner and I could hear howling in the distance. I knew that it was my Mom and Dad along with some trackers from the pack who probably couldn't care less if I was found or not. I guess my protective parents got tired of wanting for me to come home and decided that they were going to go and look for me. I didn't have to be connected to the pack link to feel my parents concern and worry for me. They are going to be filled with furry if they see me like this. I'm there precious little baby boy and they usually hurt anybody who hurts me or messes with me physically and emotionally but that's only if they see it happen or find out it happened. I knew my parents were going to find me and hound who did this out of me, so I have to find a way to cover up all these cuts and bruise before I see my parents again. I decided that if I didn't want to be found looking the way I did by my parents someone else was gonna have to find me before they did considering I can't move to go anywhere.

I opened the pack link causing enormous amounts of pain to strain my brain and connected to my friends Ricky, Bella, and Jasmine. 'Jas, Rick and Bells I need you to help me please. I'm in the woods but I don't know where. I can't move and my parents are searching for me. Please come help me.' After getting my message out I shut off my pack link cause I knew they were gonna yell a shit load of questions at me all at once and I don't think I would be able to take that much noise. Just sending that one little message had my head throbbing more than it was a few seconds ago.

My parents were getting closer by the second and I couldn't control the fear of my parents finding me. If I let them see me my siblings were going to make my life worse then it already was and it already sucks so there is no point in trying to make it even worse. I just hoped that my friends got here fast enough. After a few more minutes of waiting for either my friends or my parents to find me black dots started to cloud my vision. I tried to blink them away but every time I closed my eyes it got harder to keep them open. My limbs felt like jello. I couldn't feel half my body anymore and more was going by the second. The dots got bigger to the point where I could see only darkness. My eyes closed from exaction and I welcomed the darkness giving up the fight as I slipped into an unconscious state.

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