YAAAAAAAYYYYY
I MADE IT!!!! Okay, recap: Meg attacked Hayden, the Queen took over Meg's body and Myria met a wolf who claims to be her brother and another wolf named Roland.
And now........
The Forbidden Lands
The Eleventh Wolf
A World Long Lost
Part 1:
Renewing Pain
Myria walked through the woods. Roland followed at her side.
"So, why do yo want to go to the tunnels?" She asked.
"My family is there." Roland replied.
Myria sighed. You're dead family. They stopped at a small tunnel.
"Here." She muttered.
Roland bowed his head. "Thank you."
Myria didn't say anything. Roland walked in and disappeared.
Good Riddance! She thought turning away. "We'll meet again, Myria."
She stopped in her tracks. "I'll count the days."
She didn't reply. Not in your life, mutt.
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Myria stalked home, giving up. Meg and Kyle were dead. She was alone. In the distance, she heard howling. Myria sighed and followed the sound. "Myria, don't." The voice was distant and slightly echoed, but it was there.
She turned. "Meg." She breathed. But no, the she-wolf was transparent. The voice was.... different. "Help me..." Myria squeezed her eyes shut and launched herself at the image.
She crouched down and bared through the renewing pain.
"How could you leave me, Meg?" She whispered. "How?"
The wolf only answered with a nod. Her eyes danced and spoke.
See for yourself. They said. "We should not have trusted Eli."
She spoke.
Myria growled. "Get out of here, mutt. You're not Meg!"
She ran through the trees and came to a clearing. A small wolf
lay in the middle of it, bleeding badly. She ran over to the brown
wolf and nudged him with her nose. Myria smelled Meg's scent on him.
She barked. "What have you done with her?"
The brown wolf lifted his head slightly. "W...who?"
He asked.
"You know who! I saw you today, in the tunnels!"
"M....Myria?"
She froze. "Who..... How do you know me?" Myria asked.
"Everyone knows you."
"What do you mean? How?"
"The prophecy, of course!"
"The what?"
"You mean, they never told you?" The wolf seemed clearly
confused.
"Who never told me what?" Myria flattened her ears.
"You truly expect me to believe that our Queen has forgotten us.
Has forgotten you, Myria."
"Alright," Myria narrowed her eyes and growled. "You have
ten seconds to tell me what on earth is goin' on, mutt."
He sighed. "You'll learn." Said the wolf.
"Fine, then what is your your name?"
"My name?"
Myria nodded.
"My name is Hayden."
Part 2:
Once this is all over....
Meg wandered through the woods. Meg was not Meg anymore.
She had turned against all she knew, and all she was. She stopped on top the gorge. One will live. One will die.
There will be fire. There will be darkness.
Death will overpower the lands.
The light will come.
The chosen one will rise
and there will be peace once more.
"Tell me!" The Queen shrieked, still in search for her.
'The chosen one will rise'
The Queen was not about to lose to any mutt. Meg longed to be back
in control.
Part 3:
Nothing will remain
Meg stood on the black rocks, a ring of fire swirling around her.
She fought for control over her body. Eli circled her. "You thought
you could get away, didn't you, Megan?" He sneered.
If only. She wanted to reply. But the pain was too much.
"Now, once the queen is finished, you can go home, though you'll be
dead. No body could survive this amount of pain, Megan."
Meg flattened her ears and pain coursed through her. Eli laughed.
She tried to stand, but she was too weak. She had no fight left in her.
"Eli," Meg mumbled weakly. But somehow managed to find the strength to put anger and hatred into her following words. "How dare you! I will find the strength to survive, Eli. And then I will make sure that you are killed."
Eli growled. "By the time The Queen has destroyed your friend, you will have nothing left! All your strength will die off and so will you."
Meg forced herself to growl. She let out a yelp, though. "You can't fight this one off this time, Megan."
"My name is Meg." She muttered, putting her head in her paws.
Eli rolled his eyes. "It took a while. But, I finally found you. I admit, you are fast, Megan. I'm sorry. Meg. Either way I found you. And I'm going to watch you die. Alone."
Meg sighed. Fear gripped her stomach. She closed her eyes.
I have failed everyone I know. Meg had given up. My thoughts are my only safe place. Meg thought about Haydens face. The pain. The desperation to remember that she was no longer that wolf. No longer Lucifer's sister. I'm sorry, Hayden. I never meant to hurt you. She knew well that she was to die. She was never meant to live. And Meg couldn't deny that.Part 4:
Fight or Flight
"Stop hiding, mutt." The Queen growled.
She had circled back around to the clearing. She'd seen the tan and black wolf only seconds ago. Where was he now?
Frustrated, The Queen turned to leave, then she stopped. That brown mutt - oh what was his name? Kayden? - where was he? Suddenly, she felt a searing pain in her shoulder and fell. The Queen twisted to see what had hit her. A brown wolf stood there. "Origin!" The Queen gasped.
A tan and black wolf circled into view, standing next to Origin, both growling. "Remember me?" She sneered.
"Myria." The Queens voice was low and flat. "Don't even think about it!"
"Hold her down." Myria ordered, never breaking eye contact.
Origin stood on her side, nose close to her ear, still growling.
"Play nice, Origin." Myria commanded.
Origin pulled away.
Myria started circling again. "You'll regret ever messing with me."
She said.
The Queen growled a low growl. "And what do you plan to do? You're worthless without her."
Myria growled. "I'm giving you this chance to bring her back, or I'll send you right back to where you came from."
With a quick flick of her tail, The Queen knocked Origin off his feet. She jumped up and Myria charged at her. She jumped over Myria. She turned to look behind her at the Queen, who glanced over her shoulder with a smirk.
"Don't think you can get away from an assassin." Myria barked.
"Assassin? You're no assassin. You're a hunter. You think killing a few birds counts as an assassin?" She mocked.
Myria narrowed her eyes. "You know the prophecy, Hydra. That's why you're not attacking me."
The Queen laughed. "Tik-tok, Myria. The prophecy is only good until the full moon. Tonight."
Myria looked away, then back up at her. Without thinking, she launched herself at the Queen. And the Queen didn't even have time to react. She was on her back struggling. "You will die. Now." Myria said, their noses almost touching.
"If you kill me now, Meg will die."
"I don't trust that statement."
Myria dug her teeth into Hydra's neck. She howled in rage. Hydra kicked at Myria, trying to stand. She tried to growl in defiance and rage, but only choked on her blood. Blood pooled over her black lips, bubbling and overflowing. Myria stood off Hydra and gave the death blow, her claws raking Hydra's neck. Her body convulsed and gave a massive shake. She gave a cough, spraying droplets of red blood in Myria's face.
"I should claw your eyes out for this." Myria snarled.
Hydra's head rolled to one side, the blood draining out. Myria looked at the fresh wound on The Queen's neck. Blood was running down her chest and onto the ground. Meg's body was ruined and Myria took a horrified step back. What had she done?
Part 5:
War of the Worlds
Meg lay still on the fiery ground, her glassy eyes staring at nothing. Eli circled her, satisfied. "You see, Megan, I always knew this day would come. I waited each day, for you to come. You didn't. I've traveled over sixty packs searching for you. I admit, you are sly. I under stand, in that you didn't know anything about this.
"But, you're here now. And that's all that matters," Eli sneered.
He froze at the slightest movement of Meg's chest. She was dead. How could she..... The Queen!
Eli crouched low to the ground, bristeling. He looked around in shock. No! How can this be? Meg struggled to her feet and gave a long low growl. Eli let out a menacing snarl. His white teeth bared against each other. He lashed his tail.
Meg leapt at him, but managed to overshoot. Luckily, Eli wasn't the smartest wolf. He backed up, trying to escape Meg's jaws. She landed on his back and sunk her teeth into his shoulder. Eli let out a yowl of surprise and shook Meg off.
She fell to the hot ground, dry dust flying up around her. Slowly, she rose to her feet, again, and growled. "That crosses the line, Lucifer," she snarled.
"There is no line here, Megan."
"Well, I just drew it."
At that, Eli sank his claws into the dusty dirt and it split with a massive crack. Meg was pushed off her feet and piled into the crack. Below was an entire river of underground lava.
She could feel the heat as she plummeted downward. Meg didn't make it, though. A medium sized rock was jutting out from the side of the crevice, and she'd managed to land on it. The joy was short-lived, though when it began to crack. Eli jumped down behind her of the rock. "You attack me, we both go down." Meg warned.
Eli smirked. "I'm already there, baby."
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By this point, Meg could feel the heat of the lava through the rock. Eli took a step toward her, growling. She took a half-step back before the crumbling of rock made her freeze. One more step and she'd be dead. I'm sorry, Hayden. I love you. Meg thought, squeezing her eyes shut.
Time seemed to skid to a stop. In slow-motion, another wolf launched himself from the top of the rocks, landing on Eli. Hayden. "Stay away from her!" He growled.
Eli threw himself up against the wall, but Hayden held on. Meg noticed Eli's black coat, sticky with blood. She knew she'd have to kill him.
He reared back, slamming Hayden into the wall and he fell, unmoving. She looked at Eli, their gaze met. Eli backed down. "This is the last time, mutt. The last time I'm going to send you back."
He laughed. "I swear, you try to pull something on me, I will climb right back out and I can promise you, Megan, you'll be the first thing I kill."
Any other time, Meg would have been scared of that threat. But times have changed. "That's a chance I'll have to take. We can't live in fear."
She leaned in. "And it's Hydra."
Meg chose that moment to strike. She lept at him, and Eli dodged it, swiftly. She blind-sided him, tossing him into the wall and the rock cracked again. Eli pushed her to the edge where she lost her balance and he stood over her, a nasty grin on his face. "You can draw the line, sweetie, but I'm gonna cross it."
Meg batted at him with her paw and they clawed his cheek. She'd gotten him deep enough that blood gushed out. He raised his paw, about to deliver the death blow when Hayden threw himself against Eli. He was thrown off the ledge. He snapped at Haydens ankle, and managed to grab a hold. Meg heard the sickening crack if breaking bones. Hayden pulled back, trying to stay on the ledge. "Sorry about this," Meg muttered, then flung herself into Haydens leg.
He let out a yelp, but Eli refused to let go. Meg leaned over the ledge and scratched Eli's face. He jerked his head back and both him and Hayden tumbled into the river of lava.
"No, Hayden!" Meg shrieked. "I love you."
Part 6:
Epilogue
Meg scrambled through the weeds, shaking her pelt free of burrs and grass, though she was sure she'd left most of her fur in the bramble thicket. She turned and licked her scarred shoulder, knowing that there would never be fur there again. "Hydra!" Meg's neck fur rose, until she remembered that she'd chosen to go by that name.
She still hadn't gotten used to it. "Myria, hi!" She greeted her old friend with a sad smile.
Meg hadn't seen her old friend in ages. The two touched noses. They talked an went through any old greeting with 'How are you's and 'I haven't seen you in forever's'.
Meg looked off into the sunset. "Oh, shoot! I have to go."
Myria nodded understandingly. "See you around?"
Meg looked away. "I don't know, you might want to stay away from the tunnels."
Since the accident, Meg's body had been destroyed, so she'd decided to lead the tunnels alone. Though they reminded her of Hayden, she was happy there. Myria had taken the rank as pack alpha. "I'll see you."
Meg padded down the dark slope of the tunnels, so dark she couldn't see her own two paws. She stopped at the bottom and froze. "Hayden?"
