When Lunar Wolves Rule

When Lunar Wolves Rule: Part 5(First Part)

The Boom

After all my wounds had healed and I got Nico to calm down everything went back to normal, except for the fact that I now talked to my dad on a daily basis, Juno and Nico looked at Aragorn like he was a demon or something. Things were good for the next 6 years or so, and then there was ‘The Boom’. Everyone was running around some people screaming their heads off, then I saw it, it looked like a bear with a panther's tail, its fur was white as snow. Wait, Juno? There’s something on his neck, he whips his head around like he’s at a rock concert. Juno pulls his paw back and then I see Kimmy standing under him, I run at Kimmy and tackle her out of the way, “WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING!?” I scream to be heard over the noise.

“I DON'T KNOW SOME GUY RAN UP TO US AND SLAPPED THAT THING ON HIS NECK NOW HE’S GOING NUTS!” I dodge another blow, and dash in front of him and call his name, his head turns first then his body, I make a face, but quickly catch myself, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING, STUPID?!” Juno roars at me. (Note to self: Don’t call the 5 foot, raging Banther stupid.) I morph into my wolf form and run people out of the way. Kimmy ran after me as she tried to herd Juno away from the academy. Kimmy morphed into her banther form to keep up with Lilac. Then she saw a group of kids huddled together behind Juno, and he was falling backwards fast. Just then she saw a blur and Aragorn and Claw appeared in front of her, she sighed and smiled and said,

“Your guy’s timing is impeccable!”

“You have no idea,” Says Kimmy.

Before we could finish our super important conversation Juno lets out a roar like he’s trying to blow up our eardrums. Okay that’s the last freakin’ straw. I think I stay in my human form and leap onto his neck, which he for sure does not like. I bring out my claws but before I can swipe at the thing on his neck he lands on all four of his paws and started going wild like a bull, Kimmmy and Claw try to keep him still, and Aragorn zips people out of the way, so Teddy can look at them for injuries.

Okay, so when you turn 15 they have you choose a topic that you're really interested in, Teddy chose medicine and stuff, Kimmy chose fashion, obviously, Aragorn and Juno chose sword play, but I don’t really know what to choose, so. . . I chose everything.

Anyway back to the fight that may or may not get us all killed.

I finally manage to straighten myself and I take a swipe at his neck, and in an instant he stops moving entirely, I hop off. He morphed into his human form and faints. I took the thing that was on his neck. I start to take it apart, then it starts beeping a high pitched sound that makes me wanna rip my own ears off, I s***h at it to shut it up. I leave it at my desk, and plop onto my bed, then I hear Nico’s knock and say, “Come in,” but my face is in my pillow so it sounds more like, “CMF UM” Nico sit’s down next to me and asks in a mocking tone “So, how was your day?” I sock him in his arm, and he laughs, “Just wanted to check up on you, don’t do any more dumb things.” I turn my head away and smirk. I fall asleep and hear someone shuffling around my room, I groan and look up to see Aragorn messing with the collar of death(the thing that was in Juno’s neck), He starts banging it with his fists, my eyes shoot open, and I jump out of bed, and smack him in the back of his head, “OW!” I frown and say, “What do you think you're doing?”

“Seeing if I can turn it on.”

“ How would smacking it, turn it on Aragorn?”

He just shrugs and falls onto my bed, I roll my eyes. I look at it and tilt my head, something gold is shining in the middle. I pull it out with my claws and examine it. Aragorn comes over and looks at it too. “Maybe it’s gold?”he says. Two seconds ago I would have believed him but gold reflects heat and this thing is as cold as an iceberg.

My claws start to freeze but I don’t pay any attention to it, then it reaches the tips of my fingers, suddenly Aragorn smacks the thing out of my hand. I blink, It’s like I was in a trance. I shove my index and thumb into my mouth to get the ice off. Aragorn stares at the thing and says, “Uh, nope I’m taking this.” I take my fingers out of my mouth and say,

“What, why?!”

“Because it obviously did something to you, and you did not care one bit,” says Aragorn

I frown and plop into my chair, I feel a sharp pain in my hand, I look down and see that now half my hand is frozen. I yelp, which startles Aragorn. He looks at my hand then at the gold thing then my hand, then finally he smashes the gold thing and the ice stops freezing and starts to retreat. My heart slows down and I shove the death device into a drawer. Aragorn studies my hand. My fingers are still frozen but they feel like they're on fire. I try to pull my hand away but Aragorn won’t let me, he blows on them to warm them up, not that his hands in general won’t do the trick.

I rest my head on his shoulder and fall asleep, then I have a dream, well more like a vision, I can’t explain it.

A bunch of. . . blue dudes are in an old timey forge, then I see thousands, no billions of those gold things, my heart starts beating faster. They’re putting them at the tip of swords, shields, even on top of helmets. I gulp. Then the scene flashes, but I’m not in the past, but the present. I see Juno in the infirmary and Kimmy sitting in a chair next to him. Then everything goes blank, nothing but darkness, I clench my hand, then someone, no something appears. What it says sends a chill down my spine, “GIVE ME YOUR POWER OR SHE’S NEXT” I wake up startled and realize I'm clenching Aragorn's shirt, but I don’t let go, I use my free hand to rub my eyes. Then I say, “ We need to go check on Kimmy and Juno.” Aragorn gives me a confused look and asks “How do you know Kimmy is with Juno?” I shrug and Claw knocks on the open door and says “So, pack, what are we doing today?” I smile and let go of Aragorn's shirt, and say to Claw, “I think you know, girl.”

When we got to the infirmary I just about screamed, so many people were hurt because of me. But this will never happen again whoever or whatever is coming for me is in for a world of pain. I ignored the urge to run and walk into Junos ``room” . How did I know which one he was in? No idea! Kimmy is showing Juno pictures of guinea pigs, he just looks bored. I giggle and say “I don’t think Juno wants to spend his time looking at guinea pigs Kim!” She just says “ Yes he does because I say he does.” Claw walks behind Kimmy so she can see the pictures, and says cheerfully, “Who wouldn’t want to look at them, they're adorable.” Juno just rolls his eyes. Aragorn leans against the wall, and twirls his knife in his hand. I sigh, and say, “So no biggie, but ummm I think my dad’s ex-girlfriend is trying to kill me.” Juno chokes on his drink and Kimmy drops her phone, and says “WHAT!?” “SHH! The whole academy can hear you!” Kimmy cringed when I said that. Aragorn seemed to find all of this amusing, because he had a smirk on his face. Kimmy looks a bit scared as if something is bothering her. “Kimmy are you okay?” Juno glances at her and walks over to give her a big hug. “I’m fine it’s just that we have been in so many adventures together and now your dads ex-girlfriend is trying to kill you, just what if we never stop the Lunar Wolf war and die?” I start to cry a little. “That will never happen. We will stop the Lunar Wolf ware and kill whoever this ex-girlfriend of my dads is, who’s with me?” They all nod, and that cheers me up a whole lot. But not Kimmy, she now has tears running down her face. She runs to the bathroom and Claw runs after her, while I talk to Juno and Alagorn.

Claw’s P.O.V.

“Kimmy? Are you here?” ‘Sobs’ “Kimmy can I come in there to talk to you?” Kimmy opens the stall she is in and she is on the floor with her hands on her face crying. “Kimmy what's wrong? We have been through so much and now you're crying?” Kimmy sniffs and says “I- I just, I don’t know, I guess I’m worried.”

“Worried about what, we’ll get through this! You know we will,”

“At what cost?” Kimmy says her blue eyes looking pale. That question catches me off guard. “I mean what if. . . what if Lilac gives up her power and it kills her, or-or that crazy lady does?!” Lilac comes walking in to check on us. “I will never give up my power, but if we have to kill the crazy lady then I will take her power and spread it to all of you so we can stop the Lunar Wolf war for good. Kimmy, look at me. It’s okay to be afraid but you have to just stand up, and keep going whether you feel like you can’t do it or not, cause you can!” Kimmy sighs and nods, “How are you always so optimistic about everything?” Kimmy asks. Lilac smiles and looks at me then Kimmy “Because I have you guys, you’re what keeps me going!” Lilac says bending down and gives Kimmy a big hug, she motions me over and soon we’re just three girls hugging in a bathroom stall floor. We must look crazy. Aragorn is standing outside of the girls bathroom and asks, “Are you girls okay in there?” We start to giggle, “Yes we are coming out, hold on.” We walk out of the bathroom stall and Juno runs up to give Kimmy a hug, Alagorn and Lilac also hug. I am on my own. Juno and Kimmy finish hugging and he walks over to give me a big hug. My face goes red, and I just about die. I turn to look at Aragorn and Lilac to see that they are kissing. Lilac’s face is red, I guess she still isn’t used to kissing him in front of other people. Juno runs into the boys bathroom, and so does Aragorn and Teddy. “We should scare them!” I whisper. “Yeah, let's do that.” I stand inside the girls bathroom with Lilac and Kimmy is standing on the other side of the wall that separates the girls from the boys bathroom. Alagorn and Juno come out. Juno just told Alagorn that he doesn’t wash his hands after using the bathroom. Lilac, Kimmy, and I both run out from where we were hiding and yell at Juno. “YOU WHAT!!!!????” I walk right up to Juno and smack him in the face. He runs back into the bathroom and washes his hands. “Well, he will be washing his hands again or Imma give him the mega punch next time.” Everybody starts laughing. Juno came out completely red faced, that makes me laugh. Juno says “You could have just told me to go wash my hands!”

“Where's the fun in that?”

Lilac giggles and says “We should go to bed, it's almost 1 and the headmistress will be really mad if we're out after curfew.” We all nod, and Juno, Aragor, and Teddy go to the guys' dorms while me, Kimmy, and Lilac go to ours. We say goodnight and go to our rooms. I have a little bit of a hard time sleeping but finally I do, and I never want to wake up again. Because if I do then all of this will be real, and so will the danger to my friends.

Lilac’s P.O.V.

I lay in bed thinking about Kimmy and Claw. I’m putting them in danger, but I also have a better chance of surviving. I sit up and smack my pillow “Why does everything have to be so complicated?” I mutter to myself. Then I hear a voice from behind me, next to the window, “Because that’s just the way it is.” I spin around to see Aragorn leaning next to my window. I sigh and say “Don’t do that, you nearly gave me a heart attack, plus why are you in my room weirdo.” He makes a face and says “How am I weird?” I just shrug. I get out of bed and close the window, why would he leave it open? It's freezing outside. I kissed my temple and said “Sorry.” The next morning we all walk to the cafeteria to have breakfast. It's eggs, sausage, and jelly toast. I love breakfast. “So are we gonna find this ex-girlfriend or not?” I ask hoping for an answer. Everyone looks at me. I sit and eat my breakfast in embarrassment.

“Um, yeah, but where would we even start?” Kimmy asks, totally stumped.

Claw thought about this for a minute and then said “Maybe. . . you could ask your dad?”

I looked at her for a minute and said “Yeah but we need a back up plan, in case he doesn’t want to help.”

They all nodded in agreement, but what? Aragorn said finally, “Well we could go to the Tiger Palace, that’s where we might find some clues.” I knew he didn’t like my dad, and my dad didn’t like him, so me going to ask for his help was like asking to set my pants on fire.

“Okay, but the headmistress won’t let us leave yet, it’s not Christmas yet.” Teddy said as he shoved his face with eggs. I think about a plan for a minute. “I can’t let Aragorn get hurt. I will go see my dad with Claw. Everyone else will stay here.” Aragorn got out of his seat and sat right next to me. “I don’t want you to get hurt though.” I talk to Claw through my head. He’s my dad, are you okay with coming with me, Claw? Well I can’t let the princess get hurt can I? So is that a yes? Yes it is. I look at Aragorn. “I’m gonna be okay, don’t worry he's my dad.” He still doesn’t seem to be okay with it but he sighs and nods “Okay, but don’t get your hopes up.” I stand and so does Claw. We walk out of the cafeteria and are about to go to the ML byt Aragorn runs out after me and says “Can I talk with Lilac, privately, please.” Claw looks at me and I nod.

“Aragorn you can’t change my mind, I’ll be fine.” He doesn’t respond, he just kisses me and goes back into the cafeteria. I must be blushing because Claw says “ Ooooo, did he kiss you, OMG did he propose?!” I smacked her in the arm and ran off towards the ML. Claw walks back into the cafeteria and asks “How long have you guys been dating?” Aragorn looks at Claw and starts to blush. “Um, only for a year, maybe, I forgot.” Claw gets a big jokey smile on her face and says, “You guys should get married. OMG I know let's get a Tux, and Lilac a pretty light blue dress and you can propose to her. Oh that would be so good!” Aragorn almost punched Claw in the face but she grabbed his fist and popped his knuckles. When I came back into the Cafeteria, I saw Claw and Aragorn fighting. I hit Claw on the arm again, and smacked Aragorn in the face. I thought to myself. I’m gonna be a great mom. If I am still alive by then. “Tonight me and Claw will sneak out and go find my dad. You guys will stay here and practice your fighting, you'll need it.” I say, I feel scared and shaking on the inside, and on the outside I’m a strong and mighty shield. But what if that wasn’t enough? If I’m not strong enough I might get my friends killed! I would rather let her kill me than kill my friends. I should just give myself up. NO! I scream at myself, I need to at least try! Claw walks over to me and can tell that I am thinking about something bad. “What’s wrong?” I look at CLaw, I run over to her and give her a big bear hug. “We better get ready, it's almost time.” Claw looks at me and gives me a big smile. Aragorn, Kimmy, Teddy, and Juno walk over and we all have a group hug. “We got this. Together!” Everyone smiles big and then we start giggling. I kiss Aragorn on the cheek and say, “I love you, and I always will.” He kisses me back and we smile. “Claw and I will be gone for a while if there is danger we will morph into wolf form and howl, when you hear it you need to come to where we are. Okay?” Everyone nods.

It’s past midnight and we’re jumping from roof to roof. When we get to the ML I hold the window open for Claw, “Dad!” I whisper. He peeks out from around the corner and smiles, he kinda looks like a Bonds villain, but whatever. “Um, hey, can-can we ask you something?” He walks over and says while wiping his hands with a rag “Lili you can ask me anything that's wrong.”

I hesitantly say “I-it’s about. . . the Tiger Queen, she’s threatening me and my friends we need to find her and stop her.” His silver eyes seem to be boring into my soul, and he looks really really mad. “Lilac! Under no circumstances will you even engage that woman!”

“But Dad-”

“NO!”

He shakes his head and storms out of the ML.

“Lilac, I’m sorry, but we knew it was a long shot!”

I don’t respond, I just climb out the window and onto the roof. “Let’s go find the Tiger Queen.” Claw nods but I can tell she worried about me.

Aragorn's P.O.V.

I really wish Lilac had let me come with her, I know that her dad won’t help and it’ll crush her. “Hey, she’ll be fine dude,” Juno says, trying to assure me as well as himself.

“And What if she’s not fine. . .what if he hurts her mentally, there’s no medicine for that.” Teddy shakes his head and says “Juno is right she’ll be fine.” I nod. Waiting for her is even more stressful than going with her. Just then the window to our dorm flys open and the girls come in, “Well?” Juno asks. They shake their heads. Lilac's face is stoic but I can tell she’s mad and hurt. She sighed and said “We should wait until break then we’ll go find her, we should all rest, we have a LONG day of exams tomorrow. Kimmy groans and says “Don’t remind me.” I walk over to Lilac and hug her. “I was so worried about you.” I kiss her on the cheek and she smiles, and I walk to the boys dorm leaving the girls to sleep.