Dogfight

Night terrors

I'm playing on my favorite field. This time I'm sixteen and Cora just came to life. She was chasing a squirrel up a tree yapping at the bottom like it's going to do some good. The squirrel is seeing on a branch guarding its hole baking back at Cora. Cora is beautiful also but a complete opposite of Cozbi.

Cora is white with gray tips through out her fur with dark gray on her ears down her back and tall. She has lovely blue eyes that shine like sapphire in the light. Cora is also an optimistic where as Cozbi is a pessimistic.

"Jessie dear it's time to eat" mother yells from the plaid blanket she laid out for the picnic hey and dad brought me on. Cora and myself are very happy it's been ages since we last went on a picnic. We shift behind a tree before putting on the mint green sundress. We skip to our parents on the blanket and sit down without a care in the world. We become worried seeing tears in our mothers eyes.

We grab mothers face and wipe away the tears "mama are you ok?" I ask with concern causing a sob to escape from her lips.

"You know we love you very much?" She asks with her head down.

I let out a light chuckle and run my hand over her head trying to look in her eyes "of course I do!" I state but she just keeps turning her head so I can't see her. The sun is setting on the horizon and my favorite time of day. Where the world's of day and night can meet together.

"And everything we do is for you and the pack" dad says watching the sun with trears in his eyes but his face is void of all emotion.

I grow uneasy seeing as how I've never seen my father act like this in my entire sixteen years alive. I go to hug my father and he places his arm along my shoulders in a one armed hug as I feel tears roll down into my head. I pull away and go hug my mother.

"it'll all be okay" I coo to my parents trying to soothe them both. Mother is now crying uncontrollably and I feel her nod her head up and down. Cozbi then starts to panic while we try to pull away mother holds us tighter.

"what are you doing?" I ask as Cozbi is yelping as if someone is trying to kill us. I look at the shadow behind my mother and realize that someone is holding up a dagger above their head.

"Mom look out!" I yell trying to warn her.

"shhh it will all be over soon love" mom says trying to calm us down but I don't want to dies yet and that's when Cozbi comes forward pushing me to the back of my mind but I can still see everything going on around me. Almost like I'm watching a movie.

Cozbi grabs hold of mothers neck and I start yelling at her to let go while Cora is trying to attack her to get her off but instead Cozbi swiftly turns her head ripping out our mother's throat. Mother has a look of horror in her eyes as she covers the open wound on her neck but does little to keep her blood from flowing out of her veins.

"What did you do!?!" my father roars into the night as the last traces fall behind the trees. father rushes to mothers side and mother brushes her weak shakey hand against fathers face but she can't say anything as her vocal cords were severed with the trachea and esophagus. When her lifeless hand fell to her side I waited no longer. I ran as my father cried into my mothers blood stained hair. I knew I only had a few moments before he came after me.

I was zig zagging through the trees, crawling through the mud anything I could do to get rid of my scent. We heard a roar shake the forest around us when we decided to hide in a moss filled log hoping the smell of the earth would mask our scent. after a few minutes he heard his thunderous footsteps run past us and the forest became still once more. We form a plan but in order for it to work we must first get far away from here.

We were stealthy staying in the thickest part of the forest and everything was quiet. Not even the birds sang. The only sound you could hear was the beating of our heart. We see the border when Cora grows impatient and bolts to the end of the border which lays about twenty yards away. We hear the ground rumble from the side and a searing pain shoots through us as we're thrown into a near by tree.

Father shifts back to his human form pulling on a pair of shorts and I hide my face from the guilt of killing his mate.

"How could you kill your own mother!?!" He yells letting out his fury "you're a monster! how can you kill your own flesh and blood!?!" He is now walking toward me and I curl into the trunk of a tree.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to I just didn't want to die" I slowly stand up ready to except my fate. Father runs toward me full force baring his teeth ready to attack but in a split second Cozbi takes back over and side steps him. He staggers a little trying to shake off the concussion no doubt and I did the unfathomable once more and ripped out his jugular. father fell to his knees and I began sobbing

"Daddy I'm so sorry I didn't mean to" my tears were flowing freely. Father lifts his hand to my face gently brushing hair from my face.

"you're going to have to make some tough choices love." Father says with a little cough. his skin is growing cold to the touch and his heart is slowing.

"look to the moon Goddess for guidance" He gasps and blood is starting to fill his mouth.

"Don't ever apologize for trying to live" He says as his icy hand falls to his side and his eyes become empty.

"We do love you and if we could do things again we would had looked for another way" I hear his heart stop and his last breath leave his body. I cry into the morning sky tilly uncle and his gaurds start to drag me away.

I'm fighting the gaurds in my dreams and fighting the air in reality. I wake up falling off my cot. "Great from one he'll hole to another" was Cozbi's sparky comment.

"well you're the one who got us here!" snaps back and of course the fight is on.