The Forgotten Luna

Luna Victoria I stand there, covered in blood, My mates blood. His body laid at my feet stiff. I'm holding onto the silver knife that took his life. Im breathing heavy in shock. It's handle is covered with leather so it is not harming me. I then hear chatter coming my way. I can't stop looking at my mate's, the Alphas body. I end up coming too when I hear a loud scream. I then look up to see i'm surrounded by my pack. I went to speak, when I feel a rock hit me on the back of my head. I fall to my knees dazed. I continue to try and speak when I hear "SHE KILLED THE ALPHA!" I feel where the rock hit me, I was bleeding. With my mate dead, my wolf is weak. Once two wolf bonds become broken, the human host becomes more fragile and healing is not as fast. I was about to speak again, I then find myself being pounced on by a wolf. The claws puncture my shoulders. I let out a small cry. My head hurt so much that I could not yell like I wanted too. The wolf looks into my eyes. There is so much anger behind them. I was trying to bring out My wolf, River, but since the mate bond is broken she's to weak to come out. The wolf that's on me, then puts his huge paw on my face applying pressure. Thankfully it has been a very rainy season so my head just sinks into the earth. I feel my wrists and ankles being shackled. It has a slight burning sensation which means there is a small dose of silver on them. Which also means River can't come out. Ever. Between the silver and my head injury, I am becoming weaker. Once I am at my weakest point and just laying there, the wolf gets off of me. My vision is a bit blurry. I can see everyone standing over me whispering "I can't believe she killed him." "The Alpha is dead, what do we do?" "We should kill her!" I am slowly turning my head to see if I can recognize anyone. Then a bigger fuzzy outline pushes themselves right at my feet. "Luna Victoria, You have killed your mate, our Alpha Joshua. We all agree that you be sentenced to imprisonment for as long as your body will hold up, then you'll die. Take her away." That was Ronald, The Beta. Once his outline was gone, I feel the shackles on my wrists tighten up and I am being dragged. I hear some cheering and some yelling to just kill me. I can't help but feel betrayed. My back is hurting from sticks jabbing me, me being dragged on top of tree roots that are above ground, stones, and who knows what else. The crickets are chirping like crazy. I'm moaning them to stop, then everything goes dark. I'm still awake but its like someone blocked the moon light. It is also very quiet. After what seems like an eternity of me being dragged, We all stop. I try to roll to my stomach but my back is so sore that it seems impossible. I hear foot steps crunching on top of rocks and cold dirt coming towards me. When that person stops by my face, I can only see their boots very well. Then the knife that was used to kill my Mate dropped right next to my face stabbing the earth. I let out a gasp, worried that this person is going to kill me. "When you're ready to go, use this." I take my hand and touch the top of his boot, he stomps on my hand. I yelp out and take my hand away from under his foot. I hold it close to my chest. "Please!" I sob looking at this dark figure. Then he leans down towards me. "Do not mistake my kindness as a weakness." Then he and two other figures leave. Their foot step noises are gone. I am all alone now. I hear some random scurry noises all around me. Pain or not I grab the knife, sit up, and scoot myself beside a huge rock. Terrified and in pain, I can finally let out my sobs. I can hear my cries echoing. I whimper out help in hopes someone will hear me. I am unsure of how long I have been here for. My stomach is growling from hunger. My lips are chapped and my tongue is so dry. I now hear foot steps coming my way. I see a glow also. I call out for help. I still can't see well since River is still down from the silver shackles and I can't heal fast. I see two figures coming towards me. "Help me." I said. One of the figures hands the other his light. "Shut up." He said as he walks towards me with something in his hand. I cover my face in fear. Is he going to kill me? Use me being shackled and weak to his advantage? When he is right above me, I start to shake from so much fear. He then takes the chain that connects my wrist restraints and hooks up a longer chain to it. I then hear loud hammering and chains rustling and clinging together. Once those noises stop, that figure walks to the other one and takes his light back. "The Beta wants to make sure you stay put. Enjoy your stay!" They both laugh and head out again. I get up and head towards the location where the came from. Walking was hard since I am so dizzy. After a few steps my wrists are pulled behind me. They must to have chained me to something. Im starting to panic now. I am shacking the chain hoping to loosen where it has been nailed too. Im shaking it harder and harder screaming "It wasn't me!" Over and over im screaming which is causing me a head ache. I then hear something. I stop and wait. I hear foot steps coming back. My heart is pounding from exhaustion, malnutrition, dehydration, and flat out fear. I quickly slip between two big rocks to try and hide. The foot steps echos are getting louder and louder. Then I see someone walking. "Hello? Luna?" That voice. "Hailey?" I call out. "Victoria?" Hailey is my best friend and has been since we were both give years old. I quickly try and rush to her. She sets something down on the ground and rushes to me. We end up hugging and we both cry. We cried to much that we barely heard her mate call out to us. "Hailey is she there?" "Yes, she's here Connor! She's alive!" I hear Connor grunting and dragging something. He makes it to where we are..... where I am trapped. He sets what looks like a mattress down, brushes his hands together, rests them on his side's, looks around. "Not a bad place you got here. Kind of dark and can use a splash of paint but not bad!" Hailey punches his shoulder and I can't help but giggle, which turns into more crying. Hailey grabs me and holds me. Connor then hugs the both of us. "What happened Vic?" He all release our group hug. "I don't know, all I remember was eating dinner with Josh talking about the next full moon ceremony, then I am above him covered in blood and... he's... dead." Hailey brushes my hair off of my face with her finger. Connor interrupted "We brought good and water!" I looked to him fast. I was so hungry I could eat a live rat! Hailey walks back to the thing she set down earlier. It's a basket. She picks it up and heads towards me. My mouth starts to water. Food! She hands me it and I rip open the first thing I grab and start to eat. "Listen Vic, I have no idea what this place is. If Connor hadn't stayed and watched the Betas hired wanna be police, we may have never found you! You are literally in the middle of no where." I slowed down on my chewing knowing that once they leave, the chances of me getting rescued is little to none. I have to save whatever is in this basket. I have no clue when's the next time someone will bring me anything. Connor is setting up a bed for me. I am so thankful for them. Hailey then hands me a flash light. "There's some spare batteries next to your bed." Connor explained to me after the bed was all done. I thanked them what must to have been a hundred times. "Vic, we have to go. Here is a bag it has a watch and a calendar. I know it's pretty much useless but maybe it'll hell keep you sane." That actually helped me feel a bit better in away. "We will be back in a few days. I marked it down on the calendar. Try and make the food last. We would have brought more but, in all honesty we were not sure if you were still alive." Connor explains as he shows me the day on the calendar that they'll be back. "You know the way back?" I asked. They both nod. My shoulders sunk knowing that I'm going to be alone again once they leave. "As soon as we figure something out and a place for you to lay low, we will break you out. Right now, it's to risky V." I agree. After we said our good byes and they left. I sat on my new bed and looked through the calendar. They circled today's date. I've been here for four days according to all this. With food in my stomach and a semi comfortable bed and flash light, I slept pretty decent given the circumstances i'm facing. I try to remember what happened the night Joshua was killed. Don't get me wrong, he was my mate but he wasn't really loving towards me. Being crowned Alpha at 16 made him spoiled. Then finding me at 21 made him feel powerful. That's what happens when a wolf finds their mate. They become more powerful. Three days go by. Which means Hailey and Conner will be showing up tonight. There is a small puddle on the ground from a small drip from the top, I pat myself clean... ish. It's better then nothing. I'm just worried when winter hits, how will I keep warm? I can tell the nights are getting slightly colder now. Thankfully Conner and Hailey brought a thick blanket. Maybe i can ask if they can bring me some stuff to start fires with. Maybe matches and some wood. I have one bottle of water left so I figured I'll drink it since they'll be here soon. It's colder in here, so that means it's night time. 9:32pm according to the watch. Hopefully they'll be here soon. By midnight I figured they have forgotten about me. So I just head to bed and see if they'll show up tomorrow. It is 5:21am and I wake up to a sound. Someones coming. Maybe it's them! I sit up on my bed and watch. A wolf appears! I've never seen this one in my whole life! Im panicking, yelling asking who they are what what do they want. It starts to walk closer to me. I threw an empty water bottle at it. It stops and just stares at me. My heart is about to explode from so much fear. THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP I'm clutching my chest like I could calm down my heart. I grab my flash light as shine it over at it. It was covered in blood! Oh no! Hailey! I start screaming "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER? DID YOU KILL HER YOU BASTARD?" I throw a can of fruit at him, I missed. I grab a rock and miss again. It's no use, i can't throw for s**t. The wolf then sniffs the air, it keeps sniffing, then something catches it attention outside and runs out. I sit there at it first in shock, then it all hits me. Hailey could be dead, I threw the only can of food i had left, and now I am completely alone. I'm sobbing so hard now. I curl up in a ball on my bed and again, my cries echoed into the night.