The Last Spirit Wolf (Elena Norwood)

-Lucas-

We started running in the other direction and I gave them a look. We were going into wolf territory and we didn’t even care. We were more afraid of the thing after us than an entire pack of wolves.

As we were about to cross into wolf territory, the thing grabbed me by my torso, and started to crush me. The pain was unbearable and every time I tried to take a breath, the thing would hold me tighter, suffocating me.

I slowly started to lose consciousness, giving myself to the darkness, knowing this was the end but relieved I had entertained the beast enough for Eli and Noah to escape. I fell to the ground with a loud thud and to my dismay, someone picked me up; they had come back for me, they hadn’t escaped.

Eli picked me up and started running, if you can even call it that, but the thing had Noah by his mid body, crushing him slowly. I heard bones crack, and faint whimpering. Noah was being killed. I freed myself from Eli’s grasp, ready to launch myself at it but Eli stopped me, signaling for me to run.

I couldn’t. I was frozen. Not out of fear for the thing, but out of fear of losing someone I considered my older brother. Nonetheless, Eli outranked me and I couldn’t defy his order.

a pain that was more than physical gripping my heart, we started running. Not a minute after we started running, we heard something

Wolves.

speed and howling and fangs bared. Eli took a defensive stand but I instead started running towards Noah. If the thing also attacked the wolves, it would leave Noah long enough

feared for the worst. As I approached, I realized Eli was behind

too, just as I predicted. Eli went to attack it too; if we had any chance to discovering what

even the wolves were helpless against the invisible demon. Many of them were hurt, one of

think twice. We started running once again, deeper into wolf territory. I kept glancing back, as if I would

wolves already there, snarling and growling loudly. They let us pass through and tightly closed their lines, clearly

there were already tending to the wolf I thought was dead; I was in such a panic I didn’t even

come in and immediately sprinted to action, guiding Eli and I to a bed to place Noah in. Eli and I collapsed. I was about to pass out but noticed Noah was awake and looking at the doctor, he was whispering something and she got closer to hear him; I heard him the first time. I listened more intently the

willing it to stand. I’m right next to him as the doctor shocks him once, twice, three times until he’s back.