Forgotten Luna

Lightning struck through the dark sky as rain pattered on the ground.

"Run, Elsa, run!" I could hear my mother scream in the midst of the confusion. The flashes of thunder let me see the carnage as dead bodies laid on the ground. The Heads of wolves decapitated from their bodies, littered the ground.

My father knelt some distance away with an enormous wolf, swiping his head from his shoulders. My mother's calls came once more.

"Elsa, run!"

I turned in her direction, watching as they dragged her away from me. The sound of horses sounded from my back just as a flash of lightning lit up the sky. I turned around to face a swinging paw, knocking me into a swiveling darkness.

I woke up screaming with my hands flailing into the sky. "Another nightmare," I muttered to myself as I dropped the sheets from my body. I was soaked in my sweat as I stepped out, feeling the chilly wind of the night.

"Elsa!" Damian called out as he burst into my room.

I wrapped my clothes around my body, as I had expected no one to step into my room. "Don't you know this is a woman's room?"

He stopped, stuttering as it seemed it had skipped his mind. "I heard.. you scream... screaming," he stuttered, dropping his head to the ground. "And I thought you were in trouble."

I heaved a deep breath as I stared at the lad. He was a ruddy boy, the same age as I was, but seemed to keep to himself. "I'm fine now. It was just a nightmare," I said, inhaling deeper.

"You should know I am here for you at any time," he said with a smile.

"Doesn't mean you'd have to barge into my room like that."

"I'm sorry, but I genuinely thought you were in trouble."

"It's fine," I muttered, rubbing my hand across my face, eager to change the topic. "What do we have to do for the night? It seems the pack is rowdy."

He looked outside the door as flames flickered in the hallway. "We have run out of food supplies and have to make a run for some more. Meat supplies, at least to keep us for the coming winter. We are werewolves and need meat."

"Can't we just raise these animals ourselves?" I asked as I picked out clothes for myself to wear.

"You should know we do not have the time to raise animals by ourselves as they could give us out to both humans and werewolves. Hence our need for raids in the human settlement," he said as he turned around, letting me dress up.

"Do we have to raid human settlements for food?" I asked.

I could hear him breathe deeply before he answered. "They are the easiest people we can pick on before we can have something to eat."

"And then they have to retaliate, coming at us with wooden stakes and pitchforks," I said as I slipped