you too."  Then I run inside, get the warriors and we break up into groups and attack.  

        It takes two of us to take down one of theirs, but there are more of us.  In the fighting I lose Jay.  I look around after taking down a wolf and I worry when I don't find him.  Then, there he is.  My heart skips a beat as I see him hit the ground and struggle to get up. 

        Everything goes quiet.  I don't hear anything.  No growling, no bashing, nothing.  All I hear and see his Jay.  I can actuall hear his labored breathing.  I plow through the battle, attacking anyone in my way.  He gets one arm up but is hit by a leaping wolf from the other pack and falls down again in pain.  I make my way to him, for what seems like an eternity.  I finally get there, only to see the wolf ready to finish him off.  I leap.  I crash into the wolf with everything I have and fight.

       My anger swells.  When we hit the ground, I am on top of him.  He can't move.  I just keep hitting him with the blows of my anger.  I let my anger flow through me as I keep attacking.  He manages to get up but I am still fighting.  Blow after blow, he backs up.  He blocks one, and that's enough for him to start attacking back. 

       We attack back and forth, my anger helping me slowly gain on him.  He looses his footing and lands on his back as my claws slash his face.  He gets up before I could get to him, blood all over his face.  His pain is a new flame for his fight.  He raises his paw and before I could move I feel a blow to my shoulder, then my head, then my face.  He then kicks me in the stomach and I fly in the air and hit the cave behind me.  Everything goes black.

       I wake up to Drew.  Drew is a friend of the family.  A loner, Drew is a wolf who used to be my friend.  I used to like him before he left.  When he left, I met Jay, and my love went to him.  Drew is a lighter color than when he was younger, a lot lighter than Jay, but I recognize him instantly. 

       "Drew," I breathed.  I was still in pain but that didn't stop me from hugging him.  "I've missed you."

       "I've missed you too.  Now lay down.  Are you okay?"

       "Yeah, I think so.  My shoulder's just sore," I answer.  Then the fight flashes through my mind.  "Jay!  Where is he?  Is he okay?" I say getting up.  I feel my heart sink as Drew avoids my eyes.  "Drew.  Where is he?" I wisper barely getting the words out as my throat gets tighter.

       "They took him.  Him and two females.  On was found a little ways away from here.  Dead.  Jay..... we didn't find, or the other female.  I'm sorry."

       I sit down trying to process this information, the bump on my head and the groggyness of just waking up making my head a little slow.  "I'm going after them.  I'm going to find Jay."

       Drew looks at me like I just said I was going to fly.  "You can't!  They will eat you alive!  Litterally!!!"

       I look Drew in the eyes.  "Jay said he would go as far as it took to get to me.   I'm going to go to him.  I won't sit here and take him for a loss until I find him.  (with some difficulty)->Dead or alive."

       "But you can't!  You just went through a fight Emethyst!  And you're hurt!" he says.

       "I'm a lot stronger than I was when I was younger," I say seriously. 

       Seeing that there's no stopping me,"Okay.  But I go with you.  I have learned how to take care of injuries, so if not for you, for Jay."

       I can't argue with that, so I decide it's okay.  We get ready to leave, many people trying to stop us, when there's a comotion at the front of the clearing in the middle of the caves.  Me and Drew go out to see what's going on, and we see the other missing female. 

       I gasp.  She's my sister.  She is covered in blood and bruises. She can barely stand, but she keeps telling Souran "I need to tell Emethyst."  Then she sees me.  She looks me in the eye and says, "Abyss told me to tell you if you don't go to him, he's going to kill Jay."  She then collapses and dies a few minutes later.

       Everyone gasps around me.  Abyss is supposed to be a myth.  A black wolf who searches for the best females, killing all the males in the prides to get her.  Souran was lucky, but Abyss knew that I loved Jay somehow.  He struck home.  Somehow he knew.  And he killed my sister.  Now my mind is definately made up.

       I look at Drew.  "We're leaving now."  He doesn't argue.  We leave. 

Ch. 3

         We found out from Souran, who found out from my sister, that the Abyss pride went to the abandoned building.  The building is four days travel from our land, so we decide to take it at a faster pace, only cutting it down to three days.  It wasn't easy. 

        We find a herd of deer in the middle of the day, and catch one.  But as we're chasing after one earlier in the day, I trip and roll into him.  We land with him on top of me.  I lay there for a second catching my breath but when I realize how we were laying, I scramble up after Drew.  Conversation is tence for a while, but he looks at me a while later as we travel and smiles. 

       "Sorry.  I just can't help myself.  You're just so beautiful."

       I can't tell if he's kidding or not but I laugh anyway.  He smiles and keeps going.  He's a good friend.  Not a boyfriend.  He couldn't possibly like like me.  Could he?  I ponder this for a while but give up when we find the other herd of deer. 

       After going 'till after dark, we decide to stop for the night.  It's a little chilly but otherwise a nice night.  I sigh as I lay down and remember the other night that I was with Jay.  It was hard to believe that we were just together a few days ago.  The sentence You have no idea how far I would go for you runs through my head as I fall asleep with Drew watching a couple feet away. 

       I wake up in the morning with Drew curled around me.  I get up and watch the sunrise.  Drew was too close for comfort, but there was one part of me that didn't care.  It scared me.  I love Jay right?  I was very confused.  Then I notice Drew beside me.  

       "Beautiful sunrise isn't it?" he asks me.  When I don't answer he says, "Sorry about last night if it made you uncomfortable.  You were shivering uncontrolably.  I was just trying to keep you warm."

       "No, it's okay.  I was just thinking.  Thank you.  That was nice.  You weren't cold were you?" I ask. 

       "No I was fine.  You ready to get going today?"

       "Yeah.  Let's go."  As we start to walk, I rub my head under his chin.  "Thank you.  I woke up warm without Jay for the first time in a long time."

       "Don't worry.  We'll get to him in time.  I promise."

       We travel for a while before we get to a cliff.  "There's no way around it and no way to get down there to go up the other side.  The other side is the easy part.  I see paths," I say doubtfully.

       "We don't need a path to get down.  I'm going to teach you something i've never taught anyone else.  I'll let you teach Jay when you get the time..."

       "If I get the chance," I say bitterly.

       Drew looks at me worridly.  "You will.  Remember?  I promised."

       I look at Drew and muster a smile.  "Okay.  What do you have to teach me?"

       Drew spends an hour teaching me how to fall/roll down a cliff, hill, whatever, without breaking a single bone.  At first I didn't believe him, but I trusted him.  He teaches me, then it was time to try it.  I let him go first and I was amazed at how he rolls to his feet at the bottom unhurt.  I freaked out when he looks up at me waiting for me to go.