Attack On Night Stone
I woke with a start.
Crashing and screams were seeping through my bedroom walls as an orange glow flicked wildly outside my windows, where my thin curtains were drawn closed. Scrambling out of bed I quickly run to throw those curtains wide open. What meets before my eyes has frozen me in confusion and disbelief.
What the hell was going on here?
I watch with horror as Night Stone pack was being attacked. Viciously. Dozens of pack members were running, screaming, and being killed right before my eyes. I stumble backwards as I watch a rogue wolf jump on a woman who was trying to get her child to safety, only to be shred to pieces in moments. I wanted to scream, but my voice was stuck in my throat.
“Safina?!”
I turn around just as my mother throws my door wide open. She looked a bit hysterical as she rushes to me. Grabbing my shoulders in a tight grip, her eyes wildly looking into my face, she says,
“We need to hide you.”
“W-What?”
She doesn’t answer me as she takes my hand and roughly pulls me after her. Ignoring what was happening all around us, I couldn’t help but stare as more wolves were barging into the mansion, attacking anyone they saw. Our omegas, that served our home day in and day out, tried to escape the slaughter, but none of them had any luck as more wolves burst through the windows.
I even watch as other omegas quickly shifted into their own wolves, but they were no match to any of them. Seeing someone I knew, I pulled back from my mother’s grasp and nearly fell over the rail on the second landing, crying out.
“Myron!” I yell to my dear friend; someone I had known my entire life.
His wolf hears me calling him. He turns in my direction before two wolves jump on his back. I didn’t know what to do as he stood his ground against them, but then, he too, fell.
“NO!” I cry.
“Safina! We can’t stop; we have to go!” My mother once again takes a hold of my hand and pulls me after her.
I didn’t know where we were going as tears fell and sobs tore through me. Myron was gone. Killed by those monsters. Our people were dying, and I didn’t understand why. Where was my father and all our men? My mother slams open another door and as soon as we entered she throws me further in as she slams the doors again and locks it.
“Quickly now!” She snaps at me.
She only took two steps when the doors begin to bang repeatedly.
“We know you’re in there Luna! Are you with your pretty young daughter?” A raspy voice muffles through the thick wooden doors. Laughter follows his words as others were with him.
My eyes widen as my mother quickly indicates to stay silent. I didn’t realize where we were until she pulls on my hand again and forces me to follow her to a wardrobe. We were in my parent’s bedroom. She quickly opens it and starts shoving her clothes aside. She then bends down and opens a trap door that revealed wooden stairs down below.
I frown down into the hole. I didn’t understand.
The banging gets louder, and the wood starts to break and splinter. My heart racing and my palms sweating, my mother grabs me and starts to shove me into that little hole.
“W-What are you doing?” I whisper, afraid to be heard by those men.
She looks at me with an expression I didn’t want to accept. Shaking my head as she says,
“You’ll have to go alone. They know I’m here. If I go with you they’ll tear this place apart and find this hidden cellar. It was created just for this purpose between the two floors of the house.”
“No! You can’t do this!” I was starting to hyperventilate, my whole body shaking at the thought of leaving her behind.
“Shh.” She gently takes my face into her hands as she gazes at me with a tenderness I was afraid I’ll never see again. “It’s okay Safina, as long as you’re safe, I don’t care to what happens to me. You need to stay alive.”
“Mom-” She shoves me down hard where I nearly fall flat on my ass, missing all the steps together. I quickly look back up, sobs blurring my vision and making my voice stick.
Tears swell in her own eyes, and she gives me a gentle smile. “I love you sweetheart, so much. Live.”
“No, mom!” Then she slams the trap down closed, and I hear the wardrobe shut.
The banging continues as the men still taunt her through the doors. There were small slits in the wooden floor that I could barely see out of as I walk the little space that was just under their room. I watch my mother quickly snatch the sheet off her bed and start making knots as quickly as she could. I was well aware she was ready for something like this to happen. As Luna it was her job to make sure what to do in any situation of an attack. But we weren’t prepare for something like this.
When she was done and tied one end to the bedpost, she ran to the window, disregarding her safety as she uses her elbow to break the windows and throws the knotted sheet out. She was looking down outside when the doors finally burst open.
I almost screamed out loud, throwing my hands over my mouth to keep myself as silent as possible. They didn’t rush at her like I thought they would. Instead, they stalked her slowly, like she was prey. She gives them a deadly glare, blocking the window from their view. It wasn’t very supple of her, almost as if she wanted them to know she was trying to hide it.
I peak between another part of the floor to see a short man with greasy hair and an unwashed body. He looks around the room as his cronies stay close behind him, all staring at her with disgusting grins on their faces.
Rogues.
My breathing becomes even more erratic at the knowledge that my home was being slaughtered by rogues. The leader of them looks to the window.
“Where’s that pretty little daughter of yours?” He again taunts.
She doesn’t answer him as she gets ready in a stance I’ve seen so many times before. She was getting ready to shift into her wolf. He notices it too and holds his men back as they tried to move forward.
He again looks behind her at the window and grins. “Aw, how sweet, trying to save your child by sacrificing yourself. I’m afraid however, it will all be in vain.” He snaps his head to his men. “Find the girl, this one is mine.”
They all growl with glee as they dash out of the room just as my mother shifts into her light grey wolf. The man shifts midflight as they collide together. Watching was the hardest thing I had to do as I kept my hands over my mouth, tears streaming down my face as they tore into each other. I wanted to help her, but there was no way I could fight against someone like that. I haven’t received my wolf yet as my eighteenth birthday was still months away
Then it happened. The most horrifying thing to ever witness. I hear my mother whimper and then yelp as the man threw her across the room, hitting the wall hard. He stalks over to her, breathing heavily. I fall to the ground just as I watch him sink his teeth into her skin and jerks, snapping her neck.
I didn’t know what had happened after that as my vision blurs and my body starts to go into shock, witnessing my mother being murdered right before my eyes. The next thing I know, my body sways in dizziness and my vision goes dark.