In Search Of Destiny

[†Faith Winters†]

Light shades of red, pink, yellow, and orange danced across the horizon, blending into each other, creating a picture-perfect sight as the sun rose. Although the sun was only just rising, the air was warm, welcoming.

Dirty-blonde, with light blue, hair floated around as the slight girl made her way across the School grounds, her destination set. It was time, far passed the time, actually. Faith was headed to collect her adopted-daughter. She was unsure of how Destiny would take her return, but hoped it wouldn’t do anything to affect the young lycan in a negative way. To have something snatched away from you, and then handed back a few weeks later. Faith just hoped beyond hope that Destiny was OK, that nothing happened to her while she was gone.

Slowly walking towards the Tunnels, Faith smiled slightly at the feeling of the morning dew below her bare feet, it somehow brought tranquility to her mind. Dull sapphire eyes rose to the entrance of the Tunnels, a small flame igniting within them.

Stopping to run her hand over the entrance, Faith let another smile slip onto her face. Ever since she had returned from the grave, she had suddenly found a need to stop and bathe everything in.

Knocking on the wall as she entered, Faith let her eyes roam around the Tunnels, it felt different in there for some reason. “Hello? Anyone here?” She asked in a small voice, the confidence she once held had vaporized, but wasn’t sorely missed.

[† Cealla †]

There was blood, blood everywhere. It dripped from the cracks in the Tunnels and oozed up through the ground, blending the young pup's sight into nothing but red. And all around there were vampires, sucking young lycans dry and tossing them into the pools of free flowing blood. And there she sat, frozen, unable to do a single thing. No, they were killing them! All of them!

She could see Xavier, powerless, as one of the vampires picked him up and brutally latched onto his neck. The strong beta didn't even squirm as he was sucked dry, then tossed aside. She had to watch as his body paled and died, the death of someone supposed to be immortal. No, they couldn't! She wouldn't let them!

Next was Alissa. The little brown pup was picked up with hardly any effort and bled. No, no.. her sister, they could not! Struggling, she tried to move but found herself unable to. Alissa was tossed aside, as limp as a rag doll, her eyes staring blindly up at the ceiling. And after her came Kage, her father, and then Rouge, followed by Sealla, and Faith, then Kayla...

Squirming and whining, Cealla woke with a start. Her fur was drowned in sweat, her eyes wide and frantic as she tried to drag herself back from the world of nightmares. They'd killed them, killed all of them, and she couldn't do a thing about it. But it hadn't been real... not that time. It was just a dream... just a dream.

She tried repeating that to herself a few times until she remembered that it had been real, it had happened. That was why Kayla, Jagger and Chance were dead. And Alissa was just gone. She had no sister anymore. No sister. Alissa was gone, gone. A small tear slipped from the side of her eye before she heard Faith's voice calling out across the tunnels. A small smile came to her face as she leapt to her paws and followed the sound of her voice.

"Hi Faith." She said, skidding into sight. "What are you doing here?"