Lunar 7

Chapter 7
All I can do is scream NOOO! As I hear Mark telling the Alpha, he doesn’t
want to do this. She is a scared child. Another pleads for mercy, and we
watch as he tears her open anywhere, he can get. Then he shreds her throat,
and I can’t move. I can’t do a thing to help my little Luna. She lay there not
moving and barely breathing. You can hear gurgles coming from her torn
throat and blood pumping out everywhere.
I am her Gamma. I can feel everything she feels, and she is starting to go
numb. She doesn’t have much time. We need to be able to get to her and
start working on her wounds. Our little Katia isn’t afraid of dying. She
welcomes it, so she won’t have to feel the pain anymore. She just lies there.
Please, Goddess, don’t take her. Let her be able to live, find a mate who will
love her, and give her everything she deserves. What did she ever do to
deserve this?
Finally, the alpha shifts back to his human. He stands over her, his chest,
and other wounds bleeding. He is panting from the exertion of the fight
with her. He is shocked by how feral Katia’s wolf was. He looks to Mark
and me, “If she survives, then she will be locked in the dungeons. She is no
longer worthy of becoming my Luna. As punishment for attacking her
Alpha and surviving, she will be brought here every three days and whipped
with my special whip.” Thomas begins to walk away but then turns back,
“Give her a daily shot of wolfsbane to keep her from ever shifting again.
Cuff her in silver when she is brought out for punishment.” After what
seems like an eternity, he walks away.
Mark and I ran to her, falling on our knees. Mark checks for a pulse while I
gather her shredded throat and put pressure on trying to keep any more
blood from spilling out. The pack doctor drops his bag next to us and is
yelling for me to help get the gauze wrapped around her throat. His nurse is
tying off little tunicates everywhere she can to stop the blood loss.
Mark was just repeating something over and over. “Come on, little ghost
fight, don’t give up. Xey and Fishy are here. Just keep fighting.”
What good am I? I couldn’t do anything for her. All I could do for two years
was stand by and watch. Put her back together each time Alpha tortured her.
What did he expect? No sane person could expect a child to understand his
twisted ways.
“Kelp, can you feel her? Doc says he barely has a pulse.”
“She is still with us, Mark. Barely. ” Then we heard it, the sweet voice of
our little Luna.
“Fishy! Xey! It’s not your fault. Please don’t blame yourselves. You guys
have made the last two years of my life bearable. I couldn’t ask for a better
beta or gamma.”
“Doc, come on, she is fading. Do something!”
“I need to get her to the operating room, but she is still bleeding too much. I
must stop some of these bleeds now. The nurse and I are working as fast as
we can. Try to keep her talking.”
“Mark, you try. I need to catch my breath. Her emotions are overwhelming
right now.”
“Hey loopy Luna,” Mark calls her because he always gets a response from
her. She hates it. When she first arrived, the rest of the pack called her until
they figured out, she was putting on an act.
“Beta, if I had the energy, I would hide your shorts for the next time you
shifted.” She was referring to one of her favorite pranks to play on us.
“Katia, just stay here with us, and you can hide our shorts anytime you
want.”
“Hey, sweet girl, how’s our Aza? I can’t feel much from her. Did she go
back to sleep?”
“I think she’s gone already, Kelp. She was so young, and she just wasn’t
ready yet. Did you see her? She was beautiful and fierce. Aza is calling me.
The darkness is getting harder to resist.”
“Mark, she’s leaving us. Katia says Aza has already gone and is calling
Katia to her.”
“No, no, no! This is not how it ends. ” Tears are running down both our
faces. Doc and Nurse are crying out right as they continue to piece veins
and arteries together.
“Katia, call your wolf back to you. We can put her back to sleep to heal and
get strong.”
“Shhhh, it’s alright, guys. She and I are ready. I heard what he said about the
dungeons and other punishments. I can’t put her through that.”
“Oh, little ghost, we will figure something out.” I can’t see her not being in
our lives as our Alpha Luna. This is what we secretly call her because we
had our own ceremony sharing blood to make it easier for her to link us. It’s
not as draining for her to use whatever it is she used. Once we did this, she
was Alpha and Luna to us.
“No, I think this life is over for me. Please don’t let him decide what
happens to my body. He will give me a traitor’s burial. Don’t take me back
to my pack either. I don’t belong there.”
Her voice is so weak. Mark is bawling now. The doc is mumbling
something to the Goddess. I am just holding onto her hand as hard as I can.
If I don’t let go, then she can’t leave us, right?
Apparently, that’s not how it works. Her sweet voice is barely a whisper,
“Find a beautiful green place far from here and bury me. Then you two get
as far away as you can. Find another pack. Packs are always looking for
good betas and gammas.”
“Selene, please! We will not leave you. We will watch over your resting
place until the day we die. We will tell anyone that asks about our sweet,
beautiful, tiny Alpha Luna how strong and brave she was. We are your beta
and gamma.”
With that said, she took her last breath. Mark and I stared at one another,
tears running down our faces. We were in utter shock. She was gone. I
couldn’t feel her anymore, nothing.
Suddenly, the doctor yelled, “get her to the hospital now.” Mark scooped
her up and took off