Chapter 6

Ava ran into the woods as quickly as her legs, could carry her but she had no idea how far she still had to go since it seemed like she would never stop. She had only heard that a cliff marked the boundary of Moonwood territory; she had never visited the actual territorial boundary. She realized that she was standing on a steep cliff and stopped.

“This is it, the territorial borderline ” she muttered, She partially smiled realizing the freedom she had always desired had finally appeared. It was almost like a forest as she looked over the height of the cliff, with nothing but trees in sight below it. Ava released an irritated sigh.

“I can’t chicken out now” She said tying to motivate herself.

“Fuck, here goes nothing” she yelled and jumped. She landed on her right elbow and hip after jumping, and she screamed in pain as she felt a stinging ache on her shoulder. She was standing with her left arm supporting her right arm due to a dislocated right shoulder. She pulled out one of her tops from her bag pack, wrapped it around her right arm, and tied it around her neck.

After tending to her shoulder, she zipped her bag and slung it over her left shoulder. The injuries she sustained was not unexpected, being an omega not only made her one of the weakest wolf in her pack but also meant that her healing process was far slower than an average wolf.

She was officially a stray and had no idea what to do. Although the injury would definitely slow her down, there was no going back at this point.  She strolled for what seemed like an eternity, moving past trees.

“Where the fuck is this place!? Ava yelled out in frustration, “What’s the plan now?” She thought in her head. She had the audacity to pack her bags and run away from home without hesitation, but now she found herself stranded, without any destination or plans, in the middle of nowhere.

She was almost certain she was lost, she didn’t even bring a map. She started to question whether leaving Moonwood was the correct decision once more. She had been walking all night, and since it was almost dawn and she was probably already far from Moonwood, she made the decision to take a nap.

Even though it was midday, Ava was already making her way across the mountains. Because of her injuries, she was unable to move at her best speed, and on that, most of the rocks were high. It was almost dusk when she finally found a tiny cave where she could spend the night.

The next morning…..

Ava was woken up by the sound of persistent sound of chirping birds. Knowing that she wouldn’t be getting any more sleep made her grumble, so she made the decision to eat some snacks and carry on with her journey.

After she finished her preparation, she continued her journey. She walked for a long time, already feeling lost. Then she found a path that split into two roads. She stood there, not sure which way to go. Both roads were seemed very strange and this made her feel very uncomfortable.

It was difficult for her to decide which way to choose because she didn’t know where the roads led to. She decided to take the route that goes around the Forest's path. As far as her head her eyes could see, the trees seemed to touch the sky.

As she walked deeper into the forest, the world around her began to blur. Was this real, or was she dreaming? The forest felt alive, as if it knew she was there. She could hear it whisper and move. Fog covered the air making it almost impossible to see anything.

She wasn’t sure what was real and what was just her imagination.

She could hear curses and insults she had once experienced while at Moonwood came back to haunt her, replaying in her mind and refusing to go away.

“No, no none of this is real” Ava said repeatedly shaking her head, she was trying to shake off the thought and come to her senses.

“Get out my head” Ava shouted covering her ear immediately the fogs disappeared and all the hallucination and voices stopped.

She was surprised to see how everything had halted so suddenly and wondered what was going on. It seemed as though nothing had happened, was she dreaming? Only moments before, fog covered the entire area and she was hallucinating.

Her face was full of fear, as she rushed as fast as she could to escape because she was afraid of having to stay there any longer. She was grateful to the moon goddess for her kind the ability to move quickly, even though she was not as fast as others. She came to a stop when she came across a meadow.

“How much longer can I continue? Ava thought. Her right shoulder injury was still healing slowly, she had hardly slept, and she was already feeling weak and in unbearable pain. She needed urgent treatment as well as enough rest and food. She pulled out her water bottle from her bag pack and took a sip, but it was not enough to satisfy her thirst, she still needed to save some for later. She sat under one of the oak trees to hide from the sun.

It wasn't long after she rested her body on the oak tress that she began to hear the sound of footsteps moving close to the place she was sitting. She quickly hide herself and carefully peeked invented the branches of the oak tree to see who it was.

“Who are they?” she whispered to herself as she kept observing from a distance till the approached. Ava felt a wave of fear as soon as she realized that those individuals were hunters, equipped with firearms, a silver bullet-filled cartridge belt holder, and werewolf fangs hanging around their necks. Ava was frozen, unable to move at all, having heard about the horrible things that hunters had done to werewolves