With us being ready to fight, Isilesah took over and jumped upon the person ahead of us, she was clumsy, but was still able to find the neck and rip something apart, hearing a thump. Isilesah turned to what she thought was towards the other two that were left.

It became real then, that the Shifter had indeed died because a link was broken between us and them. I suppose this was the only good thing about being a part of the pack…

One down…Two to go!

I doubted the next two will be as easy as this one was…

One meter ahead!

Isilesah quickly pounced and felt her two front legs connect with another two wolf legs. It seems that they had shifted…

 

My heart started to beat faster and faster to knowing that they were now wolves, as we had more of a chance if they were just humans.

Not being able to see was scary, even knowing where they were, because of seeing red, was not giving me any type of relief!

We had no other choice but, we needed to get this bomb out and we needed to survive!

We can do this! We can do this!

Feeling her neck get scrapped, Isilesah quickly grabbed onto something and flung herself over, wanting to continue to move.

Feeling like she had not gotten the wolf’s neck, Isilesah bit to where she thought it was and again flung herself and the wolf over, tumbling over the ground.

Hearing a yelp and then nothing, Isilesah quickly got up and moved away in a half circle, putting her nose in the air.

Again, the link was broken, but my heart was still racing crazily!

Perhaps we were lucky but…We might not be so lucky, we had to keep paying attention until there was no one left!

He’s to your right, quick!

 

Isilesah turned to her right and just as the wolf knocked into her, she grabbed some of it into her mouth and had to endure the weight of the wolf upon her head, making it hard for her to continue to bite on what she had in her mouth, which she has an idea that what she got, was the back of the wolf.

Letting go, making her decision on taking her chance upon another attack, Isilesah did another half circle, again putting her nose in the air.

A growl was heard and Isilesah stopped and looked in a direction.

He’s ahead again!

Watching Isilesah growl back to the other wolf, I was sure that she was still okay, making me breath out a breath of relief!

It was so hard to watch this without being able to see!

 

I knew of our predicament, I knew that we had a bad start as we were against three, but…

Ah, my heart was pounding like crazy!

Isilesah walked to the side, making me wonder if she was waiting for the other one to attack first.

Seeing the red go lower and go to the side, I frowned. Was he getting ready to pounce? Actually, was he…Rolling around? Dammit! I wish I could see!

He’s closer to the ground, but still ahead of you.

I think he tried to get rid of his scent…

He’s low, walking to our left slowly.

Isilesah shook her head, making me worried. Were we still bleeding, and the blood was in the way?

Seeing the redness move more to our left, I quickly stated, he’s trying to come up behind us! He’s two meters away!

 

One meter!

Isilesah put down a paw but still did not move, depending entirely on the coloured vision that I had that I could ‘see’ in the in the blackness.

Now!

In quick succession, Isilesah turned and pounced with a bit of force to come up from the side and rammed into something with her opened mouth, whatever it was, Isilesah viciously ripped it from side to side and even dragged it a bit.

A scuffle then took place where I could not help. I had to feel what was happening and see red all over, yet there was growls and turns and I was holding onto my beating heart and hoping that it won’t give me a heart attack!

Nips and bites, claws and yelps but…Finally, Isilesah got what seemed to be the neck and we only found out that he died because the connection finally broke.

 

And as soon as the connection was lost, Isilesah let go of the limp wolf and shifted back.

My heart was pounding so much! I needed a second…No, I needed a minute!

Taking deep breaths, I closed my eyes and waited. I needed to be a lot calmer to proceed into getting rid of the bomb…A lot more calmer!

I didn’t want to do it! I didn’t want to!

Squeezing my eyes shut, I tried not to focus on anything else besides breathing and finally, I was back to normal.

I had to do this now! It was now or never!

I turned to my shoulder and shifted my hand into that of a wolf’s hand and clenched my teeth…This was ganna hurt!

 

Needing to get this done and out of the way, I did a quick test, so that I knew where the claws were, and then dug into my skin.

Letting out a deep groan, I didn’t look away and with clumsy claws, I tried to get the red dot out of my shoulder, taking way too much time and hurting myself way too much!

…A few yells later, I see the red dot fall down to the ground and I let out some deep breaths. Even though I had tried to get it out with my human hands, I still had made a huge wound now! The stench of blood invaded my nostrils and I just knew that blood was all over my hands. Did wolves need to sanitize as much as humans did?

A wipe would come in handy right about now…

Feeling something down my face, I wiped it and knew that they were tears from the pain.

It had hurt so much!

I’ll get us out of here, honey.

Think you’ll…Be ok with a dud shoulder? I couldn’t help but let out a small child like sounding sob.

We’ll be ok, but if that thing goes off, we might not be!

I could only let her shift back to wolf form and limp off in a bit of a rush. We must look a sorry state to anyone that sees us…I was sure that we had blood all over us…

 

 

I didn’t know if leaving the explosive there on the ground was a smart idea, but I could only leave it there because we simply wanted to survive!

Not knowing what direction we were going in, I tried to figure it out by what I ‘saw’ through green and red, but I really had no idea!

We couldn’t even know where the sun was, to use that as a point…Even if I do remember that here on this planet it rises and sets from north to south, instead of east to west, but knowing this information did nothing to help us now!

I didn’t want to go back to that pack, I just knew that not only would they use us again, but they would probably blind us with silver next time and that was something that we couldn’t heal from!

But whose to say that we weren’t traveling back there ourselves right now!

This was…Really annoying!

All we had, was my being able to see red and green…So, I suppose we’ll just have to use that to our advantage…

 

Isilesah, I…As soon as I see red, I will tell you to run from that current direction…Okay?

Yes! We’ll be alright, honey, we’ll be alright!

Relaxing slightly, feeling bad that not only was Isilesah being the one in control and doing the limping and healing for us, but she was also taking away some of the pain.

If we weren’t in such a rut right now, I might be rolling over in pain and unable to do anything else, but luckily, I still had to focus upon our situation, even though we weren’t surrounded by Shifters anymore.

Trying not to think too much about our situation, with our damaged shoulder and eyes, I focused on red and green, not wanting to sleep, even though I was extremely exhausted.

Whether we were going north or south, east or west, we stayed away from the red and a few hours past before we collapsed…We could not go on without sleeping…We were hungry and thirsty…We were still sore and feeling pain…But this was all that we could do right now! We could not go on!

 

 

It felt like we had only been asleep for seconds, when we woke up once again.

I could see red in the far distance, but it didn’t look like they were getting closer at the moment. I heard birds and I swore that I could even hear water, but it didn’t help us find our location.

Nothing was good!

The pack will know where we are, through our link…They will come after us and it’ll be easy for them to get us, simply because there was only one of us and we are also blind!

Our eyes were not very good still, it was mostly black, with a small part of it being able to see a change but it didn’t mean we could see now.

My shoulder had gotten better, the pain was endurable now but…I felt ill at ease.

We’ll always be on the run because of the stupid link to the pack!

Isilesah, how do we get rid of the bond with the pack?

…Alpha blood…Only Alpha’s can take a Shifter from one pack to another. You were initiated before age but I’m sure it still works the same way.

…Alpha…

Well, the only Alpha I knew, with a pack that I’d like to be in, was Rexxie! Well that and the puppy!

My eyes started to shut as I wondered how I was to find an Alpha that would help us. Perhaps it was a good time for the puppy to reappear, maybe he could…Help…Me…

 

***

 

Wake up!

Uh?

Opening my eyes, I didn’t see anything and leaned my head back against a tree and frowned.

I thought…That was a problem…How in the world have you ended up like this!?

Taking a breath in, I finally found that something strange was going on…

Puppy?

…Mmm, it’s me, Sweetheart. I don’t know how you’ve done it, but I’m back with you again!

Sitting up and rubbing my tired eyes, I really started to pay attention. Seeing that I felt a bit better, I wondered if the Puppy had helped heal me…

The Puppy…Was here…

You’re here!

…I think we’ve acknowledged that! Sweetheart, we’ve been looking for you in the south east! Let me take over!

Without further ado, I let him take over but…Found myself in the lead very quickly…

Weird…I can see from here, but when I take over, I can’t. I had thought that your eyes were bad, but I hadn’t thought they were this bad! Confusing…

 

You can see?

When I’m not in control, yes.

Do you know where we are?

Look around for me, please, Sweetheart.

I did as I was told, seeing nothing, but I had a feeling that perhaps we might be able to get somewhere. Some hope entwined itself into my heart and these few weeks suddenly felt like nothing.

With Alister, the wolf of my mate, here, I felt a lot better!

All that ‘missing my mate’ feelings, had been cut down tremendously and I couldn’t help but be happy.

I was really really, very glad that he was here!

Calm down! I know, it’s good to see you too Darlin…But I doubt you are in the position to be careless right now! We got to get you back to safety, back to my master!

I agree!