5

Hayley sighed as she walked along the path to the forest, with her hands behind her head, watching the birds as they fly above. Wishing that she could be free like them, especially the yellow and blue one. She could tell he was a character among its flock, and had a personality from the way he flew, looping around the others. He even sung loudly, just like her.

But no, instead she was trapped under a dome. (It wasn't a dome, but it sure felt like it.)

Somehow, the weather was being controlled. It was winter all around them, but for whatever reason, it was always summer, spring, or raining inside her prison.

But little did they know Hayley found a way to leave, a weak link in the so called almighty barrier. It was all because two different territories crossed, it sort of weaken the spells.

Normally at any other point in the town, it would be hard to cross over, unless the Alpha was there, or a court guard to let you through.

Hayley didn't quite understand how it worked. She didn't want to know either. She surely won't know, not now, that her great escape was underway.

Even though it was Were-bear territory over the line, and they rarely get along with each other. She hoped that since she was human, they would go easy on her.

She looked back behind her, wondering if she was making the right decision, but nothing felt more right to her than to leave.

For all the years of her life, she could feel something pulling her, telling her to come to the mountains and the valley below.

Hayley paid attention back to where she was going, again thinking if it was safe for her to cross the border. For there were scarier things out there than just were-bears.

But it was a risk she was willing to take, just to leave, even if she was staring death in the eyes she wouldn't mind. As long as she wasn't suffering at the hands of anyone in the so call pack, she would be fine.

Besides, she didn't think death was as horrible as getting sprayed by a skunk, and having its stink on you for a week.

Hayley looked around once more, to make sure no one was around to stop her. 

As she stepped under the barbed wire, goose bumps married her skin immediately. The cold caused her to shake uncontrollably, but she had a smile on her face. She was now finally free. She could do whatever she wanted, go where the wind takes her.

While she sat there, her mind drifted to what it would be like if she knew her parents. She bet if they were still alive, she wouldn't be in this encampment, and even if she was, it wouldn't be so bad.

"Oh poo." Hayley said from her seat on the boulder. 

The smile she had soon faded away as realisation dawned on her. She had no food, which was the most important thing to. Her only clothes were the one on her back, which wasn't enough to fight off the biting cold.

Heck, she didn't have anything with her. Just homework. She didn’t even have a proper plan, either. All she got to was cross the border, and that's it.

"Remember who you are." A faint voice came.

"What? Hello?" Hayley called, looking behind her. "I swear to gods if one of you idiots is playing tricks on me."

"Remember who you are." The voice came again, and with it, a strong wind picked up. Somehow causing snow to swirl around Hayley, the flakes seem to cut at her face, causing her to hold her hands up and fend them off.

When the strange snow died down, the bush off to the right of Hayley rustled and she swore she saw someone ducking back into them.

"Hello?" She called. Getting up to see who it could have been.

"Is someone there?" She felt foolish for asking, because if she had learnt anything from all those movies she watched was to never go investigating.

But her curiosity had already been peaked, and she wasn't ready to go home just yet.

Hayley crouched down and crawled to the other side of the bush, where she seemed to have been transported to another world.

"Narnia?" She asked aloud, glad no one was around to hear her.

But the scene before her was far from the Disney movie.

The place wasn't snowy, but instead the ground had dried grass and dead bodies piled on the ground.

She watched in horror as a woman dress in a royal blue gown ran from a group of men that was chasing after her, but they soon cornered her.

"Stay back, you have already taken my child. What more do you want?" Her voice came, sounding as if she was underwater.

Hayley watched on in horror as someone plunged their sword into the woman's stomach.

"No!!" Hayley screamed out, watching as her the word coming from her mouth went out in waves, but the people before her didn't seem to notice her.

"Get back." The woman said, holding out her bloody hands to her attackers, but they still advanced on her.

"You foolish people." The woman managed out as she was taking her final breath. "All will be lost when I die. The moon goddess will take her revenge on you all." She said right before her life force was drained from her.

Hayley stood frozen in place with tears streaming down her face. She didn't know why she was crying for a woman she didn't know or why no one seemed to notice her.

The moment the woman's body hit the ground, she began to glow. And even though Hayley was willing herself to move, she couldn't, and even when the woman seemed to disintegrate, she still couldn't move.

There was a blast, which blew Hayley back. When she sat up on the ground, she saw that the village was no more, where it was supposed to be was nothing but a snowy ground.

"What the hell?" Hayley said in confusion.

She got off the ground, brushing off her pants, and that's when she noticed a pendent in her hand.

Out of fright, she dropped it, wondering when and how she got the thing.

The second the pendent touched the ground, the surrounding snow melted.

"I must be dreaming." Hayley pinched herself to see if she would wake up, but all she got was a bruised arm.

"Remember who you are and where you came from." A voice floated by.

"Ok whoever you are. I bet it is one of you dumbass trying to psychic me out."

Hayley picked up the circle shaped pendent that was made of gold on the outside and other materials for the middle. She examined it, wondering how come it's not hot, despite it melting the snow.

She tried to read the words that had been encrusted, only to realize that it wasn't English.

Upon closer inspection, Hayley noted that the wolf in the centre had red rubies for the eyes and seemed to be howling at a black moon.

She scratched at her head, thinking that there was no way any of those idiots her age could have made such an incredible illusion.