Chapter Twenty: He's Gone...

Motus was a tad worried at the sudden arrival of both Seraphyna and Amadaus. He was completely convinced that these two were on his side. otus wandered the nearby woods pondering on how to accept these new allies.

His thoughts raced around his head when his ears caught faint mumblings close by. He instinctively lowers and crawls towards the noise. Luckily the wind was in his face so his scent was not going towards whoever this was.

Just over the hill he was on, he saw the four scouts he remebered Seraphyna mentioned....amongst them..WAS SERAPHYNA!!! He couldn't hear what she was telling them. He grew anxious and angered at the same time. He knew how conivinning she was back at Damon;s castle.

He was just about to run when a scout looked up and spotted him.

Seraphyna looked and saw the four chase after Motus. Motus turned and ran fast, deeper into the woods leaading them away from his camp.

"IT'S MOTUS!! CATCH HIM BEFORE HE GIVES US AWAY!!!" One of the scouts yelled as they were on Motus' heels. Their barks and snarls sounded in the silent woods as dusk fell upon then.

Branches broke underfoot, brush and leaves rustled and shook as they sprinted through them. He lead them in to a ravine that was made of reddish rock. Dust kicked up from the feet of the scouts and from Motus as they still ran.

HE came to a cliff edge and turned to face the four that chased him. He snarled and leapt at them, fangs gnashing at the nearest ones. Each scout yapped and pounced as Motus flung each attempt off. HE tried to stay away from the edge as there was a rushing and deep river down below.

The dusty reddish scout lunged at Motus and tore at his ribs. Motus yelped and clamped his jaws onto that wolves' neck, shaking it violently and steadily. As he was doing this, a mud brown scout tackled him down and the twin ash grey scouts joined in the tackling.

Motus rolled from this, bloody mawed. He rolled and fell over the cliff egde, clawing the edge to hang on from dropping into the roaring waters below. The red scout was about to knock him in when a female yelled to stop.

Seraphyna appears and gives Motus a icy glare as she got closer. The scouts backed off as she stood right in front of Motus. Motus was struggling to keep a grip on the ledge and looked up at Seraphyna.

Her eyes gave him a confused look. Just as he met her gaze, she kicked his face. THe kick knocked him over the edge and he fell into the waters below.

The scouts looked at Seraphyna as she still looked at the water below. "Tell Damion that Motus...He's no longer a problem." The scouts nodded and took off. What they didnt see was her eyes welling up with tears because she had to do a terrible thing.

Back at the camp, Atzi jolted awake and howled. Amadaus and the others ran to her den as Atzi looked at them in rage. She saw Amadaus and pounced him down snarling and growling at him.

"WHY?!!>>SHE KILLED HIM!! SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HELPING!! SHE LIED! YOU LIED!!"

She yelled as she raked her claws over Amadaus. HE fended her off and looked at her in confusion til it dawned on him what Atzi's words meant. He sighed and held the gashes that Atzi gave him.

"I...I'm sorry...she didn't have a choice.."

But Atzi didn't wanna hear what he was saying. She couldn't feel Motus' prescence anymore. She was fighting a pain inside her now. She looked at Amadaus and growled at him one single word.

"RUN..."