Not helpless. (Silent Night then ask)

Have you ever had one of those times when you were SO sure of where you were, and you tried to cut across a back-way; thinking it would cut some off of where you were trying to get to? Unless you have a GPS or something, you always end up getting lost.  This is the exact lesson that Annie learned one evening; she really should have taken Kasha's advice and gone the way they knew.  Now it was dark, they were lost, and they had caught the attention of about 11 nighttime lurkers.  

They say that nothing good ever happens later than 2:00 in the morning; well it wasn't even that late when Kasha noticed that Annie was being followed by a rough looking band.  He was in his kitten form, being carried in Annie's arms, and peeked over her shoulder to look at them.  Annie sensed what Kasha saw; the band following her, trying to keep a distance so that she didn't notice.  She turned slowly to look at them with a frightened gaze, and being noticed one of them smiled and said to her, "Hey there kiddie.  What's a little girl like you doing all alone at this time of day?"  She stared for a moment; not liking at all the feelings that she could sense from them.  Their emotions had danger written all over them, and she quickly turned and started to run as fast as she could to get away from them. However it was with little successes as they quickly ran to peruse her.  

The frightened Annie ran as fast as her legs would carry, thinking she might lose them by running into an alleyway.  Meanwhile Kasha remained as a kitten which, although it didn't appear so, was actually the best for to protect Annie.  Unfortunately she had not learned her lesson about shortcuts; as the alley quickly lead to a dead end.  She ran up to the wall; stopping and gazing up at in horror.  She was trapped.  Turning around she heard the snickering laughter of her pursuers.  "What's wrong girly?  Nowhere left to run?"  She watched wide eyed as they slowly approached, pressing her back against the wall.  She had hoped that it wouldn't come to this.  She thought about crying, but she held Kasha tightly knowing that he would protect her.  Even now he was absorbing magic; storing it up and waiting for when they came just close enough...

Annie now found that she had two reasons to be afraid.  She scooted over, and now huddled in the corner she looked all around the area.  She tried to telepathically feel for the mind of some person hiding in the shadows; but she had trouble telling where he was.  Also, she didn't like the feeling of him.  Whoever this guy was, he was crazy; horrifically so.  The feelings terrified her further, and she slid down against the wall curling up.  She still held Kasha, who peeked over her knees to keep an eye out and remain ready.  He was now brimming with barely contained magic; ready to release it all at a moments notice.

bloodmoon looked down upon the alley in a barley contained raged at the scum that was being attacked they had tried to hurt annie a girl he had met a couple weeks ago at the park. He quickly brought his bow and arrows out and fired three at three different members of the group. before jumping down in front of annie but not enough to block kasha's veiw of the fight and flared his wolf cloak and said, "Well I know who the wolf is and it isn't them." before saying, "everythings going to be alright Annie." hoping to calm the terrified girl down some his oath of protection of maidens coming to the front of his mind yet again. As the gang now turned to see a 7ft tall teen with yellow wolf eyes metal forearms with a crescent moon on each, a dark red jacket blue undershirt in blue jeans and white nikes.

Annie's fearful eyes looked up at bloodmoon and she actually managed to smile a little.  She felt his devotion to protecting her; that, and Kasha's protection, made her feel safer.  That was, until one of the men made a grab for her  She quickly turned to the man who tried to reach for her with wide eyes; afraid again.  Kasha very nearly let lose, when the man was stopped by a knife to the wrist (as apposed to an arrow to the knee).  At this point Annie was afraid of everything except for bloodmoon, and remained huddled in the corner hugging Kasha for security.  

The man must have been pretty determined...and strong; because he managed to pull the knife from his wrist.  This act in itself caused Annie fright as he was now free again, and she squeaked a little.  Kasha finally took action; looking at the man nearby his eyes glowed an intense white for just a second before letting loose a powerful shock-wave at him.  The man was sent flying backwards into the opposite wall and knocked out cold as his head hit solid brick.  At this point Kasha would proceed to automatically fire shock-waves at anyone (other than bloodmoon) that got within 5 feet of Annie.  This included Zack, as Kasha had perfect night vision and could also feel the presence of minds; which made sneaking up on him nearly impossible.  

Annie remained in the corner watching as she was being protected; while one of the men yelled, "%&$# THIS!" and started to run off, hoping to escape the scene.

Bloodmoon growled at the man that tried to grab Annie till he was stopped by a knife by zack only for the thug to pull the knife from his hand only to be blasted away by Kasha and was knocked out cold. Bloodmoon mearly shot the man that tried to flee in the center of the back causing the man to fall over as he lost all feeling in his legs he would never walk again. he was tired of this and brought his fist down hard into the ground which brought a large chunk of the ground and sending several men flying into the air and crashing back down now having broken bones and a concussion . But never moving from his spot no one was going to touch Annie while he was there they would literally kill him first.

Annie watched worriedly as she watched bloodmoon shot the man that tried to run in the back; causing him to fall to the ground. Why did he do that? Bloodmoon didn't need to shoot him; he was running away. Annie actually felt bad for the guy; he didn't get any compassion at all? I mean ya, he had tried to hurt her; but he wasn't going to anymore. Why did he have to get shot? Just the same, she felt grateful to have bloodmoon protecting her; and looked up at him.

Her thoughts were interrupted when Kasha fired a shock-wave into the shadows; soon followed by another. She looked at where he shot at, but before long she was shaken up by bloodmoon slamming his fist down into the ground. She was knocked up into the air a bit, only a few inches; but still it was enough to cause her to fall over, also dropping Kasha as she did so. She pushed up after that, and lifting her head her eyes fell upon the stranger and seeing him in his worn clothing.

Annie stared into the man's eyes; still terrified of the way that he felt, his words, and the tone he spoke them in. She stared at him, and his last sentence added further to her current state of fear and worry. This whole event; the fear, the running and being pursued, cornered in a dark alley, sitting huddled helplessly in a corner as the chaos of a fight to protect her went on; it was too much. The scenario; it was all too familiar. It brought back feelings and memories that were too much like...like...

She couldn't take it; she completely broke. As she stared at the stranger her emotions welled up and intensified. She started shaking; tears coming to her eyes as her breathing rate increased and she sobbed uncontrollably. Kasha stared back up at him as well; the white glow of his eyes intensifying with each passing moment. Something was building up in the two.

Bloodmoon whirled around as he saw Zack was now in between him and Annie hearing his comment he let out a low growl and says, "You touch her you die." It was then that his animal instincts started to scream at him it was then that he noticed how Annie was sobbing her breathing was out of control and Kasha eyes where starting to glow brightly and he just knew that something was coming like animals knew that a storm was coming. hissing at Zack bloodmoon said, "Go take care of the rest of the thugs I don't know whats happening to Annie but you are scaring her and I don't know what might happen if she is pushed over the edge" began to move towards Annie to try and calm her down.

Annie remained panicked; scooting back again into the corner.  She wanted it all to stop, to get away, to escape and get out of there, and never have to come back.  Her crying and rapid breathing showed no signs of slowing down, and in her desperate state she managed to get out, "Iikthani mahanreena...!"  Kasha was quickly up on his feet and and turned to Annie.  He changed into his panther form, finding it better for coping with intensified energy that he was getting from her; and stood over and in front of Annie with his head down low and near her.  She quickly threw her arms around Kasha's neck and squeezed tightly; hanging on for dear life.  

Kasha turned his gaze out to Zack, bloodmoon, and those of the thugs that might, by some slim chance, still be standing.  The glow of his eyes no longer intensified, but remained at a constant brightness.  He took at step, getting into a position to blok Annie off from them.  Not that he thought there would be much fighting left; but he wasn't about to let his guard down even a little, and this was mostly just to make Annie feel more secure.  He would not bother bloodmoon as he approached, and would allow him to get to Annie;but otherwise no-one would be getting anywhere close to them.

Annie continued to cry into Kasha's fur, still shaking. Why did this have to happen?

bloodmoon approached slowly with his bow coming out of his arm and placing it on the ground and emptied his other of the arrows that where in them while giving the arms the comand to relase from the plates that held them and went around kasha that was now a pantenther and knelt down keeping some distance from her to keep from scaring her and said in a gental voice, "Annie it's ok kasha's here he won't let anyone hurt you and I'm here it's me shawn I won't hurt you or let anyone else either. Can you slow your breathing down for me just take a breath and hold it for a couple seconds and then do it again."

(I'm so sorry for not replying. I thought this thread was dead and forgot about it. >< )

Annie looked up from her spot in the corner, looking to Bloodmoon with eyes red with tears. She saw him approaching, asking her to calm down and breath slowly. She tried her best, trying to calm down, but she had little ability to do so with the amount of fear and trauma she was experiencing. Desperate for comfort, the sobbing child made her way over to Bloodmoon, reaching to hug and cling to him for protection and security.

Meanwhile, Kasha made no attempts to attack the crazed lunatic before him, but he was seriously considering it. He decided against it, only because the man had removed the previous threat, and there was a possibility that fighting this one was not necessary. No, Kasha would not attack first. He would wait until he was attacked before tearing into Zack; or if Zack walked away, in which case Kasha would leave him well alone.