Sherizad's POV - Post the first battle... past

It was a week-long battle.

A battle it was, just in name, it was basically a massacre.

The moment we stepped inside those lands the day turned into darkness.

It was nothing like the empty lands that we had visited. It was, as if, they were waiting for us with armed hands.

" Spread out. Look for the other packs. "

I could hear Ryan yell out the orders as a terrible blizzard suddenly came at our direction.

We could tell it wasn't a natural phenomenon.

The blizzard was accompanied with several ghastly apparitions. Each threatning one, with an different terror.

It was as if we had stepped inside a mirage of madness. It was becoming difficult to tell fake from real.

In the middle of that madness our days went by. Bodies fell here and there. It would have been easy for those minions of darkness to get rid of all of us but they chose meticulously, whom to kill and whom to play with.

My eyes had been fixed on Ryan, at least I had been trying.

Finally when the dark fog settled, I ran