Digging deep Anya skidded to a stop, which caused Liam to run past her, the large wolf struggling to stop on the slippy mud.
"Given up have we?" Liam panted now circling Anya as she stood perfectly still, her eyes close, breath slow.
"Not going to fight?" Liam barked but Anya still stood silent.

Toying with Anya, Liam continued to pace but with Anya's sudden silence he grew frustrated, and eventually stood looking down on her.
"LOOK AT ME! OPEN YOUR EYES SO I CAN SEE THE LIFE DRAIN FROM THEM! I WILL KILL YOUR MATE! I WILL KILL YOUR PACK! I WILL KILL YOUR DAUGHTER!" Liam shouted staring at the female who kept her eyes closed.

Then Anya's eyes opened, the blue of her eyes shining in the moon light. She didn't move, she just stared at Liam.
Liam wanted to kill Anya but as he looked into her blue eyes he found himself unable to move.

"YOU WILL NOT TOUCH MY PACK OR MY FAMILY!" Anya voice boomed making Liam jump.
"I AM AN ALPHA AND YOU WILL BOW DOWN!" She commanded but Liam snarled "NEVER!" But he couldn't move, he was locked in by Anya's stare.
He began to felt weak as Anya's alpha presence forced down on his own, "NO I WILL NOT BOW!" He said again but his wolf side had a different idea, slowly his ears when flat against his head and his tail dropped and curled under his legs.

Anya didn't blink, didn't move, didn't react as Liam's head lowered below her head height.
"NO! THIS CAN'T BE!" Liam shouted unable to control himself against Anya's alpha stare.
Standing, kneeling, lying, then the ultimate sign of submission, belly up.

Anya stood over the submissive alpha, well... Ex-alpha, and looked at his revealed neck, she could end his life in a blink of an eye, but snapping from her stare she looked across at the dead wolves. The Yog-pack had won, all the enemy wolves either dead or running home with their tails between their legs.

"GO AHEAD! FINISH ME! BE DONE WITH IT!" Liam shouted but Anya shook her head, "Much blood has been spilt but no more" she said as she turned to leave.
"COME BACK AND FINISH ME!" Liam demanded, his alpha position had been challenged and defeated, he would rather die than be left a lesser wolf.

Anya ignored Liam and continued to walk away, meeting a injured Smith as she walked. Nuzzling Smith she relaxed, "Don't ever do that again" he said and Anya cocked her head, "Do what?"
"Saving my life by risking yours" Smith explained and Anya sighed, "Okay".

"SMITH! ANYA LOOK OUT!"

*BANG*

Anya was thrown to the ground but quickly righted herself on her paws and stared into the mad eyes of Liam.

"You are beaten leave!" Anya commanded but Liam had other ideas.
Padding over to where Smith lay, Liam placed his paw on Smith's neck making his whine.

"You took my pride, my honour, my power! I will take something from you!" Liam said his voice full of hate, and madness as he went to bite down on Smith's unprotected neck.

"NO!" Anya screamed jumping at Liam, but the mad wolf had expected that and turned to the attacking female, the two colliding in a mess of fur, mud... And blood.

Liam's corpse felt to the ground with a thud, his neck region poring with fresh blood from Anya's successful bite, his death the same as his brothers, by the canines of the same wolf.

"Anya!" Smith whined getting to his feet as quickly as he could.
Other members of the pack has seen the commotion and had run to help and now the whole pack stood looking at Anya who facing them, but something was wrong, her eyes distant, pained.

"Anya!" Smith said again, but as he seen the unmistakable crimson liquid begin drip from her neck fur, his heart raced.
"ANYA!" Smith practically yelled running to her side as she fell, shifting back into her human form as she did so.

Examining the wound Smith's began to cry, it was a neck wound, and it was fatal.
"NO! NO! NO!" Smith screamed shifting back into his human form so he could put pressure of the wound, the blood covering his hands.

"It's okay Smith...." Anya said softly, as she lifted a shaky, blood covered hand to her mates face.
"It's not okay! We need to get help!" Smith shouted the tears streaming down his face, he turned to the other members of the pack for help but Lewis stood forward and shook his head.
There was nothing that could be done

"No! Anya! You can't leave me!" Smith pleaded but Anya just smiled weakly "I knew this day would come, I knew I was to die".

"Why didn't you tell me? I could have protected you! I could have been the one to save you" Smith said and Anya brushed her hand against his cheek, "This was always meant to be my fate, the Moon and Stars always had this planned, the Sight, the voices, it was all mean to be. And after all Luna needs her daddy" she said her voice getting more pained.

Smith shook with emotion clutching Anya's hand in his own, "She needs her mother too! Please.... Don't go".

Beginning to cough Anya's eyes filled with tears as Smith cradled her, rocking back and forth he cried, "Please, please don't leave me" he pleaded again looking at Anya as she began to slip away.
"I love you..." Anya croaked, tears falling from her blue eyes as her breath slowly diminished and her body fell limp in Smith's arms.

"NO! ANYA NO!" Smith screamed hugging Anya close to his chest, not wanting to let her go.
The rest of the pack looked on in tears, Hannah hid her head in Lewis' fur as she sobbed, then slowly Lewis lifted his head and howled, and one by one the pack joined in until a choir of sorrow filled howls filled the night.

<><Authors Note><>
I may or may not be crying while writing this.... I'm so so sorry....
I have never been so attached to a character than I have actually cried.
There will be one more chapter then 'Bark or Bite' will officially be over
~Leigh