Blinded by rage and a tempestuous wrath, Gabrielle's friend, Luna, did the unthinkable, setting in motion to commit the ultimate sin; death. Not of herself, but of a covenant friend.
Just in a moment, Gabrielle's life flashed before her. Gasping for breath, she thought this would be her last day on earth, before she'd transit to the world beyond. In split seconds, many thoughts ran through her head.
"What did I do to deserve such a fate? How could she betray me, when we have sworn an oath of loyalty and friendship," she thought to herself. Then with a fainting voice and with tear filled eyes, she said, why?
Just a feet away from her, stood Luna. She had served Gabrielle a poisoned drink, in the guise of reconciliation, who drank unsuspectingly, just for the effect to kick in barely a minute afterwards.
Seeing her sworn friend Gabrielle, trying hold on to her dear life, it finally dawned on her that there was no turning back from the plan she had set in motion, which was eliminate Gabrielle, and have the one she had grown to love all to herself; Shawn.
Looking upwards, seeing Luna who was literally unphased about her plight, sent cold shivers down her spine. This was a betrayal by a friend.
She had a lot to live for. Knowing fully well that many were counting and depending on her as the alpha of the pack, and as also the one who brokered peace amongst the various packs, being the alpha among alphas, she had no option but to put up a fight, against a friend turned foe.
She could still transform, but not fully because of the poison which was meant to surpress that capability and eventually snuff out the life she had, but being the alpha of alphas she could transform at anytime.
Transforming partially, she was strengthened and broke through the log cabin where she was, which was where Luna and her agreed to meet. The cabin held sentimental value to them both. They'd run off there to hang out as against the dictates of the territorial rule of the wolves of Fairway.
But in this same cabin, where such love and bond was birthed, was where the same was destroyed.
Luna never anticipated and foresaw that Gabrielle would escape her presence, knowing the efficicacy of the poison, the black moth poison, which had taken down other male alphas in time past.
Luna was no match attacking her head on in her human state, so she stood still in fright, making no attempt to attack, but followed her from a distance to see what would eventually happen.
Running through the woods, Gabrielle kept stumbling, hitting her weakened body against the trees, head spinning, her vision blurred, coughing out blood, but yet, she kept pressing forward, trying to make her way out of the woods, and just hoping she'd meet a passerby, anyone else at all, and find help, for she was willing to live.
She emerged eventually on a highway. Still stumbling in her movement, a vehicle passed by, she waved at it and the driver who was a young man and he slowed down. But seeing her physical state, not in the werewolf state though, but as a human, looking so battered, he stepped on his throttle and sped off.
Ten minutes had passed since Gabrielle got to the hughway after stumbling her way through the woods in excruciating pain, but ten minutes felt like forever. She kept fighting to stay alive, but it was a battle against time now. If she doesn't get help within the hour, she'd most likely die.
Having done all she could do with the little might she had left, her weakened body could go no further, hence she fell to the ground, not able to talk audibly, kept saying "help, help". Her vision kept getting blurred and dimmed, her strength faded, she could feel her life slipping away, the call of death seemed louder than before.
All she could do was wish that she had more time, to make things right with the man whom she loved, the human, Shawn, the one for whom she was undergoing this plight.
