Warning: This is Sira's P.O.V. both I and user BreakingDawn are working together on the same story line. To see story from Rain's P.O.V. please visit her page and read Solar Eclipse. Feel free to follow both story lines as you see fit, yet visiting both is highly recommended.

"So I guess I'll see you later." I stated quite loudly, my best friend Rain responding in the sameoutspoken happiness.

"Sure, I'll call you about making plans." I nodded with a warm smile and she watched from her bright household. The light from the windows grew farther as I made my way into my old truck, and I lifted my hand to wave a last time before the engine started obnoxiously. It was a nice night, one much like any other, the moon was bright, the sky was clear and even through my jacket and gloves those occasional pricks of cold air crept into my own warmth.

It was so nice to be back in America, studying in Japan was an amazing experience but coming to visit my friends and few family back home was a must. Rain was always my first visit, close since birth we had suffered through whatever life threw at us, and amazingly we stood together and took the blows with the best of our abilities. Rain was truly someone to be respected, a stubborn strong willed girl, but kind all the same.

I smiled at the thought as I pulled out of her driveway and began to my journey out on the open roads. I"m sure my grandparent's were waiting for me by now, being the practical orphan thatI was I lived with them untilI was old enough to move. I was seventeen like Rain, still young, butI was prepared for the world just as she was. I moved one of my fingers over the old dirtied buttons of the radio and turned up a familiar song. It wasn't my favorite, but instantly I found myself humming toit, and tapping my palms against the steering wheel. Maybe I was just happy to be back.

I constantly pondered over the feeling, andI guess it was a mixture of happiness and melancholy butI wasn't to capable of of truly placing the emotions andI never did before a sudden distraction invaded my mind. I slammed my foot down on the break, and the rustic truck came to an abrupt stood, throwing me forward slightly so that my black hair was thrown into my oneblue eye the other a light green. I growled for a moment scanning the seat to find that my wallet was missing. I had left it at her house, again.

I rolled my eyes, shaking my hair out of my face, and turning on the empty road before carelessly speeding back. Of courseit didn't take long to reach that long driveway again but my wheels were kicking up all kinds of gravel by the time I pulled up in front of the strange home. Of course now I described it as strange because there was something different. It was odd though, the door was already cracked slightly, and as I began to creep slowly out of the vehicle I also noticed that something had broken her window. My first thought was that it was merely an accident, butI was nearly scared to death when howling echoed from the surrounding woods. On any occasion it wouldn't havefrightened me, but the fact the howls actually weren't that far off seemed to bother me. My first reaction was to return to thetruck, but remembering RainI eased forward taking any glances of the inside of the home that my eyes could catch. Only broken glass. There was nothing else, and the entire encloser seemed completely empty until a flood of ruckus suddenly began to echo from upstairs. It was obvious that there was struggle so I suddenly darted to her fireplace and grabbed the steel log prod. I didn't bother to check it's ashy tip for any sign that it was dangerous, yet it was when I turned back around thatI couldn't help but scream out of a mix of both sup rise and horror.

I could have sworn it was a man in a suit, and I accused this entire ordeal of being some type of cruel joke seeing that there was something quite strange standing before me. Yet cruel joke or not I had taken Japanese classes in swordsmanship, andI wasn't holding back. I slammed the point of the steel rod down over the things bone covered face, and nothing. It seemed quite dazed for a moment but as four wings began to spread from its back, I took another swing harmlessly "tapping" The thing on the shoulder. I could have sworn my arm was going to crack from the forceI had put into that one blow, but nothing. All that resulted from it was a powerful vibration through my arm, andthe creature having a clear opening which he took. It was still a shock to me and I could feel his talon's cut into my wrist slightly as the thing slammed me against the ground. I struggled under it's grip, and it seemed to watch me for a moment. I had no idea what to make of this creature. Dog like legs, the tail of a lion, the wings of both a bird and a bat, a powerful body structure, and of course that thorny vulture skull that covered it's face, that I clearly did not want to see considering that its blood red eyes had already given me enough detail, more than necessary to be exact. I fought though,I fought with everything I had, and in the end I was laying there breathlessly under this now motionless creature and eventuallyI found my way to it's one eye. There was not a hole in the skull for the other glowing red ember, yet the more I looked the more I felt that darkness tug atmy sight. Yet it wasn't until a loud sound form the stairwell broke though my daze that I shot up, surprising the creature to quite a great extent, and creating an opening, my legs shooting to the stairs. I had to save Rain, I had to help her.

I ran , and ran faster and faster up the stairwell, the darkness swallowing me comepletely, until I caught the finest glimpse of the room, and that was it. That was before they came...claws. Yes, sets of black claws burst from the darkness behind me and grasped tightly around my mouth, then my stomach, then my arms, andI felt myself being mercilessly pulled back, back down the stairs, farther and farther until I felt the cold prick of the outside on the back of my hand. They were taking me, they were takingme away.What to be killed eaten, experimented on perhaps? I wasn't sure of any of this, I was so confused but I do remember one thing clearly through the tears, before my couscous was robbed from me. I saw Rain fighting with moist eyes, fighting to come and save me, with another creature holding her back. That was one image that wasn't a blur to me. It was always clear to me, andI would never, never forget it. My best friend being held back in the claws of aseemingly more dangerous creature,one that I alreadyhated.