Chapter 37 – Gas Station
The drive went by quickly as Moira and Keagan caught up on their separated lives. We laughed as Keagan told us about the first time he shifted when he was fourteen, describing how he had woken up with his room torn to shreds, and tufts of blond fur strewn across his floor. Keagan told Moira about the times her mother had come to visit him, and how she used whatever power she had to protect him as he learned to control his wolf throughout his early teens. He said that Ginger had studied all she could on werewolves to try and help him, and while he knew the basics because of her, he still had no idea what it was like to be in a pack, and had never actually met another werewolf besides his mother who had died long before he even knew what he was. I watched as tears shined in Moira’s’ soft brown eyes as she fought to hold them in, her emotions running high as they talked about the past. Beyond the sadness though, I knew Moi
Chapter 38 - SisterI tried to scream as long pointed teeth twisted up into a wicked smile, but the sound caught in my throat as ice cold terror wrapped itself around my lungs. I was frozen in place, trapped like I was caught in a night terror. I willed my body to move, but only managed to let out a strangled whimper from the effort.I could see my own wide and terrified green eyes reflecting in the creatures’ white ones, the light from my palm causing the vision to look distorted in the dim light.“Sisster.” Its sharp voice taunted me, and my knees went weak at the sound as it ripped through my body. I fought to keep standing, at I stared back into its unnerving milky white eyes. It’s taunt skin looking even tighter around it’s pointed face than from what I remembered, as it lifted a gnarled hand towards me. I swore it’s stretched smile widened, black saliva staining the tips of the sharp incisors; as it brought i
Chapter 39 - Light“I cannot be a queen of a bunch of monsters.” I laughed out loud, waiting for Simon to cast me some sort of smirk showing that he was just messing with me. When his face remained sharp as stone though, fear began to raise its angry tendrils through my chest. “I barely got away from them before, and you think I’m going to be able to control all of them?” My soft soprano rose to a high pitch at the end, proving my discomfort with the situation. Flashes of being pulled away in the cave by Moira pushed themselves to the forefront of my mind, all of them scrambling to get at me, long claws extended towards us. I shivered involuntarily, unable to get the disturbing images to stop their pillage through my brain. “I mean, they came after Moira and I. They would have absolutely killed me if they got ahold of me.”“I actually don’t think that’s the case.” Moira’s mousy voice
Chapter 40 - ShadowsThe world stopped for a split moment as the large black car appeared again beside us. It was almost as if I watching a movie through someone else’s eyes as the front fenders of the vehicles made contact, and Simon lost control of the car. Someone screamed in terror, as the car shifted and rolled to the right, flipping almost poetically onto its roof, and sliding the rest of the way down the road before coming to a grinding and sparking stop. My dark hair fell above me, falling onto to roof of the car in a coiled puddle, as I hung upside down from my seat belt. I watched as thick drops of crimson slid down a few strands, disappearing into the mess of obsidian. My vision began to tunnel, the edges turning black, as my head began to swim.A loud crack pulled me from my trance, and I whipped my head to the driver’s seat to see Simon had already freed himself from his seatbelt, and was crouched onto the roof. A large gash acros
Chapter 41 – Horror NovelWe ran for what seemed like hours, always on the road and never in the woods. When the sun finally dipped down into late afternoon, my entire body ached and sweat poured down my limbs from the sun beating down on us. My hands were shaking with the effort of gripping onto Simon’s mane, and my head was still spinning from the accident.As Simon came to a slow trot, and then a stop, I took a second to look around us. The road stretched out for miles, barren and empty as it had been since we had left the shadows, and Moira behind us. The forest continued to stretch itself out on either side of the roadway, but now it seemed less ominous, and more of an invitation to come and sit under its shaded trees. Simon had taken every twist and turn he could find, leaving us not only in the middle of nowhere, but also far from the path that we were supposed be following before.I slid from his back, slowly lowering myself to
Chapter 42 - Crow*Marcus*The sun had fell hours before, leading into the dark and damp night. My footsteps just barely sounded through the large stone hallway as I moved swiftly through the maze of corridors that lead to the infirmary. A puzzling message from the doctor had set me on edge, and I had to wait be to separated from the prince to move towards the meeting room.The crow is here – F.T.That’s all it had said. My mind had quickly flashed to the small, short brown-haired girl that had been invading my dreams for the last couple nights. Her timid smile and playful brown eyes setting my heart on fire even though she was a hundred miles away. Watching her leave in that car, dust flying behind the tires, was almost crippling as I was left behind. It was as if the softest parts of me left with her, leaving only the broken solider behind. The only thing keeping me here was the thought of her being safe as far away from her un
Chapter 43 – The FarmerEvery crunch and crack through the woods had me on edge as I travelled alone down the road. It had been hours, or had at least felt like hours, since Simon had left me with some vague instructions and a pat on the head. What I wouldn’t give right now to be able to sprout wings and take off in whatever direction I chose. Instead, I’m stuck walking down an empty road, in a heat so thick that every part of my body had a thick sheen of sweat covering it. I’m sure that if I could catch a glimpse of myself in a mirror, my hair would be sticking out in every direction, the curls springing around my head from the heat as they attempted to escape their prison that was the ponytail. Not that I had anyone to impress anyway.I knew I was getting close to the little town Simon had told me about when the forest began to give way to large open fields, and large cattle roamed around wooden fences. Small houses began to appe
Chapter 44 - Return*Simon*He should have been here by now.I paced back and forth through the shadows of the woods. It was easy to find the spot on the road where Keagan and Moira had been taken, even though wrecked car we had abandoned had already been taken away by whatever authority patrolled these roads. Large skid marks from sliding tires ran across the hot pavement, and a chill in the air left from the ghosts of the vampires led me right to where I should have been meeting Keagan.Leaves crackled under my dark boots, as I wore a slow path on the soft earth beneath them. The doctor was clear on his plan. He would approach the rouge pack, offer his services, and when they accepted and let their guard down, he would set off a sort of silver bomb of his own creation. Causing hopefully enough mass chaos that it would give him enough time to free Keagan and send him my way. He had left three days prior, and I was supposed to have Keagan in my custody th
Chapter 45 – Drip Drip. Drip. Drip. The sound of water hitting stone echoed through my ears, and I struggled to lift my heavy eyelids. It felt as though someone had placed hundred-pound padlocks on them, locking them closed. Drip. Drip. Drip. Moisture misted my face, and I could feel the soft droplets as they travelled down my forehead. My mind was fuzzy, swirls of colors dancing through my head as I attempted to organize them into neat piles that made some semblance of sense. Drip. Drip. Drip. I could feel something scratchy brushed up against my cheek, like I was laying on an old burlap sack. Funny, as I felt like as though I was a sack of potatoes laying in a cold cellar. A loud bang boomed around me, and my eyes fluttered, still unable to open, but more movement than I was able to pull from them. I couldn’t place what the loud sound was, but my head was spinning, and I was sure I could slip right back into un