Chapter 26
I quickly put all three girls in the car. I give the car keys to Willow with Kimberly and Michelle in the back. My priority was getting them out alive.
I could hear the movement outside. We were being surrounded. It could only be the rouges. They had found me again because I went to the Royal Moon pack.
I’ve had a few run-ins over the years but only one or two at a time who were trying to prove themselves by bringing me in. I killed all that tried. I could sense that this time there were at least ten so this was a more co-ordinated attack. One of the rouge Alpha's has sent a team to claim me as his.
I had a hidden a stash of weapons beind a false backing i had built into the shelves. I torn everything off revealing my guns and other weapons and I start putting on a battle suit over my PJ’s.
Michelle is crying and scared in the back. “You’re coming with us right”.
“I will meet you at Royal Moon pack. Call Liam and tell him you’re coming”.
“No. Get in the car”. She looks at me with pleading eyes.
“WHEN WILL YOU GET IT. THERE NOT AFTER YOU AND WILL KILL OTHERS TO GET TO ME”.
All three girls just stare at me with tears in their eyes. I can smell their fear filling the space in the garage. I have no reassurance I can give them other than I will protect them with my life if I have to.
“Willow. Just focus and drive to the pack. Michelle call Liam and tell him. No matter what happens, don’t stop driving”.
I start to open the electric garage door. Willow turns the car on as soon as it opens a fraction. As the door goes up, we can see the shadow of a creature waiting for us. A wolf in Lycan form.
The girls scream at the monster coming out of the shadows. A 6ft half wolf, half man. They would all be in Lycan form. I jump on the roof of the car and with my gun shoot him with silver in the head. He dropped dead instantly and shifted back to human. The gunshot should have warned the humans to stay inside and out of the way. I needed them out of the way.
I scream at Willow “DRIVE” and she speeds off. I follow on foot as I know the car will be a target but they need to get out. We come across two more standing at the entrance to the street. I leap forward partially shifted and use my knives to start fighting them. I tackle them off the road so the car can keep going and start my attack.
I skilfully slice through weak spots. They try to dodge the attacks but it’s not long before I have stabbed both and they are dead in shifted human forms.
The girls are still going in the car. I continue to follow and now I can see the full extent of the rouge attack. They are all behind chasing us. At least 20. If they are behind and chasing I know we have breached the perimeter they set up and there should be no more ahead.
I know the freeway is coming up and at this time of night it should be pretty clear. Even in wolf or lycan form, they couldn’t keep up with a car going over 100. The girls could get away.
I turn towards the nearby forest. I will know it better than them so will have the upper hand. I will also not be out in the open and an easier target.
I'm running through the trees in human form down one of the trail tracks I know. My body burns with adrenaline as I feel nothing but my will to survive.
I hear the sound of a shot but not the bang that comes with a bullet. I managed to dodge it. I see a dart lodged in the trunk of a tree. Of course, they brought a dart tranquilizer. They need me alive.
In the forest, I start running towards the center so I can get on the main trail to the national park. They must have anticipated this as four were waiting. I fired a shot at one a got a kill but the next shot missed. They start charging me so I pull out my knives and launch at them. We continue to battle with me slicing at them every chance I get. I know to go for weak spots like the back of the knees and major arteries. With each thud of death I know i have more of a chance.
Once I kill them all and start running again.
I start to hear a helicopter overhead. That’s how they are planning to take me to a far-off cage quickly. They knew I was dangerous and couldn’t risk me escaping. Not again. I had to keep running.
I came to a large cleaning in the forest and see two more ahead of me and then two come up behind me. They start circling me planning how to attack. One leaps towards me and I start to attack with my knives again as he starts trying to use his claws. That's when the other three other join in.
I can feel the pain on my side one lands a strike to my ribs, cracking them. There are snapping teeth and claws everywhere and I’m doing as much damage as I can while trying to avoid more major injuries.
I then feel a sharp sting in the back of my leg. They were just a distraction. I start to get weaker and they throw me to the ground with a sickening thud.
A large jet-black wolf with piercing yellow eyes then comes running out of the forest. This must be who wants me. This must be who is in charge and has come to claim his prize.
Then everything goes dark and I know I have lost my freedom and my life.