" If any of you come any closer, I will rip out his heart!" the young and rageful lycan shouted at the oncoming guards." Tell your men to back down!" Andre ordered.

" Do as he says, ...now you idiots!" the vampire lieutenant commanded his surbordinates as they they follow his request.

" Now where is Tori?" Andre said tightening his chokehold on the hostage.

" Who is Tor...oh the young female lycan." Gabriel choked out under Andre's hold. " She's in there." He said pointing to a cellar door. Beck ran in behind Andre, he had betrayed his own kind to help Andre, Tori and Robbie who were of lycan descent as he was of vampire descent. He was bethrothed to the daughter of the vampire elder Thorne. Her name was Jade, but even though their union was arranged because he was the son of a noble; they were very much in love. He was also friends with Jade's cousin Caterina, who was caught in a forbidden love affair with the lycan Robert. While on a campaign deep in lycan territory Beck's militia was decimated leaving only he and a handful of his men to keep a hungry horde of werewolves at bay. Andre and his group backed the wolves away from Beck and his men gaining Beck's gratitude and respect. He never looked at lycans the same way again. From then on he secretly fought to keep the lycans from being oppressed under the rules of Thorne West and Caleb Beck had returned home he told Jade of what had happened and the two along with Cat became silent freedom fighters for was enslaved by a vampire general and was about to be beheaded when Beck seeing as he had no choice but the kill the general. Cat removed Robert from the prison and have been meeting romantically ever since. Beck told Robert of the safe haven Andre had sending him on his way with food and water. Robert became stronger becoming second-in-command of Andre's rebellion forces. Vampire leaders assumed it was Andre who killed the general so they ransacked his hideout and took his fiancee Victoria as collateral. Now Beck is with Andre against a small army of vamps as they try to retrieve Tori.

" I'll go get her, just keep your hold on him." Beck said putting his hand on Andre's shoulder. Andre nodded never taking his eyes off the others in front of him. Beck made his way down the stairs into the dank and musty cellar.

" Victoria! Victoria!, can you hear me!" Beck shouted. He heard the movement of chains and began to run to where the sound was coming from.

" Victoria is that you?!" Beck yelled.

" Beck is that you?!" she said tiredly as she stood up running to the cage bars.

" Yeah it's me." he said relieved to find her unharmed.

" What are you doing here, you'll blow your cover; they'll kill you!" she shouted she thought of the worst reason why Beck would be risking every thing to see her.

" Oh my god, Beck please tell me Andre is okay please." she grabbed him near tears as he opened the cage to remove the toothed brace from around her neck.

" No,no Andre is okay Tori, but he killed about twelve soldiers to get to you." Beck said impressed. " He's upstairs holding Gabriel hostage to get you out." he said finally freeing her of her shackles" He really loves you a lot." Beck said instantly thinking of Jade.

" I love him too." Tori said smiling." But sometimes he can be a bonehead." she said as she began running up the stairs to stop him from possibly killing Gabriel. Tori didn't want Andre to come and risk his life for her, but that was like asking him to not breathe. He needed his air. Tori was his air." Andre don't kill him, let's just get out of here." she yelled to anybody could get through to him over his lycan rage it was her. Andre threw Gabriel to his men and backed away slowly.

" You really think I'll let you leave now, let alone live." Gabriel spat venomously as his eyes shined blue." Especially you Beckett, the son of a noble who betrayed his own kind to side with these filthy, smelly growled and crouched in an attack were insults she,her sister and mother had endured her whole life and she despised hearing them. Andre put a hand on her back reassuringly while smiling, letting her know that he had a plan. They fought together many times in battle, and she knew when he was biding his hallway was dark except for the light coming from the torch.

" Now Beck you will die with your dogs!" Gabriel leapt forward, while Andre grabbed the torch and lit the carpet in front of them ablaze,creating a fiery distance between them and the soldiers. Gabriel landed only a foot in front of the flames causing him to leap back to his men. When he looked beyond the flames he saw no sign of Andre, Tori and Beck.

" Rob, lets move before they put out those flames." Andre said helping Tori onto his nodded as he and Beck lead the way with Andre behind them and Tori holding him and resting on Andre's back as they rode to safety.

" Gabriel should we go after them , we are ready at your command." one of his soldiers spoke up.

" No, no young soldier, we well set up camp outside the walls of the palace in case they bring back reinforcements." Gabriel turned to the vampire and grabbed him by the collar of his breastplate." Thorne and Caleb will not find out about this, is that understood!?"

" Yes my lord." the soldier said cowaring beneath the lieutenants' grasp.

" Very well then, get food and supply and bring them so we can make camp"Gabriel turned back to the flames and glared beyond them with a sadistic smile."I am going to personally put that lycans' head on a pike, and then I am going to kill everyone he loves.

Early Morning

" Tori, Tori wake up." Andre lightly shook four of them made camp in the forest for the night after riding for about 40 miles straight. Between that and the encounter with Gabriel and not to mention the time it took to find Victoria, Andre was worn out. He and Rob were exhausted and if the four of them were attacked, they would have been no good to Victoria and Beck. Now that it was morning they needed to eat and get back to their secondary headquarters. Being out in the open, especially during the day would only put them at a disadvantage. Since Beck was a vampire he was hiding in a nearby by small carvern that shadowed him from the morning sun. Andre,Victoria and Robert were young lycans being around only 100 years old, while Beck was 345 years old. The older a lycan is the more control they have over their wolf-like state,and you also gain the ability to build up a resistance to silver and you control the abilty to transform at will, not only during a full moon. The three were very strong in their human form though, and had trained themselves for were battle during full moons they rarely transformed in battle, but having the ability to tranform at will gives them a strong that they were lycan and not werewolf, they could revert back to their human form at will also. Andre stood up from the ground looking and taking in his could smell damn near everything. The trees, the dew covered rocks, the creek that was a mile up, and even his vampire friend, Beck in the cave. He had risk losing Jade in order to help free Tori, but luckily Caterina knew how to get out of the palace undetected, so that Jade could see Beck. Nonetheless Andre could imagine Beck was worried about her safety, and Rob about Cat's." Vic, I'm going to talk to Beck." he said rubbing her back as she rose to her feet.

" I'm going with you, but I smell deer about 500 yards from here and I think we should take advantage while their still close." she said kissing his lips.

" Yeah I smell them too." They turned around to see Robert walking up to them.

"Well, let's get us some breakfast." Andre said before three leapt into the trees and in the direction of their prey.