My feet moved faster as I heard something approaching. I was running through the forest, where I was exactly, I had no clue. I could sense whatever the thing was getting closer. I pushed myself harder, clutching on to the human in my arms. I chanced a look behind me, wolves. Massive, sprinting wolves, and they were coming for us. The one closest to me was a dark gray colored one, it was about 30 feet away, but it was moving fast, snarling as it came closer.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the black one, the biggest of them all, throw its head back. It opened its jaw and let out the most deafening, hair-raising howl I had ever heard. I leaped over a fallen tree, shooting forward, gaining a little more distance from the wolves.
I looked ahead, attempting to find an escape route, but what I saw made my dead heart seize. There were more massive figures approaching from the front, no doubt the rest of the wolf pack. They must have heard the howl.
"Shit." I said. We were screwed. There was no way I could outrun them all; there must have been fifteen, at least. To add to my situation, I had no idea how to fight them. I thought fast, how the hell could I get away? I looked all around, running in a zigzag trying to make the beasts lose their footing. I was desperately trying to gain a few extra seconds.
I zagged at the last possible second, changing my course when I was inches from hitting a huge tree. The black wolf that had been closely trailing me hit it with its shoulder, unable to move the direction of its path quick enough.
'Ouch.' I thought. I looked up, some of the trees must have been 50 feet in height and were built pretty sturdily. Trees… Something pinged in the back of my mind at the word.
The trees, of course!
"Hold on." I said to the girl I was carrying, feeling her arms cling tighter around my neck. I sped up my sprint, flinging dirt behind me as my feet pushed off the forest floor.
I felt rather than heard their paws hitting the ground; they were even closer. With another glance backwards I could see a russet colored wolf break away from the others, I hissed at the mutt and it growled in response. Looking forward I picked one of the biggest trees. It was now or never. The wolf's teeth snapped and I felt its warm breath across the nape of my neck as it lunged, mouth open.
Milliseconds before it sunk its teeth into me, I sprung off the ground and catapulted into the air, latching onto a tree and climbing as fast as I could without dropping my precious cargo.
The wolves growled and barked at the base of the tree, unable to jump high enough to reach me. Howls filled the air.
"Holy shit, they're fucking huge wolves!" The human girl said, bringing her head up from my chest and opening her eyes.
"I wonder how the hell they got so big." I said in return. "We're lucky, they almost got us."
The girl shivered. "Well I'm glad you're some sort of super-freak now. Or else I'm sure they would have."
I nodded my head in agreement. Accidentally taking a deep breath to calm myself. Big mistake, I stiffened as the scent of her blood filled my nose. My throat burned and I could feel how close her warm blood was.
I was holding her close to my chest, and the way she had her neck craned to look down at the scene below us gave me a perfect look at her jugular. I could actually see the blood pumping through it. Her heart rate accelerating as one of the wolves snarled loudly at us.
Yes, the smell of the blood was appealing, but thinking about drinking someone's blood was disgusting. I knew that the burning in my throat would probably go away if I drained all the blood of the human in front of me. Blood seemed to be what caused the pain to flare in the first place, but the thought of literally drinking someone's blood was off-putting and made me feel nauseous. Blood had always freaked me out, even as a human I couldn't stand how it smelled. Not that I had spent much time as a vampire.
Suddenly my ears picked up on another sound, something else moving towards us at a high rate of speed. I blinked, breaking out of my trance. Listening closer I heard it was multiple animals, but it didn't sound the same as the wolves' running. Feet. That's what the sound was.
Oh God, I thought, He found us and this time he wasn't alone. I braced myself readying for a fight as the figures came into view. However what I saw was not what I expected, seven of the most beautiful people I had ever seen came running towards us at an inhuman speed. My fear was instantly overcome by feelings of wonder when a ray of sunlight broke through the clouds and shone on them.
They sparkled like they were made of diamonds.
'Just like him.' I thought. If my heart was still beating I would be going into cardiac arrest. 'Fuck, fuck, shit, goddamnit. Other shiny people. And there was no way I could escape this time. But wait, did they look… afraid? Of me? This was gonna be interesting.'
Suddenly I heard a growl and my thoughts turned to panic. 'Oh God, the wolves. They're running to their deaths.'