Chloe meets Maya ~
I followed Derek into the woods. He's been having a lot of Changes lately, though he still can't control them. We'd been on the run for quite a while now, so it's not like this was new. If anything, it's kinda become a routine.
We stopped in a small clearing. I felt his lips against mine. I caught a glimpse of a girl watching us, but shook it off. Probably just a curious ghost. That's the downside of being a necromancer. I never know who's alive and who's just a ghost before making a fool of myself. Maybe it was real, maybe it wasn't. Didn't matter.
"Ready?" I asked him, pulling away. Derek nodded, and got down on all fours. He had stripped just before entering the woods. And the Change began. Me gently whispering and rubbing his back, him struggling to get through with it. The Change passed by faster each time. Before I even knew it, I was kneeling next to a wolf. I was going to go through the the usual checklist-hide and seek or tag, then an attempt to Change back. But I couldn't shake off the feeling that we were being watched.
Suddenly, the girl I caught a glimpse of before got up from the brush were she had been hiding and watching us, dry leaves crackling under her feet. I could feel Derek's muscles tense beside me, ready to pounce, as he growled softly. The girl looked about a year or two older than me, and obviously Native with black hair and brownish eyes. "Hi, are you..." she started, but was cut short by Derek's snarl.
"Derek, stop." I said. He gave the girl a glare, but listened anyways.
"Are you, by any chance, part of Project Genesis? " she continued.
"No." I replied, looking away. How did she know about that? Was she a trap, sent by the Edison Group? Or maybe even a subject, but I didn't trust her. After my experience, I've learned to guard my trust very carefully.
I guessed she knew I was lying, so she smiled and introduced herself.
"I'm Maya. Maya Delaney."
"Chloe Saunders."
Then I knelt down and whispered into Derek's ear, in a low voice that you would only be able to hear with supernatural enhanced hearing. "Isn't that Liz's last name? "
"Elizabeth Delaney? " Maya asked. Maybe she was supernatural, too. There was no way she could've heard that if she wasn't. She probably was a trap. Not trying to hide my surprise, I nod. Then I get the hell out of there with Derek at my heels. Maya didn't try to go after us. She just shouted at us, but there was no way I was going back there.
[A/N: This is NOT Part of the trilogy, just my idea how the two groups first meet. Chloe's POV (point of view) based on Kelley Armstrong's YA ( young adult ) series - Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising.]