A/N: Bonjour, again! It continues! Please review once you're done reading and let me know what you think... and other than that, I hope you enjoy reading!

Chapter 2- Lucia

The minute the wolf was on Rory, Lucia knew what she had to do.

She'd seen it on Animal World a bunch of times: wolf attacks, lion attacks, tiger attacks. She had to jump on the animal's back and cling on for dear life, because the minute she was on it at the right angle there was nothing it could do to her. But then again, this wasn't an average wolf, lion, or tiger.

But Lucia knew one thing: if she didn't want Rory to end up like poor Aada, she'd have to act fast. Emil looked like he was in a bit of a shock, so she couldn't count on him to do anything. So, completely risking ruining her favorite top forever (the rain had done half the job for her), she leapt on the giant wolf.

The minute she was on it, and it shrieked, Lucia realized what a bad plan that was. Now what? She couldn't just get off. She'd most likely get herself killed. But she knew that if she hung out hugging this guy's back like she was, she'd eventually get killed as well.

"Emil!" She cried. Emil, however, wasn't concerned in the wolf just yet… he'd seemed to have noticed that the fire was closer to them than any of them had considered. If she blocked out the paralyzing fear for a second, she could hear the roaring flames.

Then she heard the roar of the beast she was on, and knew she had to focus. "Rory!" She called him instead, hoping he was alive. She got a faint sound, but that alone was confirmation that Rory hadn't become wolf feed.

Meanwhile, she was facing greater problems.

The wolf was trying to shake her off now, saying non-helpful things like, "You're as good as dead!" and "Foolish girl!" in a foreign language- Norwegian, she guessed. Her only question was how she had noticed, and more importantly, understood, it.

She had let her guard down for only one second when the wolf threw her off his back. Screaming, she hit the corner of the room. Her entire body was sore from landing on the ground. She groaned, and looked up at a pair of livid red eyes. Her brain began ticking. She began to shake, when suddenly she heard Emil- who was far out of the picture so far- say the first thing since the wolf had entered.

"Wait!" Internally Lucia rolled her eyes. Way to be helpful. Then, Emil continued. "What… Who are you?" Lucia managed to breathe as the wolf turned from her to Emil. She had to admit, keeping him talking was clever. Something Rory would have come up with… Rory. She had to make sure he was still alive.

But the wolf was blocking her from getting to Rory, or Emil, or even Aada, so there was nothing Lucia could do but wait and pray to a God she didn't believe in.

Her life had never been easy: living with a single father, who was more interested in hanging with his Golf Buddies or dating every single woman who showed interest in him than Lucia, and on top of that, having two- three, if you counted Aada- friends. Now, though, her life was even more difficult than ever. Two of her friends had been attacked, one of them possibly dead, and a third was putting his life on the line to keep this beast talking.

Somehow, though, it worked.

"You don't know me?" The wolf scoffed. Lucia's heart hammered in her chest, but she managed to restrain herself from yelling a battle cry and launching herself at the wolf again. "Ah, but then, I don't suppose he told you…"

"He?" Emil asked. Lucia had to admit, she admired his courage. She just wondered how long it would last before it ran out.

"Ooh, you don't know at all, do you?" The wolf chuckled, almost, and then continued on saying, "Fresh meat…" And then Lucia yelped. She tried not to, but the fire was so close. The wolf whirled around and glared at her, and then back at Emil, as if he wasn't even concerned about being burnt to a crisp.

"I am Fenrir, the most powerful-" He was interrupted again by Lucia's shriek. Then, Fenrir turned around and lunged at him. "Have some respect, insolent girl!" He screamed. Lucia screamed as well, and she was pretty sure Emil screamed too. Their shouts filled the red-hot room, and the next thing Lucia knew was the world turning to black and a voice- a different male voice- saying something like, "The problems with mortals is that they drop like flies. So fragile…"

A/N, continued: So this was a bit shorter than I'd like the average chapter to be. I'll be sure to make the next one longer. Thanks for reading! Please make sure to review! And if you'd like to talk in a PM, I'm totally down for that. Until next time, bye!