Chapter 2 Better Together

Allison elbowed her attacker, pushed off and pulled her knife out. She turned around ready to fight but instead found herself having to suppress the laugh building inside her.

"Scott, what the hell are you doing out here?"

"I could ask you the same question." He was starting to catch his breath and was able to stand up straight again but still needed to hold his stomach.

"I came to talk to you I didn't like how we ended things."

A smile started to form on Scott's face and he took a step towards her but before he could respond they heard the howls again and this time they were even closer than before. Scott pulled Allison behind a tree and tried to listen to see where the howls were coming from.

"Can you tell where they're coming from or where they're headed?"

"It"s hard to tell. There's a lot of them but it doesn't seem like they are moving towards us it sounds like they are circling something."

"Circling what?"

"I don't know but I intend to find out. You should go home Allison I don't want you getting hurt."

Scott knew it was a long shot that she would go but he thought he would try. He really didn't want her to get hurt but he knew if it came down to it she could protect herself so he wouldn't force her to leave even though he doubted he could make her either way.

He could already tell by the way she was crossing her arms and had her head cocked to the side that she was coming with him.

"Sorry, force of habit had to ask."

She didn't even respond just nodded for him to lead the way. She did like his protective nature but sometimes she wished he didn't treat her like a damsel in distress because she for sure was not a damsel in distress.

They tried to walk as quietly as possible, which was very difficult with every branch and leaf making a noise that seemed to echo throughout the forest. Allison was following Scott's exact trail looking down the entire time when she suddenly bumped right into him. He had stopped dead in his tracks and she had bounced right off him. She moved back closer to him and got close to his ear to whisper. "Scott why did you stop, what's wrong, what do you see?" She still didn't see anything and that made her feel worse. It was too dark out and the only thing she saw was more trees.

"It's not what I see it's what I hear. It's Boyd and Erica they are the ones being circled but I still don't know who or what is circling them. I can't get a good scent there's just too many and I can sense that they are very strong. Definitely stronger than me."

Allison did not like the sound of that. A group of things that were stronger than Scott and they didn't know how many of them there were or where they were or what they wanted. She tried to keep the worry out of her voice even though she knew Scott would be able to sense it. "How far are Boyd and Erica from us?"

"Not far."

"How far are the things that are circling them?"

"Not as close but they are getting closer we need to hurry I have a bad feeling."

He started sprinting up ahead and she did her best to keep up. She didn't want to get separated from him when they didn't know what was out there. The howls continued as they ran deeper into the forest. She thought they were communicating their positions and how they would finally trap Boyd and Erica. But Scott and her were going to do everything they could to make sure that didn't happen.

After running for about 5 minutes they finally saw two figures emerge from the dark. Allison almost let out a sigh of relief but then realized the two were too tall to be Boyd and Erica. Scott must have realized the same thing because he stopped and put his arm out to make sure Allison stayed behind him. The two figures just stood there waiting not even flinching but Scott knew they had saw them. He also knew they were werewolves. He could smell their scent and it smelled like anger, hate, and death.

He grabbed Allison's hand and whispered in her ear, "just stay by my side ok, we are better together."

"I'm not leaving you."

She gave him a reassuring smile and squeezed his hand tighter as he turned to face the two werewolves when all of a sudden two more figures came running towards them from the side. They both got ready to fight but realized this time it was really Boyd and Erica. They were both out of breath and both looked terrified. But Scott felt a little better now because now there were four of them and only two of the other guys.

"Boyd what the hell is going on are you guys alright?"

Boyd tried to catch his breath before he answered. "Well… we were going to leave Beacon Hills tonight when all of a sudden we heard all of the howling and we could sense that they were not friendly howls. So we started to make our way back to town when we realized they were following us. We don't know how many but we just kept running but it seemed the harder we ran the closer they got like they were feeding on our fear."

"Alright well we better go now I don't want to run into anymore and those two don't look like they are going to attack so let's move before more show up."

He took Allison's hand and got ready to head back but he had spoke too soon. They were surrounded on all sides and they were outnumbered. They all stood closer together and prepared to fight. Allison pulled her knife out and Scott, Boyd and Erica all changed baring their fangs and claws. The werewolves surrounding them just kept moving closer and closer but none spoke and none changed.

Finally a man with a cane slowly walked closer and finally spoke.

"Scott I have heard a lot about you. I think it's time we talked."