This chapter is in Davey's POV.


I was lying in the hallway on the third floor. My head rested upon my backpack as I watched a total of two people walk by. School wasn't very crowded this early in the morning, but I could hardly sleep last night and I needed to come in early if just to think. What happened last night was so sudden. I kept dozing off.

Why was I so tired?

Well, last night my parents went out to eat and decided to leave me home to 'baby-sit' my younger brothers. I mean, one of them is only three years younger than me, the youngest is in Kindergarten, so that makes sense, and the third is in between them. Anyway, the phone rang several times but I was opting not to answer it. I didn't want to know if anything even remotely interesting was happening that I wasn't aware of. Of course if they wanted to they could have just left a message. Anyway, without going off on another tangent, everything was perfectly fine.

I had finally gotten my two youngest brothers to sleep while I stayed up with Dan, the eldest of the three, and played video games in the basement. We were in the middle of a fight, my character Ike vs his character link vs computer character Donkey Kong. We were both in the middle of beating up on Donkey Kong when I heard the doorbell ring. Now you're probably thinking, wow, the doorbell rang, how exciting. Either way, I went up the stairs to the chime of the grandfather clock that rested next to the second floor staircase.

I peered through the window and outside I saw a police officer and two strangers. One was a young, red haired student and the other a middle aged woman. I tried to look past them but I saw no lights and heard no sirens. Cautiously, I opened the door. "Is there a problem officer?" I asked.

He didn't respond to the question and instead replied, "Can I come in?" He shoved past me without another word. I looked at him and then at the two strangers behind him. Silently, I left, now uncertain that this was, indeed, a real police officer. I hurried down the stairs to fetch Dan, quickly explaining that it was a good idea to leave and call the police before something bad happened.

He went through the kitchen and to the back door while I headed up to the second floor and woke up my two youngest brothers. Making sure the coast was clear, we hurried down the stairs. I kept searching each room to make sure it was clear, and then I headed to the kitchen and down the hall to the back door.

There was now a loud, angry bickering coming from the living room. I could hear snippets of words such as 'it's not here' and 'how many houses do we have to search before we actually get the right one?' Simultaneously, there was a new, cracking sound like the snapping of bones.

There was no time to wonder what was going on. While Dan yanked open the door, trying to avoid that squeaking sound it always made, I caught a brief glimpse of reddish fur and heard the sound of gruff paws ripping through upholstery. Without hesitating, I shoved him and the others out the door and followed close behind, telling them to run.

A low growl behind me told me that something was after us. I turned to catch a glimpse, knowing full well that you should never look back at times like this. Sick yellow eyes glared at me from a body clothed in fur, it was dark so it was hard to determine the color. The snarling continued and I forced my brothers up a nearby tree. In an attempt to escape and direct attention away from them, I turned and started running in a different direction. The cloaked animal slowed down slightly and I made the mistake of thinking I had lost it. A sudden blow caught me from behind as the creature bull rushed me and knocked me down. I struggled to rise, turning onto my back, and felt its heavy paw thump on my chest. I could see its bloody maw, grinning with stained, yellowing teeth. I wondered whose blood it was. I didn't think about it too much as a stab of pain shot through my arm. The wolf like creature bit straight into my shoulder. I tensed, waiting for another attack when a howl pierced the darkness. The wolf, suddenly as it had come, retreated, baying into the darkness.

I could barely stop myself after the wolf left. I knew it wasn't raining and yet, there was water on my face. I made my way back to the tree my brothers had climbed and helped them down. The pain from the bite and the fear of their howl had left me shaken, but I was just glad that my brothers were alright.

We were too afraid to go inside, afraid that one of the wolves may have stayed behind to chew up whoever came back. I grabbed a cell from my pocket, lucky I had it, and called the police.

Upon arrival of the police, we sat in our neighbor's house. The police had come and so had our parents. Naturally they asked if we were alright, the usual. The paramedics took a look at the gash on my shoulder. We tried to retell the story, but it was hard to explain. Nothing seemed right, there had been no bodies. What had happened to the people who had been searching our house before the wolves appeared? I could only point to one idea and it was crazy. No self respecting officer would believe a story about werewolves. Hell, I wouldn't believe it myself if it weren't for the vampires only months ago. There were only a few people who would possibly believe me.

Now, I was at school trying to tell myself that the entire thing was a dream and that when I got home from school that day everything would be normal again. That the gash was just from some accident and I just couldn't recall it right. The pain began to subside, though the gash still remained. I couldn't cover it with bandages because of the awkward angle, but it wasn't too bad. As long as we weren't swimming, I'd be fine.

I started to doze off again when I felt someone shaking me. Looking up, I saw David. Behind him were two people, a boy with short, black hair and brown eyes, and a girl with reddish hair and green eyes. I motioned over to them, "Who're they?"

"This is Tom Ander-" David started before he was jabbed by Haley.

"Is there something I should know?" He asked.

"No last names, remember," she snarled.

"Right," he rolled his eyes in her general direction before finishing, "and that is Kate."

The girl known as Kate offered her hand, the boy, Tom, looked slightly peeved. I shook her hand and said, "Nice to meet you both."

"Davey, is something wrong?" Mel asked.

"No, why would you say that?" I smiled nervously, or at least I felt rather nervous. My stomach was doing flips.

"You never answered the phone, what did you think? you would miss out on something if you answered it?" She replied.

"I had to 'baby-sit' my brothers last night."

"Is that all? I mean one of them is only three years younger than you. Isn't he any help?" David must've known something and I couldn't just keep this a secret from my friends. He placed a hand on my shoulder, making me wince. He noticed, he must've noticed.

"Well, something interesting did happen last night," I answered slowly.

"Really? Like what?"

"Well," I paused with the strange sensation that he almost knew what I was going to say, "Some wolves ransacked our house and bit me."

"Bit you? Where!?" Kate asked, her smile replaced by a look of worry.

"My shoulder," I said as I uncovered it slightly. I didn't want to draw any unnecessary attention.

"The serum…" She whispered, trailing off.

"What?"

"Do you feel any cravings? Strange sensations? Anything different?" She asked.

"No to all of those."

"He's a silverblood," Kate stated.

"You've mentioned silverblood before, so what exactly is a silverblood?" Mel inquired.

"A silverblood is a natural resistor of the 'wolf gene."

"So the bite won't affect him?"

"No, not without going through a long process. But…"

"Didn't that girl, Katie, mention something about a serum?" Tom interjected.

"That turns silverbloods…it must shorten the time, weaken the resistance that a silverblood has," Kate finished.

"No wonder they're looking for it. I bet part of their plan is to use that on me."

"It would turn you into a full wolf."

"Uh, hello? Don't mind us but there are people around. It's 7:35; we only have five minutes before the first bell rings," Haley stated.

"Right then, we'll talk after school."

David was in the gym locker room. He grabbed his backpack and was about to leave when the locker door next to him slammed shut. Behind it was the face of Jarrett Parker, the boy they had met earlier on the field with Joe.

"Oh it's you," he stated casually.

"Who'd you think it was? A wolf perhaps?" His smug grin vanished when David didn't respond.

"Listen…"

"Do I have to? I wouldn't want to be late for class," he turned back toward the door.

Jarrett put a hand on his shoulder to stop him, but David shrugged it off.

"You may want to hear this."

"I'd rather not."

"It involves your friends," David stopped cold.

"What is it?" he replied without turning. His voice contained a trace of curiosity.

"You and your friends must stay out of any 'wolf related events. In other words, if any of you get involved with this more than you already are you'll be killed," he snarled menacingly, almost wolf like.

"What?"

"You heard me, and if you have any problems with that we can settle them right here, and I might turn, I mean change, your mind," with that he walked past with a smug grin on his face. Then he turned back, "Oh, I almost forgot. You know that friend of yours, what do you call him? Davey? I hear he was bitten."

"Yeah, what's it to you," he was tempted to snap back, but restrained himself.

"I was just gonna say that they want to run some quick tests on him."

David shook his head, "There's no way I'll let you…"

"You don't have a choice in the matter, unless you want anyone close to you to 'mysteriously vanish'," he threatened. A low snarl escaped his throat, "get in the way and they won't hesitate to kill you, you got lucky on the field, just caught us in a bad mood. If we had been sent out to kill we would have done so already."

"What's your point?"

"Don't interfere," his voice lowered significantly.

"So we're supposed to just let you kidnap him?"

"Putting it harshly, but yes, and from what I know, they'll let him go after they run the tests," he turned back towards the door.

David glared at him and waited until he heard the door close. Then he turned and walked out.

After school everyone seemed even more eager to get out of school than usual. Unlike most after school days, Katie had decided to join the group at our regular bus stop with Haley and Christine. Katie preferred waiting at her own bus stop, but today seemed more important. I waited for David and Mel to show up. I hadn't seen them upstairs; I had checked their meeting place by several of their lockers to no avail. Now I sat outside watching the threesome start some random fight about someone named Azure. I had heard mention of him before and only heard snippets of conversation.

"How long have you known about them…"

"I can't tell you now."

"Who bit him?"

"Just a little she-bitch, she's dead now though."

"Ooh, Haley's got a tongue."

"Yeah, you're the one who doesn't."

"I know, I know, lay off, I was kidding."

The door opened and, an irritated looking David walked past me, muttering a greeting.

"Where's Mel?" I asked, trying not to sound too worried.

"She'll be here soon," he answered candidly.

Christine couldn't help noticing his change of mood, "What's wrong David?"

"What makes you think anything is wrong?" he asked quietly.

"Well, for one thing, you're not insulting anyone," everyone turned to see Ali coming down the sidewalk.

"So now I just insult people on demand?" his face was humorless.

"What happened to your sense of humor?"

"It died when Jarrett threatened everyone," David explained everything he had said, but left out the parts about me.

"So now he's threatening us if we get involved with them?"

"Yep."

"So now what?"

"Where are Tom and Kate now?"

"With Mel."

"Hey, sorry we're late!" Mel came through the door with Tom and Kate trailing behind.

"I just got a call from Adam; he's staying in a hotel nearby. I think it's the same one you're staying at," Kate glanced at me. David shifted noticeably.

Christine noticed and walked over to him. She grabbed his shirt sleeve and he followed her away from everyone. I could hear snippets of conversation drifting to me, now and again, with several glances toward me. David seemed to give her a reassuring smile, I recognized that smile. It wasn't one he gave out too often; in fact it was almost rare. He only smiled like that when he was trying to hide something, or to advertently avoid a question.

Ali waved goodbye as her mother pulled up.

The bus came. It stopped in front and everyone got onto our bus except Mel, who claimed she had to attend to something at school. I figured they would get off at south campus and then walk home from there. The danger of walking out in the open suddenly occurred to me; that, and the realization that I had to get off at south to get a ride to the hotel.

I got off along with Katie, Haley, and Christine, Tom and Kate all of whom waved a parting. I took out my phone, and dialed our number only to find the hotel room unreachable. I left a message and hurried off after everyone else, "Hey, can I stay with someone until my parents call back; I just don't really trust anyone else right now around school."
"Yeah, you can stay with me until then," Haley replied.

They all reached the corner mailbox where they normally parted. It was a Monday, but Christine had managed to claim the trip to Haley's as a study group. Katie, who seemed rather impartial to anything, claimed she had too much to think about and headed home.

Upon entering Haley's house she showed Tom the spare bedroom. "Haley, we need to fill in some things," Christine said, "and I'm sure everyone else agrees that we need to know more about what happened with you."

"No. Why should I? It's not important to the current situation."

"No one is safe anywhere. If you check the attacks they are all in different locations. Several attacks were in LaGrange, a few in Burr Ridge; the attacks are random at best."
"They can't be random; I bet they've got a list somewhere, of houses they need to search."

"Even so, we don't know that any of our houses aren't on it. What we need to know is why Azure was attacked."

"Simple. A were-bitch who had already mated decided that she liked him enough to bite him. That was the first incident. I assumed that nothing else would happen like that again, but clearly I was wrong."

The phone rang, saving her from answering any more questions. She picked up the phone and left the room.

Christine sighed and gave in. She fell backward onto the couch and stared out the giant glass doors.

I sat next to her and said, "What we really need to find out is the connection between all the attacked houses and people."

"They might have a headquarters somewhere within the area," Kate mused.

The doorbell rang. Everyone grew tense, and Haley's voice rang from the smaller, room leading towards the door, "I'll get it, you all wait there until I say so."

They heard the sounds of a door opening, and then Haley's voice came through again, "Hi, Mrs. Korein, Davey's in the back."

I nodded goodbye before heading to my mother's car.

"Okay then, where were we?" Haley asked, taking my previous seat next to Christine.


Tell me what you think. By the way, any vampire or other references are from my fictionpress story, So You Want to be a Vampire. That story is in midst of being revised.