4.

Chloe

Liz rechecked everyone's position in the house before we planned to execute our plan. When she got back she told me that the only change was that one of the werewolves that had been in the basement with Derek, had moved to the kitchen to prepare dinner. This was perfect since now I had only one werewolf to deal with down in the basement. Of course there was the thing that I couldn't exactly fight a werewolf, let alone multiple werewolves except possibly Derek, but that was because I fought what he would call dirty.

Anyway on Liz's signal I opened the door to the hallway and we stepped out and headed towards the stairs. In my mind I kept chanting that I didn't force myself to keep quiet. According to Derek he could hear me better when I'm forcing myself to stay quiet, so hopefully it was the same for these guys. Liz moved beside me and was actually quiet for once, not that I'm complaining or anything, but sometimes it could get a little too much if you know what I mean.

I walked slowly, not forceful down the stairs when I stopped in the middle of the stairs. Voices came from the living room on the right side of the stairs and I knew that it was a stupid thing to do right now, but my curiosity won over and I listened in on their conversation.

"Have Clay and Jeremy broken through to the Mutt yet?" said a young man. He sounded like the young guy from the forest who called me kitten. Liz pointed out the voice, as the guy she thought was the cute one.

"No, the only time they ever seem to break through to him is when they begins to talk about the girl," Elena answered. "He seems rather protective of her, don't you think so Nick?"

"Yeah, you should have seen him when he tried to protect her in forest," Nick laughed. "He practically tried to kill the poor guy from the café for touching her and again when I tried to retrieve her in forest. Man, he went crazy and that Mutt kind of reminds me of how protective Clay are over you and the kids."

"He does not," Elena argued, but she too laughed along with Nick. "Alright, the Mutt's overprotectiveness reminds me of Clay, but you better not tell him that. He would probably kick your ass for that comparison."

"Probably," Nick anticipated. I was "You are aware that that little girl is standing in the middle of the stairs right now, listening on our conversation and trying to get her boy-toy and escape."

I didn't hear Elena's response, but a second moment later both the young guy from the forest and Elena came out from the living room and stood right in front of Liz and me. Okay, new plan. Just get through this without getting caught and killed, I thought before I gave Liz a signal to take offensive action. I turned and saw Liz focusing her powers before she used it to lift a little yet heavy statue and hit Nick on the side of his head. Nick stumbled down in surprise; meanwhile Elena was about to pounce when Liz once again knocked her out with another statue.

I ran the rest of the stairs and Liz directed me towards the basement. As we ran I could hear someone going towards the stairs, so it was possibly the guy from the kitchen heard or sensed that something wasn't right and went to check up on Nick and Elena, which meant I didn't have much time before this other guy would be after me. So when we reached the door to the basement, I pulled it open and got face to face with a totally different guy. He looked similar to Elena, blond-haired, blue-eyed and well built. The only difference was that Elena was attractive, while this guy was heart-stopping gorgeous and at the same time had the charm of a viper. For a moment he looked at me for a second, like he wasn't sure who I was and what he was going to do with me, but when that moment passed he must have taken a decision that I was a potential threat and was about to attack. I don't know why I did it, but I gave Liz the signal to knock him out while I took a shot and punched him straight in the face. Then Liz used her power and threw something at this guy real hard. He was definitely surprise by both assaults as he fell and rolled down the basement stairs. I gazed down at him and half expected him to stand up again to kick my ass, but it seemed like he had lost consciousness. Tentatively I walked down the stairs and when I got to the bottom of the stairs, I moved as far away from the unconscious body as I could. This is too weird. It wasn't supposed to be this easy to fight werewolves. You have been shot, attacked by both living and dead people and almost getting killed by a group of crazy supernaturals. None of that have ever been this easy, I thought to myself in panic. Derek had told all those stories about werewolves and how challenging it was encountering the Pack and werewolves in general. So I couldn't help think that this was going way to smoothly, especially when it was just Liz and I. We are a good power-duo, but we are not that good or lucky.

After I asked Liz to be on the lookout for the last and still conscious werewolves, I gathered a closer sight of the basement and was shocked to find a huge lion cage in the middle of the room. Of course I knew about the cage when Liz mentioned it earlier, but seeing it with my own eyes was even more horrifying than I could even imagine. Tears was almost streaming down my cheeks by seeing my boyfriend locked inside a cage, lying on the floor, hurt and in pain from both the torture and the change process.

"Derek!" I shouted and leaped towards the bars that were separating us from each other. "Are you okay? Answer me please!" His clothes was scattered around the cage except for his underwear, which he was still had on whenever he changed into a wolf, but his head was bowed down and his arms was wrapped around his stomach like he was holding it in pain. But when he heard my voice his head tilted up and I stared into those beautiful green eyes, I saw all the pain and fear he was currently feeling.

"Chloe?" Derek said surprised, almost like it was unexpected to see me here, trying to rescue him. However the surprise changed fast into anger and worry, meaning he was going to snap on me again. "What are you doing here? Are you crazy fighting Pack werewolves alone?!"

"I'm here to rescue you and get us out of here!" I snapped back at him. "And no, I'm not being stupid or crazy and don't you dare accuse me of being such!"

"Well, coming here is not exactly your brightest idea so far," Derek said sarcastically. He moved closer to the bars to be closer to me. I wasn't sure if it was to be closer to argue with me or to be actually close to me and make sure I was alright, but I figured that it was possible a mix of those two options unless Derek decided to be spontaneous and do something unexpected, which was highly unlikely since Derek is definitely not spontaneous.

"Whatever you say, Derek," I said. "Are you okay? You don't look so good. Is it because you are about to change right now?"

Before Derek could answer any of my questions, his head bowed down and his back snapped as a preparation for his change. All annoyance with Derek disappeared and was replaced with worry. I leaned in closer to comfort him, but it was difficult to do so because of the bars. I could of course try and get the keys from the guy who was lying unconscious on the floor, but I was kind of scared to go near him since I felt that he could just unexpected pounce and attack if I tried anything. Luckily I managed to reach out my hand and stroked his back; slowly Derek began to relax and looked less panicked.

"Feeling better?" I asked.

"Not really," Derek said breathless. "I should probably get on my fours and get ready for pain more horrible than death."

"You should probably do that before these guys come back to it and you get an awkward audience," I said, trying to make a joke. However I realized quickly that it was rather a bad attempt at the moment. "Don't worry, Liz is standing guard by the door and I think this guy might stay blacked out for while yet, but I don't want to take any chances. Anyway this is more important right now than our escape."

"You should go," Derek grunted as he stretched his arms and legs and went on his four. "I'll be fine, so go before they get the chance to hurt and kill you for doing something stupid like taking out werewolves alone with just a ghost as backup."

"Hey, she is first of all the best ghost protector ever, so don't judge!" I exclaimed. "Secondly, I'm not leaving you here alone while you're about to change in a house filled with werewolves that can possibly kill you in hundred and nineteen ways without anyone ever finding your body again."

For second he looked at me like he waited for the punch line in this joke, but when he didn't get it he shook his head. I'm pretty sure he was thinking that I was being far too stupid and stubborn for my own good, but he knew very well that I wasn't going to change my mind about staying so he didn't argue with me. And even though he didn't say it out loud, but both of us knew that he really didn't want me to leave and wanted me to stay while he was changing. Ever since the first time he changed back at Lyle House, I have always been helping through the pain and the fear he was going through. The only time he has changed by himself was that time I was captured by the Edison group back at Andrew's safe house, but he hated it and refused to do it alone or with anyone else other than me. I felt both embarrassed and pleased that Derek felt so comfortable with me, that he was okay with me watching him change only in his underwear.

It didn't take long before Derek's body began changing. His human features were replaced with paws and black fur grew out. And despite the circumstances things seemed to go smoothly with his change. Derek was almost completely in his wolf form when a voice shouted and caught my attention.

"What are you doing?!"

I turned to look at whoever was shouting and was surprised to see an unknown man standing at the stairs, glaring at Derek and me with fury and oddly enough worry. The man seemed almost afraid

"Get away from him!" the man warned me, while keeping careful eyes on Derek. "Get away from him right now!"

"No-no, it's okay," I tried to handle this situation. "We have done this before. He's not going to hurt me. He wouldn't do it to me, and even if he did hurt he didn't mean hurting me."

I realized that my excuse sounded similar to excuses an abused wife would say while trying to defend her horrible husband. So it was no wonder he didn't look even slightly relaxed and moved closer and very tentatively.

"Please don't take me away from him," I begged. "He needs me and I need to be with him. So I'm going to ask again, please don't take me away."

Derek tilted up and looked at what were going on for a moment and the next moment he was looking at me in his wolf form. The man used the opportunity when Derek was completely in his wolf form and quickly grabbed my arms and pulled me away from Derek and the cage. This action didn't go very well with Derek, so he began growling and attacked the bars, trying to get hold on the man holding me. Even though Derek couldn't talk while he was wolf, you could easily understand what he was trying to say, hands off my girlfriend. I guess I should feel flattered that Derek was so protective of me, but right now it was doing a lot more bad than good.

"Derek!" I exclaimed, not wanting him to continue hurting himself while trying to break out of the cage and going all Godzilla on everyone. "It's fine. Everything is going to be fine."

That didn't seem to calm Derek even the slightest, and he looked ready to chew this guy's face off. The man that was holding my arm turned his gaze back at the handsome yet scary guy who had just woken up and began to stand up.

"Are you okay Clay?" my captor asked with concern in his voice. Mr. Handsome, but scary or I should rather say Clay, nodded his head and looked up towards the stairs. And almost immediately my captor seemed to have understood the gesture and continued. "Elena and Nick are fine, they were just knocked-out for a couple of minutes and the kids are still away with Paige and Lucas."

Clay nodded once again before he moved closer to the cage and carefully opened the door and closed it behind him. I don't know what he was going to do to Derek, but I only feared the worst when he too began to strip off all of his clothes and went on his fours to change into a wolf as well. I looked away because seeing Derek almost naked was one thing, but seeing a stranger naked was a whole different thing. Both my captor and I waited for sometime when Clay had transformed into a dark blond wolf and immediately began to attack Derek, who had focused mostly on my safety and me instead of worrying about Clay.

"W-what is he going to do?" I asked my captor and looked at him to read his expression, however he kept a straight face and continued to stare at the two wolves in the cage. For a minute I thought he was going to ignore my question, but he answered carefully:

"He's going to fight him. It is only fair that both parties are in the same form, whether they are wolves or not."

Derek and Clay circle around each other in the cage, waiting for one of them to make the first move. Neither of them seemed to want to cave in and make the first move, but in the end it was Clay that lost his patience and pounced at Derek. The blond wolf jumped on Derek's body and tried to overpower him by biting and putting his entire weight on Derek, smothering in the process. Somehow Derek managed to swiftly get out of Clay's grip, but didn't do anything to attacking him back instead waited for a perfect moment to strike his attack. And when Clay tried to once again pounce at him, but this time Derek was quicker and jumped and pushed Clay hard into the bars. Neither of them seemed to back down from the fight and continued trying to win over the other.

I was almost afraid to ask my next question, but I needed to know.

"How long will they continue fighting like this?"

"Until one of them is dead. That is how we handle mutts that we can't control."

I could feel my tears building up in my eyes and fear grow a hundred times worse. They were really going to kill him and for what, for causing ruckus in a local café. We have been through far worse near-death situations, so we were not going to die here. Not on my watch.

I began to struggle myself out of my captor's grip, but he kept a tight grip on my arm and was way stronger than you would assume for someone who looked like he was in the beginning of his forties. I didn't get discourage and instead I did everything I could to get him to release his grip. Nothing seemed to work and then I saw Liz hovering on my captor's other side. She seemed to understand what I wanted her to do without me saying the actual words. She concentrated and lifted a whip and began throwing a whip at my captor. However he seemed to have noticed this action and used his arm to block any major damage Liz used with the whip and was surprised to see a whip floating in mid-air without anyone handling it. He let go of his grip on my arm in order to do so, which gave me an opportunity to get Derek and I out of here. While Liz get him distracted, I ran over to the cage door and yelled out:

"Derek!"

The black wolf turned his attention on me for a short second, knowing well that it was dangerous to lose his guard when he was facing a far more experienced opponent, and he seemed to understand what I wanted him to do, but he quickly tried to get Clay of his back literally and ran towards the door with Clay following after him. I knew that this was one-shot attempt to get Derek out of the cage; I opened it so Derek could escape and closed it a second later just as Clay was about to escape the same way Derek did. Somehow I managed to lock it, so Clay could get out and neither Derek nor I wasted time and hurried up the stairs. I could hear my captor call after us, but we didn't stop and continue towards the main entrance and ran out the door like the devil was chasing after us.

We made it only to the front yard when Elena, Nick and Clay appeared on the front porch. I had not clue how they managed to catch up to us so quick, but I didn't have the time to question it at the moment. They seemed to have made a battle plan how to take us out as Elena and Nick moved towards me, meanwhile Clay headed straight towards Derek. I moved closer to Derek, feeling his soft fur brushed my legs and I looked down and saw Derek standing in front of my legs. It was his wolf way of saying 'don't get any closer', which I supported at the moment. I prepared myself that I was going to raise the dead corpses that was scattered around this entire property meanwhile Derek looked ready to pounce back at Clay.

"Enough!" my captor from the basement commanded. Oddly enough all of them including Clay moved their gaze at the man and followed the man's command. I thought it was strange that they all had this plan they were about to execute and then they give up on it like nothing had happened. Then I realized this guy must be the Alpha of the Pack, meaning the big mafia boss among werewolves. Okay, now we are definitely screwed.

"You two," the man said with authority and pointed at Derek and me. "Come back inside. We shall talk about this, so we can get to the bottom of this mess."

Derek and I looked at each other for a second, considering what the man was suggesting. We both concluded that what the Alpha suggested seemed reasonable and besides it wasn't like we could outrun them or fight back since they was stronger and far more experienced fighting than Derek, Liz and I combined even with our modified powers. So we followed after the Alpha back into the house, escorted by Elena, Nick and Clay. This was going to be interesting, I thought as I walked into the house and the door was shut.

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New chapter, I hope you like it. I'm working on the last two chapters right now and then this story will be officially complete. I can't wait and I hope more of you will appreciate this story despite me not writing on my stories. It might not be this long story you all expect, but I do believe it is worth reading. The idea behind this story was that I began see these similarities between characters from DP and WOW series and I thought it might be interesting to write a story where these characters meet each other.

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