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6 Secret Friends
"It's an honor to meet you Leah Clearwater," Robert said. "But I think is better if you sit down for a while, something tells me that this is going to be a long conversation."
"We still have 13 hours 42 minutes and a few seconds, but who is counting?" Tyler added.
"So, what do you exactly want to know," I asked.
"Well, you already told us your name, where are you from?" I know they want to know what kind of creature I am, but Robert is taking the safe way, like he is more interested in knowing who I am instead of what I am, I like that.
"I come from a reservation called La Push, it's in Washington."
"You are from the United States?" Rob asked.
"You are a yankee?"
"Ty!"
"What? I always wanted a yankee friend! Oh, I am sorry, did I offend you?" Tyler asked me.
"Not at all," as a matter of fact I found his comment very entertaining, he reminds me to Seth.
"Is curious," Rob was talking to himself. "Volturi usually choose new members from there same continent."
"And from there same specie," Ty added. "How old are you?"
"22, just 22."
"What do you mean?" Tyler asked confused.
"I know a vampire who looks like a 17 teenager, but that is not his real age. How old are you?"
"Well, we look like we have 23, but our real age is 156 years," Robert answered with a smile. "You are very young, but you know a lot about this supernatural world, don't you?" I nodded.
Silence remained in the room for a while, and I knew it was time to start revealing my secrets, it was that or start talking about my favorite color, and I don't think they are very interest in that.
"There is nothing else I can tell you if I don't explain you what I am first," I said looking at them. "I am a werewolf."
"Wow, hold on girl! I have live all my life, well, almost all my life between werewolves and I think I can recognize one when I see it," Tyler interrupted.
"You don't understand, let me finish," I asked. "I am like a fake werewolf; I mean my body can take the form of a wolf."
"Of a werewolf or a wolf?" Robert asked.
"Of a wolf, you know, the animal with four legs that howls to the moon and has a pack and…"
"I think we know what a wolf is," Tyler interrupted again.
"Well, I am more like a special wolf, when I transform I am as big as a horse, I have extremely good senses and I am strong enough to kill a vampire. They call us shape-shifters."
"Wait, who is 'us'?"
"You mean there is more like you?" Tyler couldn't believe his ears.
"Of course," is it weird that I find their questions ridiculous? "We work as a pack."
"Ok, let me see if I understood, you are a shape-shifter, which means you can transform into a giant powerful wolf and there is an entire pack of people like you," Robert repeated.
"There are two packs actually, but that is a long story," I added.
"And you are strong enough to fight a vampire?" Tyler asked.
"I fight better when I am in my wolf form, but after the training Volturi forced me to do, I am able to kill one in my human form."
"Impressive," Robert commented. "This changes everything, with shape shifters on our side…"
"What?" I interrupted. "I told you we are on the human side; I am not calling my family so they end up fighting in another war."
"Another?"
"Family?"
"Stop paying attention to details! I knew this was a bad idea," I stood up and began walking towards the door.
"Wait! Leah!"
"Please let us explain everything to you!" I stopped when I heard Robert's words and I turned around to look at him. "I shouldn't have said that please let me explain you why we are here."
Against all my instincts I walked towards their cells again and I sat down waiting for him to start talking.
"As I said before, we are Tyler and Robert Pelgrim, we were born in 1854 in the capital of Austria, Vienna," Robert started explaining.
"We lived a pacific life, well, more like a normal life till the day we turned 23," Tyler continued. "Our father explained us that we had been chosen by our ancestors to be part of something very important, the group of the Vormunds, it means guardians or keepers in English."
"We thought he was joking, but it was all true. When we were little our mother used to tell us stories about werewolves and their mission to end with creatures like vampires, but not everyone could turn into a werewolf."
"But I thought," I interrupted. "That any person who was bitten by a werewolf would turn into one as well."
"That is partially true," Tyler commented. "In theory, it should work like that, but if we bite a child, a woman or an old person, they will die almost instantly. And with men, only the stronger ones survive the first transformation."
"That's why there is only a little group of selected families around the world who knows the real legends and feels honored to sacrifice their sons to protect the world from vampires."
"Depending on how bad the situation is, the leader of the team decides to transform or not a few teens to have a bigger group of werewolves."
"But transforming someone is not as easy as it sounds," Robert said scratching his head. "We keep our powers all the time, but we become stronger when we transform into werewolves, and that only happens once a month, with the full moon."
"But we can't control ourselves; we forget who we are and what we were doing and we start attacking everything that is around us, including our own teammates."
"With time, the older members can learn to control themselves, but not 100%, there will always be a part of us who will remain… how can I say it? The wild part wins over the human part, no matter how hard you try."
"That's why having more than one new member at the same time is so dangerous and unpractical for us."
"And it's the same reason why our group will never be bigger than the vampire's coven."
"Although one of us can take care of three or four of them in our real form, so technically we are even," Tyler added.
"There is something that I don't understand," I said. "You keep talking about a team, but as far as I know werewolves are nomads and they don't work as a group."
"Well, it was like that before the war between vampires and werewolves started, actually, that is the reason why our leader decided to transform us," Robert explained.
"Caius was exterminating every member of our kind, so there were left very few of us who were forced to work as a team to survive," Tyler continued.
"Is difficult to be with people like us in the same room, we are very competitive and we are not usually in a good mood, so you can imagine how hard it was for us to make that arrangement."
"So you've been hiding all this years making your pack stronger…"
"We are more like a team actually," Tyler corrected me.
"Ok, so your team is getting bigger with the years and now you are preparing to attack the Volturi to get rid of the vampire kingdom, that is why you've been gathering information, right?"
"Exactly," Robert nodded. "It was supposed to be more like a surprise attack, but vampires discovered that we weren't extinct and starting chasing us again."
"We lost almost half of the team in the last five years, but we are not going to hide anymore, it is time to give the final blow."
I was ready to make my next question, but I heard someone walking along the corridor that leads to the stairs of the dungeons.
"Someone is coming," they must have heard it as well, because they threw themselves to the floor before I could finish my sentence.
"What's happening? We've been talking just for an hour," Tyler whispered closing his eyes acting as if he was asleep.
"I don't know," I admitted.
"Leah!"
"Demetri? What's happening?"
He didn't answered, he just observed the prisoners carefully.
"They haven't move," it wasn't a question.
"Of course they haven't move, remember the drugs?" I asked him pointing the werewolves' food.
The sound of something crushing against the floor caught our attention.
"What's happening upstairs?"
"A couple of werewolves entered the castle."
"What?"
"I don't know anything else, Jane sent me here to check if these two were still here."
"You think they came to free there teammates?"
"It's the only explanation, but the real question is, how did they know we are keeping them alive?"
I remained silent and took my battle position when I noticed someone was coming downstairs. By muscles relaxed when we saw Felix; he looks really confuse.
"They are gone," he said.
"Gone? Why?"
"If I knew it Leah I wouldn't be down here, would I?" Felix said angrily.
"How many?" Demetri asked without looking away from the werewolves.
"Three, they all used different ways to get in; the door from Setcan alley, an old window from one of the human offices and an ancient pipeline."
"Did they use the same ways to get out?"
"Yes, it is like if they just got in to call our attention and then they just left."
"Did Jane send someone to follow them?"
"Of course she did! Come on Demetri is almost 12 o'clock and is the sunniest day ever," Felix answered with sarcasm.
"They wouldn't have entered if Caius were here."
"Caius is not here?" I asked.
"They obviously knew that," Demetri kept talking with himself ignoring me.
"You think there is a traitor between us?" Felix didn't like the idea.
"Not really," Demetri turned to look again at the prisoners, like if he knew they weren't asleep. "I don't want to keep them alive."
"Well you are not killing them under my guard," I said with a serious tone.
"You think you can stop me?" Demetri asked smiling.
"You know I can, and it's my mission to keep an eye on them so stay away," I put myself between him and Robert's cell.
"Demetri, Felix," Alec called them from upstairs. "Caius arrived."
Felix left almost immediately, but Demetri didn't move from his spot, he just kept looking at me with his intense red eyes.
"What?" I finally asked.
"You haven't showed so much determination since, well, a very long time."
"What are you talking about? You think because we lived some months together you know everything about me? Back off Demetri!"
"Interesting, very interesting."
Without saying another word he turned around and walked towards the stairs. What's wrong with him? He never talks to me like that, not that I care, but it is as if he knew something else.
"We have to leave," Robert whispered.
"You can't leave now," I told them.
"She is right Rob, we need to know more about her and her people, and we haven't told her anything about us," Tyler commented.
"Do you really think that was a random attack Ty?" Rob asked him. "Our teammates were sending us a message; we shouldn't have stayed so long."
"What do you mean brother?"
"There is no way they can know if we are alive or not, so they entered here to call our attention, it's like a 'were are you? Hurry up´ message. We have to leave now so they know we are still alive."
"You can't leave…"
"Leah there is no time to waste," Rob interrupted me.
"Don't you understand? The leeches are in there worst alert mood, if you try to leave now they are going to kill you."
"She does have a point there," Tyler supported me. "Besides, if we try to leave now we would cause trouble for her."
"Trouble for me?"
"Well, if we suddenly disappear from our cells, who do you think they are going to blame?"
"But Afton is going to replace me afterwards and he has no scent, it'll be more difficult for you to escape," I remembered.
"Please stop calling those leeches with there real names, is pathetic, besides, he does have a scent."
"What are you talking about? That is his gift, how could you possibly…?" that's when it hit me. "You are immune to vampires' gifts."
"Well, most of them," Rob said. "And with our ability to read minds it will be very easy to get out of here."
"Do you all have that ability? I mean, can all werewolves read minds?" I asked.
"No, but others have another abilities, some of them can even spit fire," I looked at Tyler skeptically. "Ok, maybe I was exaggerating, but they can do cool things too."
"Leah are you aloud to leave the castle alone?" Robert suddenly asked me.
"Only at night and for a few hours, I don't know what has been happening lately, but suddenly a lot of rebel groups appeared and there are not enough vampires on the guard to control the situation, so they constantly call me," I explained.
"You work for the Volturi?" Tyler couldn't believe it.
"Save it for later Ty."
"But she just said she kills vampires with other vampires, how am I supposed to ignore that!"
"I said shut up Ty!," Robert ordered angrily, no wonder why he said werewolves are not always in a good mood. "Now Leah listen to me, we need to see each other again, do you think you can get out of here alone for a few hours?"
"Sure, but where…?"
"How fast can you run?"
"Like 100 miles in an hour in my wolf form and 50 in my human form, why?"
"Just listen to me; there is a forest, the Berignone-Tatti forest situated at about eight linear miles south-southeast of Volterra, it will only take you 10 minutes to reach it in your human form."
"What if someone follows me?"
"The ruins of the Castello dei Vescovi are located in the middle of the forest, just say you are going to visit them, or I don't, invent something."
"Ok, I'll meet you there," I agreed.
"In a week."
"In a week," I repeated.
"At night."
"At night."
"Alone."
"Alone."
"Top-less."
"Ty!" Robert growled.
"Shut up!" I couldn't hold back a smile, it was like being with my pack again, my pack… from the minute I became a Volturi they forbid me any contact with my family and my pack, so I can't call them or even write a letter to them, but now that I have new friends, maybe they can help me. "Who is there?" Footsteps in the stairs brought me back to earth.
"Le…Leah?"
"Collin what are you doing?"
"Your lunch," he said timidly, which is weird, because he is always bothering me around.
"You are not afraid of them, are you?" I asked with an evil expression.
"Of course not!" he said walking down the last steps with a big tray. "They stink!"
"Let me guess, Felix challenged you to come here."
"Why do you care?"
"Oh my god!"
"What?"
"One of them is moving!"
"Where?"
"That one!"
"Ah?"
"Collin behind you!"
"Felix!" He left the room before I could say another word. And I used to think he was one of the slowest members of the coven, I have to give him more credit, he can be fast when he is scare.
"So," I said to the guys who were standing up again trying not to laugh very loud. "Do you like sausages?" I asked looking at the tray Collin had left behind.
Many hours later, I find myself walking around my own room nervously. Afton replaced me about an hour ago and since then I locked myself in my room trying not to look suspicious. It would be more practical if I had stayed outside in the corridors or in the library, that way I could help my new friends to escape, but it would look weird. I now they can do it, all I need to do is pretend I don't know anything and stay here.
A hum, a high note that any creature with good ears would be able to hear suddenly appeared. Is the alarm, they escaped. My instincts pushed me towards the door, but I have to wait, I can't go out yet.
"Leah!" yes! There is my sign!
I opened the door before Felix reached my room and I tried to put my best 'surprise face'.
"What is happening? What is that sound?" I asked confused.
"Come with me!" he ordered me and I follow him down the corridor. "The werewolves escaped."
"I thought they were drugged," I said while we started running down the hall.
"One of them attacked Afton when he was feeding them and managed to locked him in the cell, then he free his twin and now they are running through the south corridors."
"Is Afton ok?"
"He was locked up in his own cell, what do you think?"
"They didn't hurt him? Apart from his ego I mean."
"They are too weak for that," Felix said, but I know that that is not true. "That's why Demetri told me to call you, you are fast enough and you have the best nose around here."
"I am not a bloodhound! And why isn't Demetri here, can't he 'sense' where the werewolves are?"
"His powers don't work on dogs," Felix explained while we went out of the castle. "You are the only one who can help, so stop arguing and start working mutt."
We kept running for four or five hours I think. It was hilarious really; just watching vampires running around as if they were blind improved my mood. And I have to admit it, it was fun, for just once I was in charge and they did everything I told them to do, well not everything, but they followed me around all the time. First I decided to follow Robert and Tyler's real scent just in case any vampire realized I was lying, but when I followed a false hint nobody said anything so I kept running around like if I knew where I was going. After a few hours Alec decided it was enough and we returned to the castle.
"No luck?" Demetri asked when Felix, another five leeches and I entered the hall.
"With or without drugs those dogs are fast," Felix commented angrily.
"You did feed them, right Leah?" Demetri asked me.
"I did everything you told me to do," I lied.
"Collin, close the doors and…"
"I can't, the group of master Caius hasn't arrived yet."
"Caius?" I whispered to myself.
Of course! How could I forget about him! I am so stupid; I should have told them about a certain vampire who considers werewolves as his worst enemy. We spent all the afternoon talking about random things because we agreed it was too dangerous to keep talking about the other stuff in the dungeons, but I should have mention Caius, dammit!
"Alec," everyone made a little reverence in Aro's direction. "Where is Jane?"
"He is with your brother master, he requested her for his team."
"Caius is chasing the werewolves?"
"I am afraid he is, master," Alec answered while all the others reminded silent.
"Not anymore dear brother," a sweat voice said entering the hall. "Our little trip already finished," Jane announced standing beside Alec
"There is no reason to worry," Caius said entering the room. "We already did what we were supposed to do," he added with a mischievous smile
"What do you mean brother?" Aro asked confuse.
"Isn't it obvious? I killed them, both of them."
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