Born and Bred
Chapter 7: The Start of Reuniting
Driving against the law and well over the speed limit, added to the intensity of being chased and shot at, times the fear of crashing and killing you and your friends in the other seats and what do you get? The adrenaline coursing through the veins of two werewolves and bringing that wolf to the surface. Jock was seething as he tried to calm himself down, but it didn't seem to work, it was hard to stay focused and block everything out around you as it turns out. Out of all the scenarios the boys practised and thought could happen which would make the turn, this wasn't one of them, and two screaming people in the back seats didn't help the matter. Cole wasn't fairing any better, the chemical creeping further up his neck with each passing second. But Jock was the one to worry, if he turned, he wouldn't have thumbs to grip the steering wheel or be able to reach the breaks. Things were getting desperate, so desperate Jock began to hatch his plan.
After turning a sharp corner in the country side roads, and swerving to avoid a head on collision, he reached into the front of his trousers and through something on Cole's lap. Cole took the gun in his hand, staring blankly at it. "You had this, this whole time!" He exclaimed.
"Just shoot already, hurry!" Jock yelled as he began to turn another gradual corner, giving Cole a clear line of sight. He looked down at Jocks hands; his finger nails had extended longer to start to form claws. His eyes were starting to turn a darker yellow and his canines beginning to grow larger. He had never fired a gun in his life other then that one time they were first taken by these people, but now as a time to put that small amount of time to the test. He leaned out of the window and pointed the gun back towards the car. What was he to aim for? He didn't know, so he did the only thing he thought of. He started firing and not particularly aiming at anything, just hoping he'd be able to stop them in some way. The first bullet hit the bonnet, the second the left front light, the third his the wheel arch and the last remaining bullet hit the wheel. Suddenly, that tire burst and caused the car the tilt forward and grind the bumper and metal along the ground, orange and yellow sparks flying up into the air. But as they were on a corner, they car lost control. The bumper came loose and slid under the last good tire, making it violently fly up into the car and cartwheel over across the road, debris flying everywhere as it crashed and banged off to the side of the road. Cole lowered himself back inside and sat back against his seat as they sped away; now able to take deep breaths in knowing they were safe. He looked at Jock, the veins slowly started to creep back down his neck, his teeth and finger nails going back to their original size, so he guessed his were as well. They were safe, for now.
"What the fuck was that?!" Shaun exclaimed as he cradled a crying Emily. His question went unanswered. "What the fuck are you?!" He then demanded, causing the two in the front to look at one another for a moment before turning eyes back into the road.
They drove in mainly silence through the night, looking for somewhere that could be safe. As the darkness consumed this side of the world, they found a beaten track that led into an RSPB woodland, so they drove up it some way until they came to the dead end deep in the woods. No other cars or people about. Cole paced about with the tip of his thumb in his mouth, biting his nail as the fear and anxiety built up in him. Jock sat on the bonnet of the car, Shaun leaned back against the boot of the car and Emily sat on the back seat with her legs out of the opened door. Cole had been pacing for a while now, trying to think of something, anything. What were they going to do now, where would they go? He had to think of some many things. "Will you just stand still?" Jock growled in frustration. "You're making me dizzy."
"I can't help it if I'm the only one trying to think of something." Cole snapped back as he continued pacing back and forth quickly.
"Hey, I'm trying to." Jock interjected and jumping to his feet.
"Well I haven't heard you say anything yet!"
"Neither have you!" He yelled as the two stood in each others faces.
"I'm trying!" Suddenly, they both fell as a massive weight pushed them down and held them there. "Emily, run!" Shaun yelled as he held them still. She took of as fast as her legs out carry her, but Shaun didn't anticipate how strong they were. Cole pushed him off and took off as fast as his stronger legs could carry him and tackled her before she even made it twenty feet. He picked her up and carried her back with her hitting him and demanding to be let go, he did and forcibly sat her on the bonnet. Jock threw Shaun off him and the two stood facing one another, Jock eyes a threatening yellow as the two stared at one another, but all for of them at the corners of a square and watching each other.
"Who the hell were those people?!" Shaun demanded to know.
"What are you?!" Emily screamed. Jock and Cole once again shared a look, they knew too much, they saw the effects of the chemical before they turn, they couldn't lie their way out of this one.
"Ok, everyone just calm down." Jock said trying to lower the tension that he sensed in the air.
"Calm down? How do we calm down?!" Shaun shouted. "You kidnapped us; we were chased away and shot at. I don't know if this is something you do all day but let me tell you this, I sure as hell don't!"
"Fine, if you see it as that way then go, I'm not stopping you." Shaun then went to take a few steps, but froze when Jock continued. "But if they come after you then you have now chance on your own. These people will hunt you down no matter where you are and take you to hell. If you think running on your own now is a good idea then by all means go, just don't yell for us when you need help." He looked over to Emily, she wasn't decided, she was frozen in fear on the boot of the car to do anything.
"Stay…" Cole added in a much calmer voice. "I can't lose my friends, we'll tell you everything."
"The Cole I went to school with didn't have yellow eyes and black veins." Emily said as soon as he finished and standing up. "What happened to you?"
"Remember the summer holidays after that?" He asked and she nodded. "My parents were taking me to France, but stopping off in London for the day. On that day, dad took me to where he works, saying he had to get something before we go again."
"That's where I met Cole…" Jock added. "We were lured away from them one by one and throw in cages. My mom said she worked there, as did Cole's parents, they do, but not for what they thought. Mom told me it was a back…"
"And my dad told me it was finance." Cole finished. "It was really a secret government facility to make super soldiers. They took us at sixteen years old to complete an experiment that hurt so much." He said as he rolled up his sleeve and presented them with on his upper arm a small puncture wound, the only wound that didn't heal since it happened and left a scar. He showed them one on his neck as well, as did Jock, both saying they had the same once. "Our parents weren't really out parents, more like adoptive once to look after us until we were old enough for the procedure."
"They told us we and three others were made in test-tubes, experimented on when we were only two inches long so our D.N.A would take a chemical that would make us into weapons. They took the D.N.A of a wolf and after messing around with it for long enough, joined it with our own. Afterwards they let us grow and gave us to our parents for safekeeping until we were all sixteen before they activated it all and making us these monsters." Jock said and changing his eyes before them. The two didn't flinch as they stared into the eyes of a monster, but found it saddening.
"We're stronger and faster…" Cole continued as his eyes settled again. "More agile and with quicker reactions. Our senses heightened, stamina that allows us to run for hours at a near sprint, our bodies heal at a faster rate, a simple cut will be healed with no mark in an hour or a broken bone healed in a few days. We were made and created to be Britain's new ultimate weapon…"
"But we ran away." Jock added. "We managed to break out and run away, all splitting in different directions. I found Cole at one point and together we came back to Sandy looking for his parents to get answers, up they already upped and left. We decided to live there, seeing that they'd never come looking for us somewhere that could be dangerous and where we once lived. And we were right, they didn't, not until today that is. I was at the house when they came, and I found Cole in and alley being attacked. We came back home and found you guys; you know what happened after that."
"You kept saying "we", how many of you were there?" The two looked at one another, never really thinking back to it or the others.
"Five of us, he haven't seen or heard form them since." Cole answered. "Before it happened we were normal, but that day turned us into something else. We can turn into a wolf, we've been shot at once, and we can't let anyone see us or our eyes if they change. We have to be so careful now, anything can set us off, and we nearly changed in the car. We're not weapons, we're cursed. We're sorry we never told you, we thought you'd treat us differently or tell someone because we're monsters. If anyone knew we'd have to run and there's no-where for us to go." Emily was in near tears, but not of those that you think they were, but of grief, apology and sympathy. She walked at a fast pace towards Cole who caught her in his arms.
"You could have told us." She whispered. "We're your friends, nothing can ruin that."
"We've been your friends since lower school…" Shaun added. "And it feels the same with you Jock. Sure it's sounds crazy, but after what I've seen tonight I can't leave my friends side now." He added as he stepped towards Jock and placed a hand on his shoulder with a sympathetic look. Jock returned the gesture and patted his back in thanks.
"You can't come with us though." Cole added after a moment. "It's too dangerous."
"Cole you brought us into this mess, whatever this is we're your friends so we're not leaving you." Emily said and stepping back.
"I have to agree." Jock added, making the three of them puzzled. How could he agree with coming with them, it was dangerous, they could die. "The SSRC will use them to get to us; wherever they go they will find them so the safest place to be is with us. In that cast we can always watch out for them and protect them."
"But they haven't seen their faces yet." Cole snapped, he wasn't going to le them come. "They can run far away and out of danger."
"They'll find out eventually, no matter where they go they WILL find them. If they're with us then we can look out for them."
"Cole we can protect ourselves." Shaun added. "We can help you."
"To do what? All we can do is run." Cole replied. Running was all they could do, they couldn't fight this organization, they were only four and who knows how many they had.
"We can help you find the others." Emily answered. Both Cole's and Jock's eyes widened, did they really just hear her say that?
"What?" Jock asked wanting to know she heard right.
"You said there were five of you, we can help you find them."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, who said anything about finding the others?" Cole questioned.
"They could be in danger too, if they've only just come after you after ten years, then who knows if they are still alive. They need to know that these people are around." Shaun answered. "If you say these guys are the government, then you've evaded arrest and are most likely, if not yet, wanted fugitives." Oh the benefits to having a police officer as a best friend. But then again, it was something they didn't want to know. "We need to find them and warn them." Cole and Jock looked at one another, could this be the say the world's first cursed super soldiers/werewolves were going to be reunited after ten long years? They weren't going to be able to leave their friends behind, and they weren't going to be able to run for much longer, sooner or later they'd be caught. The only way to survive would be to find the others, then they'd be stronger, and only then would they stand a chance at fighting to survive.