Ash pov
Glancing around I took in the scene in front of me Chloe was crouched on the floor next to a semi prone tori and they were both staring at me.
Smiling I said "hey guys, how's it going?"
"um good how are you feeling?" as Chloe spoke she stood and walked over to me pressing the back of her hand against my head she muttered "damn vamps can't tell if your cold because of the silver or if it's just you."
On part of her sentence caught my attention "wait silver that's what those assholes injected me with?"
"yeah,"
"damn that stuffs lethal, those little shits were trying to kill me."
"you remember who attacked you?"
"yeah, there was definitely a witch she had me in a binding spell, and there was a woman and someone who shot me with the dart, other than them I didn't see anyone else."
Frowning Chloe stood and said "I'm gonna head back out to where we found you so I can see if I can pick up any scents."
Jumping to my feet I said "I'll come with you" Chloe looked like she was about to argue when a low growl interrupted her, turning to face the back door which had been left open presumably by Chloe, I saw a large dirty grey coloured wolf. i expected Chloe to attack it or do something however she didn't glancing over at her I saw her staring at the wolf with a mixture of horror and fear on her face. Surprised I turned back to face the wolf and shouted "who are you?"
The crackling of bones told me he was shifting back when he was standing human and on two legs tori muttered something in a foreign language and suddenly he was clothed, the man looked surprised and then gave a mocking little bow and said "thank you little witchling, I appreciate being clothed for what I am about to say, as I am James grey and I am the one responsible for turning Chloe into a werewolf, and she is coming with me."
"what no she's not!" me and tori shouted at the same time. Part of me noted that we have probably woken anyone in the house by now, but at the moment I didn't really care.
"ah but I think you will find she is, as her maker I have a certain level of … sway over her actions. Come here Chloe" after a slight pause Chloe stepped forward and started to approach James, lunging forward I grabbed Chloe's arm and pulled back on it, she didn't budge. Grinning the man said "attack your friend" I froze, no she would never would she? Turning she took a clumsy looking swipe at me which I easily avoided. her whole body jerking she moved forward, towards me again throwing wild punches as her body lurched and stumbled. Her actions strongly resembled a puppet having its strings pulled.
Realization dawned and I turned to James, "stop it now"
Ginning her replied "or what?"
"or I'm going to rip you limb from limb" the voice sounded from behind me turning around I saw Derek and a sleepy looking Simon as well as May, Grayson and Lydia. Turning to face James again I gave him a smug smile.
Scowling he muttered "damn I wanted to have some fun, oh well." Then louder he said "Chloe lets go." And with that he turned and left Chloe stumbling after him. lunging forward I tried to grab for Chloe but suddenly James was right there pressing a glowing dagger against her side, turning in his grip she shot me a pleading look. I could almost see her begging me to help her, feeling helpless I could only watch as James dragged Chloe out of site into the woods.
The silence after they left was deafening, stalking forward I started to follow after them intending to track them and bring Chloe back, but a restraining arm prevented me. Whirling around I snarled at Derek who had stopped me. "What is your problem do you not want her back?"
"Yes more than anything but we can't go tearing of after them half cocked, we need a plan!" Derek responded it irritatingly calm but as I locked gazes with him prepared to shout some sense into him I saw the absolute panic and terror he was hiding.
letting out a sigh the fight slowly drained out of me and I nodded "yeah your right"
"I know now let's get planning so I can still track their scent"
Chloe pov
I fought violently against the compulsion, desperate to get free but it was hard it wasn't like I was possessed, trust me been there done that not a fun experience, but there I was a bystander outside my body here it was like I had no control over my body at all. I was now stumbling through the woods after James, my normal wolf grace lost as I fought my internal battle.
With a snarl James turned to face me "stop fighting it you stupid bitch," I responded with a wordless snarl of rage. Grabbing my wrist James dragged me through the wood faster than before, this caused me to stumble even more as I tried desperately to stop, but unfortunately his compulsion was too strong to fight off completely I could just about resist succumbing entirely.
When we reached the other side of the woods we ended up in the courtyard area of a huge industrial warehouse muttering a quiet "come on" James led me straight into the warehouse. Gazing around I took in the huge empty space with its high ceiling and not much else. I paused when I spotted the stairs on the far side leading up to a small door which was probably an office.
James led me across the warehouse and over to the stairs, ascending them quickly when we reached the door he knocked three times and waited. What seemed like forever later a blond woman opened the door and studied me critically for a moment, I really wanted to spit on her face but James compulsion held me perfectly still. With a seemingly irritated sigh she waved us in before shutting the door behind her. Leading me over to a couch pushed up against the far right wall James pointed to the sofa and said "sit down and stay still" snarling I complied feeling like a dog being ordered to sit and stay was humiliating. My gaze flicked around and I noticed a tall dark haired woman leaning against the wall as well as a burly man sat in an arm chair in the corner.
The woman wandered over and said "you don't seem to have very good control over her"
Sighing and rubbing at his temples James replied "no, she is doing a remarkable job of fighting the compulsion, and she resistance is giving me a headache as well as tiring me out." Turing to look at the blond woman he continued "I don't suppose you would be willing to help me out here?"
The woman frowned "releasing her form the compulsion for even a brief period is dangerous the spell is not full proof"
Grimacing James responded with "yeah well if you don't do something I'm gonna pass out soon and then all hell will break loose" he eyed me warily as he spoke. Throwing all my mental weight behind another attempt to stand up sent James to his knees groaning, "please!"
The blond woman sighed and walking over to me spoke quietly in Latin, being a language I knew the words made perfect sense to me "be not resistant, forget your reservations, forge the chain so that I might bind you to us, and with this bond that I create, may you be loyal, and subservient, till death" the room swelled with the charged atmosphere and the smell of ozone invaded my nose. The witch turned and a glowing red chain seemed to appear out of nowhere, it shot towards me and I was helpless to try and avoid it as James was still holding me in place. Coiling around my wrist it shot up my arm, over my shoulder and curled around my neck, there was bright flash and then searing pain in my neck.
As the pain faded I felt the odd sensation of weight on my neck, I wanted to reach up and touch it but when I told my hand to lift and touch it, my hand didn't respond it just continued to sit in my lap it didn't even twitch. Turning my attention the blond and James I saw them watching me curiously, without my consent my head bowed in respect and words spilt from my lips "loyal till death" the witch let out a relieved sigh and James flopped down on the sofa next to me shooting me a wide grin and looking much more relaxed.
"well that went well" James said to the blond woman
"yeah, I'm surprised it worked. I thought for sure that it wouldn't" looking right at me she said "get up"
I was surprised when I felt no desire to obey her order instead I looked at James next to me "do you want me to get up?"
He looked surprised and then frowned "didn't you say your spell made them loyal to you?"
"yeah it should I have no idea… unless were you still compelling her when I was doing the spell?"
"well yeah otherwise she would have made a run for it"
"I think my spell reacted to you bond and linked her to you as you were already controlling her"
"wait so she's mine, I can do whatever I want with her?"
The witch scowled and said "no you will do whatever Cassie wants with her"
James frowned but nodded "yes of course, the excitement was getting to me, forgive me?"
The blond sighed and rolled her eyes before muttering "yes James I forgive you"
Ginning James replied "thank you rose"
Huh, rose at least I had a name now so I could stop calling her 'the blond' or 'the witch' and I would hazard a guess that Cassie would be the dark haired woman.
"how do you want to celebrate our success?" James was practically bouncing with excitement at the idea of celebrating
Scowling Cassie spoke up "we need to use this one here to get the rest of them before the Edison group get here, then when we hand them over and we get paid then we can celebrate"
With a sigh James replied "yeah I suppose your right"
Derek pov
"okay so we are all clear on the plan right?" everyone nodded, "good, okay Simon, Ash!"
Ash grinned and said "time to make some noise and distract the hell out of these people, as well as getting some pay back"
Simon smirked and said "Mr fog maker at the ready"
Nodding I confirmed "go" turning they both vanished silently into the trees, facing the ware house again we all remain in the tree line until we could see the fog start to creep towards the building then we started forward keeping in the shadows and the cover created by the fog, suddenly a loud howl split the night. Mere moments later a blond woman and a large burly man stepped out eyeing the fog warily before turning and jogging into the wood with the burly man in the lead, looking at the way his head rotated raising his nose to the air I would say he was a werewolf.
Turning to the other I spoke quietly so the other werewolf wouldn't hear me "okay that means there has to be at least two others inside, the dark haired woman and the werewolf who took Chloe, we need to be quiet and try and do this stealthily," with that I approached the warehouse, gliding up to the door I reached out and tested the door, unlocked. opening the door I paused and sniffed before stepping in, trailing Chloe's scent across the room to a set of stairs. Climbing the stairs carefully I could just about hear the breathing of tori, Lydia, Greyson and may behind me, when I reached the door I shot a quick glance over my shoulder to make sure everyone was ready, getting a silent nod from each of them I turned the door handle. The door swung open easily and as we stepped forward to attack all hell broke loose.
I could see James looking shocked then his gaze flickered to the side, I followed his gaze to see Chloe, who was sat on the sofa looking at us uncertainly, I heard James shout to her "protect us" I thought she would fight the compulsion but she didn't. the confusion on her face turned to hate and she stood and lunged at us, the move took me by surprise and she managed to tackle me to the ground, she got in one good solid punch to my jaw before she froze I glanced up to see may staring at us in concentration and I realised she must be using a binding spell. Nodding to her I grabbed Chloe and stood, clutching her rigid form in my arms. Grayson was fighting with James and the blond woman was bleeding from a gash along her forehead and tori was throwing fireballs at her which she was deflecting but this was coasting her as when she was distracted Lydia lunged forward and swiped at her with her knife. Finally both where incapacitated and we hurried from the room jogging down the stairs we raced out of the warehouse and into the woods once in the clear I tilted my head back and howled another howl echoed mine and I continued on towards home. Ash and Simon met up with us shortly and before long we were at Chloe's house.
Placing Chloe on the ground I glanced at May and said "okay you can release her now" nodding she relaxed and Chloe came to life.
she glanced around at all of us and then started screaming and shouting in what sounded like Spanish, finally turning to me she spoke in English "take me back right now" I blinked in confusion surely I heard wrong she couldn't want to go back.
Frowning I shook my head and spoke slowly "come on Chloe you have to fight of his compulsion he is unconscious and far away it should be easy to fight it off"
Snarling she lunged at me and tried to punch me, stepping out of the way I flinched when she hit the wall behind me making a fist sized hole.
"Derek what's that around her neck?" I glanced over at May who had spoken before refocusing my gaze on her neck and what I saw there sickened me, wrapped around her neck was a thick leather band with a bright silver chain running around the collar. Suddenly she turned disappearing into the kitchen, racing after her I leapt back in surprise as she tried to stab me, lunging again I kept dodging until I caught my foot on the bottom of the work unit and fell. Rolling over I stared up at Chloe as she went to lung at me, suddenly she stiffened I glanced over at may but she and tori were both still to shocked to do anything.
Shifting my gaze back up to Chloe I saw the collar glowing red and her body sawed as pain flashed across her face "stop me please I can't…" she stopped mid-sentence and passed out cold lurching forward I managed to catch her and prevent her from hitting the ground.
The door bell ringing was such a painfully mundane sound after all the drama of the night that at the moment it seemed almost ridiculous to consider going and answering the door, however I had to remind my self normal was good and so standing I went into the living room and set Chloe down on the couch and then I went and answered the door as everyone else sat down on the floor next to her. when I reached the front door I opened it to reveal dad and Lauren, pulling the door all the way I stepped aside and waved them in. I knew when Lauren saw Chloe from the loud gasp and shrill voice saying "oh my dear Chloe! what happened to her?" with a mental sigh I shut the door and entered the living room where Lauren turned on me and started demanding answers, frowning I gave her a quick run down on what happened over the course of the night including the training after school, when I was done there was a long silence and then aunt Lauren said "see I told you, with you in her life Chloe is in near constant danger, now she supposedly as strong as you and yet here she is, in danger and hurt again!"
dad interrupted her form continuing her angry rant as he spoke up "Simon tori would you two come here I think we need to brainstorm some ideas on how to get this collar off Chloe"
"I can help" may spoke up "im a witch" my dad nodded and joined them as they stated throwing around ideas on how to get the collar off. it didn't take long for them to come up with a good number of ideas and then they started trying different spells trying to undo the charm used to place the collar in the first place.
an hour later they were all drained and none of the spells had worked, sighing and rolling her shoulders tori said "okay this is the last one and then we need a break or we wont be able to help anyone" this spell didn't seem all that different from the last one similar foreign sounding words and same glowing light, wait that's new there was a strange pinkish red glow coming from the collar, then suddenly there was a massive flash blinding me and I could hear someone screaming and then blackness washed over me and I crumpled to the ground me last conscious thought was a prayer that Chloe was okay and that the collar had come off.
so hope I have made up for not updating in so long by updating two days in a row hope you enjoy this was a nightmare to write and im sorry if it seems rushed I was getting really stuck and im trying to rap this story up as soon as possible so I can start a new fan fiction if anyone has any ideas about an ending I would love to hear them as I am super stuck and I need some help please review
thank you xx
