While I walked outside with the other wolves Tyler leading the way and Matt and Wayne holding onto me I thought a lot about James and wished more than anything that I could have told James that I would be ok. All I could do now was hope that James would come for me in case the alpha tried to kill me.
"Move it human" Matt said pushing forward making me almost trip. I glared at him remembering hoe he had tried to rape me and I was actually scared that he would try something at out here. All I could do was hope that he didn't.
They chuckled while we continued to make our way through the woods. Instead of seeing the town though when we emerged I saw that there was actually a larger house. It was a little bigger then James and instead of looking peaceful it was dark and lonely. There was just no life to it.
"This must be where the alpha lives" I thought looking at the grim house before me. "Come on then." Tyler said as I was pulled up the porch into the big house. Turns out the inside was even more dark and gloomy then the outside. Everywhere I looked it was dim, there were no lights on and there was no furniture in the house. The only thing that was really there was a large table with books on it and like James house it had a marble staircase but instead of going up it the boys led me to a door behind the staircase exactly like James.
"Sheesh do all of them have secret doors filled with weird shit." I thought as I was led toward it. Before we entered it though I was pushed face first against the wall my hands grabbed and pulled behind me. They tied them tightly with rope and I did not even bother struggling.
"James may trust you human but we are not James." Matt said. When they were finished the doors were opened and I was pushed through them. Inside it looked like a throne room only was no throne. The room was, like the rest of the house, dark and dim with only a few candles that were lit. What caught my attention though was the wall on the right that had pictures on it. They were the exact same ones James had and they too had my face circled.
"What the hell" I said looking at the exact same pictures with horror on my face wondering if this is what all of the werewolves kept in their home.
"Don't flatter yourself Carlos we just use that to know who is our next victim or if we need them to attract more hunters." A woman's voice said and I looked over in the direction.
I groaned when I saw that it was the alpha. She wore a long black dress with black heels and her long black hair was falling over her shoulders. I looked at her and realized that if she wasn't such a psycho and bent on killing my family I would actually think she was beautiful.
She smiled showing her white teeth and said "It's good to see you Carlos. I understand your stay here has been… entertaining."
"Boy is you wrong" I said but at that moment I realized she must have been talking about James. "Shit" I thought.
"From what I understand you have been getting involved with one of my own." she said walking toward me so now I was face to face with her.
Deciding it was my only option I had to play dumb. "Uh lady what are you talking about."
She laughed a little then said "Trying to play dumb I see well Carlos you are forgetting that I am an alpha and I know what goes on with my own pups. I know about you and James and I must say that I am surprised at him. He knows very well the rules of getting involved with you hunters and yet he has broken them. Now sadly for him and you there are consequences."
"Oh yeah like what?" I asked through gritted teeth.
Smiling she held up her hand and her claws began to poke out. My body stiffened at the sight of them. James used his to cut me free but with this psycho alpha I had no idea what she was going to use them for.
"Oh Carlos I don't think you want to know." She said brushing one of her claws against my neck. I shivered at the touch.
"What are you going to do kill me? I thought you needed me alive?" I said remembering her plan of using me to get to, my friends and parents.
"Actually Carlos plans have changed. I do not need you for my bait anymore because I have discovered something that will destroy your parents." She said continuing to trace her claw on my neck.
"Which is?" I asked.
"It will destroy your parents if I take you away from them. Having their only child who is also the best hunter I have ever encountered will kill your parents and for the rest of their lives they can live with the fact that it is their fault you got killed. Had they not subjected you to this life you would still be alive. That is the best revenge I can get from your parents." She said putting pressure on my neck with her claw.
I didn't even wince. "You can't do that to them. They have done nothing to you but hunt your kind. Why do you want to kill my parents so badly?" I asked wondering why she was specifically after them.
She glared then added enough pressure to make a cut in my neck. "Because they have taken away my life and now I am going to take away theirs by killing you. So say goodbye Carlos because I am going to make you suffer your last breath."
As soon as I heard these words I went into shock. I couldn't move or talk just froze with a mix of fear and worry. She was going to kill me to get revenge on my parents. "You can't do this" I yelled to her. Smiling she reached up her claws and swiped me across the cheek. I hissed at the sudden pain and felt the blood dripping from my cheek wound. I quickly forgot about the pain and glared at the alpha. "You do this I promise you will suffer worse than me."
She smiled and traced my other cheek. "They come after me I will kill them off as well." With that she turned to face the boys and said "Take him to the torture room and do what you want but don't kill him. I want to do the honors myself. James cannot be with him and killing him would be the best revenge, so we have no purpose for him anymore."
"Yes ma'am." Matt said as he and the other two boys pulled me away from the alpha.
"If you touch my family I swear to God lady I will kill you. Don't go near them" I yelled as I struggled in the boys grip. It was difficult with my hands tied behind my back. My anger started to get the best of me and I couldn't hold back anymore. I wasn't going to be put in that torture room. I head butted Matt who stumbled back clutching his face. Tyler tried to get me under control but I reached my foot up kicking him in the stomach. He fell to the ground and I was about to kick him again but was tackled from behind. I fell to the ground with a thud and a heavy weight on my back. I managed to turn my head around and see that Wayne was on top of me and he was holding a needle.
I gasped trying to crawl away from Wayne but he was too heavy. "Sweet dreams hunter." He said before he jabbed the needle into my neck. I yelped and started to feel light headed but slowly I could feel the drug having its effect on me. Within minutes I was out.
The ropes hurt. Now I wished for once that it was James who had tied me up because I could get out in an instant. Turns out after Wayne had drugged me they brought me to the torture room. I awoke bound, head to toe, in a chair with a gag in my mouth. I had tried to get out of the ropes but nothing was helping and now all I could do was wait and see what would happen to me.
"Just great I'm going to die here" I kept thinking to myself as I sat there waiting to find put who was going to torture me. I have never tortured anyone e and have never been tortured but I have heard stories from other hunters who have and it made me sick when I heard these stories. I never imagined that it would happen to me yet here I was bound to a chair ready to have knives dig into my skin and possibly claws as well. Theses wolves are savages was all I kept thinking.
"James is not that way though. Neither are Logan or Kendall" a voice in my head said and I signed realizing that it was true. I wondered if this was how they viewed us before they had met me. I remember they kept saying we were savages but that all changed when I had gotten to know James better and had had sex with him. At the thought of that I suddenly grew sad realizing that I had finally found someone who I loved deeply and who loved me back yet here I was about to suffer a great deal then die. Dying didn't scare me one bit but being tortured is what I was the most afraid of. I had always wanted to die without pain and surrounded by people I love but I guess that is not how my death would play out for me. So here I was sitting in a torture room and the only thing on my mind was the fact that after this I would never see James or my family again. I would not even say goodbye to them. A little tear then came to my eye traveling down my cheek. I have never ever cried not once even when I lost a loved one. Hunters never showed that type of vulnerability but at this point I just didn't care anymore. I couldn't be saved now and had to learn to accept this as my fate.
I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't realize the door had opened until I saw three figures approach where I was sitting. Looking up I saw that it was Matt, Wayne and Tyler. I groaned through the gag and thought "Of course it's going to be them who are going to torture me." I watched as they went over to the table filled with tools and weapons. Matt picked up a knife inspected it. The other two smiled and nodded their heads. They all turned to face me and walked over to where I was. Matt kneeled down so he was eye level with me.
"How's it feel knowing you are about to suffer before death." He said as he held up the knife and traced it from my neck down to my shirt-covered torso.
I closed my eyes and bit down on the gag when I felt Matt cut my shirt open pulling it all the way off of me. I jerked my eyes open when one of them grabbed my hair pulling my head back. Turns out it was Tyler who had done it.
He leaned down so he was whispering into my ear. "Come on hunter I thought you were skilled and tough but yet you can't get out of this. You are more pathetic then we took you for." His grip on my hair tightened and breathing hard through my nose I tried to block out the pain.
Wayne then picked up a knife and he quickly slashed my shoulder with it. It came as such a surprise to me that I didn't even scream just hissed at the sudden stinging feeling. Nothing I couldn't handle though.
"Hmm if you can handle that let's see how you can handle this" Matt said putting down the knife and rolling up his sleeves he punched me hard in the face. I grunted a little at the sudden action but quickly recovered. As quickly as the punch came another came, and then another. I sat there taking punch after punch and I couldn't help but start to feel pain. My face was sore and I knew that I would have scars but I was hoping I didn't get a black eye.
"Had enough hunter" Wayne said with a smirk blood on his knuckles. He then removed my gag as if they wanted to hear me talk or scream. I wasn't going to give in though, not to them. I would not die surrendering.
"Had enough?" Wayne repeated grabbing my chin making me look up at them.
"Not enough." I muttered to them through gritted teeth.
"Oh you want more huh. Well then we will give you more." Tyler said holding up his knife. He slashed it across my chest and this time I couldn't hold back the scream that escaped my lips. Blood poured out of my wound dripping down my torso. My cut stung very badly and I felt myself growing weaker.
Someone grabbed my chin again and made me look up at them, turns out it was Wayne. "Such a shame Carlos you seem like a good person but we follow alphas orders so say bye bye." He said and I watched him hold up the knife. "Say goodbye to James as well." He added.
Squeezing my eyes shut I waited for the stabbing pain of the knife to come. "James" I whispered, but before Wayne could stab me though there was a sudden crashing sound. My eyes opened and what I saw startled me. There were big wolves standing there teeth showing and they were growling fiercely. One was a light brown and the other was a blondish color. It was the dark brown wolf that caught my attention because I knew right away who it was.
"James" I whispered as the big bold wolf looked at me growling softly. That's when other three changed as well ready to attack but not before James growled attacking Wayne. The other two attacked Tyler and Matt. I watched as James fought with Wayne and I wished more than anything that I was untied. James finally threw Wayne against the wall knocking him out cold. Wayne transformed back to his human form not even moving. James then came up to face me and I smiled looking into his big beautiful eyes. He nuzzled my neck and licked my cut cheek before he faced the ropes cutting them loose from my body. As soon as I was untied I wrapped my arms around the big wolf's neck hugging him tightly. his fur was warm and I felt at home hugging him.
"Thank you James." I whispered. He rubbed his head against my side and I smiled again. I continued to hug him tightly until I saw Wayne walking towards James with a knife.
"Look out" I screamed and James turned around just on time to avoid the knife but Wayne had managed to pick James up and throw him against the wall. He then walked toward him knife still in hand.
"No" I yelled and without thinking and forgetting my pain and wounds I went to the table filled with weapons and picked up a knife. I didn't even aim it when I threw it at Wayne. It managed to hit him dead in the arm and he screamed clutching his arm where the knife was. He looked at me glaring as he slowly pulled the knife out of his arm. I looked at him in pure shock, he was crazy.
"Your dead" he yelled before I watched his phase into his wolf form. He barked before lunging at me. I tried to run but he managed to pin me down under him with his massive claws. Before I could make a move to escape Wayne sunk his razor sharp fangs into my neck as well as scratching my old side wound. I let out a blood curling scream at the sudden combined pain of the claws and the bite.
"Carlos" a voice suddenly screamed and I didn't even acknowledge who it was. The pain was just too much to bear. The feeling of Wayne's fangs exiting my wound made me look up and realize that he was pulled off of me and thrown against the side of the wall. This time James made sure he was completely out. He quickly appeared by my side back to his human form.
"Oh God Carlos you have been bit." He cried inspecting my wound.
"Get me out of here" I moaned as I felt fire all through my body, like I was burning to a crisp. Was I changing?
Nodding James picked me up and shouted "Logan Kendall come on we have to leave." The other two wolves looked up and nodded. James ran out the door and Logan and Kendall managed to beat off the other wolves in time to follow us out the door and the building into the woods. James didn't stop until we were deep enough not to be found. Kendall and Logan stopped as well.
Gently putting me down onto the ground James examined my neck and said "Guys Wayne bit him."
"James that means he is changing. He is already going through the process." Kendall said kneeling by my side along with Logan.
"No there has got to be a way to stop it." James cried. "Please tell me there is a way to stop it."
"The only way you can stop it is by sucking it out James but you could kill him. He has lost a lot of blood and Tyler, Matt and Wayne beat him very badly." Logan said as he examined all my injuries.
I moaned at the pain and looked up at James grabbing his hand. "Guys I don't know then I don't want to kill him but he needs to stay human this isn't the way for him to be changed." James said.
The pain started to get overwhelming and I found myself screaming "James do it please. This is burning me."
"Carlos is you sure you want to go through with it." He said looking concerned.
I tightened my grip on his arm and said 'Please save me James. I need you to save me, the pain is becoming too much."
James nodded before leaning down and kissing my cheek. "I will make your pain go away" he whispered before he leaned down to my neck and sunk his fangs in. I gasped in pain and gripped his hand tightly. My other hand dug into the dirt as I tried super hard not to pull away.
"It's almost over Carlos hang in there." Kendall said as he put his hand on my arm. Logan followed suit and said "He's almost done." My only response was moans of pain. I knew this was the only thing that could save me but as my head spun I could feel myself slowly slipping away.
"Carlos stay with us." Logan said but my body went lip and my world faded before me.
