BloodyRose: Well since it's still my birthday I'll treat you to another chapter.
Nerisa: Please Enjoy!
13. New Home
"Woo, woo, woo!" The Shifter says hands up with his palms facing the deadly group. "I'm not here to fight." "That's not what I sensed in the woods. You were ready to kill me." Nerisa snarls while grinding her teeth. "Hay you're the one who attacked me first." The Shifter starts. "I was just defending myself you of all people should understand that." "I don't care about your reasons just get or so help me I will kill you on the spot." "Look I am not your enemy. I'm hiding from those stupid dead beats as much as you are." The Shifter finally says.
"My name is Sirius, Sirius …" "I don't care what your name is!" Nerisa cuts in. She grabs Tamera from Michael and searchers through her pants pockets. "Let's go were leaving. I still have the address of the safe house. "Ners, do you really know how to get there?" Michael asks timidly. "Maybe Sirius can help us?" "We are not getting help from him!" Nerisa says looking at the paper her mom gave her earlier. "I can figure it out on my own." "What's the address of the safe house?" Sirius asks Michael ignoring Nerisa's comments.
"Don't you dare tell him?" Nerisa says glaring at the guys. "Look I'm just saying before more of those dead beats come." "Let them come. I'm just itching for a fight." Nerisa says annoyed. "Then what let those defenseless kids get hurt?" Sirius argues back. "We are Jade! We can take care of ourselves and we were raised as fighters." Nerisa says pissed. "Don't insult any of us like that." "Wait you guys are Jade? Then I know where your safe house is located." Sirius says happily. "I told you that he might know." Michael says arrogantly. "Oh, shut up." Nerisa snaps.
"Hay you're going to have to shift to get there." "Don't you dare give me orders you snake." "Fine, fine but just warning you I know the safest route." "Uh, fine you're taking my brother. His shifting needs a little work." Nerisa finally says giving in. "Hay you don't have to point that out." "Yah, yah sue me later. Right now let's get a move on." Nerisa says getting ready. "Hay, why hasn't Tami cried this whole time?" Nerisa finally asks while half shirting. "Is that my IPOD?" "Uh it was the only thing that could distract her from getting upset." Michael says hiding behind the half shifting Sirius. Sirius just looks at both of them and chuckles.
"What are you laughing at?" Nerisa yells. "I will give you something to laugh at!" She starts to go in his face but Tamera started fighting in her arms. "Neca are we leaving?" Tamera asks pulling the headphones off. "Yes Tami. We're leaving?" Nerisa says putting her down and kneeling. "This nice boy is going to help us." "Thank you Mestuw for helping us." Tamera says giving a red Sirius a hug. "Um, it is no problem, Tami." Sirius says shocked. Tamera smiles up at him and goes back to her sister. "Okay I weady now." Tamera says putting the head phones back on. "Okay let's go." Nerisa announces and shifts into a tigress. Tami jumps on to her sisters back and holds on like she used to with their dad.
Sirius just stands there blushing, day dreaming about earlier. Michael hits Sirius's arm snapping him out of his fantasy. "Hay you know the girls are leaving us behind right?" Michael says pointing at his sister's tail. That was starting to disappear into the bushes to the right of them. "You're supposed to be the escort but you're being left behind instead." Sirius blushes and finishes shifting quickly. Sirius starts sprinting into the direction Nerisa disappeared at. Once he makes shore Michael is safely on his back. He took on the shape of a tiger as well since Michael is large in size. While he was catching up to Nerisa, he kept thinking back to when the both of them were alone fighting. He was remembering how fluidly she shifts from a mountain lion into a tigress. Then he was remembering the glimpse of her human skin in between the shifting. Once he has cough up to her Serous back into work mode and started escorting them through the woods.
-30 minutes later-
They reach an area where the trees are not as thick. Sirius stops his tracks and lets Michael get off his back and shifts half way back to human. "We are here already?" Nerisa whispers with Tami safely secured on her hip. Sirius turns to answer her question but stops shorts enchanted on how Nerisa looks. Nerisa standing behind him with her hair still striped like a tiger's fur. With Nerisa's sensitive ears catching every noise on top of her head and her tail twitching around her. With her light brown eyes still glowing a hypnotic yellow – orange, that gives her imprison of being able to see into peoples souls. "Um … Kind of…." Sirius says trying to stop himself from staring into her eyes. "So then why did we stop?" Michael asks. "Oh that is because we can't go over there as animals. Also someone is coming to meet up with us." Sirius says not too happy about the last part.
"Hay what's up? Who is picking us up?" "Nothing is bothering me. It's just that….." Sirius gets cut off with a loud crack coming from the right of them. Nerisa and Michael hold their breaths. Frozen in place and closed ranked hiding Tamera. Sirius on the other hand just sighs. "Oh why if it isn't Nerdy Ners and little Mike long time no see. With my anti-social brother, who would rather stay in the wood then come home." A voice calls out at a distance. The voice belongs to a guy under the shadow of a tree. The man had charcoal gray ears and fire red eyes with violet blazing in the center near the iris. His hair was a charcoal black with random strands of chalk white streaks. He also had a fluffy charcoal gray tail with the end giving the effects of being dipped in white paint.
"Oh shut up Aden. Nobody cares about what you say." Sirius hisses. "Oh temper, temper little brother." Aden says jokingly. "Why Hello? Who might this little lady be?" Aden says ignoring his brother and getting closer to Tamera. "Come any closer and your dead." Nerisa says sneering at him pushing Michael behind her. "Touchy wow, Nersie you turned mean and stick in the mud." "I wouldn't go against her wishes if I were you." Sirius warned. "She is a killing machine don't provoke her." "I don't believe it until I actually see it myself." Aden says. "Trust me you really don't want to see it." Sirius says stepping a little in front of Nerisa. Since Sirius was sensing that Nerisa was starting to get very mad. "She almost killed me."
"Fine, fine let's just go then." Aden says backing away. "I'm not going to let mom get mad. The food might start to get cold again." "Okay let's hurry before a lightning storm starts up." Sirius says grabbing Michael by the arm and steering Nerisa by the other side of her waist. Nerisa glares at the two brothers annoyed. "Uh, you're such a jerk. Don't you ever calling me those names again?" Nerisa barks out. She grabs a hold of Aden's tail and yanking it. "Yeouch! What was that for?" Aden asks pulling his tail back and out of her reach. So she wouldn't get a hold of it again he turns fully human. Nerisa just growls and shows her fangs at him as an answer. "Neca I'm hungry." Tamera says squirming in her arms pulling the head phones again. "It's okay Tams, my mom is going to feed you nice and good." Aden says smiling at her.
"Neca he scawy." Tami says into her sister's shoulder. Sirius being so close catches on what Tamera was saying. Stares and Nerisa while she stares back at him. Then after staring at each other for a few minutes burst out laughing loudly. "Huh I don't get it. Why are you laughing?" "It's just…" Sirius stops so he can gasp for air. "That kids…" Nerisa tries to say between giggles. "Kids never liked Aden." Sirius finally says calming down. "Hay that's not true our little brother loves me." "Yah only because you bribe him with sweets." Nerisa tries to keep a serious face at that comment. "Hay is anyone going to open the door." Michael points out.
"Oh yah sorry." Sirius says while Aden pulls out his keys opening the door. "Mom I found Sirius and he brought a couple of surprises with him!" Aden yells. Taking off his shoes and walking in. "It better not be a litter of kittens again." A musical voice says softly but sternly. "Close mom. You're very close." Aden replies disappearing around a corner. Nerisa takes a cautious step in after him pulling off Tami's shoes and setting her own to the side. Behind her, Michael walks in as cautious as his sister and takes off his shoes. Sirius follows after them after closing the door and putting his shoes on the side. He grabs Michael by the arm again and pulls him around the corner that Aden disappeared behind earlier. There's a room near the corner that laughter is coming out off.
All Nerisa can hear is voices and clanging silver ware. At one point someone said to pass the stakes. "Hay mom where going to need more plates." Sirius announces when he gets closer to the threshold. "Oh dear." The woman that owned the musical voice says having a hand over her mouth. The man next to her jumps up and looks around behind him with a questioning look. Nerisa noticing the look puts Tamera down and goes to pat the tall man on the shoulder while shaking her head no. The musical voice woman gets up and grabs Nerisa into a hug. "It's okay." Nerisa finally says noticing the lady was shaking. Tamera looking confused grabs the back of Sirius's shirt trying to hide but still watch her sister. "Anastasia you are hurting the poor girl." The man that's her husband says. "Oh I'm so sorry." The lady named Anastasia says letting her grip loosen. "No it's okay Ann I understand. You and my mother were like sisters." Nerisa says calmly patting the older lady's hand. One of the girls stood up and snatched her mother's hand away.
"Don't touch my mother you freak." The girl says. Nerisa looks at her shocked. The girl looked around her age and she looked around the same height. Her hair just like her father's was white and held in high pig tales. Her eyes like her father's eyes are a purplish blue. "Sara!" Sirius and Aden yell. Sara flinches after hearing her brothers warning tone and goes back to her seat at the table. When she is only a step she snarls at Nerisa before seating. "I am sorry about my sister she can be a bit over protective and territorial." A girl next to Sara says politely. She like Aden had black hair but with white streaks and it hung loose to her shoulders. Unlike her brother and sister she has emerald green eyes like her mother and Sirius. "Ah the food is getting cold come sit." Mrs. Caplen says pushing Nerisa into the nearest seat. "Aden, Sirius! Why don't you two boys go fetch some more chairs and plates?"
"Uh mom I kind of can't." Sirius says trying to move Tamera from behind him. "Oh I'm sorry she can be very shy." Nerisa says going a little red in the cheeks. "Tami come here you can sit on my lap." "Okay." Tamera says letting go of Sirius and sliding on to her sister's lap. "Oh Michael you can take a seat right next to Melissa. The last time you saw each other was when you were two and playing in the bath." Mrs. Caplen says causing Michael and Melissa to turn beat red in the face. "Mom, please stop it." Melissa yells. Melissa like he mother has black hair but like her father has purplish blue eye. "You know it's true." The girl next to Nerisa says. "Allison?" Nerisa asks the girl not so shore. "Took you long enough to recognize me." Allison says frowning. "How can I know it's you with your hair short and the school girl uniform?" "How can you forget the one person who always helped you torture Sirius?" Allison says with fake shock.
"So mom where do you want the chairs?" Sirius says trying to cut the drama. "Oh you are sitting next to Nerisa and your brother is sitting next to Sara." Anastasia says excitedly. 'Time to get them Mach mated I see.' Her husband thinks to her. 'Ah Jason you know me so well.' Anastasia replies. 'Mom, Dad that is so not cool.' Allison tells both of them. "Damn it." Mr. Caplen hisses forgetting his eldest daughter can hear private thoughts. A rare power for a shifter to have while in human form. Only mates are heard of having that power. "Allison you know the rules. No mind reading at the table." Mr. Caplen tries to say. "I didn't have to it's written all over your faces." Allison says gleaming. "What? No!" Mrs. Caplen says quickly. "Can we stwar eating now?" Tamera quietly asks. "Oh yes I'm sorry." Mrs. Caplen says quickly taking her seat and ushers everyone to follow suit. "Thank you moon cycle." Everyone says and starts to eat.
When everyone finished eating Allison and Nerisa go help Mrs. Caplen with cleaning. "Thank you girls for helping me out." Mrs. Caplen says with a smile. Allison volunteered knowing Sirius wanted to help out just to get close to Nerisa. Tamera grabbed Sirius by the hand asking him to play house with her. Tami also invited Nerisa but she politely refused. "I need to help Auntie Ann maybe another time." She says ruffling Tami's hair. "Now Tami don't you hurt little Sirius okay." She says with a sneering tone and winks at her. Tamera giggles and sneers back knowing she was going to listen to her sister. Just like her sister said she was going to torture him badly. "Okie dokie, I won't hewt him." After that Tami scampers off and with a strong grip on the poor unsuspecting Sirius.
"You didn't tell her to do 'THAT' did you?" Allison asks coming up behind Nerisa. "Oh what ever could you mean?" Nerisa asks with a fake innocent voice. She smirks at Allison and Allison smirks back. "You did." Allison says matter of fact. "Oh Ally you know me all too well." Nerisa says throwing an arm around Allison's shoulder. "Yah, yah, yah, I missed you too." Allison says rolling her eyes at Nerisa's little act. "Come on it's time to catch up stop wasting time." Nerisa says pulling Allison back in the kitchen. "Okay ladies all that is left to do is sweep and to wipe down the table." Mrs. Caplen says.
"Yay!" Allison says grabbing the broom and passing it to Nerisa. "Thank you. So how long do you think it will take for…?" Nerisa was cut off by a fuming Sirius running in. His clothes were almost into shreds. "What the hell is wrong with your sister?" Sirius yells running in and hiding behind Nerisa. Tamera comes in skipping with a magical baby fox trotting in behind her. "There is nothing wrong with my little pup." Nerisa returns with her eyes glowing cat like. "You set me up!" Sirius says looking back and forth between the two sisters. "Sirius, keep your voice down." Mrs. Caplen backs.
"I'm going to my room now." Allison says "Tami why don't you come with me. I can help you with your magic." "Thank you Ally I really appreciate the help." Nerisa says lightly pushing Tamera closer to Allison. "She really needs the practice." "No problem. Have fun cleaning up you two." Allison says walking away holding Tamera's hand. Allison stops near the flight of stairs and whispers something into Tamera's ear. After a few minutes Tamera starts giggling and nods her head. Then they continue walking up. "What was that all about?" Nerisa asks confusingly to Sirius. "Beats me." He says shrugging his shoulders.
Nerisa & BloodyRose: Now should we reveal who the mysterious guy is?
Mysterious Guy: Don't Give My Identity!
Nerisa & BloodyRose: -both pouting- oh fine until next time
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