Chloe –Déjà vu–
A heartbreaking howl cut through the air. The next moment a yellow flash shoot out of the black forest and crushed to the terrifying wolf's throat. The silver wolf growled in rage and surprise. He shook his head fiercely. The attacker flew off; he crashed with another painful howl against a tree. A slight breeze arose, combing through the leaves and the new wolf's sand-colored fur.
Sand-colored?!
"Seth!" I finally managed to scream, but I still wasn't able to get up and help him.
Another friend of yours? The frightening dark voice talked to me in my head. What a cute, brave, stupid, little puppy. He said and stepped slowly towards Seth who was still lying motionless on the ground. The razor-sharp teeth flashed in the moonlight when the enemy pulled his mouth to a smug grin.
"No!" I screamed and jumped to my feet to step between them.
Wow. The silver wolf said in a sneering tone. The little cry-baby grew up.
"It's me who you want," I replied. My voice sounded amazingly calm. "So leave my friends alone."
The grin on his face grew wider. How much would you pay me to fulfill your wish?
I swallowed. "What do you want?"
Your life. He answered coldly.
I inhaled deeply and closed my eyes. Adrian's gorgeous face appeared in front of my inner eye again. His face looked sad, almost painful.
"Chloe," he whispered in a pleading tone. "Don't. Don't do this."
Then come and help me.
The gold in his eyes melted which made his face to look even more painful. As if he was set on fire. It hurt my heard to see him like this. "Chloe… please… don't…"
I miss you. I want to be with you again.
"Chloe… please…"
I opened my eyes. Although the sure death was standing in front of me I smiled. "Do as you wish," I responded clearly.
The killer's grin faded when he saw the sincere smile on my face. But he gained back control quickly. Good girl. His reply echoed in my head but it didn't scare me anymore.
My sudden calmness seemed to have mess up his confidence, because instead of attacking me immediately he hesitated a second. A second that started the change of the outcome of this déjà vu.
A grey flash shoot out of which seemed like nowhere and lunged for the enemy's throat. He growled with anger. Another flash came out of the darkness from the opposite direction to help the grey wolf that had attacked before.
"Chloe!" a soprano high voice called and I saw Alice rushing to my side. "Chloe, are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine. But, Seth-" I turned around and saw how the beige wolf came to his feet without any hesitation to jump over me and get the enemy's throat again.
My eyes followed his movements in astonishment. How? Wasn't he wounded and couldn't get up? How could he go on fighting so effortlessly?
"Don't worry, Chloe," Alice assured me and took my hand. "Jasper, Leah and Seth will take care of this."
Leah? The Leah who had tried to kill me herself a day ago? How ironic.
Well, I had expected that I would die here and now, but I was still alive somehow. This was truly ironic.
I sighed and closed my eyes. But this time he didn't appear. I was still alive… Although I knew that I should be happy about his, I felt sad somehow. My heart hurt though it wasn't working anymore. Yes. I wasn't dead, but my heart kept silent like a rock…
"Leah!" Alice suddenly screamed and my eyes flashed open.
The giant silver wolf had shook his opponents off in the mean time and was about to attack the smaller grey wolf from behind. His teeth were only inches from her neck.
But before he reached her, Seth jumped between them. He howled in pain when the razor-sharp teeth bored into one of his foreleg.
A scream of fear escaped through my lips. I freed my hand out of Alice's grip and ran towards him.
No! Please not! Not him! NO!
Leah growled furiously and jumped to go for the enemy's throat again. Jasper and Alice came to help her while I rushed to Seth's side. The teeth had left deep marks in the flesh. Blood floated continuously out of the wound. He whimpered quietly; his body was shaking.
I stared at him helplessly. What would happen now? A werewolf's bite was as toxic as a vampire's. And both venoms together would result to a killing mixture that burned one to ashes from the inside. I knew this – I had seen this many times before…
What should I do? I didn't want to loose him, but I didn't dare to touch him, either.
Why did everything have to turn out like this? Why couldn't the world stay peaceful forever? Why was there always a shadow next to the light?
I fell to my knees and sobbed. This was my entire fault. If I hadn't come to Forks there wouldn't be any danger here. I shouldn't have come and darkened this beautiful place with the black shadow that followed me with each single step I took.
"Sorry," I whispered. "I'm so s-sorry, Seth."
His fur rustled quietly in the grass when he lifted his head to like my hand. His tongue felt warm and soft on my skin. Despite his conditions he tried to calm me. I wanted to cry. I was so… so useless.
This was a déjà vu. Like one hundred seventy years ago I wasn't able to do anything but sitting there and watch the important persons in my life been hurt and taken away from me.
Why wasn't I able to protect the ones I loved? Way I really nothing but a little cry-baby?
"He's trying to run away!" Jasper suddenly yelled and Leah disappeared into the woods.
I clenched my hands to fists. No. This time he won't just get away so easily. Not again.
Before I could think more about it, I got up and jumped on a tree to chase after the two wolves. – Ready to change the end of this déjà vu with my own hands.
While I followed the track, memories came back into my mind – memories of my friends who I had when I had been an ordinary human girl.
First, there was a girl with long smooth hair which had a slight ginger shade. Her blue eyes were looking at me, her lips where stretched to a proud smile. – Janette. Although she had been a little harsh to me sometimes, she had been one of my best friends.
A tall boy was standing behind her. His dark blond hair was short and practically not combed. He, too, was smiling at me, his expression gentle. – Antoine. Whenever I needed help he would appear at my side and support me as good as he could.
The last person was a girl again. Her long wavy hair was a shade lighter than Antoine's and fell over her shoulders to her small waist. A wide smile enlightened her face. Her face radiated confidence and sureness, maybe even a little bit smugness. – Chantal. I knew her since I could think back and she had always been my best friend for the same time.
A sharp pain stung in my heart when my three friends started to fade in front of my inner eye. Their skin became lighter and lighter, almost transparent. Their eyes lost their natural colors and the lively glint disappeared.
I swallowed. Janette. Antoine. Chantal. My precious friends… They were all gone. Together with him. To a place that they could never leave again.
And now, Seth was on the way to that place, too.
I shook my head and sped up. I had watched enough. More than enough.
From my high position I espied a grey wolf passing tree by tree like a fired arrow under me. – Leah. Seth seemed to be a very important person for her, too, or else she wouldn't be so obsessed for revenge.
In front of her, in a distance of about twenty metres, a giant wolf was running northwards, its fur shined in different shades of silver under the full moon's pure white light.
Leah sped up when she saw me skip the next three branches to become faster.
Then suddenly, she changed the direction and headed towards northeast. I didn't care about her. I needed to catch my life's only and greatest enemy.
The giant wolf seemed to me panicked. He was running in a zigzag and apparently he didn't even notice that he was heading into a blind alley. He was coming nearer and nearer to the bleak grey rock face with each single step he took.
A smug smirk sneaked on my lips.
End of the line.
My body suddenly felt lighter and all my muscles seemed to be ten times stronger than usual.
I'll get you. I'll get you and make you pay for everything you did to me.
The wolf stopped abruptly when it reached the endless high rock face. He turned to run to another direction but I was faster. I jumped off the tree and landed soundlessly in front of him. And angry hiss escaped through his teeth but there was more than rage in this sound. Something shaky and unsure. – Fear.
"How does it feel?" I asked in an ice-cold tone.
The wolf spun around to escape per the opposite direction. But again I was faster than him. I jumped on a tree and launched myself to the other side before he had finished three-quarter of the distance; cutting off his way.
"How does it feel to be all alone and helpless?"
I'm not helpless. He growled. Do you actually believe that I'm afraid of you?
"No, I don't," I replied, my voice still calm and cold. The smug grin appeared on my lips again. He took a step back. "I know you are," I lowered my voice to a quiet dangerous whisper. "You should be scared, if you're smart. I've killed an entire army of werewolves on my own." I took a step closer when he took another one back. "Do you remember? It was the army you had created and left behind afterwards." –Another step back; another step closer– "Do you know how it feels? Do you know how it feels to loose a precious person and then discover that the culprits were your own friends?" –I shook my head– "No, they weren't my friends anymore. They weren't human anymore." I wanted to cry but that wouldn't have helped me at this moment at all. So I was glad that my eyes weren't capable of producing tears. For once. "You. You have stolen their humanity. You have changed them to monsters." –My voice gained a low threatening edge though it still wasn't louder than a whisper– "You killed the ones I loved. You are the real culprit."
You don't know anything. He replied and growled again.
"Maybe," I countered. My voice still composed and quiet. "But I know enough."
And then I jumped to lung for his throat.
He dodged to the right. I made a somersault to not loose my balance. He used the time and spun around to run away again.
"Stop!" I screamed and jumped to my feet. But before I could make a single step, something grey and fury crashed to the silver wolf. – Leah.
The giant wolf growled when she dug her teeth in one of his foreleg. Leah growled back as if she wanted to say: "That one was for Seth".
He shook her off with a bloodcurdling growl. She crushed against a tree, leaving deep marks on the trunk.
I used the time while he was distracted by Leah to jump on his back. He growled furiously.
You don't know anything! He repeated.
"I know that this is the end of our story," I said calmly.
Then I bended down to sink my teeth in his throat. He howled in pain.
As soon as the two different venoms touched, the skin under my hands began to heat up. I got up and jumped on a nearby tree when the first blood-red flame appeared on the silver fur. Soon the fire had made its way through the whole body and the giant wolf was changed into a big fire ball. Thick dark-grey smoke raised into the air where the hot flames licked over his skin. The acidly fetidness of burning meat and something else filled the area, stinging my nose.
Leah got up and watched the scene in front of her with hard eyes.
"Thank you," I whispered.
She didn't react but I was sure that she had heard it.
From the corner of my eyes, I saw another column of smoke climb towards the snow white full moon.
*sigh* I thought I'd never be able to write this.... ^^ and the ending isn't so evil like the last two.... XDDD *angel* I hope you all can forgive me now ^^ thx!! *sob*
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-Mulan-
