So sorry that its been so long since I have posted. School really picked up, who knew you could have exams the third week of classes!

With Matt in the lead, we started walking towards the house. The lawn was patchy and full of weeds. The windows were boarded up. No human had cared for this place in a long time.

Matt tried to quietly turn the doorknob but it stuck. The door was locked. He pulled a small black leather tool from his pocket and picked the lock.

The door swung open and we stepped inside. I tried to take a deep breath to calm my nerves. We stepped into a hallway, the house smelled musty and stale.

The three of us followed closely behind Matt as we checked the first room. Empty except for dusty furniture.

The second room was the same. I tried to scan for any dead bodies but didn't find any. Which made sense. If they were killing all over town why would they need to bring a body back with them?

We approached the third room in the hallway. The door creaked slightly as we got closer and we all froze.

Jeremy opened his mouth and Matt shot him a look before he could speak. Matt tapped his ears, telling us to listen. We could faintly hear a breeze flowing through the room, the window was open. But other than that, dead silence.

Matt pushed the door open and stepped in. As soon as his back foot cleared the threshold, the door slammed shut. Throwing the three of us backwards. Commotion erupted in the room. The sound of fighting and smell of blood filled the air. Kyle struggled with the door handle.

"It's jammed!" Kyle shouted.

I tried to think of something.

"Jeremy, go back outside. Get in through the window." I said.

Jeremy nodded and ran out the front door. I grabbed Kyle.

"Come on we have to keep moving. Jeremy can handle it."

Kyle and I didn't have to go to the next room to find a vampire. She was standing right there as we turned around.

"Well what did we have here?" She smiled showing her fangs.

Kyle pulled a knife out and pointed it at her.

She smelled the air, "Poor little human, you've got to depend on weapons." She caught my scent and her expression changed. "You're not human though."

I grabbed Kyle's hand and pulled him behind me.

She smelled again, "I can't quite place what you are. You smell like a wolf but you also smell like a vampire."

She took a step close to me and placed a finger under my chin, letting the claw-like nail pierce the skin. I flinched.

The vampire tilted my head around before pulling her hand away and tasting the blood on her fingertip.

"You've definitely had some vampire in you."

Kyle let go of my hand. He had something planned. I ducked down and he lunged at the vampire. Sticking his knife into her chest. She dropped to the ground limp.

"Are you ok?" I asked Kyle as I raised the vampire.

Kyle, caught by surprise, struck her again with the knife.

"Kyle! It's fine. She's dead. I raised her."

"Oh," he sighed in relief. Seeing now how she now wasn't reacting to anything.

I commanded the zombie vampire to check the next room for us. She went into it and there was a voice. I came to the doorway with Kyle and told her to kill the vampire standing in the room. He was a pale bald man probably in his forties.

The zombie vampire advanced towards him.

"Marie stop," he said backing up. "What are you doing? Stop."

Kyle and I couldn't watch what came next. Luckily we were saved by a distraction. Matt and Jeremy came through their doorway.

"What did I tell you about splitting up?" Matt glared at me. Clearly unhappy with my call to send Jeremy in to help him.

"How many are left?" Jeremy interrupted before I could stammer out a response.

"We got two," Kyle said. "You?"

"Two," Matt said. "Sweep the rest of the rooms."

There were only two rooms left and no one was in them. We were done. Quicker than I thought we would be honestly. I released the vampire's soul and her body fell to the ground beside her shredded friend. It felt good using necromancy magic again but the sight before me made me a little queasy.

With my adrenaline finally coming down, I took a look at Jeremy. He had a bruise on his cheek but seemed unharmed otherwise. He must be getting better at being a werewolf.

Kyle peaked out the sliver of window that was uncovered and noticed a shed in the backyard.

"Matt we should probably check that out just in case," he suggested.

Matt peaked through the window to see what he was talking about.

"Good idea," he nodded. "Chloe and Jeremy go check it out."

Matt and Kyle did one last sweep of the house while Jeremy and I went around back.

"Do you hear anything?" I asked Jeremy.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

We were a few feet from the shed now.

"I'm trying to get you to use your new senses," I said. "Try to listen harder, use your werewolf hearing. Do you hear any movement inside?"

Jeremy closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Maybe," he said. "I swear I can hear breathing but I might be imagining it."

"You'll learn, it takes practice."

The shed door had a heavy lock on it. Jeremy grabbed it and started twisting until the hinge broke.

"Good," I nodded. "You're getting good at using your strength."

The lock fell to the dirt with a thud and something shuffled inside. Jeremy looked at me, making sure I heard it too. He held his weapon with one hand and pushed the door in with his other. The shed wasn't too big, maybe ten by ten feet. Slits in the ceiling were the only source of light inside.

Jeremy and I stepped in, ready to fight again. But no one was in here. There was just dusty yard maintenance equipment.

"Maybe it was just an animal we heard," Jeremy said.

I tried to look around the equipment since they could provide hiding places and spotted a partially covered work bench in the back corner. I held up a finger to Jeremy and approached it slowly. Something moved underneath it when I bumped a weed wacker with my foot.

Whatever it was, it was trying to back away from us fearfully not get ready to attack. This wasn't likely a vampire. Jeremy tried to grab my shoulder as I knelt down in front of it. I couldn't believe what was before my eyes.

"Jeremy," I said softly. "It's a wolf."

"What?" Jeremy quickly knelt down beside me.

The quick movement spooked the wolf and it tried to look for a way to run out of the corner. I realized we still had the shed door open, we needed to be careful the wolf didn't take off on us.

"Slowly," I told Jeremy. "Don't spook it."

Jeremy slowly lifted a hand in it's direction. The wolf hesitantly inched forward to smell him. Their fur was beautiful, it was a mix of black and brown. But the wolf was covered in dirt and blood. Fresh blood still dripped from a wound above it's hazel eyes.

"Are you a werewolf?" Jeremy said gently. "We are here to help you not hurt you."

The wolf pushed their nose gently against his hand to answer.

"What is taking so long out here?" Suddenly came from the doorway.

The wolf panicked and tried to flee. It turned and fell back into the shadow. I finally noticed why the wolf wasn't actually running; their back right leg was all twisted and broken.

"Matt, we found a werewolf." Jeremy stood up.

Matt and Kyle looked at him like they had heard him wrong.

"You what?" Matt asked.

They rounded a push mower so they could see under the table we were beside.

"Oh my god," Matt's jaw dropped. "These vampires were keeping werewolf prisoners."

"We have to help," I said. "I think their leg is broken pretty bad."

"Chloe," Matt hesitated. "We don't know who-"

"Please," Jeremy begged. "Does it matter who that is? We can't leave them here defenseless."

"Fine," Matt nodded. "Kyle would you please go grab a sheet from the house. We can't go walking out in the open with a wolf."

Kyle nodded and quickly left the shed.