Chapter Ten

Chapter Ten

Cameron's truck was a damn good ride.  It was pressed to its limit and still went along smoothly.  I was thinking of purchasing one like it until the holes in the gravel road came along.  My head was bouncing so roughly by time I finally made it to Jonas's house.  When I finally got out, I felt dizzy.

I braced myself against the truck and gathered all my thoughts.  I was going to fight this bitch and win.  If not, I'd be tore apart and turn into a feast for the group.  With that thought, I lost my balance again.  There in the calm dark quiet was a gorgeous face that surprised me when he caught me before I fell.  His dark brown hair was cut so perfectly.  It matched his goatee.  His dark skin only made his brown eyes seem all the more exotic.  He was wearing only a pair of black leather pants.  His abs were so amazing.  You'd only think of seeing them on some muscle bound male.  He was the most dazzling black male I'd ever seen in my entire life.  I wanted to feel safe in someone's arms, but not his.  He was a stranger just like Cameron.  I backed up away from him.

"You Sara?"

"Who are you?"

He bowed in front of me, which made me jump.  His face returned smiling.  "My name is Tyrone James.  You must be the lovely Sara Pezzini."

"And you must be one of the fools that has been in Selena's pants."

His eyes suddenly lost all interest in me.  They began to search the edges of Jonas's house.  "Selena's waiting Sara.  We gotta go."

I nodded then followed him.  I doubted he would want to lead me anywhere but in the right direction.  His safety depends on it.

The further we got into the woods, the thicker the trees seem to spread out.  He was holding back branches for me.  He was moving logs.  He was making my walk easier than it had been before.

"What would happen if we were late?"

He looked up at me while trying to move a log.  "She'd kill me."

I sighed.  Damn, she was a real bitch.  "I promise you, she won't hurt you."

He snorted at me.  "I doubt you can beat her Sara."

"Then you deserve to die Tyrone."

He gave me a stern, die-hard glance that made me want to punch him in the mouth.  "You will be defeated tonight.  I'll make sure to it."

"Well, fuck you too Tyrone.  I hope the pack eats you when they munch on Selena."

He stood up and was about to backhand me when my shoulder holster was flashing.  He stopped right where he was.  "You will die Sara."

I smiled bitterly at him.  "You first."

"You bitch."

I pointed my finger in the direction we needed to go.  "Walk on bat boy."

He turned around and added, "I will not listen to a human leader."

"Then you'll listen to a metal gun."

He sighed out loud and walked faster up ahead of me.  I had to rush just to keep up with him.  While running, I tripped on a large log that almost pinned me to the ground.  Tyrone walked up behind me and placed one foot on my back.  "I could break your back, bitch.  And you couldn't do anything about it."

"I don't think Selena would be a happy camper then."

He stood above me thinking for a few seconds.  He removed his boot from my back.  He grabbed my hair and pulled my face up to his.  Half of my body was off of the ground while my legs still trailed behind me.  He began to breathe into my hair.  His breath was steady and regular.  "You don't have a fucking chance against Selena.  She'll rip your heart out."

There behind a few of the limbs, I saw the same beautiful blonde that came in my room today.  She was screaming at Tyrone.  I guess, telling him to let me go.  He didn't listen.  When she got closer to us and his eyes became fixated on her, I went for my shoulder holster.  Cassie's face looked down at me, but her eyes didn't show any fear.  She knew it wasn't her I was going to kill.  She grabbed onto Tyrone, but he pulled my hair back harder.  I screamed out in pain.  I raised my gun high enough to which I could aim but low enough to which he couldn't see.  Cassie ran behind Tyrone and jerked him back.  I then pulled the trigger of my Beretta four times, blasting him in his heart, lungs, and neck.  Cassie held him in her arms then carefully dropped him to the ground as he died.  She turned her face up to me with a large, pleased smile.  "You will be a great leader."

I rolled my eyes at her.  "Can we go?"

"Follow me, please."

"Aight.  No bullshit.  My head already hurts."

She laughed and showed me the way.  I could trust her.  She already wanted me to be her leader.  What a shame!  A human as a leader.  What is the world coming to?

I looked back at Tyrone, wondering what would happen to him.  Cassie noticed me thinking and tried her best to answer the unspoken question.

"Sara, we won't eat Tyrone.  We will merely make small incisions into his skin and lap up the blood.  We are vampire bats, we don't eat skin."

"Well, that's nice.  Do the same to Selena for me."

"Will be done.  I've got to tell you that since you don't suck blood with us, you'll end up sharing the food, which will make you in the highest hierarchy since there isn't really any hierarchy among bats."

"No shit?"

"Yeah.  You seem to be trigger happy so you'll stay number one."

"Cassie.  Shut up."

She smiled at me.  "Okay."  Then began to walk a little faster to the cave.  I had about two minutes to be there or the bitch would be pissed.  Did I really care?  No.  Tyrone was already marked for food, so why bug?

Cassie swung her hips one last time around the corner of a tree.  I followed her until I saw three large bats licking Tyrone's skin. They had grayish-brown fur, which was lighter on their bellies.  Their mouth or nuzzle was small and compact.  It did however look swollen.  All of their ears were pointy.  Their wingspan was like eight or nine feet wide, even though the body was less.  I'm guessing that however tall the person is, the bat is the same height.  No one of them had a tail.  Not my problem.

I must have stopped in my tracks because Cassie tapped my left shoulder.  I looked up at her with an expression of incomprehensibility written on my face.  She smiled down at me and began to explain.

"The bat rotating above Tyrone's neck is Jasmine Lang, the other two smaller bats are Cannon Hawke and Ian Nottingham."

"Why is Jasmine bigger?"

"Females are always bigger than the male bats.  We are usually more dominant, although the men fight more.  We hold a more firm role to keep the balance."

"Okay."  A little bit too much information for me, but I could use some right now.  I can't complain.  She's trying to help me out.  Hell, I got myself into this.

Cassie guided me quickly inside the cave.  She knew I was frightened, well, not completely frightened, but confused about the creatures outside.  It's not like I face these things daily.  Okay, maybe a little vampires here and there, but not these things.  I mean come on.  Just follow her and it'll be alright.

She pushed her way into the cave.  Shoving other males and females out of our way.  I kept looking back and forth trying to piece all the faces together.  Were they all werebats?

I was led further into the cave until darkness took control of my sight.  There in the dark a light was sparked.  Selena lit a torch that was placed inside a hole in the wall.  She stood there wearing short flayed blue jeans that weren't even arm length.  I'm betting that if she turned around, her ass would be showing.  I'm betting she also didn't care.  Her white sports bra revealed two heaving, large breasts.  Shit.  Blood shows up so easily on white.  Not mine, of course.

"Hello Sara.  Nice of you to be on time."

"Yeah, only for you though."

She smiled ever so brightly.  "Ever been in this type of situation before?"

"Not really...?"

Her left eyebrow rose just a little.  "Not really?"

"I won't explain it because it's none of your business."

She looked the other way and nodded.

She took out the torch and held it high in her hands.  The torch illuminated the back of the cave.  All except those shadows creeping from the ceiling.  I looked up and sure enough, there were about five huge bats sleeping upside down.  I hope they don't shit while they sleep.  Big problem then.

I looked back at Selena.  She was standing there taking off her top.  Her shorts were already lying on the ground beneath her feet.

My voice didn't even try to hide its confusion.

"What are you doing?"

"Changing."

"Why?"

"Mustn't destroy these precious clothing during my shift."

"Fine."  I wasn't going to disagree.  If she was going to shapeshift, it'll give me an advantage and I could kill her.  If she meant that when I was dead, she'd shapeshift, then I was in trouble.  Having my blood licked wasn't my idea of dying.

I looked back at Selena as she stood there naked.  Damn.

Her body was perfect.  All the right curves in all the right places.  Her large breasts stoodd up straight.  A perfect porn star.  Her nipples were hard.  Either from the chilly weather inside this cave or her own pure excitement.  I'm betting on excitement.

"Do you like what you see?"  She spun around in a tight circle.  Her back was extremely muscular, although it still appeared feminine.

My eyes rose back to her hair.  Her silky black hair glittered from the glow of the torch flame.

"If I was gay, yes, but I'm not so don't ask."

"Afraid of homosexuality?"

"Nope.  Just too busy seeing you as a bitch to think of you as pretty."

Her eyes looked me up and down.  Her face held a smirk that made me angry.  It's one of those looks that says, I'm better than you in everything and anything.

She cupped one hand around her breasts and began to squeeze.  She softly massaged it, while I tried to find something else to look at.

"Dammit Selena.  Drop this fucking act.  Let's get this over with."

The only thing she did was let go of her breast.  She picked her head up then started communicating with one of the bats on the ceiling.  Not with words, but with signals.  Bat talk.  Cassie put her hand on my shoulder and whispered in my ear, "I won't let anyone hurt you Sara.  There'll be no way that Selena could get assistance from any of these bats.  Unless I'm dead of course."

I turned my head to her to see if she was joking, but she wasn't.  Her smile was still there, although her words revealed the truth.  I sighed and shrugged my shoulders under her grasp.  Selena returned her green eyes back to me.  They were fierce and almost hypnotizing.  Her cheekbones were almost sunk in all the way.  She definitely wouldn't stay human for too long tonight.

She stepped towards me, reached her hands out, and touched my chest.  I let her put her hands on me, until I heard a muffled scream coming from the front of the cave.  I quickly turned to see Cameron being tied down by about eight bats.

I began to run in the opposite direction of Selena until she smacked me in the back of the head.  I went crashing to the ground; covering my face with my hands so it didn't smack against the rock.  I heard Cameron yelling at Selena, but I guess they dragged him off.  I saw Cassie screaming at Selena when I finally was able to stand up beside her.  Selena reached her hand up behind my head and grabbed my hair.  I immediately went for my gun.  She jerked her hand back and pulled a hand full of my hair out.  My scream was muffled as one of her bat goons came behind me and gripped my mouth.  Cassie ran up to the bat and tossed him to the ground taking her down with him.   I, on the other hand, bent down low enough that I knew I could tackle the bitch.  I went running with my shoulder low and rammed into Selena's stomach.  She caught hold of me before I hit her.  When I smacked against her, I went crashing to the ground on top of her with my face lying on her breasts.  I tried to jerk away, but she pressed her arms around my back.  I looked up at her face and spit in her eyes.  She shrieked at me and slapped my face to the side.  I fell hard and deep into the stream.

My legs quickly tried to find something to cling onto, but there was nothing.  It was deeper than I thought.  I began to panic.  I frantically tried to kick my way higher.  My arms stretched out into the water aching to reach the top.  My lungs began to lose air.  Oh God.  I've got to calm down.  No need to drown.  I paced my strokes.  First is first.  Make sure I get to the top and get air.  Then battle Selena.  My heart calmed down and beat regularly the closer I got to the top.  My hair streamed behind me as I threw my head up out of the water.  I think I saw Cassie jumping in the air.  Maybe she's happy.  Probably.

I tried to get my hands on the edge of the cave, but the sides were too jagged.  If I catch a hold of them, my hands would end up cut.  I kept moving along barely touching the sides.  Selena stood there just staring at me.  I think she was laughing.  I looked up at her; watched her move closer to me.  She put both her hands on the sides of my face, came in a little closer, and pressed her lips against mine.  I instantly tried to pull back from her, but she held onto my face.  My eyes were searching her face while my hand was reaching down into my inner pants holster for my Berretta.  I quietly raised it on top of the water and aimed it at her head.  I quickly pressed the trigger and watched Selena fall back.  She kicked my head hard enough to toss me against the rocky wall.  My head was the first thing that felt the impact.