Drake walked along the hallway as he made his way away from Michael and Selene's room. He felt as if he had ruined an intimate moment for them when he knocked on the door, but it didn't really matter that much he guessed. The way Michael talked about Selene, they must have a close bond.
Well, one had to be close to their.. part sire he supposed. He smirked when he opened the doors to William's office, "Don't you ever leave this place mate?"
"Nope, I don't mate." William said imitating Drake's accent.
"I see, pick on Drake day is it? Well then, I could bring up how you haven't met a woman in... how many years?"
"I have met women, thank you very much. They just happened not to be my type." William said taking his glasses off.
"Really, what is your type then Willy? A beautiful, smart, and very attractive woman? Does she have to be strong, and be able to stand for you to be what you are? Does she have to be human, or a vampire for her to be your type?"
"No. I won't even bother with explaining it to you." William said his long brown bangs falling in his eyes as he shifted and wrote something else down.
"C'mon, it's not like i'm going to tell everyone and you know it. I just want to know, since you've been here that has all you have ever done, work and research, I wasn't even sure if you were alive the first week after you were turned."
"Drake, that was a long time ago. Besides you know everything there is to know about me."
"No one knows everything about everyone William. It's not possible. Especially when that someone is immortal, a lot more has happened."
"Why do you keep pushing the subject? Is it because ever since Lucian's death you have been ignored and no one will pay you the respect you deserve. Is that it? I just don't understand it anymore. Out of all the things. Are you bored Drake? Tell me." William said tearing his glasses away from his face and standing up his pen falling to the table with a low thump.
Drake looked at him confused, "Listen I'm sorry, maybe you were right though, I am being ignored when I am older and stronger than most of them. Without Lucian to tell me what to do though, I am lost. Why do you think I went against our elders' orders in the first place to get Michael? I was respected at one time in this clan and now i'm not."
"So you admit that you are being ignored but why do you keep pushing the subject of my relationships?"
"Your the only person here who actually takes me seriously anymore. I look at you like a younger brother and that I missed half of his life. I guess I am trying to make up for it."
"Fine you want to know all about my relationships about my life I will tell you." William walked over to a counter and pulled out a knife, he looked at Drake his blue eyes burning and cut his hand open. A trail of blood soon followed the mark the knife had made, dripping off the end of his hand. William then cut his arm, the blood starting to flow from there as well. With one last look at the knife as the blood covered the blade he cut each of his cheeks in two fluid motions.
Drake looked like he had just seen a ghost, "Fuck." Drake muttered rushing forward to take the knife from William's hands, "What in the fuck are you thinking?"
"I told you I would tell you." He informed Drake the blood still pouring from his wounds.
"What does this tell me?"
"It tells you that they cut her, and sliced her until she bled to death."
"Wait.. who cut who?"
"Lycans, they cut her."
Drake's mouth hung open a bit, "Who did they cut Drake?"
"My wife, they slaughtered her."
Drake closed his eyes, he didn't remember the slaughter of a woman when he heard of William being captured. He opened them to find William with his glasses back on slaving over his notes once again, the blood still running though not as bad. It was dripping on the table as he wrote.
"Looks like we both have something in common though William."
William looked up at him the blood staining his cheeks and making his skin look white and pale, "What would that be?"
"We are both dedicated to one person. Michael. He put his faith in you to find a cure, and I put my faith in him to lead us to peace between this blood bath that has raged on for too long."
William nodded as Drake walked out of the room, tossing the knife down on the counter as he left.
~*~
Michael stood in the room adjusting his coat as Selene sat on the bed watching him. "Why not?" She asked.
He sighed and turned around to face her, "It is too dangerous and if I am correct on how the world works, you are one of their most wanted. I'm not going to risk you, not now, not ever."
"I told you I can take care of myself." She told him standing up.
"You think I forgot that fact? You saved yourself and me many times, I know you can take care of yourself. If I knew that there wasn't a chance you could get killed or injured I would let you go."
"You can't stop me from going Michael." He was standing infront of her as soon as the words had left her lips.
"I know, and I know that you don't want to be here alone, and with lycans, some which still hold their grudges. But, I can't let you go and you know it."
Selene looked past his shoulder and Michael placed his hands one on each of her shoulders so that she would focus her gaze on him. "I could say this a million times, but I love you, and I can't loose you."
"Then why are you going out there? How do you know that I want to stay here, and what if you never make it back? What am I supposed to do then, let them kill me?"
Michael seemed to think on it for a minute, "I will promise you that I will make it back, and I will come back to you. No matter what situation I seem to be caught in, if I know I can't win, I will make it back, just to make sure I keep my promise to you."
"That doesn't make me feel any better about you leaving me to go fight, and leaving me here with people who hate me."
"I know it doesn't make you feel any better, but that is how I feel if you come with me. Hell, I still feel it leaving you here. That's why I'm leaving you here with someone I trust."
"Who would that be?"
"William."
"The nervous doctor?" She asked but came out sounding more like a statement.
"Yes, him."
"You swear he won't kill me?"
"I'm positive." Michael said smiling as he moved behind her, his hands still on her shoulders, and pushed her forward. "Let's go."
She sighed and started walking to avoid being pushed by Michael as he walked behind her. She didn't want him to go, but knew there was no changing his mind, he was going to help the lycans whether she wanted him to or not. He had Lucian's memories, he was their key to ending the war.
They made it to William's office without getting as many stares as she thought they would however. Michael pushed the door open from behind her and they walked in.
Selene stopped in her tracks as her eyes layed upon William, this was the man he was leaving her with? Michael stopped behind her, "Jesus Christ." He mumbled.
William was sitting behind his desk, his eyes focused on them, blood still visible on his face and arm. It still wasn't drying at the moment.
Michael stepped closer to William, "What happened?"
"Just a little story telling." William said pushing his bangs out from his face, "Nothing to worry about, I will be fine, and no I am not crazy."
Michael glanced back at Selene and shrugged his shoulders, he walked over to her and placed a chaste kiss on her cheek and then walked out of the room.
Selene looked at William who had taken his glasses off, she was now under the stare of his intense blue eyes.
"Feeling better Selene?" He asked her looking back down at his notes.
"Yes." She answered him, her eyes traveling to all the cuts on him, "If you don't mind me asking. How did you get those marks from telling a story?"
William looked back up at her and flipped over his hand showing a cut she had not seen before, "It was nothing, just trying to prove a point I guess."
"What point do you make by cutting yourself?"
William sighed and ran his clean hand through his hair, "A good one evidently, he hasn't come back to nag about the topic he has been dragging on for days."
"Who?" She asked, doubtful that she would know who he was talking about though.
"Drake."
"You mean the blonde one that was here the yesterday."
"Yeah, that would be him."
Selene went quiet knowing that if he wanted to tell her about what happened he would, but not until he wanted to. Instead she took as seat in a chair by a bookshelf almost exactly across from William.
She looked at him as he wrote down some more notes, then he looked up, "Sorry," He said putting his pen down, "I'm just finishing up some things, and I am not the most pleasurable of social guests. I don't talk very much."
Selene simply nodded and looked around the room, "You're in here a lot aren't you?"
"Yeah, I live in here, and hardly ever leave it." William told her.
Her eyes traveled across the room until it landed upon the weapon he had used to inflict the wounds on himself. He must have noticed because he got up and walked over to it. His hand darted out quickly and picked the knife up. Selene almost flinched, she didn't have a weapon and was still feeling unsafe around the lycans anyhow.
William looked at the blade in his hand and closed his fist around it, the blade shattering into small shards. He tossed them into his trash can, small cuts visible on his hand from the metal. Selene wasn't so sure she could have trusted her mind at the moment, he had just shattered a blade, and he wasn't even in his lycan form.
"Sorry bout that." He told her picking up a cloth to wipe off the blood from his hand, "Don't worry, it wasn't real metal or silver thank goodness." He threw the cloth into the trash and put his hands in his pockets.
The room fell silent, neither really knowing what to say. It was William who said the first thing breaking the silence, "I feel as if the immortal life is just a shell of what we used to be."
Selene looked at him, "Or a shell of what we would have become."
William gave her a half smile, "True."
~*~
It was his first hunt, and he was proud of himself, he had done pretty well. Michael glanced back at Drake who was fighting with Luke. "Both of you stop." He commanded, "You're going to get us all killed."
Drake crossed his arms over his chest and leaned against the wall, "He started it."
Michael rolled his eyes and Luke growled, "Both of you, don't make me kill you before they even get a chance."
Both of them went silent following the orders they were given, for now anyways. Why did he have to take Drake and Luke with him on the hunt? He had no idea and really didn't have much time to think about it. Using his speed, he made his way closer to the source they were watching.
He picked up the sound in his ears, even though he couldn't see them, the sound he was recieving was incredable.
"I thought you said you found him?" A roaring voice asked.
"We did Sir, we found his scent at an old hideout."
There was a noise, and Michael was pretty sure the bigger voice was the one that had caused.
"Well then, where in the hell is he?"
"We haven't figured that out yet. 'Tis complicated, you see his scent disappears right where it started, we can smell where he was in the building but once outside, the scent is gone."
There was silence and then the roaring voice spoke again, "Keep working on it. I want him found, looks like I will have to finish the job Kraven didn't."
"Yes, Sir."
Michael stood up straight, Drake and Luke looking on, "That was very useful." Drake commented.
"Looks like they're looking for you Boss, but I still don't think that is the reason they are hunting us into extinction."
Michael nodded and started walking away. They had raided some vampire hideouts earlier and gotten some of the cloned blood. Until most of the vampires were halted they were never going to be able to hunt like they had done for years before that. The other team of lycans had killed humans, snapping their necks and taking them back to the den as food.
While he felt satisfied that they had got enough food to last them a few days, it didn't make him feel any better about the situation he was in. Thrown into a world where he was beind hunted because of what he was or what he had become, and endangered the lycans and also Selene.
This must have been what she had felt when she told him about just letting go of one life to save ninty-nine others.
"Boss!" Drake called waving his hand in front of his face.
"Huh?" Michael asked shaking his head.
"Death Dealers are on their way, not far from here, should we stay and fight or head back?"
"How many are there?"
"I don't know, about five I would think, probably all armed."
Michael nodded his head, "What do you want to do Drake?"
"I want to kick some vampire ass!" He yelled shaking his fists.
He smirked and looked over at Luke, "What about you?"
"Doesn't matter."
"Okay then, we shall wait." Michael said slipping off his coat his eyes turning cold and black. His fangs slide out and grew longer as his skin and body changed form.
Now in hybrid form he let out a loud roar, Drake and Luke soon followed changing into their lycan forms, giving a roar of their own.
It was then the sounds of guns rang out on the street they were on. All of them using their top speeds avoided the bullets and locked in on their targets. Michael roared as he sensed one standing behind a wall aronud the corner. The vampire didn't even realize it was coming, and by the time he did it was too late. Michael had him pinned up against the wall.
The vampire hissed and bared his fangs until Michael impaled his fist through his stomach and twisted his head, snapping his neck. Michael felt the sting of a bullet entering through his back.
He hissed and growled spinning around he pushed the vampire that had stopped dead in his tracks, the vampire stumbled backwards dropping his gun. Letting out a large roar Michael showed his fangs and picked him up by his throat, after tossing him again, Michael pounced on him cutting at his throat.
He loved the feeling, though he knew he shoudln't, the fear he could see in their eyes, and smell in their scent.
Michael sliced at his throat, the blood spraying everywhere, until he chopped the vampires head clean off his body.
He stood up his gaze frozen on the body and felt another pain this one burning and searing through him. He glanced down to see a sword lodged through his abdomen from the back.
The sword was silver and stung his insides. He dropped to his knees and scratched at the blade, reaching his arms around to his back he pulled it out, the blood pouring from the wound. Michael got back up and turned around Drake bit the vampire that had impaled him and now there were no vampires left.
They all changed back into their human forms. The blood and wounds showing up on their white skin. Michael grabbed his coat and walked away from the scene, Drake and Luke following wordlessly.
~*~
Selene stood up as the door opened. A younger lycan who looked in his late teens was standing there, "They are returning from the hunts."
William nodded and looked at Selene, "We better get out there."
Selene followed him out looking at the teen lycan. He smiled at her and shut the door behind her. They walked until they came to the main hall. Lycans were lined around the room, all packed in as the first hunting group returned. It wasn't Michael's group however.
They came back looking fairly well, not hurt or anything, but not in the condition that they left in. William nudged her and she looked back at him.
"He should be here in a few minutes, don't worry about it."
Sure enough a few minutes later Drake came through the door Luke behind him. "Kicked some ass tonight boys!" Drake said clasping hands with some of the other lycans who were laughing. Michael came in then. Holding his coat in his hand. His hair wet from sweat, and blood dripping from his chest, and pouring from his abdomen where she spotted a large hole.
Michael walked up to her, "Told you I would return."
"Looks as if you almost didn't make it in one piece." She replied eyeing his wound.
"I will be fine, I was just caught off guard that was all."
Selene looked over at William and then back at Michael who had closed his eyes for a second, "I think you're the one who has lost a lot of blood this time, and while you may not get us both killed at the moment, I still think it is better if you get it looked at, atleast until it can begin to heal."
William glanced at the wound, "I agree with her boss, the wound does look pretty nasty. I'm sure I could fix it up though."
Michael sighed, well, I guess I don't have a choice now do I?"
William led Michael and Selene away from the crowd and back towards his office. Once inside Michael tossed his coat on a table and sat down as William grabbed supplies. Selene stood against the wall, her arms crossed over her chest and her gaze focused on him.
"What happened?" She asked him.
"Nothing really, we sensed some vampires on the way back from the hunt, and decided to take them on. There was only a few of them, nothing I'm sure we couldn't handle, but I guess you just get caught off guard every once in awhile. While I wasn't paying attention a vampire stabbed me with his sword. Took awhile to get it out too. That was just about all that happened, well, for the most part."
William came back with his supplies and looked at Michael. He grabbed his cloth and poured some alcohol on it. Within a few seconds he had successfully cleaned Michael's wound and patched it up with bandages. "It's a miracle that you made it back on your feet. A few minutes later and you might not have made it back from blood loss. That and the silver tore at some of your organs, but didn't mess the with any major ones, and it seems that the ones it did tear are growing bakc already."
"So that's a good thing, right?"
"Yes, I would say that you are luckly to be alive in fact."
Michael looked over at Selene who was staring at the floor then back at William, "So, am I free to go?"
"Oh, sure go ahead, you will probably want some rest anyways."
Michael nodded and stood up, only wincing slightly for a reason he didn't know, but he supposed that it was his wound. After grabbing his coat he placed his hand on Selene's shoulder and she looked up at him, he moved his head in the direction of the door and she started to walk.
Michael waved to William as he left and shut the door behind him.
The walk on the way back to their room was quiet. Neither of them breaking the silence, as they climbed the stairs the silence continued.
Michael tossed his coat on the chair in the corner of the room and Selene sat down on the edge of the bed. He looked at her as she looked up at him, her eyes burning with emotion.
"What is it?"
"You do realize that you are very, very lucky to be alive right now don't you?"
"Yes, but why does that bother you?"
"That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is that you almost didn't make it. You heard William a few minutes later and you would not have made it."
"I'm sorry." He whispered.
"What?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you or anything like that. I'm sorry that I wasn't careful."
Selene's anger at him dropped as he looked at her, she could see the sorrow in his eyes. "I didn't mean to.. to yell at you."
"Its okay." He told her sitting down beside her, "I understand why you were mad at me. I should have paid more attention, but I was distracted by little things."
Selene nodded her head, "That usually happens."
Michael gave her a half smile and threw himself back against the bed. As he was laying on his back he began to speak, "I think I know something the vampire are after."
"What is that?" Selene asked turning her head to look at him.
"That they want me."
"What do you mean, they want you?"
"Exactly what I said, we overheard some vampires talking about finding me, and losing me. They are probably still tracking me down. I think that it might be harder for the lycans now. If they vampires sense my scent where we were fighting, they will know I am helping them."
"Which only creates more problems."
"Exactly. I think we can think about this tomorrow night, I'm pretty tired right now."
Selene nodded at him and they shifted so that they were both laying on the bed. The room was completely dark and the fell asleep to silence as the sun began to rise.
~*~
A/N: Sorry for that late chap up people. But, atleast I was able to finish it eh? Anyways, its cold, and I am very tired. I finished this for a friend whom I was talking to on msn. Sorry I logged off, but, I finished this chapter for you. I hope you all enjoyed it! And hang in there for the next chapter! You've got questions...I've got answers! Corny I know, but it is 3 in the morning!!
Buh-Bye!!!
Well, one had to be close to their.. part sire he supposed. He smirked when he opened the doors to William's office, "Don't you ever leave this place mate?"
"Nope, I don't mate." William said imitating Drake's accent.
"I see, pick on Drake day is it? Well then, I could bring up how you haven't met a woman in... how many years?"
"I have met women, thank you very much. They just happened not to be my type." William said taking his glasses off.
"Really, what is your type then Willy? A beautiful, smart, and very attractive woman? Does she have to be strong, and be able to stand for you to be what you are? Does she have to be human, or a vampire for her to be your type?"
"No. I won't even bother with explaining it to you." William said his long brown bangs falling in his eyes as he shifted and wrote something else down.
"C'mon, it's not like i'm going to tell everyone and you know it. I just want to know, since you've been here that has all you have ever done, work and research, I wasn't even sure if you were alive the first week after you were turned."
"Drake, that was a long time ago. Besides you know everything there is to know about me."
"No one knows everything about everyone William. It's not possible. Especially when that someone is immortal, a lot more has happened."
"Why do you keep pushing the subject? Is it because ever since Lucian's death you have been ignored and no one will pay you the respect you deserve. Is that it? I just don't understand it anymore. Out of all the things. Are you bored Drake? Tell me." William said tearing his glasses away from his face and standing up his pen falling to the table with a low thump.
Drake looked at him confused, "Listen I'm sorry, maybe you were right though, I am being ignored when I am older and stronger than most of them. Without Lucian to tell me what to do though, I am lost. Why do you think I went against our elders' orders in the first place to get Michael? I was respected at one time in this clan and now i'm not."
"So you admit that you are being ignored but why do you keep pushing the subject of my relationships?"
"Your the only person here who actually takes me seriously anymore. I look at you like a younger brother and that I missed half of his life. I guess I am trying to make up for it."
"Fine you want to know all about my relationships about my life I will tell you." William walked over to a counter and pulled out a knife, he looked at Drake his blue eyes burning and cut his hand open. A trail of blood soon followed the mark the knife had made, dripping off the end of his hand. William then cut his arm, the blood starting to flow from there as well. With one last look at the knife as the blood covered the blade he cut each of his cheeks in two fluid motions.
Drake looked like he had just seen a ghost, "Fuck." Drake muttered rushing forward to take the knife from William's hands, "What in the fuck are you thinking?"
"I told you I would tell you." He informed Drake the blood still pouring from his wounds.
"What does this tell me?"
"It tells you that they cut her, and sliced her until she bled to death."
"Wait.. who cut who?"
"Lycans, they cut her."
Drake's mouth hung open a bit, "Who did they cut Drake?"
"My wife, they slaughtered her."
Drake closed his eyes, he didn't remember the slaughter of a woman when he heard of William being captured. He opened them to find William with his glasses back on slaving over his notes once again, the blood still running though not as bad. It was dripping on the table as he wrote.
"Looks like we both have something in common though William."
William looked up at him the blood staining his cheeks and making his skin look white and pale, "What would that be?"
"We are both dedicated to one person. Michael. He put his faith in you to find a cure, and I put my faith in him to lead us to peace between this blood bath that has raged on for too long."
William nodded as Drake walked out of the room, tossing the knife down on the counter as he left.
~*~
Michael stood in the room adjusting his coat as Selene sat on the bed watching him. "Why not?" She asked.
He sighed and turned around to face her, "It is too dangerous and if I am correct on how the world works, you are one of their most wanted. I'm not going to risk you, not now, not ever."
"I told you I can take care of myself." She told him standing up.
"You think I forgot that fact? You saved yourself and me many times, I know you can take care of yourself. If I knew that there wasn't a chance you could get killed or injured I would let you go."
"You can't stop me from going Michael." He was standing infront of her as soon as the words had left her lips.
"I know, and I know that you don't want to be here alone, and with lycans, some which still hold their grudges. But, I can't let you go and you know it."
Selene looked past his shoulder and Michael placed his hands one on each of her shoulders so that she would focus her gaze on him. "I could say this a million times, but I love you, and I can't loose you."
"Then why are you going out there? How do you know that I want to stay here, and what if you never make it back? What am I supposed to do then, let them kill me?"
Michael seemed to think on it for a minute, "I will promise you that I will make it back, and I will come back to you. No matter what situation I seem to be caught in, if I know I can't win, I will make it back, just to make sure I keep my promise to you."
"That doesn't make me feel any better about you leaving me to go fight, and leaving me here with people who hate me."
"I know it doesn't make you feel any better, but that is how I feel if you come with me. Hell, I still feel it leaving you here. That's why I'm leaving you here with someone I trust."
"Who would that be?"
"William."
"The nervous doctor?" She asked but came out sounding more like a statement.
"Yes, him."
"You swear he won't kill me?"
"I'm positive." Michael said smiling as he moved behind her, his hands still on her shoulders, and pushed her forward. "Let's go."
She sighed and started walking to avoid being pushed by Michael as he walked behind her. She didn't want him to go, but knew there was no changing his mind, he was going to help the lycans whether she wanted him to or not. He had Lucian's memories, he was their key to ending the war.
They made it to William's office without getting as many stares as she thought they would however. Michael pushed the door open from behind her and they walked in.
Selene stopped in her tracks as her eyes layed upon William, this was the man he was leaving her with? Michael stopped behind her, "Jesus Christ." He mumbled.
William was sitting behind his desk, his eyes focused on them, blood still visible on his face and arm. It still wasn't drying at the moment.
Michael stepped closer to William, "What happened?"
"Just a little story telling." William said pushing his bangs out from his face, "Nothing to worry about, I will be fine, and no I am not crazy."
Michael glanced back at Selene and shrugged his shoulders, he walked over to her and placed a chaste kiss on her cheek and then walked out of the room.
Selene looked at William who had taken his glasses off, she was now under the stare of his intense blue eyes.
"Feeling better Selene?" He asked her looking back down at his notes.
"Yes." She answered him, her eyes traveling to all the cuts on him, "If you don't mind me asking. How did you get those marks from telling a story?"
William looked back up at her and flipped over his hand showing a cut she had not seen before, "It was nothing, just trying to prove a point I guess."
"What point do you make by cutting yourself?"
William sighed and ran his clean hand through his hair, "A good one evidently, he hasn't come back to nag about the topic he has been dragging on for days."
"Who?" She asked, doubtful that she would know who he was talking about though.
"Drake."
"You mean the blonde one that was here the yesterday."
"Yeah, that would be him."
Selene went quiet knowing that if he wanted to tell her about what happened he would, but not until he wanted to. Instead she took as seat in a chair by a bookshelf almost exactly across from William.
She looked at him as he wrote down some more notes, then he looked up, "Sorry," He said putting his pen down, "I'm just finishing up some things, and I am not the most pleasurable of social guests. I don't talk very much."
Selene simply nodded and looked around the room, "You're in here a lot aren't you?"
"Yeah, I live in here, and hardly ever leave it." William told her.
Her eyes traveled across the room until it landed upon the weapon he had used to inflict the wounds on himself. He must have noticed because he got up and walked over to it. His hand darted out quickly and picked the knife up. Selene almost flinched, she didn't have a weapon and was still feeling unsafe around the lycans anyhow.
William looked at the blade in his hand and closed his fist around it, the blade shattering into small shards. He tossed them into his trash can, small cuts visible on his hand from the metal. Selene wasn't so sure she could have trusted her mind at the moment, he had just shattered a blade, and he wasn't even in his lycan form.
"Sorry bout that." He told her picking up a cloth to wipe off the blood from his hand, "Don't worry, it wasn't real metal or silver thank goodness." He threw the cloth into the trash and put his hands in his pockets.
The room fell silent, neither really knowing what to say. It was William who said the first thing breaking the silence, "I feel as if the immortal life is just a shell of what we used to be."
Selene looked at him, "Or a shell of what we would have become."
William gave her a half smile, "True."
~*~
It was his first hunt, and he was proud of himself, he had done pretty well. Michael glanced back at Drake who was fighting with Luke. "Both of you stop." He commanded, "You're going to get us all killed."
Drake crossed his arms over his chest and leaned against the wall, "He started it."
Michael rolled his eyes and Luke growled, "Both of you, don't make me kill you before they even get a chance."
Both of them went silent following the orders they were given, for now anyways. Why did he have to take Drake and Luke with him on the hunt? He had no idea and really didn't have much time to think about it. Using his speed, he made his way closer to the source they were watching.
He picked up the sound in his ears, even though he couldn't see them, the sound he was recieving was incredable.
"I thought you said you found him?" A roaring voice asked.
"We did Sir, we found his scent at an old hideout."
There was a noise, and Michael was pretty sure the bigger voice was the one that had caused.
"Well then, where in the hell is he?"
"We haven't figured that out yet. 'Tis complicated, you see his scent disappears right where it started, we can smell where he was in the building but once outside, the scent is gone."
There was silence and then the roaring voice spoke again, "Keep working on it. I want him found, looks like I will have to finish the job Kraven didn't."
"Yes, Sir."
Michael stood up straight, Drake and Luke looking on, "That was very useful." Drake commented.
"Looks like they're looking for you Boss, but I still don't think that is the reason they are hunting us into extinction."
Michael nodded and started walking away. They had raided some vampire hideouts earlier and gotten some of the cloned blood. Until most of the vampires were halted they were never going to be able to hunt like they had done for years before that. The other team of lycans had killed humans, snapping their necks and taking them back to the den as food.
While he felt satisfied that they had got enough food to last them a few days, it didn't make him feel any better about the situation he was in. Thrown into a world where he was beind hunted because of what he was or what he had become, and endangered the lycans and also Selene.
This must have been what she had felt when she told him about just letting go of one life to save ninty-nine others.
"Boss!" Drake called waving his hand in front of his face.
"Huh?" Michael asked shaking his head.
"Death Dealers are on their way, not far from here, should we stay and fight or head back?"
"How many are there?"
"I don't know, about five I would think, probably all armed."
Michael nodded his head, "What do you want to do Drake?"
"I want to kick some vampire ass!" He yelled shaking his fists.
He smirked and looked over at Luke, "What about you?"
"Doesn't matter."
"Okay then, we shall wait." Michael said slipping off his coat his eyes turning cold and black. His fangs slide out and grew longer as his skin and body changed form.
Now in hybrid form he let out a loud roar, Drake and Luke soon followed changing into their lycan forms, giving a roar of their own.
It was then the sounds of guns rang out on the street they were on. All of them using their top speeds avoided the bullets and locked in on their targets. Michael roared as he sensed one standing behind a wall aronud the corner. The vampire didn't even realize it was coming, and by the time he did it was too late. Michael had him pinned up against the wall.
The vampire hissed and bared his fangs until Michael impaled his fist through his stomach and twisted his head, snapping his neck. Michael felt the sting of a bullet entering through his back.
He hissed and growled spinning around he pushed the vampire that had stopped dead in his tracks, the vampire stumbled backwards dropping his gun. Letting out a large roar Michael showed his fangs and picked him up by his throat, after tossing him again, Michael pounced on him cutting at his throat.
He loved the feeling, though he knew he shoudln't, the fear he could see in their eyes, and smell in their scent.
Michael sliced at his throat, the blood spraying everywhere, until he chopped the vampires head clean off his body.
He stood up his gaze frozen on the body and felt another pain this one burning and searing through him. He glanced down to see a sword lodged through his abdomen from the back.
The sword was silver and stung his insides. He dropped to his knees and scratched at the blade, reaching his arms around to his back he pulled it out, the blood pouring from the wound. Michael got back up and turned around Drake bit the vampire that had impaled him and now there were no vampires left.
They all changed back into their human forms. The blood and wounds showing up on their white skin. Michael grabbed his coat and walked away from the scene, Drake and Luke following wordlessly.
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Selene stood up as the door opened. A younger lycan who looked in his late teens was standing there, "They are returning from the hunts."
William nodded and looked at Selene, "We better get out there."
Selene followed him out looking at the teen lycan. He smiled at her and shut the door behind her. They walked until they came to the main hall. Lycans were lined around the room, all packed in as the first hunting group returned. It wasn't Michael's group however.
They came back looking fairly well, not hurt or anything, but not in the condition that they left in. William nudged her and she looked back at him.
"He should be here in a few minutes, don't worry about it."
Sure enough a few minutes later Drake came through the door Luke behind him. "Kicked some ass tonight boys!" Drake said clasping hands with some of the other lycans who were laughing. Michael came in then. Holding his coat in his hand. His hair wet from sweat, and blood dripping from his chest, and pouring from his abdomen where she spotted a large hole.
Michael walked up to her, "Told you I would return."
"Looks as if you almost didn't make it in one piece." She replied eyeing his wound.
"I will be fine, I was just caught off guard that was all."
Selene looked over at William and then back at Michael who had closed his eyes for a second, "I think you're the one who has lost a lot of blood this time, and while you may not get us both killed at the moment, I still think it is better if you get it looked at, atleast until it can begin to heal."
William glanced at the wound, "I agree with her boss, the wound does look pretty nasty. I'm sure I could fix it up though."
Michael sighed, well, I guess I don't have a choice now do I?"
William led Michael and Selene away from the crowd and back towards his office. Once inside Michael tossed his coat on a table and sat down as William grabbed supplies. Selene stood against the wall, her arms crossed over her chest and her gaze focused on him.
"What happened?" She asked him.
"Nothing really, we sensed some vampires on the way back from the hunt, and decided to take them on. There was only a few of them, nothing I'm sure we couldn't handle, but I guess you just get caught off guard every once in awhile. While I wasn't paying attention a vampire stabbed me with his sword. Took awhile to get it out too. That was just about all that happened, well, for the most part."
William came back with his supplies and looked at Michael. He grabbed his cloth and poured some alcohol on it. Within a few seconds he had successfully cleaned Michael's wound and patched it up with bandages. "It's a miracle that you made it back on your feet. A few minutes later and you might not have made it back from blood loss. That and the silver tore at some of your organs, but didn't mess the with any major ones, and it seems that the ones it did tear are growing bakc already."
"So that's a good thing, right?"
"Yes, I would say that you are luckly to be alive in fact."
Michael looked over at Selene who was staring at the floor then back at William, "So, am I free to go?"
"Oh, sure go ahead, you will probably want some rest anyways."
Michael nodded and stood up, only wincing slightly for a reason he didn't know, but he supposed that it was his wound. After grabbing his coat he placed his hand on Selene's shoulder and she looked up at him, he moved his head in the direction of the door and she started to walk.
Michael waved to William as he left and shut the door behind him.
The walk on the way back to their room was quiet. Neither of them breaking the silence, as they climbed the stairs the silence continued.
Michael tossed his coat on the chair in the corner of the room and Selene sat down on the edge of the bed. He looked at her as she looked up at him, her eyes burning with emotion.
"What is it?"
"You do realize that you are very, very lucky to be alive right now don't you?"
"Yes, but why does that bother you?"
"That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is that you almost didn't make it. You heard William a few minutes later and you would not have made it."
"I'm sorry." He whispered.
"What?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you or anything like that. I'm sorry that I wasn't careful."
Selene's anger at him dropped as he looked at her, she could see the sorrow in his eyes. "I didn't mean to.. to yell at you."
"Its okay." He told her sitting down beside her, "I understand why you were mad at me. I should have paid more attention, but I was distracted by little things."
Selene nodded her head, "That usually happens."
Michael gave her a half smile and threw himself back against the bed. As he was laying on his back he began to speak, "I think I know something the vampire are after."
"What is that?" Selene asked turning her head to look at him.
"That they want me."
"What do you mean, they want you?"
"Exactly what I said, we overheard some vampires talking about finding me, and losing me. They are probably still tracking me down. I think that it might be harder for the lycans now. If they vampires sense my scent where we were fighting, they will know I am helping them."
"Which only creates more problems."
"Exactly. I think we can think about this tomorrow night, I'm pretty tired right now."
Selene nodded at him and they shifted so that they were both laying on the bed. The room was completely dark and the fell asleep to silence as the sun began to rise.
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A/N: Sorry for that late chap up people. But, atleast I was able to finish it eh? Anyways, its cold, and I am very tired. I finished this for a friend whom I was talking to on msn. Sorry I logged off, but, I finished this chapter for you. I hope you all enjoyed it! And hang in there for the next chapter! You've got questions...I've got answers! Corny I know, but it is 3 in the morning!!
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