Chapter 2 - Syn's Regeneration
Syn lay on the ground as the train pulled away from her. She stared up at the cloudy darkening sky blankly.
She heard footsteps, but was too out of it to do anything, like move. The silver was still visible under her skin and she was close to passing out.
"Raze, do you think this is who I think it is?" Said a male voice.
"Syn?" Said a deeper ,ale voice that Syn knew all too well.
"Raze?" She choked out, before coughing.
Syn was picked up and she passed out in the arms of the man holding her. Raze looked down at her and had a concerned look on his face. Raze knew her to be one of the most powerful Lycan leaders ever, besides Lucian, anyway.
Raze looked at the man beside him, which was Taylor, one of the Lycans with a bad temper. He was worried that he might not know her reputation and try to fight. He was that way with all new comers.
Raze carried the fallen Lycan to their hideout and many of the Lycans watched as he passed, some not recognizing her, but some did and kept their distance.
He carried her to a table, like the one Michael was straped to, and set her down. He stepped back and just looked at her for a second, it wasn't everyday that he got to gaze upon a legendary Lycan.
"Raze? What are you doing?" Another male voice said as a man stepped in that every Lycan knew.
"I brought someone that needs help, Lucian." He replied, still gazing at the hurt Lycan.
Lucian turned his attention to Syn and gasped. He walked over the the table, slowly, and watched as Syn's head turned to the side, her eyes still closed.
"Get someone in her to extract the silver from her bloodstream. Now!" Lucian said, trailing his fingers over the silver pulsing veins in her face. "Didn't think I'd get to see you again, old friend." He whispered.
Elsewhere. . .
Rita scanned the crowd, tears still in her eyes. She sat at the Gryffindor table, staring at plate of food in front of her.
'I can't believe she's gone! She can't be dead!' Rita said in her mind.
Headmaster Albus Dumbledore stood up from his place at the table and got everyone's attention quickly.
"Hello, old and new students. Welcome to another year of learning at Hogwarts. I have a few anouncements to make. First of all, let us welcome back everyone's favorite Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Lupin." The headmaster said and everyone clapped as Lupin stood and sat down again, blushing, slightly. "Second, I have been requested to have guards set up for the safety of the students." This caused many groans. "Not dementors this time, but vampires. They have been trained to only drink the blood of animals and will not harm any one of you, so don't be afraid. I request that all students have an escort before going out onto the grounds, because many dangerous creatures are on the loose. Now, you may finish eating."
No one there was paying her any attention and she was glad. Her shoulder burned, but it didn't bring her out of her discouraging thoughts.
'Why did she bite me? I know she was wanting me to come back to hide with her in her pack, but why bite me?' Rita thought, noticing that the hairs on the back of her neck were raised, someone was behind her.
Rita gazed over her shoulder and saw one of the professors behind her, Professor Lupin. He had come back to teach after much begging from the students and Dumbledore.
"Rita, you are wanted in the hospital wing. I'll take you." Lupin said and Rita nodded, getting up and following her favorite teacher to the hospital wing.
"Why do they want to see me?" Rita asked, when they were close to their destination and Lupin looked at her, a little worried.
"It concerns that bite you recieved on the train ride over." Was all Lupin would say.
"Oh?" Rita said, stepping up to the door of the hospital wing. "I'll see ya later, I guess, Professor." She said as she stepped inside.
Madam Pomfrey rushed by, murmuring under her breath. She, finally, noticed Rita and 'tsk'ed.
"Hop on that table. They'll be here in a minute." The nurse said and Rita shrugged and got on the table like she was told as the nurse rushed off to do whatever.
'What did she mean by they?' Rita wondered.
After a while, the hair on Rita's neck was standing on end and she was getting tense.Rita looked up and gazed over her shoulder. There stood the same leather-clad man from before and Rita got mad.
"What the heck do you think you're doing?!" Rita hissed as he examined her shoulder.
"I'm making sure that Lycan didn't pass on any diseases to you when she bite you." He replied as he got out a syringe, pulling at Rita's collar.
"Let me go!" Rita yelled, but the man wouldn't.
"You're lucky she didn't kill you, Rita. Lycans are known to only stalk humans for food." He said, sticking the needle into the girl's shoulder, making her hiss. "I'm Kahn, by the way."
"I don't care who you are." Rita replied and the needle was pulled out after he had drawn the blood he needed. "You killed my friend!"
"Friend?" Kahn asked, studying the girl's rigid figure. "Rita, that Lycan is one of the most powerful of their kind. She has killed our kind without mercy and only cares about humans when it has to do with food."
"You're wrong! he told me that digging into the past is forbidden in the vampire coven, but if you'd known what drove her to rebel against you, then you would hate being a vampire!" Rita said and she swung and elbow back and hit Kahn in the gut.
The girl jumped off the table and ran out of the hospital wing, crying once more.
Back with Syn. . .
Syn groaned as she woke at last. She felt someone's fingers brushing a stray strand of hair from her face and she, slowly opened her hazel brown eyes eyes.
"Nice to see you're awake, Syn. Thought you were dead." Said a male voice that she knew but couldn't place at the moment.
"Where am I?" Syn asked, trying to get her vision to focus.
"You're in my den. Syn, where is your pack?" Said the male voice and she, finally, got her vision to focus to where she could, finally, see the man she spoke to and she gasped.
"Lucian, is that you?" Syn asked, the grogginess not wavering, yet.
Lucian nodded and smiled at her. The two had been best friends since Lucian had bitten her. She didn't like him at first because he had bit her, but the two got to know each other and became close friends.
"Where is your pack? They should be searching for you." Lucian stated and Syn nodded.
"Yeah, they should. If they're not, I'm going to bring a world of hurt down on them when I get back." Syn said and Lucian laughed. "Could you help me up?"
Lucian took hold of her arm and helped the Lycan sit up. Syn rubbed a sore spot of her arm and looked around. She was in a den similar to the one that the vampires invaded.
She, finally, looked at Lucian and noticed that he was looking toward the floor with a strange look on his face, like he was in deep thought.
He, finally, looked up and stared into her eyes.
"Syn, what are you after?" Lucian asked and Syn looked shocked and looked down at the floor.
'How am I going to answer this?' She asked herself mentally.