Shadow: okay, this is a quickie chapter that is just a bridge for the better chapters. Now to thank the reviewers!
xXZero CoolXx- Thank you for the praise and don't worry, this story will be finished!
Milleniumdunpealrising- believe me, Ryo and I can't wait for that either! Plus, thanks for the tip on the ending, we have an awesome one in the works. Thanks for pointing out the spelling error btw, my computer sucks
Korde- thank you! We're afraid this chapter might not be as good though, but the others will be I promise on Evangiline's pretty little head!
Mannariel- Thanks and looking into D's head is hard! I've had easier times typing Scottish accents! Anyway, thanks for the compliment (hugs) and we're planning on maybe...15-17 chapters.
Ryo: now that this is out of the way, enjoy the chapter!

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Chapter 4: A new place, a new problem

It had taken the two hunters a while to finally reach the town of Axum. It was well into the afternoon before they had reached the small town. Neither of the hunters were expecting what they found there. The town was chaotic for the most part. The houses and storefronts were worn down, wrecked, with shingles and boards falling off, signs half attached, and windows broken.

"Looks like a hurricane blew through this place." Jack observed as he looked around. Something soon collided with him, running right into his torso screaming. It was a small woman with dirty-blond hair, dark blue eyes, tanned skin, and unnaturally small hands. She wore a long white dress that didn't cover her slim legs. Wolves were chasing the poor thing and had chased her right into Jack."Help me please!" She cried, trying to hide in Jack's cloak. The three wolves had stopped about three feet away from Jack to stare at him. "Damn, the wolves have already been influenced by the vampire in the area." Jack muttered. Jack simply gave the wolves a look and they backed away. Jack moved the girl away and went to inspect the wolves himself. D watched the other hunter in curiosity as he kneeled next to the wolves and looked them in the eyes. "Damnit! They're werewolves, young ones too. Because of these three," he growled, the wolves looking shamed, "so there could be an unnatural lycanthrope outbreak in this town." D nodded and looked at the woman. "How many people have been bitten?" He asked her. The woman was staring at Jack in horror and soon a man ran out with a rifle aimed at Jack. The man was almost identical to the woman, except his appearance was masculine.

"Stand up werewolf! Stop talking to your followers!" The man shouted angrily. "Listen sir, they aren't mine just stay calm." "Joseph! Leave him alone! He saved my life!" The woman said to the man pleadingly. "He was talking to them! It isn't natural Mia!" Joseph said pointing at Jack. D moved over to where Jack now stood and Joseph held the gun steady.

"Hold your fire Joseph." Came a gruff voice. It was an old man with dark, wrinkled skin, thinning white hair, and sparkling brown eyes behind bushy eyebrows. The old man looked at Jack and D with a smile on his face. "Young hunters, we are very glad you could come. Come inside and I shall explain why our town is like this." And with that, he beckoned the two hunters and the two blonds into the run-down house. Strangely, the wolves followed Jack like obedient dogs.
"Ah, I see why you two are passing through now. You are on a mission then. Maybe you can help us." The old man, who's name was David, said smiling. "Help you?" D asked quietly. "Yes. You see, the vampire has been abducting people and whenever they escape he sends his wolves after us!" Mia said pointing to the wolves at Jack's feet. Joseph still glared at the dark-haired hunter. "Miss Mia, they don't want to hurt people but their master makes them." Jack said petting one's head lightly. "Plus, they're werewolves, not regular wolves. They wanted me to tell you that." D looked at Jack as he treated the rather dangerous animals like puppies, in fact the smallest one, a young female white wolf, was lying across the hunter's lap.

"I still don't trust you, you have werewolf blood in you. You have vampire blood in you, you aren't natural." "Hush Joseph, he saved my life!" "But Mia, look at how those monsters" "Werewolves" "react to him! I mean, they act like puppies in his hands."

"Aura isn't acting like a puppy." Jack said calmly, indicating the white wolf curled across his lap. "Puuuuuuuuuuuhlease! Jack, those animals are practically melting at your fingertips!" D's symbiot said. Joseph jumped up in his chair. "What the HELL was that!" "Ah, you have one of those symbiot creatures don't you?" David said knowingly and D nodded. The symbiot saw Jack snicker a bit as the largest wolf, a male one with a timber wolf coat padded over to D and put it's head in his lap. D blinked at it. "So, Jack you can control the werewolves?" Mia asked the hunter smiling sweetly. The symbiot snickered to itself, the girl looked a bit smitten with Jack and the symbiot just found it hilarious. "I don't control them Miss Mia. They just like me." Jack said petting Aura lightly. "What are the other ones names?" "Well the one with D is Omne and the one across my feet here is Lupine." Jack said indicating the large pure-black male across his feet. "But I don't name them, they had the names." Mia smiled at Jack who didn't notice, but the symbiot did. "Anyway, Jack, D, would you help us with out werewolf problem? Not kill them, just keep them out of our village." David asked politely. Jack blinked. He tilted his head lightly to the side in thought. "Plant aconite outside the village; wolves hate the scent." D said calmly, lightly petting Omne. Joseph was angry, very angry. Those two creatures had drawn everyone into their trap! But the old man seemed to know better. "Joseph, come with me." David said taking the boy out of the room.

Once they were out of the room the old man turned to Joseph and smirked. "Tonight my boy, you are going to shoot the one named D and while Jack is distracted you'll shoot him too. The master will be very pleased." David said, eyes flickering red. Joseph smirked in response, this was great, the hunters would be dead, Mia would be turned, and they would gain power! Of course the two plotting servants weren't counting on Jack's new wolves hearing the conversation. Lupine growled softly, this would be prevented…somehow.

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Shadow: we apologize for this craptastic chapter and promise the next will be better
Evangiline: untill then
Amelia: R and R