CHAPTER 10
Bellas p.o.v
My stomach drops at Sams words.
He wants me? what was he playing at?
I knew this already. Obviously he wanted me, otherwise he wouldn't have kidnapped me. TWICE! He obviously wanted to use me for his personal pleasure by that last statement he just made. This was all some sort of sick fantasy to him. I mean this was mine and Lucas's life he was fucking with. but I had already promised and agreed to do anything Sam wanted, that is if he kept my baby brother safe. Tears well up in my eyes, I try my best to push them and the knot that formed in my throat down. The last thing I needed was to show more weakness in front of him. I nod my head slowly, resolute in my decision and ready to do what he wanted- to please him. I try to think of anything to say in reply to his comment about wanting me, but how do you respond to that. Closing my eyes I move my hands to the hem of my shirt and slowly start to lift it up. A traitor tear falls out of the corner of my eye and runs down my neck, disappearing in to my cleavage and I hope Sam didn't see me cry. Before my shirt even rises past my belly button warm tingling hands around my wrists are preventing any further motion.
"What are you doing? Why are you constantly trying to tempt me, do you want me to lose control?"
I frown. "What? You said you wanted me." Confusion clear in my trembling voice. Wasn't this what he wanted?
His eyes soften as he grazes the back of his knuckles across my wet cheek. I don't know why every time he touches me I get these damn treacherous hot pin-prick tingles but I am starting to really like them. They have this way of calming and exciting me all at the same time. Before he can answer, his eyes do that hazy thing, like he was lost in a deep memory. It was the strangest thing. It kinda reminded me of movies or crime dramas where they do a close up on a dead body and the eyes are open, showing lifeless eyes staring back at you. Sam's kinda looked like that right now. I jump when I hear a shouting and then a piercing scream followed by loud crash. It breaks what ever weird bubble was around Sam and I. Cold perspiration breaks out along the back of my neck as the horror filled noises and cries waft up through the open sliding glass door in my room. something was seriously wrong, what was going on outside? it sounded like fighting. I tilted my head up to better listen; screams and growling could be heard but also something else...it sounded like meat being torn apart.
Panic rises in me even more and my heart skips and my eye bulge with terror. Wheres Lucas!? I didn't even give Sam a second thought as I ripped my persons out of his distracted grip. I run towards the closed bedroom door and flung it open, vaguely I hear it slam against the wall as I run straight to the stars vetoing the slow elevator all together. I jump over landings and skip steps, trying to get to my baby as fast as I can. I push myself faster. Lucas was outside somewhere and i had to find him, protect him from what ever was going on out there, fuck it sounded like a goddamn war was being had in the front yard! I catch a glimpse over my shoulder as I hold over the last stair landing- of a very pissed off Sam shouting after me to stop before I go through the door leading to the garage and it closes before he makes it to me.
I remind myself that I should feel sorry for letting the garage safety doors slam in his face but I just couldn't manage the empathy for it. My whole focus was trying to find LuLu. The cries, screams, and tearing sounds started getting louder the closer I got to the door on the other side of the garage that opened to the outside. My stomach begins to churn with unease.
What is happening?!
I throw the heavy door open, the last barrier finally gone between me and the outside. It felt like slow motion, the door opening unavailing a chaos I wasn't expecting. People ran in every direction with different types of supplies and varying degrees of injuries. My head swam. Adrenalin glandes secreting; pumping copious amounts of the hormone through out my nervous system. I stood there in shock and confusion, my head moving in every direction then I rush out into the chaos and freeze as I stand on the gravel, my jaw drops. There right in front of me were dozens of giant horse like wolves fighting each other! My breath catches in my throat, my eyes widen in such fear that it physically hurts and I can feel my body tremble. I raise my hands to my chest clutching my shirt with both- my heart...it was pumping to fast, I could hear it echo in my ears and on my teeth. Movement catches my eyes near the edge of the forest. I gasp. More were oozing out, hundreds of them. I swallow hard and take a involuntary step back. There was blood splattered everywhere, staining everything. The smell of pain and death and rage thick in the air. It made my head spin and skin crawl. Wolves laid motionless around me, some breath shallowly, some looking to be dead and others crawling to escape. Shaking my head I tried to refocus back on my mission to find my baby.
"LUCAS!" I scream, but cant even here it over the rawer of fighting. Tears pour out of my eyes at the sight in front of me and i take off running, frantically dodging between bodies; dead and fighting, trying to search for Lucas. I cant really explain the heartache that grips at my heart while watching the wolves fight and the ones laying suffer or died. Its like a piece of me was laying in each of them; with them- on the stained red grass and dying right along with them. Then another part of my heart was wanting to fight right along side those defending this homestead.
I skid to a stop when a huge brown wolf jumps in front of me staring down at me with haunting red eyes, they glowed with hunger. Blood and dirt caked into its fur and drips from its muzzle, blood and drool fall down as it flicks its tongue to clean the muzzle. The wolf snaps its sharp teeth, they were stained pink and also had dirt embedded in between the gums. A putrid smell hit my nose as it stalked closer. I could smell it and I tried with all my might not to gag from it. I didn't move my feet, I couldn't. I was petrified to the spot, watching this creature stride slowly over to me. Its eyes glowed with a ravenous hunger.
A frantic thought rips from my lips aloud. "This is crazy why are you wolves fighting and attacking us humans anyway.?" This was insane, shit like this doesn't happen, this cant be real.
Just before it was rearing to pounce and attack me another wolf comes barreling at it, a loud yelp erupts from the brown wolf and they skid and tumble a little further away then start clawing and biting at each other. I tremble and try to get myself back under a little control so I can at least move to run away. I waist no more time with this opportunity and take off in another direction.
"LUCAS!,". . . "LUKE!". . ."LULU!" I scream taking off to the back of the house by the little creek Lucas had shown interest in. Hoping with everything I had that the tree forts Sam had talked about were over there. I ran through the tree, yelling out for him, stopping every now and than to listen and then turn in circles to search. "LUUUUUUCAASSSSS!" I Scream at the very top of my lungs. They burned from my effort. Desperation and tears and panic making my head spin and eyes start to blur.
"Bella!" Lucas's little voice cries out behind me and I spin around to see him stepping out from behind a huge Evergreen tree. I practically flew to him, wrapping his tiny body in my arm, falling to my knees once he leap in to my arms. His face was buried in my chest, coating my shirt with his tears and snot and I leaned over hugging him tightly. I was vaguely aware that I was probably hurting his back with the way I was bending over him. It was probably a bad angle while I tried to crush his little body into mine. I kiss him all over. His hair, his forehead, his face, his ears. My hands ran over his little body checking for injury. Tears waterfall down, splashing his face and flowed with his own. So much relief washed over me knowing he safe in my arms.
"Why are you alone hiding by yourself?" I ask, pull back enough to look into his eyes.
"Paul told me to stay in the tree house until he came back for me. But I got scared and wanted you." His red puffy eyes unleashed fresh tears.
"Its okay baby. I'm here. Your safe. I wont let anything bad happen to you." I stood up, carrying him along with me. He moved to wrap his arms and leg around me like a baby Gorilla dose. I need to find a safe place to keep him safe, but where? There was wolves fighting everywhere. I start walking towards the edge of the tree line, heading to the water bank. Maybe if I give the fighting a wide enough birth we can sneak around and find a car and run. I don't know if we can get back to the garage in one piece since the fighting was centered in the heart of that area.
I gasp as we walk around even more wolves, they lay out on the ground, some in the water, others up over the bank and some thrown over the large boulders that were close to the bank of the little creek. they paid us no mind, All nearing there last breaths. even if the wolves had come to whip us all out my heart still broke for them, they where still living breathing creatures and if I was being completely honest with myself I had to admit they were beautiful beings. As we got closer to the homestead it sounded like the fighting was winding down. I noticed that the wolves that were left standing, weren't fighting each other but were actually brushing against each other and sniffing one another. It actually almost looked like they were checking to make sure the other was okay then started to sit back on their haunches almost patiently waiting as a huge black wolf went around. From what I could tell I think the big black wolf was inspecting each one that was dead, injured and still alive walking around. A puff of pride expanded my chest as I watched it finish the task. I scrunch up my nose in confusion. Why on earth would that feeling emerge from within me?
"Luna! Lucas! Thank the spirits, your both okay. I went to the tree house but Lucas was gone and then Sam said you took off." Paul jogged over to us, out of breath and sweat dripped down to the ground as he bent over to catch his breath. a few seconds later he straightened up. Only wearing a pair ratty old jean shorts. Then I noticed his body. It was covered in claw marks. Four long red lines that looked like newly healed scares ran down his right side, they started from his mangled looking right ear to down over his left shoulder and went across the left pectoral and down to stop at his left hip bone. There was blood all over his. the site made my chest tighten with worry and concern for him. The urge of wanting to run over and give him a reassuring hug and tend to his well being ran through me but instead I fought it back as i walk over to him and put my hand on his uninjured arm, voicing my concerns.
"Oh my god!, Paul, are you alright? Look at you, lets get you taken care of." He shakes my hand off his arm and steps forward towards me, reaching like he was going to take Lucas from me, but I snarl at him and twisted out of his reach. A look of hurt flashes in his eyes when I do that, but removes himself and relaxes a little.
"I'm fine, come on I need to get you into the house. Its not safe out here at the moment. A few wolves slipped through our fingers." He grabs my elbow and starts to pull us gently with him back to the house.
"WAIT! This is normal to you? Having wolves fighting around here!? What is going on! I don't understand any of this!" Now that the adrenaline rush of trying to find Lucas was over my shocked brain was finally catching up with me. This whole thing was crazy. Wolfs don't act like this, and they certainly were NOT as big as these wolves lying dead around my very feet. Were they the results of some freaky governmental top secret project worrier thing?
I swear to Christ if one more crazy out of this world thing happens to me I am legit going to scream and then have a aneurysm. Paul just shakes his head at my screaming rant and starts to pull me quicker to the house. Just then as we reach the beginning of the forest path back to the house, two bloody wolves jump out in front of us, blocking our paths. Both growling and snapping there jaws at us. I shift Lucas so he can climb onto my back and whisper into his ear for him to hold on tight just in case I had to take off in a run at my top speed. I wouldn't have to worry about him falling off that way. I'm not sure if me moving Lucas and whispering was what caught there attention but just after I got him settled one of the wolves started for us. Paul jumped forward in a flash and braced himself for the impact, shielding Lucas and I from getting hit.
"Paul!" I gasp and scream but before I could move, Paul started to shake and dark silver fur started spurting and growing out of his skin. My eyes widen and my mouth ajar.
Where Paul once stood only a few seconds ago now held a snarling growling Clydesdale sized dark silver wolf leaping in the air, crashing into our attacker. they rolled off the forest path, claws flying and sharp white teeth nashing at each other. soon I lost sight of them but the sounds of their fight could still be heard.
What the actual fuck!? He just turned into a animal!
movement on the path in front of me brought me back to the other wolf. A terrified blood curdling scream rips through my lips as the second wolf leaps forward running towards me and Lucas. I didn't have time to turn and run so I did the only thing my instincts were scream at me to do, I dropped Lucas and flung my hole body over him, balling him up so that the wolf would only attack me. Yelps of pain echo through to my pounding ears and then everything go's quite. I waited for a impact but nothing ever came. Curious, I pivot slightly and look over my shoulder, only to come face to face with the large black wolf I saw earlier that had been checking on his pack members. My breath catches in my throat as my eyes lock with his. He was so fucking close to me, i could feel his hot breath fan across my shoulders and neck. Its eyes reminded me so much of Sams. A softness started to show in them as we stared. Then this horrible snapping, grinding noises reached my ears, it was like bones and joints breaking, it broke the spell between us, I took in a shuddery breath and close my eyes in a slow blink and when I opened my eyes again there was a very naked Sam sitting where a wolf had been.
"Sam." I quiver out. Then everything crashes down on my at once. The last thing I remember before darkness takes me over was Samuel shouting at Paul to get Lucas and then the feeling of white hot tingles shoot across my body.
So this was chapter 10, what did you all think of it?
this chapter was a little difficult for me to write out, it was the first time I'v ever written a simi fight scene, I hope its not to confusing to read, if it is please let me know if any of you might have a suggestion of a better way for me to fix it. I'm always open to any suggestions or help from all of you. :)
Also, I'm so sorry its been so long since I last updated a new chapter, I'v been really busy with planning my wedding that's coming up in April and dealing with my health stuff. but I'm hoping to post at least one more chapter today.
Also thank you so much to everyone that has left comments and reviewed my story, it means everything to me. I love you all so much for showing support.