(A/N: the first part of this story will not be in our favorite little werewolf's POV, but it will for the second part.)
"OH GOD!" Alex screamed, running to the kitchen where the others were eating their breakfast.
"You rang?" Lock joked, biting into a waffle.
"Not funny! It's Will!" Alex yelled, everybody looked up at this point.
"Wha-what happened?" Barrel immediately asked.
"He's gone, the note says it's for our safety, but I just know there's more than that!" Alex said, a tear rolling down her cheek.
"Let me see that." Shock said, taking the note from Alex's hand. She skimmed over the words and her eyes widened. "If he says this is dangerous, we had better stay out of it."
"Danger is our middle name, we ran with the Boogie Man himself!" Lock said, holding up a heavy mace.
"Yeah but this is Will we're talking about." Angeline spoke up. "He has never shown any fear until now, even when running away from me or Alex, it wasn't fear. If he's afraid, it has to be extremely dangerous… I'm in." Ranchero meowed in response.
"Let's go already, get what you'll need!" Lock said, the rest darting from the table to get their stuff.
(Back to Will's POV) Damn forest, damn trees, damn Halloween. I was cursing a lot of things lately, mostly myself. For putting everything I knew and loved in danger, for letting Nick suffer like that, for being too weak to stop Nick before he had a chance to test his strength. In a way it was all my fault, for diving in to save Alex when I should have just called the cops. "Come on old friend, you can't hide in these woods forever!" Nick yelled through the trees.
No. Time was a factor. Cops would be too slow; all I got was a scar on my chest anyway. It was worth it, it was for her. Alex, the person who made it all melt away. If this is my last thought it's of her. "You want me Nicky? Come and find me!" I yelled, the tree I was hiding behind being smashed into splinters. I jumped out of the way and swung around n midair to have a kick connect with Nick's jaw. He swung his chain-connected arm in response and hit me hard in the stomach. I coughed up some blood and went to my knees.
"This isn't like our play fighting on the roof of your old building." Nick spat.
"Then I guess we play by our own rules. Oh and Nicky, do me a favor." I smirked, he raised his eyebrow. I kicked him hard between the legs. "Stop pulling punches." I got up and wiped the blood off my face and a flash of black passed by leaving three familiar scratches on Nick's shoulder. "Ranchero." I said in disbelief. The plucky feline retried it's assault but was snatched up by Nick.
"I was always more of a dog person." Nick said, squeezing the cat as it let out meows of pain.
"So am I but leave my lunch alone." Said another voice. We both saw Tut there for a second before he sprung into action, Ranchero landed on his feet and ran towards the direction Tut came from. The jackal in question was biting into Nick's good arm. Nick slammed Tut against a nearby tree, making a dent in it and knocking my pet out.
I went at the psychopath that was once my best friend and punched him in the jaw with a left uppercut, he kneed me in the stomach and slammed my head into a tree. "Finally you stop hitting like a little girl." I smirked, spitting out some blood and one of my molars, my last baby tooth.
"I resent that last comment." Said a voice behind me, Angeline was holding a blue and a green potion and Shock had a menacing silver staff. Angeline tossed the blue potion in the air. "Batter up!" she said before Shock swung her staff and the potion glass hit Nick and the contents burned his flesh. "Blue acid: won't go through but hurts like a bitch."
Shock swung her staff into Nick's privates and he went to his knees. She then hit him in the stomach making him double over in pain and in the back so he straightened up again and she hit him in the face. She took another swing to his forehead but Nick grabbed the staff and swung it towards the ground, sending Shock flying with it. "Your reinforcements have been a stupid cat, a weak jackal, a little girl throwing glorified moonshine, and a freak with a shiny stick. I'm liking my odds." He said, kicking me and sending me flying towards Angeline's feet.
"Oh I've got a few more pocket aces man, more than you think." I smiled, wiping blood from my mouth and nose. I went ahead and attacked him again, this time with the green potion I just stole from Angeline. "Boy am I glad Lexie taught me the basics of pickpocketing." I smirked before I showed the potion in my hand and slammed it against Nick's chest and the potion exploded.
"Heh, just a scratch." Nick said, wiping away some blood.
"But the big acid burn on your shoulder isn't." said another voice. Lock, carrying some cans of bug poison with $5.00 lighters crudely duct taped to them. "Tell my how much it hurts to have bug spray put in an open wound." He said, spraying Nick with both cans, he screamed as his eyes, mouth, and wounds were being invaded by bug spray. I got safely behind Lock and he flicked the lighters on, which created makeshift flame throwers.
"That is so awesome." I smirked. Nick wasn't even flinching at this point, his eyes were glowing purple and he walked toward Lock. Nick was still on fire as he walked to the devil child, he grabbed Lock's forehead and threw him to the ground, at this point Barrel came up behind him with his bear trap for a sneak attack but Nick caught it mid-air and used it to swing the skull-bearing teen up into a tree, making him bust through three branches before he hit a fourth and went to the ground. He then destroyed a tree by simply poking it and it revealed Alex was hiding behind it. He grabbed her wrist and turned to me.
"I know kidnapping the hero's girlfriend is incredibly cliché, but at least it works. Adios, and watch the news tomorrow night, then we'll really fight." Nick smirked, punching me in the jaw and knocking me out. I woke up sometime later on a familiar couch; the living room's couch back at home.
"Dude." Lock sighed. "We blew it."
"Sorry Will." Barrel said, clutching the bandages around his torso. Angeline was leaning up against him for support while petting Ranchero.
"How long have I been out? How long has Nick had Alex prisoner?" I seethed.
"Almost a day. Didn't he say something about the news?" Barrel inquired, turning on the TV.
"Hello this is Walter Corpsefield with a shocking development." Started the news anchor in a saddened tone. "Angel Cage, the prison in north Halloween that contains all the most dangerous criminals in the holiday worlds, has been broken into. All the guards have been maliciously slaughtered except one, who was barely conscious but reports saying the intruder kept him alive to send out the message 'Come and get me William'."
The female anchor then started in. "It seems as if the man who broke into the prison, a female hostage on his shoulder, single handedly killed the guards while unarmed with any weaponry and unleashed the prisoners, of the seventy-nine however, not one criminal has left the prison grounds." I turned off the TV.
"Looks like I'll be going to the place I knew I was gonna die after all. I'm going to prison." I said, going to my room to get some things. Lock and Barrel entered the room afterwards.
"We're going too." Lock stated.
"No. Last time it was just him and he took us all down, none of us have healed much from our injuries." I said, grabbing some rags and all my tequila and rum, ideal supplies for Molotovs. I grabbed all my lighters and all the bug spray too.
"Last time we thought it was just going to be a fight, this time we'll be prepared." Barrel said, determined to smash something.
"How exactly are you going to prepare to face 79 inmates of the universe's second greatest prison, leaded only by hell itself, and with a demigod at the head of the whole operation?" I asked.
"First ask yourself one question, are you willing to die for Alex again?" Lock questioned.
"Over and over and over again." I replied.
"Then let's go. In the middle of the night tomorrow, when the girls are sleeping." Lock said, giving me a pair of heavy goggles with green lenses. "Alex got these for your birthday, she wanted us to keep it secret, she figured it would help you focus when fighting."
"Over and over and over again." I repeated.
(A/N: woah, ive noticed something, this is more action/adventure than humor. and to add to that point I think I kick ass at fight scenes.)