Wolf Creek Chapter 2

Mysteries in a Day

Seath looked up at the creepy three-story house with a balcony on two of the windows on both sides of the house. The house was weathered and a grey from years of color fading and neglect.

"Hey, spacey, please help me carry her inside."

"Oh, sorry." Seath picked her bridal sSeathle a carried her through the house.

"Her room is upstairs in a light purple room decorated with her art work!" Bubbles yelled inside the house.

He climbed up the stairs trying to find her room. Seath basically opened every door 'til he found her room at the end of the hall one of the lucky rooms with a balcony. Looking around Seath saw corkboards on every lavender colored wall, labeled in Japanese or Chinese he couldn't tell. Only one board was in English label and it had a title 'Dreams and Nightmares'.

Some of the drawing had a person that looked like him, but he had a tail like a wolf. Seath was going to look at one he was sure was him when Raen groaned and moved in his arms. He laid he on her dark violet and deep red wine colored bed spread. He sat and watched over Raen for the longest time. Seath thought she looked an angel, but as he moved her hair from her face it glinted a silver with pinkish purple.

'What was that?' he thought just as he saw something move out of the corner of his eye. Turning his head towards the door, he saw an angry boy of about 18-years-old.

"What the hell are you doing? Who are you? Get away from my sister, freak, now!" he screamed.

The boy launched himself at Seath, but he dodged it. Confused at not finding Seath in his grip, the stranger looked around and locked his sight on Seath again, launching again. Right as he lunged, Bubbles, who must have heard the commotion, came bolting into the room with a spray bottle full of water. She squirted the boy who cringed away from her.

"Bad Jef! This is Seath, our guest. He saved Raen from bullies at school today. Our guest will be staying here now with us."

Bubbles started to walk out of the room but turned when the teen growled at Seath.

"Tonight when I get home from work family meeting. Briar!"

Seath thought this was a little weird, from what he could see there were no other vehicles in the yard and the bus hadn't passed yet. Sure enough the Briar that was in his first period was there awaiting Bubbles' command.

"Yes'm?"

"Make sure everyone knows Seath and that he is here to stay."

"Yes ma'am."

Seath was looking between Briar and Bubbles, not noticing the teen sneaking up on him from behind. Out of nowhere, Bubbles pointed the spray bottle at Seath, who threw his hands up in surrender not knowing the wrong he did.

"Jef, I swear if you even think about it again I'll throw you out into the snow!" With that she started to walk out of the room when Jef looked and growled at Seath. She turned around and pointed at him, "Just for that you're his new best friend show him around 'til Raen wakes up. And now that I think about it Briar please hold a family meet since I won't be home tonight and I don't want them to think his an- intruder."

"Yes ma'am."

Completely confused Seath smacked his palm to his forehead in a frustrated notion. Bubbles looked at him and laughed, "Don't worry Seath," she smiled, "You'll share a room with Briar until we fix up our attic room for you. Briar you're in charge until Raen wakes up or I get back."

"Yes ma'am!"

With that Bubbles left the room. Briar sighed, and Jef punched the wall, making Raen groan in her sleep. Jef walked briskly to the bed with a worried look on his face.

"Raen, you ok?"

Another groan and she turned hugging her pillow.

"Come on Jef, we need to show our guest the ropes and around the house and yard." Briar sighed and ran his fingers through his curly shoulder length hair. Jef growled at Seath, but Briar, who now had the spray bottle, squirted him.

"Damn it Briar!" If you keep spraying me, my hair is going to frizz and curl!"

"Well stop being a rude to our new friend."

"Stop being nice to him! He might be a-"

"Stop it! Just because you trusted, the wrong person doesn't mean Raen will. You know her intuition is better than everyone else's!"

Jef, clearly aggravated, left with a huff. Seath looked down, feeling wrong and at fault, almost crying but still trying to seem manly. He followed Briar a black and red room full of electronics and books.

"This is our room; don't touch anything unless you know how to use it."

Seath nodded. He walked around surprised about how new all the computers were.

"Watch out some will eat you if you get too close." Briar teased as Seath went to touch one.

"Oh sorry."

"It's ok"

Seath nodded and looked away.

"Hey Seath?" Seath looked up at him curious, "Can I trust you to look over Raen as I hold the family meeting?"

Surprised Seath looked at him with large eyes, "Yeah, of course!"

"Awesome, that's great!"

Seath smiled as Briar put his hand on his shoulder.

"Come on I'll escort you to her room."

As they walked back into the room, Seath saw Jef and another male talking to one another, then Jef kissed Raen's forehead and so did the other male. Standing together, Seath saw that the other male was a good four inches taller than Jef's 5'8". He was considerably darker as well. The new guy Seath was about to meet wore glasses, button-up shirts and loose pants. His hair was semi-long brown with a tint of black to the brown and a slight curl to it. Jef saw Seath and Briar leaving fast, not even trying to be friendly.

"So you must be our new guest that my bone headed brother was complaining about." The new comer had a friendly smile.

"Um, I'm sorry but…"

"Oh, yes, forgive my rude manners. I'm Newt."

"Oh, I'm Seath." They shook hands in a friendly manner.

Newt suddenly looked at Briar then at Seath, Looked back at Briar and nodded lightly. He did this all out of his peripheral vision trying not to be suspicious but Seath noticed any way.

"So, Briar, Jef told me you were going to hold a family meeting."

"Oh, yes!"

"Do I have to go?"

"I would like you too…"

Newt sighed, "But I would like to be here when she wakes up."

To Seath this seemed kind of staged, they weren't saying the words naturally. "Fine, you can stay here but with Seath."

"Ok! I don't mind." His mood seemed like Bubbles really cheerful and weird.

Briar went and checked up on Raen, but then he turned and smiled grimly.

"Well it's off to the family meeting."

He let his head drop, Briar seemed really bummed about having to tell everyone about the new member of their family. As he walked out of the room, a girl walked into him. The girl was tall and (very pretty) she seemed to be around 5'9" with sparkling blonde hair, the same lively shade of Briar's. Her bangs were light navy blue, but Seath couldn't see the color of her eyes. Looking up to see who walked into her and knocked her down, she had a scowl on her face. When she looked up and saw whom it was, she got a big smile on her face.

"Bubba!" The girl jumped up dusting off her bottom grinning from ear to ear but then she frowns. "Why where you in Raen's room? You know you have to have special permission for that or she'll make you go with out dinner."

Briar sighed, "Yes I know Twyla, and she's under the weather."

"Oh can I go in and check on her and make her feel better?"

"She's asleep; you shouldn't bother her right now. She barely was able to go to sleep."

Twyla looked down sadly. Briar smiled and pulled her into a hug. "Come on sis, we've got a family meeting to start." Confused Twyla walked away with him.

Seath felt uncomfortable when Newt put his arm around him and walked them back into the room. "What brings you to Wolf Creek?"

"My parents used to live here, I guess. I once saw a picture with here."

"I see…"

"Yeah, so now here I am, following my parents' foot steps."

"I'm sorry, but where are your parents? Kids here are orphans, runaways, or foster kids. What about you?"

Seath looked down. Quietly he replied, "Orphan…" Newt didn't have to strain to here him even with as low as he said it instead he too lowered his head.

"I'm a runaway." Seath looked the boy over, his slightly curled hair fell forward covering his eyes. "My mom and dad split after 20 years of marriage and then tried to turn me against the other. After a while my dad would get with a girl be with her for a week dump her and find another one. Finally, I got tired of going between my parents every week listening to both of them with other people and ran away."

"I'm really sorry."

"It's ok. I wouldn't be here if I hadn't. I'm very happy I came here. It was like a chain pulling on my heart. After my long walk here, I was standing in front of this house with my two best friends; Pako and Jef. They have been here for me from the beginning."

"Wow your lucky."

"Why?"

"People are there for you."

"Well now you have a family again and people that are there for you."

"How can I trust them?"

"You're here and alive with a place to stay right?"

Seath nodded and mumbled, "Yeah?"

"That's how you can trust them. They let you in their home."

Seath thought about it, Newt was right. They let him in their house and want him to live there. He should trust them as they trust them.

"I'm sorry your right. They don't even know me and yet they trust me to live here."

"That's because we can do something others can't."

"What's that?"

"We can see the good on people and the evil."

Confused Seath sat there thinking for a while; when Newt tapped his shoulder he realized he'd dosed off. "It's time for dinner."

Seath got up nodding as he followed Newt to the kitchen, where a small girl was serving dinner. She seemed to be 5' exactly even with red blonde hair down to her back.

When he got up there, she smiled at Newt. "Hi Newt," she filled a bowl with something that's aroma struck Seath with extreme hunger.

"Hi Jenny," Newt smiled and she blushed.

"Is Madam ok?"

"Yes she will be better by later tonight." Seath was noticing the slightly hidden code about words with extreme lingering.

"Awesome."

"Very awesome. So Jenny is your sister available?"

The little girl sighed. "Yeah she's with Briar somewhere."

Newt nodded. "Tell her I'm looking for her."

The little girl nodded. Seath was confused she looked familiar, but he couldn't place her face. Like he read his mind newt looked up at Seath.

"That's Briar and Twyla's younger sister. Jenny is only 13, but is an amazing cook." Newt took them back to Raen's room.

As they walked in the door, Seath noticed, all too quick, that she was awake. He rushed to her side. Raen slowly at him, her eyes out of focus. It took her a couple minutes to realize who he was, but when she did she smiled.

"What happened?" She whispered in a rough voice from being dry.

Newt came in and smiled at her glad to see her up, "You had an attack." Seeing her alarmed look he quickly added, "Don't worry Seath and Bubbles brought you home."

Raen looked around and sighed. Briar looked at her, a face full of confusion. After a moment, Newt gave Raen his supper.

"I'm going to go…" Raen nodded and looked at Seath.

"I should thank you for saving me after my – attack."

"The thanks is all mine. Your letting me stay here when you hardly know me anyways."

"Oh but your actions speak louder than your words." Raen smiled at this knowing she had confused Seath.

"Well it is almost time for bed. I do enforce curfew here so lovers don't meet."

Seath nodded and walked to the room he shared with Briar. Once he reached the room, Seath took the few things he had and put them in this corner by his bed. Taking clothes out of the duffle bag, he changed for be. He sat and talked with Briar for awhile, but as soon as his head hit his pillow he was asleep.

A wonderful dream was playing in his mind. He was running through the woods with the beautiful but familiar people and giant wolves, and other animals of the forest. Some of the people had pointed ears other threw lights like fireworks. It was confusing to Seath like all dreams he had, he didn't get the meaning as he watched it. The people with neither pointed ears and swords or the magic light commanded giant wolves.

One side of the fight was covered in a black aura the other side, his side, had a bright white aura. 'What could it mean?' Seath thought not being able to wake. Still the dream went on, as he looked up and was blinded by the magical fire light. A wolf from his side, he had thought he couldn't tell he was spinning his head and heart and body, howled. That one howl woke Seath up.