Short chapter, I know, I'm sorry. It's just how it worked out. I'll post again really soon! Perhaps some reviews would help?
Breathing heavily, Soren opened her eyes...and immediately wished she hadn't.
It hadn't been enough. She'd been fighting a losing battle with the downpour and there were too many of them. The vampires were sooty and singed, but still standing as she fell to her knees, skin bright red with open sores bleeding now. She clutched her chest as the last stitches of her threadbare clothes melted. She had been too cocky and failed. She'd failed her family.
The vampires advanced slowly now, cautious.
The sound of something crashing through the trees to the right gave them pause. Soren looked up, barely able to make out through a haze of pain that two enormous animals had come through the forest fire and bounded toward them with long strides, quickly closing the distance.
They slowed on seeing the circle of vamps, which opened to great them. One, wolves they looked like, slowed and turned toward the other beast, which had stopped completely at the sight of the girl.
It happened quickly then. The halted creature suddenly sprang over the vampires, white fangs bared and Soren rolled to her back to defend herself. She grunted at the pain, but refused to take her death quietly.
However, the wolf only crouched over her, shielding her from the poisonous rain and the ring of blood suckers. His growls made the mud around Soren's trembling form made the world even more unsteady. Her eyes struggled to focus on the light fur of the wolf's vulnerable underbelly.
"What the hell, Seth!?"
Their voices were angry, confused. But Soren was past the point of caring and with the pain throbbing everywhere, she slipped under, her last conscious thought being that Seth was a funny name for a wolf. The beast's growl's followed her all the way down.