The beginning of all things

Written by; Thomas G. Arndt

What is a new beginning really

Chapter 9

David

To say that I had a hard life would be beyond the imagination, and an under statement at the least. I can remember it like it was just yesterday, my family always avoided contact with others for some reason, after all we were only a small tribe. My dad was the head of the household, he was a proud man and wouldn't ever ask anyone for help, I think we lived on a farm. In modern time my lineage isn't known, all they see me as is a rogue, do I want this title of course not, all I want is a place to lay my head down. So how did I get this way, well it all happened when I was just five, I witnessed the slaughter of my family, I hide so they never found me. I had an old brother and a sister that was only one, they killed them as well, they left no one alive, the strangers just came in. My dad tried to stop them, he was the first one they rip out his throat, they laughed as my family cried and begged for their lives. I think I was numb when the sheriff found me, he was the one that drove me to the orphanage, I think it made him sick, he had to stop the car three times.

I wasn't adopted at first, you see I never talked to anyone about what I had seen, so I think I was the probable problem child, and no one wanted that. But I did get adopted by the time I was twelve, if you could call it being adopted, my new father said all good children had six good years in front of them. My new family adopted a new kid every six months it seemed, my new Mother would get us up at the crack of dawn. Not for breakfast you see, we had to earn our breakfast, so it was out to the fields for us, we would work very hard for a bowl of runny or lumpy rice, if we were lucky we got a small piece of meat. We really never had the time to eat, so you learned how to shovel it down before you left, it was a real art. Then we would go to school, I think if my father and mother had their way we would never go, but they were forced to send us, it was kind of like our time. After school we would go home and she would tell us to take the hour because we would get no more time for our homework, so we worked like little beavers doing our homework.

I was no stranger to the padded, I got it for never finishing my homework, then I would get it for standing up for my brothers or sisters, but they never got rid of me because I could three times as much field as the rest of the kids. As soon as the sun would go down then we would go to sleep, Saturdays were worse, we really didn't get a break from work, mother would come out with sandwiches. Some times she would slip and actually give us meat in our sandwiches, but most of the time they had to little jam on them, when I read that book Lord of the Rings I understood the comment of to much bread and not enough jam. Sundays were good for us, we were forced to go to church, I think my parents only went to make sure we didn't say anything, but then in the end I think they were all in on it. You see there were six families like mine, they would have what they called a Sunday social, I think they call it pot luck today, but all the people of the church would bring food and feed the unfortunate kids, that was us.

We all love this day, and I don't think it made any of us religious at all, and as always we dreaded going home, as I told you I could clear more land then anyone, I believe that was because I was so much larger then the rest. My parents didn't discriminate against, male, female, black, white, Catholic or christian, later I found out they were the same, my parents were ignorant, we would all work out in the fields. We would get some little girls, they could never do the work, so I always lent a helping hand, it was sad how they got treated just because they couldn't do our work that they weren't built for. Then came the unhappy day for all, you see I turned eighteen, I guess the law would pay for me after this, so my parents had to force me to leave, everyone cried when I left. Well everyone except for three people, my father, my mother, and of course me. All I wanted to do was get on with my new life, if I knew what I knew after I would have thought twice.

You see I went to the big city, I figured I could get a job easy enough, I was wrong, I always thought I was hungry on the farm, do you know how your stomach feel after not eating for a week. I'm sure I was at my end when it happened, I sitting in my house in an alley near the capital building, my house, I build it out of what ever I could find. Well at least I was out of the rain, even though it was the dead of summer on it almost never rained, so I was curled up in a ball feeling how empty my stomach was, I had survived all those years on the farm just to die here. But worst of all there were three brothers that were thinking of sending me on my way, they bashed in my house and had me by all my limbs, the way they had me I was dead. I had no idea of why they jumped me, all I did know was that I wasn't going to die this way, so I got mad, no that wasn't it, I got angry, angry to the point of my change. It's easy for me to remember this, you see three other brothers found me, I was laying in a pool of blood and body parts, they took me away even though I had no clothes on. They weren't rich by no means, they got me a pair of overalls, then they taught me what I was, in time I got my own shoes, and a decent shirt, we worked odd jobs, I had to wonder what ever happened to those first three brothers.

Well in time we would get enough money to start our own homestead, it was small, and it helped the three brothers with a problem they had, you see you had to be seen as a prospective mate to get a bitch. The older brother was the main name on the home stead, so he was the first to attract one, the next one attract when we bought him a plot of land, and the youngest got just recently just before the incident happened. I had worked a long time to get my own plot, plots were very large, maybe five acres, and mine was the farthest away from the house. Paul the defunct head of the household, had actually attracted four bitches, and one had crossed his elder wife, so she sought protection from Simon Paul's younger brother, not that he would ever stand in the way of Paul. You see Paul and Simon had wives, the other three only sought protection from what could happen to them, and the one that sought the protection of Simon was the younger of what we like to call the sisters. They weren't really sisters, they just hung together like they were, I mean I knew not to be on their bad side, but if you were they could give you what for. The youngest Carolyn, she liked to be call Carry, she had started a game with me some months ago, you see our type is very warm blooded, and it was common practice to sleep fully nude.

I had a room in the barn, well it really wasn't a room, I laid wood down so I could put an old bed I had fixed up there, all I had was a blanket, so I would cover my bare essentials with this. Well one day she came in and I was on my side, she ran her finger over the foot of the bed and said, " I need a very strong man to bed me."

I had to look at her, I mean she was only sixteen, I then said to her, " Carry get out of here, I'm sleeping."

" Oh really, I can see by the bulge under the sheets that you're ready for me."

I then said as I removed my covers, " You mean this, this is always ready for a pretty woman, now come over here and I'll show you what it's used for."

She then blushed and ran out, she would repeat this every week, then it became twice a week, finally every other day, she even got into bed with me once, but heavy petting helped make her mind up to leave. I have to say I was getting tired of it, not the coming in part, what I wanted to do was relieve myself, you know a guy can only take so much, and I think I was close to jumping her bones. Well it all happened on a day that I had to go work my plot, I had packed a good lunch, with a big thermos of water, I told the brothers that I was going to do this so they wouldn't have to use the truck. I guess it was about three or four in the afternoon, I was out of water, I thought of just going down and getting some from the local store, then I remembered Janet said she was going to make fresh lemonade. This was enough to make my mind up to go home, Janet was Paul's wife, so I parked the truck in it's spot in the little sped by the barn, it was easy to get to the kitchen from here. So I walked in with a simple wrap on the window, they said it was my house to, but it was only polite, I then went straight for the refrigerator, I saw no lemonade.

I lifted my head and in a loud voice asked, " Janet I thought you were going to make some lemonade?"

Janet would always fuss so much over me, you see out of all of us in the house only the two of us were the same, we were born not made, oh maybe I should explain. You see we're werewolves, and there are three types, those that just were, or the originals, those that are born, Janet and me, and those that are made, all the rest in our house. Well with no fussing I had to wonder, so I moved to the sink and got a glass of water, I could see Carry's lawn chair still out, and her shorts and bathing suit top were still on it. This made me worried, yes she always liked to tease all the boys, but she never left that lawn chair without getting dressed, so I lifted my head and yelled, " PAUL, SIMON, ANDREW, IS ANYONE HERE?"

The deadly silence spoke volumes, so I just made it to the hall, then I saw it, the walls had blood smeared on them, I then made it from room to room, I couldn't find bodies, but there was just to much blood. I think a panic stage set in, I made it out of the house to smell something very bad, I followed it to the storm cellar, and there I found them, they had been cut up into as small as pieces as whomever could manage. I saw the desperate faces of all the kids, the terror on all the woman's faces, the almost force of effort on the guys faces, it was as if I had seen my parent getting killed all over again, something snapped in me. I know I change into what we call the beast form, not full wolf yet not really human, and I followed their scent, I came to a large farm house just out side Tulsa. I then made my way into the back yard, I was starting for the house when I smelt something very familiar, they had a compost, and on top there she was, they didn't even have the decency to cover her up. Her nude body showed all that they had done to her, I ran my claws over it to make sure what I was seeing, yes someone had mated with her against her will, how could they do this to a bitch of the pack.

Well whomever had done this would pay for Carry's death, I then let loose with one of the most God awful howls you would have ever heard, then I crashed right through the back door. It came right off the hinges in four parts, one of the parts knocked one of them silly. Before anyone could blink I had ripped off ones head, and had another's heart in my hand, the third jumped up to attack, but I flailed at him with my claws, and ended with biting his neck in half. Then you had the one that was just waking up and see all the blood on the floor, her howl only lasted a second, then she started to gurgle as I had head head in my hands. Next I jumped up and head for the closed door, I have to say that I wasn't really thinking, well because the next woman just on the other side of the door leveled a shot gun at me. I grabbed it with one hand as she pulled the trigger, it was very easy to see that she had done this, because the shot gun blew up in her face, as she was blinded and now screaming, I paid her no attention. I then started to kill them one at a time, it wasn't as if any of them had any smarts, I mean I was one against fourteen, I should have never been able to kill them all, well I really didn't have to kill them all.

You see I found one that had her smell all over him, so I just ripped out his knee caps, then as there weren't anymore I ended the life of the screaming woman. Lastly I took him and followed his scent to his room, and yes I dragged him by his leg, then I smelt him and went around the room, he was shaking as I came up to him and spoke in our guttural sound. " Where did you spoil her at, where did you take her virtue?"

" I don't know what you're talking about man."

He reek of her, so I allowed a loud growl escape my throat, and then said in the same voice, " You reek of her, you know you can't fool me, I know you spoiled her, now tell me where you took her virtue."

He said nothing so I reached over and dug my nails deeply into his leg, then used my finger tips to break it until it was almost powder, he screamed the entire time. As I stopped he had to regain his composure, then he gritted his teeth and said, " Let me up from here and heal, then we'll see who's the toughest, and that bitch was no virgin."

I then undid his pants and pulled them down to his bloody knees, then I used the very end of my claws as I said, " You could make this easy on me, or I could just take one piece at a time, I think I'll start here."

His eye's got big as he said, " The shed man."

To make sure that he suffer even a little more I broke his other leg, then I went out and found the shed they had done the deed in, it wasn't that hard to find, her smell was all over the place. As I opened the door I realized how important this was to them, they didn't even bother to clean up her blood, I then got the red can of gasoline and a black trash bag. I went and put her head and hands in the bag, and tucked it into my belt, then I took her body up stair with me, I reentered his room, he had made it halfway across the floor. Then I carefully placed her body on the bed he had been laying on, I took out her head and hands and arranged them so they went where they should go, as I turn I noticed that he had turned just through the door. I reached over and asked, " Where do you think you're going, don't you want to see your handy work?"

Then I threw him back in the bed, I put my hand on his chin and made him look at Carry, and in my low growl I said, " She was mine and you took her away from me, what do you think your punishment should be?"

He started to say, " Oh man, we didn't know man, we didn't know, I'm sorry man, listen man I'll join you pack man."

I used my claw to rupture the side of the can, then I allowed it to drain over him, as he screamed, " You can't do this man, you can't just kill me, you can allow me to live, man I don't want to die."

I then lite an entire book of matches, I stood next to the bed as I allowed it to fall on the bed, then with a very loud hush the room exploded, I was thrown to the window. I didn't care all I wanted to do was to die, I sat there watching him scream and burn, slowly the flames enveloped the room, it would only be a matter of time and I would catch fire. It maybe a horrible death, but I just couldn't think of my life without her, the flames swirled around and formed a figure, she seemed to walk in yet out of the flame. Then she looked at me and asked, " It is terrible what has happened here."

I had to laugh as I said back to her, " It's better then they deserve."

Her head then turned to me as she asked, " Carry was meant to die this very day, and you were meant to take your vengeance, but you have no will to save yourself, yet it isn't your time to die."

I laughed out loud as we began to hear sirens and asked, " Is it my fate to protect these foul creatures just so I can make sure their bodies burn."

" No son, it is your fate to live and find her once again, then in the end you will have to protect her again, or will you allow the flames to take you over."

" What do you mean, she's dead how can I ever see her again."

" I tell you this very night she has been reborn, I have see to it, and if you don't give yourself up to these flames you will see her again."

I had to look at her as I asked, " Who has such power that she can promise me this?"

" Your mother and creature Gaia."

" And you promise that she is reborn this very night?"

" Yes, I have no will over her parents, or the fact that she will look different, but I promise that she is reborn this very night."

I then turned and jumped out the window.

Ryan

Nothing really happened this week, I have to say that some things here seem to happen daily. I had taken the kids out so Amy and Timothy had some alone time, Serena had agreed to go with me. We used the top of a very large building that they used for event downtown, we had set up a mock hunt. I maybe predigest, and maybe even a little proud, but Carla was exceptionally good at the prowl part of exercise. Even though Kimberly was far better at the seduction portion of the exercise, this gave her an unfair advantage. It wasn't that Carla couldn't attract boys, but when you are competing against some one whom could double as Nicole Kidmans twin sister, well it's just not fair to Carla. It was kind of funny to watch the four of them go shopping, Serena is the shortest, Carla was just three inch's tall then her, Amy has two inch's on Carla, then you have the head above all the rest. To say Kimberly was tall would be like saying the Pope is Catholic, among the girls she wears the largest size, but to see her waist size you'd say she was the skinniest. We, the elder vampyres in the house, got together and decide she was one of the beautiful vampyres, this is a genetic trait you gain sometimes from when you're turned.

Amy says we all have it, it's just that not all of us know how to use it, then you have the ones like Kimberly whom seem to have the switch turned on all the time. Worst of all, she knows it, she loves to go around the house in nothing but a pair of short shorts and a bathing suit top, even when we go out we are hard pressed to get her to dress. Amy and Serena has had to put there foot down a few times, even tonight I had to make her go change three times, I sent Carla with her the third time with the order that if she doesn't dress correctly we're going to leave her behind. I mean I love a girl in a short dress, but she thinks that showing a small part of you is ok, well for a young boy I guess it would be, she just doesn't understand about unwanted attention. Carla likes to wear short dresses, and she will come out on these exercises with one on, but she wears short under it so no one can see what she doesn't want them to see. It did make me wonder if Kimberly was a little bit of an exhibitionist, if she gets a thrill out of what she does, or maybe she used to be a catholic school girl, they seem to go wild once they go off to college.

Well at this point I had to think she would have some decorum in what she did, you see in this kind of exercise all you can do is observe, if a problem should arise we had a predetermined signal. We always made sure no one could miss it, I'm so glad that human's rarely look up. As we stood there trying to keep an eye on all three of them, we heard a noise below us. We then both look down at the same time, we had to look at one another as we saw the dog, then we redirected our attention back to the kids, Carla was so quick in her prowl, she had just done it again, she was now two ahead of Kimberly. Nicholas was hopeless at this game, he was thirty-seven in the rear, we never mentioned how bad one was, we only gave constructive criticism. We did have to make a rule up for Kimberly, you could not tag the same person in the same night, and just now I could see Kimberly attracting a group of boys to her. This wasn't fair to Carla, she could do it so simply, and Carla had to work so hard, she had to have twenty guys around her. I saw that Carla had gotten her third, maybe she could do it this night, but then two things happened, my watch started to go off, and Kimberly tagged her fourth just as the whistle escaped my mouth.

Damn she lost again, I had to wonder if Serena had seen, but her question told me everything, " You saw?"

I nodded my head as I replied, " I wish Carla could win just once."

" Yes Ran, but she has you, Kim only has the game."

" I Know, I know, but Carla doesn't understand."

We turned to see Carla and Nicholas on the roof, I had to wonder what distracted Kimberly again, so I released another whistle, then from the dark side we told them all to jump up on came, " Can someone give me a hand up?"

I had ti chuckle at this as I knew that at least Carla was far better then her at jumping, Serena then moved her hand as she said, " Nick give your sister a helping hand."

He immediately went to the edge of the building and put his hand down, with on clean jerk he pulled her onto the roof, she landed the correct way on the roof. We had been having a few problems with her landings, I then said, " Ok, now that we're all here, get into line."

They both move next to Carla, I had to look straight at Nicholas as I said, " Well Nick you're staying consistent, twenty-eight."

He looked at me as he asked, " Twenty-eight again, what am I doing wrong?"

Serena then put her hand up as she said, " Yes, and now for the news Carla broke the record with sixty-five."

" What?" Carla asked, then also asked, " Did I finally beat Kim?"

I didn't want to, but I had to be fair, so I reluctantly shook my head as I replied, " I'm sorry Carla, Kim pulled it out at the last second again with Sixty-six, I could hardly believe it."

Serena then said, " The two of you have out done Allurisha, she had the high before the two of you, but we'll keep this to ourselves, you don't ever want to anger your Queen."

I had to think that this made the two of them proud, as they each patted each other on the back, well more like hugs and well dones. Nicholas then said, " I never even had a chance, why can't I just break the vampyre simple goal of thirty."

I felt that I could only replied with the obvious, " Nick it's because to always go for the touch, I know we scared you a little but you have to get over it, every time you avoid the other way you're keeping one away from your total." But I had to be fair, so I turned to Kimberly and said, " And you, what did I tell you about restricting yourself to one action, what would have happened if there were nothing but women down there, you would be hungry and then you would show your true self."

Kimberly then answered with, " I'm to tall Ran, I can't hide like Carla, and besides some women like to be kissed by women, so why try the hard when you have the easy?"

We then heard a crash as I just had to reply to this, " And what do you do if they're all gypsy women, what then, they would know what you were in an instant."

Serena whom had moved to the end of the building then asked, " Ran you might want to come over here and see this?"

I moved next to her and looked down to see that dog digging through the trash, so I shrugged my shoulder's and said, " It's a dog going through the trash."

" Ran watch how his ears move."

I didn't have to do this, I could see by how his fur phased that this was far more then just a dog, then we got the low guttural rumble of his growl, so I quickly said, " You go that way, and I'll go this way, then we'll come back and have him trapped in between us." She nodded her head and we then turned to do what we set out to do, but before we moved I made the mistake of adding one more comment, " You three stay up here, we'll only be a minute, and I mean stay up here."

Then we moved at speed, it wasn't as if we hadn't done this a thousand times before, we were more worried about what we had down in the street, and what it could do for our masquerade. Could this be what I feared it was, or worse, and why the hell was it digging through the trash, they preferred their prey fresh, what ever was going on he had to be the most unusual of his kind. I saw that Serena was now in place, I had to hope that we were ready for this, and also that he would freely leave, we didn't need the students taking care of the teachers. Serena was very well versed in how to be a vampyre, but as of yet I had no reason to test her fighting skills, and to be truthful I hadn't really ever fought one of these, I've only saw them from afar. I decided that the best way was to be calm and collected as I spoke in a normal voice, " You can come out we know you're in there."

Then an unclean shaven man came out, at first I thought he was older then what he was, he had in one hand what looked like a chicken, he scanned Serena and then moved his eye's to me. He gave me an almost sneer as he said in a very plain voice, " Fucking vampires."

Well I was very offended by this but I kept it together as I asked, " What are you doing in my city?"

He scoffed as he replied, " Your city, this is my city, has been goin on twenty years now."

He had to be lying, I knew his type never controlled cities, maybe he was trying to get me to fight, well two could play at this game, " Like you guys ever had enough time from scratching your flea bitten hides to control a city."

He gave a small growl as he said, " Well it's my city, now you can leave when ever you like leech, or I'll get something nicer then foul old chicken to eat."

" Listen I'm asking nicely for you to leave."

" Like your type ever ask nicely."

" Well I am, now I don't want to fight you, but I will if you force me."

" So the pretty boy doesn't want to get his nails dirty, boy I've had worse than you for lunch, just leave me alone, and I won't have to break you in half."

He was really angering me, I had to wonder if this was how he won fights, well he wasn't going to goad me into a fight, so I asked, " When was the last time you had a bath, you reek?"

He gave a very heavy laugh as he replied, " Tuesday, let me think, maybe two weeks ago, do you want to give me a bath then."

Then from behind me came, " Jeesh he stinks."

I quickly turned to see Kimberly behind me, so I scolded her with, " I told you to stay on the roof!"

The man the chuckled as he said, " Run little worm child, the big bad wolf has come to deflower his children, then eat what he leaves behind."

Kimberly then pulled up in fear as I heard come from behind Serena, " Man you have an attitude problem."

Ok this was getting out of hand very fast, so I turned around to see Carla behind Serena so I had to say in a worried tone, "Carla get back on the roof now!"

She then looked at me as if I had just smacked her in the face as the man said, " Am I in an old dirty pool?"

Kimberly then just had to add to his demeanor as she asked, " What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

" I'm attracting all the leeches."

" That's disgusting."

Carla then said as she smelt her clothes, " Kim we'll never get this smell out of our clothes, maybe we should do as Ran says and get out of here for the safety of our clothes."

" Oh Carla-"

I cut her off in mid sentence with, " Kimberly Anderson! You can answer to Amy why you're not listening to me."

" Ok, ok, I'm going, jeesh, all I wanted to do was to see him up close, God."

Then the man said, " You better go back to you little school, teacher, I wouldn't want you to soil yourself."

He said teacher with an almost disdain tone, and I said, " Well I've handled worse then you before, now as ward of this city, I'm asking as nicely as you warrant to leave my city."

" What are you going to do, I've shit things worse then you before."

Serena then answered, " As a ward you know he can start a hunt until you leave his city."

" Whoa I'm scared, listen lady I'll just eat you, a wait first I'll do you then I'll eat you."

She then started to speak in her Spanish tongue as I put my hand up and said, " Serena he's goading you into a fight, let it go and we can get out of here, we have the kids to think of." She jerked her shoulder's as she moved back into place, so I then added, " Wolf you have twenty-four hours to get out of my city, if you do not leave by then I'll issue a formal hunt on your ass."

I don't know why I swore, I think he was getting to me, he then laughed at me as he said, " You guys are very good at saber rattling, but the real fight escapes you, and I say that no one moves what Gaia has placed with her own hand."