CH 11: The Lost Pup
I own nothing of Stephanie Meyer's except the characters I added and will add
I continued my crouch, and begin to stalk slowly towards Samuel Uley's house. I paused when I heard him let out a growl, fearing that he detected me, but I then heard the nature of his conversation with someone. I continued to stay crouched behind the tree, and only left it's safety when I heard the tearing of fabric accompanied by the sound of paws attacking the ground as they tore to whatever destination they had in mind. I stood up slowly, lifting my nose to the wind, trying to see if any of the other wolves were nearby. After sniffing the area for five minutes and coming up with nothing, I continued my journey towards Samuel's house.
I walked towards his front door, I slowly opened it just in case his imprint was still in the house. I carefully closed it behind me and began to my search around his house. I walked towards his bedroom only stopping to kick open his door, I took in the area. His room was a dull white with a few rock band posters on the wall, the bed was made up, his closet was open and his clothes were neatly hanged or folded, something only a woman's touch could make a man do.
"It has to be here somewhere" I muttered under my breath. I remembered the artifact my mom used to tell me about when I was a child. I felt the memories trying to find a crack in the walls I set up to prevent myself from going insane. I was about to give up when I felt an energy coming from under his bed. I grasped the bottom of the bed with one hand, and flipped it to it's side. Under the bed was a ring with a leather cord looped through it. I grabbed the ring and tied the cord around my ankle.
"I finally found you, hopefully my mom was right and you can help give us some guidance" I said aloud. I was in the mid-turn when I heard the door open. "Sam honey are you in here?" I heard his imprint Emily yell out from the living room. I cursed under my breath, and began to look for a place to hide. I heard her footsteps walking towards the bedroom, a second before she opened the door I dove into the closet and closed it as soon as I was in it. I left it open slightly so I could see what she was doing. She took one look at the room and gasped in shock, she began to run out the door to alert the pack. I quickly rushed out of the room, jumped towards the window, and soon felt glass cutting into my skin. In the next three seconds I was in the forest, I quickly tied my shorts around my ankle, and phased into my wolf.
The light of the forest seemed to attracted to my all white fur, leaves or branches in my way were reduces to twigs and stems by the time I passed them. When I felt some of the pack chasing after me I kicked it into second gear, forcing my body to go beyond its limits, and right when I thought I was home free I was stopped by the intimidating wolf Embry Call. I skidded to a stop, dirt and various insects of the forest coming up in a cloud in front of me. Embry bared his canines at me, saliva began to fill his mouth in anticipation of the fight he thought would come, and then he began to circle me.
"Why were you in Sam's house Alex?" Embry asked me through the mind link, trying to reign in his inner wolf. I could only gap at his self-control, my inner wolf begging me give my will to it so that we could make it out of this situation alive.
"Embry just let me go and I promise that when I return I will explain everything" I said to him. I knew it was a losing fight when I saw his hackles raise up, and his body lower into a crouch. This was no longer the Embry I knew, this was his wolf, and I not only betrayed his trust but was also now considered a danger to the pack.
"It's too late for that Alex" He roared out my name through our link and I flattened my ears from the sheer force of it. I sensed whatever remnants of Embry cease to exist and I watched as he gave his body to his primal alter-ego. He lunged at me, and I quickly side stepped his attack but cursed myself when I knew it was a trap. Before I could get my paws on the ground he managed to turn around and sink his teeth into my shoulder blade. I let out a snarl in pain, and also gave myself to the wolf. It was like watching everything through a shade of red, I bucked my body up and tore my shoulder free from his sharp fangs. A trail of blood along my shoulder was all that was left of the wound Embry made on my shoulder.
I slowly circled him waiting for an opening of sometime and was quickly rewarded when he charged at me. I waiting until the last moment, I ran into his guard and shifted my head until I had a good grip on his neck. Once I got a good hold of him I flipped him to his side, pressed down my paw on his snout, and began to growl. My wolf was began me to go for the jugular, in fact I could have sworn it was getting a high off of the thought of a kill won from a wolf more experienced than him. I shoved the primal side of me back and released my hold on Embry's neck. I watched as he showed me his jugular as a sign of submission and I slowly released my paw off of his snout.
"I promise I will return and explain everything to you guys" I said through our link and took off towards the cliffs in La Push. She told me that there was a cave under the highest cliff, and that the ring would guide me to some hidden knowledge that could save the Quileute's from destruction. All that was going through my mind as I raced towards the cliffs was that I was going to make that old blood sucker Cauis pay for the death of my mom.