Chapter One.
"What can I get for you hun?" The waitress asked as I sat down on the bar stole.
"A cup of coffee, please." I answered as I started to wiggle my coat off as the heat turned on in the diner.
After running for three days I felt the need to stretch out my human body. Coming into the small town was amusing, it was like stepping back in time; nothing seemed to look like it has changed in years. All of the signs and the way people dresses reminded me of a 'Leave it to Beaver' episode.
I unfortunately stuck out like a sour thumb with my black leather jacket, green forest v neck with dark washed jeans, and black bootie high heals. Most of the citizens gasped when I walked by. The women in disbelief and the men in awe. I looked wild to them with my black raven hair long hair flowing behind me and my glowing green eyes that seen to dance with mystery.
As the coffee was set down before me along with a few creamers and sugar packets that i pushed away gently while grabbing the cup of coffee in the other hand. I throw the hot liquid back in about two minutes making the waitress looked at me with amazement.
"How can you do that? It was burning hot, and without anything to make it taste good."
I just smiled at her and replied "Years of practice."
It was my answer to most things when people questioned how I could do thing that others would have a hard time doing. The waitress looked at me weird after that but tried to continue on her service as if it did not bother her.
"Well alright then, are you ready to order?" She asked. I looked over the breakfast menu without much interest and told her to just oder me an southern omelet. She nodded with approval and walked away to go get more coffee.
As I waited for my food I listened into the other tables near by and their gossiping. It's amazing the amount of information one can collect just by sitting in a crowded room. I heard about some killings going on and how all of them are focused on one area. I heard a few name blaming and imprinted them in my memory for future use. The waitress brought my food over to me and I could feel the suspicion starting to seep into her bones.
"So you're definitely not from around here," she stated with an arched eyebrow.
I looked up at her with a smirk "definitely" I replied as I took a sip of my coffee.
"So what are you doingb here? Passing through? Visiting someone?" She pushed further. I gave her the response that she supplied me with from her question.
"I'm just passing through on my way to visiting someone," I said as I calmed my stare and started to convey trust into her mind to redirect her emotions more towards accepting then suspicion. The last thing I would need at this pit stop was unwanted attention.
I could slowly seeing it work as her muscles started to relax and a smile can across her face.
"Oh that's nice," she said as she turned away. Humans were too easy sometimes to control, it was a terrible quality that they had yet it worked out in my advantage so I could not complain.
Half way through my omelet I felt the air shift in the diner to acomidate the introduction of two new wolves. One was milder and weaker with the other one was wild and angry. I dared not turn to show that I knew of their presence. This has happened to me may times and I found as long as I acted normal and got out of the area as fast as possible the wolves never caught on that I was a wolf too.
Something always seemed to make them overlook me everytime. If it was due to my small size at 5 feet, or my delicate features I will never understand. Yet the wolves always seem to look over the new girl as the wolf in town. Not seeing how this time would be any different I dropped the money I owed on the table and stood up ready to leave.
Once I was out the door though I could feel the eyes of someone on me. Looking back into the diner window I saw them. The angry male seemed to be scanning the entire diner still looking for the new wolf as most other wolve I have come in contact with have done in the past. But the wolf next to him surprised me, though I did not let it show.
She was female, the first other female wolf I have ever seen and she was staring right at me through the window. The expression she had on her face was that of pure astonishment. I froze only for a second as I saw her tap the males arm to get his attention and point me out. As soon as he spotted me they both stood. That was my cue to leave FAST!
I started to power walk to a near by alley and then when I was out of sight I full on started to sprint. I could barely hear the pounding of my persures behind me but it was enough to inform me that they were there. I weaved in and out of garbage cans and clothing lines yet I could still hear them gaining on my. Up head I was a fire escape and thanks to a near by garbage can I was able to launch myself at it.
Racing as fast as I could towards the top I could still hear then down in the alley. Just as I reached the top I could feel the rattling of the latter signaling another has climbed on it. Dashing across the roof top I came to the edge and saw no possible way down. The building across was a doable jump but it would slow me down in the end. Then just as I was about to say forget it and just jump across to the next building I saw a window opened on the next building low enough that if I launched myself right I could fall right into. As I hear my persures get very close to the top I made my decision and jumped.
I flew through the sky and rolled right into the vacant room. As fast as I could I get up on my feet and leaned against the wall with the window to avoid being spotted. I dared not look to see if they had been tricked. As minutes past by I heard no sounds coming from the outside leaving me to believe they gave up. I slowly unhinged myself from the wall and slid out the widow and down the fire escape back to the Main Street.
No pedestrians seemed to take notice tankfully and I continued on my merry way deciding that I needed to get a move on out of this area quessing that it was already clamed by a pack. As I neared the forest at the end of town I hide behind a tree and started to strip. Usually I tied all my clothes to my left arm but I figured that I was in a rush right now and just grabbed the tee shirt and jeans leaving my jacket shoes and underwear behind. Once I was set I let the change take over and within seconds I was transformed. I started running as far as I could from town the distance helped calm my nevers but for some reason my wolfs would not.
It seemed that the deeper we get into the woods the more agitated she becames. I could not for the life of me figure out what was upsetting her until I came across other wolf tracks. Then it all clicked we were on the packs property.
That was all the encouragement I needed to increase my speed and try to get out of here faster. I kept looking for a boundary marker to identity where it stopped yet it seemed to never stop, going on deeper and deeper into the wood. As my wolf became more worried she started to lose focus on where we were running and more on trying to find a marker. This lead us right into a bear trap that snapped on to our back left leg. Before I could stop it a howel of pain raced past my lips and echoed across the woods signaling to other that I was hurt.
SHIT! Was the only thought running through my head. There was no doubt in my mind that the pack on this area definitely heard me and with my luck are on their way here right now. I looked down at my leg and tried to thing of a way out of this. If I change back I would be able to get the release off yet if I did change it would likely break some of my bones causingn me to be hurt worse. SHIT! SHIT! SHT!
I kept trying to think of a way to escape my situation until I heard a twig snap near by. I held my breath and waited. Eventually a small scrawny wolf emerged from the trees. I could immediately tell this wolf was not part of the pack. It was to unkept, you could see its bones from lack of food and its fur was patchy showing that he was lacking nutrients and rarely cleaned itself. The wolf took a defensive stance and started to growl at me. I knew that this would end up in a fight and pushed myself up onto my legs forcing my body to go into a fighting stance even with my left leg still caught in the bear trap.
The wolf finally seemed to notice my injury and I could see it smile at the, believing that this would be an easy fight. He attacked first trying to knock my off my feet but I was able to get my jaw into it sholder and threw him against a near by tree far away from me again. He rebounded quickly but was shocked my the fact that I could defend my myself I let out a fierce growl and bared my now blood covered teeth at him.
He attacked time and time again and each time he would end up wih a new bite mark against a near by tree. He looked weaker due to the amount of blood his body has lost and the ribs that have been Brocken due to the impact of he trees. Yet so was I only not from any injuries, but from my leg bleeding out.
All the energy I was using on the defensive was starting to take its toll on me and with my leg being injured I could feel myself starting to slow down. The wolf noticed too and attacked me with more force them before knocking me onto my back with his fangs above my sholder as the dived into my flesh. I let out a howl of agony yet to my shock it was replied to by a howl of its own. I looked over to the source of the noise and saw seven wolves emerge from the tree line. At the arrival of the wolves my attacker above me released his teeth and looked over towards them too. And that is when I took my chance.
I lunged forward dug my fangs into the wolfs neck ripping out his throat as I pulled back. Blood poured down my face and into my fur leaving me covered in blood as the wolfs body rolled off of me. I let out a sigh of reliefe and looked over towards the seven wolves as they started to move forwards. All of them looked different yet the same signaling that they were indeed a pack. Yet one of them seemed to move closer than the others; my eyes shot to him calculating the threat. Yet when I looked into his eyes an unknown electric current Julted through my body.
I was losing consciousness fast and all I could look into were the wolfs deep dark eyes. I heard a whimper pass his lips as my eye close and the last thing I remember is being lifted up.