Chapter 7

CPOV

It did snow that night, bad, at that, you couldn't see 3 ft ahead of you. When we got into the woods it looked awesome but weird too, it was like you were in a totally white room with a few trees, but you could never walk into a wall. We walked over to the barrier, Clay and Elena were taking their luggage and the tents, Simon took my stuff and his, and Andrew took his. At the barrier Andrew did this weird ritual to let us through. The problem was he had to say what we all were. Simple for the others and himself, but than he had to try to figure out the right words to let me through. It finally let me pass when he said necromancer/werewolf. I got onto the other side a sighed, everyone laughed, and I joined in. We walked for a little bit, but decided that this was a bad way to look for someone. So we set up tents, without knowing our surroundings. Just that it was woods.

Elena and Clay helped set up tents and make beds in them. Than they went off to change so they could protect the campsite. I asked Andrew if I should go change too and he said it was up to me. So I did, but Simon was looking for me, even after Andrew said I went to help protect the camp, I was a pure white wolf so I guess it makes sense that he couldn't see me sitting in front of him. I wheezed a laugh when he walked right past me calling my name, he looked back at where I was sitting, seeming to look right through me. than I stood up and he saw me, he jumped back with a yelp.

"Whoa, talk about hiding in plain sight Chloe!" He said.

I laughed again.

"You're barely visible against the snow! That's crazy." He said, smiling.

I nodded and ran off into the woods, spraying snow onto him on my way.

"HEY!" He yelled after me.

I laughed, this was fun.

I came back after finding Elena and Clay, Simon was by a fire that was dwindling with the snow that had slowed down a bit now, but it was still there, I came up by it and plopped down, closing my eyes. Until I felt something hit my head, I opened my eyes and glared at Simon, he was the only person out here so it had to be him. He laughed and pointed at my i-Pod, his ammo to throw at me. I snorted and took it, hitting the play button with the tip of my claw, a random song came on, and it wasn't too loud, but loud enough for me to hear.

It was animal I have become so I turned it up, letting Simon hear my favorite song. I smiled up at him, when Adam Gontier's voice came in.

"What song is that?" He asked, cocking his head to the side like a dog.

I copied him, but did it to the beat of the song. It had played the chorus now, so he knew the song. I bobbed my head, than jumped up. Simon just stared at me, confused at what I was doing, I laughed. I wasn't doing anything, until I decided to make a fool of myself and chase my tail, Simon feel over laughing, I had caught a huge chunk of fur when Andrew opened up Simon and his tent door, he stared at me with a dumbfounded look on his face, I was still holding the tuft of fur, I smiled and started to laugh. Andrew shook his head and turned back into the tent. Simon just started laughing harder.

The next song on was I hate everything about you, so I skipped that song, not in the mood for a sad song like that. I don't care came on, I love this song, it was by Apocalyptica and Adam Gontier singing. I pounced at nothing when the good part of the music came in. Simon laughed harder.

A little while later after fooling around to every single Three Days Grace song I had, lighter music came on and Simon turned in. I stayed out, listening to the music; it was quiet enough that only I could hear it.

I heard a howl from about a mile away, Elena.

What was up? That was more of a distress call. I backed into the woods and howled back, a questioning howl, asking her to come back. I got a response a little bit later, She had found something. I looked over at Clay who had been laying in the snow for a little while, dozing. He nodded and I ran after her.

I came up next to Elena no longer than 2 minutes later, running a mile wasn't that much work, I wasn't even panting by the time I got over there. Elena was sitting next to a plastic bag in a clearing, the moon glowing off of her blondish fur. She pointed at the bag and whined, I came up and sniffed it, and it was Derek's. his extra clothes, what were they doing out here, and where was he? I dropped my nose into the snow, sniffing for his trail, I picked something up, but it was faint, an old trail. I looked back at the bag, on top was his sweater and the jacket I had given him, it was my turn to whine. Why did he leave this, its freezing out here? Crap.

I huffed to Elena, telling her I had a trail, and I was going to follow it, even if it was old. She nodded, but came up next to me, saying she was coming with me, I nodded to her, than howled to Clay, Elena joining in soon, and Clay's howl came a second later. I huffed again than took off, following Derek's trail. It was kind of hard to follow, it was so faint from being old, and the snow was covering it, but I just plowed the snow with my nose as I ran on his trail. It was weaving around the trees, than it took a sharp turn toward the river. A little bit from the ragging water, Derek's scent was very strong, still old, but strong, in a clearing. Elena had smelled it too and was howling to Clay, it was actually light outside now. So he was probably changed, and packing up the tents with the others. He howled back, obviously he was human now. His howl told us to come back, but also to run back to the house and run around in circles, Elena cocked her head, I started laughing, enough that I feel over, that's what happens when you howl as a person. Elena smiled and howled back that Clay was crazy. I laughed and started off toward camp. Elena not that far behind me.

We had stopped when we found our clothes than went to change back. We were now walking toward the sight that we had found Derek's trail at, I had picked up another trail that was a little newer near it so we were following that. Once we got to the clearing. Elena and I were leading; I was singing random songs by Shakira. From boredom.

We were at the clearing after a bit- about an hour -we stopped in the clearing, I laid on the ground, face in the dirt, trying to tell how long ago Derek had been here. Elena was faster, getting only the night, than I circled around for the trail I had found before. It was leading away from the river I told them what I had found than sat down by Simon, he passed me a little nut bag, I didn't complain, even though it wasn't much, I opened the bag and ate them slowly, not wanting to waste food.

After our (extremely) small snack we set out again.

It was too cold for any one to want to talk. We followed Derek's trail, the only people that really talked were Elena and Clay, Simon tried to talk to me, but we couldn't really keep up a conversation. Really, this was pretty boring, but I wouldn't stop until we found Derek. I was really starting to worry about him, he was probably freezing somewhere, he hadn't took any money with him when he left, and we had found a huge wad of it in his bedside table drawer. Which meant he had to be hungry two, and I was guessing lonely, probably thinking extremely negative thoughts, bringing him self down... I needed to find him.

DPOV

All I could see was white, was I dead? No, I was totally covered in snow, I didn't really want to shake it off, and I was absolutely freezing. I closed my eyes again. Than forced myself to stand up. A harsh wind blew straight at my eyes when I opened them, making me wince and take a step back. Than I lowered my head and blinked hard, the wind had- thankfully -died down.

My surroundings were totally white, completely covered in snow just like I had been. I decided to actually walk a bit from the area I had changed in. I had been here for a whole day, pointless. I thought that I would be running around as a wolf, but the pain in my chest had slowed me down way to much for my liking. I lifted my face to the sky, smelling the air, wanting to find something to chase, to get my mind of things.

I smelled something so sweet; I thought I would fall over from sticking my head out so far. I righted myself and started to follow the scent, slowly. Afraid to run on these legs.

I found the source, well kind of, the strongest spot that the heavenly smell was located. I lifted my head again, trying to smell it from the air and find the real source. I could smell it after a second, a wolfish smell, but also the smell of strawberries, it actually smelled so good, it was amazing. I followed it from where I was, this time following the scent from the air, I started to go faster, than a little faster, till I was going at a jogging pace, than I just gave up on that and ran...

WOW, I was fast, I mean, way faster than normal, faster than a regular wolf. I was pretty sure that I was faster than a normal werewolf! It felt so good to run.

The scent was getting stronger, and I kept following it till I made more sense of the smell. Strawberry-banana, the wolf like smell had to be from the surrounding woods, or even me, because that smell, was the smell of...Chloe...

My chest felt heavy again. Even thinking her name brought me down. It was enough to drag me to the ground again. But a question kept me up, What was Chloe doing this far away from the house? It was dangerous out here! I didn't want her out here. She was safe in that little bubble... Wow, that sounds so horrible; I wanted to keep Chloe in a bubble while I went out of it.

Wait what if she was kidnapped?

What if the Edison Group took her, or worse, Liam and Ramon? I bolted after her scent, hoping to god she was okay.

WPOV

Tori is a little... Grrrrrr. I hate that girl. All she did was sit there and complain that she was bored, and wanted me to talk for Liz, when Liz didn't even want to talk to her. When were Chloe and the others going to come back? Who knew, they were looking for a werewolf, in the woods that probably stretched all the way to Canada back there. Ugh. I wish Tori went with now.