Just as Raze finishes his statement, the door opens and voices are heard. The two spin around to find two human guards walking in, not expecting to meet two people at the end of the hall.
"Hey you!" one shouts and aims a crossbow. Raze quickly throws the nearest chair across the room, hoping to hit the one. They dodge the chair easily and fire the crossbow. Amelia and Raze dodge it as Raze pulls down the table to create a barrier to hide behind. "Keep looking for papers!" Raze shouts running across the room to attack them. Amelia hurriedly fumbles through the papers, looking at each one, and stuffing a few into the pack around her waist.
As the one reloads his crossbow, Raze tosses him limply across the room, crushing his skull on the wall.
The other pulls out a sword, but Raze grabs him by the throat and crushes it easily.
"Raze!" Amelia yells. The commotion had alerted more than just the two guards. One was coming up behind Raze, sword raised and ready. Raze turned just in time to see Amelia's dagger pierce through his temple, exiting the other side of his skull. The guard dropped instantly.
"Good throw," Raze says.
Amelia races forward and the two begin running back toward that window. Alarms began to sound and boots are heard everywhere. Thunder could be heard in the distance as it began to rain.
"Amelia, we're going to have to change!" Raze says.
"What! I can't, I don't know how!" Amelia says. Raze stops in the hall and begins disrobing, Amelia follows suite and gets down into her bare essentials. Raze looks deep into Amelia's eyes and places his hands on her shoulder.
"Amelia, think of what Viktor did to you," Raze yells gently shaking her,"remember how he touched you, and hurt you." Raze did not want to force this on her but he had to force her to get angry. He just wanted to snap her into a change. He saw her shut her eyes tightly as tiny tears spilt out. Then she opened them and they were dark as the night. Raze had succeeded. With an angry growl, Amelia transformed into her lycan form. Raze followed after and began leading her down the hall. They barrelled through the guards in their way, only sustaining minor cuts. They found the window and Raze dove out first, splintering the wooden shutter, with Amelia blinding following behind into the pouring rain. They tucked and rolled, stood and began to run.
An archer appeared at the window and fired the first shot, which hit in the back. Raze roared in pain and fell limply to the damp ground. Amelia turned and raced back to his side, her rage subsiding, forcing her to be changed back to her naked human form. "Raze!" she says shaking his shoulder as he too returns to his human form as he lays unconscious. Amelia looks up and hears the guards rallying their troops. There was no time to rouse him, so she drapped his arm over her should and began to run. She ran with him through the streets of the village, thanking god for the rain because everyone was inside. She wanted to laugh at the thought of two completely nude people running through a busy town. Her new strength helped her run, but she did not know how much faster she could be than horses. When they were to the edge of the village, she heard the horses. If she could get far enough into the woods, the men would most likely stop.
Amelia plunged into the woods with Raze's limp body on her shoulder and soon began to tire. She soon realized she would never be able to make it back to their castle like this, and Raze did not seem to be waking. Amelia looked over her shoulder and could just barely see the horses. She looked around and then saw their salvation. There was a cave a few yards in front of her. She would have missed if it she wasn't looking around so hard. It would have been obvious if there wasn't a fallen tree infront of it. It was now or never. With all her strength, Amelia ran to the cave and slipped Raze and herself into the dark cavern.
It surprised her that her new eyes adjusted so quickly to the dark, but she found a patch of moss to lay Raze on. She rolled him onto his stomach and looked at the arrow. It had evidently hit some sort of nerve because a man this big didn't fall this easily. Amelia inhaled and grabbed ahold of the arrow where it met his skin. With a quick pull she removed the arrow. She held it to her chest and leaned against the cave wall, listening to the guards that were now approaching. Her breath seemed to echo in to the cave as her heart beat loudly in her ears. Some guards went ahead and some stayed behind. When she finally heard no footsteps, horse hooves or anything she sat back against the wall and let out a long sigh of relief.
They were safe...for now...