With a defensive growl, I quickly grab the wolf by the fur of it's stomach and throw it away from me. The animal is not phased as it hits the ground with a roll. As it gets up it's eyes never leave mine, crouching low as it growls back at me.

I quickly turn my head as my senses catch another presence. A smaller white wolf tries to attack me from the side. I dodge it as I use my speed to appear on the other end of the apartment building we were in front of. I can see their hatred for my very being, yet neither I or the wolves were willing to stand down from one another. I knew they were set on one task, to take me out. However there was no way I would let myself go down without a fair fight. My survival instincts are on high, my eyes flaring red as I let out a loud threatening hiss.

"ENOUGH!" I hear a female figure harshly call out from the shadows. The wolves continue to growl in my direction yet slowly stand down. My eyes leave the creatures as out of the shadows appears a girl, around my age with dark brown hair and brown eyes. I could tell she was their leader right away. Although tame there's just something about her that I just knew. She appears to be fearless, in control, and undoubtedly strong. The two wolves begin to distort into their human forms before me.

The grey wolf turns into a teenage boy, tall and lean with brown hair. His eyes are a piercing yellow, him ready to attack if I made another move. Yet I can tell he acts in complete obedience to his pack leader. The white wolf turns out to be a young blonde woman. She on the other hand is far less tame. Her sharp fangs are bared at me, her eyes glowing even brighter than the male's as if they are shooting silver daggers in my direction. It appears she is going to snap at any moment, her intense growling making me draw my complete focus in on her. A snarl tares from my own mouth as she does not cease her hostility towards me.

"It's three against one vampire. I wouldn't try it." The alpha says matter of factly. My own hostility ceases, reeling in my attention back on the complete trio as I realize that she is right. Showing aggression in this situation would surely be the wrong choice, especially since I had made it apparent to Evelyn I didn't want her company after what happened tonight. Truthfully I just wanted time to myself, time alone to think. But between my run in with both Annabelle and now these pestering dogs, I am now seeing first hand how well this idea ended up turning out.

"Didn't realize you were on werewolf territory leech?" The boy spat. I can't help but to snarl again, even louder now hearing that name. Just because I had to feed upon human blood did not mean I wanted to be referred to as a parasite. The alpha only nears closer, defending what was hers as she moves in front of both members of her pack. She walks up to meet me with no hesitation.

"Do you know what we do to vampires who break their part of the treaty?" Although the girl is in control her voice is laced with anger. I look back at her with a blank stare.

"Treaty?" I repeat back.

The girl just lets out a "Hah" with cold eyes. "Do you really think it is wise to play dumb with me? You know what crime you have committed and it is against the rules. There are to be no human casualties caused by vampiric or werewolf hand. Violators shall be put to death." I stand in my place for a moment, finally responding.

"I have not resided in New York since 1968. So no, I did not know of any sanction bound treaty. Nor did I know werewolves took control of these parts. Even if I did, how would we know of each other?" I eye the girl with deep curiosity. Then it hit me. I knew I had smelled a scent so familiar, almost foul walking out of the club earlier, even days past as I walked upon school grounds. It seemed as though not someone, but something was watching me. The alpha's expression only grows more bitter.

"My kind is very well aware of what you are. Could sense it right away when we first saw you arriving at Portland High. Guess the rumors are true then that you just moved here from Maine. Tell me, were you the one who killed those two human boys about a week ago? Claimed as an animal attack correct? Could tell right away that was a false report from how vile you left them."

I just glare at her. "That would be my sister Evelyn's work." The alpha grunts.

"Well clearly you and your sister don't have a reputation of keeping a low profile. One of ours saw you two sneaking a body out of Club Leo tonight, our enforcers finding you burn the evidence. I can still smell the human all over you, disgusting."

"Spying on me now? Talk about low profile." I say, only to faintly smirk with a light grunt of amusement.

"Speaking of, bet you wouldn't want me catching one of you wolfing out, killing a human out of pure rage or just cause you were hungry. Know you mutts carry a history of having quite the temper and just as much of a murderous appetite no?" The wolf girl is now the one glaring.

"I advise you to think twice before speaking like that to me again. Werewolves have become a far more dominant species in these lands, as well as more civilized. After rebelling against the vampires that cost many wolves their lives including my father I made sure of it. Now we strictly follow the same guidelines we enforce to you, although we have never been known to be humanity's biggest threat. Think we don't monitor your kind's tracks? The world you lived in a long time ago is far gone, having gained back what was taken from us a long time ago. Werewolves run the city now. We oversee the police force, the schools, the committees. We keep humans safe, especially from the likes of your despicable species. My father was alpha, after dying with dignity passing that title onto me. Therefore I have a duty to kill you for your crime, whether you had acknowledgment or not. But before I act any further, for pure entertainment, give me one good reason why I shouldn't tare you limb from limb?

'Because my sire would surely have your head..."

I smile slightly to myself at her hinted threat, my response receiving a growl from the older female.

"You will respect our leader leech, or I'll rip that smile right off." She barked as she begins to charge towards us. In an instant the woman is choking, a hand roughly grabbing her throat.

"Did I just hear someone talking about me?" Evelyn is in front of me, head tiled to the side menacingly as she chokes the werewolf. The other two's eyes flash dangerously.

"Evelyn..." I call to her in warning. I was not going to bow down to them, yet I did not underestimate their power, especially their leader. Her eyes are locked on Evelyn, like lightning ready to strike at any moment.

"I would really think before you make your next move you fucking leech!" The male sneers, crouching as if he is about to attack the vampire. Evelyn gaze goes from the pack leader to the boy as the younger girl struggles beneath her.

"Unless you want this pup to be without a hind leg, I suggest you rethink yours mutt." Tensions rise.

"Who turned you?" The alpha asks in demand. Evelyn smiles as I remain silent. "Oh just the oldest and most feared vampire in all existence. Such a small world isn't it?" Suddenly the older girl's face becomes stiff as she's held in Evelyn's grasp.

"Annabelle...The soulless one..." I hear the alpha whisper as she slightly steps back from me. I look to her in confusion.

"The soulless one?"

I had never heard Annabelle called by that name before. Yet they know of her still in these lands, which is a high possibility she is truly near. Yet Evelyn turns back to pout mockingly at the wolf beneath her.

"Aww what? Frigid bitch got your tongue?" She gives the girl a dark smirk.

"You're lying! I hear the boy as is about to strike my sister who is still gripping the female.

"TRENT NO!" His leader's voice stops him from making any further movement.

"Let her go, and I will consider sparing you two for the time being. We don't need any more blood shed tonight."

"But Autumn..." The boy protests, only for his leader to silence him, turning back to my sister with a look of dangerous intent.

"I will give you one last warning. Let her go, now." Evelyn's smirk fades to a dark grimace. She roughly releases the girl's throat, the wolf falling to the ground as she gasps for air.

"Annabelle...Is she here? And why did you refer to her as the soulless one" Autumn just looks at me in silence, a look of disbelief on her face before answering.

"Annabelle has not been seen in these parts after having left decades ago. Either that or she has been doing quite the job keeping herself out of plain sight. Already seeing your work you know first hand the detriment your maker leaves behind her. And wouldn't you like to know leech. It's rather fitting for her though don't you think?" I am about to speak again only for Evelyn to beat me to it.

"Left huh? What did big bad Annabelle do this time? And why would she do that with her basically running the undergrounds of New York." Evelyn asks crudely.

"Well it may just have had something to do with two of her leeches on a leash leaving her. Now it all makes sense. As you know both supernatural sanctions have lived amongst the mere men of New York for years, vampires roaming in like royalty while werewolves were the dirt underneath their feet. Wolves were the territory's first inhabitants, man soon creating their own industrious society within the heart of our lands. All the while Annabelle was already a secret household name to your kind, going by a different name as she began creating an empire in New York City. Although far from cordial your maker and my father seemed to have had a mutual agreement of keeping hunters in the dark to maintain their own species' survival. Werewolves were to transform away from human eyes, maintaining their roaming and hunting at night in the forest lands. Vampires were to feed solely in areas such as those blood whore houses or whatever you leeches consider them to be. Both species were to keep their innocent casualties at a bare minimum, only killing those who posed a threat to our society as a whole.

"Your father is sure a fool to have ever pegged our maker for a rule follower...especially on that last part. " Evelyn wittily retorts back.

"Are you just going to let them continue speaking to you like that?! Of your father?!" Kelsey spat with fiery.

Autumn puts a hand up to halt her wolf from speaking any further, sending a look to Evelyn that made me off ease.

"My father knew damn well of the monster that bitch was. However he didn't have a choice but to submit to her for vampires were the wolves' ultimate superiors. And unlike you we cannot procreate from our bite, forcing to keep ourselves prosperous with the numbers we have. We learned that any reckless acts on our end would have risked our extinction while vampires would continue to have free reign. Yet both supernatural sanctions at the time had a common enemy, humans. My father chose to side with the lesser of his two evils to keep his own alive. But over the years his perception of humankind changed, vampires now the target as Annabelle became the pure definition of sloppy. In 1968, soon after you left I see, she began revealing her kind's true nature out in the open. Newborns grew outrageous in their numbers, running amok and killing ruthlessly. When asked of their maker every one of them all remained faithful to not speak the name. This act of chaos not only caused a threat to peace within the human domain, but to our own kind's survival. An uprising of slayers believed the killings were also our doing for bodies were being left in our part of the lands. My father knew it was Annabelle, for he knew one day she would completely turn on him. Slayers started coming after us, killing pack members.

"What a shame..." Evelyn mutters.

"Evelyn enough!" I exclaim harshly. Me and Autumn look at each other silently until she begins again.

You and us, or I and them

There comes a time to take a stand

The wheel is watching all it keeps on burning

The venom works, it's like a curse

A trojan horse, when will we learn?

The wheel embodies all that keeps returning

All in all

You expect the wise to be wiser

Fallen from grace and

All and all I guess we should have known better

Cause...

"So we finally fought against the real enemy. My father was able to speak with the slayers, forming a truce. They joined forces with us to ensure you bloodsuckers would no longer cause such destruction within this domain. Even as a hunter, a human is nothing in power compared to either sanction. Therefore my father agreed that the wolves would do their part to protect the city in exchange for reclaim of the territory. He even settled sharing it with the humans, making certain slayers would no longer pursue after us. In return he made to them a pact that our species would not cause any disruption to the every day life of human kind, learning to control our what you liked to call carnivorous appetite. Our pack targeted to take out every vampire in the city one by one beginning with the very source. Who your maker really was became revealed to our kind when she killed my father. Werewolves age every five years. He died when I was only eight."

"What happened to Annabelle?" I ask, trying to avoid the girl's gaze. Her father had been killed due to my sire's brutality as many before him. Even Autumn I felt sorry for.

"Annabelle disappeared after she had been outnumbered and ran out of the city. Hasn't been seen since. Without the vampires' precious leader we were able to take control of this infectious situation. The treaty was made for we found we couldn't kill all of them, many older than any wolf had lived. Wolves rid of any vampire causing public disturbance, making clear to you leeches what would happen from our kind's hand if caught disobeying this new order. Ending the vampire race would have been an impossible task at the time for either a slayer or a werewolf, Annabelle herself being a force that not even my kind had ever seen before."

"Liza is also sired to her. So I would be extra nice to her right now." Evelyn continues, yet I put my hand out behind me to hint her to shut up. I let out a sigh before continuing, knowing what I would say next would either end well or have the alpha laugh in my face.

"I parted ways with my sire a long time ago, which is why you need to trust that I have no ulterior motive here, nor do I want to be the cause of anymore tactless bloodshed." And of course it was the second guess as Autumn just silently chuckles shakes her head disbelievingly.

"So you really expect me to believe that two of Annabelle's vampires, her own very sired, just came back to New York to go to high school and play nice with their food? You truly think I'm an idiot don't you?" My next words just come out of me.

"My intentions are not to cause harm, only to survive. I apologize for our disruption, yet we have no intention of leaving. This is our home as much as it is yours. Yet we will not kill on these grounds again. I will see to it to keep myself and my sister in line." Evelyn rolls her eyes at my words, yet I meant every word. "However, it means that you will not interfere in our lives and we will stay out of your hair. Deal?" The older woman scoffs.

"Enough, Kelsey." The leader calls out behind her, only to turn her head to look at me and my sister yet again with fierce yellow eyes.

"Just know that if I see you or your sister up to any trouble, any tabloids with Animal Attack across the front page, I will see to it that you are dealt with accordingly. And rest assured I will have no regrets. If it was up to me, both of you would die right where you stand. Lucky for you, that is no longer my call." The older wolf eyes her leader in anger, yet turns away from my sight. Evelyn smirks at her visible frustration. The male also stands down, compliant to his leader though maintaining his strong presence. Both of them went back into their wolf forms. As Autumn starts to walk away she turns to us one more time to speak.

"I will also inform you that the slayers who reside here are determined as ever to end your kind once and for all. They are using better advanced technologies as well as becoming more impatient. I would advise you to rethink your stay here, for it might not be me that causes your ultimate peril."

Autumn then starts struggling in her own body. I hear her growl ferociously as she starts transforming. Now before me and Evelyn, a massive black wolf stood. The alpha's eyes gleam in warning before she turns away to run into the night along with the other two. I knew she was warning us, we were now under the eyes of werewolves. Another problem to add to my list.

"Wow Liza. I'm quite loving this decision to move back home. This is going to be quite fun." I grab Evelyn by the shoulders urgently.

"Did you hear anything that mutt just said? You must behave yourself Evelyn." My sister just laughs silently, shaking her head as she walks past me, looking to the moon ahead in the sky.

"I don't think I'm the one we have to worry about anymore am I sister?" With that she ascends upward and out of sight.

"UGHHH DAMMIT!" I growl out loudly. My sister just always had to be right. Yet she wouldn't be right about this. I would not be the cause of threatening mine and Evelyn's safety. Now not only do I have Carter and Annabelle on my mind, but Autumn the alpha, her pack of pups, and slayers out for my death warrant.

What about us?

Isn't it enough?

No we're not in paradise

This is who we are

This is what we've got

No it's not our paradise

But it's all we want

And it's all that we're fighting for

Though it's not paradise

"Paradise (What About Us?) - Within Temptation feat. Tarja