Authors Notes: You shall find out who saved Maddy now! There is a twist peeps!
We're Not Your Lab Rats!
They'd bumped into each other, which was strange, because it was only Rhydian, or it was only Maddy who'd been taken. It was only one, wasn't it? Shannon frowned slightly at the sight of Emma and Dan along with Jana and Ceri. "What are you all doing here?" she asked, slightly out of breath, she and Tom had decided they needed to run there to get there in time, before Whitewood did anything, but obviously Whitewood would've done something, as soon as got what she wanted she woulldn't have wasted any time. But seeing Emma, Dan, Jana and Ceri all here, now, only a few days after Rhydian disappeared, worried both Tom and Shannon. It sunk in slowly. "Maddy." Shannon said simply. Emma nodded with a sad look in her eyes. All she'd ever wanted was for her 'cub' to be safe, and now she was in the hands of a mad woman. Shannon frowned once again, "How? Wasn't she with you? How could she have been captured?" she asked in concern and confusion. It made Emma and Dan feel like they had failed their job to hear Shannon say that.
"Hunter." Jana told Shannon, noticing Emma and Daniels discomfort in telling Shannon what had happened. Shannon nodded slightly, looking down at her feet. "She was in wolf form, and a hunter captured her." Jana expanded, giving a more detailed description of what happened to Shannon and Toms closest friend.
"We are wasting time here! We must hurry before the Witchwood woman harms my beautiful boy, and the young ta-" Ceri begins, she mistakes Whitewoods name, and almost calls Maddy 'the young tame'. "Maddy." She says correcting herself as she see's Emma's expression change from sad to a threatening glare.
"Ceri's right. We need to hurry before Whitewood does actually harm one of them." Dan told them, urging them to move, and quickly.
They all looked at one another, there was no time for a chat and reunion hug. After only a moment, they began to run again. With Tom and Shannon being slower than the Wolfbloods, they groaned before trying their hardest to keep up with the others. Jana stopped briefly, allowing Shannon and Tom to catch up, "Come on, I've told the others to go on ahead, but we've got to hurry, there's no telling what Ceri, Dan or Emma will do to Whitewood." Jana explained, panting only a little, but her voice full of urgency.
"Who cares what they do to Whitewood! She's evil." Tom snapped in annoyance, turning back. But Jana was quick, she took his hand and looked at him with pleading eyes. "That won't work on me, Jana." He wriggled his hand free from her grasp and walking back.
"But Tom they need you!" Jana shouted, hoping he'd listen, he scoffed, but continued to walk.
Jana groaned, but Shannon followed, "Wait up for us." She told Jana before chasing after Tom, "Tom! Tom! Tom, you know she is right, Rhydian and Maddy, they need you!" Shannon shouted trying to get him to listen, to come back and help. He stopped, but he turned slowly with a look of doubt, "Tom, Maddy and Rhydian would've been put through hell, they will need as much help as they can get. They're our friends Tom." Shannon tried to reason with him.
"They might be our friends, but they don't need me." He told Shannon, he'd never felt like he was needed, he'd always felt like he was the unimportant one, the one without a proper purpose in their friendships. Shannon was the clever one, Maddy, Rhydian and Jana were all the 'special' ones with there 'wolfie powers'. Just as Tom turned to leave again, Jana jumped in front of him and slapped his face, he was in a shocked silence for a moment, "Jana! What the hell?" he asked as he rubbed his cheek.
"Yes, they do! We all do! Everybody needs a Tom in their lives! So stop complaining and move!" she snapped, turning him around and pushing him. He groaned as Jana pushed him, but ran after a while, with Shannon following behind.
Although there was a delay, and the older wolfbloods should've been in Whitewoods lab ages ago due to their speed, but Jana and the others managed to catch up to them before they entered. "Ready?" Dan asked giving the younger leader and the two 'normal' teenagers a curious look. Jana nodded for them as they each gave each other another look before entering.
"I smell Rhydian!" Ceri announced as she entered the building, and soon after her announcement she was running down a corridor.
"Shannon, Dan, you go with her, we don't need anything going wrong." Jana ordered, as Dan was about to protest all the wolfbloods in the room heard a howl, and Dan chased after Ceri, with Shannon close by to help him. "Emma," Jana announced bringing the other females attention towards her, "Do what you must." Jana added, she trusted Emma more than she did Ceri, since Ceri had always been wild and hadn't really tried to fit in in the human world.
Emma nodded, sniffing the air, before following a golden trail in a sudden run.
Jana and Tom followed, but kept their distance as Jana turned to Tom, "Why did you think Maddy and Rhydian wouldn't need you?" she asked with a frown of confusion, Tom looked at her briefly before turning and giving a small short laugh, "No seriously, why did you think that, Tom." She asked with a more serious tone.
"Maybe its because of the way that I've been treated by them in the past... stupid, unneeded, unwanted, nobody hardly even notices me. So, tell me Jana, why would they need me now?" he asked not looking at her, but quickening his speed to catch up with Emma and lose Jana.
It took the red haired girl a while to process what Tom meant, but as it slowly sunk in she quickened her pace to catch up with Tom who had sped off in annoyance and possibly anger. "You know they care about you, Tom. We all do, Maddy, Rhydian, Shannon... me. We all care, but maybe we just haven't been showing it enough. But right now, you need to show Maddy and Rhydian you care, no matter how much crap they've put you through in the past. I know you still care Tom." Jana whispered to him, hoping Emma wouldn't hear. Seeing no change to Toms blank expression, Jana took his hand, which took the football lover by surprise.
He looked down at her, she was looking up at him with a hopeful smile on her face. He returned the smile, even if it was a little weak. "Come on then, lets go save our friends." He ushered her.
Sniffing frantically Emma ran as fast as she could towards where she knew Maddy was... or at least hoped. Then she stopped briefly, taking a long sniff of the air before growling, "Blood." She whispers to herself, as she whispers the word her eyes change and her veins begin to darken, then screams were heard and her growling intensifeied, "Maddy." She whispered with worry and fear mixed into her tone. Jana had heard the whisper and her eyes widened.
"Come on!" she shouted as they all began to run toward where the scream had come from.
Meanwhile, Ceri had smashed down the door that seperated her from her son, "Rhydian! Oh, my beautiful boy, what has that evil woman done?" She began to growl as Rhydian slowly stood up in shock. Ceri looked around the room for Whitewood, finally concluding that she wasn't in the room she walked over to Rhydian. "My son." She stated, placing a hand on his cheek, her eyes glistened as she kept tears back, she had to be strong, after all she was a wild Wolfblood... but she felt she had failed her job of looking after her son.
Breaking the moment, Dan coughed, "Look, I hope you don't mind, but we still have to find Maddy. In the state Emma is in, God only knows what she will do to Whitewood." He stated, he couldn't keep still, he kept shifting his weight on each foot, he looked over at Shannon, hoping for some back-up.
"Uh... Dan's right, we need to go." Shannon told them. With that Dan had left.
"Mum, please. I need to help them." Rhydian begged his birth mother, his eyes pleading with her. Ceri looked as though she was considering it for a moment. Rhydian leant in and whispered in his mothers ear. Slowly her eyes widened, and she nodded at him.
Smiling weakly at her, Rhydian ran after Dan, with Ceri and Shannon not too far behind.
"Emma! You need to calm down! You can't just go... go..." Jana started, pausing as she sniffed the air. Maddy was close... to be precise, behind the doors they were standing next to. Emma was still growling, her hands hovered over the handle, her veins becoming ink black, her eyes were already pale yellow, she was ready to just burst in through the doors and get her daughter back. Jana snapped back to now and the current situation and finished what she was going to say, "You can't just go crashing in without any idea of what your going to do!" she snapped. Emma whipped her head round to face Jana and glared.
The glare softened however, when she realised, it sounded like something Maddy would say, "Ok then, what do you suggest we do?" Emma asked, trying her best to keep the wolf inside of her.
"I suggest we get our daughter back now!" Dan announced as he walked down the corridors towards the three of them. Tom stood there watching the argument unravel, he rolled his eyes, pushing the door open with a strong force and shouted...
"Leave her alone Whitewood!"
With Jana standing behind him in shock, both Emma and Dan growling as they saw their helpless daughter, and only moments after Rhydian, Shannon and Ceri showing up in the back of the crowd. Whitewood smiled, placing the knife to one side, before whispering down at the already weak Maddy, "Look, your friends and family have come to witness the test." She had no idea that the Wolfbloods would be able to hear.
"Leave her alone Whitewood!" Jana shouted, stepping closer. But as Ceri heard the name, something inside her snapped, she looked up from her hands almost immediatly with yellow eyes and shallow breathing.
"You?" she said in question, as her veins slowly turned black, "Your the one that did terrible things to my son?" she asked. Whitewood held up her hands with a mocking smile. Ceri pounced. Growling. Claws growing ready to rip Whitewoods throat out, "You... you... monster!" she shouted as she pinned Whitewood to the ground and waited for her transformation to take place.
"Ceri! Stop!"
Authors Notes: So... what will happen. You decide... oh yes, you can decide what will happen next, I'll just write it down and then post it, but it must be clear. Also... yes I tricked you! Ha, I'm a terrible person. /-: