Author's note-I hope this chapter is good for yall... I was kinda half asleep when I wrote it, but its a damnsite better than the last few chapters I've posted... Feel free to drop me a line, or review, or whatever... I'ma go seepy nao...
Chapter 20: Longest chapter yet…
The old warehouse was, for all intents and purposes, rather unremarkable. Byron thought, everything considered, the nesting grounds of a newborn vampire army would be a lot more… well… sinister? With the light of the full moon shining down upon the building, it almost seemed peaceful and serene.
Jane looked over at Byron, concern in her eyes. "Are you okay? You can sit this one out if you aren't up to it…"
Byron shook his head, "Look… I am fine. You don't need to keep bringing it up…"
Alec glared at Byron and Jane, "If you two love birds would concentrate and do your job, that would be grand…"
"Damn it, Alec! Will you just leave us alone for two seconds!" Jane scowled.
Alec looked at Jane, a mixture of anger and hurt in his eyes, "I am just looking out for you…"
Jane snarled at Alec, "Don't…"
Byron sighed, "Let's just get this over with…"
Demitri looked over his shoulder, "Guys, you should really quiet down, they might hear us… Alec, you know what to do, Jane, cover Alec, and Byron, you help me tare the newborns apart…"
"Right," Byron, Jane and Alec said in unison.
Demitri nodded, "Let's go…"
They all charged into the warehouse, Alec sending out his wave of sensory deprivation, Jane watching his back and Byron shifting to his wolf form.
There were a good thirty some newborns locked within the warehouse, all of them instantly frozen due to Alec's gift. Alec took a few steps into the storage facility to give everyone space to do their work, Jane quickly stepping to Alec's back to protect him. Byron, in wolf form, barreled into the newborns and began to rip them to shreds.
Slipping through the crowd of newborns and shredding them to pieces with Demitri at his side, Byron felt invincible.
There was a shrill cry from behind Byron that made him turn around immediately. There was Jane, being restrained and slowly, sadistically being torn apart by a newborn that was acting as guard slipped past Alec's gift, with another vampire turning to tear apart Alec, who was busily keeping the sensory deprivation going. All Byron had time to think was, 'Oh shit…'
Byron Jumped out of the swing of the first newborn to regain consciousness out of Alec's gift. 'I have to help Jane!' Byron thought desperately. He ran towards the newborn who was ripping Jane apart, tackling him to the ground and ripping out his throat.
After the newborn was dead, the other vampires had regained their senses. They all started in on Jane and Byron, murder and hatred seething within them as they watched their friend fall.
"There are too many of them! We have to go now!" Demitri cried out, "Take Jane and go! I'll keep them off as long as I can!"
Byron nodded and picked up Jane. "Alec…" Jane whispered in shock at the loss of her brother, "Please, we must get Alec…" Byron snorted in reply as he took Jane up be the scruff of her neck and sprinted out of the storage facility.
Byron sprinted through dark alleys and deserted side streets until he came to the run down motel on the outskirts of the city that was the agreed meeting place should the mission go bad. Byron phased behind the building and put on his shorts before picking Jane up in his arms and taking her to the room.
He laid her out on the bed and slowly tried to calm Jane, who was in hysterics. "He is gone… We should have helped him… I failed him… Alec… We have to save him…"
"Jane… Jane, look at me… JANE!" Byron tried catching her attention, "Look… Demitri will bring him back… I promise… It's going to be ok… I promise…"
Jane's attention snapped to Byron as she snaps out of her delirium. "Oh, Byron!" Jane begins to sob onto Byron's bare chest as she wrapped her arms around him. "He was a prick at times… but he was my brother… we shouldn't have left him…"
Byron wrapped his arms around Jane and pulled her onto his lap. "It'll all work out… Demitri will bring him back with him, and we will put Alec back together…"
Jane shuddered, "What if my brother is dead? He would have died thinking I hated him!" Jane buried her head into the nook of Byron's neck as she begins to cry again. "I couldn't live with myself if he died thinking I hated him…"
Byron looked at Jane, looking so fragile in his arms. He lifted her head up with his finger so he could look her in the eyes. "This wasn't your fault… If anything, it was mine… If I hadn't tried to be with you none of this would have ever happened… Please, don't bla-"
Jane interrupted Byron with a vigorous kiss, and after a minute she pulled away and looked down slightly ashamed, "Sorry… I… I am just so confused… I mean… My brother is dead… so I am upset… but… but when I am around you, I just can't be… I can't explain it… please, don't think less of me for kissing you when my brother might be…" Jane rested her head on Byron's shoulder as she continued to look away.
Byron let out a shuddering sigh before he lifted Jane's chin up again so that he could kiss her again, this time slower, more sensuous.
Jane moaned as she shifted herself so she could wrap her legs around Byron's waist. Byron slowly leaned Jane onto her back on the bed. Jane running her hand up and down Byron's muscular stomach and chest, causing Byron to moan in turn.
All of a sudden there was a knock on the door, causing Jane to curse. Byron slowly eased himself up and then leaned his head back down to give Jane a light peck on both cheeks "One of these days… I promise," and then got up after pecking Jane lightly on her mouth.
Byron crossed the room and got to the door, and looked out of the peep hole. "It's Demitri," Byron said as he opened the door.
Demitri glared around the room as he quickly walks in and closes the door, "Oh, great! I am just out there, trying to keep the newborns off of your back, while we have a Volturi member DEAD, and you two are just fooling around, acting as if nothing is wrong… Hell… I thought tonight couldn't get any better until I found a WEREWOLF for crying out loud… Well… I hope it was good for you two, because we have to go… Now…"
Byron and Jane stared at Demitri in shock when he mentioned the werewolf… A WEREWOLF! They were practically extinct in Europe and Asia, but could it be possible that there was one there in Nevada? The very idea was enough to make Jane and Byron stunned into silence.
"Did you not hear me?" Demitri questioned as he noticed Byron and Jane weren't following him out the door. "We need to go NOW!"
Byron was the first to recover, "Ummm… wouldn't it be smarter to wait till the sun came up and turned him back into a human?"
"Yes, it would be… if we could actually find it after the sun came up… I can only track werewolves while they are in wolf form… my tracking ability works on attaching a mental tab to a target, and since the mental states between the wolf and human are so different, I can't track them both unless I see them in both forms… Same goes for the smell… so if we won't to catch and kill him, we have to go NOW!"
Byron and Jane nodded as they jumped into action, Byron phasing and sprinting after Demitri with Jane right on his tail.
They ran quickly. Demitri leading the way, running through allies and streets with such surety and precision, that it was rather unnerving for Byron, who had never seen him track before. They ran until Demitri stopped suddenly at a corner and turned to whisper to Jane and Byron, "Okay… the werewolf is just around the corner… Byron, you do know about werewolves right?"
Byron just shook his head.
Demitri nodded, "Okay… Think of them as a Quileute wolf… but about ten times stronger, faster, and sometimes, supernaturally endowed with a power, such as vampires… They are the only real threat to our kind in hand to hand combat… luckily; they are a helluva lot easier to kill than vampires… just aim for the throat and flanks. If we are lucky, we can out last them till the sun hits it, causeing them to turn back into humans."
Byron nodded and signaled they should go.
They all charged around the corner and quickly formed a triangle, with Demitri as the point man. The werewolf turned its head and snarled at the new comers, murder in its ancient eyes. The ancient, white, battle scarred werewolf started forward on the group and before it came into leaping distance, let out a bloodcurdling howl that set Byron's teeth on edge.
Out of nowhere, three more wolves came bounding down the street from either direction, surrounding the Volturi force. Byron had to resist the urge to turn into a bird and fly off, but that would mean leaving behind Jane and Demitri, and that was something he could not do. Byron phased back into a human and said quickly, "I'll hold them off, if I turn into a wolf it may distract them, and when I begin to get over whelmed and you two are safely away, I will make my escape…"
Demitri nodded, "As much as I hate to leave you alone to this death match, It is the only way we can keep ourselves from being killed… on three…"
Byron phased and charged at the ancient white wolf Byron assumed to be the alpha. "Damn it… that boy can't listen can he? Let's go Jane!" Demitri said as he sprinted away.
Jane looked torn between fleeing, and staying with Byron, but after a second nodded and sprinted after Demitri, leaving Byron alone with the pack of werewolves.
As Byron neared the ancient wolf, he was quickly slammed in the side by another wolf, breaking his ribs. Byron yelped and turned to look at the ally that Jane and Demitri ran through. Two wolves were beginning to make their way down it, causing Byron to run after the two wolves with a challenging growl.
As the minutes passed, Byron continued to get battered and bruised, and watching the sky lighten, hoping the sun would rise above the roofs before he died.
Byron bunkered down and made ready for one final assault on which he thought the leader of the pack, knowing he couldn't land the hit before he died, when the ancient wolf howled and ran off, causing the rest of the wolves to follow him down the street and around the corner.
The last wolf to reach the corner turned and looked back at Byron, whom was passing out where he stood. The wolf was slender and had a deep, almost purplish coat. But there was one thing that drew Byron's notice and made him catch his breath before he passed out…
The eyes of the wolf were a deep, almost oceanic blue.
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