Family among theives
Albotross is above the cloud of monsters, growing bigger and slightly more feral by the second. With each volt he absorbs he feels his muscles grow more powerful. He's no longer in his original form, now he's a large dire wolf. His arms and legs strong enough to crush the boulders around the arena like paper. His howl loud enough to deafen all who are unfortunate enough to hear it at close range. His body and fur made of pure electrical energy deadly enough to kill on contact.
His senses peaked that he can see through any amount of darkness, his ears can pick up each individual wing beat of the monsters, his nose can pick up the scent of Dranem hiding among them, his sense of touch practically reaches to him and holds his position, and his sense of taste, strong enough that he can taste the sweat off him like he was right their. As a bolt of lighting, he leaps down to the ground and everyone is captured by his majestic stature.
He looks down at where Murray and his father are still wrestling, then strides over to them growling all the rage and hatred he has for his father very clear. Murray moves out of the way as Albotross in his current form tackles his father going through three boulders then slamming into the wall, all in the matter of mere seconds. He grins in his own way as he hears bones crack when his father finally hits the ground. He huffs out a breath and looks at the cloud of monsters, sniffing the air he picks up that Dranem is hiding among the center of them.
He hears his breath quick and shallow as he hops from monster to monster. Albotross hears everyone's plea for him to just let it go, but he ignores them. He wants vengeance against the man who tackled his sister and mate into the boulder. He hops onto the wall then into the cloud of mosters using incoming volts of energy as stepping stones to mow them down by the dozens. He heads directly for the center of the monsters, Dranem is hopping from one to the other not paying attention to the wave of them falling as Albotross rushes towards him.
Dranem doesn't notice until it's too late, Albotross catches Dranem around the middle in his teeth, then tosses him down at speeds to kill on impact. Murray is carrying an inflatable bounce mat and pumps it up as Dranem reaches within fatal impact range, he lands safe but has dents in his gear and blood seeping out the side of it as Albotross barrels down on top of him, pinning him under a paw hard enough to crack a few bones but not to kill. Albotross, losing his sense of reason leans his head down slowly on him, about to use his teeth to bite Dranem in half up to the part under his paw.
Then Kittrina is there, kicks Dranem unconscious and talks to Albotross, who in his current state of mind sees her as his mate and so sits and licks her. Kittrina giggles at his gesture knowing she's calmed him down instanly. Now she needs to burn off his energy and bring him down back to his normal fuzzy, and for her eyes only when nude, form. She kneels by his head hugging him, he doesn't fight it and closes his eyes relishing her contact. As it soothes him, the energy he's built up slowly drains out of him and seeps down into the ground, or back up into the air. After a few minutes Kittrina is hugging the brother she knows and loves.
"Hey can you maybe let go of me so I can find some clothes, because being honest id love nothing more than for you to hold me elsewhere but we have an audience." Albotross says as quietly as possible. Kittrina smiles at the proclomation, but before she responds he goes stiff in her hands. He's gasping for breath and coughing up blood, she freezes up for a mere second, then calls for Bentley as she quickly but gently lays him down. He's twitching and volts of energy are flying off him when Bentley gets down to the floor with Penelope. She checks his pulse and then searches through Bentley's pack. She pulls out sedatives and sticks all four in his arm which she wrapped in a belt she found on the ground. He calms down some then Bentley ushers everyone away as his chair builds a makeshift operating table and room. Penelope acts as his assistant and sends everybody up to the mansion.
"Poor brother. I wish he didn't have this burden but I've only known him for so long so I guess I can't say much." Carrie says after greeting everyone and leading them to a outdoor patio out of the now falling rain.
After a few hours of waiting Bentley comes back up on the elevator with Penelope and a sleeping Albotross under a blanket, Kittrina, Carmelita, and Sly are by his side in seconds, Carrie stays back.
"So little pup feeling bashful now, I'm surprised you weren't when you walked out in that too tight outfit from the other night." She hears Albotross in her head, instead of yelping she merely answers.
"Well those outfits I've been raised in, this though. I have no idea how to handle family affection like this, our father was cruel most times, volatile other times. Can you show me anything that will help?" She asks, he smiles a little, then shows her the happiest memories she's had with Penelope, "That's what a family feels like Carrie, you may not know me, but you know Penelope, go to her and be yourself, let your emotions run free." He says to her, she feels a gentle nudge towards Penelope and slowly walks over keeping her head down the whole way. When she's inches from her Carrie hugs Penelope, Penelope is surprised for a second then hugs her back. Carries face gets redder through her auburn fur as she sees people watching, including Albotross who is smiling at her.
Penelope not knowing whats going on tears up a little as she hugs the young wolf. The nightmares she's had to live in is now over, and even better on her concious, although why se doesn't know, she wont have to worry about what happens to Carrie as she grows up now. She feels Cariie tear up and from the look in her eyes she can tell their happy but she'll just say its the rain, Penelope knows it. Still to cover it up.
"I know sweety, it's over finally, now come on let's go check up on your big brother." Penelope says aiming herself and Carrie at the now awake wolf. Carrie shakes her head,
"I know I should be happy for him, I know it would probably be best for me to be kind to him, but I've known him for only three days. I need more than that to show actual affection." She says, Bentley rolls up next to her and pets her.
"Smart girl, yeah right now it's best if you two let the rest of them get the information out of him. So miss Carrie, your a telepathic huh?" Bentley asks, Carrie doesn't know how he was able to figure that out but she nods a little and sends him images of the past few years with Penelope, her tutoring sessions, their little games when her father wasn't present. He smiles a bit, and let's the girls have the rest of their moment. Albotross is up and moving somewhat and has the blanket around his hips, which no matter how tight hes been wrapping it, the blanket seems to want to show off the rest of him. But he is so drained right now that Sly and Murray are helping him walk up to the mansion. He walks up to a power cord thats just nailed to the wall outside, then rips it out and let's the energy build up in him again. He lets go after a few minutes and half the house is dark with no power.
"Sorry, took a little more juice then I intended, so who else is hungry?" He asks, Murray and Sly chuckle, everyone else is groaning and laughing at the same time.
"Carrie sweety how much food do we have in the pantries?" Penelope asks,
"Maybe enough to feed half an army. Why?" Carrie asks, Bentley replies,
"Cause Murray and Al are gonna eat about half of that alone." Carrie and Penlope go bug eyed as Albotross and Murray head inside with everyone else following. Kittrina takes a seat next to Albotross as usual and everyone else spreads a little, Carrie and Penlope go to the kitchen with Bentley and start cooking everything.
Albotross and Murray eat several plates alone when everyone else stops at two. "You two must be a buffet lines worst nightmare!" Carrie exclaims looking at the piles of dishes that have piled up around the two. Everyone excluding Penelope gives a small laugh as she is actually only seeing this for the first time that anyone can almost Murray under the table.
"Sweety if you think this is bad try actually feeding them during thanksgiving, we have to prepare days in advance just to make sure there's enough for everyone else to be able to eat." Carmelita says, Sly, Kittrina, and Bentley nod in agreement. Albotross sucks in a deep breath then let's out a burp that shakes the table, Murray gives him a high five, Kittrina giggles batting away the air and he shrinks down at Carmelita's stare of disappointment.
"Manners dear, or do you need a refresher course." She says, Albotross sits straight up.
"No ma'am!" He exclaims turning bright red as Kittrina laughs out loud, then stops when Carmelita stares at her. Carrie watches as this goes on then asks,
"How can she control them so easily, he was so rebellious against dad yet all Mrs Cooper does is stare them down and their like soldiers?" Penelope shrugs, Bentley chuckles,
"That dear Carrie is the power of motherhood, it's something elusive to most except the mother or person who raised them. That's all I can say, this manners training must have been taught to them so much that they know it by heart and don't want to go through training again." Carrie tries looking through Albotross's mind, but is blocked out, she tries again and its like a brick wall is up, keeping her out.
"Care while I'd love to inform you quietly of my training in all matters etiquette wise. It's best to leave you out of that, otherwise the training goes with and you'll be stiffer than a two by four." Albotross says when he passes her on his way down to the basement again. Sly smiles after him and Carmelita leans into Sly,
"So my love shall we call it a night, the boat will still be here in the morning since all that storm water caused the ship to beach." Sly says petting her, she yawns and nods in agreement for sleep, they say good night to all and head to a room that Carrie had pointed out after they had gone inside while Bentley and Penelope operated on Albotross. Albotross comes back up a minute later holding the hidden rifle and changed into a pair of his pants he brought as everyone starts going to bed. He looks it over then takes it apart slowly, afterwards he starts to clean it out.
After about twenty minutes of doing this and everyone else has gone to the rooms to sleep, most notably Kittrina went down to his cage. he puts the rifle back together in seconds flat as soon as its cleaned inside and out. He sighs as he hears people outside, going to the back patio he turns off all the lights.
He steps outside and stops before the stairs out to the lawn. Carlson is being dragged along with Dranem by Darren and Rick, the bear and Samantha are following wearing somewhat shredded clothes. He growls loudly getting their attention, the lighting above cracks as he does. They stop in their tracks, "You know I should leave you all out here in the rain for what you've done. But I've been raised better than that, so I'll let you inside, but you'll be locked in rooms I choose." Albotross says as he leans with the rifle against the closest beam.
"What if we don't want to? What if we want to reclaim our home while everyone else is asleep?" Rick asks, Albotross looks his older brother up and down. He stands up fully and howls out, lighting strikes next to him on the lawn missing the mansion. They all hop back as he snarls and more lighting strikes meters from them.
"Any more questions or do you want out in the rain?" He growls, he turns around and walks in with the rifle, they follow. When they enter he turns on the lights for them to follow.
Rick and Darren move to go elsewhere and he turns out the lights on them quickly and when they turn back on he's up front still but their a little beaten. He puts them in rooms as far from everyone else as possible. He sets a shock shield on each of the doors, then he leaves and goes to his cage which has been his home for the past few days. A lightning strike is heard in the distance, and he smiles as he hears a reminiscent howl inside of it.
Ok folks, hope you all enjoyed this little trip for a good starter. Next trip is gonna be brutal to write, and for those fans who actually enjoy this pairing between characters it might be even worse. But thats later, next chapter is a special one that everyone should enjoy. Until then my friends in the shadow and the light I bid the ado.
Remember to keep the Balance!