*Ok guys... I know i have this with a "T" rating... but i feel that i might have to inform you that this chapter might be more of the M side... no nothing like that just... how it came out... just a fair warning*
Chapter 9: Scratching Post
I sat in my fifth hour class, staring at the empty desk where Christine should have been. She wasn't in class, which was weird because we walked to school together again this morning...
Melissah wasn't there either, she hasn't been there since that one night. I wanted to say that Christine's parents came and picked her up, but that would be a first.
Class ended and the teacher held me after again.
"Jonathan..." he started searching for the words "we might be have to cancel prom with you and Melissah..."
"Melissah?" I asked
"My daughter" he said raising an eyebrow
It finally hit me... Melissah Anderson... Daughter to Drew Anderson; my teacher
He sighed and closed the class door and the shutters "change" he said sitting down and looking at me
I stared back "I'm sorry?" I asked
He stared at me "change... You're the werewolf everyone claims to have seen... So... Change"
"Sir... I don't know what you're talking about" I lied, wondering how he knew, Melissah maybe
"Jon you can't hide things from me..." a few items started levitating on the desk, Mr. Anderson didn't pay it any attention as he was the one doing it.
I decided to drop the act. I changed and stared at him"are you with Grayson too?" I said in a darker voice that didn't belong to me but to the wolf
"Grayson" he pondered the name "so that's what they call him..." the items on the desk casually fell back into place, "no, son, i'm just a concerned father, change back by the way"
I did and he opened the blinds just as a guy walked in to ask Mr. Anderson class, to ask him a question about the final... I waited as my cell phone rang; it was my sister
"Jonathan, where are you? Is Samantha or Christine with you? I haven't seen the since we arrived..." she asked as I saw the guy walk out and Mr. Anderson turned his attention on me again
The cell phone made a static sound as it levitated off my hands and stood in mid air
"Hello, Ms. Talbain; this is Mr. Anderson, Jonathan's teacher, I'm sorry... I'm holding him for a bit... Would you be able to come to class 487 so I could talk to both of you?"
"Um... Ok" said Lily's voice over the phone, "is he in trouble or something?"
"No, no, nothing like that... I just have to ask for a favor..."
"Well can't you just ask him, i'm not sure how i could help..."
"'Dog' might want to have 'Cat' here while I ask for it" he smiles when he said that, i raised an eyebrow
Silence fell "who are you?" she asked cautiously
"See you when you get here" he hung up the phone and it drifted back into my hand
"If you want something just tell me... Don't get my sister involved!" I said angrily
"It involves my daughter and your neighbor... Grayson has taken Ms. Christine Archer and Ms. Samantha Philips captive..."
My sister cautiously walked into the room, she looked at me and relaxed a little when she saw that I wasn't being held against my will
Anderson had walked to the restroom for a minute
"Jonathan... What's going on?" she asked me
"Your shirt needs to be buttoned up, that's what" I replied noticing her cleavage
"No really"
"Melissah is my teachers daughter" I said as Anderson walked in
"Oh, Ms. Talbain, great of you to join us" he said walking in and closing the door. Lily moved away from him to lean on a desk
"Who are you?" asked my sister, bluntly as usual
Anderson looked her over curiously as he walked over to his desk
"I'm like you" he started "except I'm not like you, let me show you" the desk that my sister was siting on started to levitate so she walked away from it. The desk began to fold an close into itself till it became a twisted ball of metal and wood
"You're a Darkstalker?" she asked
"In a way..." he replied and unfolded the desk to what it was and placed it back down "my wife died giving birth to Melissah... I've been raising her by myself... She inherited both our gifts..."
"Both?" I asked
"Her mother was a Darkstalker too... She could disappear and move through in-adamant objects, I can move things with my mind"
"Disappear..." I muttered
"So how does that include us?" asked Lily not at all un-rudely
"She has joined up with a group that wants to kill all 'bad' Darkatalkers... In a sense they're the only good ones... They've tried to recruit Mr. Talbain once before... Since he declined, in their eyes he must be a bad Darkstalker along with his family..."
I saw where he was going with this "so how many followers does he have?" I asked
"Last I heard was 40-60, some of them human" he replied
"We're all human..." said my sister quickly
"Yeah, well, try telling them that"
"So we endangered our friends lives?" I continued
"In a way" replied my teacher bluntly "Melissah must have seen you when you showed yourself to your friends"
Samantha came to mind, she was just getting used to being a Darkstalker then this happened
"This is all my fault..." I murmured
"No..." said Anderson moving to face outside "I knew what Melissah was up to and yet... I did nothing"
"Where are they?" I asked
"In Huyter Industries... Where Ms. Archers parents work" he said as markers flew up and drew a realistic looking building that bore the sign "Huyter Industries"
I've never seen the place
"Wait..." started Lily "you mean to tell me that Christine's parents are in on this? Do they know what's happening with their daughter?"
"I doubt it" he replied "they run experiments to try and neutralize the gene that makes a Darkstalker be what it is... Sometimes killing the test subject"
Things started making sense now, that's where Christine's parents kept going on to at the middle of the night, I told Lily and Mr. Anderson as much
"You'd better go... Jonathan... Lilian... I fear that they're just using my daughter to get to you and yours... Please don't let anything happen to her... She's all I have..."
I stared at him, he had always seemed so sure, so poise... I wasn't used to seeing him like this "I'll try my best sir..."
"She's a good kid..."
"I know..."
I texted my parents as much, my father started his vacation yesterday to get some work done around the house. I told them where we were going, why we where going there for. They protested but I had already made my mind up, it was my fault they were in that mess, I couldn't just leave them behind.
We walked outside of the school building and my phone rang
It was Jeff, my heart leapt as I was just wondering if he was safe
I answered the phone "Yo?"
"Oh shit, Jonathan... You need to help me, man..." some sounds came from the back ground as if someone was trying to break a door open "vayan se muy a la mierda, babosos!" said Jeff, I always forget that he was Hispanic
"Jeff, what's going on? Where are you?" I yelled into my phone
"In class 211, some fools are trying to break in, but they haven't said 'please'" a girl yelled in the background as another large crash sounded, "I think their Darkstalkers..."
"I'm coming" I said and started off in Jeff's direction, Lily followed
"Take your time" he said and hung up the phone
"What happened?" Lily asked
"Jeff's in trouble, room 211"
We arrived at the building that housed room 211, we were welcomed by the sounds of yelling. Nobody was around so we took the liberty to changing to out animal forms, I smelled a fight
We walked upstairs as the sound of wood giving in filled the empty corridor. More yelling followed by some harsh language, even some hitting
I jumped to the top of the stairs and Lily followed
I ran into the opening between room 209 and 213 with room 210 behind me.
Three men where busy gathering and warding off a few teenagers that resisted them
One man was short; about 4' 7", his muscles where immense as he was part bull and snatched up a few students and threw them aside
The second was a normal sized man, hanging from the rood with hands that were way too long and skinny to be human, he was busy dodging attacks from a pair of goth guys who happened to have a pair of butterfly knives and lighters on their person
The third man was a simple man, nothing obviously different about him, he stood in front of Jeff who swinging at him with a jagged piece of desk leg
Jeff struck the man in front of him with all his force but the man took the blow as if it were nothing
The students that cowered on one side of the class room all but shat themselves when they saw us walk in, they didn't know that we were there to help. A boy swung at Lily with a piece of desk, she ducked and I stopped the wood with my opened hand
"Don't" I said and took the piece from him and threw it at the short man who had picked up a girl and was about to slam her on the ground. It hit him on his side, he flinched and turned around to look at me as I ran up to him and punched him in the face as hard as I could with my wolf hand, the man fell to the ground hard, letting the girl go, I caught her and placed her down, she immediately scurried back to the group keeping her eyes on me but didn't say anything. The man was getting back up and I kicked him in the head and he lay still, unconscious.
The spider-man hanging on the roof slapped both goth guys out of the way and turned to look at me, he headed towards me with brisk efficiency. Lily jumped at back and dug her long red claws into him, he howled in pain as my sister scratched and bit him, causing the man to fall down. Lily let go, twisted and landed on all fours.
The man fell down behind her and quickly rotated his body to shoot a long web from his mouth towards Lily who jumped out of the way as the web missed her completely and hit the final man pinning him to the wall. Lily pushed herself off the ceiling and landed on the spider-man's head with her both her legs. The man laid there unconscious. Lily retracted her claws.
I high-fived my sister and moved the unconscious bodies to one side of the room
The goth guys surrounded my sister with their knives, still unsure wether we were friends or foes.
"What are you doing?" asked Jeff placing himself between Lily and one of the Goth guys
"She's a bloody nasty, too!" yelled the first goth in an English voice
"She wants to kill us, she does!" said the second goth with a similar voice, you could tell they were brothers, even after the black make-up and piercings
"No, she's with me!" yelled Jeff
My sister stared at Jeff. I decided to intervene
"Put those down" I said commandingly
"And what if I don't" said the second goth turning to look at me only to flinch when he saw my face an inch away from his
"NOW!" I barked at him and the goth dropped his blade and took a step back wetting himself. A few students whimpered and a girl started crying.
The first goth backed away to join his brother
"Look what you did, Dog..." Lily started and knelt next to the crying girl who flinched when she came close but quickly trusted her sweet and promising voice
I sighed and walked up to the Jeff who butted my fist and thanked me
"Plus like 50 points with Lily, dude" I said quietly
He simply smiled
We walked up to the last man who struggled fruitlessly against the web
"Bastard wouldn't go down" said Jeff slapping the man hard with the wooded piece in his hand. The man's face clearly shifted with the impact but quickly remade itself to what it was
"Who are you?" I asked
He didn't say anything, only struggled
"Answer me" I continued slapping him slightly
"Fuck you" replied the man in a slightly French accent
i slashed his face with my claws the man howled in pain but the wounds healed themselves
"Talk" I slashed him again
"Go screw yourself" he replied struggling to get lose
I turned to look at Lily "Cat... Didn't you need a new scratching post?" I asked and Lily smiled, signaling that she understood what i meant and walked over exposing her claws, she always kept them sharper than mine
"i could use a tune up..." she said examining her claws as she placed both her front paws on the man's face
He whimpered "I'll never tellz you anyzing..." he said reluctantly
My sister smiled a sinister smile and dragged her claws down his face, the man bellowed in pain as my sister continued down his body cutting open both the spider web and the man's skin till she reached his thighs, with a grace that only a cat could pull off
The web held the man's hands and legs up to the wall. The man whimpered painfully as blood poured down his face and front body. His body started to heal and my sister examined her claws
"Wow, Dog" she started "this scratching post works well, my claws are even sharper now... I think I'll sharpen them some more" she placed her claws on the man's face again but didn't drag them down
"Stop... Stop..." yelled the man as Lily lightly dug her claws into his forehead again "I'll tellz you... Grayson zent us... Grayson wanted zis young man to get to zomeone... I don't know, just stop... Stop... Stop... Je suis désole" he broke of into tears
"Hardcore, guys" said Jeff looking at the broken man and Lily who shook the blood and skin off her claws and retreated them "can't say he didn't deserve it though..."
"We need to go..." I said looking at the students who stared at me "reinforcements might be coming"
"Where those guys Darkstalkers too?"
"Looks that way"
We helped the students out and they reluctantly followed, nobody wanted to be used as Lily's scratching post. We didn't change back, we still had to finish school after all.