I sat there in my dorm fiddling with my bronze lighter, down one side of it the casing was see through so you can see how much gas (which hardly any was left because every time I was nervous or thinking I would light and relight then light it again) was in there and the other side was a faded bronze colour with speckled bits of silver showing where the paint had been scratched. About two centimeters from the bottom of the lighter was a wolf face, written above it was the word “wild”. Then half way down the side with the see through part was written “wolf”. My father had giving it to me before he died when I was ten. In the battle of Omegas (the ancient battle between New Zealand, Ireland and Australian Wolves and the Vampires from Africa and America. There were sixty-seven vampires and twenty-nine wolves, but we won with a great loss of from our side. Eighteen wolves died including my father and the top five vampires died so they retreated.
I haven’t seen Teal’C for at least six hours now after her and Anna’s little, well rather large argument they had after parade when I tripped over Rowan and Anna stepped on Himo. Rowan fully attacked Anna; none of us could move to stop the brawl. She was screaming and yelling for us to help her. She was in so much pain it was terrifying to watch and I imagine much worse if it had happened to you. After Rowan was pulled off Anna by Teal’C, she went ballistic saying stuff like “Teal’C I am your sister! He is not even related to you, I am your real sister remember that…playing in the garden and the sand pit and and and don’t you remember all those things, all those times”. Rowan screaming threats and yelling “she is my sissy” and Anna yelling about her not doing anything while she was being attacked and yelling “ you’re my ex sister don’t ever think about talking to me for a long while”.
Teal’C stomped up to her room, left Rowan in there then ran to the roof top she passed me on the way. I yelled after her asking where she was going and if she was all right.
I was still sitting on my bed twisting and turning and lighting and relighting the lighter in my hand wondering if there was really something special about it. There is a legend well more of a fairly tale that was thought to be real but placed in stories to hide the true meaning. Only to those who really believed in magic and other magical things does the story really in a sense pop out to people. Not many magical beings believe in this story. The story was told to me to me many times when I was born till my father died. My mother didn’t like to tell the story my father told me, it made her upset. I always said when I was older I would go on the journey that my father Cyrus had always planned to go on with me when I was fourteen. I used to pretend to pack for the journey set up the tent outside then lay the bed out for me and dad. Mum had never liked the idea of me going but I always said that I would go anyway. I’d be really safe because I had dad there to protect me and teach me how to fight to be the best. I finally made Mum agree to let me go on the day before dad left to go to the fight and we had planned to start training for it the day after he got back but he…. Someone was calling me someone with a panicked tone. I could recognize the voice. I figured I was just imaging it so I went back to my thoughts. My father found the lighter I was playing with in his sack as he was leaving. I had always thought that this lighter was the real thing but my father thought otherwise he still wanted to check and I still wanted to go on an adventure. I heard it again my name, then Xavier walked in calm as anything so I didn’t ask if he was calling me he would have made fun or would got really worried about me hearing things. “oh…your still fiddling with that lighter aren’t you” I looked at my hand with the lighter and hid it in my pocket, “it’s too late I all ready seen it…why do you carry it everywhere I don….” He was interrupted by the sudden burst of thunder as we looked out the window lighting streaked across the sky. “Teal’C” we both yelled as Anna burst through yelling “She’s here she has to be here she won’t still be out in the storm would she... Is she really that upset” Xavier rushed to her side to try and comfort her but she sank to the floor murmuring “it’s my fault why did I have to go off like that” Anna put her head into her hands and started getting more and more upset “I am sure” he said as he pulled Anna’s head and started again “I am sure she understood you were upset I just think…that well she was a bit up set too.”
“She is not in here room or in the study hall or the library or roof top I am worried. She left Rowan in the room. That little mongrel” she murmured “I think she ran away” I looked out the window only to see a shadow walking into the forest before I could say anything to anyone. Lighting flashed across the sky and the shadow disappeared into the darkness. Before I could think what I was about to say my mouth open without me “well I think we should start looking and take Rowan with us. He seems to always know where she is…it’s like a sixth sense it’s quite creepy really” I was still squinting through the window at nothing like I was trapped my head locked on the darkness. “Sky I wish I knew what you were up to” Xavier tried to say it in a jokily tone but it came out shaky and uneven. “What are you looking at? It’s like you’re trying to kill something by just looking at it...” there was a pause his eyes wrinkled and brows came together like he was so deep in thought that he couldn’t control he facial expression. Then fear crossed his face. “no no no” his face now overcome with fear “you are not thinking of what you were playing with this morning. You don’t really believe that…” I twisted my head away from the strong hold of the darkness. I looked at him from my facial expression he started “I…I” I interrupted “this is about Teal’C not me and not what I was doing this morning” coldness shook the room. I heard Anna make a funny noise. I had forgotten that she was still here. “We leave now…Right now any objection I think not. So we will get Rowan and start the search okay” I walked over to cupboard and pulled out a coat I knew I wouldn’t need it because we would be wolves it was just in case. “Go get what you need and we will be off okay.” Xavier came over to me and held my hand as we walk to Anna’s room she grabbed few thing then we went to Teal’C’s room.
Rowan was not there I saw Anna’s horrified expression. A bone chilling shriek pierced the air. It was Rowan as he tumbled down the stairs. We ran after him but didn’t catch up. Teal’Cs scent I could smell it. With Anna and Xavier to both sides of me but back a bit we ran into the night, wind was picking up a little more than normal. We couldn’t find her scent anywhere, only a few unusual scents then one we all recognize it was Rowan’s it wasn’t fresh it smelt about an hour old. How long had we been out here if Teal’C was here she would of left some type of trail even if she had tried to cover it up. I started to think about my lighter, someone interrupted me and my train of thought. “She would have left no chance of us finding her she would have taken Teal’C’s and Teal’C’s alone transport; Wind” said Anna, why hadn’t she thought of this earlier like before we been searching for God knows how freaking long. “How are we meant to find her now. She is flew somewhere.” I looked straight at Xavier I know he would correct me. But he didn’t notice till he started talking then suddenly stopped. His wolf like face broke as a thought came across it “we’ll just have to follow Rowan’s scent, it seems like he has found something.’’ His face went back the normal hunting mode as did Anna’s. “So are we moving or just standing here like…like wounded wildebeests?” I said with an expressionless voice. Again my head was locked in the darkness “ummm..eeer…ok, but we should start moving now, it will be darker soon.” Anna said. It was only around three yet it was pitch black from the clouds and storm that surrounded us. This time Xavier was in the lead and me and Anna behind. He kept turning around and exchanging expressions and unspoken words with Anna. I just ignored them within half an hour or so we walked about twenty kilometres or so away from the school. We found ourselves at a grave yard. A scream hit the air as it was muffled than Teal’C voice shouted directly at someone ending with an engine rushing covering her words. “Teal’C” we all yelled but I doubt that she would have heard us over the engine. There was a noise in the bushes behind us, we all turned around but there was nothing. Anna and Xavier started to walk towards the opposite bush to what I was looking at. There was another movement then a shadow appeared right from the bushes standing in front of me I couldn’t see the appearance of this person. I just stood there on my hind legs trying to make myself look more human. If I couldn’t see the human well, then I doubt that it could see me well either. “you and your friend’s did this they killed mine” the man said in a deep, ruthless voice. “no…no I would never kill…”I broke my sentence as the shadows from the trees move showing the man’s face. There was a silence. Then I realized what he was as his red eyes looked up at me. He tilted his head to the side showing the scar on the left side of his face. He strained his neck up his eyes went cold and hard I look down and on his chest was the symbol. Another two shadows fell behind him as the wind picked up. The smell was bad than worse it was ghastly like rotten fish or someone that hadn’t shower for days, weeks or even months. One of the figures behind the man, hair flicked out to the side creating a long wavy shadow to the right side of her. “Come over here and come look what Anna and I found. There is about three dead vampires here” just as Xavier had said that I was attacked. Crash tackled down by the first vampire. There was no noise only a faint grunt in my chest as I hit the ground. I felt the wind rush pass as the other two vampires rushed towards Anna and Xavier. They both turned just in time to strike the tallest man, with short spiky hair and red cold hard eyes as did the other one that pinned me to the ground. His lips made a straight line and his cheeks harden. Anna wasn’t quick enough; she was pinned against a tree with the female vampire’s hair trailing behind it. Anna jabbed it in the gut then cupped her hand and put it around the vampires neck, it started splattering and coughing. Anna turned the whole picture around. Now she had the female vampire pinned against the tree sill with her hand cuffed around her neck. The vampires’ eyes were like the other two except they were shaped differently. They weren’t rounded like the other two they were shaped different. Her hair long black and wavy she also had a scar on her side when her hair flicked up you could see it went from her right eye crawled up her face towards her right ear. I focused back on the creature that had pinned me to the ground I look down to my feet I turned back human I didn’t understand how but they turned me back into wolf. I hesitated after I had thought of what to do. The man over me was just looking around at the others. I kicked him in the gut then rolled out from under him. He grabbed my paw as I turned into human with only having my mouth as a wolf. It slipped from his grasp. I got to my feet then he crouched like a cat ready to catch its pray, I look at the others they were still wrestling with the others. I turned back to the man who was in front of the bushes. Again there was another two behind him. “Antonio” one form behind yelled “ are you just going leave her or are you going to do something about her?” they all glanced at me the two behind him were different they look older but younger at the same time. Their eyes were still, cold and a pale red violent colour. They were both males, one with shoulder length hair and the other was bald as was the one I was about to attack. The one named Antonio started to speak again in his ruthless voice “I was just about to... what are you doing here” He was still glaring at me and trying to look at the men behind him without taking his eyes of me. As I turned around to look at the others Anna and the other girl both had each other in a choke hold and Xavier was playing chase with the other one. He jumped from place to place with the vampire tailing him. Antonio lunged himself at me the other two had disappeared. I turned and kicked him in the chest. He was flung to the ground then helped himself up with the tree. I changed into a wolf completely. Before he got up entirely I threw myself at him and landed on him knocking him to the ground again. I got off of him and walked back. I wanted a proper fight. We circled around each other, he lunged himself at me again I dived to the side. He fell straight on a grave stone in the shape of a cross he just hung there for a second then got up. Blood running down both sides of his mouth dripping onto his chest. He looked insane I couldn’t help but laugh quietly because he looked like one of those vampires from a corny horror movie, but it was still quite scary. I look around once more Xavier was still playing cat and mouse and now Anna and the girl were on the ground wrestling. I lunged myself at him and he did the same. We hit each other in mid air then knocked each other to the ground. I was the first one up his blood drenched my coat. Then I ran at him again and hit him quite hard. I heard a THUD as I hit his chest. He roared in pain, I ripped the tattoo mark thing from his chest with my teeth he laid there motionless. He was dead again. Before running off to help the others I look at my handy work for a second or two, then went and help Anna who looked like she needed it. The vampire was holding her down so I ran at then and landed on the vampires back knocking her off Anna and rolling into the forest. Her hair was all messed up and had leaves and twigs scattered through it. She had scratches all over her. Her top ripped showing her mark on her left hip. She staggered up, using a log to hold her up. “Do you want to do the honours” I looked at Anna with a faint smile than back at the girl on the ground. “I wouldn’t know how to” the rain poured heavier over our bleeding cuts washing the blood causing it to run down and become less red. “A wolfs bite is lethal to a vampire as is a vampires bite to a wolf.” I explained looking down at the vampire try still to pull herself up “just bite her anywhere. I usually go for the mark because the mark shows honour, now go kill it.” I was still looking between Anna and the vampire who had now stabilised itself. “Anna go.” I said walking towards Xavier. I turned around from the direction I was walking to see Anna sprint towards the vampire who wasn’t ready to be attacked Anna got to it within seconds. She jumped on its feet. The vampire shrieked as Anna started to rip at her chest.
I kept walking toward Xavier who still thought that this was a game of cat and mouse I ran after him and stopped him “Just kill it, so we can leave okay otherwise I will.” I looked towards the vampire. Xavier turned on the spot to the vampire’s surprise. The vampire had a greedy look in his eyes like he wasn’t going to be then one to die. With one big swish of his tail as he ran for the vampire, before the vampire could realise what was going to happen Xavier bit it three times in the stomach killing it instantly.
We gave up the search for Teal’C and headed back to the dorms on the way back to the dorms just before we reached the end of the forest we changed back except I forgot my clothes so I borrowed Xavier’s shirt. We were close to the dorms now but we weren’t quite out of the forest and we found my shredded clothes. My blue top with my skinny’s “well” I said “I guess I will be buying another pair of skinny’s” I kept walking then turned to see if they were coming because Xavier was at my side where he usually was. I watched him bend down to pick something out from my clothes remains and slowly walked up to me with Anna behind him. I just stood there waiting he slipped something into my hand. I look at it...it was my lighter I was suddenly very happy again. To have it in my hands though I was still very distressed about Teal’C. Was she a bloody idiot running away making all of us very upset? We made it back to the front of the part between the boys and girls room we said goodbye and walked to our rooms. I looked at the clock it was 10:10 Charlie was asleep. She was curled up in her brightly doona cover with pink and purple butterflies and flowers covering the hot pink. She was hidden under it with a bit of her brown hair sticking out the top I walked passed her massive mirror than sat on top of her dutches which was also a desk because there wasn’t much room in the room I caught a glimpse at what I thought at first someone standing behind me. I turned around but there was none in here except me and sleepy head over in her bed on the right side of the room. I looked again to see it was just me, my deep green-blue eyes had darkened, around my face were scratches and a little bit of blood the rain wash most of it off. My top lip was cut as well as a little scratch cutting through my eyebrow. Luckily by tomorrow it would be gone so I didn’t have to explain how it happened to us. My sandy blonde hair that was slowly turning a light brown was now covered with red mud and dirt through it and twigs and foliage. I look down towards my hand and saw my lighter every time I see it seems to make me more joyful. I don’t know why. I walked over to my bed which I hadn’t made from this morning or yesterday morning. My green and purple doona scrunched up on my bed. My pillow was at the opposite end of my bed. There was a board at the end of it which was the head board. Next to the end of the bed was my cupboard. Filled with books, hair stuff, pens, pencils, photo frames and a little box filled with my favourite stuff (it usually were the lighter was or in my pocket.). Hanging on the knobs of the cupboard was a chalk board with my calendar, 2009 in big letters and a picture of me and Xavier. Another picture was tacked to it of my whole family and the one of me and my best friend when we were little. Also a couple of clothes tags were hung up here and there. Next to my bed was a tiny little bed side table with an alarm clock and a lamp and under my bed was another cupboard this one had all my clothes in it and as well as shoes. My bag was also in it. Hanging around my bed was a picture I had drawn when I was younger, a dream catcher and a picture of a pack of wolves which was my family except my mother who was human form because that is what she is. I gathered my stuff walked to the shower. I was the only one there. After that I crept back into my room. I noticed the calendar and the date it was the 18th in a couple of weeks it would be 2010. The ball that was on the 31st was the New Year’s ball. Great just bloody perfect. We have to find Teal’C and help set up this stupid thing. Oh and get them dates. FUN!! I started to plan it all in my head as I was going to sleep. I woke up late the next morning.
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