“Alright, remember Bonnie and the human girl is our priority,” Nick said, passing two photographs around. One of an older blonde werewolf and the other of a girl around sixteen or seventeen. “Kill everything else unless they surrender then silver or zip-tie them. No one is to go off on their own. Is that understood?” Nick finished, looking at Lily. Last time they were here, she ran off to take care of Xavier on her own.
“Aye, aye, Cap’n,” Lily said, giving him a salute.
Nick shook his head. “Alright, arm up. We leave in ten!” James took off his jacket, preferring hand to hand versus firearms or knives. He wasn’t good at either. He looked over as Lily. She had her eyes closed and taking deep breaths.
“What is she doing?” Lucas Sanders asked.
“Going hybrid,” James replied, glad she wasn’t armed. She wasn’t much better than he was with weapons. The alpha gawked as Lily started to change. She grew almost a full foot taller and her frame became much broader. Lily’s hands increased in size and more knobby as her nails grew into claws. Her feet did something similar and small, dark hairs ran down her arms and legs.
“Hello ladies,” James said when she had finished. Lily gave him a toothy smirk, showing off the long sharp teeth that now filled her mouth. He’d never fully seen her go hybrid before. It was impressive as it was scary.
“Uh, ladies?” Lucas said, sounding unsure and maybe even a little afraid. Lily must have noticed this because she sniffed in his direction then snorted with a scowl.
“Lily, the beast, and the vampire. They’re not all the same,” James explained and she gave him a pleased smirk.
“Let’s go!” Nick yelled and they gathered and entered the forest. It wasn’t a long walk to get to the building. Especially since the vampires didn’t bother putting up the fences that had torn down the first time. The entered the clearing where the three-story brick building stood. It looked abandoned. The front doors were laying on the ground or barely hanging off its hinges. Many windows were broken or boarded up.
The scents surrounding the place told another story. Fresh scents were everywhere. Vampire, Lycan, and human. They advanced through the clearing towards the old lab. James’ nerves grew the closer they got with no sign of… well, anything. The inside of the building was the same, completely abandoned except for the footprints on the dusty floor. They followed the footprints until they heard some movement in a corridor to their left.
Nick, cocking his gun, nodded at them and they followed the noise. They found three male guards, mocking the blonde werewolf. Her hands were bound in silver so she couldn’t fight back and her clothes torn. Lily let out a roar that startled almost everyone on their team as well as the guards. Nick started to demand they surrender but Lily ran towards them.
She grabbed the largest and sunk her teeth into his neck, ripping out his throat before she savagely drank from him. The other two scrambled for their weapons. James ran towards Bonnie, slugging one of the guards as he went. Taking off his shirt, he used it to protect him from the silver as he freed her. Bonnie gave him a mumbled thanks and he put his shirt back on. He saw Lily toss the dead guard aside to pick up another guard who was bleeding shot to the gut.
She drank from him as well. The third was being zip tied by a werewolf James didn’t know by name. “Alpha thank God you came,” Bonnie said, hugging Nick. “I’ll take you to Tristen,” she said waving her hand. Lily tossed the second guard to the side.
“Go, we follow,” she told Bonnie in a rough, deep rumble. Bonnie eyes widened at the sight of her but nodded, dashing through the halls with them behind her. They ran into a few more patrols but by the sounds echoing through the halls, most of the vampires day time force was busy with the other teams. Lily didn’t drink anymore nor was she as brutal as she was the first. It made James think the others she so quickly killed because of their treatment of Bonnie.
“It’s down here,” Bonnie said, hitting a button.
“Alright, James Lily, Wesley, Gerald, with Bonnie and me. Lucas, you’re in charge of the rest of them, men. Don’t let anything go down and if anything comes up but us…”
“We kill them or take them, prisoner. I know,” Sanders finished for Nick, his tone showing his irritation at the repetition. Nick nodded and the six of them stuffed themselves into the elevator. The hallway was silent and they met no opposition as Bonnie stopped at a door.
“She’s here,” Bonnie said, opening the door. Her and Nick slipped inside. He could hear Bonnie speaking with the girl. She seemed terrified. He looked over to Lily surprised she’s shifted back. So her sister wouldn’t see the monstrous side of her? He couldn’t help but smile a little.
“What the hell is the holdup Blondie?” Lily barked after a while, looking nervous, and a second later they heard a scream.
“No! I can’t leave!” He heard the girl shout and James peered into the room. The girl was clinging to the bed railing, looking on the verge of hysteria.
“Bonnie get her out and to stop screaming,” Nick demanded. Her screaming was going to attract unwanted attention. Bonnie tried to sooth the girl but she just started screaming for someone named Vincent.
“We can give the girl this. It’s a mild sedative,” Wesley said, filling a syringe with a clear liquid and Lily took it.
“We tried it your way Bonnie,” Nick told Bonnie and Lily entered the room.
“No! Help!” the girl begged and James almost thought she’d claw through the walls if she thought she could escape. “Vincent! Please, it’s not my idea! I don’t want to go… Vincent!” she yelled as Lily pulled her out of the corner she had crawled into.
“What the hell did he do to her? I’m going to skin that bastard,” Lily vowed and picked her up. The girl continued to mumble softly until the sedative knocked her out. The girl was very thin and pale. Her hair was wild as if it hadn’t seen a brush in a long time. The worst was her arms. The underside of her forearms had a mass of red, lumpy scars and bite marks. “That vampire is going to suffer!” Lily swore and carried the girl in her arms towards the elevator.
Nick offered to help her but Lily growled at him, pulling the girl closer to her in a gesture of protection. She already considered the girl her family whether she would admit it or not. Nick seemed to understand as he smiled and held up his hands.
“I almost feel sorry for the vamp,” Nick said to James, watching her. “Targets acquired. Mission objective now set to clean up! Let’s clean house and set demolition window for thirty minutes!” He ordered over a two-way radio. “I’m going to reduce this building to rubble! Enough lives have been taken in this place!”
The large conference room had been turned into a base of operations for dealing with the vampires. Lily couldn’t bring herself to call it a mission. That just sounded so silly to her and made her want to giggle every time she heard it. Nick stood with his brother, Donovan, Lucas Sanders, James and Mason- Chris’ brother in law. Unfortunately Mitchell was there too and that was enough to almost make her go the other way.