“JASON’S NOT HOME.” Claude said, walking back into Jamie’s house.
“Don’t sugar coat words, Claude.” Jamie said, slumping into a sofa and accepting the glass of whisky his wife offered him. He had unconsciously hoped that the boys were in Claude’s house. That was his last hope. “They’re missing… again”
“Take it easy, Jamie boy.” Jaja said, patting Jamie on his slumped shoulder.
Lily was in the corner with Jamie’s wife, Charlotte. She cradled a big mug of chocolate with her hands.
Charlotte walked to the main room where the men sat.
“What else did the kid tell you?” Claude said.
“The kid has a name!” Charlotte snapped
“I’m sorry. I’m just tired. What did Lily tell you?”
“She said she had something like date with Jason…”
“I know that much…” Claude said.
“They were to meet under the large Oak tree.”
“The tree is not near any of our borders, is it?”
Claude shook his head. “No”
“We have to go see the tree. What do you say?” Jaja suggested.
“I think so too.”
“We’ll be back, Charlie.” Jamie said to Charlotte. “Take care of Lily.”
They walked out into the night and towards the oak.
“What do you think happened, Claude?” Jamie asked.
“I really don’t know. I can’t place down my thoughts at this moment.” Claude sighed.
“Vampires can’t enter your territory without an invite, right?” Jaja asked.
“Yes. Only Alpha blood can invite a Vampire in. We’ve never had an in-house Vampire attack.”
“That rules out Vampire attack.” Jaja said thoughtfully. “What else? Is there any bad blood between your pack and any other species?”
“No… I can’t remember.” Jamie said.
“Unless you count the watchers. Fey Watchers.”
“Oh yes. I sent them off a while back. And they didn’t go happily.”
They had gotten to the Oak tree. It was not a windy night so the figures drawn on the sand was still there.
“This is one of Jake’s drawings.” Jamie said pointing at the diagram drawn on the sand.
“You know it?” Jaja asked, looking at Claude.
“Yes. He showed it to me some months back. He wants it to be our Pack logo when he becomes alpha.”
“He can’t be aloha if he’s dead. Can he?”
“There are no footsteps leading out of here.” Claude pointed out.
“I noticed. What does that tell us?” Jamie said.
“That they flew out.” Jaja said, light heartedly.
“Or that magic was involved.”
“That still brings us back to the Fey Watchers.” Claude said.
“How about a visit to the Fey Kingdom?” Jamie said.
“UM… GUYS… I really think you should see this.” Billy said and stumbled back. Fear had choked his vocal cords that his voice barely rose above a whisper.
“Nice little trick, isn’t it?” Dark eyes shone in the darkness then a dark shape emerge down from the shadows and gave a wide grin showing extended fangs.
“it’s magic. The witches. Well, the helped us to conceal the scent. Isn’t that so, guys?”
About 10 more shadows came out into the moonlight.
Billy took several steps back and yelled, “Guys… Mart… Jeffery… Arthur… Zachary!!”
The wolves ran to where the sounds were coming from and stopped behind Billy. There was shock on the faces of the wolves.
“Stay back… We’ll kill you.” Billy said. He didn’t feel as confident as he sounded. But the weight of the glock pistol gave him a little confidence boost.
“Hear the little pup…” The lead vampire laughed. “We’ll kill you.” He mimicked the voice of Billy. “Only one set of people will be doing the killing and that’s us.”
Billy brought out the gun and in a fluid motion squeezed out 5 shot at 5 Vampires. It hit them pin point in their chest.
The shots were close range and were all squeezed out under 5 seconds. The sound was deafening and all of them, both Vampire and werewolf alike were all stunned. The werewolves were first to recover. They leapt in unison at the remaining standing Vampires.
Three out of the five Vampires shot desiccated immediately. The remaining two, including the lead Vampire were still moving slightly and breathing with difficulty. Their breaths were coming out in raspy sounds.
The recoil of the gun from had left Billy’s palm stinging and his shoulder aching. A Vampire grabbed him by the collar and flung him upwards. He flew 30 feet into the air and handed head first in the sift earth. The vampire turned him over and sat on his belly and bent forward to sink his teeth into Billy’s neck. He acted on impulse. He pressed the gun underneath the vampire’s chin and fired.
The silver bullet took out most of the Vampire’s face. The vamp toppled backward as Billy stood and was about to fire into the vamp’s chest but saw that the thing was already desiccating.
“Backup…” Lead vamp was saying into a mobile.
Billy ran to him.
“We need…”
Billy shot the last bullet into the Vampires chest.
“Let’s finish this…” Billy yelled to his mates.
Zach tore off a Vampire’s head. Jeff had one under his front paws. Arthur had slashed the next of one. Matt was trying to dig out the heart of another.
Billy started to day, “Let’s get out of here before-”
“Backup is already here buddy.” A large Vampire stepped into the moonlight. “Oww… such a mess you all made here.”
Another vampire zoomed at Zach and snapped his neck. Zach went limp and fell and slowly shifted back to human.
“Zach!-” Billy yelled and ran to his body as Arthur and Matt bared their teeth and raised their hackles.
“Oh, come of it. He’s not dead… not yet anyway.” The big Vamp said. “Now, I want you all to behave like good puppies that you are.”
“Damn! Ellie. These kids made a mess here.” A tall woman walked out into the clearing. She had black hair, black eye liner and mascara, black lip stick accentuated her full and succulent lips.
She was putting on too much make up and not enough clothes. A little black sport bra which barely covered her breasts and was held together by series of strings. A black leather jacket was over the sport bra but was not zipped up properly. And she had on a little black denim jean shorts that stopped at her mid thighs. Black, long high heeled leather boots started from her knees down to her toes. She walked with emphasis, as if she already knew where she was going and what she was going to do there.
“No shit” Ellie, the big Vamp said.
“Your name is Ellie?” Arthur snorted.
Billy jumped because he had no idea when Arthur and the rest shifted back to human form.
“Like… for real… Ellie… is your name…” Arthur snorted again.
“Ellie was my grandmother’s nick name.” Mart said under his breath.
Arthur laughed while zipping his trousers.
Ellie’s hand shot out, his palm circled around Arthur’s neck and snapped it to the left. Arthur sank down too without saying a word.
“Well, He’s probably dead. Who cares? Not me.”
“Ellie… oh my darling. You shouldn’t be so quick to anger. They’re just kids after all.” Black lady said, rubbing Ellie’s arm.
“I know, Nina. But I couldn’t help it.” Ellie’s hand went round her waist and pulled her into a long and passionate kiss involving tongues.
“I’m going to puke.” Jeff said, and he truly looked green.
“Gross.” Mart said, simultaneously.
Ellie smacked Nina’s butt and pulled away. He clapped and said, “Okay lads, let’s get going.”
“Going where? Where are you taking us?” Billy asked, not moving.
“How about you just come and see for yourself.”
“I’m not moving a muscle until you tell us where.”
“Oh Honey…” Nina said, bringing her face so close to Billy’s like she wanted to kiss him. He turned his face to one side. “You don’t have a choice!”
Billy felt himself flung forward.
“Pick up your friends.” Ellie commanded.
Jeff and Mart carried Arthur, while Billy got up and hoisted Zach on his shoulder.
They were propelled and forced to walk forward while surrounded with about half a dozen other Vampires. Ellie and Nina led the group and they walked… kidnapped.