UnTamed [Book 3]

Don't Come Back

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Chapter Quote:
"Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong."
~Chuck Palahniuk
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Chapter 13: Don’t Come Back

Luke 

Luke slept fitfully the next few nights, a bad thing considering he had football practice every day and a bowl game today.  He had definitely regretted not being able to sleep before the game.  However, once the game began, adrenaline coursed through him and he was rearing to go.  His team was winning by a landslide.  It was just past the fourth quarter, the score 45-14.  There was no way they weren’t going to win this.  There was nothing that could go wrong.

And naturally, he thought too soon.  An explosion rocked one of the VIP boxes, halting the football game.  Panic surged through Luke when he realized that was the one his parents were in.  He started running over to the bleachers.  There was a gaping hole in the window and…

“Are those rocks?” Derek asked, sliding to a stop next to him.

“Did those cause the explosion or try to stop it?” Luke added.

“Let’s find out.”

Before they even moved, the rocks disappeared.  And now, things were dropping into the stadium.  Things with swords and bows and arrows and armor: Monsters.  And that could mean only one thing: Hannah.  Whether she was here or not didn’t matter.  What mattered was that Luke and Derek had to protect everyone from getting hurt.

“Plan of action?” Silena queried, popping out of nowhere.  How had she even gotten onto the field?

“Uh, attack?” Luke suggested.

“Works for me.” His sister let out a war cry and charged the nearest monster, slicing him in two.  When a dracanae  tried to shoot her with an arrow, Derek yelled, “THAT’S MY GIRLFRIEND YOU NUMPTY!”

Derek chased after the serpent-like monster.  Luke unsheathed his sword and joined the fight.  He’d already destroyed two when something hit him in the back of the head.  He rolled away from the spot and not a moment too soon because a pike embedded itself in the ground where his head had just been.  It belonged to a Laistygonian who was currently stalking over to Luke.  It lifted the spear up from the ground and lifted it back to get ready to impale the Jackson boy.  Before it could do anything, an arrow sprouted from its throat.  It disintegrated, revealing a masked figure.

“I thought I told you to avoid more trouble!” the girl snapped. 

“Who are you?” Luke demanded as he scrambled up and stood with her back to back.

“I thought I told you to avoid any more trouble!  You’re going to give my boss a coronary if you keep nearly getting yourself killed.”

“It’d help if you knew who your boss was!  And it’s not like I find trouble- trouble typically finds me!” Luke yelled as he stabbed another monster.

“You already know it!”

“Penn?”

“Bingo.”

“So Bryn.”

“Here we go again…” The girl yanked an arrow out of the ground, twirled it between her fingers, before shooting it at a thing that looked suspiciously like an actual vampire.  As if reading his thoughts, the girl confirmed, “That was a Lamia.  They’re vampiric demons.  Nasty suckers.”