Potter in Forks

Chapter 9

Nov 30

Reese was running. It felt good feeling the stretch of muscles under her skin. The ground flying past her. Her nose twitched at the smell of rabbit. She ignored the cougar's instinct to pounce. She didn't like eating as the cat it made her queasy when she was human again.

Her wards rang in warning. The sense of where they were breached ringing through her senses. The cougar leaped, twisted and darted in the direction of whoever ignored the 'don't want to go there' compulsion in the ward. The fact that they ignored the compulsion meant it wasn't some muggle hiking.

Whoever it was, was headed her way. The next ward was closer to her actual home. That one would hold any magical until she authorized their entry. She jumped at a tree. Her claws dug in and she scrambled up to perch on a limb watchfully.

Four people came into view – two women and two men.

"Are you sure a Magical is around?"

"Didn't you feel the tingle back there?"

"I felt something."

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"Magicals put up wards to keep people out or to warn them people are nearby."

"So they know we're here?"

"The Magical knows someone crossed the wards – not who or what." The brunette woman smiled cruelly.

"They'll be no match for us no matter." The black haired man sneered. "By nightfall there will be less disgusting Magicals in the world."

Reese inhaled and felt her lips draw back in a silent snarl - vampires. The cougar shifted her weight to get better traction for leaping.

The blue haired woman looked up sharply. "A kitty," she murmured and leaped.

Reese leaped at the same time. They met in the air clawing and grappling at each other. She knew she was no match for vampires in cat form. She felt her wards signaling the Cullens, Jacob and Seth headed her way. She needed to survive until they got here.

She raked her claws down the woman's face and twisted, leaping away. The woman screamed in pain and fury. Hari landed on the ground as a human, wand drawn and spells flying.

Chains wrapped around two of the vampires holding them off long enough for a fast Immobilize ... Incendio to light the woman who attacked her on fire.

The remaining man tackled her; his teeth slamming into her throat.

Reese inhaled sharply against the pain.

Hari! Hari what's the matter?

Not now, Tom!

Damn it, Hari!

Hari fought to focus as the man gnawed rabidly at her throat. Searing pain streaked down her neck as flesh ripped and veins were torn open. Each shift of fangs was agony. Expulso! Her magic pulsed out flinging him off her into a tree. She clamped her hand over her torn throat and hissed healing spells rapidly while Tom railed in her mind.

She scrambled to her feet. Sectumsempra, she snarled at the male vampire coming at her again. He went down with multiple bleeding injuries. He twitched and twisted to his knees. He grinned at her as he stumbled to his feet.

The two chained vampires were struggling hard. Hari knew they wouldn't be held much longer.

Does the Avada Kedavra work against vampires?

Vampires?! Tom shouted in her head. She was fighting vampires? The phantom pain he could feel in his own neck...a vampire had latched onto her neck!