Just My Luck (boyxboy)

Ch41. Emmett

Emmett's POV

Cages on top of cages filled the large room. I walked in seeing men, women, and children of all ages locked in the small cages too short for them to stand in. IV tubes ran in every one of them as they began to notice us coming into the room.

"Help us," one cried in a voice that sounded so fragile next to me.

More weak and raspy cries for help began to fill the air as they all slowly started moving to the front of their cages to see us. Hope filled their dull eyes with tears.

Walking down the alley, I looked next to me to find a little girl no older than 5, maybe, crawling to the cage door, looking at me with dull empty yellow eyes as I laid my hand on the cage.

I had to look away. These were all shifters, just like Felix suspected, all suffering, and starving and Luna knows what else has been done to them here.

"Get them all out of here," I told my members as they began shifting humans again. They looked just as broken and speechless as I was. "Start treating them here if you can until Zack tells you it's clear outside. Viv's team will take them to our hospitals," I told another as they looked in horror at what was before them. They started ripping the cage doors open and pulling the IVs filled with purple liquid out before carrying them from the room.

Suddenly a scent all too familiar hit my nose as I looked over at the cage across from the small girl's. It was empty but it still had his scent inside.

Ripping the door open I knew it was Sam's scent but as I leaned inside to try and get a better smell, it seemed different somehow.

"Where did they take the boy who was inside this cage?" I asked the little girl, hoping she would answer me.

I pulled the lock from her door as she stared at me and backed away slowly. A growl left her throat and her eyes started to change into a brighter yellow that somehow looked familiar. Her scent was weird but I could still tell she was a young pup who hadn't yet had her first shift but she was one of us. Maybe it was the different smells from all around us that threw me off.

I turned my eyes to show her we were the same and reached out slowly to show her I meant no harm but I was also in a hurry. "We are here to help you, I swear it but the one in this cage is really important to me. Can you please help me?"

She looked at the cage behind me before crawling to the door slowly as she looked to a door in the back of the room.

"Thank you," I said, getting her out of the cage.

She clung to me and buried her nose in my neck as her scent filled my nose. I froze as Sam's scent just bare-brushed my nose again. I was tempted to pull her back and get another look but I could have just been mistaken, maybe it was from his scent behind us.

"Please take her," I told one of the females. "You will be safe with her," I told the girl and looked at the woman again in the eyes. "Do not leave this girl. Text me where you take her and keep me updated." I ordered before calling for Vincent who was scanning every cage for Baxter. I wanted to check her again later after we found Sam and Baxter.

He meant with me at the door along with a group of other wolves. I opened the door as the scent of death poured out in a heavy wave but I knew for sure Sam was in there and without hesitating any longer I walked into the cold gray hall. We checked every room and it only grew worse the farther in we went.

We found empty labs and rooms that we couldn't have even imagined. I felt sick as we found other shifters half shifted and in full animal forms cut open and chopped into pieces in a few of the labs. This was without a doubt a Hunters experiment building.