The Way Things Are

Chapter 12

I wake up in a dark room, disoriented and unaware of my surroundings. "Spencer!? Spencer!? Where are you?" I yell out in a terrified panic.

"Over here! I'm right here Beck! Is that you?" he calls back out to me.

"Yeah. It's me. I'm here, where are you? Follow the sound of my voice." Within the next 5 minutes, I feel a hand touch my shoulder and a voice whisper into my ear. "Spencer, you scared the shit out of me! Never do that again, okay?"

"Okay, I promise that I won't do it again. I think that you were just scared because we're in the dark."

"Of course it's because we're in the dark. If we weren't I would have known it was you." All of a sudden, the lights came on, and a voice came over an intercom.

"Well, well, well. Look who's up now. You are in a place unknown on the maps, and unknown to the untrained eye. A place that can only be found by the werewolves themselves. We have also captured you brother and friends. They have all been put in different cells. Now that you all are up, it's time to be able to see each other." Then a doors open, and I see Derek, Sam, Noah, and even Jazmynn. I start to scream, but the only person that can hear me is Spencer. I stop and look at Spencer, and he looks mortified by the sight of all of us in the same place, at the same time, and captured by the same person.

"What do you what do you want from me!?" I yell to the person that was just talking to us. "All I want is to be happy for once, and to have a normal life! I don't want to be here anymore! Let me and my friends free! You can keep the vampire though, we wouldn't mind it." I just get a look from Jazmynn as I say that, and she gives me the bird. I smile at her and return it back to her. "Where's Andy when you need him?!" I say looking at Sam, and she shakes her head and shrugs her shoulders. Next thing you know, Andy was breaking through the door next to us, and he was looking for Sam. "Oh hey Andy. What's up? Long time no see!" He just looks at me and snarls at me.

"Where is my mate?" he asks me as he looks around the room that we're being held hostage in.

"Well, why don't you look around and find out yourself?"

"I am, and I don't see her. I can smell her, but I can't see her."

"She's right next to you Andy. How can you not see her? Oh, that's right. I put a special perfume on her that can only be washed off in the water of the river of Styx. But I thought I put it on everyone, looks like I forgot someone," the voice says to Andy.

"Who is that?"

"That's right, you haven't heard yet. I'm the one that is the ruler of the town. You have been the one to find these people, and they are the ones that you want, and they are the reason you're here. Andy, I will bring all of your friends to the river, and help them. But I need you to say here with me and help me to rule the town, and then some day the world."

"Adam. I should have known it was you! How did you find out that I was here?! What do you want from me? I've never done anything to you!"

"You killed my father! You caused death and destruction in my family! I lost my mom because she killed herself because you just had to kill my father. What did he do to you?!"

"He killed my family, and tried to kill me too! So don't talk to me about how you miss him, and how I did it. I didn't do it. My pack did, and they were the ones that had to take care of me because of what your father just had to kill my parents."

"My parents never killed anyone. That was my pack. They thought that there was going to be a battle between one pack and another. I think that we need to talk about this in private." The stranger, Adam, comes out of his little box, and comes out to talk to Andy. I think that they come back out after about three hours of talking. "So, we've come to a decision. I will let you all go, and take you where you need to go, and you can leave." So we leave, and now the only thing that can kill us are natural causes.