Raised by Lions

Chapter 36: Senior Year Begins

It was the first night of their senior year and Legosi and Louis had decided to take to the rooftops again. They'd been bored since returning to the campus that morning.

As they were passing over the main school building's roof, Legosi stopped dead in his tracks. Louis stopped a moment after. "What is it?" Louis asked in a whisper. He knows to trust Legosi's hearing over his own. Then he heard it too.

Someone was running and panting like crazy in the halls of the building below. Someone else was following them, much bigger but a lot quieter in their steps. The two heirs shared a look, then a nod and headed into the building.

Legosi moved down the side of the building using a drainpipe and popped in through an open window quietly. Louis used the door that lead from the roof to inside and quietly snuck down the stairs.

They used different routes and were quiet enough to go unnoticed, until they were just down the hall from a classroom where the altercation had ended up.

A large bear was banging on the closed doors. A voice from inside the classroom yelled, "You'd really eat your classmate?! I thought we were friends!"

Legosi and Louis shared another look, signing to each other to communicate without the other carnivore hearing them. 'Tem?' Louis asked and Legosi nodded.

'Should we interfere?' Legosi asked back, glancing around the corner again. Louis shrugged his reply.

The doors to that classroom slammed open and they could hear Tem thudding to the floor and rolling some distance down the staired floor.

Legosi glanced back at Louis and shrugged back. Louis sighed quietly. 'Let's help' he signed back, taking the lead towards the classroom. Legosi followed close on his heels, keeping his ears perked.

The two snuck into the room, going to the side. Louis had one hand ready to grab his gun at a moment's notice and Legosi's focus was zoned into every single movement the bear was making.

The bear didn't look to be in his right mind. His eyes were too wide, pupils too small and breathing weirdly. Legosi readied himself for a fight against someone less skilled, but hocked up on instincts and hunger.

"YOU CARNIVORES ARE ALL THE SAME!! YOU'RE MONSTERS!!" Tem yelled and just as the bear was about to jump him, Legosi sprung into action. The speed he had when he collided with the bear was enough to knock them both to the floor, into a struggle of instincts vs trained fighting skill.

Tem stepped back when another dark blur knocked the bear away from him and accidentally stepped on something. That something happened to be the remote for the projector, which turned on, showing the last slide of the class that had been taught there earlier in the day. 

Tem stood frozen in horror as he finally saw what the other dark blur had been. A wolf was now in a full out fight with the bear.

Louis ran over to Tem and placed a hand on his elbow, where there wasn't any blood and hopefully no injuries either. "Let's get you out of here," Louis said in a whisper. Tem just nodded in a daze and followed when Louis started pulling him in a direction.

Louis was leading them down a hallway to get outside when Legosi came running up to them from behind. Tem seemed to panic and want to rush faster, but Louis wouldn't let him.

They stopped right by the exit door and Tem turned to hide behind Louis as Legosi caught up to them and stopped as well. "And?" Louis asked. Legosi rolled his shoulders, "Knocked him out, left him for security to deal with." Louis nodded.

"What do we do with Tem then?" Louis asked, glancing around the hallways. "I don't know. Take him to the nurse's office?" "She's not gonna be there." "Well, we can't exactly let him bleed out!"