My werewolf system

Chapter 8: Fight back

Chapter 8: Fight back

Today, Gary was walking to school a lot slower than he usually would. He was constantly looking around his surroundings, checking if there wasn’t anybody following him. He had recognised the three deceased gang members on TV as the same ones who had been after him at the construction site.

‘The Underdogs must have tried to get their package back. Whatever was inside must have been important enough for them to have killed the gang members! If they killed them that easily, then what are they going to do to me? The unknown blood, it has to be mine from the stab wound.’ Gary thought. Then he thought back to the system and the news report, of how it was an Altered’s doing.

He stopped in the middle of the pathway, and gulped.

‘At least I hope it was the Underdogs, it couldn’t be…could it? I would have remembered something like that.’

Shaking the horrible thought from his head, he decided that he better hurry to school. It was about the only thing that was normal at the moment for him.

“Argh!” A loud piercing shriek was heard.

Looking around, Gary discovered the female shriek to have originated from an alleyway closeby. The poor girl was surrounded by four guys who had brought her there, with one of them currently pinning her up against the wall. His neighbourhood wasn’t exactly the best, but for something like this to happen in broad light so early in the morning…

‘Really, is it just that kind of day?’

Gary’s initial reaction was to just walk away. He didn’t want to get involved, especially since there was nothing he could realistically do against four adult men. After all, he was no hero, but merely a teenager. Besides, if they were about to commit such an atrocity who was to say that they were unarmed? Maybe they would do more than just beat him up if he tried to interfere…

The group of males continued to push her down the alleyway, out of sight from the main road, around the back of one of the apartments. At this point, when the girl turned the corner, Gary’s sharp eyes spotted something on her uniform.

It was his school’s crest. She went to the same school as him.

‘Damn it, my own arse is already on the line. Should I try and bluff, telling them I’m part of the Underdogs? No, that won’t work, given my age it’s clear that I’m merely a transporter. And using their gang name might not be the best idea. Sh*t, why did it have to be a girl?!”

In all honesty, if it had been a guy then Gary wouldn’t have struggled this much. People were struggling all over the world, and had bad things done to them. He knew that since he himself had even joined a gang in hopes of a better future.

However, when he saw a girl being abducted, especially in his own neighbourhood, not too far from where he lived, he couldn’t help but imagine the men doing the same thing to his sister. Who knew whether she had a brother, who would blame himself for the rest of his life that he hadn’t been there? Even if she was an only child, what about her parents?

Gary considered creating a ruckus. Looking around there weren’t many others that would help, and if he explained the situation he knew no one would for fear that the group of men belonged to one of the gangs. It was easier to just hide their head in the sand, pretending not to have noticed the situation, telling themselves there’s nothing they could do…

Alternatively he could try to call the police, but one of the things he had learned in the Underdogs was that the police reacted slowly to such cases, not only because they were understaffed, but also because those higherup had been paid off, to make sure the response time was delayed. By the time they would actually get here, whatever those guys were planning would have already happened by now.