Pack Mentality: A SkinWalkers Tale

Chapter 5

Jade woke up to the sound of the children laughing as they played downstairs. She moaned a bit as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes and slowly sat up in the bed. Her mind was still racing with the idea of the pack of Skin Walkers in LA. She looked out the window before she got up and walked over to the dresser. She needed to get changed and get to go to work. She dressed herself and walked out of the room to see Tori playing with the kids.

"Say high to Sikowitz for me" Tori said with a smile as she waved at Jade.

"Will do baby" Jade said before she stopped and turned back to Tori. She gave her a gentle and loving kiss before she turned and walked out the door. On her way out she grabbed her thermos of coffee and walked out the door. She walked over to her Mustang and climbed in and started the car. It roared to life and she backed out of the driveway.

She looked down the road as she got closer to the school. Every time she came back to the school she would have flashes. Flashes of when her and Tori faced Cat and the Vipers. She smiled slightly as she walked towards the school. Her thoughts were of that pistol jamming, saving Tori's life. She walked towards the school and as she did she glanced around and froze dead in her tracks. There was a man standing under a tree looking at her. He had curly dirty blonde hair that hung around his head. He wore bottle think glasses and his blue eyes stared at her. He was a thin man with pale colored skin.

She started to walk towards the man and as she did the man disappeared behind the tree. She sped up and came around the tree and looked to see the man was gone. She took a few seconds and looked around to see no sign of the man. But she was fighting with herself, she had recognized the man. That's not possible he disappeared when we were sixteen Jade thought to herself as she looked around. She sniffed the air and at that moment she picked up a horrid smell. It was a smell of rotten flesh...a smell she recognized all to well. It was a smell she knew of when she faced Cat. It was the smell of a Lycanthroat and it caused her to look around wildly.

"Jade, what are you looking for?" she heard Sikowitz call to her.

She stopped and looked back to him to see him sipping on one of his coconuts. She did one more quick glance around to see nothing. "Nothing" she called back to him as she turned to walk over to him. She looked at him as he eyed her a bit before they walked into the school together. "Oh, Tori says 'Hi'" she said looking at him.

"Oh she does, well you make sure I tell her Hi back" he said with a smile as they walked towards Jade's classroom.

Jade smiled back to him as she walked into her classroom. She looked around the empty classroom before she sat down at her desk. Her mind was racing as she thought of a man she had seen. But that wasn't what disturbed her as much as the scent of the Lycanthroat. It couldn't be possible she killed the last one, but then she thought of how her and Tori were supposed to be the last Skin Walkers and now there is a pack in LA. Who knows what else is out there she thought to herself.

XX

"Beck Oliver, Jade West, Tori Vega, and David Vega. These are the four people who know of the Vipers existence. Jade and Tori have since gotten married and are in fact Skin Walkers" Fer-De-Lance said as he walked around a table passing out pictures to the team he was taking to LA. "Black Mamba wants the Skin Walkers exposed for what they are to the world, and I intend on doing just that."

"And how do you plan on doing that?" One of the men around the table said making him look to him.

"Well this world is media driven we figure out a way to expose them in downtown LA during a full moon" He answered as he walked over to the front of the table.

"Ok, but what about the recent escapes from our facility...I mean shouldn't we be hunting them?" another one chimed in.

"Project Raischenzo and Jordan have dropped off of the radar and we aren't sure of where they could be. With Jade and Tori we know where they are and we can get them" he explained as he looked around the table.