The Book Of Life

Chapter Thirty- Two

"Holy fuc-" Arron gasps as soon as he sees Tori. "She's going to turn."

"Drive!" Alyx growls.

Tori's squirming in the back of Arron's' Commadore. The moons rising in the sky faster as we speed towards the Everett's' property.

"Drive faster, Arron!" Sophie shouts.

"I can't where still in the built-up area. people could appear at any moment. Or the Police- plus I'm already doing ten over the speed limit!" he cries.

Alyx begins to rub giant circles along Tori's back. It helps her calm down the slightest bit but it doesn't stop her pained noises or squirming.

"The Police don't patrol anywhere around here!" I snap.

The car lurches forwards as the engine roars loudly.

"You don't think Alyx is a little bit over-reacting? Do you?" I whisper to Arron.

He tilts his head as he purses and scrunches up his lips before biting on the bottom one.

"The packs not going to be happy about this. Tori wasn't supposed to have come but they'll except that. However, Sophie wasn't part of this sleepover that we planned." He sighs.

"Oh well, they can suck it up. No one can change what happens in the future if they're in the past before it hasn't happened yet."

Arron chuckles as turns around the corner.

'Nikolai, we have unplanned visitors. I don't really know the fully story but it's urgent.'

'And whom might they be?' Nikolai's wary tone asks.

'Sophie and Tori.'

'Why the hell are they he-'

"What the hell happened!" Nik shouted as we help Tori out of the car.

"A rouge attacked us while I was leading Tori to a safer place to learn magic." Sophie huffs.

Tori's not that heavy!

"She was bitten dad!" Alyx's sombre tone emits as she hikes up Tori's left arm sleeve, reviling a chunk of marred flesh.

"Since when was she bitten!" Nik roars.

"Katlyn, Alyx. Take Tori to the basement. Sophie you can stay in the house- just please don't break anything." He sighs.

"I'm going to sit in a chair on your back veranda and not move all night." Sophie assures him as we walk towards the veranda itself.

All three of us struggle to accompany Tori down the narrow staircase as we stumble down it. We have to take turns kind of shoving whoever's holding Tori and Tori herself down the spiral staircase. In the end Alyx depends first and I limp down with Tori to the door.

"Didn't expect this is what you'd be doing tonight?" I chuckle.

"No! I told mum that I agreed to this dam sleepover. Sophie was going to teach me magic somewhere around your house, Alyx while you guys galivanted off in the bush." She grunts.

"We don't gallivant- well, that's debatable for Arron. He defiantly frolics through the fields." Aly says as she heaves open the hefty steel door.

Tori and I snort.

Her glistening tear-filled sky-blue eyes latch onto mine and I can't help but see the way the light captures the absolute terror in them. My own heart pangs. Like someone's tethered a weight to it and dropped it over a ledge.

"Stay with me?" She whispers.

"Of course." now I'm starting to cry to.

Alyx helps tori over to the chains and I have to help her shut the door. Zoya and Nikolai appear at the bottom of the steps.

"I know she wanted you to stay but I don't think she'll want you to watch what happens next." Zoya's voice sorrowfully emits.

A strangled cry screams from the other side of the steel door and an appalling sound of cracking and snaping bones follows.

I feel like a ghost. Walking up those steps as if something's controlling me. I feel numb on the outside and inside. It isn't long before the pain disrupts that though, Alyx heads to her room while I head upstairs to the same room I changed in last time. The whole time I can hear Tori's excruciating screams. Even as we wait for Arron outside, on the veranda deck, they never falter. 

"My first time didn't take that long, did it? I told Tori I would be there and now I'm not. She has to go through hell without me." I ponder.

Sophie squeals as soon as she sees us approach. she'd been waiting in the egg chair on the other side of the veranda, facing the back yard. I growl annoyingly when she tries to stroke my fur.

"You guys are so cute." she excitedly exclaims.

This time both of us growl in annoyance.

'I swear if she grabs my fur and I see chunks of it in her hands she better watch out for my jaw.'

'Alyx.' I chuckle. 'Just let her be inquisitive for once. it's not as if she's going to see us like this again.'

"Wait....H-how do I know which one is which." she faulters.

I laugh. Or the best I can do as a wolf.

"I need to take a picture of you! It's like light and dark, a Ying and Yang!" she says greedily as her hand strays towards her pocket of her jeans.

'Katlyn?' a new but familiar voice sounds in my head.

'Yes, Tori?' I reply.

'Turn around.'  she says.

As I turn around Alyx follows to look where I'm looking. Zoya and  Nikolai step onto the veranda first. Making their way off to find find their son with the rest of the pack. Suddenly, a new wolf merges from the staircase and steps onto the veranda.

"Great! Now's there's three of you I have to guess who's who." Sophie pouts behind me.

Tori and Alyx join in with my laughter.

"Okay. But I'm sure the black and brown wolf is Tori- she just came out of what can only be the basement." Sophie dictates.

At the mention of her name Tori's head begins to bog up and down, simulating a nod. I slowly walk over to Tori, she whimpers as I approach and rolls onto her stomach. But I just ignore that and continue to nudge her with my nose.

'Okay! Okay! Stop, Katlyn!'  she whines, putting an audible growl on the end of her response.

"Look at that! Katlyn's already being scolded buy Tori!" Sophie laughs.

I growl, flashing my teeth at her. This only propels Tori and Alyx into fits of laughter while Sophie laughs only harder.

I'm surprised how big Tori is. She's practically the same size as me but her body has a slim build, unlike my more......stocky build. Her fur mainly is mainly black but some parts of her black fur melts into tufts of dark chocolate brown, around her neck that reaches to just underneath her jaws and at the tip of her tail her fur has turned a dirty silver colour.

'I bet I'm faster than you!' Tori gloats through the mind link.

Alyx rushes down the steps and I follow, leaving Tori to catch up.

'First one to the other side of the clearing wins!' Alyx shouts through the link.