NightLock

Chapter Eight

I snuck off from the house and ran into the woods when Tyler was taking a nap on the couch and John and Jasmine had taken walk up to the stables to see all the horses that my brothers and I owned and bred as training horses to teach kids with illnesses to ride. With all of them distracted I was able to sneak off to a hidden pond deep in the woods to meet up with an old friend.

When Rogues attacked my pack when I was three years old they made off with a few wolf pups, one of which was my cousin Cray. We had been best friends and he was the only other White in the pack other than me and my mother. Standing under the willow staring out at the water I heard the sound of twigs breaking and pounding feet coming towards my location and ducked just as the body of my cousin sailed over my head. I smiled as he hit the ground in front of me.

"Hey, Cray, try running a little quieter!" I said as I pulled him up off the ground.

"Shut up, Stargirl, I didn't exactly go through stealth training for thirteen years under your brothers." He replied as his shaggy blonde hair flopped haphazardly over his bright red eyes.

Laughing, I pushed him yelling 'You're it!' as I took off running into the woods with him close behind. Time to really trip him up. He couldn't see me anymore so I quickly jumped up and swung onto a tree branch and pulled the water balloons that I had hidden in a hole in the tree and soaked him to the bone as he ran past me.

"Stargirl! That is so cheating!" He yelled as I jumped down from the tree and took off back towards the pond.

I was running faster and faster, my feet pounding the ground and I barely had time to duck before the blessed silver tipped arrows began to fly at me. The group of twenty Slayers jumped from the trees and I knew then that alone against blessed silver I didn't stand a chance. I jumped over the shortest and phased in the air.

I hit the ground running with arrows whizzing past me. Then Cray's scream seared the air. Turning with a howl of anger that would summon the best of my pack I flew back the trees blurring as I pounced on the Slayer that had a sharp blessed blade pressed to his neck.

I heard my Pack's answering howl as more Slayers poured out of the woods as I ripped the throat out of the young black haired boy beneath my feet . I saw Cray jump to his feet his fangs flashing and eyes blazing as I jumped to face off a blonde girl in front of me. Cray and I stood back to back as I heard the paws of my team, brothers, and Tyler all running towards where Cray and I stood.

Phasing back I yelled to Cray to run knowing that if he was here when the others showed up he would be as dead as the Slayers.

"Cray! Go! I'll find you, I promise. Run!" I yelled as I snapped the neck of another kid younger than me forced into the life of a Slayer.

I saw Cray jump into the trees from branch to branch as a blade peirced my arm. Letting out a scream of pain I sent my other fist flying as my other hung limp at my side. Pulling the blade from my arm I stabbed it into the chest of the human boy in front of me and smiled sadly as the life left his bright green eyes.

Yanking the blade back out, his body dropped as I spun the blade sliced through the neck of the girl who was about to plunge a knife into my back. I heard a howl as her body dropped and saw my team, brothers, and mate flying into the fight with blades and canines flashing. I saw the shock on Tyler's face as he saw my eyes flashing red as I snapped the neck of a tall, lanky brown eyed boy.

Letting his body drop I jumped in front of Tyler as an arrow came flying throw the air catching me in the shoulder of my already injured arm. Holding back a scream I yanked the shaft pulling the arrow from me.

"Focus!" I snarled at Tyler as I jumped away to help the youngest of my older brothers by tackling the large body of a red haired male and plunging the blade into his heart.

Jumping up from there I kicked a well muscled girl with green eyes into a tree hearing her spine crack and her body fall to the ground limp. Turning I plunged the blade into another boy's chest and yanked it back as he dropped down to the ground. I was then tackled to the ground by a girl and rolled quickly to where I sat astride her stomach as I plunged the blade into her chest as well.

Looking up I saw my brothers fighting alongside my team and mate to drive the Slayers away from me. As I stood my vision blurred and my eyes closed as I fell to the ground unconcious yet again.