HYBRID

CHAPTER 3- Family

The purple atmosphere brightened even more as Jake entered. The surface he stood on rippled with every step. He glared at the two humanoid figures that stood on the other side of the room.

The wolf sat eyes closed, cross-legged on the ground. "Stop staring, unless you want me to do something to you, you'll regret," it growled.

Jake stalked over to them.

"What the hell?"  he hissed.

"What?" Axel asked leaning against a surface.

"What did you do! All of a sudden my chest started to hurt then everything was........." Jake trailed off.

Axel levitated over to him. "Be happy I didn't kill anyone. I was going to kill the oddball. After I had tortured him and ripped his heart out of his stupid chest!" he said angrily. "But the female distracted me and I missed- by less than an inch too! Do you have any idea how bad that's going to come back to bite us?"

"Who female?" Jake asked. "Cassandra?"

"Duh."

"So no one died?" Jake confirmed.

His wolf growled. "Why does that sound like a question? He's telling you no. Maybe if  you hadn't wasted time, we could've killed them both,"

"Tell me about it," the vampire agreed.

"I'm sorry I didn't do that while I was being tortured," Jake sassed before sighing with relief.

"Like we don't feel the same pain," Axel scoffed before they all fell into a tense silence.

The tension grew thick as the two heads turned towards him. Two pairs of glowing eyes, one electric blue and the other red stared at him intensely.

"W-What?" Jake stammered as he looked at the ground, avoiding their eyes.

His wolf growled while Axel grinned, glistening fangs flashing in the light.

Jake stepped back, seeing the mischievous glint within the crimson irises.

"Oh this is gonna be fun," Axel smiled.

Shit! Jake turned to move, but he was too slow. His body was slammed down and pinned against the floor, causing a large ripple to spread around the room, diffracting from his body.

His wolf hovered over him amused, while Axel stared at him.

"What! Let me.......go!" Jake said struggling briefly.

He stopped suddenly as realization struck him. He was powerless in this space without his halves. Furthermore, he was dealing with two S-class monsters and their abilities- vampiric and werewolf strength. It was hopeless! His hands were pinned above his head and small glowing golden chains bound them to the floor.

The wolf released him and Axel hovered over him.

"You're hopeless," his wolf said.

"Would you two leave me alone?! What do you want from me?" Jake screamed as he squirmed against the chains.

"Look at me," Axel said lowering himself before straddling him. 

Yeah right. I'm not falling for this again, Jake thought to himself, looking away. He stared at a purple wall, sending all his frustration at it as his expression turned into a glare.

Axel snarled. "First, you deny me a feeding frenzy. Then Cassandra and you stop me from killing that bastard! Frickin' look at me, J!" 

Axel forcibly turned Jake's head to look at him. His eyes locked with the other boy's and Jake knew that was a mistake.