Virals Pack: Reborn

Chapter 9: Revealed (Part 2)

Hey everyone! Things are about to get interesting, so enjoy a little peep into the virals' perspective. Cover art by fern-7 on deviantart

Tory pov

"My eyes are not blue..." Hi trailed off, and we all froze as her words sunk in. 

When we got our blue eyes, we found we had a constant link with one another. It wasn't the full link that came with flaring, but we there was a continuous, faint connection. I now felt a shudder along our link as Ben stepped forward with flaring blue eyes. I gasped in shock and anger and lost my own control for an instant.

Snap

My senses now on full alert, I can tell the exact moment we all link in. Shelton, spurred by fear, and Hi, pulled in with the rest. In a single heartbeat, we were all flaring right in front of her. I looked at her speechlessly and she looked back at me with an almost knowing look. 

I wanted to find out how she knew about us, but before I could do anything, Ben growled "Who do you work for? How did you find out about us? Give me one reason why we shouldn't bury you on the beach" 

"U-uh, guys...check out where we ended up" Shelton stuttered. I stopped and looked around.

"Huh, Katherine's beach" I muttered "It just keeps coming back to here, doesn't it?"

 Indeed, it was the very beach where we found Katherine Heaton, as well as the beach where we were attacked by the Trinity. How...fateful. 

Ben pov

I snarled at her, enough talk, its time to assess how dangerous she is to us. She focused her wary blue eyes on me and responded to my flurry of questions from before. "I don't work for anyone, I found out about you by luck and intuition, and I'd rather live, thank you for asking"

I felt Shelton flinch at her last scathing comment

Hey guys, we aren't really going to...you know...are we?

Don't worry Shelton, I don't think it will come to that.  Tory spoke through the link

Unless she's lying I added

She's not, I can smell that she is telling the truth

Ha, smell, tell, clever Tor 

Shut up Hi

I sniffed with my super-senses. I didn't have the smell level of Tory, but I could smell some things. I could smell dirt, the trace of dog/wolf from the encounter with the island pack, and...

"Blood" I growled "I can smell blood on you"

Shelton pov

We were so screwed. It started out as a simple intrusion on Morris, then it became a concerning invasion at Loggerhead, which led to a confrontation, which became a full-out flaring fest for us. In broad daylight, right in front of a stranger. 

And now here Ben was, implying that if this girl was a threat, we'd have to...eliminate her....

Fear was always the biggest trigger for my flares, and this was no exception. I linked in after I saw Ben and Tory go over the edge, and Hi soon followed. Then Ben growled that he could smell blood...

"Don't get your tail in a twitch, it's just my blood" The girl snapped. The very nerve of her, to be able to confront Ben like that while he's on a rampage. Personally, I'd be wetting myself by now if I was in the same situation. I tried to remember her name, she had said it before...

Katrina, that was it. How fitting, that she would be named after a tempest which can symbolize change, renewal, and destruction... 

Then her words sunk in and a chill ran up my spine

"What do you mean...it's your blood?" Tory asked, uncertainty edging into her voice.

She held up her arms, which were covered in bandages. "I meant what I said, it's only my blood"

Hi pov

"What happened?" I asked her, honestly concerned. How did she get hurt so badly? From what I smelled, it was a good quantity of blood, with varying degrees of freshness. 

She glanced away before answering "It's nothing, just an...accident I was in"

I looked at Tory to confirm with her super-powered detective schnoz. 

She's telling the truth, as far as I can tell. There's a lot of emotions going through her though: sadness, regret, guilt, but it's not connected to us really...

Not good enough Ben growled then said to the girl, "You're lying"

The girl, Katrina, glared at him "I am not"

"Then what happened" Ben pressed

I expected another sharp comment from Katrina in retaliation, but to my surprise, she appeared to break down. She started to tremble first, then her breathing started to get really shallow, and most surprising of all, there were tears welling in her eyes. 

This was from the girl that did not run screaming from us in the middle of the night when we startled her, the girl that befriended a dangerous pack of wolves after intruding into their den, and the girl that was glared at by Ben while he was flaring and glared right back. 

"Woah now" I broke in, putting myself between her and Ben "There's no need to get so confrontational. Tory said she was telling the truth so you don't need to get so aggressive" 

Ben snarled "We need to make sure that she isn't tricking us!" 

"That's already been proven, you're just being too stubborn to accept it!" I snapped

Ben paused, I rarely snapped at anyone, much less an angry Ben. What was with me today? 

"Fine, then don't come crying to me if she exposes us all" Ben spat out, then stormed off into the woods with Tory following and Shelton practically yelping at their heels. This left me behind with the girl, who had sunk to her knees in the sand, her eyes slightly glazed over as she stared at the ground.

Well, this was gonna get interesting.