Primal Inheritance: Freedom [COMPLETED]

Chapter 16: Shaye

Marissa

They left with a loud cracking sound, and the ground was smoking where they used to be. The vines around my feet unraveled, and I immediately ran to Donovan and Jamie's side.

Even though they were smaller than they should have been, they were still at my elbow level. I rubbed their manes and patted their snouts.
"Are you guys okay?" I asked.

"I feel like hell," Donovan said with his mind. "So do I." Jamie agreed.
"Stay in this form," I told them. "When we get to the hotel, we'll put you both in some clothes and seek out a medic."
"I don't think I could transform back if I wanted to," said Jamie bluntly.

This has been an utter failure. I thought sadly. We'd found and lost Danielle, and Axel told us we were contagious. But I don't believe that crap for a second. Donovan may have bitten Allen, but nothing has happened to Danielle. I'm sure that he said that as a ploy to get us to chase after them. We were going to go that anyways, but in our own time. If we could find Allen and explain it to him, it would be even easier. With him on our side, our power alone should scare the rest of the werewolf race off of us, leaving only mages, vampires, and the other random weaklings in the sky.

"Something's wrong," Jamie said to us. "It's almost night, but everyone in the hotel is active. It's normally quiet at this hour."
We were about a mile or two from the hotel, Donovan and Jamie were pushing forward tirelessly in there weakened state, and I was running full speed in my human form.
Normally, the wolf form is automatically faster than the human form, but they were struggling to keep up with me, and that's how I know they were in pain.

Suddenly, they both growled furiously and stopped a second, bared their teeth, and looked at each other. Their wolf senses must've heightened so much I couldn't hear the conversation anymore.
"What is it? What's happening?" I knew they couldn't speak verbally, but they still could hear me. I was hoping they'd calm down their minds enough, so I could enter the conversation, but they didn't.

Instead, they took off, running with a burst of energy they didn't have before. They overtook me and made it to the hotel, leaving huge clouds of dust in their wake.
When I caught up to them, the hotel was in shambles. There were people running in and out, some carrying suitcases, some carrying children. The windows were smashed on the first and second floor, and there were scratch marks all over the walls.

They got here four minutes before me! How much damage could they have done? Something in the back of my mind told me that this wasn't them, but I was still unsure.
While I was gazing at the destruction, something let out a horrifying sound.
I turned around to see a wolf bigger than me, Donovan, and Jamie. There was already a lot of blood on his snout. There's no telling how many people he's already killed.

"Stay back," I murmured, watching it closely, "Stay... GET HIM!"
Don and Jamie came running towards my rescue, both back in human forms, fully clothed. They jumped on it's face and attempted to stab it's eyes out with their bare hands.

I also sprung forward and gave the colossal dog a punch straight into its snout. I heard teeth crack and felt the crunch. It stumbled backwards, and Don and Jamie chose that time to shift. They were in their wolf forms before the creature hit the ground. Chewing and snarling and barking, they didn't stop attacking until they knew it's heart stopped.

I bent down to look at the creature as it returned to human form. My stomach lurched, and I got extremely hot. Spots appeared in my eyes, and the world swayed.
"Marissa, are you okay?"

Jamie

Something weird happened when I touched the monster. It reminded me of taking drugs that make you wide awake. All of my senses brightened, and I felt great. It was like I took a bath in steroids and I absorbed it through my skin.