The Wolf in Me

Chapter 21: Rescue

Ethan POV

It had been three weeks until we last met Daron or Will, Mike and Ross. Alice was very sad as her only older brother was gone and she had no one else in her family to look after us. Luckily I and she started to hang out together.

Darkness returned to the forests of the world. A while ago we were 14 werewolves and 2 draconimus, but now we were only 8 small wolves. It felt really bad as our large pack was now getting smaller.

Almost all day the sky would be covered in clouds, and the lands would be gray. We could not turn into werewolves as without Daron it was not possible and Jeor was still very weak. I tried to call Daron on his cell but he wouldn't answer.

So one day I was with Alice when suddenly we felt a strange disturbance in the force.

"What is it Ethan?" Alice asked me as I lifted my head to sniff the air.

"I sense a disturbance in the force. Something's not right." I said to her.

Suddenly we heard the cawing of a raven. CAW! CAW! CAW! The raven said and came to sit on a branch near us. There was something strange about that raven.

"Do you feel what I feel?" Alice asked me as she looked at the raven which was strangely looking at us.

"It's strange," I said.

"Hey! Who are you calling strange?" The raven said to our surprise. I could not believe my ears.

"Did you hear the raven talk?" I asked Alice.

"I did!" She said.

"I am not a mere raven, I am Bartram, and I am a friend to Lord Daron of the House of Duskveil. For the last few weeks I had been in search of Lord Daron, and I found him. He has been imprisoned by the enemy, and they plan to kill him the next full moon."

"What?!" I asked. "Daron is not that weak, he can kill many vampires at once. What you say is impossible."

"I wish it were," said the raven, "But what I say is true. One of your friends has been tortured and twisted by the enemy and turned into a monster. Even as Daron valiantly fought the werewolf, he was bitten many times and almost slain. Werewolf venom runs through his veins, making it impossible for him to use his magic. We have till the full moon until Daron is killed by the werewolf."

"Well then, show us where he is."

"You must follow me then."

"Ethan," said Alice. "We cannot turn to werewolves until the full moon, we have no draconimus by our side remember?"

"What do we do now?" I asked.

"I have a solution," said Jeor who came to us, "I know a spell that will turn you two into werewolves for 24 hours. However you cannot turn back to human form until 24 hours. I hope you'll find Daron by this time."

"Fine then, use it." I said.

Jeor used his spell and then I and Alice turned into werewolves then. "Wait!" Mike called us, "If you're going to rescue Daron, Mike, Will and Ross, I'll be coming with you."

"Fine then," said Jeor. "I'll turn you into a werewolf as well."

And so we three wolves rushed into the forest and followed Bartram to the castle. It took us over 20 hours to reach our destination.

We then saw a castle at the horizon, it was an evil castle.

"How do we get in?" I asked.

"Just go forward," said Bartram, "It's safe to go out there. The vampire are all asleep right now."

We walked towards it when suddenly James came before us. "Hey Pipsqueak!"

He used to call me Pipsqueak when he was alive and my bully. I was angered by this. And I was also surprised as Bartram said that the vampires won't be coming then. Suddenly Bartram flew by and sat on James' shoulder, he was a traitor and had lied to turn us in. I was furious at him.

"James! Come down and I'll fight you!" I used telepathy to tell him so.

"Oh?! Will you?" He asked. Suddenly zombies came out of the ground and at us. "Capture them, but do not kill them..... unless you cannot hold them."

The three of us closed up together. We all attacked and killed many zombies but soon they defeated us and pinned us to the ground.

Mike could still be not stopped, and for long he kept on fighting them, but the zombies killed him. "Mike! No!" I whined as I saw him die.

"Such a waste," said James, "I would have him rather turn to a monster and serve my master, but nothing can be done."

"You'll pay for that!" I screamed at him.

"Oh, yes I will," he said. "Perhaps about ten thousand years later, but by then I will be bored of my life already. Now, surrender or you will die as well."

Suddenly behind him came a GIANT wolf, with red eyes and black skin, it looked much like Will.

"Will? Is that you?" Alice asked.

"Surrender now or I will be forced to kill you, sister." The werewolf said in words and not telepathy. It was Will, but he for some reason seemed to not be in his mind.

Alice was broken to see that her brother could not recognize her, the zombies held us captive.

"Take them to the dungeons." James said and then the zombies took us to the cells beneath.