Their scent was an impossibility. It just couldn’t be, but it was. They were werewolves, beyond a shadow of a doubt. We backed off to regroup. It was past time that we told the others what we were, and it was our duty as the team leaders to inform them of any potential dangers they were facing.
“What you mean to tell us is that you and your brother have been keeping a huge secret from us since day one. Carmen, you should know that we all realized that a long time ago.” that was Ramirez talking. “So, you’re not angry that we’re the ‘creepy things that go bump in the night’ so called, you guys are just upset that we didn’t tell you all sooner.” “Pretty much.” “Oookaayy then. Good to know. Now, I have no doubt that the other pack has been made aware of our prescence by now. James-” I was interrupted by a deep, angry velvet voice from the forest. “You’re right. We do know that you’re here. Now, explain why or I’ll kill you all.” I could see the speaker now. A male, midtwenties, 6’6, black hair, green eyes. I answered, knowing that when the death threats were rolling out, they were just sizing us up. “We’re here cause we were forced to make an emergency landing during the storm yesterday evening. Who are you and what do you want with us?” “My name is Kael, and I want you to leave.” “Ha. Wish granted. We want to get off this island as much as you want us gone.” I had piqued his interest now. He was probably going to assign a border patroll to watch the camp, assuming he had a pack. “Why were you even flying near here to begin with, let alone in a storm?” “That is none of your buisness.” “It is in my homeland and my airspace so that makes it very much my buisness. Tell me now or you will all be killed.” A lie. You don’t kill untill you’ve gathered all the information pertinent to you. Witholding that information would keep us all alive for longer. Maybe I could still get us outta this. “Excuse me, but is your name written on the sky? Do you have any way to prove that the land is actually yours?” That seemed to piss him off, but it temporarily ended his line of questioning. “It matters not. Tell me what your mission in coming here was.” or maybe not. “We were trying to get home. I have two younger siblings who are dependent on me, and that is the extent of our mission.” He looked as if he very much doubted that, but that was my story and I was sticking to it. “That dosen’t tell me anything.” He muttered, intending it only for my ears. “It tells you everything you need to know.” I muttered back. James looked at me questioningly, and I shot him a withering look. Then James shifted his stance. I moved into place a fraction of a millisecond before James lunged at Kael. “James! Stop struggling you brain-dead moron! Are you really going to be so stupid as to get us all killed?!” “Shut up Carmen.” “Nobody, and I mean nobody, uses that amount of disrespect with me, James Cortez, now back off!” I shot Kael a desperate look. “Kael, you need to leave before someone-” I grunted as James got an elbow slam to my ribs in. Lucky hit. “gets seriously hurt.” Just then, James struggled free of me and made another lunge at Kael. It’s a good thing I’m a fast runner, or I wouldn’t be here to tell you this. I managed to lunge into James’s path. He full-on body slammed me. I was hit so hard that I flew thirty feet through the air and took off the topmost branches of a nearby palm tree before hitting the ground with an unwilling “Unh!” as I felt the impact. I lost time after that.
