AWAKENING[REVAMPED EDITION]

CHAPTER IV

SAME DAY. DARRIS JACKSON HOUSE RESIDENCE.

"She's here."

"I know", Nico responded across the receiver and sat in a sedan parked across from the targeted house.

"Can we engage?"

"Yes. Engage immediately", he answered and watched from the drivers' side window as three figures slowly approached the house and got into position. One of the right side, one on the left, and one in the back.

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INSIDE DARRIS JACKSON HOUSE RESIDENCE. SAME DAY.
"I'm not doing it Valentina", Darris answered while pouring a beer into an empty cup. For the past thirty minutes he had been pestered by Valentina trying to get him to join the FBI in taking down the lycans. He had made up his mind, he was done.

"Please dad", she begged walking toward him and placing a tender hand on his shoulder. "They need you."

With a grunt, Darris shrugged her hand off and sat at the dining room table. Pulling up a chair, Valentina sat next to him and for a few minutes they sat in silence. Neither one wanting to say what they really meant.

Until the sound. It was unmistakable.

The sound of shattered glass could be heard upstairs along with the sounds of someone heaving themselves through the now broken window.

Putting a finger to his cracked lips, Darris lifted Valentina out of her chair, put him on her back, and quietly slid into the guest bedroom. Within seconds he had her hiding under the bed along and an assault rifle across his chest. He knew what had broken into the house and he knew what it wanted.

He didn't expect however, for there to be two more sounds of glass breaking, one from each side of the house. Digging savagely through the drawers he lifted a false bottom from under one of the drawers and revealed three large rounds each holding pure silver bullets.

Positioning himself in a closet right beside the door, Darris would wait for them to come to him.

It didn't take long.

At first everything was silent but then a strong bang came from the other side of the door knocking it right off the hinges and splintering across the carpeted floor. Three very tall figures walked inside all sniffing around and shifting their bodies toward Darris' location.

"We smell you", one of the figures said in a demonic tone walking toward the closet where Darris stood ready, gun aimed at the door. The other two stood in the doorway blocking any chance of escape.

With a small tug from the figure, both locked closet doors flew off into the wall parallel and broken into jagged pieces, some that stuck into the wall. But Darris was prepared. Instantly he opened fire spraying a full round into the figure that stood before him, its reaction time to slow to dodge them all.

With the impact of the bullets penetrating its skin the first figure flew back and impaled himself within one of the door's jagged closet pieces sticking out of the wall. In shock, both other figures moved quickly to Darris, both wrapping one arm around him and throwing him through the nearby window.

One after the other they both climbed out the window after him and a few seconds later shots could be heard once more from the backyard. Quickly coming out from under the bed and looking toward the broken window, Valentina saw in horror as Darris tried to fend off both incoming lycans.

With its claws extended one rushed past Darris and stopped behind him. For a second nothing happened, the backyard silent and unmoving. Then in complete and utter shock, Valentina watched as Darris crumpled to the ground, both his hands holding one part of his side.

"Do you think he'll bleed out", one asked the other as they both stood over him.

"After this", the other figure said and extending one claw, lifted Darris head and slashed a part of his neck. At once, a river of warm blood began to flow from the large wound and both lycans began to lap it up with their tongues.

"Alright, let's get out of here before the FBI shows", one figure said and stopped licking the blood that gushed from Darrir' neck wound. After a few more licks, the other one stopped as well and both ran into the large forest that stood behind the house leaving the dying lycan beside Valentina.

Rushing around the house and dialing 911 on her phone she knelt beside Darris and lifted his bleeding head into her lap and wept. He wasn't moving or breathing nor did he have a pulse, the jugular vein being split right open by the lycan's slash.

"Please", she cried loudly and leaned her head over her father's dead body.

"I came as soon as I could."

Valentina looked up with tears eyes to see Nico standing over her. "Is he dead", he asked and when she gave a slight nod he turned his back towards her, walked away, and dialed what appeared to be a single number on his phone.

Being in too much grief Valentina found herself unable to move even when more agents and the paramedics came to the backyard. She couldn't leave him, he was all she had left in the world, her mother and brother being killed by a lycan attack three years before. Now the same monsters had taken her father's life.

Everything else was a blur as things became unclear. The last thing she remembered was having the paramedics take the dead body of her father into an ambulance and drive off. No lights. Other officers and FBI agents stepped into the house and looked around to discover the dead body of one of the unknown lycans.

"Take it out of the house and transport it to the body analysis unit", Nico said staring at the unmoving lycan. Though it was not moving he could still hear a faint heartbeat and smelt the breath coming out of it's open mouth. Shaking his head, Nico watched carefully as four agents carried the lycan body out of the house and into a nearby transport truck.

Nico walked out the house slowly behind the agents with a small grin on his face and his phone raised to his ear.

"He's dead", Nico spoke into the phone with only a few words being spoken back.

"Good. Now go into phase 2."

And the phone disconnected.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:
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