Innocent Darkness

The Calm Before the Eclipse

"He's going to be ok, right? " I asked as Thomas pulled the gun out of my grip to reload it.

"Oh he'll be fine. Don't worry about it. He's been hit with much worse." Thomas assured me. "Charles, you good?" He helled out to the wolf that didn't seem to enjoy being the one to be shot at. Charles let out a bark which Thomas took it as a sign that the wolf was alright.

"Take a run, circle back and charge at her." Thomas ordered before looking to me. "Watch me load. Pull this bolt here up and back, then take the blank, put in in the chamber, pull the bolt up and forward and then down. Now it's ready to fire. You need to strike one of us before we reach you." He said as he started peeling out of his clothes before I could react to what he said.

"Wait what do you, oh god." I turned my back as he became naked before I heard the sound of him shifting. I turned around when I thought he was done shifting and fired the rifle, causing him to let out a loud growled yelp.

I heard a chuckle come from the direction of the house to see Issac with a grin on his face. "He's not going to be happy you outsmarted him on that." He pointed in my direction. "Hey, newbie, you might want to reload." I turned around to see Charles charging in my direction.

I took the rifle by the barrel and swung it like a back similar to how I've seen people do it in movies when they run out of ammo. The back of the rifle struck Charles hard enough to knock him off his course and caused him to roll several feet away from me.

"I think she's done kicking both your butts now." Issac said chuckling while walking up to me to take a hold of the rifle. "The point was to fire at them while they were charging you. Teaching you how to reload quickly and still strike your target. But this was more entertaining to watch. I think you are good for tonight. Charles and Thomas might be sore in the morning, but you hurt their pride more than anything."

I gave a smile before I zipped inside before I got asked to shoot someone else. The house was buzzing with people again and the smell of pizza filled the air. I felt a few stares as I entered the kitchen area. "If you guys wanted dinner, I am sure I could of cooked something better then delievery." I said sarcastically, glacing around looking for Master Liam.

"He's upstairs, turn right at the top last door at the end of the hallway. Just please keep in mind that people do go in and out of his office more regular then the bedroom." I heard Issac say from behind me. I looked over my shoulder and gave a sly smile followed with a wink before making my way upstairs to Master Liam's office.

I stood in front of the door, tracing my fingertips along the woodgrain debating if I should knock on it or not. Maybe I shouldn't bother him because he could be catching up on work from the day. I think I made him late today and I don't want to make him fall further behind.

"Just go in." I heard from a voice behind me and I turned around to see Brent looking at me blankly. He was shirtless but was wearing a pair of sweatpants.

"You doing a run thing again tonight?" I asked trying to make causal conversation. He didn't answer as he turned around and left me standing outside the office door.

I turned around and gave a slight knock on the door.

"Come in." I heard from a voice on the other side.

I opened the door slowly, in case there were other people in the room too I didn't want to look too excited to see Master Liam.

"Miss Burns, everything go well with Thomas and Charles?" Master Liam looked up from the papers on his desk as I took a seat in the chair in front of the desk.

"Well, I'm not sure. Issac said I was entertaining. I shot Charles and smacked him with the rifle and I landed a surprise shot on Thomas. He had finished doing his shifting and the instructions were to shoot both of them before they reached me." I said innocently answering the question given to me.