Artemis Child

Artemis Child Ch15

   The wolf's eyes were human like, but evil. They flared like blue embers, but the pupils were silver. They were cold eyes, that made my blood run still. "Do you know what I am?" The being spoke, and bared its large teeth. "You are a werewolf?" I asked, confused by the creature's question. "The very first." It corrected me. "I was created by Gaia. I was free, and allowed to eat anything that I hunted. I only ate the hearts of man. It was the best part, nothing else was to my taste." He started.

"Your mother, that wretched waste of space, confronted me about the honor of the hunt. She warned me that if I wasted another thing, that she would curse my body to be powerless to the wrath of man. I didn't heed her warning, and sure enough. The next time I killed and wasted, my body deduced to the very being I killed." He said with a growl.

"I could only change on an eclipse, and everyone I attack and wasted came back. But I did learn something, the reason Artemis never has children is because they would get my curse." He said with a snicker.

"I bit her once, and my saliva is in her blood stream. When she cursed me, she also cursed herself. Now that you are of age, your body can handle my presence. I can finally take control, in the next few hours." He said while looking back to the heart red sky. "Time for you to wake up." He said as my eyes flashed open.

I was back inside the train station, and the others we standing up. "Ok guys, its time to go camping." Serena said in a cheerful voice. I got up as well, and shook off the memories of the dream. Soon we boarded the train, and were off to the camp.

The train ride lasted for hours, most of the time was spent through puking, telling jokes, or singing. (And I don't mean campfire songs.) Anytime that the puking feeling wasn't on me, I sung some country music. It was mostly off key, because of the shaking of the train.

Everything was great, until the train stopped. Making everyone lurch forward a bit. "What is going on?" I asked while looking out the window. The train was stopped on a spot that over looked the small forest out the window. No one answered my question, but there was a knock at the door of or train. Andrew answered it.

The moment he opened the door a little, a large red hand grabbed him and its owner charged through the room. I was grabbed by its other hand as it got closer. 'Bam' We crashed through the window and wooden wall. Broken glass and stuff rained down on us as we fell.
Andrew drove his knee hard into the red creature's chin, making it let go. It tried to grab us again. The arms swinging wildly and almost getting another grip. I leaned back as it passed, everything seeming to happen slow.
We landed in the tree tops, and we scrambled to get out as it chased us. Andrew drew his weapon, but in the scramble some how the creature got it. 'If only I could see its face I could know what we were fighting.' I thought to myself.

In the tree, I felt faster and smarter. I dodged the weapon swings of the monster and swung on branches with one hand to shift my weight. That is how I attack back, kicking what little of the creature I could see.

One good kick disarmed it, but made the weapon slice through my finger. Which in turn made me fall. A branch came up fast and hit my back. It stopped me enough for the creature to catch my throat.

I felt weightless as I was pushed down hard to the upcoming ground. The ground knocked the wind out of me, and the creature holding my neck only made it worse. As if just in time, Andrew came landing into the creature, plunging his blade deep into the creature. Which made it burst into gold dust, and dropped Andrew ontop of me.

His sword was still pointed down, it peirced the ground next to my head. He looked at me, small droplets of ash rained down on me. He had a smile on his face, and I could hear his heart pounding. It wasn't from killing the monster, because it stayed fast while his breath was steady. He glanced at something lower than my eyes before saying anything.

"Sorry." He said as he pulled his sword out the ground and helped me up. "That was a red giant. The aren't that big, but they are really strong." He explained. "Gena! Serena!" I called to the train opening.

They stuck their heads out of the new window hole. "You ok guys?" Serena ask. "Aye esay, how you get down there?" Gena asked in a funny spanish voice. "In my bag there is a rope, get it and send it down." Andrew called up.

When the rope made it down, Andrew and I climbed the tree to reach the start of the rope. "We should go one at a time. You go." I said just incase something was going to happen. He started climbing.

'Bump Bump' The sound came as my vision blurred. Andrew climbed the rope and was already at the top when the poison reached my heart. 'Bump Bump' "It is time." The wolf voice said as I looked up to see the sky becoming dark and moonless as my vision starts to double.