Dreamlanders

Chapter 24

Easton made his way back to his own pack after failing to find Quinton. He did send Alonzo to find him, so hopefully Quinton will be here soon. He runs through the open gates of the wall, but abruptly stops when he sees nothing... but dead bodies and blood. His eyes run across all the bodies and wolves that lie lifelessly on the ground. Movement catches his attention in the corner of his eye. Among the body lie a half alive woman. He joys over to the injured woman. Her blonde hair is covered in blood as she bleed porously, she's covered in bite marks and she has a huge gash along her neck. Easton takes her hand in his and squeezes it. "Where is everyone? What happened?" Easton softly asks. Her eyes flutter slightly revealing her brown eyes.

"They took them inside..." her eyes bounce over his face, finding it difficult to stay awake.

"Who?" her eyes begin to close. "Hey," he quietly says and gives her a gentle push. Easton knows there's nothing he can do for her. She takes a deep breath and her whole body falls limp. Still holding her warm hand and gently places it over her stomach.

Over the smell of death he begins to sniff out the alive part of his pack. He picks up a familiar scent and begins to follow it, he stops outside the pack's community hall. He listens intensely and could hear slight mutters on the other side of the door. Straining his hearing he was able to pick up a thing to two.

"How long do we have to stay here?"

"I know why can't we just kill them all."

Easton furrows his eyebrows and moves away from the door. He didn't know who was behind the door or what he could even do from the outside. The windows are at the high points on the walls, meaning there is no way he can look in through them from the ground. Looking around he didn't know what to do. Did the vargulfs round them all up and are keeping them hostage inside? So many questions whirl round in his head and he just couldn't figure out what was going on inside that building. He scratches his head. Suddenly, three gunshots are heard from inside the building, making him jump slightly. Now he is pretty sure that his pack is being held hostage, but its not like he could do anything on his own. Quinton still hasn't turned up and worry has started to seep into Easton.

Easton begins jogging while looking around his surroundings to see if he could find anyone. He enters the pack house, but its dead silent. Heading up the stairs he pushes every single door open yet he couldn't find a single soul. Frowning, he turns back around and comes face-to-face with a huge ugly man. The rogue growls at Easton, he quickly reaches for his blade that he has placed in his back pocket. As he does this, the rogue grabs him, Easton swings his arm towards the rogue with the blade in his hand. It slices the rogue's cheek catching him of guard. With all the strength Easton has, he pushes the man back. The rogue is now absolutely furious. The rogue charges towards Easton knocking him over, they both tumble to the ground, Easton's back hitting the wooden floor boards. Easton grunts in pain and slashes his knife across the man's buff arm, hardly causing him any harm. The rogue blasts a hard punch against his jaw, dislocating it. The impact causes Easton to drop the blade and it slides across the ground. However, Easton's lycan powers heal his jaw really quickly. Both men swing and kick each other until beaten bruised. Finally, the rogue has had enough and grabs the blade from the floor and pierces it through Easton's shoulder instantly weakening him. Easton cries out in pain as he feels the sliver seeping through his blood stream. Easton goes to pull the sliver blade out from his shoulder to gain some strength back, but the rogue grabs his unharmed arm and begins to drag him down the hall.

With every stair Easton bangs his head as he dragged down backwards by his arm. Easton tries to pull the blade out with his injured arm, but can't. He groans as he is pulled out of the pack house and down towards the community hall. The rogue doesn't look back at him once, not caring if he is dead or alive.

The doors to the hall open and all Easton could hear is the gasps of many of his pack members and along with the dreamlanders that were staying in the pack. The rogue throws him in front of some members and they instantly rush over to him with concerned expressions. One of the woman looks over at the blade and instantly pulls it out then places a blanket over it to stop the blood. When she does this he jerks and screams out in agony. Easton's body is in an awful amount of pain, but he allows his body to do the work as it slowly heals him. He cries out in agony as his body flinches as a reaction to the sliver. "Easton its ok. Try to stay calm," the same woman attempts to sooth her beta.

All the pack members that are alive are cramped into the community hall; all being held hostage. Rogues and vargulfs surround the inside and outside of the building preventing them from leaving. They also kill anyone who disrespects them or doesn't obey their orders. Lots of injured warriors lie on the ground with people quietly attending to them. A couple of people have been shot and died on the spot, their bodies lie where they were killed with people sobbing over them.

The room is mostly quiet a part from quiet cries and groans. They have to sit in silence, because the rogues and vargulfs didn't want them to try to plan anything. Easton's head flops to the other side and he finds himself staring at someone's very new and clean pair of dress shoes. His eyes wander up and meet a familiar pair. He blinks trying to figure out if what he was seeing is correct. Hazel's dad, James, stands over him smirking. James folds his arm across his chest.

"Your going to come in handy to us," the smirk turns into a full blown grin.