Weres

54. Sounia

"Looks like this welcome party is going to outdo the last night's," Thea said, before shifting into her raven wolf and launching toward the woods. Her pack warriors followed after their Alpha's daughter.

"Do I have to be here too?" A guy standing beside Hunter asked indifferently.

"If you want to be called Cole and not rogue, then yes," Hunter replied, taking off his shirt and imitating Thea.

With a large sigh, Cole shifted like everybody else and followed his beta and others into the woods. He was starting to regret his decision to join Oakheart's pack.

Eden in his wolf form bolted through the mass of trees, the violent rustling following his every step. Oliver and others were just behind. Thea and Hunter with their packs weren't far either. His eyes caught several figures charging toward them with even more inhuman speed from the other side. There were hundreds of them.

Knights!

Eden struck down a human-like being by locking his jaws on its neck and clenching it down until blood came gushing out of its neck and its body turned limp. The Alpha spitted it out, seeing her white colorless eyes turning emerald blue as she took her last breath. She was just a human, or at least used to be. 

The very thought struck him more deeply than he had intended to let it. But it didn't stop him from slaughtering the other knights rushing to take the place of their dead companion.

Others followed suit and attacked the marbled creatures with the same vigour. Guttural growls and screams ceased the previous tranquility of the forest, and more and more blood started falling on the ground.

Kyle crushed the neck of a sired one of his species. As the knight fell to the ground, his eyes landed at the top of a tree. He cursed at the sight before him. There stood a woman in a black cloak, her blond curls swaying along the sides of her snow white cheeks, matching her golden eyes. 

The woman was simply standing, passively watching the bloody encounter between the two paranormal species. Her eyes were more active than the other knights, scrutinizing and calculating the strength of her opponents.

"What are you doing there?" Kyle muttered to himself, before taking off to reach her.

The woman saw him coming after her. She glowered before dashing off in other direction.

"Where are you running off to?" He chased after her, but was stopped by the knights rounding him from all sides. He kept thrashing them but the streak of homicidal creatures didn't seem to end, exhausting him of his strength. Suddenly, a grey wolf came to his aid and wiped out the enemies, freeing his path.

Eden too had spotted the strange woman and mind-linked Jessica, their fastest runner, to go after her. But Jessica knew her speed wasn't a match for the knight's. As deflating as it was for her ego, she reckoned Kyle had to be the one to go after that knight woman.

Jessica bit into the torso of a knight which was latched onto Kyle and gestured him to chase the woman. He nodded and sprinted off, leaving the werewolf to fend off the enemies.

Kyle mustered all his stamina and quickened his pace, which came at a cost of him huffing. He finally saw the woman's back, camouflaged among the dense woods. She was getting away. Kyle, probably for the very first time, wished Iosif was here. The century old sage was much faster than him and would've the woman on the ground by now.

Well, let's make Snow proud! He cheered himself, chasing after her. 

Suddenly, the woman was knocked out from the front and fell on his footsteps.