Night Guardians

Chapter Three- Big Bad Wolf

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*Ash's POV*

Biology went by very fast, which was a miracle in itself seeing as it was the most boring class I’d taken this year.

As usual, I didn’t pay any attention to what Ms What’s-her-name had said during class. She had been in class for a few weeks, so most of the students were used to her by now.

I didn’t know why but I couldn’t look away from where Beth sat. At the beginning of class the teacher had put her with Scarlet, the school bitch. The scene was so ironic. She had been the girl who was the worst to Beth last year and now all Scarlet wanted was Beth’s attention, but of course she didn’t know who the new girl really was. The only people who knew were me and Will, and he wasn’t going spread that around considering what he had been saying about her this morning to the other guys in class before I told him.

Scarlet was talking to her again. Wow, this girl really was pathetic sometimes. She hadn’t shut up since that loopy teacher had let us start the experiment, and that was twenty minutes ago.

Beth wasn’t looking at her while she was speaking. I doubted she even knew what she was saying. She was just sitting there drawing on her palm again.

She had caught me looking at her a moment ago, her grey eyes turning cold as ice when she stared at me, but I didn’t flinch. All I could do was smile at the glare that had meant to terrify me. I couldn’t help it.

She hadn’t looked at me since. It made me wonder how many other classes we had together.

I shook my head.

What was I talking about? It didn’t matter what classes we had together. I shouldn’t have been even thinking about ‘Elizabeth’ at all.

I had to go to the library after school to catch upon some homework I’d missed. The library wasn’t far from the school, only a few streets away. After a few hours the place was almost completely empty apart from me.

Now just to sign it...

“Yeah! I’m done!” I cheered, way too loud for a public library.

Avoiding dagger stares from the librarian, I packed up my books and headed out the door.

The quickest exit was the fire escape that led into the parking lot at the back of the building. It was only just after early, but the sky was almost completely dark apart from a sliver of light bluish-yellow on the far horizon. Winter was drawing nearer and so was the night.

I was halfway to the parking lot exit when I heard it.

I didn’t know how to describe it. It was disturbing, tearing sound that made me feel sick to the pit of my stomach. And it was close, coming from behind the black Ford two cars away, the retching sound of ripping, of something sodden and tough.

I still wonder what would’ve happened if I’d ignored it and just gone home. What my life would’ve been like.  

But of course, I didn’t ignore it.

Slowly, I walked up to the black car. I stopped cold.

Two animals stood huddled over some kind of dead carcass. Relief briefly tugged at my heart, the mental image of a couple of stray dogs infiltrating my mind. The two creatures must’ve caught something. But as I got closer, I could see the carcass more clearly.

My insides lurched. A human arm laid stretched outwards, only barely attached and hanging like a string to the torso the beasts were feeding off of.

My throat closed up, my wind pipe growing dry and tight. I couldn’t breathe. My whole mind was in a state of total nightmare.

Oh my God. This wasn’t happening. This couldn’t have been happening. This was the type of stuff you saw on T.V, not outside your public library.

Don’t just stand there!

My legs began to listen to my mental voice. I began to back away from the horror scene in front of me.

Ow!

The sound of my hip smacking against the rear of the car disturbed the animals from their meal. They both lifted up their heads to me. I was finally able to see that the beasts weren’t mere dogs, but wolves. But they weren’t ordinary wolves. They were at least twice the size of a normal wolf, but their most frightening feature wasn’t the extra long teeth. It was the eyes, the eyes filled with such bloodlust and power. The endless black of the first wolf’s eyes made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. The wolf looked like it was smirking. The sound of their carnivorous growls sent chills running down my spine.

What are you doing? Run!

Without a second to lose, I threw my backpack, weighed with four 600 page thick text books, straight onto the first wolf’s nose. The wolf yelped with the pain from the force of the books.

I made a run for the gate.

It led into alley next to the allotments. I sprinted down the pathway as fast as my legs would carry me. The howls sounded from the end of the path, stopping me in my tracks. They’d cut me off.

The two wolves stood there in front of me, both covered in thick, dark fur. One was brown, the other black.

They both looked at me, their bodies shifting into attack position.

My blood froze to ice. There was no chance for me now. They were too close. If I tried to run they’d catch me for sure.

It was fully dark now. No one else was down here; that was certain. No one could save me.

The black wolf made a move with his jaw, a move that sent icy chills down my spine, creating a haunting illusion that it was smiling. A wolf smiling. It was evil. It took a step toward me, but then abruptly stopped.

The wolf seemed to have forgotten me, both of them had, but I still couldn’t move. My body wouldn’t let me.

Its right ear propped up. It listened intently for the sound of whatever it had just heard. Suddenly, it saw something, something that had it surprised. It was looking in my direction, but not at me, but past me. I then heard the voice.

“I’ll give you mutts three seconds to get out of here.”

The black wolf growled in response to the command, the brown wolf followed its example. Both of them took a step forward.

“You asked for it. Three.”

Two blasts rang out.

I dived, head first, to the floor. When I looked up, I saw two piles of brown and black lumps of fur lying on the ground, dead.

Footsteps slowly came up behind me.

They finally stopped in front of me. Two shiny black boots stood in front of my eyes. They crouched down so I could see their face. In the sliver of moonlight, I saw the silhouette of black hair I had seen all day and the silver grey eyes.

Beth’s teeth twinkled in the moonlight. “Hello Ash.”