A Lycan's Life

Chapter 10

As we were walking out Nathan decides to carry me (bridal style) and kisses me. I kiss him back.

"Nathan as much as I want to stay here with you carrying me and us kissing we should get back to the training area so you can continue to practice with your weapons before we go on our big hunting trip to start gathering more food for the winter."

"You're right Tess, let's get going then." He carries me most of the way.

"You can put me down, you don't have to carry me all the way."

"Alright." He says with a smile.

As September was coming to an end Nathan was getting so much better with his weapons, he was getting faster, and his aiming was also improving. Before we knew it we were in October and getting things ready for hunting.

"Tess, do you realize it's been a month?"

"I know I can't believe it. One month of being mates."

He gives me a small sweet kiss before we head out of the armory to catch up with Matthew and Cara who were waiting for us in the training area. As were getting closer I can see Cara waiting impatiently for us.

"Hurry up you two!"

We start jogging towards them.

"What took you so long?"

"I was getting some extra arrows." I tell her as I pass her, her arrows.
"For you too Matthew." I give him his bolts for his crossbow.

"Thank you Tess."

"No problem. Let's go. I wanna go back in time for lunch."

Not even an hour into hunting and already we have good game. Matthew managed to shoot a huge buck. Cara had half a dozen rabbits, and we still had a few more snares to check.

"Nathan and I will check the snares near the river. Both of you go up ahead, we'll catch up."

Cara and Matthew go up ahead. With the snares near the river there were another 4 rabbits.

"How long do you think this game will last us?"

"Not that long Nathan. I hear this year will be a harsh winter."
"Alright is that all? Are those all the snares?"

"Yeah."

"C'mon then, we should catch up to Cara and Matthew."

They shouldn't be that far, maybe a few yards. We see Matthew and Cara about 30 yards away, we hear a snap, Nathan and I duck down, Matthew drops the huge buck he was carrying and Cara drops the dozen rabbits she caught.

In about 3 seconds they both have out their weapons. Nathan was about to run towards them, but I grabbed his arm and mouthed

"No", he nodded.

We waited a few more seconds... Then someone tackled Matthew, he hit the ground, hard. Cara takes one of her knifes and throws it at the tackler. A Slayer great. There were 5 more hiding.

"Tess don't you think it's weird for Slayers to travel in 6 they usually just travel in 2."

"I know Nathan, something's not right."

3 out of the 5 that were hiding jump out one of them goes to attack Matthew who almost managed to stab him, but with a quick motion Matthew takes his dagger and throws it at the slayer, right at the neck. The other 2 go to attack Cara, she's throwing her knives and the slayers dodge them.

Nathan notices. So he goes to help her. While Nathan runs towards Cara he throws one of his daggers at one of the slayers fighting her, his dagger hits the slayer deep within his back. The last 2 slayers that were hiding attack them. They seem to be really good to avoid most of the knives thrown at them. Matthew and Nathan are now fighting hand-to-hand each with a slayer. Cara just started fighting hand-to-hand as well.

But still why travel in 6. Unless... Purebloods... But how do these slayers know we're all purebloods? As I was thinking about the current situation something caught my attention. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something shiny... A dart.

Another slayer, so there wasn't 6 there was 7, and this dart wasn't just any dart. That dart had a specific amount of poison and a specific kind of poison, the poison was meant to kill a demoness. The only demon in our group, Cara.

Why her? Then I remember. She is one of the last hundred pureblood demons.

NO! I'm not going to let my best friend die. If I attack the slayer, he'll still be able to shoot her, or get back to his leader(s) and tell them what we are capable of. The slayer is getting the dart ready. I don't have time to think about.

I make up my mind. I run towards Matthew punch the slayer he was fighting knocking him down. I run towards Nathan, I stab his slayer, kiss him one last time.

I punch Cara's slayer out of the way, and as I'm hugging her. I spin her around so that my back is towards the slayer with the dart.

"You're my best friend."

"What are you doing Tess?"

She pushes me aside.

She sees the slayer.

I get in front of her so that my back is once again to the slayer.

She knows what's about to happen.

I stop her from doing anything

I smile at her

The dart hits the back of my neck, I drop down to the floor, everything pitch black...