Hunger

Chapter 13 "Everton Hill"

Lucas jumped over fallen tree logs, rustled through leaves and bushes to get to the destination Lucas wanted to bring me. "Are we safe?" I asked as I started looking around, seeing if I saw anything out of the ordinary around the two of us, but struggled as everything went blurry when Lucas gained more speed.

Lucas nodded as he panted and started rushing up a hill, continuing to jump over fallen over trees.

The hill started getting steeper and steeper, all the to where I had to grip at Lucas's fur, trying not to rip it when he continued to jump around. "Where are you taking me?" I yelled as I tried to get loud enough for him to hear me over the panting.

Lucas continued to run all the way until we reached the top of the hill, where he lowered himself enough for me to jump off of his back.

I hesitantly walked over to the edge of the cliff, listening as the Lucas grunted and contoured his body to transform himself back to human.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" asked Lucas as he tried to catch his breath from running, "No, amazing" I replied and corrected him about the entire view of Everton Hill. "Who was that girl?" I asked as I heard Lucas slowly approached me from behind, accidentally snapping a branch or two as he walked over.

"We don't know, we've been tracking her for a while now" replied Lucas as he stopped right beside me, looking out on the many miles of woods Everton Hill had. "She's a vampire, right?" I asked only to assure myself, even though I already knew the answer.

"Yes, she's a vicious one..." replied Lucas as he adjusted what was left of his pants, "Is she the one that is killing everyone?" I asked as he admired the view with me, only to look down the valley to see his siblings on their way up to us.

Lucas turned to face me and shrugged to answer my question, "Do you have any theories on who the killer might be?" I asked as I looked down the back of the hill to see the three wolves contour themselves and transform back to human.

"I'm not sure?" said Lucas, before he walked over to hug his brothers and sister as they celebrated their victory.

"Did you get to her Nita?" I stuttered and asked her mid- celebration, "No, but she's definitely not come back for a while" she said with an assuring chuckle and cleaned off her knuckles.

I smiled as I turned around again, admiring the view once more before the chilling winds started blowing worse than before. Lucas noticed my worries and kneeled down and started contouring himself, grunting and roaring as he turned into a wolf once more for me to sit on his back again.

Carefully I kicked my leg over Lucas's back and grabbed on to his fur as he started jumping down the way we came up, only this time it was harder to stay on. "Lucas, I'm slipping" I said as I struggled to get a sturdy grip, while he continued to jump around going downwards.

Lucas heard what I said, he tried to straighten up his back to assure me I would stay on, but that only slowed him down. "Lucas!" I yelled as I slowly felt myself sliding further and further forwards, almost sending me face-first down the large hill.

"Lucas!" I finally yelled as I fell forward, landing straight onto my back and I started rolling down the hill.

Marcus, Anthony and Lucas all struggled to get a hold of me, they all tried to grab my arm, leg or anything for me to stop rolling down the hill. I closed my eyes as I started hearing twigs and branches breaking on the impact of my falling on to them, trying my hardest to protect my face.

I kept my eyes closed until I felt something grab me and a large gust of wind that hit my face.

"Are you ok?" asked William as I was in his arms with a bunch of sticks and leaves still stuck on me. "Yes" I faintly whispered in shock as William let me out of his arms, removing some sticks that had slightly ripped up my jacket.