Two years later
Mary's P.O.V
A whole week before it's my birthday. My sweet sixteen as it's more commonly known. I know Dad and Dora are planning something because they have been so secretive lately and each time I walked into the room they stopped talking only to continue with something that I really do not believe is what they were talking about beforehand.
I already know what my wish is going to be when I get the chance to blow out the candles on my cake that Dad has never failed to make me. I'm going to wish that I do not blackout anymore and when I wake up I'm covered in blood and sometimes other human body parts. It's usually when Dad and I have had a run-in with each other when he doesn't want to let me go out with the little friends that I happen to make whenever we move to a new town.
I really thought that the moving around would stop once I had gotten older but in fact, it had only caused it to get more frequent. I don't kno
Dad and Dora visibly relaxed after I told them what I thought they wanted to say to me. I knew this could not be the adventure planned for my birthday unless we would be having lunch on some mountainside somewhere. Dad must have seen me looking at the picnic basket because he chuckled before taking the basket and motioning for me and Dora to follow him. "This is not your birthday adventure. I just wanted to have a family picnic somewhere quiet before your friends take you away from home for their birthday celebrations that they probably would want to have with you. I don't only want to be able to spend time with you again on or even after your birthday." He could sometimes get so sentimental with me that I would be in tears. "Family outing. I got it. I want to go and get changed into some better shoes. Meet you guys outside?"Standing outside the kitchen door I listened to Dad and Dora talking again. Dad mentioned something to her that he would in fact be telling me today and that
Hearing the crunching of the leaves and the breaking of the branches sounding like a whole army heading our way had Dad and Dora worried as they had started packing up the basket and everything as fast as I had ever seen that happen."What is happening? What are you doing?""Pack we need to leave now."Still not sure why I needed to pack I started helping them get everything packed up."Run back home, get your to-go bags and get to the car as soon as possible. We need to get out of here and away before they catch up. If I am not back in the next ten minutes go without me and I'll try my best and meet up with you. The address to run to is in the car's glove compartment. Now go."Dad tried pushing me and Dora to run towards the house but I was not leaving him here alone to face the army that we could hear coming closer and closer with each passing second. Why had I been training all these years if I was just going to be pushed to ru
Ryder's P.O.V Hearing the crunching leaves and breaking branches alerted us that someone was coming and that they were coming fast. I knew it was not the people after Dora because she would have been incapacitated by now with how close they were to us. I knew it had to be either the rebellion or the royal guard. I didn't want Dora or Mary to be here to find out who it was along with me, so I had them go along to the car for so long. I could see Mary struggling to listen to me, and I had to force her gently to go along with Dora to the car, but it is for the best and for her best. If they would find her here with me they would have dragged her back after they had killed me and Dora and made her do their bidding if it was the rebellion and if it was the royal guard they would have done the same except they would not have dragged her back but they would have taken her back to her parents if they were still alive. After she had disappeared, they had closed off, and nobody had seen them i
I honestly don't know what I did to anger the moon goddess because she did not listen to my prayers. We had not gotten far away before the three were on our tails again. This time, they weren't being safe around Mary anymore, and they were doing whatever they felt was necessary to get her from the car. I didn't have the time to look back and make sure that she was safe and not scared out of her mind because one wrong move on my part could send us all to an early grave, if not lifelong imprisonment. They had shifted and were chasing us in their wolf forms, bumping against the car every once in a while, biting at the tyres making me swerve before getting back control. I could barely keep the car on the road as it was but with the nipping and everything, they were making it a lot more challenging to keep it steady. Just when it looked like they were backing off, one of them managed to get a good enough bite into the tyre and have it run flat. Not being able to continue with the flat
Dora's P.O.V Ryder left to go and make sure that there would be no werewolves here that would cause us trouble before he signed the lease for the house he had gotten us. The fact that we would only be able to occupy it in a few days because the owner said she was still getting it ready for renters was making me uneasy. I mean Ryder said that he had booked this place a while ago when he was working out the plan ahead of time so she knew there were people coming here to rent it so she could have made sure that she had it all ready before now. I just found it strange that she didn't make sure that the place would be done and ready when she had gotten the rent request from Ryder and accepted it from her side. It made me suspicious and I shared these with Ryder before he left and he said that he would check it out and make sure before we jumped to any conclusions. I agreed but that didn't mean that I would sit back and let him do everything on his own. I had my own ways of finding out i
Mary's P.O.V I didn't think that I had missed as much as I had missed while I was out but by listening to the story that Dora was telling me I did in fact miss a lot. We were even at the second location since the attack that dad was sidestepping the whole time. To be honest I felt better than what I remember feeling the last time with the doctor and his wife. I don't feel so scared and weak as I did with them and since I woke up on my own without the screams ringing through the whole room meant that hopefully, the nightmares would also not be present this time. Maybe it was the fact that I was older and understood more of what was going on in the world or maybe because in my heart I had started making peace with the fact that I was not normal and that the other people in my family were also not normal. I mean my dad can turn into a werewolf at will and Dora has this weird relationship with plants and little creatures. She also collapses when peopl
Unknown's P.O.VWe had just finished dinner and were walking back to my place where I had plans for the lovely lady that was so willing to accompany me on this date tonight. Little did she know that she would not be seeing her beloved cat again after I am finished with her.Taking them out for dinner and getting the drunk and soft makes it easier for me. Also, you know slipping something into a drink here and there has also never hurt anybody, well except for the girls of course. Blood from a willing victim just tastes so much better than blood from someone struggling. The fear that courses through it just adds a weird aftertaste that I have learned that I do not care to taste when I need to refill my energy levels.I mean I could always just use my powers of persuasion on them, drink my full and let them go with them not remembering anything but where is the fun in doing that? I have more than just hunger needs that I have to fulfil and in any case
Mary's P.O.VWaking up I got the pendant out again fully intending to find out exactly what it was and what it means. I was hoping this would help me to be able to retrace my steps of last night and find out what had happened and in whose blood I was covered. I didn't want to let my imagination sore and think of random possibilities and scenarios because each one that I had come up with was more gruesome than the previous one and to be honest I was making myself both sick and scared.I didn't want to take it to Dory or dad because I didn't have a story to tell them about where I had gotten it and I didn't even have the energy to be creative enough to make up a story of how I had happened to get it into my possession. I had a feeling that telling them that I had picked it up on the street would not suffice and that they would not buy that story.Full well intending to go to the library and see what I could find out about the pendant, I had started my