~AthenaJessica, my mum, and I were running as fast as our legs could carry us when my mother suddenly fell to the cold ground."I can't, I can't go any further," she said, trying to catch her breath. We were all out of breath. We had been running ever since we left the mansion without pausing, so I wasn't surprised she was already exhausted. In fact, I was tired too, but we had to go on; we had to keep running, and I needed to make her understand that."Mum, please, we need to get going," I begged. She shook her head and took in a lungful of air as she tried to steady her breathing.Jessica, who was scouting the area with her gun in hand, backpedaled to us, her eyes not leaving the woods. She lowered herself when she reached us and spoke with a serious tone, "I am afraid we don't have the luxury of resting, Rebecca. We just need to get as far away as possible from the mansion. Right now, we are just about three kilometers away.""I am so tired, I can't…"My mum was still in the midd

~RichardIt has been at least about one hour since we fled into the woods. James and I, along with a few other men, were with us. Nuella had gone in the opposite direction. She had said she was going to lure the witch to herself.James and I have at least killed about 100 men that crossed our paths. We killed them silently without using bullets; it was better that way because we didn't want to draw attention to our hiding spot. Hearing Nuella say that the witch helped Frederick forge bullets that could actually kill me had shocked me to my bones.Due to that fact, I had to be very careful and play the waiting game. When Nuella, James, and I reached an intersection in the woods that was divided into two pathways, I had dropped my cloth at the entrance of the left side of the woods where Nuella said I should run into, with hope that the witch would sniff my scent and send Frederick in to find me while she would go in search of Nuella's energy.For the past hour, he hasn't crossed our pa

~Athena My mum wrapped her arms around me tightly and sobbed silently for a few seconds. We could still hear movements above us. It soon became closer. My heart was pounding so hard against my ribcage. My mum and I were so scared. We were in trouble; they had already said they wouldn't stop looking until they found the person who had been talking. This was all my fault. I was a bit loud over the phone when speaking to my father. If I had just lowered my voice, our presence would not have been sniffed out. My mum held my shoulders squarely as she looked at me in the dark, my sharp wolf vision picking up on her eyes which were filled with fear. "Listen to me, Athena," she whispered. Even through the whisper, the fear in her voice was unmistakable. "They are closing in on us. They will soon find this cave, and I don't want to let that happen." She shut her eyes and bit her lower lip. I knew she was trying to fight back her tears. She was trying to be strong at this point in time,

~Athena I was still unsure about the victim or victims of the three shots I heard. I was listening carefully for any form of noise. "Thud!" That was the sound of a body being kicked into the cave. From where I was hiding, I couldn't see who it was. My heart was racing so fast, and I hoped and prayed it wasn't what I was thinking. That can't be my mother…but why wasn't I hearing the sound of any more bodies being kicked inside the cave? Had the person who killed them decided to kick one in and leave the other two outside? Was it perhaps Jessica who had come and shot those three men, saving my mum? If she was the one, why hadn't they come for me yet? My heart was racing with several chaotic thoughts, and my body was itching to find out what had just happened. All of a sudden, I heard footsteps retreating and voices in the distance, male voices. That was when it dawned on me. The men were still alive. That means the person that was shot… My mother! I quickly crawled out of the ho

~RichardJames and I darted out of the woods just in time to see them reloading their guns. With two guns each in our hands, we started shooting at them, taking many down. Some of our men, seeing we had the upper hand, came out as well and kept shooting at the men.Under heavy attack, most of them left the pathway and fled into the woods on each side. About 18 of them were already gunned down. Some of those who ran into the bush had wounds on their legs or arms as we had fired heavily at them.We pursued them into the woods, not wanting to give them the chance to fully load their guns and come at us again.As soon as we got to them, we rounded the ones we saw at gunpoint."Drop your guns!" I growled.One of them, who was done loading his, raised it up to shoot, and I immediately caught wind of his action and beat him to it, burying two bullets in his head. The others immediately dropped their guns and put their hands up in surrender."Whose men are you?" I asked.They exchanged glance