Chapter 12: Learning The Trade
"This isn't good.." Louis growled behind gritted teeth.
Zayn smelled it too and nodded in agreement. "Why the hell would Harry even follow her here?"
The car made a squeaking noise as it parked on the sidewalk adjacent to the house. Not the most stealthiest way to infiltrate a house, but they were there at least.
Louis grimaced as he heard the machinery groan and whine,"Shit, you think he heard that?"
Zayn kept his firm and now glowing yellow eyes locked on the front door of the house,"Well..I definitely think he knows we're here."
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Tony's eyes widened when he locked eyes with the werewolf from the blinds of his window. They stared, then Tony moved his head away. It was almost midnight, raining and thundering even, and he could still see the ominous glow of the creatures' eyes. Damn these beasts, he grumbled silently. And damn Harry for leading them here. On the other hand, the positive one for Tony, he hadn't hunted for so long.
An eerie smirk grew on his lips the moment he lifted his hands from the blinds and started towards the hall that contained his bedroom.
Harry was still there, of course, as was Benny. Out cold. He was curled up with her until the point when Tony made himself known and shoved the door open. The moment Harry sprang up his senses went crazy. He smelled Zayn and Louis here, just at the front porch, and he sensed the blood lust that radiated in Tony and his aura. A pang crashed in Harry's chest when he realized Tony wanted to kill them, he was going to go out of his way to do what he did best and exterminate one of his own.
"Tony.." Harry started, knocking himself right out of his short slumber.
The human man ignored him and went straight to what looked like a closet that was built into the wall, only it didn't hold clothes. It held guns of varying kinds, a few jars, darts and bullet cases. Harry flinched at the sight. This was how his kind died. The double barreled shotgun Tony was grabbing for probably killed millions of him.
"Tony." Harry said, more firmly this time and sat up on the bed. When he knew he wasn't listening and could sense Zayn and Louis come closer, he raised his voice. "Tony!"
As if he snapped out of it, Tony glanced behind his shoulder at Harry with slightly widened eyes,"What?! Do you not know your brothers are just outside my god damned door?"
"Shut up! I know!" They yelled back and forth as if Benny wasn't knocked out on the bed. "What are you going to do to them?"
"Well.." Tony spared no time in cocking the shotgun that made a chink sound after he loaded it. Harry stared at it in slight fear. "What does it look like I'm gonna do champ?"
"Dont hurt them," He pleaded,"They just want me. That's all they want..they don't deserve this, none of them do." Harry found his eyes starting to get wet, but Tony paid him no mind and stared at where the front of his house would be and listened for the wolves to come. "They don't need to be hunted down Tony, please!"
The grin on Tony's face continued to expand when he chuckled and glanced down at the gun in his hands,"Well, if all they want is you, then maybe I should just give them to you." He paused and proceeded to raise the gun up to Harry's eye level, from the foot of the bed. "But not without provocation.."
"Tony!" Harry growled when he was staring down the barrel of the gun. His instincts instantly caused him to shift in front of his sleeping Benny.
Tony was about to say more when the sound of a door being bashed in made both of their heads swivel.
"Harry!" A gruff voice called out.
Another followed,"We know you're in here!"
Harry's eyes followed Tony as he bravely stepped towards the bedroom door, gun in hand and pointed forward, ready for anything,"Tony! No!" He called out, then jumped off of the bed and grabbed Tony by the waist, tackling him onto his stomach in the process.
The gun clattered to the floor silently somehow and away from Tony. He groaned when his gun was now out of his arms and glared up at Harry who had him pinned down to the ground once again.
"What the hell you little fucker let me go!" He struggled.
"Harry!" Louis's voice rose this time.
Zayn's came after in a dominant and rough tone,"Search the house. But be on your guard."
Harry wanted more than anything to shut the bedroom door but that would cause too much alarm to their location. Just to make sure, Harry quickly removed his grip around Tony's waist and in turn switched to wrapping his strong bicep around Tony's neck and mouth, to shut him up.
He actually tried to bite, but Harry gritted his teeth and bore the pain before lowering his arm below his jaw and chin, pushing up for him to stop, then used his non busy hand to cover his mouth.
Harry panted and beaded down anxious sweat on his forehead as he lowered his head down to Tony's face and whispered,"You fucking shoot them and you're dead. Benny and I are gonna get out of here, now you can either help, or hide. It's up to you."
In a flash, Tony headbutted Harry backwards and square in the nose, earning a groan from Harry and a splurt of blood to squish out of his nostrils,"Aghhh!" He tried to quietly yell but failed.
Harry regained himself enough just in time to see Tony heading for the door, so he jumped up to his feet and muttered a short,"Fine," before grabbing Tony's shoulder to whirl hims around and face him. After they shared a split second look, something in Harry calculated a punch that would knock Tony out completely and laid it out, square onto the side of his head like an uppercut.
There was a soft gasp from Tony before he fell, eyes lolling closed as he plopped down onto the ground on his back like a rag doll behind the now half opened door.
Harry listened in closely past the rain that was lighting up, but not by very much. He was just happy he hadn't heard thunder yet.
He thought too soon when a familiar howl coincided exactly with a clap of thunder. Harry smelled them, they were so close.
Without wasting time, Harry turned right around and made sure his fingers were strong and lithe instead of flimsy and clumsy to unlock the window beside Benny and lift it open. Immediately he was hit in the face with soft paced water pellets that soon moistened his face. Harry could've cared less. He opened the window all he needed to before standing over Benny's sleeping body and picking her up bridal style to hold her close and in the safest position possible to do this.
As he heard nearing claw sounds tracking against the linoleum in Tony's kitchen. Harry turned his head and took this quick look around to tighten his grip on Benny. He was going to have to run fast.
With a heavy and somewhat too fast of a breath, Harry leaned his body down and stepped over the bottom of the window sill until he was sitting on it and both legs were swinging. He realized he needed to hurry and didn't take into account the small height and easily slid off of the wet material. Luckily though, with a pained groan and a shock of stunned nerves, Harry landed heavily on the balls of his feet with Benny still safe but soaking in his arms. He felt stinging pressure in his ankles, but he spared no expense and ran straight, right into the woods behind Tony's house.
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Like I was watching a movie, a scene was played out and shown to me by the wolf spectrals, or whatever you wanted to call them. Wolf ghosts? Spirits?
The voice narrated them, I felt all entitled to sit on the black ground of oblivion with my knees up like I was a little kid watching Frozen.
"Our kind has lived beside yours for centuries, millennia, even."
As the voice continued, the scene changed according to his words, I didn't even need to see, but it certainly got my attention and made me understood better. I was always a visual learner.
"And at first, we walked among you."
The scene depicted was one of two humanoid figures standing idly by each other, each white in color.
"But once your kind learned of our secret, we were banished, outcasted. We were monsters, in your world."
The figures then acted out what was said, the one on my left turned red as soon as the one on the right shifted into a wolf, and started to chase it around until the wolf was out of sight.
"We hid wherever we could, but found ourselves most at home in the forests, where isolation was our friend, and humans were scarce. Along the years, there have been a few of us who have mingled with your kind, but it is entirely forbidden to do so."
A new figure emerged and it was white as well, except this one was more detailed, it had no face or features, but the outline was tall, and very familiar.
"Harry.." I whispered, but the voice seemed to ignore me.
"You are one of us, the people. You will know our ways, and how we fit into this world, child. Listen carefully."
It was actually all very interesting, what the voice told me, he kept showing me more visual representations of like, what they ate, which was meat, but basically they ate anything. Out in the wild though all they could afford to get was deer or any other meat that was hunted while in their wolf form.
The voice seemed to follow my trail of thought and switched topics.
"Since you are one of us now child, you possess the power to change into your true form."
The image before me sparked and changed into a white silhouette of a smaller, more lithe wolf.
"The thing where Harry and all of them changed? I...I can do that?" I asked, more to myself than anyone else.
"Yes, child."
"How..How the hell do I do that?" I turned my head to the wolf that seemed to be the embodiment of the voice, its fur long and pure white like snow in Alaska.
The animal, or spirit, merely looked at me and twitched its tail.
"You must visualize what your form will take shape to be in your mind, and then you will feel your body shift and mold into what your mind has chosen for you."
Thanks for the cryptic answer Wolf God.
"So.." I decided not to sass the spirit,"I basically just..think about it, and it happens?"
The voice chuckled the same time the wolf licked its lips, changing its position from sitting up to laying down on its stomach.
"Yes. That is an easier way to explain it."
I chuckled a little along with it, then looked back up above me where the images started swirling.
"Mating is also a very important part of our culture."
At this I started to blush as another wolf appeared beside the first one, their noses began to touch in an adorable nose nuzzle. It took everything I had not to 'aww'.
"You were mated with before being Turned, child. So there are no ramifications."
I arched an eyebrow at that,"Ramifications?"
The voice seemed to lower an octave,"If you were mated with before you were you were Turned, or had not been Turned at all..you most likely would not be here right now Carrying a werewolf child as a human is not possible, for the child or the mother."
Shit, I thought. This was Twilight.
The wolf beside me seemed to sense my uncomfortable feelings and moved on with his teachings.
"The one who has Turned you--" The white wolf shifted into Harry's figure,"his pack. It is in danger."
My whole jaw went slack as the background flashed and was now a snowy part of the wilderness, where hills rose and fell from the ground next to tall, skinny trees that were currently barren and dead from the cold. Harry's figure was now in a wolf's form, but had a blue hue to it, a very faint one.
I let the voice explain as I watched on with intrigue and fear.
"It is broken, the pack. A member has betrayed him."
The scene started to play out more delicately and became more clear with detail. I even began to hear voices, barking and the howling wind. It slowly grew more intense, and before I knew it I was looking at younger wolf Harry surrounded by others that were either red or blue, snarling or barking at each other.
"Dad!" I recognized Harry's long call that echoed in the woods.
There were a few snarls here and there before I watched Harry run away from the throng of fighting wolves. He ran and ran until no one else was in sight, into a small alcove of a raised and uprooted tree covered in snow, making a corner. Harry stopped and watched on as three blue wolves were corned by 4 red ones.
I felt like they would be fine when I figured out the odds, but when Harry hid behind a rock and the smaller blue wolf stepped out in front of the red wolves and joined in the line to make 5, my thoughts were crushed.
"No!!" Harry yelled as all of the blue wolves were slaughtered mercilessly.
"Lars!" Was the last thing I heard when the snow started to take over the scene and silence it.
"Oh my god.." I breathed when my lungs finally gave in from holding my breath.
AN: Two chapter in a day woo im on a roooooooollllllllll *rolls away*
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