coolz's blog: CHAPTER 11:
"Should we go after the guy who killed him, or when he leaves see if he really is dead?Maybe we can help him!" Brittany whispered. She really wanted to help this guy, but we don't know if he was good and the guy who killed him is bad or the other way around.
"I really, really, really, really don't wanna go out there." Tiger mumbled. His voice just barely came out. It was trapped in his throat from fear.I know he's not going to sleep.
"You two try to sleep. Things will be better in the morning. We'll be running free. As far away from the sharpers as physically possible. Just think of it as camping!" I encouraged them. It probably diddn't work, but they slept anyway.
Once I was sure they were asleep I asked Tiger "Are you allright?" Silence. "Do you wanna sleep and I watch?"
"Nah. I'll have nightmares. Do you wanna do something? I just want to get the guy off of my mind."
"Let's cover the windows with some of your black shirts. That'd keep the cold out better. What kind of look do you want when we get some money?" I asked.
"Don't laugh, but I'm thinking goth."
"Nah. They'd expect that from you. Hmmmmmm. But not me. I guess we could pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend."
"But what about the kittens?" He asked. My plan to get his mind on something else was working!
"I'll think about that." I said. "Never mind the boyfriend girlfriend thing. It was stupid."
"I'm allright with it. Ummmm... we could be babysitting!" He said happily. I think he liked the boyfriend girlfriend idea. Um awkward.
"I really, really, really, really don't wanna go out there." Tiger mumbled. His voice just barely came out. It was trapped in his throat from fear.I know he's not going to sleep.
"You two try to sleep. Things will be better in the morning. We'll be running free. As far away from the sharpers as physically possible. Just think of it as camping!" I encouraged them. It probably diddn't work, but they slept anyway.
Once I was sure they were asleep I asked Tiger "Are you allright?" Silence. "Do you wanna sleep and I watch?"
"Nah. I'll have nightmares. Do you wanna do something? I just want to get the guy off of my mind."
"Let's cover the windows with some of your black shirts. That'd keep the cold out better. What kind of look do you want when we get some money?" I asked.
"Don't laugh, but I'm thinking goth."
"Nah. They'd expect that from you. Hmmmmmm. But not me. I guess we could pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend."
"But what about the kittens?" He asked. My plan to get his mind on something else was working!
"I'll think about that." I said. "Never mind the boyfriend girlfriend thing. It was stupid."
"I'm allright with it. Ummmm... we could be babysitting!" He said happily. I think he liked the boyfriend girlfriend idea. Um awkward.
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I wrote a story a while ago, Courtney's read it, she seems 2 like it. Here, plus a new chapter I don't think even she's read, it's still in progress, I think I may start writing again.
Straight As the Arrow Flies
Chapter 1
The wind made an odd sound as it moved quickly through the woods, and we moved just as fast, winding our way through the woods like shadows. Li was moving alongside me, he was impossible to see, I could only be sure he was there by the sound of his breathing. The others were following closely. Suddenly I heard Albina cry out; Li left my side and returned almost instantly, “They know we’re here.” He said darkly.
“I know,” I whispered, “They’ve been hot on our trail for days.” And they had, every now and then they’d get too close, and a gunshot would sound, making us all break into a run, the ten of us were running out of places to hide.
“Arrow,” A small voice came from behind me, Kiri’s voice. “Will they catch us?”
“Not if I can help it.” I said defiantly.
“What if they do?” She sounded scared.
“They won’t.” I finished, scooping the little five- year old up.
We had been running for days, everyone was tired, Li had carried Kiri after she had almost collapsed. We needed to find food, and fast. Suddenly, Li stopped, he held perfectly still, and listened. Then, without warning, he changed into a wolf.
Chapter 2
(Yeah, we can transform into wolves, so what? Anyway, more on that later.)
He began to slink forward; I transformed and waited for him to give the signal. He moved like a shadow, weaving his way through the bushes, his movements as fluid as a snake’s. He stopped abruptly, flicked his tail, the signal, and pounced.
I leaped, and the rest of the pack followed, we crashed through the bushes and saw the deer. Li was already tearing at its throat, leaving deep gashes wherever he struck. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a flash of white fur as Albina rushed the deer. She leaped towards the deer, sailing through the air, and found her mark on the deer’s neck. She clamped on next to Li, and they both hung on tight. I could tell that the deer was weakening. Its attempts to shake off the two determined wolves were less. Finally, I leapt in to deliver the final blow. It fell dead, and we feasted. (Yeah, I know what you’re thinking: If we’re kids, why did we eat raw meat? Well, the wolf part of us is able to digest anything that real wolves were able to, so we can.)
I looked up from the feast, Li was gone.
Chapter 3
I got up and looked around, I couldn’t see him anywhere.
Suddenly, Li crashed through the bushes. “They’re here!” He howled.
“Move!” I barked, adrenaline rushing through my veins. We shot out of there like bullets, fueled by panic.
Gunshots exploded the trees around us, making us run even faster.
Oh if only we knew how to fly. I thought bitterly. Li veered to the left, the rest of the pack followed. Then, we all transformed back, and dove into an icy stream.
Chapter 4
We swam for a while to throw them off our scent; they had freaking dogs, which made it a heck of a lot harder for us.
I made a fire so we could dry our clothes. “Is everyone okay?” I asked.
I got mixed replies from everyone. Everyone seemed okay. The ten of us, me, Li, Ciri, Kiri, Albina, Ashlyn, Star, Luca, Matt, and Rika, sat around the fire, trying to dry our clothes as much as we could.
Li stood up, “We should really get some rest,” He announced, “I’ll take first watch.”
I yawned and stretched, “That sounds great,” I said, “We really need it.”
So, Li took first watch. I was awakened in the night by Li howling.
We were under attack.
Chapter 5
I leaped up, already transformed. Li was fighting two dogs at once.
“Everyone up!” I yelled, rushing the nearest officer. You see, to add to our nightmare, there were heavily armed psychos after us, trying to catch us, study us, and put us in zoos. The rest of the pack was up within seconds, throwing themselves at the MRS (Mutant Retrieval Squad) Officers.
One of the dogs lay in a pool of blood; the other was snapping and snarling at Li.
Luca, Matt, and Rika were crouched back-to-back, growling and bristling as several officers surrounded them. From behind, in a flash of silvery fur, Ashlyn was on top of one of three officers who had been knocked off their feet in the frenzied attack.
I had my own problems to deal with; five dogs had ganged up on me and were slowly closing in. Kiri and Ciri were behind me, both were snarling and bristling. Li was suddenly beside me, snarling viciously. He was about my age, but he was also about 2 inches taller. At the sight of him, bristling and snarling ferociously, one dog whimpered but they still kept advancing on us, though a little more cautiously.
Then, almost too fast to see, Li made his move, one dog lay dead, while another was bleeding and looked stunned as if he didn’t know what had just happened, then he too dropped dead. Officers came to the dog’s aid, armed and ready. Li attacked again, leaving deep gashes in the side of one dog’s leg.
One officer fired, aiming at Li, a net shot out, knocking Li off his feet and closing around him as he sailed across the clearing. He hit a tree almost twenty feet away with a thunk.
Enraged, I leaped at the officer who had fired and managed to take a chunk out of his arm, and then the dogs were upon me. I lashed out, striking one across the muzzle, leaving large gashes. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Li being dragged towards a truck well hidden in the bushes. He was perfectly still, seemingly unconscious. They opened the net to transfer him to a cage, big mistake. He leaped out of the cage just as the door was closing. Three seconds later, five officers were on the ground before they knew what had hit them.
Li hit the ground running; he was headed straight towards me, ready to fight. A shot rang out; Li stumbled, his shoulder red with blood, and fell.
Chapter 6
I attacked in a frenzied rage, furious beyond reason; they had shot down one of the pack, turning me into a demon, striking out everywhere. One, two, three officers went down. The rest were already piling into the car. They sped out of the clearing, dirt flying from under the tires. They were gone, I rushed over to Li, transforming back as I ran. He was bleeding still, but it looked like the bullet had only clipped his shoulder, but at such close range it had packed a lot of power. Li had been knocked to the ground by the force of the shot and was barely conscious, he was no longer transformed, pain short-circuits our powers. “Is he okay?” asked Kiri.
“He’s fine,” I said, relieved.
“Looks like it hurt,” said Star, trotting up to where we were sitting.
“Not really,” said Li.
“He lives!” yelled Star, Li scowled.
“Let’s go,” Li said, getting up, “Those bozos could be anywhere.” He dusted himself off, but cringed and stopped, examining his shoulder. “Those idiots,” he mumbled under his breath.
Chapter 7
We were all weak from the fight, we knew it, and so did the MRS. We needed to move fast, I transformed, the rest of the pack transformed also, we then began to trot along the river bed at a fast pace, but still slow enough to conserve energy.
After a while, I saw Li’s shape flickering, I ordered everyone to stop. Li transformed, he tried to transform again but half way he flickered back. We all knew what was wrong; his shoulder had caused his powers to short-circuit. We knew we had to make camp, I regretted it, but Li was hurt and needed rest.
As always, Li offered to take first watch.
“No,” I said sternly. He crossed his arms and stared me down. This went on for a while, finally, he sighed, and shot me a glance that said “I despise you,” I shot him a sly smile, he rolled his eyes and lay down next to the fire, farther away than everyone else.
It must have been about twelve when I heard it, a rustling in the bushes, about ten yards from where I was standing. I saw Li stir, then something crashed through the bushes, Li snapped awake and transformed, snarling at the creature. It was like nothing I’d ever seen before; it had large, dripping fangs, cruelly curved, razor sharp claws, and its eyes were full of hate. It looked like some cross between a saber tooth tiger, and a freakishly large wolf that had been trained and kept by the devil himself, it was almost twice as large as Matt.
Suddenly, armed officers and more of the creatures were coming out of every bush as the pack bunched together, up and snarling.
Li lunged at the creature nearest to him, and leaped back, his teeth had made a satisfying mark in the creature’s neck. But the creature made its attack just as fast, lashing out at Li, but Li was too quick for it, he dodged out of the way but landed hard. His hurt leg buckled under him and he colapsed. The creature fell upon him, slashing and biting. I leaped and hit the creature full force in the ribs; I think one of them cracked.
“Take them alive!” I heard one officer yell, smashing a gun out of another’s hands.
We managed to take out almost half of the MRS within twenty minutes.
“Take any you can, hurry, we can’t afford to lose anyone else!” an officer yelled.
“Leave the others, take the injured one!” yelled another. Li, I thought. I fought desperately, trying to get out from under the creature. I heard yelling, I caught a glimpse of the action, Li was snarling, snapping at anyone who came near. None of the officers could lay a hand on him. I say something fly through the air, seconds later that something hit Li in the neck and he fell. My vision was blocked by the creatures paw. I lashed out at its throat, the most vulnerable spot, which had the desired effect: its eyes glazed over and it fell.
Yeah, right on top of me. I tried to squirm out from under it. I needed to get to Li, he was part of the pack, and it was my duty to keep the pack from harm. I heard the doors of the van shut, and as soon as they did, I knew I had failed my duty, I had failed the pack, had failed Li.
Chapter 8
I finally got out from under the creature with the help of the pack. “You okay?” asked Matt.
“Fine,” I said quickly, “How about you guys?”
“We’re all okay,” said Rika in her soft, whispering voice. She paused for a minute then her voice broke, “Li’s gone,” she said loudly, then, can you believe it, she started sobbing. I held her close; the rest of the pack that hadn’t transformed back yet tilted their heads back, and sang a mournful howl to the sky.
“Come on guys,” I said, the howl ended abruptly, “If we’re ever going to find Li, we need food so we can follow that van, got it?” The pack nodded grimly to show they understood. This was going to be hard on everyone, we had never ran this far before, but we had to stick together, so that’s what we were gonna’ do.
Chapter 9
I found a rock, and stood on it, you know, for dramatic effect, “All right,” I said in a loud, masterful voice, “Let’s go!” I felt like a military officer, standing up here and watching them follow my orders. We ran for quite a while, we needed to find meat; we had to have energy for the long trip ahead of us. I was willing to go to any lengths to save Li, as I would do for any other member of the pack. I was going to save Li, or die trying.
Chapter 10
Li woke up in a cage, bouncing along in a van. He looked over to where the latch was secured by a lock. He carefully examined it; it was a combination lock, not too high quality. He put his ear to it, spun it to the right, a click, then to the left, another click, he spun it once again to the right, the third click, he pulled on it, and then he was out. Li crept over to the door of the truck, there was a window, and it was slightly open, in fact, it was open just enough for a wolf to squeeze through...
Li hit the ground, hard, thankfully, the van hadn’t been moving too fast. But now there was the problem of getting back to the rest of the pack. He had no idea which direction to go, so he set off into the woods.
It was night by the time he stopped to rest; he had been trotting all day and his injured leg hurt immensely. He lay down and howled brokenly. He rested his head on his paws and closed his eyes. Suddenly, his ears perked up, from off in the distance came a chorus of answering howls. Li listened intently. It wasn’t his pack, there were too many, it was definitely a pack of wolves though. He waited as the howls grew closer and closer as the night wore on.
Chapter 11
I woke up in shock, I’d had a dream about the battle last night, it was terrible. I tried to calm myself down, telling myself that everything was going to work out. I had to stay strong, because I no longer had Li to fall back on. Now that he was gone, it seemed like all the responsibility in the world was resting on my shoulders, threatening to drag me down into the black chasm that was death. There was no way I was going to let that happen; not with all the pack counting on me. I woke the pack and we struck out again, hoping that we might find Li soon.
As we ran, my mind wondered, I was thinking where Li might be right now and what was happening to him. I had a feeling he was wondering where the heck we were. We needed to pick up the pace, we couldn’t afford to lose anymore time.
“C’mon, let’s pick up the pace!” I yelled. I didn’t know how much time we had, but I had a feeling that it was getting less and less every minute.
Chapter 12
The wild wolf pack struck up a howl, Li joined in. The wolves had accepted him as one of their pack, seeing as he had succeeded in bringing down their leader. He now had become their new leader, leading them wherever he desired. He knew that staying with these wolves would make hunting and finding the pack a lot easier. So he decided to stay with them, at least until he found the pack. This had only one problem; if he stayed in his wolf state too long, he could forget about his pack, and become a wild wolf.
Chapter 13
We all rested around the fire I built that night. I could control the flames, it was my weird gift, and each of us had one: Li couldn’t feel fatigue, Matt could stand freezing cold temperatures, and Albina could lie perfectly still for hours, seemingly without breathing, Star could see really far, Luca could smell dinner almost a mile away, the air around Rika was always warm while the air around Ciri was usually cold, Kiri could coax things into coming back to life, Ashlyn could speak to birds, and I could control fire. I flicked my hand boredly, focusing on the fire, watching it mimic my hand’s movements. I then focused on the smoke, twirling it in spirals, making shapes and designs in it that hovered in the air and then disappeared. Ashlyn was conversing with a sparrow; Kiri was restoring dead flowers to their original, colorful state. None of us talked, we sat in silence for some time, and no one spoke but the sparrow and Ashlyn.
I was changing the fire’s shape, now a dog, now a cat, all burning with a beautiful orange-blue glow. We couldn’t do much about Li, besides; he always seemed to have a way of escaping just about anything. I had learned this the hard way when we were at a hotel and I had locked us in, sleeping with the key under me in my sleeping bag, Li had insisted that someone be on watch while I had insisted that we were perfectly safe with the high quality lock I had put on the door. I woke up that morning, Li was gone, and I opened the door to find him leaning casually against the opposite wall with a smug grin on his face, tossing the lock up and down in his hand.
We laid low for a long time, hunting and running for our lives. Life returned to the way it had been before, minus Li, and this went on for about a month. And things pretty much took a straight down drop from there.
Chapter 14
Li had been with the pack for almost a month now, hunting, fighting, and keeping them in order. The pack had learned to fear him, for of every fight, he was the victor. Li had begun to lose focus on the plan he had made after escaping, began to forget about the pack. All that was beginning to matter was staying alive, staying with the wolves, staying in charge. He had grown, changed in appearance, changed in attitude, he was becoming a wolf.
The wolf pack was trotting along, sniffing out the fresh trail of the deer that would be their dinner. They rounded a corner; there was the deer, along with nine wolves eagerly tearing at the deer, filling their empty stomachs. Li stepped forward, growling and bristling, eager for a fight. The obvious leader of this other pack looked up, and then began to growl. Li leaped in, taking on the leader, it seemed to be a female, but fought just as fiercely as any fully- grown wolf would.
Li found himself having a hard time defeating the female. This came as a surprise, considering he couldn’t remember ever having to work this hard to come away unscathed. They broke apart and lunged again, claws ripping the air. He noticed this pack of wolves had a similar fighting style to his. He darted in and out, striking and dodging, using speed as well as strength. Suddenly, out of nowhere, he found himself on his back, panting heavily, the female wolf’s paw on his throat, the lack of nutrition and the energy used in the fight making him dizzy. The blurred image of the female wolf slowly came into focus; their gazes met and something in the female’s eyes changed, Li saw them glow with joy. The paw on his neck became a hand, and the face above his was a human’s. “Li, oh my god, it’s you!” She thrust her arms around his neck and everything came rushing back to him. He remembered that he was Li, one of two leaders of a pack of ten shape shifters. He remembered why they were on the run, and from whom, he also remembered that he could change his shape, which he did now, allowing Arrow to hug him. He stroked her hair and whispered reassurances.
Chapter 15
I was so happy, I had found Li, and everyone was together again. Li stroked my hair and despite my embarrassment, tears rolled down my cheeks. “I’m so sorry Li,” my voice was muffled by tears, “I gave up on you,” my voice was almost a whisper by now, “I promise this will never happen again,”
“You know that’s a promise you can’t keep, no matter how hard you try,” he whispered softly.
“I know,” my voice was broken by sobs, “I just want the pack to stay together, because that’s how it should be.”
I didn’t hear anything from him, and for a while I just rested, calming myself, the tears dried on my cheeks. “Okay,” I said, trying to regain control, “I’m done,”
Li put his hands on my shoulders and gently pushed me away, I spun around, hoping that the pack hadn’t seen any of that. The pack was still fighting, oblivious to what was going on about ten feet away. Li called off the wild wolves and shooed them away. He walked back to where I was checking the pack for injuries and was surrounded by the pack immediately.
“Li!” squealed Kiri, she ran up and hugged him as the rest of the pack slapped him high-fives.
We trotted along through the woods after having eaten the deer, well fueled and happy. So when trees began exploding around us, it really really ticked me off.
Chapter 16
No no no! Not now! I was really not in the mood for fighting right now, and I was sure that the rest of the pack wasn’t either. We turned to fight anyway. The MRS van roared into the clearing. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Li lift his hand and tilt it at the van as the MRS dogs and officers piled out. The van suddenly shot across the clearing, cracking in half as it hit a tree. The pack was stunned, all eyes were on Li but he was in some sort of trance. Suddenly all the officers and the dogs flew across the clearing, hitting the ground hard. They scrambled into the other van and took off.
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