Withering Hearts✔

Chapter Sixteen

On the drop robby felt her stomach muscles pull together as a strong stich started to build, making it very hard for her move her legs let alone breath.

"Jerry , wait up please!" Robby said puffing her hair out of her face, all while putting her hands on her stomach. Jerry stopped a few metres away from her and whistled. A tall man with black hair emerged out the woods ,behind him a boy barely fifteen years old. The two of them joined jerry as jerry collapsed on the forest floor, taking out his canteen and drinking water unashamedly. Robby walked over to them ,flinging her bag to the ground and falling down on top of it.

"I'm sorry ," she huffed.

"I'm very out of shape you know ,it's been nearly seven months since I've even walk this far let alone run!"

After talking further into the night with jerry ,Robby went out on a limb. She said yes she'd go with him, though she completely overthrew the subject of going back to Alpha brian's pack. He'd convinced robby enough to come to the understanding that her so called abilities would only become stronger. So strong to the point that if she lost even a tiny fragment of her control she'd be able to not only hurt people ,but erase them immediately. Robby had spent the past two days in the shattered hotel room with him ,then Ethan and William came to fetch them. Ethan being the tall man with black hair, William being the boy. Robby had thought both to be more intimidating or built ,but both were really just average. Robby felt her heart being pulled at with each mile they came closer back to her old packs territory. Mostly her pull towards grey, she missed him and she couldn't get the thing Joshua had said about him out of her head. Grey had tried to kill himself. No drug was really strong enough to kill a werewolf so he had probably gotten wolfsbain somewhere. It killed robby even more that she wasn't there to stop him, it killed her that she thought about going back after all. If she was done training ,maybe she should go back. Or now even, she could figure all this out on her own couldn't she. Alpha Brian knew about this so he'd be there to assist her wouldn't he. It seemed to robby that she was stuck in oblivion. She wanted be with her friends ,with her family but then again she wanted to protect them by staying away from them.

" Jerry ,what do you know about mandrake?"

All the conversation around robby suddenly ran silent and a slight growl escaped ethans lips.

"a lot why ?" Jerry answered as he nudged Ethan with his foot. William had turned his head away, making it obvious to robby the both had some sort of relationship with him, and it couldn't be good.

"Well I want to know ,for reasons. So please just tell me!" Robby said as she picked up leaves and crunched them in her hands then throwing them back on the floor.

Jerry opened his mouth but closed it again as Ethan cleared his throat sorely ," Mandrake ,is or should I say was once a part of the volturi . The ruling clan amongst vampires ,though after I think a thousand or two years ,he became very greedy so technically speaking he got kicked out!" Robby remembered the vampire history novel she read about the volturi ,the one vampire who was chased away after attempting to kill the head master among the clan. All the vampires among the volturi had powers ,stronger powers than robby could ever come to believe. What puzzled her was why did mandrake need her out of all people for her power, she was clearly never going to be a match for anyone except her peers and friends.

"Why does he want me ,what does he even want me to do if he by chance catches me or something? "

Ethan sighed but jerry jumped him to answering ," probably to get revenge. We wouldn't know unless we found out would we."

"Revenge! Against who the volturi ,I don't think so those vampires all have twice as strong powers as me. What could I possibly do, what do I apparently have that they don't. I hate admitting this but I'm nothing compared to them. "