One Last Chance

Chapter 17 Tyler

          I don't care what Kara says. She's so dramatic. I roll my eyes after Kara is gone. Connor suddenly walks toward me and when I think he's going to talk to me, I was wrong when he turns to face Alison.
      "Hey Alison. I just wanted to say how much I appreciate that you want to help us save our pack, but you know it's kinda dangerous and I don't want you to get hurt"
      "Don't worry Connor I'll be fine, but thanks for the concern"
      "Your welcome" I watch Connor smile at Ali as she smiles back. Alex starts searching the shack for her friend, but there's no sign of him. Suddenly 5 minutes later a tall muscular man with a circle beard and black short hair walks into the shack. He has an axe in his hand, I suppose he was cutting wood. Alex suddenly calls out "Jake!" And runs toward the man. He drops his axe. She immediately gives him a heart warming hug as he hugs her back smiling. Alex lets go of him and turns around to face us, seeing the blank looks on our face.
"Guys, this is Jake. Jake these are my friends; Tyler, Connor, and Alison" Suddenly Kara walks through the door and looks so confused. She blurts to Alex
"Who's your lumber jack friend?"
"He's not a lumber jack Kara. This is Jake" Jake suddenly turns to Kara and the rest of us saying hi. I still don't know how he can help us. So I ask Jake.
"Um, not to be rude or anything, but how can you help us exactly?" He suddenly laughs slightly
"Well, Tyler I am Alex's older brother and also a wolf. I can help all of you because Thomas told me about the wolves eye a while back when I was a child. Plus this also gives me some time to catch up with my sister. I haven't seen her in 3 years" I'm astonished. I had no idea he was her brother let alone he was a wolf
"Well I'm glad you can help us Jake. The pack needs all of our help" I say
"I know" Alex smiles at us saying
"Well if we are going to find this crystal and possibly fight other supernatural creatures we need to learn some combat. I suppose some of us are a bit rusty." She looks at Jake with a smirk and he nudges her playfully
"Let's start off with you Jake." She grabs him by the arm and takes him outside, winking at us. We all follow her outside.
"Let's fight!" She mumbles to Jake. They both keep their fists up. Alex smirks and says to Jake
"Are you ready?"
"Better than you'll ever be" Alex swings a hook punch toward Jake, but he blocks it. Jake knees her in the stomach as Alex falls to the ground. She dusts herself and stands up. She does a round house kick to Jake's head and he flinches. She punches him twice in the stomach and then once in the face. Jake has blood dripping from his nose and lip. He clenches his stomach with his left arm and back fists the side of Alex's head. She flinches with blood dripping from her temple and nose. She smiles and finally round house kicks Jake in the side of his stomach and he falls down hard. Alex hovers over him as he squints to see her and as she's out of breathe and she exclaims to Jake that he needs more practice. We all cheer her name as Jake gets up slowly and smiles. I go to hug Alex and Kara and Connor joins the hug.

We start training for some time outside the shack. Although, I walk around the shack for some time. I spot Alison staring up at the horizon. I walk towards her and look up at it.
"Isn't it beautiful" She exclaims
"Ya it is"
"All the colours blended together in one image" She smiles
"It's something I rarely see" I exclaim
"How come?"
"I've never really adored the beauty of everything around me. All I was taught was how to fight, hunt, and protect my family."
"Thomas' rules must be harsh at times, huh?"
"Ya they are, but it's something that helps us survive because we are monsters to the world, humans are scared of us and they have a right to be"
"You aren't a monster, you are kind, courageous, ambitious; everything about you makes you special Tyler. There is one human that isn't scared of you and that human has accepted you for what you are" Alison smiles at me as I smile back. We both look down as she watches me slide my hand into hers gently. I stare into her beautiful eyes as she does the same to me. We both lean in slowly, as I close my eyes. Our lips almost touched when I heard something move in the trees. I pull away and look around.
"What is it Tyler?"
"There's something watching us?" I exclaim while glaring at the trees. Suddenly a gun shot fires hitting Alison right in the stomach. She screams clenching her stomach and falls to the ground. I scream her name and then look around the trees and pick her up, putting her arm around my shoulder and carrying her out of there, running. We turn into the corner of the shack to find Alex, Connor, Jake, and Kara. I scream out to them to run and they do. We all run into the shack and lock the door behind us. Alison falls to the ground wimping in pain. I hold her hand and tell her she's going to be okay. She suddenly goes unconscious. I pick her up and carry her to the room inside the shack I place her on the bed as everyone is hovered around her. Connor quickly runs to grab the first AID kit from the kitchen and runs back to the room. Blood oozes out of her stomach. Connor grabs some tweezers from the kit and pulls her shirt up. He gently removes the bullet out of her stomach and wraps a white long bandage around her torso. I looked at him and say thank you. He smiles at me slightly. I look down at Alison with her pale face and sweat droplets running down her face. Her body seems ever so lifeless. She's still unconscious and hasn't waken yet. I hold her soft hand and feel the warmth of her palm. Her hair stays ever so soft and bright even after she got shot. I suddenly hear gun shots outside the house. They were shooting at the house to get to us. We quickly take shelter under the table, but with no weapons to fight back.
        "Who are these people?" I question
        "Hunters!" Jake answers
        "Werewolf hunters?"
        "Ya"
        "Why are they shooting at us?" Connor questions
        "Why else? They are hunters, it's what they do best" exclaims Alex
        "I know, but how did they find us?"
        "I have no idea Connor. They probably were tracking us!"
"Well we have no weapons to defend us!" I exclaim. Jake gets up and says
        "We can shift!"
         "Okay fine!" I exclaim. All of us get up and scream in pain as we shift into huge werewolves. All I could feel is the urge to kill running through my veins. I growl at the door and we all stand in position, ready to pounce. We charge through the closed door to reach the outside. I see hunters stand around us with guns and arrows in their hands. One of them, probably their leader says to us, smirking
"This will be an interesting game!" They immediately start firing and we try to dodge the bullets. I suddenly pounce on one female hunter, ripping her throat out. She falls to the ground with blood all around her and blood stains on my snout. All I could feel is horrified for what I did, but I had no choice. I can't be sympathetic I realize. They are here to kill us like always. Alex and Connor corner three hunters while one hunter swipes at Alex. She wimps in pain slightly, but continues to growl at the hunter and attacks! I suddenly catch one hunter with a long black coat walk into the shack. I remember that Alison is in there. I slowly creep behind the hunter as he goes in. He clutches a blade in his hand tightly and approaches the room where Alison's body lays on the bed. He must of thought she was a werewolf because he grabs his blade and is about to stab Alison in the chest when I pounce on the man and grab onto his arm he pushes me off and tries to swing the blade at me. But I duck. He says to me
        "We know warlocks are looking for you and we know they are looking for the wolves eye. Perhaps we should find it ourselves. We can make you creatures obey us and never harm any human again!" I snarl at him in anger. They have no right to threaten us! This time I had so much rage that I looked at him with my yellow eyes and stared down at him. I can see the slight fear in his eyes that he doesn't want to let out. I immediately run toward him, even if I am to die, I would do it in honour of protecting Alison. I suddenly attack him and clench his neck in my jaw. I bite down hard and I watch the life leave his body as I release my grip and watch blood ooze out of his neck. I quickly shift into me again as I clench onto the wall and sob quietly over his dead body.