Walking with the Vampire |COMPLETE|

24. The Ugly Truth

Tonight was officially screwed.

Osei and Nicholae shared a common enemy and as it appeared, Nicholae must have done something to piss off this shared threat.

The menacing snarls from the wolves on his flank alerted Nicholae on their incoming guests before he spotted them charging at them like rabid wolves.

Nicholae didn't have to be told, but their main agenda was to protect the Semi and Osei.

Exactly like before, their attackers were an unusual group of species that'll never work together. Werewolves, vampires and, ghouls.
Werewolves couldn't stand vampires and vampires hated their guts. The ghouls? They'd rather much kept to themselves since werewolves hated them for their nasty feeding habits.
They were in a small way similar to vampires because they drank blood. That's where the similarities ended.
Ghouls feasted on the flesh of the dead. Although they didn't care where their blood came from, their favorite was stale blood from the dead over blood from the loving. This was why vampires saw them as a lower class than them.

'There are twelve of them.' His ears caught Cayden's warning before he shifted.
'Take three.'

'They must have had a Kumbaya!'
Nicholae followed the wolves lead when they charged toward their assailants.

'Are you sure you counted right?' Nicholae asked Cayden.
He swerved a deadly blow and returned one of his own holding the still beating heart of a ghoul.
'There're more coming. We need to get back to Osei.'

With each step, they fought against the tide of pursuers. By the time they reached Semi and Osei they were all bloody.
As Nicholae had predicted, Semi and her mate were fending off attacks of their own.

Osei changed back and forth from both forms. His actions and reactions were labored and his attackers could see that too.
So they baited him and toyed with him.

The white one, Malaki, threw himself on the Were who pounced on Osei's back.
The rest of them were right behind him.

In spite of the chaos around him, Nicholae took a moment to reflect on the state of everyone around him.
They were bleeding. Cayden, Loki and Malaki.
How the hell.
They were supposed to be invincible!
It was why they made such promising allies! Osei snarled in pain and hugged his wounded side.
A light came on in Nicholae's head. It had to be whatever was going on with Osei.

'Semi look out.' Nicholae yelled.
She had been fighting distracted. The ghoul landed a blow to her temple sending her to the ground. Nicholae covered her body with his taking the brunt of the attack from two vampires and a damn ghoul.

He kicked the legs from right under the ghoul.
He ripped the Ghoul's heart out, stabbed the dumb blondie with his own stake and bit into the neck of the other vampire.

He held on for a second too long. His new obsession hooked him on the vamps neck and it took every once of his control to tear away.

'We need to get out of here and make it to wolf territory.'
Osei was in too much pain and therefore of no use to them and Semi was rendered unconscious. They had one too many distractions.

Nicholae carried Semi easily while Loki and Malaki struggled with the unstable Alpha.

That left Cayden doing most of the fending off.

They were close, but it felt like time was at a stand still with the seconds trickling by.

Then He spotted the one that got away.
The short mouthy one stepped out from behind of them with a fiendish smile on his ugly face shadowed by the forest leaves.
Nicholae grimaced at the gun trained on them.
Without thinking about the repercussions, Nicholae twisted his body and took the shots.