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The Next Morning, Stone Haven Forest
Kaze had followed Luce back into the tree line, along a make shift path and towards the clearing that he hadn’t been
in the night before. Clutched in his arms where things they’d picked up and hour or so before.
Crystals, incense, and other such things Kaze though might help with his location spell. Turning past another slightly identical
to the last thick trunk tree, Luce stopped walking and Kaze came up beside her. The clearing looked like it had been torn
apart, mainly by Ludi, and the rest by commandos. Luce stepped forward a little, to a pool of dried blood and picked up the
golden and blue hilt of the sword Leon had used the night before. She turned it over in her hands, the blade encrusted with
Ludi’s blood,
‘Do you think having some blood might help?’ Luce asked, turning to face Kaze. She stood next to Leon’s
blood and the sword was covered with Ludi’s blood. Luce was more anxious to find Ludi then the mutt from the compound.
‘It will, erm okay give me a minute or two to set up,’ Kaze said. His voice was low; obviously he was a little
uncomfortable around all the blood and such. He was lucky he hadn’t been around before, when Ludi was, well when she
was that thing. Luce shuddered, wondering how her friend, her sister, could become what ever the hell that thing was. She
looked at Kaze briefly, he looked shaken up, all the blood and bullet wounds, she was surprised. Of course this didn’t
usually happen on pack territory. They where peaceful, sure they illumined any rough mutts who made a nuisance of themselves,
but wouldn’t you do that same?
Around the Same Time, The Cube
Leon was dreaming. He was dreaming about blood and the slash of swords, the face of his father, mocking him and then her.
Carla. While he slept a sigh ran though his body and he rolled onto his side on the cold metal table he’d been placed
on. Pain racked through his chest and it drew him to open his heavy eye lids. He blinked in the bright yellow almost artificial
light. Then he heaved himself upwards, to look into the dark slits of eyes that stared back from an almost beautiful face.
Kimura smiled, her right hand rested on the hand grip of a two barrelled shot. Leon eyed the shiny metal surface of the gun,
then drew his hand to his chest. The bandages where slightly pink in the middle where his blood had pushed through the tight
cotton sticking. He groaned as he touched the slow healing wound and swung his legs over the side of the metal table. He remembered
watching some television program, Lost, or something where a guy had been laid out on a large table like this, with a see
through wall and such. Copycats, he though as he tried to sand, but just ended up as a pile on the floor.
‘Your muscles are still numb,’ her voice as rather distant and Leon knew then she was sat the other side of the
glass, or plastic, what ever that see through wall was.
‘Why?’ even his own voice sounded distant, like his ears where plugged up with several ear plugs,
‘Because of the hug amount of tranquillizers they gave you,’ the woman replied,
‘Where am I?’
‘You, Mr Grey, are in The Cube,’ this was a completely different voice. Leon tugged his eyes from the floor to
look through the dimly lighted glass to another set of eyes. He didn’t know theses ones either. Was Ludi here? Was the
rest of the Pack here? Or was he back where his father had sold him out to? His head felt really really heavy, ‘and
you’re a new favourite wolf,’ the eyes smiled and turned away, leaving him again with the pretty girl with the
shot gun. He swayed to the side and was unconscious before he hit the floor.
Two doors down from Leon, Ludi stood in the middle of her room, running her hands through her loose hair. She’d been
allowed a shower, given a stack of fresh clothes and then shown back to her room. She hadn’t seen Leon, she didn’t
know whether he was alright, and she still didn’t know where she was. No tests had been done to her, no blood taken,
only thing that had happened was Cross following her into the large shower room that looked as though it had once been in
a army bunk. You know that sort of room that was completely tiled for the water to run down to three grates in the middle
of the floor, 6 shower heads dived the wall into six different places to shower. Ludi had gone right to the end, all the way
away from the door, which Cross had enjoyed peering through. He’d only stopped when Kate Bishop had slapped a folder
into his chest and made him read it.
The folder had been on what information they had managed to bring up on Ludi and her pack. It was a very thin folder. It seemed
that Ludi, Ludifer, had changed her name and had moved away from her family. She had a writer’s name, but that led no
where. But that was a good thing. Having no leads for Ludifer’s family, meant no one but the Pack was going to miss
her. So that promise of not taking any of her blood? Well Cross had always known that had been a lie.
Ludi looked around her room. Or cell. She finally decided to call it a cell, which was furnished. There was a metal framed
bed in the middle, a desk to the side, and a camera in the corner. She sided, shaking her head a little she began to pace
back and to, back and to, restless. Her body itched all over, a small nagging pain in the pit of her stomach.
‘What’s the matter? Do you need to transform?’ Cross’s annoying voice barked through a speaker she
was yet to find. She stopped. Looked around and let out her breath,
‘Yes…’ her voice trailed off. She wanted to change, needed to if that was it, but she could go another week
with out it. It was just the fact that changing every couple of days back at Stone Haven led to an almost constant itching
behind knees, elbows and down her back. Maybe this could be a chance to escape? Well maybe it could be if she knew where the
hell she was.
Cross’s face loomed around the small window on the metal door, the only way in or out of the room.
‘Come on, I’ll take you,’ he said as he pushed the door inward and stood in the door frame. Ludi looked
at him, her eyes narrowed down at the taller, more bulky male.
‘LUDI!’ she clutched her head and recoiled around, slumping to the floor almost instantly,
‘Jesus fuckin’ Christ,’ she muttered, Cross’ hands on her shoulders, ‘get the fuck off me!’
she cried out, slapping her hands at his arms. He didn’t move. She span around, the whole time the same voice yelling
in her head. She couldn’t concentrate, she couldn’t think properly, sinking her teeth into Cross’s lower
arm, he final let go off her arm and he would be infected with the virus that made you what she was. Cross stared at her,
backing out of the room as Ludi clutched her head, the voice screaming around her mind. It wasn’t Luce, it wasn’t
Kirsty, or Trey, though he’d never tried to contract her like this.
The voice started out clear and loud and as she crouched on the floor, as she let her tears run down her face the voice became
more darker and just a plain loud scream.
‘Shut up! Shut up! Please shut up!’ she cried out and it stopped,
‘Did I hurt you?’ the dark voice asked lightly,
‘Who are you?’
‘Don’t you know Rebecca?’ it used her name. Her real name. The name she hadn’t used since her last
book. A good 2 years ago, ‘I’m your sister!’ the voice began to laugh and Ludi knew it was that little ghostly
girl. The door slammed open again and Ludi looked up, her eyes frantic. The barrel of Kimura’s gun smacked into her
cheek and Ludi lunged forward. The voice urging her to kill, pushing her to become that creature again.
She came to her senses when the gun shot ran out. She looked down, wondering then if there was a bullet hole in her. She saw
nothing. No wound nothing. Just Kimura’s angry black eyes glaring back at her. She looked around and saw Cross with
his own pump action shot gun raised to the ceiling. Concrete and plaster was raining down on him,
‘That was stupid,’ he muttered to him self as two guards came around him, grabbed Ludi’s arms and pulled
her off. She slammed against the cold stone floor, the two guards holding her down, their gloved fingers digging into her
flesh. She grunted in annoyance.
She was lifted, carried out to some place with sand and dirt as a floor, with trees and bushes surrounded her. She knew it
wasn’t the real outdoors, because of the yellow lights on the metal roof above her. Ludi figured she was underground
and as the guards let go off her, she ran forward into the heart of the fake forest and shed her clothes.
3 Hours later, Stone Haven Forest
Kaze ran his hand through his wiry brown hair and stretched his arms. He frowned and recited the little location ritual though
his head once again. The map of American was set out in the middle of the Ludi made clearing, and two purple come pink crystals
both half covered in blood. One Leon, the other Ludi. Luce was pacing behind him; Kirsty had just joined them and was sat
on a two metre high branch. He had no idea how she’d gotten up there, but he knew there was a hole being burnt into
his back.
Re-crossing his legs, he lent forward, breathing in the smell of dried blood and began to mumble to himself again. The crystals
moved slightly, rattling along the map, they span around, going this way and that, but never settling on one place.
‘I can’t just sit here Luce,’
‘You can’t? What about me? We are thinking the same thoughts. Its happened again, and we couldn’t stop it,’
‘They had proper silver bullet guns this time! You got shot, Amy got shot, and she’s only okay because you and
Hawk got the bullet out! We couldn’t do anything’ both Kirsty and Luce looked over to Kaze who was leaning over
the map. Kirsty’s eyes travelled over him to the blade that was stuck out of the ground. Where the hell had that come
from? She’d seen Leon with it, but how did he get it? She frowned and jumped down from the branch, landing easily and
almost jumping out of her skin as Trey touched her waist. She span around, slapping a hand across his face. He yelled out
and she frowned at him, ‘Don’t fucking do that!’ she hissed, stepping backwards away from the Alpha male.
‘Sorry,’ he muttered, looking over at Kaze, ‘any location?’
‘I can’t find them,’ Kaze said, standing up in one fluid motion. He turned around and looked at them, his
shoulders shrugged a little, ‘this place, The Cube, I can’t find it. It’s protected by something that’s
repelling me and my magic,’
‘Shit,’
Chapter Eight
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