Chp. 8
Lionel growled as he watch the two girls walking away. In turned and glared at Amber like it was her fault, but knew there wasn't much he could do. He walked away from the group without saying a word. They all felt the loss of prey.
Marking your prey was only the beginning though, it was stalking the prey afterwards that was the true entertainment. Eating it was only a reward.
Prey like this only came about two times a year though. Werewolves, at least the tamed packs, fed off wild animals. Twice a month was the regular for a full pack, just to keep the blood thirst at bay. The rules were admit though, no more then three humans a year. Even though it was only likely for most packs to find one per year.
That's why stalking the prey was so much fun. The held on to their prey as long as possible. No two humans ever reacted smelled the same. None of them ever tasted the same. So they also languished over both sense when it came to the special kind of dinning.
Lionel stalked away though. He didn't care to stalk the prey at that exact moment. He didn't care for much for that matter. All he wanted was a rush, that shot of adrenaline, anything to keep his thoughts off of the loss of his cousin.
Everyone felt sorry for Amber, but he knew the truth about... He knew the whole truth.
~
Halfway across town Dawn and Shade stopped next to the railroad tracks. From there they half stumbled (well Dawn stumbled, Shade pretended to stumble) down the side of a rocky hill to an empty field of nothing but dirt.
The steel factory use to keep all of it's materials there. Until World War II, then it was closed down. There was no need for so many factories working on steel, so they had shut it down. It had been turned into a museum. A collection of the city's past.
The field still held the scar of the war though. It was grass-less, and hills of dirt had been placed together by local teens who would come down to the field with motor bikes and some regular bikes just play around. Dawn and Shade went out further though.
At the opposite edge of the field were some tightly growing trees, and just behind that was the giant river that went in between the city's two halves.
They got there, and moved out further away then they usually had to just to sit by the water.
Shade brought his legs up and watched the waters pass by, while Dawn looked up towards the grey sky. It as how they had always spent their spare time in between classes during college. Just out by the water (at least on cloudy days). Shade had even talked Dawn into throwing a few bashes out here back in those days.
Now they were even lucky if they ran into each other at the store. Shade always made it a point to talk Dawn out at least once a month. So he was pretty glad he had gotten to see Dawn twice in a row.
"So, whatta ya want." Dawn said with a soft laugh.
Shade looked over his shoulder at Dawn, it was abit unnerving how he always just laid still like that. Like he could spend all day just watching clouds float by. Didn't he realize how unnervingly short his human life was?
Shade shrugged, "Nothing much, just you know... Wanted to hang out." He let out a heavy sigh and laid back with his arms behind his head.
"Last time you just wanted to 'hang out' , you were being stalked by your crazed ex-girlfriend." Dawn laughed and looked around at the near by brush as if the crazy chick was going to show up again.
"
Yeah, well.. at least there was a chick in my life back then." Shade shook his head, and then propped himself on his elbows.
Dawn's eyebrow rose as he looked at Shade. He knew that whatever Shade had in his head was about to come out.
With a heavy sigh Shade looked at Dawn with tired expression, "I don't know I guess I just want my own life or something."
Dawn smirked, "Yeah, well... I think the best place to start is away from your mom's house."
"Shut-up dude, that's not what I meant."
"
Dude?"
"
Shut-up." Shade said laughing and shaking his head. "I guess, I just want something different. Something that I haven't done yet, that I haven't had."
"You haven't moved out of your mom's yet." Dawn teased with a growing smile.
"Your a dick."
"Your an idiot." Dawn said simply and sat up, "If you want something different then I suggest you stop lying to yourself. You need to live on your own, and you have to do something with your college degree. Something other then as a frame filler."
Shade sighed heavily. "Yea... Yea, I guess I should and I definitely do have to move out."
"Exactly." Dawn agreed as he looked over the water. "So, what else is wrong? Are we gonna laugh over a dumb joke and go now?"
"Is that really all we do anymore?"
"Yeah, basically." Dawn picked at the grass next to him, "But I've gotten use to helping your ass out dumb crap, so who cares."
Shade chuckled, "Well, then I think you might have fun helping me with this one."
Shade sat back up, and ran a hand through his short dark hair. He hadn't want to actually talk about this particular problem, but when he thought about it, Dawn really did help him with alot of his problem.
"Well, you remember how crazy my ex was right?" He asked slowly.
Dawn turned his head to look at Shade, "Don't tell she's finally been committed."
Shade shook his head with a smile, "Not exactly, Dawn she..."
Shade was suddenly cut off by an arrow flying straight past his face. Five seconds later another arrow flew at then again. This time Shade took Dawn by the hand pulled up as he stood and broke out into a run.
He jumped behind a tree Dragging Dawn with him. Why hadn't he noticed it earlier? Why hadn't heard anything? How could they have gotten so close without him knowing?
An arrow flew past the tree and Shade pushed himself up against even harder. Dawn on the other hand crouched himself low to the ground.
"Who the hell is aiming arrows at us at five in the ****ing afternoon?" He yelled at Shade as if he'd know.
He actually did know... Kind of. He knew in general who throwing arrows, more at him then them, but that was beside the point.