Chapter 21: Unlucky Fighter


    ir moved around only for the first part of the next day, but Isaiah and the hell hounds were moving


    around a lot. She didn''t like the thought of the contract being up before she could get away. She went


    to her home not having been there in a few days and straightened it up. The day passed by and into


    the next and she was right back to hiding from Isaiah and the hounds.


    She knew this frustrated him to no end, but she took a kind of pleasure from thwarting him. It was


    getting harder to avoid him. She''d given up trying to go to the studio as she just didn''t feel right going


    there. She apologized to the house and it gave her a kind response as if it understood.


    Three days had passed since the end of her bargain. She was proud that she had managed to avoid


    Isaiah and the hell houndspletely. It was still a week to the full moon. The hounds weren''t as active


    anymore, and she was starting to hear less of them.


    Isaiah on the other hand seemed to be everywhere at once. She dreaded having to leave her home.


    She knew he was waiting to catch her. She kept no routine, never visiting the same ces. She''d


    needed something to upy her time and she''d found the library and taken the biggest books she


    could find to read. Which others were milling around in there, so she made it fast.


    ir was out of water today and needed more. She sighed and headed toward the bathroom closest to


    her to fill the bottles that she had. She did it quick and put them in the basket. She closed the grate


    feeling the presence of someone human. She didn''t trust those in the house and she didn''t want them


    to stumble on her going into the venting system. Then her secret would be known. She could feel they


    were about toe around the corner so she moved.


    ir went down the hall and into a secret passage way. She moved through it and was going to loop


    back now that she went up a level. She heard Gustav talking in a room next to her. He and a few others


    were making some n. She shook her head and kept moving, they didn''t give up did they? It was


    better to just face the facts. No one was leaving, they needed to figure out how to live here.


    She stepped over a loose board and was almost past the room where Gustav was hiding in and talking


    when the passage into the room opened. A woman stepped into the crawl space and blinked when she


    saw her. Clearly not expecting her. Neither of them were expecting to be seen. Simply pure chance as


    the woman had been leaving their little meeting in that room and chose the secret passage.


    "Here she is!" ir turned and bolted down the small space. Here she was? What the hell was that


    supposed to mean? ir wasn''t sticking around to find out because it was pretty damn obvious that


    they wanted ir for whatever reason. She didn''t think it was to simply hand over either with what they


    were talking about. Sounded more like a sacrifice, or bait. Yeah, no.


    "Grab her! We''ll use her to sacrifice so we don''t have to die!" ir was quicker than they were, and


    what the hell did they think killing her was going to aplish? The woman didn''t go over the loose


    board and fell through the ceiling. ir had a brief moment to think about that. Since when did the


    house have a loose board?


    There was a warm touch to her. Okay then perhaps it was a little bit more to that. The other two that


    came after her along with Gustav went over it. Why did it have to be this group she was still stuck with?


    Bunch of crazy brain fried druggies. She didn''t think that between all of them they had a whole brain.


    But they were obvious survivors havingsted this long.


    She went out a panel into a hall and hit something solid flipping over it. There was a yelp and she


    realized that she had tripped over Betaing out of the wall. Damn it, why did she have to have the


    worst luck when running? Her luck never held it seemed once she was in trouble.


    He looked at her and there was a sudden sharpness to his eyes. She moved back and he came at her.


    No doubt he would drag her to Isaiah or call to him. One of the men came out of the wall. A knife in his


    hand and lunged at Beta who hadn''t expected the other man. His focus having been on her. After all


    ir never stayed with a group, always alone.


    ir pointed but the man was fast and strong. The knife going into the side of Beta''s head and his


    eyes went nk as he crumpled to the floor. It was a damn good strike, and pure luck in ir''s opinion.


    "I got one!" That had been an incredible stroke of luck on the man''s part that Beta hadn''t reacted in


    time. Now they were in worse trouble with that stupid move. ir jumped up.


    "What the fuck is wrong with you!" ir shouted pulling the de out. "Do you know what will happen


    when the others find out! They probably already know! We''re going to be bloody chunks on the walls!"


    The man wasn''t paying attention to her as the other two came out.


    "Nice work, get her. We need her. She survived longest, the ritual will work and we can get out." ir


    threw the knife and it hit the man, who''d stabbed Beta, in the leg. She turned and ran down the hall and


    the other two were after her. She heard snarling down the hall and a scream.


    She thought it sounded like Zeta. ir looked at the chute in the room, and she''d never crawl into that


    fast enough. She chose the hidden door and went back into the walls. Gustav was right behind her and


    so was the other man.


    ir turned the corner and Gustav was a few steps behind her. She went to jump the hidden opening


    in the floor when Gustav managed to snag her shirt. Her right foot missed the beam she needed tond


    on and they crashed through the floor which really was a ceiling.


    Gustav''s heavier formnded on her driving the air from her lungs and pain exploded in her head and


    back. His elbow hade straight down on the top of her head. She nearly ck out, he rolled off of


    her and dragged her off the bed by the hair.


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    "Get down here!" He said and the other man jumped. ir punched Gustav in the stomach hard and


    wed him. He tossed her into the nightstand. The edge mming into her ribs, he pulled her away


    from it by her foot.


    "She''s a fighter." The other man said.


    "Fuck you." She snapped and pulled a flip knife from her jean pocket and stabbed him in the foot. He


    let out a loud scream of pain. Gustav kicked her in the back and she made a sound of agony as well.


    The other man dragged her up off the floor.


    "This better work Gustav, like I can run now with a knife in my foot."


    "It will." Gustav said and the man hit ir hard enough in the side of the head to knock her out. More


    pain than the elbow to the head this time before darkness consumed her vision. The man with Gustav


    put her over his shoulder and they moved quickly from the room, the man limping, ir''s weight wasn''t


    much and he was d for it.


    ___Isaiah___


    Isaiah stepped into the room that he''d heard people talking. He looked down at a sheet of paper with


    ritual writing on it. A tic worked in his jaw, those idiots. He''d find and kill them for sure. This ritual wasn''t


    going to work in the way they thought. Had he known they were going through those books in the


    library...


    The ritual would make him turn feral. They''d be free alright, free in death. All of them at once. He''d be a


    mindless creature until it waspleted. No, that he would not allow. Clearly they didn''t understand it


    at all. Messing with shit you didn''t understand was how people ended up worse off, or stuck like he


    was. He heard running in the wall and then a loud crash. Isaiah went into the passage and started


    down the hall. He heard a distant yelp and then a cry.


    He heard ir''s voice shouting at someone, "What the fuck is wrong with you!" She continued to shout


    at the man, but it sounded like they were moving. He had a bad feeling. He couldn''t feel Beta in the


    house at the moment. Well they''d just signed themselves to death, no games for them.


    He moved faster now and heard Gustav call out to go after her. Then he heard Zeta and the cry of a


    man. Isaiah came out in the hall and looked at the bloody mess, and Beta''s still form. Blooding


    from the side of his head.


    ‘I have it.’ Zeta said and Isaiah didn''t stop he just kept going. It cost him a few seconds to catch the


    scent and direction. As he was seeing in red right now with what was going on. He went into the room


    that ir and Gustav had, and went then into the passage. The sound of fighting came to him along


    with three voices. A cry of pain that was a woman''s.


    By the time he went down through the ceiling they were gone, and there was blood in the air not ir''s


    though. He moved from the room, there was a breeze in the hall and he saw that a window was open.


    That was smart the scent of them scattered. Not truly enough though. He nced at the window and it


    slid closed with a thought.


    He felt for the men he wanted, they were moving quick. Had already gone up to the third floor and were


    moving back along the house. Isaiah turned and went up the first flight of stairs. Alpha appearing and


    following him. If they had ir and did something to her, or killed her there was going to be serious


    destruction in this house for it. They would not take what was his from him. They had no right to deny


    him what he wanted.


    "I fear we will have no one left during the moon to y with." Alpha made a regretful sound. There were


    ten humans in the house right now including ir. He found the floor that he needed and once again


    the window here was busted open. But there was more than one way to track a person.