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face.  “It’s
alright, my love.”  He spoke in a near growl.  “Stay in the
carriage.”
    He glanced at Avery, his eyes glowing bright green, before
he slammed the door shut.  She pushed away from Maya and slid across the
seat to the window, looking out just in time to see Tristan’s clothing explode
from his body as he transformed into a giant grey wolf.
    She let out a breathless little gasp as he howled
deafeningly before he crouched to the ground and then leaped into the air,
snatching a faerie out of the sky above him.  The faerie screeched and
beat at Tristan’s head but Tristan threw him to the ground, placing his front
paws on the faerie’s chest and his mouth around its head.  With a muffled
growl, he tore the faerie’s head off with a wet squelching sound.
    Avery winced in horror as a jet of blood and black liquid
squirted out of the faerie’s gaping neck.  Tristan dropped the faerie’s
head on the ground and ran towards the other werewolves.
    “Avery!”  Maya let out a wailing cry and she turned
back to see Sophia on the floor of the carriage.  Her small body was
shaking and rippling, and low growls and snarls were emitting from her throat.
    “What’s happening to her?”  Maya moaned as Nicholas
screamed and wailed in the sling.
    “She’s a werewolf.”  Avery knelt beside Sophia. 
“Honey, it’s okay.  Calm down, baby.  Everything’s fine.”
    With another low snarl, Sophia looked at her and Avery
jerked back.  Like Tristan, her eyes had gone from dark brown to green but
they were filled with fear and confusion.
    Maya, jiggling Nicholas frantically, knelt in front of
her.  “Sophia, my love?  Shhh…it’s okay.”
    With a loud scream that was half-howl, Sophia’s clothes
burst apart and she shifted into a small grey wolf.  She crouched on the
floor of the carriage, growling and snapping her teeth at them.
    “Sophia?”  Maya whispered.
    Sophia leaped for her throat.
    “Sophia, no!”  Avery screamed as Sophia landed with a
thud on Maya and Nicholas.  Maya fell on to her back, her head hitting the
door of the carriage with a loud bang, and threw her arm up as Sophia lunged
for the soft flesh of her neck.
    She screamed with pain as Sophia’s small, but needle-sharp
teeth tore into the flesh of her forearm. 
    “Sophia – stop!”  Avery grabbed the scruff of the
wolf’s neck and yanked as hard as she could.  Maya screamed again as
Sophia tore a chunk of skin from her arm.  Avery wrestled the small wolf
to the ground, flinching back just in time to avoid having Sophia sink her
fangs into her face.
    She used her weight to pin Sophia to the floor and as the
wolf howled and struggled beneath her shaking arms, she looked at Maya.
    “Maya, are you okay?”
    Maya, crying and bleeding profusely from the wound in her
arm, sat up and nodded.  “I’m okay.  I’m okay.”
    “Here, give me your hand.”  Avery reached for her with
one hand.
    “No.”  Maya gasped.  “I’m fine for now. 
We’ll heal it later.”
    She looked at Sophia.  “What do we do with her? 
Should we – “
    The door of the carriage ripped open and a faerie peeked
in.  He grinned and clapped his hands together.  “Hello, my
pretties!” 
    He looked at Maya and the baby.  “Ooh, two for the
price of one!”  Before Avery could move he grabbed Maya by the hair and
yanked her from the carriage.
    “Maya!”  Avery screamed.  She threw Sophia across
the carriage on to the seat and scrambled out of the carriage, slamming the
door shut just as Sophia leaped from the seat and thumped against the door.
    Avery looked around frantically.  The faerie had
dragged Maya to the edge of the road, and three other faeries were crowding
around them.
    “A baby!  I want the baby!  C’mon now, give me a
taste!”  The three of them jostled for position, and Avery snatched a
large rock from the ground and ran towards them.
    There was a loud howling and a large white wolf slammed into
the three