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been down here before.”
“Damn, I wanted to be on the demon’s team,” Desmond teased with a grin. “But I can see your point.”
“Good, now let’s move out.”
The caves were almost completely dark, so that even the wolves, with their low-light vision, had trouble seeing the walls. For a while, the floor descended fairly steeply, but finally it leveled out so they could traverse more easily. So far, they hadn’t run across a single Alpha, and they had to have been walking for over an hour.
Just as they were beginning to think the caves were abandoned completely they heard voices up ahead. They followed the sound and located the source. Probably forty people were seated around a banquet table in a large cavern at the end of the smaller cave they’d been following. They were toasting something but then the man who held up his glass froze in mid-boast and looked directly where they stood.
“Intruders!” he growled angrily, and jumped up onto the table, pointing. The party he spotted was Rico’s, so Betsy and Gabriel’s party was a bit further back. When Gabriel realized there was going to be a fight, he told his group to hurry, since its members were among the strongest. They surged forward and quickly joined the fray as mayhem erupted.
“Don’t let any of them escape,” Rico ordered. “They could forewarn the ultimate quarry.”
Rico pulled out a gun and gave it to Gabriel, and he gave him a funny look. “I thought these bullets would only wound them.”
“We analyzed the lance,” he explained. “It was the Riconite, only blended with aluminum. I had a few bullets made once I knew, but there are only a hundred so aim carefully.”
“Are you sure they’ll work?” he asked.
“I have no idea,” said Rico, then he shot at one of the Alphas, and the head practically exploded. “Yes, they do,” he answered then.
“Well, all right, then,” said Gabriel with a determined sneer. He aimed and shot ten of the Alphas before one managed to land a glancing blow on his shoulder. In response, he shot that one in the face.
“It’s a good thing we aren’t doing this under a full moon,” said Desmond tiredly as he passed Gabriel by. “I don’t want to even imagine what that would be like.”
“Ugh! Don’t remind me!” said Gabriel as he shot yet another enemy. He didn’t see any more to shoot after that, so he perused the room and saw that they’d all fallen. “Rico, are we good?”
“It seems like it, assuming nobody heard the guns,” he said. “The silencers do a decent job, but you never know since we’re in a cave.”
“I suppose we’ll just have to keep our eyes open then,” said Gabriel.
“There’s still plenty of space between here and Lupo’s cave,” Rico reminded him. “It’s a fair bet that by the time we get there it’ll be night time. It’s three days till the moon is full, but some of the more powerful wolves may be able to transform tonight. Keep yourself frosty.”
“Oh, I intend to transform myself, as soon as I am able,” Gabriel told him.
“So do I,” he said with a grin. “You can bank on that.”
#
Another hour passed and then another. They were under the heart of the city and the lack of Alphas was beginning to disconcert them. Rico called a halt when they reached yet another area that should have been populated and didn’t find a soul.
“There’s something strange going on here,” he told them all. “I’m not sure what it is but the Alphas are obviously all elsewhere. We could be walking straight into a trap.”
“Even if it is some sort of a trap, there’s little we can do about it now,” Gabriel pointed out. “We’re going to have to press on.”
“I want you all to make sure your guns are loaded and your stones are securely against your skin,” said Rico with some urgency. “If any werewolf manages to feel the urge to turn, do it. The stronger we are when we get there, the better.”
Various voices went up in
“Damn, I wanted to be on the demon’s team,” Desmond teased with a grin. “But I can see your point.”
“Good, now let’s move out.”
The caves were almost completely dark, so that even the wolves, with their low-light vision, had trouble seeing the walls. For a while, the floor descended fairly steeply, but finally it leveled out so they could traverse more easily. So far, they hadn’t run across a single Alpha, and they had to have been walking for over an hour.
Just as they were beginning to think the caves were abandoned completely they heard voices up ahead. They followed the sound and located the source. Probably forty people were seated around a banquet table in a large cavern at the end of the smaller cave they’d been following. They were toasting something but then the man who held up his glass froze in mid-boast and looked directly where they stood.
“Intruders!” he growled angrily, and jumped up onto the table, pointing. The party he spotted was Rico’s, so Betsy and Gabriel’s party was a bit further back. When Gabriel realized there was going to be a fight, he told his group to hurry, since its members were among the strongest. They surged forward and quickly joined the fray as mayhem erupted.
“Don’t let any of them escape,” Rico ordered. “They could forewarn the ultimate quarry.”
Rico pulled out a gun and gave it to Gabriel, and he gave him a funny look. “I thought these bullets would only wound them.”
“We analyzed the lance,” he explained. “It was the Riconite, only blended with aluminum. I had a few bullets made once I knew, but there are only a hundred so aim carefully.”
“Are you sure they’ll work?” he asked.
“I have no idea,” said Rico, then he shot at one of the Alphas, and the head practically exploded. “Yes, they do,” he answered then.
“Well, all right, then,” said Gabriel with a determined sneer. He aimed and shot ten of the Alphas before one managed to land a glancing blow on his shoulder. In response, he shot that one in the face.
“It’s a good thing we aren’t doing this under a full moon,” said Desmond tiredly as he passed Gabriel by. “I don’t want to even imagine what that would be like.”
“Ugh! Don’t remind me!” said Gabriel as he shot yet another enemy. He didn’t see any more to shoot after that, so he perused the room and saw that they’d all fallen. “Rico, are we good?”
“It seems like it, assuming nobody heard the guns,” he said. “The silencers do a decent job, but you never know since we’re in a cave.”
“I suppose we’ll just have to keep our eyes open then,” said Gabriel.
“There’s still plenty of space between here and Lupo’s cave,” Rico reminded him. “It’s a fair bet that by the time we get there it’ll be night time. It’s three days till the moon is full, but some of the more powerful wolves may be able to transform tonight. Keep yourself frosty.”
“Oh, I intend to transform myself, as soon as I am able,” Gabriel told him.
“So do I,” he said with a grin. “You can bank on that.”
#
Another hour passed and then another. They were under the heart of the city and the lack of Alphas was beginning to disconcert them. Rico called a halt when they reached yet another area that should have been populated and didn’t find a soul.
“There’s something strange going on here,” he told them all. “I’m not sure what it is but the Alphas are obviously all elsewhere. We could be walking straight into a trap.”
“Even if it is some sort of a trap, there’s little we can do about it now,” Gabriel pointed out. “We’re going to have to press on.”
“I want you all to make sure your guns are loaded and your stones are securely against your skin,” said Rico with some urgency. “If any werewolf manages to feel the urge to turn, do it. The stronger we are when we get there, the better.”
Various voices went up in
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