Thud!
Sous landed face first on the restroom floor. She picked herself up and held her chin, looking at the bath tub she just tripped over. In the bath tub was a yellow duck floating in the water.
The Alpha looked at the rubber duck and slapped it across the bathtub.
Squeak!
The rubber duck fell onto the floor, landing on its flat surface, looking at Sous as if it were mocking the Alpha. Sous walked into the hotel room naked.
"Ewww, put some clothes on," Shadow Jr. said waving her hands. "I don't wanna see all that."
Sous ignored Shadow Jr. and walked over to the bed. She laid down on the bed and sighed. She rolled over onto her side and looked at Shadow Jr. "You're annoying," Sous said. "But I enjoy your company." She placed her arms behind her head and closed her eyes, enjoying the breeze that came from the open window.
"How long are we gonna be in this place?" Shadow Jr. asked. "I'm getting bored, plus I wanna go to Faelock," she said blushing.
Sous smirked and got up to put some clothes on. "I'm sure we won't be here for too long." She tied her sweat pants and placed her shoes on. "I wanna go back to the village. I think somethings wrong with the Omega I mated with."
"You don't know her name?" Sous blushed with a sweat drop swooping over her head. She was too embarrassed to admit she hadn't gotten the Omega's name. She puffed out her cheeks and crossed her arms. "Sometimes it just happens."
"Yeah, that's how baby mamas are made," Shadow Jr. said, laughing at her own comment.
Sous shot her a glare, but the retort died on her lips. A sudden, unnatural stillness descended. The cheerful chirping of birds outside vanished..birds...underground? The gentle rustle of curtains ceased. Even the distant hum of the city seemed muffled, swallowed by a thick silence that pressed against Sous's eardrums.
Her instincts screamed. She froze mid-step, one hand still clutching her untied shoelace. Across the room, Shadow Jr.'s playful smirk vanished, replaced by wide-eyed alarm.
No words were exchanged. They didn't need them. The abrupt absence of sound was a louder alarm than any shout.
"That's, uh, a strange occurence," the young Alpha said, sitting up in the hotel bed.
Sous looked out the window. Bring underground, things were already quiet to begin with but this was unusual.
Late in the evening, Derrick was putting up the dishes. When he looked up at the window, he dropped the dish that was in his hand.
CRASH!
Into a dozen pieces. He stepped back from the sink and in a voice he never thought he was capable of making, he screamed out to Riley.
"RILEY!!! RILEY!!"
Riley jumped up from the couch and ran to the kitchen. She grabbed Derrick just as a creature went through the walls of the home. A creature with a black cloth, tan brown arms, a dozen or so of them reaching out from its robe.
It soared toward Riley. Riley pushed Derrick out of the way. He landed on the floor while the creature grabbed onto Riley and began to pull her into the robe. She tried to get away, even transformed into her werewolf self, but the grip was just held onto to her tighter.
"RILEY!!" Derrick reached out but the creature soared away, going through the window. Derrick ran to the door and outside. He transformed into his werewolf and ran after the creature. And when he looked up, he saw more of the creatures in the sky. He stopped in his tracks, other wolved out on the street also looking up.
Kara stood on her back yard patio, looking up at the sky, seeing the creatures known as the Hunters. They came for many of the wolves.
"What are those?" Zhiliary asked, running outside to stand by Kara, losing her balance a bit.
"Hunters. When one commits a crime in Nadia, they come after you and then you are brought to the lead arch. They would go to prison, Dragon Lair," Kara exclaimed.
"What's going on?" Shadow asked, running down the hall with Sous, Icarus, and his own daughter. Sous' canines gleamed and she glared out.
It was Icarus who turned around to look at Shadow to answered. "The wolves were killed. The entire pack." They ran out the hotel room with Icarus and Sous flying toward the sky, but they were immediately met with robots from the city's guards.
Many of the elves in the city watched the interactions between the Alpha female and the man with the black wings. Sous waved her arm at the robots.
"Move out my way!" She screamed, her baby was the only thing she thought about. She was so sick of losing her children. Tears started to form in her eyes, but she immediately blinked them away.
The robots refused to move, boxing them in.
"Tsk!" Shadow took out a gun and aimed it at the robot. He closed one eye. All he needed was for Sous to give the order.
But Sous didn't say anything. She just stared at the robots blocking their path. Her jaw tightened so hard that a muscle jumped in her cheek. The robots' metallic faces reflected distorted versions of her own furious expression back at her.
Shadow kept his gun trained, finger hovering near the trigger. He watched Sous' profile, waiting for the slightest nod or gesture. Below them, elves leaned out of crystalline balconies, their whispers like dry leaves skittering across pavement. The robots shifted position slightly, their joint servers whining softly.
Her nostrils flared with a sharp inhale. She didn't speak, didn't signal Shadow. Instead, she stepped forward, one deliberate, silent footfall on the polished skybridge.
The nearest robot's optic sensors tracked her movement, its weapon ports humming to life. Sous kept walking. Her claws slid from her fingertips with a soft shink of bone against keratin.
Clink!