93. The unexpected

I don’t waste time following her. By what she said I am assuming it’s the assignment Sylvia mentioned.

I couldn’t wait for my warriors. So I link Hunter and tell him to follow me along with the others. He was the best tracker I’ve ever known. It wouldn’t take him long to catch up.

I shift into fang and let him take over. Let him follow Red as we keep our pace behind her.

I am not sure if Lauren is even conscious. Or if it’s like before. When she was hunting the serial killer and she didn’t remember when Midnight took over.

Running through the forest is usually exhilarating but not today. Today I was filled with a lot of tension and nervousness.

“Do you feel that, Fang?” I ask him, pacing inside his head.

I didn’t know where we were going or why. But for some reason I felt that things were going to change.

That my life once again was going to be turned upside down.

I hated that feeling because I liked my life the way it was. I didn’t need a fucking storm disrupting everything things.

“Yeah…I feel it too” he replies, breathing hard.

Midnight was fast. Fang and I are the strongest among Alphas but we were having a hard time keeping up with her.

“Any idea what it’s about?”

I hated the idea of not knowing. Of being in limbo. Surrounded by anxiety. I fucking hated it and I just wanted to get this over and done with so I could crawl into bed with Red in my arms.

Whatever the goddess wanted Lauren to do was big. This wasn’t just about tracking one serial killer.

This was more. Otherwise Sylvia wouldn’t have asked me to have the warriors on standby “No...But I don’t like the feelings it fucking evokes” he growls.

I nod my head and shut up and let him focus.

The trees pass by us in a blur. Zipping past us at dizzying speed. I notice that Midnight is heading in the west side.

That was considered no man’s land. There was nothing there. No buildings, no roads, no infrastructure.

There was absolutely nothing so I wondered why she would head that way. Unless there was something that we missed.

“Who do you think she’s going to kill? She did mention the goddess’ left hand will vanquish those that hurt her children and we know she’s her left hand” Fang asks, very curiously.

Her words have been playing like a fucking broken inside my head. My brain dissects each and every word.

“I’ve concluded a couple of things from what she said.” I begin. “The first one is that she’s going to kill more than one person this time. And the second is that, those she’s going to kill are somehow related to her nightmares”

“How?”

“Think about it, Fang. She said none who hurt the goddess’ children is going to live right? And what has been the main theme of her nightmares since they began?” I ask him.

It’s like a light bulb goes on in his head. “Werewolves being experimented on by humans”

“Bingo…My guess is that these weren’t just dreams. They were visions. She was somehow able to see what was happening to those captured wolves.”

“Fuck!” is his only reply.

The fact that this was happening and none of us knew about it pissed me off. Our own people were being experimented on and we didn’t have a fucking clue.

All of a sudden Midnight stops. She sniffs the air for a second then resumes running. It’s like she didn’t even realize that she was being followed. Or she didn’t care.

I don’t know for how long we ran but finally Midnight comes to stop. We were at the edge of a forest and she was staring at something ahead of her.

We approach her but she suddenly turns and growls menacingly at us. I’m still in awe of the beast that Lauren is. Midnight was bigger than we were and we were the biggest motherfucker we know so that’s saying a lot.

We lower our head down. To let her know that we weren’t a danger. She sniffs in my direction and after realizing we smell familiar she stands down. We trot to hear and look at what she was staring at.

Off the distance there’s a black building. There wasn’t a fence around it but you could see the guards. I count them and they’re about six of them.

I guess they didn’t see the need to have more. Given they were in the middle of nowhere. No one would have ever thought to look here.

We shift back to human and turn to Midnight.

“Midnight, could you please give Red the reins? We need to strategize, we can't just attack. We don’t know how many guards are inside”

She looks at me with her head tipped to the side before nodding. A second later Red is staring at me and fuck is she gorgeous. So much so that it fucking hurts to look at her.

“You okay?” I ask her, caressing her cheek.

She leans into my touch and smiles. “Yes…it all makes sense now and I know what I’m supposed to do.

Her eyes shifts to the building. I see the shadows playing in her eyes. She recognizes the building and she knows what we’re going to find when we get inside.

She’s been here. She knows the horrors she’s going to see and maybe that was the whole point of the dreams. The goddess was preparing her for what lies behind those doors.

“How are we going to do this?” she asks. “The goddess gave clear instructions. None of the humans should be left alive and after we are done we should burn the whole building with the bodies inside.

Make it look like it was an accident so it’s not traced back to any of us” she finishes.

I nod my head in understanding just as I hear the soft sound of paws on the ground. I recognize Hunter and my warriors immediately. He had gathered fifty or so.

“We have the element of surprise. So we are going to take out the outside guards first. When that is done we will split into groups of five. Make sure you take out every single fucking human. I want all of them dead. If you leave any of them alive I will have your heads, am I fucking understood?” I ask them.

They bow their heads in agreement.

“After all the humans are dealt with, then you can help the wolves. Make sure every werewolf is out and no one is left behind…Once we have all the dead human bodies inside, Hunter, I want you tamper with their electric circuit. The goddess wants the building burned down and she wants it in a way that it looks like an accident.”

They don’t question why but I see it in their eyes. They’ve already figured that this is a rescue mission.

“Good, let's roll then”

I change back to Fang and Lauren into Midnight. Taking out the guards isn’t hard. Within minutes they’re all lying dead. After that we get inside and we split into groups. Midnight and I are in our own group.

The building has an antiseptic smell but underneath that you smell the scent of blood, piss and rotting flesh. The stench is pungent. We hear a scream and for some reason it grabs our heart like a vise grip.

Refusing to let go.

Midnight rushes towards a white door at the end. She slices the man guarding it. Killing him on the spot.

She burst through the door with me following behind her.

The sight before me almost brings me to my knees. Werewolves. My people are in different stages of shifting. Tied to an operating table. Being operated on.

Red told me what she saw in her dreams but nothing could prepare me for seeing it in real life. It was heartbreaking and utterly inhumane.

“What the fuc…”

The man doesn’t get to finish his sentence before Midnight is tearing his head off. From there everything turns into chaos. The humans try to escape but we don’t let them.

We kill all ten of them that were present and fuck do we make it hurt. Their death isn’t swift. This time screams fill the building but it’s not that of our people. It’s the screams of our enemies.

Midnight changes back to Lauren. She approaches one wolf in particular. I see the tears in her eyes as she gets to the woman.

I change back and go to her. Intending to comfort her. But stop dead in my tracks when I get close to Red.

“Mayra” Lauren whispers just as the word is torn from my lips.

“Mate”