25

Ari woke with a splitting headache to find Bradley on guard. She watched him without ssying anything before realizing she wasn't alone. She felt something warm and hairy running the length of her body. She turned gently as to not wake whoever laid next to her. She knew itwas Mika, laying next to her sound asleep. He was in shifter form, his legs were long, his tail laid up next him. His giant claws resting one behind his head and the other laid protectivly across her stomach. He laid his huge wolf like head above hers as he was a good two foot longer than she this way. She smiled at him. He felt right. A glint caught her eyes and she tried to focus more on what it was. She saw his claws, slightly still bloody but each coated in what looked like silver. She gasped, imagining the pain that must've caused him. Even though she had made barely a whisper Mika began to stir. He reached for her to pull her in closer. She rolled into him to nuzzle against his silky chest. In a few short moments she was feeling soft silk like fur then bare hot skin. she looked up to see Mika smiling back down at her. Even though he was back to his human form he was still a good head taller than her. "Good morning." he whispered. "Good morning." she replied with a small giggle. Realizing she could feel *all* of him pressed against her and it was making it very hard for her not to giggle and blush. "How long did I sleep?" she said trying to change subject.
Mika snuggled down to be face to face, and also not pressing his very much well-endowed member against her stomach anymore. "Offically?" he paused watching her, "About two days. You'd wake up and drink a little but laid down afterward. "
"Anything new? Other than your new toys?" she glanced down at his human like nails glinting when the light hit the. they were still scabbed over but longer than usual. She looked questionable at them.
"They aren't fully healed yet. I don't want to retract them while they finish fusing or they wont heal."
She scoffed,"Are you seriously telling me your nails are wet and you don't want to mess them up?!" she burst out laughing. Mika rolled his eyes in mock aggravation but started laughing with her too."Well shit I guess so." After a few minutes of just some much needed comic relief they settled down. Bradley had heard them and had glanced over a time or two to shake his head at them. Devion was beginning to wakeup and see what the next plan of action was.
"Alright sir, i wont mess up your nails, but tell me what the plan is?"
"At thsi time we are well aware we are out numbered, but we all knew that coming into this anyway so no big change there."
"Aside from we have some wendigo/werewolf now to play against." Devion added.
"Anything out of Niko?" All three shook their heads.
"Not a peep." Bradley said over his shoulder keeping watch on the entrance.
"I say we start cutting the numbers down. It's gonna be slow but it may tip the odds in our favor." Mika continued.
"How? Surely you aren't thinking we are just gonna go mow down hundreds of deaders, then take out the vampires, and god knows what else is out there and walk out not compleltly dead on our feet?!"
"As fun as that sounds," he said scarcastically, " it will be a slower process. We make pits, or pens-whatever we can and begin rounding up the deaders and ghouls. We kill them and then move to the nest. Draw out the food, and then the lower vamps."
"By then the master will know something is up." Devion interjected.
"Hell he already knows something is up Devion." Bradley called out.
"You both have a point, so we say the hell with it and make some noise?" she asked.
"Not till phase two. Keep one on the down low because of how the deaders react to noise."
"Okay so what are we digging with then. Your nails aren't up for the dirt Mika." she teased.
"Luckly there are some buildings we can use to our favor. Make tiger traps so that when the deaders pass over they fall into the pit with spikes. Gather up long spears and stab the ones who survive the fall. We also have the Teihiihan- they eat meat. **Any** kind of meat."
Devion done a evil grin causing his pearly whites to look almost glowing against his dark skin,"Let's feed the little bastards."

The team begun their preparations. Bradley had found a old pool like structure not too far off course and begun making a false top as once so much weight was added it would collapse on to the spears that they had shaved and drilled through logs. Near by they had a stack of spears long enough to reach all the way to the bottom of the rock floor so to get **any** unfortuante soul stuck in the trap.
Devion had searched out the location they had first met the Teihiihan at. At first he wasn't sure if any still remained of if they had killed them all with the fire. He had to go deeper into the old structure but sure enough he found new evidence they were still very much alive. He brought a deer carcass to the building and made some noise to get their attention. The little demons gobbled it up and began searching for more. Carefull not to leave a trail back to him, Devion slipped away happy that their next attack was well in place.
Happy with how things lined up the group was ready to test their theroy. Mika had watched a small group of about 15 deaders just roaming by with out muct direction. *Dumb creatures.* Ari truly felt sorry for them. Just driven by a hunger that you can not fufill, no mind to pain, or anything else. she shuttered at the thought many of those Deaders had once been human like her.
Mika got hte attention of the hoard and they began to follow him. He did not run at top speed but gave it a little bit of a work out to see if any ghouls were in the herd- none this time. He ran over the false top waiting for the hoard to be within feet of him. Groaning and moaning as they shuffled along. Some snapping and biting their teeth and jaws. Any strangler that were not keeping up with the group Devion picked off one at a time. He'd just walk up and stab, walk and stab. If the moans were not so deafening you'd heard the pop, and sucking of the spear entering and leaving the base of hte skull, followed by a thud as the body hit the ground. Once the mass was standing over the pit, Mika could feel the top about to give as he bounded off. the roof collasped sending the remaining 10 into the spikes. Out of the 10 that went in 6 had been inpaled by the spears through their heads, and the remaining 4 were impaled by various parts of their bodies. Still moaning and reaching for their last meal. It was bradley and Ari's turn now. Each with a spear they began stabbing the deaders skull- silence fell and everyone was pleased with the days work.
"Can we see about making more pits?" Bradley asked as he pulled his spear from his deader.
"We can certainly find more. and begin setting them up around the city." Mika nodded happy with the trap." We will have big plans for the Teihiihan, save them for last."
The group began their search once more for more holes, or old pool beds that they could turn into traps. After about three days they had managed to set up 20 more traps all leading up to the nest. Grant it they would not be able to man each trap at once but given some extra fortifications if something went in. Unless the creature has a brain to not stab itself as it tried to climb out over the spikes pointing into the trap Mika was sure this would subdue any deaders coming in. Their hard work was certainly paying off as the days passed less and less deaders were seen in the area. The traps were checked and by the fourth day no new deaders had been caught.
"Time for phase two."