Chapter 47

When Ami saw Mrs. Willow grabbing her chest, she quickly shifted back into her human form and pulled only her coat on, “are you ok?”
Ami rushed over to Mrs. Willow, panicked, “should I call an ambulance?”
“No, no,” Mrs. Willow said and stumbled into a chair.
“Are you sure?” Ami asked, worried.
“All this time I thought my husband was joking,” Mrs. Willow said, shaking her head.
“What kind of monster took my daughter?” Mrs. Willow asked, going into a full-blown panic state.
“Calm down, no one took her. She left with a vampire that is a really good tracker to find Jessica. I just wasn’t so sure how to tell you,” Ami explained and sat down next to Mrs. Willow.
“You knew she was not abducted?” Mrs. Willow’s panic changed into anger.
“I am sorry,” Ami tried and stood up to put some distance between her and an angry mother.
“I let you in my house! This danger is in my town because of you lot!” Mrs. Willow accused.
“Ok, that is my cue to leave,” Ami said and left the house. On the porch, she dropped her coat and shifted into her owl form. She grabbed her coat in her claws and took flight to do an aerial search for Ann. Eero looked up into the sky when he heard the flapping.
“Where is she going?” Eero asked out loud.
“Perhaps she picked up Ann’s trail,” Eljo said and looked in the direction that Ami was flying in.
Eljo stopped and thought for a moment.
“What are you thinking?” Eero asked after a minute.
“We need sled dogs, not vampires,” Eljo said and took out his phone.
After a couple of rings, Mr. Ondrink answered, “Eljo, any word?”
“No, but my daughter thought it a good idea to leave with a vampire to go look for Jessica. It appears Ami picked up a track. Can you pick me up and borrow me two sets of sled dogs?” Eljo responded.
“On my way. Where are you?” Mr. Ondrink asked.
“At the park,” Eljo said and hung up, looking in the direction Ami was flying, noticing she was going in the same direction.
Ten minutes later Mr. Ondrink pulled up in his old car, “get in, the sled dogs are being readied by my village.”
“After the girls are secured, I want the supernatural out of this town,” Eljo said while they drove over to where Mr. Ondrink kept his sled dogs.
“That is not going to happen. You have the king of the supernatural world that claimed Jessica as his forever mate and you have a vampire king that has set his sight on your daughter,” Mr. Ondrink informed him.
“If they care for these girls, they will use their common sense and let them be, for their safety,” Eljo said, half angry at the idea that his own daughter is with a vampire, again.
Mr. Ondrink knew it was no use arguing with a father that was seeking the safety of his daughter.
“I see you have gone from their spirit wolves to four, plus a human spirit. Is there some sort of danger upon us that you care to share?” Eljo asked, looking at the spirit wolves.
“The human spirit can communicate with me and the wolves. The fourth wolf is my former wife, Jessica’s spirit wolf. When she arrived back with me, I knew something was up with Jessica. I attached her to me and summoned this fellow over here. He will take us to Jessica.
“What about my daughter?” Eljo asked with a frown.
“If the Merch is as good a tracker as he has everyone believe, then most likely we will find Ann and Jessica at the same place,” Mr. Ondrink explained as he pulled up in front of the kennels.
Twelve sets of sled dogs were ready to go with two people per set of sled dogs.
“Some of these look a bit big to be sled dogs,” Eero noted.
“Some of them are Lycan’s. We are up against a vampire and an enchantress,” Mr. Ondrink explained.
“So, enchantresses are so powerful you need your whole pack?” Eero questioned.
“No, but better safe than sorry,” Mr. Ondrink said and got onto a sled after Eljo gave him the coordinates. “We should find some sort of tracks near these coordinates,” Eljo explained.
“Yeah, it is in the same direction that the spirits said,” Mr. Ondrink said and put his sled dog into a run.
Eljo and Eero followed his lead and got onto sleds that already had one person on.
It didn’t take them long to find the tracks that Merch left when he sped through the snow with Ann in his arms, the extra weight making the tracks deep and longer lasting.
***
Michael met up with Deacon and Wynn halfway on their way to Alaska. Deacon and Wynn were waiting for the sun to go down because Wynn was no longer a hybrid. Wynn was sitting around in their halfway house when Michael arrived.
“Deacon is sleeping,” Wynn said when Michael walked into his darkroom.
“You must really resent him round about now for not being able to live in daylight anymore?” Michael asked.
“Not really. To tell you the truth, I don’t think my wolf died out completely.” Wynn shared his secret with Michael.
“What do you mean?” Michael asked.
“Well, I can do this,” Wynn said and changed his one hand into a werewolf claw not realizing that even though his Lycan side might be suppressed due to the trauma, he went through and that it was actually his Werewolf side allowing him to part shift. Because werewolves can only shift on full moons, Wynn was not able to shift completely.
“Have you tried to go out in the sun?” Michael questioned.
“To scared. I have not been able to shift past this claw,” Wynn explained.
Without giving Wynn a moment to protest Michael grabbed Wynn and sped outside with him.

Wynn flinched from the sun because his eyes have not seen daylight for a while and expected to boil into ash, so he clutched his arms over his face and was about to scream at the pain that didn’t come.
“Geuss, you are still a hybrid,” Michael chuckled.
“You are such an asshole,” Wynn shoved him away from him.
“Have you ever tried to use your vampire speed during the day? Clearly, you are not just any kind of hybrid.” Michael asked.
“If a hybrid tries to use their speed during daylight, they will burn,” Wynn explained.
“Sure, but not to death. Why don’t you try? If it burns, you simply stop,” Michael suggested.
“You clearly do not know how much it hurts when a vampire or hybrid burns,” Wynn objected and went back into the halfway house.
“Can you carry two of us?” Wynn asked, thinking since he can be out in daylight that they should get going.
“I can carry ten of you, maybe more,” Michael said.
Wynn walked over to the room where Deacon was sleeping and kicked the bed. “Tt is time to go.”
Deacon got up and noticed that all the curtains were drawn open in the living area of the house, “are you not in discomfort?”
“It appears I am still a hybrid,” Wynn chuckled.
“Howzit,” Deacon greeted Michael, that was drinking his second glass of water.
“Hi. Ann’s owl friend might have found some tracks that could lead us to her and, hopefully, to Jessica. Ann was about to send me her coordinates when I lost contact with her. Now when I ring her phone, it goes straight to voicemail. I hope whoever has Jessica didn’t get hold of Ann as well,” Michael said worriedly.
“Give me your phone. Everyone in that town of theirs has this app installed that tracks them. If you download the app and insert her number, it should give her last known location,” Wynn said, and took the phone from Michael.
Wynn downloaded the app and copied Ann’s number from Michael’s phone book and pasted it into the app. “There.”
“Why didn’t you guys just do this with Jessica’s number? Why didn’t the whole town do this with her number?” Michael asked, confused.
“We did, but it turns out she left her phone at home the night she and her friends sneaked out to go clubbing,” Deacon explained.
“Well, at least we should be able to find Ann now,” Michael said, and picked them up before speeding off.
They arrived near the cabin where Jessica and Ann were being held captive and all three of them picked up that they were not alone.
When Shysie learned that they pinned Ann’s phone which happened to be at the same location where Jessica was she tried to reach out to the vampire that was holding Jessica captive until further notice but she could not reach him so instead she got hold of a few of Torvalds loyal followers to intersect Wynn, Deacon, and Micheal.
A dozen or so vampires intersect the three men. Deacon recognised a few of them, not aware that they were not on their side.
“Gentlemen, thank you for helping out,” Deacon started.
One of them chuckled, giving away that they were not on the same side. Deacon shifted immediately, ready to attack, making the vampires step back, but they two seemed ready to attack.
“Don’t move a limb,” Micheal tried to compel them, which made a few more laugh because they were all wearing shaman necklaces.
“Wynn, now is the time to shift,” Micheal suggested.
“Don’t you think I have been trying?” Wynn said under his breath.
“You take the half on the left and I will take the half to the right. We need to rid them of their armor,” Wynn suggested, planning his moves when the group got larger. An uncountable amount of vampires appeared out of nowhere and immediately attacked.
Just when the three men thought all was lost, Paris arrived with Eljo and Eero hot on his heels with the rest of the prehistoric. Eljo and Eero had to keep on touching a vampire all the way over to keep their speed going, scaring the moonlight out of Paris and the rest of the vampires, fearing for their lives but it was the only way to get the two hunters over after Wynn mind linked Ami, showing her the shit-fest they found themselves in. Ami arrived shortly in the arms of a prehistoric.
“What are you doing here?” Eero yelled after killing two vampires.
“Helping,” Ami said at the same time a vampire jumped her.
Eero sped over and punched him where his heart used to be, leaving his own hair behind. “At this rate, I am going to be bold before this battle is over,” he said, watching the vampire go up in smoke after a firework display. Ami found her feet, covered with the vampire’s ash, clearly in shock.
“Get out of here, please!” Eero said and grabbed a vampire that thought he had the upper hand with Eero’s back turned to battle but was gravely mistaken.
Ami ripped her shirt off and shifted. She was horrified at what was going on around her and witnessed a vampire die for the first time. Instead of flying away, she flew towards the cabin. Just as she got to it the vampire holding Jessica and Ann captive came out to see what was going on.
Ami flew into the cabin before he could shut the door and clawed at his neck, ripping his head half off. Ami knew she can not stop until his head was removed from his body completely to allow him to lose his blood faster.
Ann and Jessica both yelled. “We are in here!”
‘Gross,’ Ami thought when she finally had the vampire’s head amputated from his body, her white feathers coated in blood.
Ami had no time to think about what she had just done and shifted back into her human form. She looked around for the keys to the cabin and found them on the counter.
“Ami?” both girls exclaimed, pulling her into an embrace when she opened the door.
Before Ami could say anything, the Vampire exploded behind her as he went up in smoke, his ash scattering all over the three of them.
“What is that noise?” Jessica asked, taking her coat off and giving it to Ami.
“Don’t open that door,” Ami warned.
“Did you bring your own army to save us?” Jessica asked amazed.
“Not really. More like a team effort to help your boyfriends that walked into a trap when they got here, thanks to your cell phone location,” Ami explained, looking out of the window.
“Crap, that is not good,” Ami exclaimed, making both Jessica and Ann join her at the window.
“By the way, Deacon is not my boyfriend,” Jessica said.
“That does not matter now, does it?” Ami asked as they watched the vampires dragging him and Wynn along.
“Where are Eero and your dad?” Ami cried, searing the bloody war outside with her eyes, fearing something bad happened.
“There!” Jessica said, pointing to a cage type of thing.
“Where the hell did that come from? I didn’t see it when I did an aerial view,” Ami thought out loud.
“We have to help them. Maybe they will let all of them go if I give myself up. After all, it is me they want?” Jessica said, walking toward the door.