Chapter 40 SILKY BLACK CLOSURE.

TUESDAY
Dawn slept like a baby. She breathed out softly and the sound of her gentle sighs made me know that sleep brought calm and peace to her. The moonlight was shining bright today. She had her head and a hand on my chest. She insisted that I slept by her and I agreed as long as fulfilling her wish would make her happy.
I didn't sleep not because I enjoyed watching the gentle rise and fall of her back, but because sleep wouldn't even come to me. I was sure it would take a long time before I would drift off into the oblivion of rest and peace. The thought made me envy Leya who would sleep or sleep-mode whenever she wanted to.
I heard a slight rustling from the grasses outside, it should be an animal or a small rodent but it reminded me of the wolves. I needed to do what I had to do without putting any of my family in danger. Going out at night right now would be dangerous but I could relate with the beasts. I was scared of what might happen, I might meet the wrong one and my arm may get torn away againm and with no Tia to bring up a clever idea, I wondered how I could escape.
But I shoved tht part aside and tried focusing on the possible positive outcomes. The black wolf must have told its pack tht I help it evade capture and they may give me a warm welcome, even treat me as one of the wolves. I had onky two days left. It was already past twelve and I knew better than to tread on the pardon given to me by the higher court. I had to get this done and get it done fast.
I slipped out from under Dawn. She stirred in her sleep but I knew she was too far gone to wake up. Leaping from the crouching position I had gotten into on the bed, I landed without ba single sound on the floor. I saw the spot that I had damage earlier and it reminded of the ginger wolf I had soloed. Pleasant memories. I walked to my window and very gently pushed the glass open. I was already halfway through when I heard Tia's whisper.
"What are you doing?"
She had walked into my room without a sound as well. I didn't even understand how we were able to move and land from higher grounds without making the slightest noise. Like we vampires were built to hunt and kill and so therefore needed to be able to sneak up on our prey without them knowing.
"I...err—"
"How dare you try to leave without me."
I was surprised. I hadn't expected her to be in on the idea but I wasn't going to say no as long as she did as I said.
We both dropped to the grass. We were at the side of the house and we crept to the front. I saw the spot the old man—now know to be a werewolf—once sat. The way he looked at us that day could still send shivers down my spine now. I wondered what they would do to him at the higher court. Torture, interrogate, decapitate maybe. No, he would die of bleeding. Lupine humans did not have a magnificent healing factor like we vampires.
"Tia, you don't have to do this," I said, looking at the excitement on her face, like she wanted to go into a pack of giant wolves.
"I know, but I wouldn't let you go alone. And I realized how skilled you are at sneanking away so I kept a closer watch on you."
She couldn't see through hard walls like I could so I wondered how.
"How?"
"We aren't completely soundless and if you listen close enough, you'd be able to hear when a vampire moves."
Oh." That was not the answer I was expecting but that also meant that the others could actually hear when I and Dawn kissed.
"But if you are coming you have to do exactly as I say, deal?"
She didn't want to agree but then she saw the rising impatience in my eyes and agreed.
"Deal."
"Good," I said contented, relaxing my face and ending the feign of impatience.
"What's the plan?" She asked, clearly anxious to get going which was obscured because the last time she was the one who was actually stark white in fear.
"I don't have a plan."
"So what, you're just planning to run into tht forest and call them out."
That was exactly what I had in mind. Since the time I attacked the higher court, I had come closer with my vampirism. I could control my see-through sight, my speed and even coordinate myself in a fight.
"Yes."
I made sure to pick off slowly so I didn't make a loud crack as I sped away from our house. Dawn caught up to me as I sped down the road. I glanced at her and saw the elatedness on her beautiful face as she smiled brightly.
I focused on the road ahead and I could see in the distance the begin to the forest. We got closer and slowed down. Best no to barge in but to walk in.
"Stay here," I whispered to her. I saw the disagreement in her eyes before she even started speaking.
Tia was my superior, she cared about me. But she had agree to play this on m terms so she had no choice.
"And what if something happens to you?" She was sincerely concerned and she waited my reply.
"Don't worry about me, I know that black wolf remember. Nothing bad wukd happen."
She didn't seem to want to argue with that fact and I took her silence to start my walk into the area.
I turned back over my shoulders and said, "Tia, do not leave that spot. If I get attacked by a number of them, run. I want you to run away okay, it's better if only one of us gets killed than the both of us."
Fury flashed in her eyes.
"How dare you tell me to abandone you?!" She asked, her nose flaring.
I turned around to face her. "You agreed to do this on my terms remember?" I said, slowly inclining my head to side.
The word seemed to be stuck in her throat but she forced them out finally. "Okay."
"Good," I said with contentment again.
I walked deeper into the dark forest. I passed the spot that I had kissed Tia for the first time and the memory flooded back into me. And then I stopped. I was surrounded by trees and shrubs and my night vision was doing me just fine. Every vampire had night vision so I was sure Tia could see me as a blue-white outlined figure. I would see other animals and a red-yellow outlined figure because they actually gave off heat but we vampires were gav off no heat so we would have a colder scale.
"Hello!" I shouted. "Please I know you can hear me!"
I turned around on the spot, observing everything around me. I had to be careful lest I wanted them to pounce on me. The beats had a way a materializing from behind the trees. Like the could camouflage perfectly in a way that it would even truck my night vision to not recognizing them.
"Please, I have no where else to go..." My voice trailed off.
"I need you. I need your help, I don't know who to trust and anyone I think I can rely on has only brought me more pain..."
I knew that at this point Tia was more than confused, but the only to lure out an enemy that may want to kill you, is feigning vulnerable. And I pretended like I was in a state of none concentrating and pain, it would want to take the opportunity.
I heard a faint rustling sound from behind me. I could hear where it was, yes that's right, I could hear the place the creature stood behind me. I didn't need to turn, Jereum's lessons on using sound to place where an object is or is heading had paid off. I heard it leap off the ground and waited till it was just about a foot from me before I ducked to the side. The creature landed and turned around sharply to face me. I caught the gaze of this one's green ghostly gaze.
"I got you there didn't I?"
The wolf wasted no time to jumping at me again but I quickly dashed to the side. I saw the look of surprise in its eyes. It tried at another attack but I was faster and I seemed to slide acrois the ground to the side, I had avoided another attack but this time it was closer.
The ash coloured wolf with the green gaze was walking closer to me now, as if trying to evaluate the right time to pounce I moved back with caution, a smirk on my face.
But I was too preoccupied with my success in fooling around with this wolf that I had ignored the sound as another flew through the air, towards me. I turned just in time to duck under its open jaw and the wolf pressed it enormous paw on my chest. I heard Tia's attempt at a move but I whispered the words, "No." To her.
More appeared from no where and surrounded me.
"Hell!" I cursed. This is not what I expected.
They were all about the size of the black wolf. The all had a look of surprise to their gaze.
'Well well, you came back... As if taking off your arm wasn't enough."
The wolf that had me pinned contorted its head to the left. It had reddish-orange fur and a weird pinkish gaze.
Two more apparater from within the trees and lurched around me.
One had the as fur as white as pure snow with only a tinge of blue to its light eyes, while the other had brown fur with honey coloured gazes.
They two lurched around me, as if unsure on wheee to stand to get a proper angle to bite off a limb.
"I'm not here for any trouble," I said slowly.
'But we don't care, we like trouble. And as long as you are in wolf territory, you are automatically looking fo trouble.'
I looked at the white one. It has sat backing where Tia was hidden and looked down on me with utter curiosity.
'I'll save you the trouble of the pain...'
I would have had my head bitten off because I never saw it coming but two things happened as the reddish-orange wolf lunged to bite off my head. Tia cracked from where she was hidden and grabbed me from under the Wolf's paw, and the ebony black fur of the wolf slammed into the reddish-orange one and throwing it off me. The both incidents happened at the same time. I never would have died anyway.
I looked at the yellow deathly gaze that seemed to send shivers up the spines of the other wolves. They backed away slowly, the reddish-orange one recovering from the hard headbutt it had received to its side.
I stood panting heavily.
"Thanks Tia."
She kissed my cheek and I wondered why she couldn't just reply with a "Yeah no problem."
'No one will eat him today, or the vampire girl with him. Today vampire is wolf freind. And from today so shall it be...'
And with those words or should I say thoughts, from the silky black wolf, came closure.