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The second werewolf realized what was happening a second too late, and before he could make a run or even protect himself, I kicked him in the chest. I kicked him so hard that I heard a rib crack.
He groaned out in pain and fell to the ground.
The first werewolf got to me. He looked down at the second on the ground and then at me. He was genuinely impressed.
“He was missing out,” I said.
The second stood up soon enough, and it was the two of them against me.
“Now, this looks like a challenge,” I said, just to grind at their ego.
They were werewolves and men. It wasn’t hard to get that going. They both came at me without coordinating their attack, so it was easy to pick them off.
The first was strong, while the second was fast. The latter was the real trouble. He was almost as fast as me. That might be a problem.
The first caught me with a fist to the side, and just as I was about to recoil and make an attack, the second clawed at me. I was fast enough to move out of getting a fatal claw in my stomach, but it scratched me.
They saw they would fare better if they worked together, but they weren’t synched. They’ve never worked together and didn’t know how to start, and I wasn’t going to give them a chance to figure that out.
I had chosen this place because of its density and because I thought they would come at me together. Well, now I have that. It was time to use the tree to my advantage.
I hurriedly moved away from them and stood close to a tree, hoping they didn’t get wind of what I wanted to do. The first came at me, and their lack of synchronicity would cost them. His punch was heavy and focused, but I moved around the tree, using its girth to streamline my movement. I got to the other side rather fast and kicked the first in the stomach. He stumbled forward and wanted to turn around and make another immediate attack, but I wasn’t having that.
I moved away from him, still along the tree, and focused on the second, who was just a couple of feet from me. I had hit him in the stomach earlier on, breaking a rib, so I focused on that. I glided in the air to get a kick in, but he was ready for me. He slid off so gracefully it was almost like he wasn’t moving, but he wasn’t in a position to get a punch in, so I hugged the next tree closest to me and used it to throw myself at him again. I punched him in the stomach this time, and his cry rang out, echoing through the woods. I smiled. That went better than I had hoped.
The second got himself up again, but he was hurting, and that would affect his speed. They could see they were not just fighting against me. They were fighting against the trees too. That was one thing they were not prepared for.
They both were still agile and would still keep coming for me. There was still a lot of fight to go down.
They both stood up and went around, flanking me. They had learned their lesson. They attacked me at the same time now, but I was ready. They were giving me what I wanted.
The first came at me with one of his heavy swings. I could see his fangs in the dark of the night, they were gritted together, and that swing, should it hit me, would have taken me out. The second didn’t attack him strongly. He moved fluidly, but his speed was affected by the pain in his side.
I edged myself backward until I was against another tree close to me, and the two turned to come at me. I pushed myself against the tree, and went at the second. He had his claws out, and they were coming for my eyes. I moved down to escape him but got up fast and went for his throat. I pulled him down, and as he fell, I met him halfway with my fang buried right into his throat.He croaked, but he knew there was no surviving that. I buried it deep and pulled at his carotid. He was going to bleed to death.
Now, it was just me and the third, but it wasn’t just the two of us in the woods anymore. Luke was there too, and he had his hand around the first’s neck. I didn’t see him come up.
I watched as he snapped the first’s neck, and his limp body fell to the floor.
“I had it handled,” I told him.
“No doubt about that,” he said.
I had been so focused on the other two werewolves that I didn’t hear him come up. Now, I could feel him all over me. My body tingled with want, and I wanted to move closer to him and run my hands over his chest.
But he was here to hunt me down, and he had rejected me earlier. I also know nothing about this man.
“You’re impressive,” he told me. “Cutting through the hunters like they are just weeds. At this rate, you’ll go through the twenty of them before you get out of town.”
I have always recognized my own ability, but when he said it, it made me feel appreciated. I liked it.
“There’s one before me that needs to be cut down,” I told him, and he smiled.
“You should come with me,” he said.
“And why would I do that?”
“I am not them. I am different. Better.”
