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Call of the wild
Chapter 11

fusedtwilight: Here is the new chapter. I hope i have done a good job at fixing all the errors.

When the guys finally half-dragged, half-carried me to my room, they stayed there.
Jeremy and Jason because Richard had ordered it, Drake because.....he's Drake. Did you notice Jason, and Jeremy's names start with a J?
I laid on my bed basking in the glory of the rush.
"Have to say Dave never thought I’d see the day you would be high." Jeremy said shaking his head.
"For the last time I’m not high, I’m hyper." I said bouncing on my bed. "I can't help it, all this power inside me, feels like it will tare me apart, and it’s amazing!" I shouted.
"What should we do?" Jeremy asked Jason.
"I don't know, Anita’s power has always been a bit wild, but I’ve never seen something like that, he just tapped unto their triumvirate, and drained all our resources that had a tie to them." Jason said frowning as he watched me bounce.
I bounced off and landed right in front of him "You should have felt it Jason all that power, I could feel them all in the palm of my hand, I could have sucked them all dry and they couldn’t have stopped me." I said grinning manically.
"I know I was there." He said.
"You Jeremy, hell all of you, if I hadn't stopped my power it could have happened, you have no idea how close so many people came to death tonight, the rush, I still feel all that power, it's in me!" I said. Wow I felt fan-freaking-tastic!
"He's high all right." Drake said shaking his head, "It's a power high, but a high still."
"Hey Drakey." I said turning to him.
"Drakey?" Jeremy snorted.
"Drake I wish you could feel this, it's amazing!" I said. I walked to him and turned my neck to the side, exposing it to him "Bite me." I said.
"What?!" Jeremy and Jason said at the same time.
Drake just stared at me with a blank expression.
"Come on I know you want to, after all the juice I’ve fed on imagine what I taste like now." I said with a seductive smile.
He said nothing, but I saw how he was staring at my neck. The blood lust clear I his eyes.
"There is no way in hell he will be drinking your blood." Jeremy growled.
"Oh don't be a spoil sport." I said.
"I’ve never seen him like this." Jason said scratching his head, "He's normally so reserved."
"Oh Jasey boy if you really knew about me, you’d think otherwise." I said.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
Drake, and Jeremy looked tense.
"I think we shouldn’t ask such questions, while Dave is like this." Drake said.
"I agree he's not in his right mind, he may reveal something he'd rather not." Jeremy said.
Jason looked between the both of them, he may be blond and a promiscuous goof, but he had a very sharp mind, very insightful. "You two know something don't you?" He asked.
"Oh no you don't, Jason...if you have any questions you talk to me." I asked, I tried walking over to him, but I suddenly felt dizzy. "I think I need to lie down" I said.
I walked/slurred over to the bed and laid down on my back they came to stand next to the bed peering at me. "You smell him? He smells weird." Jeremy said.
"It's the power, it's causing his body to release chemicals, and hormones into his body, it's what's causing his high, and it's getting worse, if he was a shifter or vamp, I’d say he was ok, but humans can't hold this amount of power." Drake said. He extended a hand in front of my face and moved it around as if he could feel the power "My god all this power, no wonder Jean-Claude is so feared."
"What should we do?" Jeremy asked, even in the dark I could see his worried expression.
"Jason, go tell Jean-Claude, tell him what’s happening." Drake said.
"Let me guess, you and Jer are going to have a talk and you don't want outsiders finding out." Jason said.
"Please Jason." Jeremy asked.
Jason left, slamming the door on his way out "You know he's going to say something." Jeremy said.
"I know, we need to think up of something we both know about him that he doesn't want people to know, so they think we’re telling the truth and his past wont be exposed." Drake said
"Why are you so protective of him? You’ve only known him for three days but you treat him like he's a member of your own clan?" Jeremy asked confused.
"When I first met him, I mistook him for a bat, we have very strict and harsh rules, as a prince it's my duty to uphold those rules even if I don't agree with them, then when I realized he was human it was part interest, part instinct to learn more of him." Drake said.
"Instinct?"
"You know he attracts us like the necromancer attracts the dead, something about this boy drew me to him, I thought he was using magic’s on me and I wanted to put a stop to it, after our little confrontation I spent a lot of time thinking about him, what he was, what he could do, he manipulated my beast a mere human, I knew that I had to learn more, find out if he was a threat or not."
"And if he was a threat?" Jeremy asked with hostility.
"I'm a prince of the Werebats, it's my duty to protect them from any threat."
"So you would have killed him? That’s why you invited him to the club to see if he was dangerous or not!" Jeremy accused.
"Yes, but when I met him at the zoo, I quickly learned he was no threat, as a person at least, but his power is to wild and untamed."
"So what are you doing protecting him? Isn't he dangerous?"
"In his present condition yes, but it is because he has chosen to try and simply keep his power locked up, he was wise to get jobs dealing with animals it allowed his power some freedom, but it is so much more than simply manipulating animals, just like Anita's is more than simply manipulating the dead, he needs proper training, he can get that from Jean-Claude, you saw what he did with out meaning to, imagine what he would be like if he learned better control."
"That’s a scary idea."
"Scary but true, he would be a powerful ally."
"That’s all he is to you, an asset?"
"No and yes, what about you why are you so protective of him?"
"He came to me, all wet eared and shifty eyes, so desperate for a watering job, can you imagine it desperate for a job as a waiter? His first day of work he was so happy, a simple plain job, no fighting, no killing, no scheming, no plotting, no torturing, just a simple working job, making an honest living, I’ve never seen someone so pleased with his job, he's a teenager who never had a real childhood, he was like a kid on Christmas day. We have a lot in common me and him, we both had to leave our family’s we both lost it all because of our condition. I have to protect him, from himself, and his clan if need be."
"Well I guess your reasons are more pure than mine" Drake said.
"Of course, but let me say one thing, I don't care if your an Alpha if you do anything to jeopardize him I’ll kill you myself." Jeremy said giving him a hard cold look. I didn’t like it, Jeremy is supposed to be fun and nice.
"Not that you could land a single blow on me even if you tried mutt, but now that I know who he is and where he comes from he is too precious for me to allow him to be hurt."
"Where he comes from? What the hell do you mean?" Jeremy asked.
I couldn't pay attention anymore. The room was spinning, and bursting into color. I feel like I’m floating in the air, my body feels detached. I hear someone far away calling my name. But I need to pay attention this is important, but then I fell unconscious.
It was nighttime out, the stars and moon were bright in the sky. I was in a vast forest; I wore a simple loin cloth, and a furry vest that bared my chest and arms to the world. I recognized the forest; it was a few miles from the Lupanar of the Black forest clan. I saw an orange light ahead of me and I followed it, the closer I got the sooner I realized it was a giant bonfire, there were tepees scattered around, Natives danced around the fire in a circular fashion, there were logs spread around the fire so people could just watch the dancing, and to sing.
On the largest log there was a man, he had black hair past his shoulders, his eye's were a onyx color, his skin was a pale reddish color, being out of the sun for a few millennia lightens the skin, he wore one of those head dress things that only the chief wore. He wore red face paint, but I still recognized the face of William the new master of Pittsburgh .
"Hello Jamie." he greeted.
"I don't go by that name anymore." I said.
"Ah yes, it's David now yes?" he asked, and offered me a seat next to him.
I sat, for what else could I do? It wasn't like I ever got hurt in a dream, but this felt awfully real for a dream. "Where are we?" I asked.
"You mean when, this was a long time ago, before I was turned by my father." He said watching the dancing wistfully.
"Why am I here, why are you here this isn't a dream is it." I asked.
"No, this is more than a dream David; we need to talk about your health." He said gravely, "We also need to discus your future." He said.
"I'm not a member of the Black forest Clan anymore; you have no business with me." I said.
"Oh yes I do, your dying Dave, you are still human, all the power you’ve absorbed is slowly killing you, and I can't have that." He said.
"Why not, what do you care if I live or die?"
"I'm two thousand and nine hundred years old; I’m still trying to learn how to control all the power my father suppressed all these years, even though I’m that strong I’m not sure I could survive it if you died."
"What are you talking about? The only reason you'd die if I died would be because I’m-" I stopped suddenly, aware of the new frightening reality "You bastard!" I screamed at him quickly standing up.
"I see the situation has finally been realized by you." He said so calmly. God I want to punch him.
"When did you mark me?" I demanded.
"Five years ago, the night when we killed my father, I gave you the first mark and you know that." He said.
"What the hell are you talking about? I never gave you permission to make me your slave." I hissed at him.
"Oh yes that’s right you forgot." He said standing up.
"I think I would remember that." I said sneering at him.
"Not if I wiped you memory." He said placing his finger on my forehead.
Suddenly it came rushing back. Five years ago Nigel captured me. He experimented on me; he used his power to learn more about me. Tom and the others came for me that night. Tom had secretly made a deal with William, and William was upholding his end of the deal. But what Tom didn’t know was that while he and the others were fighting William came to me with a deal of his own.
FLASHBACK
I winced in pain as William drank from my neck. He used his power to make it hurt less and was gentle in the drinking, not wasting a single drop.
He leaned back licking the blood from his lips, "Just as good as a shifter’s." He said.
"Alright I upheld my end now free me." I said shaking my chain covered hands.
"Not yet we must talk." He said pushing my hands down gently.
"You promised!" I shouted. I had been stuck here for days I was desperate to get out.
"Shhh, and I will. But unless you want your father to die." He said.
"What?" I asked.
"Jamie my father is three thousand years old. Even if you were to prevent him from using his ability to call he still has other powers at his disposal. It would have been smarter to attack at dawn but when Tom learned my father planed to give you the marks tonight he immediately got his troops together. Your only hope at beating him is me." He said wiping the blood from my neck and licking it off his finger.
"But he created you, he could kill you easily." I said. I knew a thing or two about vampires.
"Yes he could, however if I had a little help." He said looking at me intently.
"What are you thinking?" I asked warily. I didn’t like the way he was looking at me.
"I need your help Jamie."
"I’ll be stopping him from using his power what more can I do? I’m not karate kid you know."
He smiled at that "There is another way you can help, but it may be something your father will NOT approve of."
"If it helps the pack I don’t care." I said.
"I need you to become my servant." He said.
………
Is he high?
"You’re serious?" I asked dumbfounded.
"It is a necessity." He said.
"Do I have sucker printed on my head?" I asked pointing to my face.
"He is my sire, and he is three thousand years old. We need all the help we can get."
"I don’t want to be your servant, I don’t want to be anyone’s servant. I do not want to be eleven for the rest of eternity." I said crossing my arms
"I would only give you the first mark. That would be all I need to take him down."
"Take him down? What are you going to do call a pack of wolves on him? Oh wait there will already be wolves there." I said sarcastically.
"You forget me and my father have spent these days using our power to study you. There are things we know about your power that you aren’t even aware of. All I’m asking is let me give you the first mark."
"I know how this works, if you whether you give me one or four we will be bound." I said.
"Jamie when my father finds out what I have done he will kill me, your father make you his servant then every shifter in the state will be at his mercy. He will declare war on the other masters in the state and take there territory. This is a bad choice I know and believe me if there was another way I would take it. But there is no other."
"And what about after?" I asked.
"I won’t tell anyone and nether will you."
"I can’t just keep something this serious from Tom." I said stubbornly.
"What do you think would happen if the other shifters learn of this? They will not sit idly and watch as this. They will not stand for it and Tom won’t be able to stop it. But he will try because he loves you." William said gently.
I felt the tears running down my face but quickly wiped them away. "Can you alter my memory?" I asked.
"Not once you’re my servant you’ll be immune to the majority of my power. Why would you want me to alter your memory?" He asked confused.
"I can’t lie to Tom. I refuse. But I can’t lie about what I can’t remember." I said.
"Cutting hairs I think but I understand." He said.
"But listen if we survive this, stay away from me. At least for a while. If I’m going to be stuck with you I want my remaining years to be spent with my family. When I turn eighteen you can undo the blocks and we’ll discus it more." I said.
"Deal." He said grabbing the side of my face and looking me in my eyes. He had his father’s eyes, black as coal they were but were different; they had warmth that his fathers lacked. They began to glow in a way that only a vampires’ did when they used their power. I felt goosebumps appear on my body as he let lose his cold power.
"I will give you the first mark after you are unconscious; you are a brave boy Jamie." He said. Then I knew only darkness
End Flashback
I couldn’t believe it.
"That explains, why the mark healed so quickly." I said rubbing my shoulder where I had been shot. "And my eyes after the drain they where like yours." I said feeling around the edge of my eyes "Was it you who forced my power to go berserk?" I asked angrily.
"Partly, the marks caused my hunger for blood to effect your hunger for power. You have been denying your power food it was starving so when it started to get pumped full of energy it over reacted." He explained.
"I didn’t know it could do that?"
"You are only sixteen Dave, who knows what you’ll be capable of when you come of age. I also suspect the mark may have added to it as well."
"Why me?" I asked holding my head
"If I was to take on my father I needed every advantage, I needed a guarantee that Tom wouldn't go back on his word and try to backstab me, and he wouldn't risk the life of his son."
"He would never go back on his word." I defended.
"It doesn’t matter, as my human servant you can not be allowed to die; we must drain you of that power quickly before you expire." He said.
"How do we do that?"
"First I must give you the second mark."
"Oh hell no!"
"Dave it must be done, it's the only way, by adding the second mark I can help you control your power better."
"Exactly that’s what this is all about you just want my power." I said pointing a finger at him.
"Dave you may be gifted but your still human, Jean-Claude is one of the most powerful masters in America . If you don’t release the extra power you will die, and by extension me." William said firmly.
"I really don't have a choice do I?" I asked in defeat.
"You always have a choice, some choices are just harder than others/" He said, "Do you accept?" he asked.
"Why are you asking?"
"I'd rather this was willing Dave, I’m not my father, I’ve found that kindness and mercy when applied correctly can be more useful then terror."
"I just want to live my life in peace, no politics, just a simple working life." I said.
"And I respect that, there is absolutely nothing wrong with living a life of quite normalcy, there are many shifters and even a few vampires that would give anything to return to a mortal life." He said, "But this is a necessity David don't let your pride be your downfall."
"Your not going to tell them where I am, are you?" I asked.
"No, like you I’d prefer you well away from them for the time being, do you accept?" He asked more urgently.
"Yes." I said.
"Good." I felt a cold rush of power and a pair of floating spectral eye's appeared before me, they were black as onyx and came closer and closer to me. When they made contact I felt the world spin.
"Now what?" I asked.
"Now I will take some of your power and spread it to my kiss, and the wolves who owe me allegiance." He said.
"How do we do that?"
"Come to me David." I scooted closer to him, "Give me your hand." He said and I did.
"You’re going to suck it out of me aren’t you?" I asked. He grinned at me flashing his fangs, he sunk them into my wrist and I felt a sharp pain. Soon I felt an odd sort of pleasure.
"You must let your shields down; otherwise I can’t take the power." He said in my mind.
I focused on the ark. I opened it just a crack to let a sliver of power leak through, I felt the beast, it was asleep, well fed now it was nap time.
"Let it down further, I need to extract it more quickly." he said in my mind, I opened the crack further and more power flowed through, "Good." He thought.
I felt the power flow through him, and to all those that had a metaphysical tie to him.
"Stop!" I said and jerked my hand from his mouth, "If Jean-Claude and the others see all the power has left me they’re going to wonder why I’m empty."
He smiled his lips dripping blood "Sorry got carried away, Jean-Claude and his triumvirate are really powerful, now some of that power is mine, I knew you were a treasure boy, from the moment I laid eye's on you, I new you would bring me power." He said his eyes had gone from onyx to summer blue with twin suns. "My line is all about power you know, and now we find ourselves in a golden opportunity."
"What do you mean?"
"The fact you moved to St. Louise couldn't have been better, those close to Anita have a habit of gaining power, and the stronger you get the stronger I shall become. Stay in St. Louise for now David, learn what you can from Jean-Claude and his triumvirate, until the day comes when you must return, until then I will do everything in my power to make sure the Black Forest clan doesn't find you, now go it seems this power is harder to control than I thought." He said closing his eye's and the world went black.
"Dave? Dave? Wake up." Jeremy said shaking me. I opened my eyes and he gasped. "Your eye's? There glowing onyx." He said.
Drake came to stand next to him peering into my eye's "It's a vampire mark, and do you feel that the power has been drained. Most of it’s there but just enough has been drained to keep him alive." He said.
"But who? How?" Jeremy asked.
"It was William, the master of Pittsburgh ." I whispered.
"What? When did he-" But I cut him off.
"I just found out, he contacted me through my mind, he gave me the second mark because the power was killing me." I said.
"Vampires usually can't communicate with their servants with only one mark." Drake said.
"Yeah, but his dad was a powerful shaman, he obviously taught him a few tricks." I said and stood up from the bed.
"How do you feel?" Drake asked.
"A little worn out not tired but its like when you take a lot of sugar, and you crash you know." I said.
"What do we do?" Jeremy asked "There going to want to know what happened."
"They can't know about me, I’m not going back to Pennsylvania ever." I said defiantly.
"How are things going?"
"We don't know, the others haven’t come back yet, you’ve been out of it for only a couple of minutes." Jeremy said.
They both tensed and turned to the door.
"Someone's coming." Drake said.
"I think its Anita, she's coming with the others, but I smell a corpse." Jeremy said.
There was a knock on the door and before anyone could say anything, Anita, Jean-Claude, Richard, Asher, and Jason strolled in, and with them my cousin Phillip.
"Phillip?" I gasped staring at him. He was dressed in one of those suits they dressed dead people in, his hair had grown out by the time he had died, I looked to his neck and saw a humongous scar, it must have been the death wound.
"What happened?" I asked.
I felt Drake tense. Tension was rolling off him in waves. I felt all kinds of negative emotions coming off him but his face didn’t betray anything. I noticed Phillips had his eyes on Drake, there was familiarity in them as if he knew Drake.
"Somehow during our experiment, your power activated mine, without a sacrifice or blood, it raised a whole cemetery’s worth of zombies, and Phillip was one of them." Anita said.
"Jamie?" Phillip asked "Jamie is that you?"
"Yes Phil, it's me." I said stunned, nothing could have prepared me for this.
"Jamie?" Richard asked.
"It was a nickname." I said quickly, "What happened to the other zombies?" I asked.
"Some of the animators are putting them to rest as we speak." Anita said, "I figured since he was already up we might as well let you talk to him." She said.
"Thanks." I said. Well here we were, I had wanted to talk to Phillip and here was my chance. But what do I say? What do I ask? What could I say in front of the others that wouldn't expose me? "Um, could you guys give us a moment alone please?" I asked. They all agreed and left us alone to talk.
When Drake passed Phillip they looked at each others eyes and a look of great sadness passed between them. Then it was broken when Drake left.
"So Phillip how are you?" I asked.
"I'm dead." He said.
"Oh yeah sorry." I apologized.
He smiled "It's ok, how have you been Jamie? What are you doing here?" He asked.
I sighed "Things happened while you were gone Phil, bad things."
I told him everything, my mom marrying Tom, her being a wolf, the Black Forest clan, Nigel and William, me leaving and coming to St, Louise to find him, and just now when I found out I was marked.
"Wow." He said, "And I thought I had it rough." He laughed.
"What am I going to do Phil? I'm in a right mess, I left home, I'm being chased by my old family, I have a whole bunch of new shifters after me, my power is going crazy, and now I’m the human servant of William, the whole point of me trying to leave Pennsylvania, was so I could get out of that lifestyle, now I have no choice, I’m stuck right in the middle of it." I said.
"Honestly I have no idea what to tell you Jamie, I was never one for making good choices, but if you want my honest opinion, you need to tell Anita the truth." He said.
"What?"
"You heard me, you can't keep secrets like this, someone’s going to get hurt, trust Anita, she'll protect you." He said with a smile.
"Like she protected you?" I asked bitterly.
"That wasn’t her fault Jamie." Phillip said sadly.
I know I was being a dick. I’m sure Anita did everything she could. But after my little meeting with William I was in a pissy mood.
"I'm really happy I had the chance to see you Phil." I said giving him a hug.
"Me to, have you heard anything from my parents?" He asked.
"Last I heard they moved." I said.
"Could you do me a favor, find them, tell them I said I was sorry, tell them I loved them, tell them...tell them I’m sorry for hurting them." He said.
"Sure thing." I said.
"You’re a good kid." He said patting my head.
"You get laid yet?" He asked.
"What! That’s none of your business!" I said angrily.
He laughed "I'll take that as a no, you know when I was your age I had girls lined up." He said with a grin.
"Good times." I said.
"Good times." He agreed.
"Hey Phil can you do me a favor?" I asked.
"Sure."
"Can you put a good word in for me to Anita, she might be a little pissed at me for lying to her." I said nervously.
"A little ha, you better get a bullet proof vest." He laughed.
I walked over to the door and opened it. "He's ready." I told Anita.
She nodded and walked in "You ready Phillip?" She asked.
"Ready as I’ll ever be." He said stepping forward.
"Good by Phil." I said.
"Good by Jamie, and remember what I said. Oh and by the way tell Drake I’m sorry." He said.
"Sure thing." I said and he walked out with Anita. Back to the cemetery were she would put him back to rest.
Jean-Claude and the others remained, except for Richard and Jason who went with Anita to help with the other zombies. "How are you feeling monsieur Kazat?" He asked.
I sat down on the bed "That’s not my name." I said.
"I beg your pardon?" He asked.
"I think we better wait for Anita to come back." I said, "This is going to be a long story." I sighed.
I was tired, both physically and emotionally. My life was doing one of those down hill things.
Now I got to worry about Anita’s reaction when she finds out I lied and what the other shifters will do when they learn it was me who almost sucked them- Wait a minute how does Phillip know Drake?

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