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Call of the wild	By : fusedtwilight Category: Anita Blake > General Views: 3120 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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I left around eight.
I didn't know how to dress. Nor did I have any real wild clothes, so I wore a pair of blue jeans and a white shirt with a dark ink print that looked like a skull. I had a silver knife in a strap on my leg and my choker Kim gave me gave me as a gift. It had a small silver cross on it so vampires shouldn't be a problem.
I had called Kathleen but she was working at the library tonight. So it would just be me and Kim and Ron tonight. When I got there around eight-thirty the line was already long. I saw Kim and Ron and waved them over. Kim was wearing a short black skirt, showing off her long legs, and a white blouse, Ron wore a leather jacket that showed off his muscular arms, and a pair of black jeans, he wore no shirt beneath the jacket showing off his chest. Vain much?
"Hey Dave." Kim said skipping over to me. Her hair was pulled into a bun.
Ron had a stern look on his face that mixed with his clothes made him look like he was posing or something. I sensed he was tense, and weary even. We stood there in line for a while making small talk, and before I saw him, I sensed him. Drake walked out of the club, he wore black as usual. He wore black boots, black leather pants, and a black shirt that left his lower back and stomach bare. He had a nice pair of abs. He looked through the crowed until he saw us. He walked over and I felt Kim, and Ron tense.
"I'm glad you made it." He said shaking my hand.
"These are my friends, Kim." He shook Kim's hand who had a nervous smile on her face. "And Ron." He and Ron made eye contact but neither offered the other a hand to shake.
"Ah yes, the bear from last night." Drake said
"Yeah, how's it going Dake."
"It’s Drake." Drake said correcting his name with a rather irritated sounding voice.
"Sorry." Ron said not sounding very sorry at all.
"Well shall we go inside?" He asked and we followed him inside the club. We paid our way in and had our hands stamped. As soon as we came inside we were blasted with music and flashing lights. The dance floor was large and full people. I sensed some vamps and Weres in there. I never understood how dancing with a vamp, was better than dancing with a human. Then again I’m the one who's clubbing with shifters. Drake led us over to a private corner where there was a table full of people waiting for us. I recognized Magnus; but there were three other people two girls and a boy. They were like Drake, pale skin, all black and dark eyes. They all sat up when they saw us coming over to the table. Drake introduced us.
"Dave, Kim, Ron, this is Magnus, Beth, Tate, and Jen." Jen had black hair tied into two long pig tails, Beth had brown hair cut short, and Tate was a blond with a scruffy hair cut.
We all sat down in an awkward silence for a while. Me and Kim kind of just sat and shifted our eyes. Ron sat with his arms crossed and just glared at Drake and his friends. I knew that they were bats, I could taste it.
"So." Jen said leaning onto Drake's shoulder, "You’re the mysterious Dave?" She said with a sly grin. She then began rubbing her head up and down on Drakes shoulder. "Drake's been telling us how interesting a character you are."
What the hell does that mean? Did Drake tell them about my power? He just thought I was a psychic who could communicate with animals. He had no idea the full scope of my power. I’m not stupid enough to tell anyone that.
Tate leaned forward slightly and sniffed the air and grinned. "Yes Magnus said you had a tantalizing scent, but we didn't realize how...alluring it was." He said closing his eyes and inhaled the air.
I never liked being the center of attention.
"Yes." Beth said, "We are all especially interested in your talent."
Crap! The jerk did tell them. What was I thinking telling him I was a sensitive to Shifters? On the other hand he already knew I had some ability. He probably told them about me before he came to The Zoo and what happened with his beast almost being called.
"What talent?" Kim asked. She had no idea I was sensitive to Shifters. I looked at Ron with a nervous glance and he nodded.
"Dave is a good weightier." Ron said to Kim and giving the others a deep glare that obviously said let it go. Kim bless her heart was oblivious to the glare and just smiled.
"Yes he is. He is one of our best." She said giving me a bright smile. I returned the smile; Kim had a knack for making people feel happy. I wish I had a sister like her.
"Tell me Dave," Jen said drawing my attention to her. "Have you ever given blood to a vampire?"
I got nervous, yes I had but it wasn't for pleasure. "No." I lied and even to me it sounded like a lie. I don’t think Jen really liked me. Her face showed nothing but a relaxed mischief, but one of the few benefits of my gift was it made me empathic to the emotions of animals Shifters included. She wore a face of politeness but on the inside she was very angry, and a tad bit…fearful?
"To bad, their ability to roll minds make's it such a...pleasurable experience" She said making pleasurable sound sultry. She put her hand in Drake’s hair and began to play with it.
"So you’re Werebats?" Ron interrupted and all eyes turned toward him.
"Yes we are." Tate said, taking a sip from his drink.
"Never heard of your kind above ground." He said and Tate's eye's narrowed. I don’t think he liked the ‘your kind’ part.
"Yes well we're hoping to change that." Tate said his eye's moving to Drake, "We feel it's time to update our culture and we're hoping to adapt to the times." he said. The way he spoke and the way he looked at Drake made me wonder if all the Bats agreed with the decision to come out of the cave.
"Well I’m going for a dance, Dave you want to dance?" Kim asked.
I shook my head no "No, I don't dance." I said shaking my head. I hate dancing, my mom tried to get me into it. She thought I would be good, she said if I wasn’t so self-conscious I would be better. She always had high hopes for me.
"Oh, ok Ron?" she asked turning to Ron hopefully.
"I'm fine." he grunted he didn't want to leave me alone with them. I was thankful.
"Ok." she said sounding dejected. I felt bad, she had come thinking we would be having fun tonight, instead she was all alone. What was I thinking inviting her? I would have to make it up to her.
"Why don't you dance?" Kim asked.
"Well...I just never got into it." I said rubbing the back of my head.
"You should have Drake teach you, he's wondrous on the dance floor." Jen said rather suggestively, and I felt myself blush. Drake nudged her head off his shoulder and glared at her. She shivered and looked down "Sorry." she whispered.
"Okay, I’m going to go and dance then." Kim said with a sad smile and left.
Magnus leaned forward "So Dave how long have you lived here?" he asked and I felt myself tense.
"Five months" I answered. Please don't have him ask where from.
"Oh really? Where are you from?" son of a bitch.
"Florida, the everglades." I lied, I got the idea from Man-Thing.
"Oh really what’s it like there?" stop asking questions already dead boy.
"Oh you know, hot, humid, swampy." I said.
"So what do you think of St. Louis?" Tate asked.
"Oh it's nice, friendly people, the arch is pretty cool." I said politely.
Beth leaned forward and sniffed at me. "Sorry, but your scent is so...tantalizing, you must get a lot of offers from vampires to be there pomm de sang?" she said.
"A few." I muttered. For some reason I can’t understand why my blood is really attractive to vampires. The vampire I donated to always said it was like a shifters blood. Vampires usually took Shifters for blood donors because there blood had more power, thereby making it tastier.
"Let’s talk about your ability to call bats." Jen said and once more I tensed. I should have never come here.
"I don’t call bats, I’m empathically tuned in to animals and thereby shifters. I can’t call them." I half lied.
"Yes I’ve never seen someone with such a connection to an animal...well one but she is a unique case." Magnus said.
"Where are you from Magnus?" Ron said coming to my rescue.
Magnus answered him but kept his glance on me "London."
"Ah you must be one of those vamps that joined Jean-Claude when the master of London died." Ron said.
"Yes, we we're all thankful to Jean-Claude when he allowed us to join him." Magnus said. "So about your ability to call bats." Didn’t I just say I don’t call Bats? He was a master vampire so he knew I was lying.
"Not just bats, all animals." Drake said, and I gave him an angry look. He knew I didn't like talking about it.
"Really?" Magnus said raising an eyebrow "I know some magic practitioners are capable of communicating with a single animal as long as it’s their familiar or spirit animal, but all?" he said sounding puzzled.
Suddenly Kim came rushing forward looking excited "Hey Ron, Dave I’m going leave now ok."
"Why?" Ron and I asked.
"Well you see that guy over there." She said pointing to a man by the bar "Well we danced and he asked me if I would like to hang out with him tonight and I said yes." She said, blushing a little.
"Go ahead." I said.
"Really?" She asked.
"Really." I said smiling, it was obvious she was having no fun with us and I knew Ron wasn't going anywhere so I was good. Kim needed to have some fun.
"Oh thanks!" she said and gave me a hug.
"Be careful." Ron said eyeing the guy aggressively.
She rolled her eyes, "Ron I’m twenty five I can take care of myself, see ya." she took off. I should have been more worried about her going off with some stranger. But I was feeling bad for dragging her out here and I figured she could handle herself. A Weredog may not sound fearsome but always remember there is no such thing as a non-dangerous Lycanthrope.
"So back to your power," Magnus said back to the subject of my ability "I'm quite curious as to how it works exactly." he said folding his arms.
"I don't know how it works." I muttered.
"Tell me do you feel comfortable with the bats?" Magnus asked.
Truthfully I did, besides the sense of caution I felt very comfortable with them all. It had always been like that with all the shifters. Tom had said that Master Vampires with an animal to call feel very calm and comfortable around their animal. Even to the point where they feel the need to-.
"Do you feel compelled to touch them?" he asked. Shifters had a strong touchy feely side. If they wanted to calm each other down or show support for one another they would use physical touch. It also gave them a new outlook on nudity. In the shifter community nudity isn’t much of a taboo. Some still had inhibitions about it but mostly it was a widely accepted thing.
The bats looked at me with looks ranging from amusement, mischief, and interest. Drake however just stared at me with a blank expression. And Jen was looking at me as though she was wishing I would just disappear. I had no idea what I did to piss her off. I had a feeling Drake was wishing it was just me and him here. I think there were things he wanted to discus, but present company prevented that. That little bit of empathy my power gave me let me know that much.
Speaking of empathy I felt it a sense of panic. It was really strong and close, but it wasn’t coming from anyone at the table. I closed my eyes and I felt a pull of energy. I was shielding so I knew my power wasn't running wild. I knew if I could sense it so could everyone else.
"You feel that?" I asked Ron and he nodded. It wasn’t the sense of panic he could sense but the rush of power a shifter releases when they’re feeling intense emotions
I let down my shields just a bit and searched with my power. I sensed a familiar energy that was full of fear and desperation.
"It's Kim. She's in trouble." I said standing up and so did everyone else. If me and Ron could sense it so could they. I started to run for the back and Ron followed. When we got out side we went to the back parking lot. I was feeling her closer now and we saw them by a black van. Kim was being held by three men. I recognized the man she had danced with but I didn't know the other two. Two of them were holding her; the other had a needle in his hand. Kim looked like she was out of it, and I knew she had been drugged.
Whatever was in that shot must be strong because Shifters had a powerful metabolism that burned up foreign chemicals very quickly. Ordinary tranquilizer didn’t have much effect on them.
"Leave her alone!" I shouted. I felt the others; they had let their shields down and were releasing some of their power. I felt my power pulse against my own shields, it wanted to absorb that power but now wasn’t the time for a snack.
They all turned around and stared at us. "Go back inside pretend you saw nothing." One of the men threatened. I wondered what he would do if he knew he had a master vampire, and five Lycanthropes to deal with. Well he was going to soon find out.
"I said get away from her!" I threatened again. I felt Ron unleash his energy. I looked at him and saw his eyes had bled to bear. He had shifted slightly to be taller and more muscular then what he normally was.
Some shifter were skilled enough that they could shift enough were they were still human, but they looked like a different person.
"Oh man they’re freaks!" One of the men shouted.
"Yeah and look at those ones. They’re probably vamps." said another, referring to Drake and his friends.
They all began to pull out cross's from their shirts. I saw that one of them had a gun in a strap around his waist.
"Put her down or we'll take her by force." Ron’s deep voice was more gravely now and I knew he was about to shift. But they had guns; normal guns weren’t a problem for shifters depending on the caliber.
But if the bullets were silver then Ron would still die.
"Don't think so, this freak knows who the leader of the dogs are and she's going to tell us." one of the men said.
"That freak is one of my friends you prick! Who are you?" I demanded.
"Were Crusaders." The man who Kim had gone with said proudly.
"Crusaders?" I asked confused. Where have I heard that before?
"We seek a world purified of all evil taint, vampires, lycanthropes, witchs, psychics, animators, ghouls, any and all supernatural filth who's existence has brought evil into our world." Another man said.
I know where I had heard of these men. They were a group like human’s against vampires and humans first. They were terrorists more or less, they committed murder, kidnapping, etc. But they only attacked beings of a supernatural nature. They claimed they were god’s warriors who were trying to save the world. Fanatics more or less. They tried to bully the government to make new laws to allow the killing of supernatural people, and when they wouldn't they were known to kidnap normal humans and bomb buildings all in the name of peace. I had read articles and seen the news. The problem was there was never enough evidence to convict them. Like I said they were fanatics to their cause, and are hell bent on wiping out the supernatural.
"I think you should step away from the girl and run." Magnus said stepping forward.
"Back off freak." the man said pulling out his gun.
I noticed he was staring at Magnus’s chest. He was smart, even if you’re wearing a holy item you don’t stare into a vampires eyes. He could roll your mind to make you take it off. And vampires were just as weak against silver as Shifters. There were seven of us and three of them. But they had guns and crosses and I didn’t like these odds. Maybe I could even things out.
While they were talking I used my power. I opened my shields and let my power spread throughout the area. I could sense all the animals for miles. I felt two vampires and the shifters in the club, and I sent out a distress call. One by one all the shifters stopped what they were doing and stared in our direction. They didn't know what was wrong all they knew was that something had attracted all their beasts. I called them, I sent a warning of danger, that help was needed and one by one they all came to us. While I was using my ability I felt someone grab my shoulder. I turned and saw it was Magnus.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Calling for help." I said.
"You better be careful or you'll pull their beast's out." He said nodding to the others.
Ron was looking at me with his bear eyes full of surprise; he had only gotten a taste the other night of what my power was now he was getting the main course. I wonder if my eyes were the same color as his. When I used my power to call shifters they would say my eyes were like the creature I was calling. But for normal humans they remained the same, unless said human had a psychic intuition.
The bats were looking at me with some interest but were more focused on the guys with the guns. "I'm shielding them from you and so is Drake." Magnus said. I could feel him and Drake using their power to keep me from the bats. Magnus with his power to call bats and Drake as the Prince of his clan, both were working together to keep my power from effecting the bats. I’m sure Jen and the others sensed something but were too preoccupied.
I looked at Drake he was staring at me with a frown. "You’re more trouble than I thought pup."
"Stop calling me that." I said.
"Your eyes are like a bat." He said giving me a hard look.
Damn it! Things are getting out of control. I need to hurry up and rescue Kim and get the hell out of here. Magnus and Drake were way to interested in me. I hope to god I’m not going to have to run away again. I like it here. But I do have more than enough money stashed away in case I need to get away. And the fake I.D’s I had made. One of the benefits of having former mercenaries as family you learn a few tricks.
"What the fucks going on!" one of the thugs shouted.
I needn’t turn to see what was happening. One by one the other shifters were stepping out of the club and coming to us. I felt the two vampires who were probably wondering why the workers were leaving their posts to come outside. Hell they probably felt the call and were wondering who would dare. I spotted the two and I instantly knew what they were. The one who smelt of wolf was a petite Asian woman with dark hair and a china doll appearance. I knew instinctively she was dangerous, my power recognized a predator.
The man smelled of hyena, he had long golden hair that covered half his face. From what I could see of the unhidden part his face was perfect, angelic even, his eye was blue like a husky dog.
The man took in the scene and he narrowed it on us "Magnus what is the meaning of this?" He demanded.
Magnus bowed to the man, "Asher these men are trying to steal this woman, they are crusaders." he said.
Asher looked me in the eyes and I gasped. Some of his hair had fallen of the right side of his face; his whole right side was covered in scars. It was like some perverse work of art, the left side of his face was perfect and angelic, but the right side was a ruin. "And what is he?" he asked pointing a finger at me.
"He is human." Magnus said.
"No, not just human. Humans don't call to shifters" he said and it was then I noticed that all the shifters were staring at me. All their eyes were animalistic, I saw/felt wolf, rat, hyena, leopard and various other animals. They all looked at me, with eager eyes waiting for orders. They didn’t have the protection of Magnus and Drake because they weren’t their animals. So I had more sway over them.
"Yes well the boy claims to be a psychic of sorts, it was he who alerted us to his friends plight." Magnus said.
"His eyes. They’re like a wolf's." The Asian woman said and she didn't look happy. I had a feeling I didn’t want her to be pissed at me.
"Wolf? No he has the eyes of a hyena." Asher said looking to the woman in confusion.
"You and Meng-Die are both correct it seems when he uses his power, he gets the eyes of the animal he calls, since he's calling all the shifters and we have connections to our own animals we see his eye's as theirs" Magnus explained.
"I can feel his power, he smells like wolf? But he smells like leopard, and bat as well...what is he?!" she demanded and she struck.
"MENG-DIE NO!" Asher shouted but it was too late.
I knew what was about to happen before it happened. Master vampires who have an animal to call are capable of forcing the shifter to shift into their animal form. And believe me when I say it hurts like hell.
Usually if a vamp does that it’s to punish the poor shifter. It had no effect on humans. But because of my connection to all animals, it had some effect on me.
She gathered her power and struck. She must have really thought I was some kind of Alpha Werewolf trying to control the wolves, she was trying to force me to shift. She focused her power at me, and I felt it like some great furry beast. It came running at me and when it hit me, I fell to my knees. I could feel her power in me. Trying to control me. It hurt the pain was excruciating.
"Release the wolves now!" Meng-Die shouted. I saw her beast in my mind’s eye. Metaphysics are so hard to explain, I had an image of her power over wolves in the shape of one, inside me or rather in my mind. We were in a vast forest me and this wolf, it growled at me, snarling baring its teeth at me. The vampire tried to control me, to dominate me, tried to show it was the Alpha, but I was no wolf to be controlled. I had a few surprises of my own. I let loose my power, the power that gave me dominion over the animal Kingdome. My power manifested beside me, it took the form of a black wolf, with gold markings on its head and sides. The wolf stared at me and my wolf and it paused. It sensed danger. It was right there was danger...me. How dare this vampire enter my territory. My jungle/forest/ocean, now she was my prey, my meat. My wolf pounced on the other wolf and tore into it. It tried to fight back but it was helpless. I watched in bloody satisfaction as my wolf tore hers apart. And a scream brought me back to the real world.
I snapped out of it and looked at Meng-Die she was on her knees and looking at me with a hateful expression.
"What are you!" she tried to run at me, but before she could I gave a command to the wolves to stop her.
Six of the wolves growled at her and pinned her to the ground. She hissed at them and screamed for them to let her go.
Something was wrong with my power. It always seemed to have a will of its own; I never had full control of it. It was to wild to be fully tamed, but now no matter how hard I tried it would not go away. Meng-Die had invaded its territory and it was livid, it was trying to take me over like before when the one other master tried to call me. It would go berserk and it took all my concentration to keep the damn thing in its cage. But I had one pissed of Asian china doll, three zealots trying to nab my bud, and a whole zoo's worth of lycanthropes at my beck and call...Fuck. I could feel it covering me like a swarm of angry ants, stinging me with its rage. I was still on my knees gasping for breath, trying to control this beast. But there were too many dangers vampires, crusaders. I had to run, run, away far away. A hand grabbed my face and I found myself staring into a pair of black eyes. Drake held my head in his hands. Somehow staring into those dark depths helped calm my beast. We stared at each other for a few seconds before the crusaders reminded us they were here.
"Don't fucking move!" one of them screamed I looked and saw one of the men had fled, the man Kim had danced with was long gone. The two remaining men had a hold of her unconscious form with a knife to her throat. "See this, this is silver, back off or I’ll shove it through her throat." he said.
"Leave her along." I snarled, I sounded like an animal.
"I mean it back off freak." he said drawing some of her blood, the power didn't like that.
"Kill them." I growled and all hell broke loose, all the shifters rushed forward at once. Only Drake and his Bats stayed there. He had his hand on my shoulder as we watched as the men were attacked. Before they reached him the man with the gun pulled his piece out aimed it at me a shot. The bullet hit me in the shoulder, and the man screamed in agony as the Weres tore him apart.
"DAVE, DAVE!" Drake yelled shaking me. The last image I had before the world went black was those black eye's full of tears.
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