"You wouldn't want me to expose what you are, would you?" He cracked a small smile. "You are... a vampire, no?" He countered.

He had not imagined to meet one of these creatures face-to-face, and inside he was sweating bullets. God knows how he managed to pull a straight face, even play it cool. He glanced at the few people - vampires - around him. They were all grinning rather smugly, their eyes alight with a hunter's flame.

Then he stuck his hand in his back pocket and pulled out a gun.

He didn't know what effect shooting one of the creatures would have, but it was worth a try. Trying to stabilize his shaking hands, the gun and the eyes of the vampires were on equal level. A pull of the trigger and they might just fall over, dead. With a heavy heart, he placed his finger on the trigger, contemplating.

[ Apologies for the short post :x ]

(Ikr. |D
And Siphus?  Umumum... I'm not sure. xD;  I didn't really think about that a lot.  I guess maybe the leader, but.)

Akida cocked her head to one side, thinking.  "It's ok.  One time couldn't hurt."  She liked the feeling of authority, being Alpha and having lots of respect from her packmates.  She liked how she could say a command everybody would do it.  Back when she was a human, nobody would listen to her.  At school, the teacher would leave and they might appoint someone to look after the class for a few minutes.  When Akida was 'teacher', nobody gave a crap about what she had to say.  But human life was far behind her.

Just once when she wasn't addressed as Alpha was fine, but there might just be a warning next time.  Not that she was stuck-up or anything, but Akida liked to maintain her position.  Other werewolf packs' Alphas punished for not being addressed properly, and even though Akida wasn't necessarily like that, she couldn't be too soft.  As an Alpha, you need to know when to let go and when not to.

"I'm going to be out for a while, Alex.  I'll be back soon.  Take care of the pack in the meantime."  Akida said, starting to leave.  "Don't let anything bad happen.  Or else."

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Siphus sighed, the pain becoming more intense.  Even though he almost never cried, during this... transformation, he cried a lot.  Especially at night.  He'd always have nightmares and he'd wake up with tears streaming down his cheeks.  Then the vampire spoke.  Of course, it was something he'd heard a ton.  'Don't leave.'   'You can't leave.'  'You're not allowed to leave.'  Then he heard that this was the only food source now.  Siph had thought about that a lot, too, and he knew it all too well.  Being a vampire meant lots of changes now.

Wait, what was that?  Fledgling?  Ari?
Oh, so those were the cries of pain that sounded likie they belonged to a girl.  There was another one like him.  Ari was her name.  But what was a fledgling?  He knew vampires, but not fledglings.  Were fledglings, like, baby vampires?  Siph used to have a friend that was a supernatural fanatic, and that was the only reason he knew all this stuff.  He'd mentioned fledglings before, Siphus remembered now.  It was... a vampire that was going through the stages of being turned.

Oh.  Right.  He should know that.
His body didn't want to think anymore, let alone be awake.  It wanted sleep, he felt it.  It wanted sleep and time to recognize what he was going through.
To change.

"Wh-what a-about my f-f-fam-mily?" he asked.  That kept bothering him.  A lot.  And if these were the last things he could ask before he fell asleep, and not by force, it was what he wanted to hear most.  Later was the time for more questions.

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Her parents probably didn't want her out too much either, but they still let her out.  Her father didn't think much of the disappearances, but her mom was sort of worried.  Shay thought about that next question for a while.  "Well... I've only been in there for a while.  But I've never gotten hurt or anything, and I like forests.  You find out a lot of stuff and it's fun to explore.  You wanna go inside with me?  We can go really far.  C'mon, it's gonna be fun!" Shay said, taking Sanae's hand with a glimmer of excitement in her eyes.

The pain was burning.

He fought the urge to writhe on the ground as he fixed his eyes on Kain. "So you are. I see. Well, there's no backing out now. I--" Clutching at his throat, he managed to croak out, "Am thirsty." His eyes sparkled crimson, with life, with thirst.

Raising his head, he paused to drink in the air. There was a thick scent of blood - his own blood, trickling down his neck. He placed a finger to his throat, where there were two ruby dots, and wiped the drops tenderly with his finger and placed it in his mouth, licking the drops of blood thirstily.

"More." He screeched.