Betrayed from Birth – Alpha’s Unvalued Daughter - Chapter 79: Chapter 118

Reagan’s POV
“Can Henry, Jon, and I got into the woods to hang out and play?” Trevor ran up and asked me. Before I can answer him, he gets an emphatic, “No!” from both Clive and Aaron.
Trevor was speaking to all of us, but both men were quick to answer him, and shut him down. I know that something has happened, and I guess I have been kept out of the loop on this too.
They clearly know something that I don’t, as they know that the children like to go into the woods. I need to sort this out.
Clive and I usually make up what they can and can’t do, but Aaron is the father to all three of them, and he is very protective of them.
“I am sorry son, I know that you three are bored, but how about you guys just run some laps, racing each other to see who is fastest, and then spar a little.
I will see what is going on, with the woods being off limits” I told him. He nodded at me, as he was surprised at how vehement both Clive and Aaron just were to him, I was too.
He ran off to go tell his brothers that they couldn’t go into the woods. I could see the disappointment from here on their faces. They liked to climb and try to sneak up on each other in the woods.
It is good practice to be stealthy, and it will come in handy for them one of these days. It was a game to try to catch the other two, before being found.
Jon was seriously the best of the three of them. Trevor was 15 now and he was the largest of them. They were all Aarons sons, and they were the most independent of all of my children.
They liked to explore. They liked to get out and do things, hanging out at home was not anything that any of them liked to do.
The older they get the harder it is to keep them safe, but my Trevor is a rule follower, thankfully. I wasn’t when I was growing up, I was a rule breaker.
He clearly gets that following the rules thing from Aaron. They all started racing against each other on the far side of the playground. Some of their younger brothers started racing with them.
They had no way to beat their big brothers. They were younger, and their legs were not as long as their big brother’s legs were just yet.
But they had fun running along behind them and being included in whatever they were doing. “OK, you two, just what in the hell is going on? You both know that the boys play out there.
Why can’t they go out into the woods? They have played in them their whole lives.
I can go with them, if you would prefer them to be watched when they go” I said to them and Clive said, “No! It is not safe in the woods anymore.
Stay out of the woods until we either get the border put up, or have caught them.
We have a problem, and two members of the pack have already been killed” Clive told me and I could tell that he was very upset at what had happened.
The potential danger for our family was obviously not a low threat level. “OK, guys. I am going to need to know what we are up against.
How can I protect the children if I don’t know what the problem is?” I asked them and Aaron sighed and leaned his head on the back of the chair to look up at the sky.
“The two pack members that were killed, were warriors who were on patrol last night. They were not mated, thankfully, but it was bad enough that we had to go and tell their parents.
The fact is, and keep this to yourself, there are vampires in our territory. We have sent some trackers out to try to find them. It looks like there were at least 2 of them, potentially 3 of them.
The men barely had time to call for help before they were knocked unconscious. They were both basically drained of their blood.
It was a horrible way to go and we have increased the night patrols to deal with them. Since they can;t come out during the day, we have been looking into places that they can be hiding.
We just haven’t been able to locate them. I believe that they could be in a local town and staying at a hotel during the day, and coming out at night.
I called Blake earlier today, to beg for funds for me to be able to build a fence like he has on his property, here at Blood Tracker. But it will take at least 2 months to get it completed.
We have to get the raw materials here, and I don’t need the fancy pressure plates at the top of the wall, like he has. I just need for my pack members to be safe” Aaron told me, and I am shocked.
I have gone my whole life and never seen a vampire, unless you count Robert Pattinson in those movies he made. I am suddenly very frightened and worried about my children.
I went from happily watching the children play, to wanting to take them inside right now. “It is OK, Beauty. I will protect you and the children” Clive said to me to try to calm me down.
I feel like my chest is tight, and I realize that I am having a panic attack. Aaron looks upset that I have gotten so upset over this, but I have real fear right now.
I don’t want anything to happen to my children, or him. He is a ranked wolf. He could be in danger if they go to search for them, and they are found. The men will have to deal with them.
I know nothing about vampires, other then they drink blood. How often do they have to do it? Why were they here? We have never had this problem in our area, ever. Why now?
Clive reaches out for my hand and starts rubbing circles on the back of it. I love it when he does that for me, but I am not calming down this time. I am absolutely terrified.
I am sure they know that this is a pack, they have an unlimited food source here. I know that they have heightened senses and speed.
We cannot outrun them, my babies would not stand a chance against them. “Is this why you came to visit us? To let us know.
You could have told Clive that he could tell me, as the mother to 4 of your children I should have known, so I could be prepared to protect them. I am terrified for my pups now.
Goddess, why are they even here? We need to get rid of them as soon as possible. They cannot stay here. We need to kill them right now.
I will not take a chance on them getting one of my babies” I said to them both. “Aaron!” we all heard a yell coming from behind us.
We turn to see a scared looking Eloise standing there and she is not playing scared, she really is scared right this minute. “What is wrong? What happened?” Aaron asked her as he ran to her side.
“Austin wanted to go see a vampire in real life, apparently, and snuck out of the packhouse to go find one. I found this note in his room.
I don’t know when exactly he left, but I cannot find him anywhere, and he isn’t replying to the mindlink” Eloise said, and I realized that the men were killed last night.
Almost 24 hours, and he told his family, and not mine. Is he serious? How could he have done that, he knows his sons love to play in the woods all the time.
“Aaron, were you going to wait until one of our pups was killed to tell me about the vampires? Why didn’t you tell me last night too? Or is it just Eloise, and her two pups that you want to protect?
I know that she is on you day and night to allow Austin to inherit the pack, is this your new way of getting rid of trevor?” I said to him.
I saw the color on his cheeks and she had the same bloom of embarrassed color on hers too. I hit the nail on the head, I knew that she was planning on it, that has been her goal in life.
To take it away from Trevor, and give it to her own son. I am disgusted at them both, at least Aaron couldn;t go through with it and wouldn;t let them go into the woods.
But Austin may be out there, or this could be a trap. I honestly do not know what to do. My gut reaction, is to go into the house with my children right now.
I am terririfed down to my bones right now. “I was coming to tell you, Reagan, I just did tell you. We just don’t want the boys in the woods.
I want them safe too” Aaron said, carefully dancing around the subject of his named heir.
He had already named Trevor as his heir, but all he would have to do to change it, would be to make another announcement.
Just tell the pack that he was going to allow his son with his mate to take the position away from Trevor. That was it. I know that she has been on him constantly to do just that.
She doesn’t tell me to my face, but she always implies what she is going to do. Aaron really needs to grow a pair. He is led too easily by this woman.
Eloise is not a good person, and she is never going to stop, until her own child is ready to take over the pack. She is just terribly greedy. I never asked for my child to be made the Alpha.
That was always Aaron’s idea. Just like it was his idea to name his first born after himself. Aaron Trevor, who goes by Trevor to avoid confusion.
Eloise didn’t know that was his name and and when she gave birth to Austin, she wanted to name him Aaron, after his father.
I heard that Aaron hemmed and hawed for 5 minutes before finally telling her that he had a namesake already. She was mad.
She already had a plan to name all their children with the initials A and E for their initials.
She went with Austin after that, but she never forgave me for allowing Aaron to name our son as his namesake. See, delusional, because that was all on Aaron, not me.
I can feel the fear on her, as I was scared for my children too, and I started gathering them up. I always line them up into 2 lines to go back inside.
I started that process with the oldest in front to lead them. I follow behind them after counting and making sure that they are all there.
It helps me be able to keep a track of them better as we head inside.
The girls usually go to my room and Tatiana, mine and Clive’s oldest, helps get the shower started for her sisters, while I run the tub for the youngest one, Sara Beth.
Trevor and Henry start the showers for the boys to get theirs, and I cannot tell you what a big help they are.
I had just gotten my children lined up to go in, when we all heard an ear piercing scream coming from the woods.
I send the kids on to the house and told Trevor and Tatiana to take the children upstairs, and lock all of the doors. I will help Clive with this.
I see no other warriors, and it is just me, him, and Aaron here to be able to fight well. “No, Reagan, you have to go with them.
They will not know what to do, and what if something happens to both of us? You need to go with them and secure all the doors and windows on the first floor.
Warriors are coming now to help, they are heading here already with weapons. Go get the gun from our room and protect our babies, remember what I told you about the safety.
If you see red, then they are dead, because the safety will be off. If you see the red dot, remember one is already in the chamber, all you have to do is point and shoot.
Use both hands to hold the gun steady, Reagan. I love you.” Clive told me, and I am scared. I don’t want him to go.
He gives me a quick kiss and then shreds his clothes as he runs towards the vampires chasing Austin right back into the pack from the woods. Austin is bringing them here, to kill our pack members.
I know he is young, but that was incredibly stupid. Why in the hell would he do this? I already know the answer already, he does what he wants. Maybe this will scare him straight.
I am already yelling out instructions to Trevor, Henry, and Jon, as we approach the house. I need them to help me make sure all the window on the 1st floor are securely locked.
I am having Tatiana and Atlas take the kids upstairs to our master bedroom, we will be right behind them. We will need for them to check the windows up there and make sure that they are secure too.
We got all the windows on the first floor checks and we racked up to the second floor, we all split up to get the windows on the second floor.
Tatiana did what I told her to and put the children nearest the door, in case we needed to run out of here. She had them all sitting on the floor. She is on one end of them, and Atlas is at the other.
He has our youngest, Sara, with him, and she is crying. Hell, I feel like crying too little one. I feel helpless, like I cannot do anything at all to help with this.
I can hear screaming outside from Eloise, and I have to look out to see what is going on. I had already grabbed my gun, the moment I entered the room. I kept my finger lying flat alongside the barrel.
I was taught well, you only put your finger on the trigger, when you need to shoot. Never at any other time.
If you did you could get scared, and your hand could unconsciously tighten your grip and shoot. Noone wants that to happen.
I am OK with a gun, they do make me nervous, but right now, I am very thankful for it. I am not the best shooter here, but I am not the worst either.
I am glad of all the practice hours that Clive forced me to do. Until I wasn’t as scared of the gun, as I used to be. I see that there are indeed three vampires, two men, and one woman.
I see warriors pouring in to help from several different directions, as Clive, and Aaron fight them. It seems like it is the female that is after young Austin, as she slipped past Aaron and Clive.
Eloise is even helping as the female has Austin pinned against the tree outside of our room. She is trying to bite the female to get her to release him, but she is jumping away when the female turns.
Why is she giving the female time to attack Austin? She needs to grab that vampire’s leg, and slam the vampire into the base of the tree. While she is dazed, just tear her throat out.
That is what I would do, I would kill her before she even had a chance to touch one of my pups. Why is our Luna so bad at fighting? Just like Blake wants everyone to train in his pack, Aaron does too.
Except Aaron always does what his mate wants. This time it looks like it is going to cost them. I see Clive and Aaron struggling, they are fighting two surprisingly strong vampires.
They may look frail because they are so pale, but I know how strong Clive and Aaron are. These vampires must be very strong to not be being beaten down by them. I am looking for my shot.
I opened my window, and it is silent in the room. Trevor locked the door as soon as they all entered. He is on the far end with Atlas.
Henry and Jon both stopped and sat by Tatiana, so they can help the children escape from our room if needed. I am glad that they got all the windows on the second floor locked.
I cannot allow anything to happen to Clive. He is the love of my life. He has been with me for 15 years, and I don’t know if I can make it without him.
I never want to know the answer to that question. I can hear the scream come up from Austin, as the female vampire latches onto his neck and start to drink from him.
She is desperate to get his blood, and I believe that they can tell that the warriors are heading this way. I opened the window as I can tell that Austin is done for.
The bigger male punches Aaron hard and he falls to the ground unconscious. I see Clive really struggling with his too.
As the male comes to Austin and starts drinking from him with the female, Eloise shrieks louder. The one fighting Clive goes to knock him out too, and my bullet caches him in the shoulder.
He glances up in surprise straight up at my window and before I can even scream he is jumping up from the ground and walking up the shingles to get to me. I am not waiting for him to get to me.
I emptied my entire magazine into him. “I was coming to tell you, Reagan, I just did tell you. We just don’t want the boys in the woods.
I want them safe too” Aaron said, carefully dancing around the subject of his named heir.
He had already named Trevor as his heir, but all he would have to do to change it, would be to make another announcement.
Just tell the pack that he was going to allow his son with his mate to take the position away from Trevor. That was it. I know that she has been on him constantly to do just that.
She doesn’t tell me to my face, but she always implies what she is going to do. Aaron really needs to grow a pair. He is led too easily by this woman.
Eloise is not a good person, and she is never going to stop, until her own child is ready to take over the pack. She is just terribly greedy. I never asked for my child to be made the Alpha.
That was always Aaron’s idea. Just like it was his idea to name his first born after himself. Aaron Trevor, who goes by Trevor to avoid confusion.
I dropped the empty magazine from my gun and slammed the new magazine in, as the vampire rose back up and looked at me in surprise at shooting him.
I had three full magazines in my jeans pocket, and I heard the nightstand drawer open, and then Trevor crawls across the floor quickly with them to start reloading the empty one next to me.
I am glad he did it without being told to. I am so proud of him. I might need him to do this for a little while. I slowed him down, but I didn;t hurt him like I wanted to.
I remember that I needed to hit him in the heart, and the head. I have silver bullets in this gun. It was loaded for werewolves, but silver is alleged to work on vampires too.
So we have like a 50/50 shot at this to work. I honestly do not know if it will or not. I was hitting him center mass, but it just slowed him down.
I know that we needed a wooden stake, or to cut their heads off. But since I wasn’t informed we even had this problem, I am woefully unprepared for this. I will work with what I have right now.
I am almost sick with fear, and our warriors are almost here. I can see them in the distance pouring in from different directions.
Eloise is screaming her head off, and I feel relief when the male vampire falls on her and starts drinking her blood. I only care about Clive out there.
She had her chance to end the fight by killing the female, and she didn’t take it. She just kept lunging away from the vampire in fear.
You can’t do that, it is your pup you are protecting, what In the hell was she thinking? Eloise’s shrieking voice is echoing in the air, but I can’t look at her.
The female has now joined the male drinking from Eloise.
The male vampire in front of me is smiling as he approaches me again and started cooing at me, “Oh, I cannot wait to taste your blood my fierce little wolf.
I can smell fear all over you, and yet you still fight. I see why now, you are protecting the children.
I have hit a jackpot at this house, haven’t I lovely?”
I heard something else hit the roof of the first floor, and I see Clive’s furious face as he approaches the vampire from the side.
I started shooting at the vampire again as he approaches me as I kneel on the floor in front of the window.
I change up this time, and move my shots higher as he backs away from the forceful blow with each shot that hits him.
He still has the same cocky grin on his face, and all of a sudden he kisses at me, and then jumps gracefully from the roof to the ground.
They all three run away from us back in the direction they came. They are amazingly fast, I would have been impressed at their speed, if I weren’t so terrified.
The first two immediately ran into the woods ahead of him. But he stopped and turned to look at me.
He then bowed at me before his laughter rang out as he followed them into the woods and out of my sight. Clive climbs in the window to pull me to him, and tries to calm me down.
All my adrenaline is gone now, and I am shivering in fear. I cannot stop shaking, and the warriors outside are helping to take Aaron, Eloise, and Austin to the hospital.
I know Austin is gone, I don;t know about Eloise yet. I feel bad for her and Aaron. Austin was a spoiled kid, but no one deserved to go that way. I shuddered again.
It is over 5 minutes later before Clive finally gets me to calm down, and leaves me there in the house with three warriors watching over us.
The children are all scared too, and it is hard getting them down tonight. I will not be able to sleep at night anymore. Everytime I close my eyes, I keep seeing him keep coming at me.
I had shot him at least 18 times. I have never had to shoot at anything that was not a target before. It was not a great experience. But I will do anything to keep him away from my children.
I am scared that he is coming after me, and my family. My stomach is in knots right now, and my heart is in my throat. I am just going through the motions of normalcy right now.
My thought are scattered all around. I have never been this upset before. But I have to focus right now. Two of the warriors are downstairs. The third is at the top of the stairs.
Clive told me to stay calm, but I cannot. Once I get the kids all tucked in. I go to the same window, and look out to where they had disappeared into the woods.
I am glad that Aaron is getting the fence on the border built quickly. I pick up my phone to call my dad to give him the money for it.
I sit on the end of my bed and listen to the call go to voicemail. I called several times with the same results.The fence has to be built. But dad didn’t answer, so I will try mom.
If dad is in a meeting, he won’t answer. I tried mom’s phone too, but she doesn’t answer either. I hope that they are OK.
My light was turned off once I got back into the room, and I had gotten a mindlink that Aaron was still unconscious and that Clive would be staying with him tonight.
He linked me that he has sent two more warriors to stay upstairs with us until the morning. Clive feels bad because when Aaron wakes up, he has to tell him that his mate, and son were dead.
Darren is running the pack right now per the pack’s protocol. I hate doing it but I feel like I need to move to the window.
I look out to where they ran off into the woods again, and I see him standing perfectly still right where he disappeared. He was looking right at me. He waves, he f*****g waves at me.
How can he even see me. I gasp in shock at seeing him. His smile is huge and I can see him actually start laughing, as he sees my reaction to him. My heart is racing and I am scared.
I swear it seemed like he licked his lips at the sound of my heartbeat going into overtime. But that is impossible, he couldn’t hear that from at over 600 feet away. It just wasn’t possible.
I mindlinked Clive who immediately got a patrol heading to the area. The vampire seemed to know what I did, and shook his head at me, like he was disappointed that I had told on him.
He waved good night to me and took off into the woods. He seems to think that he is cute, but he is not. I mean he was handsome, but he isn’t doing anything for me personally.
Why he came back is worrying me. Why did he come back? How did I know that he was there? Most importantly, where are his friends?What possessed me to go and look out the window?
How in the hell could he see me from that far away, it was almost like he knew when I saw him out there. When my heartrate increased in fear, I know I saw him lick his lips.
Is it because of who I am descended from? Is that why he wants my blood? I do not feel safe, at all. As cocky as he is, I would not put it past him to try to crawl in my window tonight.
He made that jump easily. But would it be to kill me as he drank my blood, or for another reason. I have no reason to trust him at all. I slid my gun under my pillow and fell into a fitful sleep.
If he shows back up here again. I will show him the true error of his ways. Chapter 119
Reagan’s POV
Sleep never really came to me last night.
My mind was awake and running with all kinds of bad thoughts.
I knew the warriors were here, but I also saw the strength of the men, if Aaron and Clive were almost ineffective against them, what chance did I, or these warriors have against them?
My anger at them just coming here, onto our land, is staying with me. They hurt our Alpha and killed his mate and child. That kind of act cannot go unchallenged.
We don’t wander onto their land, as we have treaties in place. My fury at the sheer gall of them and what they have done has me almost shaking in anger.
They came here and killed four of our pack members, that I know of already. Who knows what else they did during the night? That was the scariest part.
They are shadows in the night, unseen until it is way too late. I am terrified for my family and for the pack. We are going to have to do something about this, we have to be able to sleep.
I can already tell that I will have to grab some sleep today if I can, so I can stay up tonight. Until we get them taken care of, I will not be able to really sleep properly again.
They do not care about starting a war with us. They were almost mocking us with how they treated us yesterday. Disrespectful to our pack, and our species.
Clearly unconcerned about the uproar they are causing here at Blood Tracker. I saw nothing but cockiness coming from the two men in the group.
They will not stop unless someone kills all three of them, or they will just keep coming back and picking us off, one at a time. I cannot live like this, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I hope Aaron reaches out quickly to Blake for some help in dealing with this. It is already so serious with their willingness to kill the Luna of the pack. No one will be off-limits to them.
They could feel her power, they knew who and what she was to the pack, and yet they killed her anyway. I am still horrified at seeing what they did.
I won’t say that I liked her, but that was just a terrible way to go. Seeing your child murdered right in front of you like he didn’t matter. Her heart had to have been broken.
Their screams are still vivid in my mind as I remember what happened last night. It wasn’t even completely dark, it was dusk.
I mean it wasn’t bright, the light was filtered, but I thought that they cannot be in any sunlight. They must be more powerful vampires.
Stronger if you will, than regular vampires, to be able to do that, but I admit my knowledge of them is not great. I wish I had paid more attention in class when they discussed it.
I attempt to call my father again, but cannot get in touch with him, or my mother. I know that they would know what I needed to do.
I cannot allow this time to pass without being able to defend myself and my family. I don’t know who to call now.
Aaron is knocked out, Clive is with him, and he has not told me that Aaron has even woken up yet. The pack is in a total panic right now, and rightly so.
No one wants to lose their mate, or pup to a disgusting bloodsucker. I reached out to my parents again this morning. Neither of them answering me is starting to get me worried.
I tried to call Cheryl, as she and I started talking again, occasionally, about 10 years ago.
My parents had shown them what had happened to me, and according to mom, both Blake and Cheryl had felt terrible about what had happened.
I didn’t tell my parents the whole story at the time it happened, about what Garrett and Marc had done. They found out later on, as I didn’t need any more issues arising, with anyone else in the pack.
I felt safe and comfortable here, and I just wanted to put it all behind me.
I was in a good place and I didn’t need them telling some more crap to someone else here, and taking the chance of getting it started back up again. I like my peace of mind.
I do not want to be engaged in any drama. I just want to be happy with Clive and my children. Cheryl didn’t answer either, and now I am getting concerned. I hope there isn’t a problem at Black Moon.
I am really concerned for my parents. I feel like I need to see if a warrior can go over there to check on them for me, as I know that I can’t go over there myself.
Blake might have felt guilty over what had happened to me, but he has not forgiven me or lifted my banishment. I am quite sure that he would throw me in a cell if I dared to go over there.
I mindlinked Judy to see if she could get Darren to call and ask if everything was OK there, as I was worried as neither my parents nor Cheryl would answer my calls.
She said that she would call herself as Darren was currently at the pack hospital, with Clive and Aaron. I am glad that she is someone that I can trust to help me when I need it.
She was thankful for the opportunity to be a mom and appreciated that I didn’t try to micro-manage them over the children.
They are excellent parents and I know that they would die protecting their children. They were all anyone could hope for in their own parents. I appreciated the love and care that they give them.
I have my hands full right now, but just like with the situation with Eloise, I would have taken them back if I felt that they were at any risk of being hurt.
I think that Darren and Judy are some of the best parents in the pack. I am so glad that they are so willing to help me, whenever I need them. I know I can count on them to help me out.
I made breakfast for the children and then took the younger children to the pack daycare. I have something that I needed to do, and it cannot wait.
I left the 5 warriors that had come on duty this morning with them. The pups needed to be protected, and the workers appreciated me leaving them there.
They had half of the normal number of kids there, about 30 of them because some were scared to leave their homes.
I told them I would be back in about 4 hours and then headed to the pack library with my 5 oldest children. I was going to need some help with my research, and they were all going to be helping me.
They were all good with helping once they realized what we were going to be doing.
Henry and Tatiana loved to google things on the computer so I had them check all the werewolf online archives that the Elders share with the packs, for ways to be able to kill vampires.
I know that we cannot go without sleep for long, and I knew they didn’t sleep very well last night either. I will not be able to sleep with this threat looming over our heads.
I grabbed several books and gave Trevor and Jon two books each, and some paper to write on for anything they could find about killing vampires.
This was not something I ever thought I would have to worry about. I have never heard of any packs in the area having to worry about it in my lifetime. I just need all hands on deck to get this done.
I knew the ranked wolves were busy, and someone is going to have to take the lead in this and quickly. I know for a fact that they won’t just leave us alone.
They are killing about 2 people a day, and I know that they will be returning tonight. I can feel it in my bones, and I will not be getting caught by surprise again by them.
I hope that all of the warriors are being careful on patrol, and are armed.
Although with as fast as these vampires are, I have doubts whether or not the men can get a shot off before they are on them.
I hear Trevor speaking on the phone and when he gets off the phone he is very excited. “Mom, we need to get a few warriors and go two towns over.
I found a vendor who sells Hawthorn walking sticks and he has a few of them. I told him that I needed them for my grandfather. He is holding them for me, but we need to get going now.
He will only hold them for an hour for me. Plus, he gave me a discount on them as I told him I was using my allowance to buy them” Trevor told me.
I knew the name sounded familiar to me, and I see in my notes that Ash, Aspen, Willow, and Juniper are all good for killing vampires.
The books are noting that Hawthorn was considered the best for it, due to it being such a strong, hardwood, I have heard of it being used as a charm to ward off witchcraft.
It was revered as being a religious symbol to humans, as many believe that the branches from Christ’s crown of thorns were woven from it.
So, it is believed to lend a higher power to it, making it more effective against vampires, well at least to humans it was.
I also noted that Ash was associated with life, and Aspen was once believed to be a connection with the supernatural.
The Juniper tree is a symbol of protection from medieval times in England and Scotland. But Willow I had crossed off due to it becoming brittle after time.
I need this to work, and not break when you go to use it, so Willow was immediately cut off the list. Trevor found me a wonderful resource, and I agreed with him.
Judy got me two warriors to drive us and we headed there immediately.
I had one of the warriors contact one of the men in our pack that does woodwork, and he will be ready to go once we return to the pack to cut the walking sticks up.
He also mentioned stopping to get some adhesive tape wrap. He is going to sand them for us, but he was going to make them as safe for us as he can.
He knows that we will have to strike with force to use the stakes. We won’t be able to do it if they have splinters or wood slivers sticking out of them.
That was smart on his part, I will pick up the wrap next. We got there in 30 minutes. I went in with him, and after Trevor made his purchase, I bought his last two from him.
He didn’t seem to be surprised by us buying four specific canes from him. I hinted at needing them as replacements, but he didn’t seem to really care.
I was very happy at getting all 4 of them, we will need them, as all the research said to cut their heads off. The elder’s notes on vampires said the very same thing.
We stopped and got the hand wrap next for the stakes, and I got some extra rolls of the wrap as the kids were still checking to see if we could find more Hawthorn canes.
One of the warriors ran in to grab that while I googled where I could buy a sword.
I was surprised that you can legally own a sword in California, and an hour later we were the proud owner of 6 swords.
We will need to cut their heads off, to actually kill them, and our last stop was to the local catholic church for holy water. I am leaving no stone unturned here.
We are on a timeline, and the warriors were glad to see that I was being as proactive as I could be in this situation. I know that they were just as scared by this situation as I was.
I was on my phone a lot, as was Trevor, as we tried to locate some more Hawthorn canes, and luck was on our side. The town on the way back home had an antique shop that had 3 more canes in it.
This means we can make the stakes longer, We need them to be about a foot long, I was worried about trying to make them 9 inches long.
We need to be able to have a good grip on them, and I was going to speak to the woodworker myself when we got back.
I had the warriors go with the children to the packhouse for the kids to eat lunch together after we picked the younger children up from the daycare.
I didn’t have time to cook for them, as I needed to get a few things done. I had taken 5 hours, instead of 4. I know that all of the kids were hungry, but I still needed to push forward.
I will eat when I get this done, I cannot rest until we are ready to go. It was our pack members that I was worried about saving, but I can’t let the vampires come back here without us being ready.
Plus, I am just not hungry. I am anxious, stressed, and from the looks of things they will be back tonight. They have been here the last 2 nights and they killed 2 members each time they came.
They are killing machines, and if we don’t stop them, who knows who will be killed next? I am going out on a limb and saying they will probably be back at dusk again.
I fully plan on us being ready for them when they get here. I told the man who is the best woodworker we have, what I wanted to do, and what we needed to be done.
He was ready for us, and he had 4 more men with him. He showed them what they needed to do as they made these 13-inch sticks into deadly stakes. He measured and cut each cane into three even sections.
He told them what they needed to look for as they made the stakes, to use the stronger larger end of the section they were working on, as the handle.
For them to cut carefully as the longer the stick was the safer the user would be. I shuddered as he spoke to them, he was right.
To use a stake, you are going to have to be close to them to drive it into their chests. Close enough for them to be able to bite you. That does not make me feel any safer.
It is a nightmare come to life.
He walked them through the example of what he was doing twice, handed the last section to the man closest to him, and then started to cut the other 6 canes into the same even sections to be made into stakes.
He was careful and cautious, and I felt the tip of the first one that he had made with his knife, and the tip was strong. It is going to have to be, to be able to strike a heart.
He passed off the next three sections to the other men who all sat carefully and cut with a knee cut with their knives to brace as they worked. No one spoke, and the men worked quickly.
After he got all of the canes cut down, he divided them up between himself and the men and they focused on their work. The men took great care with their work, and soon we had a pile of stakes made.
Now that they weren’t actively cutting, I asked him if he knew someone who could sharpen swords.
He looked at me for about a minute before saying, “You have been busy today, haven’t you?”
I smiled and nodded at him.
A short time later two men showed up with whetstones to get to work on the swords.
A few minutes after they arrived and got to work, some warriors showed up and started to help the woodworker and his team to sand down the ends of the stakes, and then start wrapping them.
That grip worked out well. It gave a thin barrier and a more comfortable grip to the stake. The grip helped to keep it from sliding in your hand. They called in more men, and we got things sorted out.
The holy water was split into smaller containers, so we could give it out to more men to carry. The warriors appreciated me doing this, as they were the ones on the front lines protecting us all.
After last night they knew that their own Alpha had been knocked out. That the Delta couldn’t beat the one he was fighting either.
They were running out of hope, but they were glad for what we had done in such a short amount of time.
There was not enough to go around and I told them that we would call around tonight to see if anyone else had what we needed.
We will need more swords, that is one of the things on the agenda for tomorrow too.
The stakes, we will need as many as we can get, and I am going to make sure that we up it to Ash, Beech, or Oak tomorrow. I am going to go with it just needs to be strong hardwood.
I know that it won’t kill them, but if we cut their heads off while they are incapacitated, then we might all stand a chance of surviving this.
If we don’t fully puncture the heart we are only going to slow them down. I gave my suggestions to the warriors for tonight, and they seemed to agree with what I was saying. It just made sense.
They promised to go to the hospital and run it by Aaron and Clive and asked me to go to the pack hospital with them to tell them what I had come up with.
It is just 5 pm, and we still have time before dusk, so I agreed to go with them. We still have 2 hours of sunlight, and I plan on being done by dusk.
I took a stake with me, and a bottle of holy water. I still had one in my pocket from earlier.
I plan on splitting that bottle into three smaller bottles and giving them to my boys, as I know that they will help to protect their brothers and sisters.
We head off to the pack hospital to run the plan by Aaron and see what he thinks.
We have got to do something, and until we are up to speed and have the items that we need to be able to successfully protect ourselves, we can only tread water.
Only when we can get the men armed properly will we be safe, because right now, we have too few items to spread out to over 600 people.
I know without a doubt that they are coming, and I gave some ideas for the men to send some warriors to the next town to get to try some items we need to help us stay safe for the night.
They immediately sent the men out to get it done. I do not know if it is approved for me to be instructing them.
But if the ranked wolves are just going to wait for Aaron who is still knocked out to wake to make the call, more members of our pack could be killed while we wait on them to make the decision.