"You came back!", the professor burst out with felicity. That was the look of contentment on her face. The surge of happiness she sensed the instant her eyes fell on the leader of the place, she suddenly felt out of the world, warming her from within. It was an overflowing feeling, flooding her heart with different emotions, joy, satisfaction, relief. Various emotions were blended into her heart, lifting the state of trepidation she was surrounded with and replacing it with the combination of sentiments.
"Follow me if you don't want to be devoured by vampires", the deep-voiced man commanded and turned around on his bare heels. He followed the two boys to the end of their journey, camouflaged in the bushes as he waited for the girl to do what other hunters would do, drop every ounce of attitude the some of them would hold at this very last point, try to run and scream for their group members to come out and help them. However, the girl didn't call for anybody. She stood in the same stance neither did she try to run as if she was really waiting for a vampire to speed out of nowhere and tear her apart, flesh and blood.
No other hunter had tested the patience of the alpha when it was their life at the stake. One more thing to ponder was the girl being unbeknownst to the alpha. Either she was a smart one, kept sticking to whatsoever the planned act, or an extremely foolish hunter continued gluing to it. She must be aware that she was digging her own grave by refusing the origin she belonged from. The alpha would find her underlying motives for she was being that determined to state otherwise and then, he would make sure the hunter would never come out of the grave alive.
For the professor, she didn't cry out for help because she had no idea whom to call for while standing on the borderline of the land which front side was claimed by vampires, werewolves on the back. If her not running, when she was left alone, was to be questioned, the slice on her lower side of the left leg was enough to explain the girl's feet anchored to the ground the entire time. Not that she had somewhere to go in her mind. She was zero percent familiar with the routes of the deep, shadowy jungle. Where would she go anyway? She was stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea.
"Hey, wait!", she scoured up to the man, retracing his steps.
"You said vampires would show up to celebrate their night with my smart meat. Why didn't they come then? Let me tell you. Because there are no such creatures in real life. You must be fancy of the whole dark, handsome vampires with sharp fangs puncturing into the neck, sucking on the red blood but sorry to break it on you, they can't just pop out of the movies for the sake of your over imaginary mind", she followed the alpha close on his feet. She would not want to be lost in the grisly jungle.
But hadn't she accepted their existence? There could be a strong possibility of the man being right about vampires, she had traveled in the past after all. And she also started believing that she could be dwelling among vampires and werewolves, however, when no one came out on the scene, she slid to the other possibility, the man being wrong and only lying for whatever the reasons. If that was the case, how did she define the extraordinary behavior of those two boys when they were around her within nanoseconds?
The professor believed it could be her tiredness or time-traveling side effects, putting her mind into illusions. They were still on the road to learning. She would mention this fact in the report of her first-time travel, well, only if she made it to the present. She was a scientist, always on a never-ending quest to learn about new things, that didn't mean she would start believing things blindly without corroborating to the validity with her own eyes.
"They would not step on my land unless they have some other intentions", the alpha said, straight-faced. The lack of light had concealed their facial expressions. Nevertheless, his tone reflected that he had a cold, impassive face when he uttered those words.
"Oh, sorry. You didn't bring me to the border?", the professor apologized for running into his back, bumping her shoe on his heel bone. Her eyes had vaguely made his large figure out of the dark, her brain on alert, sensing the alpha's walking steps to not lose his track. Unlike the place where she was left alone, the light wasn't even reaching them from somewhere far. That was the reason how she continued bumping into the back of the man who was growing irritated more by every time they would resume their walk after the little apology of the girl.
"No", his teeth clenched, jaws locked in the place as the girl's forehead struck against his bareback for umptieth time.
"Sorry again. But the jungle on the other side?", if the girl had seen the clamped teeth of the alpha, perhaps she would put a lock on her mouth to not blow his fuse. Thanks to the darkness lingering in the eerie jungle.
"That also belong to us", the muttered 'sorrys' were getting the alpha's dander up. Sorry means you feel regret and are remorseful for doing something you believed shouldn't have done and will try not to do it again. How the girl continued whispering the word while repeating the same act in the circle!
"So what you mean to say is that there are real vampires out there and you're also a werewolf?", the professor asked about dreadful information, her following reaction solely dependent on the response from the man.
"Ah...I'm sorry. It's dark and I---", and this time the alpha didn't let her finish her words.
"At a 6-feet distance!"