" CADE DRIVE '' Donte screamed at me as he looked through the rearview mirror and noticed two black SUV's fastly approaching us. I pressed, no stomped on the gas pedal and floored it down the street. I thought we had more time but of course they are always two steps ahead and always know where we are no matter how hard we try to escape them. I looked for the nearest exit out of the neighborhood and finally found one. As I was approaching quickly another SUV came out of nowhere and blocked what seemed to be our only escape. I had to think quickly and get us out of the situation that I put us in. "Oh shit" Donte muttered as the headlights from the SUV's from before came into view even faster than when we first saw them. Like I said before I had to think quickly so I made the split decision to just ram the car ahead of us. Yes I know that sounds stupid but when your being chased by people who want to kill your mind isnt thinking clealry. Surprisingly it worked and with a loud "bang" the car in front of us moved just enough for us to squeeze by and exit the neighborhood. This was also just enough for one of our two chasees to leave too. Luckily we had an advantage and we were able to get some good distance on them before they escaped. "Is she gonna make it Cade? '' Donte said to me as he looked back looking at Tre. She was bleeding out fast and I had to get her out of here and into a hospital as fast as I humanly could. I mean she is the love of my life and I really care about her. She's made me so happy and there's nobody I would rather be on this planet than her. But all because of some stupid feud between bloodlines I'm gonna lose her and its all my fault. I should've been there for her when she needed me the most but my pride, my ego, my lost priorities got the best of me and now well just look at her. As I was approaching a stretch of road where the woods were on the left hand side I saw that damn SUV again. "SHIT" I thought to myself because I finally thought we had lost them but here they come again. Tre moaned and groaned as I could tell she was fading fast, all I could think about was getting her to the hospital and getting her there quickly. I hate to admit it but I didn't even care about me or Dontes' well-being at the time as I just wanted my love to be safe. Tears came to my eyes as I thought about a life where she would be gone, and her blood would be on my hands. They were still hot on our tails and we were getting closer to the hospital. As I looked ahead in the road I saw a figure standing right in the middle of it. When we got closer I could tell who exactly it was. Khaleesi of course who else would it be, who else would chase us for this long and never get sick of it. She raised her arrow with a flaming purple dagger and launched it at our car. I felt the impact as we abruptly stopped, psssh she cut all of the power out. She smugly grinned and began to slowly approach our car. Our Chassis also caught up to us along with two extra cars this time."FUCK" Donte yelled as a panicked look began to come across his face. Eight men in all black came out of the cars and just like Khaleesi approached our car but with guns in their hands. When I looked at my best friend and the love of my love I began to think to myself. "This summer was supposed to be fun. When my mom dropped me off in New Orleans for the summer I was expecting exciting parties, making new friends, and maybe meeting a girl or two. I didn't expect all this pain, this tragedy, secrets, lies, and for me to fall in love. Donte looked at me with wide eyes and said " Cade we have to turn now, there's no more time". I was horrified as he said this because I knew the repercussions of turning into the beast but he was right. I had to save Tre and I would do whatever it takes to do it even though her bloodline hates ours. I don't care though I love her and will always protect her no matter what. I nodded my head in agreement as Donte and I locked eyes one last time before we exited the car."Well well well look who decided to give up and turn themselves in'' Khaleesi said as she approached us."Fuck you" I said to her angrily as she had cause us so much pain and trouble. She liked that of course and began to smirk again.
" Maybe if you two would have given up that girl of yours". "SHE HAS A NAME" I screamed as I was interrupting her little speech. "Ok well maybe if you two would give up TRE from the jump we wouldn't be here right now. Maybe she wouldn't be damn near dead in the backseat of your car and maybe just maybe if you would have never met her she would still be alive and her ancestors wouldn't have disgraced her". I began to feel that fire inside of me again, the one that rarely comes out. I looked over at Donte and he began to growl, that was my signal for knowing what was about to come. "OHHH you boys wanna fight now huh, well you're gonna get it" Khaleesi said as she was grabbing for another round of arrows again.I looked to the moon and realized all that had happened because of them, my family in danger and Tre almost dying. I knew it was time and I was ready.
2 MONTHS EARLIER
"Welcome to New Orleans' ' the sign read as my mom and I entered our old hometown. " Isn't this exciting sweetie" my mom told me with a perky smile on her face. I knew it would be a fun summer but not for the reasons she thought it would be. Just like last summer it would be filled with hookups, smoking, drinking, and other stuff that me and my cousin Donte would do thanks to his mom not paying us much attention and instead focusing on her new boyfriend Aaron. But hey who's complaining about her doing that, me personally i enjoy when she's not paying attention. This summer would also be special to me because I had just turned 16 years old and was ready to start driving and exploring this beautiful city. I mean theres not gonna be much to do just sitting around the house and playing video games. I asked my mom about driving in New Orleans and she told me she trusted me thanks to my grades drastically improving and honestly it's because in my town there's nothing much to do anyway. An hour and a half later we pulled into my Aunt Lisa's driveway with the sun shining bright and glistening off the fresh plants on her porch. As I was getting my bags from the trunk I heard my Aunt rushing out the house to greet me and my mom, something she usually doesn't do when I come here but I shrugged it off. I gave her a big hug and she happily exclaimed how happy she was to see me again. She even offered to help me with my bags and again that was out of place for her. I stepped foot into her house and saw Aaron sitting on the couch and of course doing absolutely nothing. "What's up lil man" he said as he dapped me up and grinned. " Damn you getting bigger and bigger every time I see you, '' Aaron said but his eyes were focused on the Tv, I noticed that the Pelicans were playing the Suns. I mean it is playoff time. I looked around the living room and noticed how different it was from the last time I saw it. There were candles everywhere, pictures of people who I didn't know on the walls, and plants hanging on all the tables in sight. But something catched my eye in particular, it was a picture of me with a white and gold frame around it. This was definitely new and also a little strange. I asked my aunty about it and she quickly rushed over and grabbed the picture. "Uh Dontes upstairs if you wanna talk to him and get settled down, I'll bring the rest of your bags upstairs in a bit". I immediately thought that was suspicious but I had forgot about Donte for a sec and really wanted to see him again. I made my way upstairs and into his room. Donte was just laying on his bed playing his video game once again. I knocked twice on his door then he looked up and said "Ayeee what up Cade". He began to get up and put his hand in front of him, we did our handshake like we always did since we were 9 years old, it wasn't much but it was unique and ours. The catching up portation started and we talked about the usual, you know, school,girls, friends, and family. Aunt Lisa came in with the rest of my bags and sat them down in the corner of the room. "Well it looks like you two boys have already caught up with each other. Oh and Donte did you let Cade know about the thing tonight." Nah you know he got the memory of a 82 year old I said as I was laughing. Donte smirked too and let his mom know that he in fact didn't let me know about whatever it was they were talking about. "Well Cade since your cousin forgot to tell you we have to go to a very special event tonight that you need to go to". I asked her what the event was but she was very insistent that I shouldn't know until we got there. She left the room and Donte turned to me and whispered "Tonight might change your life forever". I was shocked but also thought he was joking with me like he always does. I wnet back downstairs and said my final goodbyes to my mom. "Baby have a great summer and make sure to stay out of trouble. You know my number and make sure to call me everyday". I gave her a kiss goodbye on the cheek and promised her to stay out of trouble. A couple hours later nightfall approached and we began to get ready for this surprise event. I didn't know what I was gonna wear but Aunt Lisa surprisingly approached me with a brand new tuxedo. It was black with a forest green bow on top, there was a white flower with balck spots on the side. The tux also came with some matching black shoes with forest green socks. I thought this was a very nice move on my Aunt's part but I was also very anxious for this even because the Tux indicated that this was going to be a fancy event which I'm known to be clumsy at. We headed to the party and it appeared to be in the middle of nowhere. I gotta admit I was a little scared as I had never been to this part of town before. From a distance I saw a beautiful mansion on the side of a mountain with its windows lights shining brightly, it was hard not to notice it. That's why it surprised me when we pulled into the mansion's long extended driveway and approached a guard wearing a black suit with a grey wolf mask on. This scared me obviously and I looked around the car to see if everybody else was just as scared as me, shockingly they weren't. The man looked inside the car before letting us pass through. As we got closer to the entrance I realized there were people lined up on the steps of the mansion. They were all hooded with a dark green cloth over their heads. We exited the car and approached them when one of them took off their hood. It was a beautiful young girl with braided hair, her eyes immediately fell on mine and for the first time I was shocked by a girl's beauty. "Welcome to your initiation young blood" she said softly.