Marcellus and Alicia were now continuing their run home. They both had small smiles on their faces as they thought about what just happened.
As they were running all of the sudden, Marcellus stopped and looked to the left. Alicia also stopped but she looked at Marcellus instead.
Alicia, finding his actions strange, decided to ask, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know, I just felt weird for some reason?" stated Marcellus although it sounded more like a question. He tilted his head slightly in confusion but didn't stop looking in that direction.
Around a minute later, he felt nothing so he turned around to look at Alicia.
"I don't know what that was but we should just go now" said Marcellus as he shook his head, as if to get rid of that weird feeling.
Alicia just nodded and continued running home after Marcellus.
Not even 30 seconds later a black blur jumped out towards Marcellus. He, all of the sudden, felt the hair on his arms and neck stand up.
Unknowingly, crimson lightning started to flash in his eyes, as everything slowed down for him.
He turned to look at the blur that made him feel danger and was shocked. Who wouldn't be, after all, the thing that was attacking him was a…
WEREWOLF!!!
How did he know it was a werewolf instead of a normal one, you may ask? Well, there are a few reasons.
One, there are no wolves that live around here as it had been decades since the last wolf was spotted in spring hill. Second, Normal wolves aren't this big, no matter the circumstances. Third and finally, normal wolves don't have glowing blue eyes and walk on 2 legs!!
Marcellus, still seeing everything in slow motion, grabbed Alicia and moved out of the way. Both the wolf and Alicia were staring at him, as they could keep up with Marcellus, even though he could move as fast as a knight ranked vampire.
After all, although he was moving fast, it wasn't so exaggerated that they couldn't see him. They couldn't move like that but to them, he was just moving fast not like a blur.
Similar to how in a race, you can see the person ahead of you, but wouldn't be able to keep up or catch them unless they wanted you to.
To Marcellus, who was still observing them both in extremely slowed motions, he could see them slowly rotating their eyes to keep up with him, it was understandably uncomfortable.
When he and Alicia were a decent distance from the werewolf, his perception went back to normal and so, unfortunately, did his hearing.
*BOOOM*
As the werewolf had jumped up to pounce on Marcellus, when he moved and the werewolf landed, his weight caused small bits of the ground to crack, almost like a large tree falling.
"..." Marcellus just sighed and muttered, " At least now I know what that weird feeling was".
Meanwhile, when Alicia saw the werewolf she felt like kicking her past self. She wanted to cry but couldn't find the tears. How did she forget that this was wolf territory? Isn't that how she escaped Everblood?
"Marcel, That's a werewolf, but it is only a beta, so we can kill it" understanding that he might not be aware of the situation they were now in.
(Author's Interruption: Look at the image of the werewolf in the comments to understand the upcoming fight:)
"I don't want to kill it,why is it attacking us anyway?" replied Marcellus.
"Werewolves and Vampires are natural enemies, he is attacking us, simply because we are in his territory" replied Alicia, who was not taking her eyes off of the growling wolf.
Seeing that the male vampire could dodge his sneak attack, the werewolf thought that he was the stronger one. So, it decided to kill the weaker one first.
After picking its prey it pounced at Alicia.
Alicia, seeing that it was targeting her, got ready to fight it. She got into a fighting stance and waited.
As the wolf got close to her it punched out with an open hand, seemingly intending to tear her into shreds.
Alicia took a deep breath, then in one swift motion, grabbed the werewolf by its outstretched arm, rotated it and threw a kick towards its neck. She then left her boot hooked around the wolf's neck and brought it down as hard as she could.
*BANNG*
*CRACK*
The wolf slammed on the ground violently as it howled a little in pain. Not from being slammed down but from having its arm broken!!! Because of the twist from Alicia, the momentum from the fall snapped it.
She then threw an axe kick at the werewolf, as it was still on the ground. However, the wolf managed to catch it and flung her away.
*CRASH*
"Khuk" After being flung by the werewolf Alicia crashed into a tree and coughed up a little blood but she managed to get up and back into stance.
Werewolves, like vampires, have rapid regenerative capabilities, so by the time both the werewolf and Alicia were back up, they were completely healed.
They both looked at the other and dashed at each other. Meanwhile, Marcellus was stuck, rooted to his spot. He, although scared of the wolf, didn't want Alicia to get hurt or worse. However, he also couldn't move because of Alicias words.
'If I fight with this thing, will I have to…kill it to survive?' Thought Marcellus as a shiver ran up his spine from the uncomfortablity of the situation.