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Oof!
The second war-form tackled me. We tumbled through the snow. He pinned me and his jaws snapped at my ear.
I dropped into wolf form, shot out from under him, spun in the snow and twisted back into war-form.
On the roof of the house Garrett nocked an arrow, drew back and took a shot. The arrow hit with a solid twhunk and the sharp point punctured the leathery hide, and the silver band around the shaft instantly caused an acrid burning stench. The wolf screamed and grabbed at his thigh, and another arrow hit his back. He fell forward to his knees.
“Got a bunch more of those for you fuckers!” Garrett shouted from the rooftop. “Get the fuck off my lawn!”
I darted to avoid another attacker, ducked behind Sterling, who caught that new wolf with one arm while fishing around in the guts of a third war-form. Another wolf burst out of the shadows, grabbed my neck and dragged me into the snow.
Sterling snarled in rage and lunged after me, but a fifth wolf tackled him and blotted out his silvery blue form.
A brown war-form tackled me and drove me into the snow.
Damn. He was big.
It was hard to tell in the weird, too-bright/too-dark caused by the floodlights, but he looked familiar.
Smelled familiar.
Wait, I know you—
My moment’s hesitation cost me. He dropped onto me and bit my shoulder. Pain exploded and my rage spiked, burning away my human awareness even more. I howled and twisted my right claw and stabbed him in the belly. My claws pierced his hide, just barely.
Damnit!
With his teeth in my shoulder I couldn’t squirm-shift-escape, and I fought to bite him, free myself or rip out his guts.
More howls and bodies burst from the woods. More waves of wolves coming.
Crap. Where are they coming from? Who are they!
An arrow hit the one I grappled with square in his shoulder. He let go of me, stumbled backwards as the silver melted his flesh. Globules of flesh splattered my coat. I freed my claw and scrambled to my feet just as another wolf charged me.
Sterling had three wolves on him, a silvery blot in a sea of browns and blacks. We needed to stay close.
Cye howled and sliced into a war-form with one claw.
Holy shit. Cye’s got a temper.
The familiar brown wolf tackled me again, spun me neatly and smashed me into the snow. Wind exploded from my lungs.
Sterling.
I clawed a few inches away from the brown wolf.
Jun! There he was. As I scrambled and tried to free myself from the brown, I saw Jun about twenty feet away, huge and plush-black, smashing another war-form repeatedly in the face. It wasn’t pretty or skilled, but it was something!
From my left, a grayish war-form that was not Jun burst out of the edge of light and plowed into me. The impact sent me and brown wolf tumbling back into the darkness.
Ruby Jewel
Pain burned through my side, and again in my belly, and the brown wolf on top of me had burning yellow-green eyes and drooled on me as he peered down at me with a taunting growl. I clawed at him while his assistant chewed on me like a sandwich.
The pain intensified, shocks of nerve pain shot down my right leg. The pain filled me, and I clawed at the one on top of me, scratching for those yellow-green eyes, and the rage inside me started to burn higher and higher, converting pain into fury, and that started to convert that into blood and flesh.
More wolves, more, more, more coursed through the trees, howls tore through the air, through my mind.
