10. Adeline Seek the Hut and Escaped the Packs

Adeline was indeed tired from escaping all from the north to the south and also headed east. This according to her instinct was where the witch hut was located or travelled to.

Of course, in the strength that the hut will not be found, it was part of the curse that the hut shall always by itself change its location.

But even Adeline did not know this nor was it included in the vision she saw in the book. All that mattered was that she knew exactly where the hut had been.

Since she used her ability of super speed all from the north into the south, she became tired coupled with the fact that it was already sunrise, she had to hide lest she was burned by the smiting of the sun.

She was quick to find a cave where she could hide for the day to become over. And since she hid in that darkness, she could not ignore the fact that she was hungry.

But blood was only her food. No matter how she had chosen to endure the hunger, she could not as she went deeper and deeper into the cave looking for what she could eat.

The cave was such that it was beneath a tall mountain that looked very ancient. To her amazement, it was evident that Adeline had not been to this place before or even had the idea that such a mountain existed in Petra. Almost all her life had been in the north and for the first time, she saw the tallness of this mountain and how wide it was.

The further she walked in, she could hear the wind whistling sound, the muffled sound of wind in trees outside, and shoes shuffling over the floor.

"Ahem"

She could now also hear the echoes of her cough travelling above to the mountaintop and outside of the cave.

But that was not all, she also heard insects whirring, other rustles of feet which were not her own and distant flowing water.

No doubt, another of the abilities of any vampire both the turns and the originals is their heightened hearing aid. By this, Adeline had heard all of these and indeed knew that she was not alone inside of the mountain.

But she had not been scared. Though she did not know who it could be, she knew for a fact that she was an original and she will not be harmed; rather, they should be the ones who should be afraid of her.

Even when she has been hungry, she must eat. She had with confidence gone further into the cave until she reached a destination where there had been a pit with no end.

The cave or better still, inside of the mountain was so filmy. But that had not mattered to Adeline, each original could see in the dark.

Around the pit was a narrow way that went in a circle by the wall that surrounded the pit. And also were large holes in the wall that went up to the mountaintop where there seemed to be a bridge.

Squeaking, hissing and chattering sounds of rats inside of these holes she heard as she deepened her hand inside of one of the holes and caught a rat.

Immediately, she chopped off its head with her fang as her eyes turned raven and her fingers grew into claws.

But she had not been satisfied with one rat. She deepened her hands into the hole again this time with enough swiftness and caught three more rats at once. She in the same manner bite off their heads and sucked their blood likewise.

She continued to do this and she could not get satisfaction from the little amount of blood she was getting from each rat she drained of blood.

Suddenly Adeline stopped drinking and catching more of the rats. She had heard something coming to her at a slow pace. She could also tell that the number of footsteps which were walking toward her was growing from one to two and verily than ten.

She had not even lingered, quickly she sprinted off by the narrow way in the wall around the pit unto the bridge she saw above and hid in darkness to see what was going to happen.

"I know I heard a sound here." Said a man with longer hair than that of a woman and beards which covered his jaws and lips. He looked as though he had been hiding in the cave for many years.

He had also been in a coat made out of animal skin and appeared to be taller and bolder than the rest of the ones who followed him.

They were all dressed likely and also looked like they hardly went out of the cave as they all had long hair and beards which would make a person believe they had no mouth.

"We are not alone. Search! Keep searching until you find him!" The same man ordered.

He then kneels beside the dead rat which littered the floor. That confirmed his thought that there was an intruder among them.

"Find him!" He shouted again.

"It is one kind of being who can do this." He said picking one of the dead rats from the ground and looking above to trace the scent he could perceive.

"The vampires are coming on to us. We have been made!" He noted again.

"Find him! Make sure he does not escape to warn his others" He commanded.

The instant he said this, what happened had been a thing of surprise to Adeline. It was what she saw in her vision when she opened the strange book.

She could hear bones forcibly elongate and as they change their shapes, a few of them moved so drastically that they rupture their skin. From the beginning to the end, the transformation took several minutes and the result is a creature who is part human and part wolf in varying proportions.

At once when their transformation was complete, they could smell the vampire among them and with this they suddenly looked above to the direction in which Adeline hid.

That was not all, they could hear her heartbeat thus, they knew how afraid she had grown watching them transition into half wolves.

Adeline saw one of them in a vision but couldn't have known such beings exist and how she can escape and warn the others was what caught her thought at first.

But even her kind sought her life and what would happen if she was able to escape and deliver the news of what she saw to them. Perhaps she will not even live long enough before she will be killed by her younger brother who will be honoured for taking her life.

Just like the vampires, it was so that even the werewolves were also creatures with super abilities. They had the ability of super speed, super hearing, super smell and speedy healing abilities.

More of their abilities were so that they can read minds also as the vampires. A super ability the vampires had above them was so that the vampires were able to wipe a human memory with just a conscious looking into their eyes and the words that commanded it.

Then it was also obvious that as the vampire eats only blood from the humans, the werewolves had only eaten animals and fruits. The fact that they prey on humans was only what depict them as dangerous.

"Come out here now, Vam, I promise, my bite will only tickle you."

The taller and bolder among the werewolves jested when he caught the intruder among them.

There was nothing Adeline could do, she could not even speed away before she was caught. It appeared she was still hungry and this affected her strength.

Not that she could not sprint at all, she could but not as fast as she would be some other day when she was not hungry.

More so, her strength to regenerate was slow. When she was hurt by the blow from one of the werewolves, she was bruised on her face and her healing abilities could not happen as fast.

"It is even a girl" Reuven mocked as he first shifted back into his complete human form.

Reuven was the alpha male of his packs which consist of thirty-six werewolves with ranks such as the Zeta wolf, Beta wolves, Gamma wolves and the omega wolves.

In this strength, each time the packs have a kill, the alpha eats first before the rest and he had been the only one capable of procreation among the members of his packs.

"What have you here?" Reuven questioned almost immediately as they brought Adeline to him and made her kneel before him.