Issue #5-Chapter 10, Part 2

When Aleke shouted Silverus's name, he returned his attention to her. He saw Aleke lean against the wall and she turned in another direction and him back and forth. Panic was written all over Aleke's face while she panted deeply. Her sweat was forming all over her body, leaking some parts of her clothes. She had no weapons in her hand at the time.

Ignoring the ravens and the crowds' caws above him and Aleke, they were outside standing in the alleyway, surrounded by fog. The cold air hitted their skins, and the smell of death and decay entered their noses. Although lycan's roar echoed near them, he turned to that sound's direction and saw a huge black silhouette with its glowing red eyes. Its growl charged against their ears.

"We need to hurry! Those monsters are coming this way!" Aleke continued in her louder voice.

Silverus quickly turned his attention back to Aleke and said, "I know, I know, I know. You don't have to tell me that!" He turned back at the monster charging back at him, aiming his crossbow at him. Looking down at his arrows, he saw his arrows weren't made out of silver and he wished he had arrows made out of silver. But since he didn't have any, he was determined to stun the enemy. Remaining calm, he glared at it and narrowed his eyes tightly. "Here goes nothing."

By the time he shot his crossbow at his enemy, the monster screeched out of pain and just kneeled down, panting deeply. He looked down at his arrows and saw there were only several of them remaining.

Damn, I better conserve my arrows. I'm getting low on ammo here.

He turned back to Aleke and pointed his head towards the alleyway. "Let's get going before that monster chases after us again."

Aleke gave him a serious look on her face and nodded, "Okay."

Aleke and Silverus turned to the other side and dashed towards the end of the alleyway. They looked back and forth to see if that monster would rise again right after they left the area. They were relieved to see it remained stunned.

Yet they ran further enough and stopped running for a second, bending themselves forward and panted. They looked back and still saw no sign of the lycan heading towards them.

"Looks like we lost him," Silverus said.

Aleke grinned when she gazed at the direction she and Silverus ran from, then turned to him. "Yeah, I think you're right." She stood up straight while gazing in that same direction. "But we better hide in one of the buildings in this area. That thing could come snap itself out of it and track us down. The worst part of it all was we don't have the spices to prevent it from tracking us through its scent."

Silverus also stood up straight and continued gazing at the same exact direction as Aleke did. "Yeah, I think you're right." His eyes wandered around to determine which building to enter. "But which building would we stay in though?"

The moment Aleke turned to Silverus, she watched him search for any building to hide from the lycan. Yet so far they struggled to find one. With crows and ravens' caws interrupting the silence in the area, all the buildings and street lights stared down at them, glaring at them. There were no lights within each building and the doors appeared to be closed shut. There was blood splattered everywhere, yet there were barely any corpses, or even a living person, around there. They were even relieved to see no werewolf in sight.

Silverus and Aleke turned to each building in the area, knocking to see if anybody was inside before opening the door by force. All the doors refused to budge, leaving Aleke and Silverus hopeless.

"Oh, you've got to be kidding me," Silverus complained when he and Aleke stood by the last building of the area, frowning at it. "Not only no one's home, but the doors wouldn't open."

"Yeah, I guess you're right, Silverus," Aleke agreed when she turned to him. "Let's go to a new area." She turned back to the other direction and saw no lycan coming after them. "We're lucky that lycan isn't coming after us."

Silverus turned to the same direction as Aleke and grinned out of relief, when he didn't see the same lycan as they did last time. "Yeah, I guess you're right, Aleke." He turned back in a similar direction. "Let's get going."

Aleke turned back to him and nodded with a smile. "Okay."

As they tried to decide whether they would head back to the same location as before or not, the old man's scream interrupted them and made them turn around. They widened their eyes and Aleke turned to Silverus and the direction of the old man's scream back and forth. It sounded like someone was in trouble and they needed to head there for a rescue this instant before someone was killed off and taken to the witch to be eaten.