it. He’d thought it cool to introduce me to it. I’d never returned any of his calls after that.
While I expected at any minute for words to be exchanged, taunts thrown, maybe a few curse words tossed about, I remembered when I heard another frustrated growl that the werewolves couldn’t talk in this form. I felt like an idiot, even knowing how new this all was to me. The vampire, however, let out a wickedly evil laugh that chilled me to my core. The true werewolf’s next move was to shake his head before cocking it to the side and letting out a roar that was deafening, especially as combined with all the other battle sounds coming from the room.
The vampire closest to us opened his mouth and let out a wicked, indescribable sound, showing all of his teeth, more than just two fangs, longer than they should be by my brief count. I say brief because I looked away on instinct, the same sort of instinct that caused me to cover my eyes during a horror movie. This was an epic thriller playing out in real life before my eyes.
Yet, much the same, I peeked again, having a hard time watching but unable to completely look away. The werewolf raised up to stand on only his hind legs again. While at first I thought this left him rather defenseless, showing his underside which I would assume was vulnerable, like being punched in the gut left a human, he actually used that pose to go on the offensive. With a leap, he threw himself against the vampire. His four hairy, thick legs came around the thin, tall vampire, looking like he took him down in a bear hug.
A screech like none I’d ever heard emanated from the vamp. I tensed, waiting for the shake of the floor when their bodies hit the ground. Nira grabbed the wall, holding me to her as it felt like the floor would just drop out from under us. The earth may not have shook, but the floor damn well did, and then some. Not able to completely process all the sights and sounds around me, in my probably driven to delusional mind, I could see each floor hit another until we ended up bodies splattered all over the machines we’d encountered on the first floor.
It didn’t happen. We stayed put, though my body continued to be rocked with each hit, whether in front of me or not. I watched the bodies rock back and forth on the ground, an intimate twisted dance of fighting to the death, until something hot and wet hit me. As my breath whooshed out from my lungs like someone had just punched me in the gut, I realized the liquid to be werewolf blood.
As they’d wrestled, the vampire had ripped a large chunk from the neck of the furry beast. It yipped, a sound shocking and high pitched. I expected the wolf to just sort of fall over dead, but that didn’t happen. He got back up to all fours with a jump before leaping on the vampire again, this time using the full force of his animal body to hit the vamp right in his core, curving him over, pushing him back against the wall right beside us.
Yes, despite the sound, and the very trembling of the building, it seemed, my brain did go to the fact that just a few inches to the right, and I would have been crushed to death by the blow that vampire walked away from. Not only that, but the vampire had pushed the werewolf body off of him, pushing him back, making all four of his legs stumble with the force and motion created. With one large step, the vampire leaned over and hit the wolf with two hands landing square on his shoulders. These guys took a licking and kept on ticking. It served to point out to me, though, the level of strength and resilience they actually possessed. It was mind boggling.
While the wolf stumbled again, the vamp took to punching, fists landing on the wolf’s muzzle, and then his chest once his head raised, teeth bared. The roar that came next shook me, rattled my teeth like fingers down a chalkboard. Nira clenched and shifted her weight. I understood the sentiment, wanting so badly to defend