The words shouted by Midwak were heard loud and clear by those close. At the time, Park and Kevin weren’t too far off in the distance, and their new sensitive ears allowed them to hear the words that they would have thought were nothing but fantasy before.
“Did he just say, vampire?” Park asked, looking at Kevin and staring from afar.
Those that were close, though, were Gary and Kai. ‘I knew vampires existed,’ Kai thought. ‘Due to the meeting that had occurred before, but one to be here and to be helping Gary.’
It felt like soon there would be bigger issues at hand, as Midwak’s arms were already transforming.
“You come here in the middle of all of this; there are big problems to have! Let’s go you and me!” Midwak said.
At the same time, Blackjack was on guard, a strange red visible aura was swirling around his fingers. The two of them continued to stare at each other as if one or the other were ready to make the first move.
“Stop it, both of you!” Gary said, his eyes glowing red.
A small blue glow was seen in Midwak’s eyes, which caused him to flinch and stare away for a moment.
“This whole town has had enough trouble; I don’t need more mess occurring here,” Gary stated.
Midwak grunted and knew there was nothing he could do, so instead, he turned away, looking as if he was getting away from the situation.
“I’m heading back to Notsburg, and will deal with whatever you need from there,” Midwak said, and then turned around. “I’ll warn you since you’re new to all of this, kid, but a vampire and a Werewolf can never work together. It’s in our nature to be against each other.
“If you don’t end up stabbing them in the back, they will do the same to you sooner or later.” Jumping from his position, Midwak had exited from Cipen and away from the entire scene.
“I guess not everyone from your group is extremely fresh; you have an interesting dynamic,” Blackjack said.
The bigger concern, though, was the two that had been brought over. Kai had immediately knelt down on the ground and went to check on Marie. He placed his head by her chest and could hear a heartbeat.
Both of them were still breathing, but they were covered in wounds.
“What happened to both of them, who did this?” Kai asked.
“We have a pretty good idea of the cause of this and got the story from some of the local residents,” Blackjack explained. “When we arrived, there was a giant beast going down the street. It had multiple heads like a Hydra.
“It was causing a rampage. Me and Ice managed to deal with it, but when we went to see the body, whoever it was seemed to have gotten away.”
Kai, listening to the story, was quite impressed. He knew who would be at Burnham food street, other than Olivia and Marie. There was a large number of strong Altered and Werewolves that had been sent there.
Yet they were unable to deal with the enemy but these two were. Regardless if Blackjack was a vampire or not, Kai wanted him on his side after hearing this.
Whereas Gary, looking at the two of them, he was thankful they were alive. He remembered in the prison. He was struggling in deciding who he should exactly give his pawn points to.
He had decided to help Marie and Olivia, not aware of the situation. The two of them had to have gotten a power boost upgrading their class like so, yet the two of them were still taken to this state after everything.
If they hadn’t evolved, it was most likely that the two in front of him would be dead.
“We should take these two, as well as Crawley, to the hospital. Maybe we should get Tyler to drive us there.” The words had come out of Gary’s mouth quickly before he realized it.
They started to remember that they no longer had a driver, Tyler, and all of them, for the creation of the Howlers, were partly to blame for that.
Bending down, Gary picked up Olivia off the ground and placed her on his back. Then, Kai did the same with Marie.
“Thank you for bringing the two of them, and thank you for helping us out; if you need us, after we sort everything out, we’ll be at a place called the Wolf’s pool club,” Gary stated.
Kevin and Park lifted up Crawley, and with the four of them, they started to head to the hospital. Running through the city at a fast speed past all of the destruction.
“That reminds me,” Kai said. “Austin said there was something at the Hospital, he said it’s something you have to see as soon as you can, so I think it’s a good thing we're heading to the hospital.”
“Wait, Austin, he’s standing again!” Gary asked.
“There was some problem at the hospital as well, but he and Xin and Midwak managed to face off whoever came to attack them. The Phoenix gang had quite a few strong members in their group…that’s why it wasn’t easy until you came.”
“I just came at the last moment, don’t give me that much credit, I should have done more.” Gary replied as he sunk his head into his chest
‘Something for me to see?’ Gary repeated in his head.
He wondered what Austin needed to say to him. It was good news that Austin was awake, but what had occurred for him to be called. Thinking of the hospital, he was reminded of another piece of news received in the White Rose prison.
That his mother was awake. ‘I haven’t spoken to her in a long time; I hope mother and Amy are alright…and what do I tell her about all of this, about everything that’s happened.’ Gary thought.