The Town

Adam, with his attention still fully trained Ray, responded back to Ray by saying, "I'm sure you'll be absolutely fine here Ray. You can just call me Adam. Now, I'm sorry but I must be going be going. Lots of important business to attend to. And again, welcome to the neighborhood." The Ulfric of The Ascendants turned away from Ray, and began to approach Markus.

Adam leaned against one of the display cases that held a very impressive looking rifle, right next to where Markus was standing. "Hello, fellow Ulfric. My name's Adam," he said.

Markus turned to the strange man that had, in two simple sentences, announced that he was possibly a very dangerous threat. "Who are you? What do you want?" Markus responded.

"The safety and prosperity of my pack, of course. Nothing different than what you want. Right, my friend?" Adam responded.

Adam had a smile on his face that seemed genuine, but it still caused Markus to feel a sense of uneasiness. This was definitely a dangerous man. "We are not friends. Now if you mind, I have-"

"'Not friends' you say? Tsk tsk. That is quite disappointing. Do you know why?" Adam turned his head, making it difficult for Markus to see his face. Adam then responded before Markus even attempted an answer. "Because if you are not friend, then I doubt you are with me. And if you're not with me, well, then that means only one thing..." Adam turned back to Markus with a now sinister smile. "That means that you are against me."

Before Markus could react, Adam slammed him against the counter, jamming his forearm into Markus' neck. "I wouldn't suggest turning by the way. Lots of witnesses around. I don't think there'd be much of a news coverage if two men had a brawl inside a gun store of some small, random town in the middle of nowhere. But a man turning into a wolf out in public and a whole town as eyewitnesses? Would probably only take a few hours before the entire world finds out, and we wouldn't want that. No, that would put both our packs in quite a predicament, let alone our entire species. So let's settle this like men," Adam told Markus before pushing him to the ground. The Ulfric of The Ascendants raised his arms in a stance that obviously meant 'come and fight me.' Adam had no care at all for the Odessa pack or their allies that were in town, for if they tried to make a move, his own pack would deal with them.

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The Patrol

The rabid wolf lunged forward to the closest target, foaming jaws ready to bite down onto the flesh of Aldo. Her movements were slow and clunky though, practically tripping over her own legs. If Aldo or Vashti had a plan to deal with this dangerous and diseased enemy, it would probably best if they act it out soon.

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The Lupanar

Even though the blind woman could not see the danger coming towards her, Valerie knew that was what it was. At what seemed to be the last possible second, she ducked underneath the machete that would of sliced her throat, possibly even decapitated. The pink haired woman, confused and scared, began to run from her attacker.

Dracul, knowing Valerie's position as the Lupa, chased after her immediately. She was a much bigger prize than any of the others at the Sacred Grounds. And she was about to run into a trap. Surrounding the area were carefully laid bear traps, ready to amputate the werewolves' precious feet.

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Aldo dove sideways with only inches to spare between his flesh and the horrible jaws of the rabid werewolf. For just the smallest moment his eyes were wide at how narrowly he'd escaped being bitten, and his muzzle wrinkled at their attacker's foul breath. Heart in his throat, he leaped into the air and tore a branch off a tree, swinging clumsily with his jaws; if nothing else this would keep some distance between he and Vashti, and the diseased intruder.

I think I'm going to have to shift and club her, he told Vashti. He gulped nervously. Wish me luck.

Acacia quietly listened as she watched the brightly haired male speak in response to her statement. When he moved on to answering her question she'd tilt her head lightly in obvious curiosity, "Well, actually, I've never gone hunting before to tell the truth. All of my experience is with paper targets and stuff. I'm a REALLY good shot, even with moving targets, but I've never actually shot something that was still alive before. It completely slipped my mind that you need stuff like a hunting license."

Noticing his facial expressions shifting when he thought to himself she'd barely point it out, though she seemed a little more curious as to what he was thinking. Before long she'd glance about and continue lending an ear to his failed attempts at starting conversation, "Sooooo, uhhhh... Do you, uhhh..."

As she became aware of the pair nearby no longer moving about the town she'd smile lightly at Ryan and slowly reached to grab his hand as she stood up, "I'd love to go for a walk," without much warning she'd eventually drag him off his seating place to move off, not yet pointing out her uncertainty of the two that seemed pinpointed on her and the human.



Ryan was suprised, to say the least, when Acacia grabbed his hand and pulled him up off the chair. Whoa, we're moving. He happily walked with Acacia, following her side-by-side since he had no idea where anything was in this town. While he had noticed the two women before, he had completely forgotten about them now and was far from suspicious of their activities. "So where are we walking to, Ace?"



The two women of The Ascendants pack chattered lightly amongst themselves, dull green eyes flickering now and then towards the odd pair of Acacia and Ryan. A gentle voice hummed as one figure shifted upon the ivory sheets of snow, "So, Uh Tina, what did Adam say we were supposed to do again?"

Glancing towards the other girl beside her Tina would roll her eyes and fix the black hoody upon her head to look regular before quickly watching as the pair of redheads began to move, "Cleo, they're on the move, don't lose them!" she'd bark at the other and began stepping quickly and sure footedly listening to the echoing tread of boots behind her. "He said to keep them away from him and their Ulfric,"

Trying to remain at a distance, yet ahead of the pair and the gun store, Tina and Cleo would throw glances at the activity of the locals moving about. As the auburn haired couple moved closer and closer to the gun store though, it became apparent that they would need to take action. "Hey, you can't keep walking here," Cleo said to the pair, earning an elbow in the side from Tina.

"Yeah, there's been a, um, accident. No one's allowed past this point," Tina added, trying to not make them sound too suspicious.



Barely seemed to acknowledge Ryan as she walked, white bunny slippers almost a blur as she took elongated steps and glanced about in an attempt to refind the odd pair of women who seemed to have already removed themselves from their last location. As she began to open her mouth to speak she'd suddenly halt in her tracks and stare at the almost identical pair infront of her.

Eyes widened as she listened to them and she soon let go of the human's hand, "What do you mean there's been an accident? Who are you anyway? I've never seen you around," she'd huff lightly at the pair, trying to remain calm as she placed her hands in the pockets of Ryan's hoodie she wore and began fiddling with her fingers, this cannot be good, what are these werewolves doing in town and what are they so deperate to keep us away from. She didn't spend a lot of time in town, though she'd figured she'd remember these two if they'd been around before and a quick wiff of the air sent her radars flying as she knew quite quickly they weren't just human either.



Ryan hadn't noticed the two women in front of him, so he almost tripped over his own feet when Acacia went from a fast walk to a sudden stop. As they talked, Ryan couldn't help but notice a few red flags in what they were saying."And if there was an accident, shouldn't there be cops or sheriffs keeping us away, not two random people? Where's the caution tape and squad cars?" He tried to look behind the two women to see if the accident was visible, but noticed something else instead. "What about all those people?" he said, pointing to several of Odessa's citizens walking around nonchalantly in the area being restricted to them. "If I didn't know better, I'd say you're trying to hide something, specifically from us."