Chapter Four - Escaped

~•ARET•~

I walked through the forest, and the smell of burning trees filled my nostrils. I was a mile away from the tribe, smoke filling my lungs. 

Not only that, but I could hear screams and wails through the woods, I trembled running to the tribe.

As I got to the tribe gates, a big wolf with red blazing eyes snarled at me. He was of the Crescent Hills Tribe, only they had red-eyed wolves.

The wolf growled, running after me as I took on my heel and ran. I could hear his growls behind me as I ran.

“Help!” I yelled, but no one could hear me, my voice was weak and little. I tumbled on a tree branch, making me land my butt on the cold grass, sustaining an injury.

I hissed biting my lip drawing blood.

The wolf had already caught up to me, taunting my every step as I tried to crawl backward, my fingers were intertwined with the grass, so I was stuck.

“Help! Lorraine! Laurel! Help! Mom!”

“Help?” I could hear the wolf's voice in my head. “No one's coming to save you.”

“No,” I shook my head in disagreement. “They are coming for me, My dad is coming for me.”

“Haha!” He laughs, “what, dad? You mean the same dad who's laying there lifeless?”

I turned in the direction he pointed at to see my father in his wolf form, dead.

I held a sob, whimpering in fear.

“You killed him, Aret. You are a freak! This is all your fault.”

“No!”

“Everyone left you to die!”

“No!”

"You are worthless!"

"No!"

“No one loves you!”

“No!”

“Stop it!”

“Aret! Aret!”

“No!!”

I jolt up from Nova's lap, sweat dripping off me as Nova and the other She-wolves in the cell started at me like I was crazy.

“Aret, what happened?” Nova asked, holding me in her arms while I kept shaking my head.

“Just a nightmare.” She nods.

“We have to escape,” I mutter to her, her eyes staring at me looking for humor, “oh, you're serious.”

“I very much am.”

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Hours passed, and I could see the warden coming over to our cell with plates of food in his hand and keys hooked to the pocket of his trousers.

He stopped by our cell, taking out the keys as he used the one that was slightly bent to open the door, throwing the food in.

“Wait!” Nova yelled, staring at me.

Did you see it?

I asked her through the mind link.

Yes, and I have a way to get them.

“What is it?” The warden asked in a gruff tone, rubbing his clean-shaven face, glaring at Nova.

“Wish me luck.” She whispered, standing up and walking towards the warden.

“I'd like to ease myself,” Nova says to him, we werewolves have heightened hearing, so we could hear their conversation.

“You want to take a piss?” He asks her, I felt embarrassed for Nova while I ate my food.

“More than a piss.” He started at her for a minute, Nova bit her lip seductively making him smirk, and I rolled my eyes.

Nova always had a way with men, well, she had the charm.

What are you doing? I ask through the mind link.

Trying to seduce him, and besides, he is cute. She replies.

Don't divert from the job. I urge her.

I looked in their direction as he finally led her to wherever they called a bathroom. Likewise, I sighed, at least one-third of our plan is complete.

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After some minutes which seemed like forever, Nova walks side by side with the warden who keeps smiling like he had won a lottery.

“Thank you, for today,” Nova says to him, pulling him into a hug.

“Anytime, Bella.” He mutters, taking the keys out of his pocket and locking the cell.

Nova sits beside me as I growled in anger. “You didn't get it.”

She raises a key in my face, making me light up. “ How did you? But he just-”

“I took out the spare one.” She says proudly.

I stare at her mischievously. “How did you get the key?” I smelt her scent, but nothing changed, “you didn't lose your virginity did you?”

“Ew! No, We just did some touching here and there, that's all.” She says starting at the key.

“You touched his-”

“Enough! Let's plan how we are escaping.” She says as I shudder thinking of the means she used to get the key.

“So I saw his schedule in his office, right now, all of them are out for a break.” She mutters at me, while I looked at the hallway that led to our cell.

“How long?”

“Two hours.”

“That's enough time to run out, so here's the plan, your silly boyfriend would have extra uniforms in his office, so we will unlock the door, dress in them, and freedom,” I say, summarizing the plan as she nods.

I stand up, taking the key from her hand and quietly opening the cell. The other she-wolves stared at me in fear. “If you want to escape, here's your chance,” I say to them.

“They'll still catch us.”

“We are vulnerable.”

The she-wolves pointed out their reasons for not wanting to leave.

Nova and I stepped out, locking the cell and throwing the key to one she-wolf, who swiftly caught it.

“If you ever change your mind.”

We ran toward his office, searching his drawers as we saw spare uniforms.

I sniffed them, and I almost hurled.

“It smells so much like him, it's offensive,” I say to Nova who nods, putting on the uniform as we made our way out of the dungeon.

The Crescent Hills Tribe also known as the Central city of werewolves is where the supreme leaders reside.

The supreme leaders are the leaders who rule over all the tribes and werewolves in the world. They consist of the supreme alpha, supreme beta, and the rest.

They all live in the Crescent hills Castle.

“Okay, I'm getting scared now, Aret,” Nova says to me as we jump over a fence, making me wince in pain.

“You haven't healed completely.” She says again.

“Oh, really? I didn't notice.” I state sarcasm dripping from every word.

“I wonder how your mouth is still moving with all those injuries on your body,” Nova mutters, hitting my limb as I groaned in pain.

“At least they didn't get the face.” I say strutting, as we sat under a tree.

“What do you think happened to the males in our tribe?” My breath hitched as I remembered the nightmare.

I forced a smile toward Nova," They should be fine.”

I hope they are actually fine, even though my mind doubted that.

We decided to continue our journey as we walked through the trees, birds chirping and the sun hitting our faces. I touched my hair, it was sticky and filthy and it stank.

“My hair is so bad.”

“I know right, mine is so tangled.” Nova says, touching her hair with disgust.

We kept walking deep into the woods as I could see the massive castle coming to view.

“Intruders! Intruders!”

Intruders? We are not intruding! We are escaping.

The werewolves ran after us as we ran towards the castle, Nova screaming as we kept running.

“Nova! Shut up! You're drawing attention.” I yell as we kept running.

It seems the she-wolves were right. We were going to get captured again.