All Chapters of THE LAST SHIFT: A Werewolf without a Wolf : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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CHAPTER 11: Whispers of the Council

Air was still heavy. That golden light still appeared to be on my skin even when we arrived back to the Archive. Each breathing was difficult. Each moment I fancied that Echo would be behind us with those staring, glowing eyes.but she did not come.Kieran locked the steel door, and thrust in a heavy metal bar. That would not prevent her. We all were aware of that. However, it was better to do something than standing.I leant against the wall. I was shaking with my legs. My heart was still not beating slowly after the explosion.Whats next? I was shaky in my voice.Tyra was walking up and down. She was tapping with her fingers on her arm in a very nervous way. The activation will be experienced by the Council. The monitors on the sky constantly look at the heart of the mountain. The arrival of echo online is equivalent to striking a flare in the night."Kieran rubbed his hair. Kaia has a purpose, they will think she has failed her purpose.I never failed at something. I rose to my ful

CHAPTER 12: The Cliffside Path

It was a cold, narrow tunnel. It rubbed on my skin and reminded me of things that I did not want to remember.Every step I made led me further away than ever before from who I was and nearer to something that I could not name. I bumped my hands against coarse rock following the faint light of Tyra’s wristlight. I could hear the heavy boots of Kieran behind me as a constant beat of his heart. Strong, reliable. Right there."Can you hear that?" I whispered.Tyra walked more slowly. "What?"My head went at an angle. It is like humming.We stopped and listened. There was something. So low, it is like a static passing through the walls.The voice of Kieran was low. "That is not the tunnel. That is the Council's signal pulse. They are searching around for movement."It turns out that they are already close? My throat was tight."They are always," Tyra muttered.We kept going.The tunnel had a downward inclination, which turned sharply to the right. There were different walls, fewer stones,

CHAPTER 13: Vaulted Shadows

Light gold burst in front of my eyes.I went back on a flight. The impact of the explosion struck me on the chest like a hammer. I fell on the ground painfully. I rolled downhill, dirt in my mouth, rocks scraping my skin.I moaned and shoved myself erect. Smoke twisted and turned around me, metallic and heavy. I heard the ringing in my ears. It was all in confusion."Tyra?" I shouted. "Kieran!"No answer.Then I heard a cough behind me. With a pounding heart, I turned. Kieran came out of the smoke, bleeding on his eyebrow. His shirt was burnt, his breathing was ragged, and still he was alive.I ran up to him and took hold of his arm. How are you doing?Barely, he nodded. “Where is Tyra?To this we were answered by a groan. Tyra lay directly next to the vault opening and was covering a tiny control panel with her body. Weakly she raised her head. The door is still open... not long though.I faced around and stopped.Echo was standing still.She had not stirred at the head of the slope

CHAPTER 14: Venom and Memory

The vial almost shook in the hand of TyraThat is it? I gazed on the blue glowing liquid. So much of my future in so little thing.The size is not to be trusted. The voice of Tyra was dead serious. After one drink, there is no turning back. It is either your body accepts it or..."Or I die." I was going to pick up the vial when Kieran grabbed me with his hand.Wait, Kaia. His hands were around my wrist. We do not know how this is going to affect you.I know what it is going to do, all right." I jerked away in indignation. It will bring to life the part of me that they took away."On a crate, Tyra placed the vial. The toxin was intended to crack down on the codes of suppression. The other prototypes... they just did not pass the process."I sank in my stomach. What about a number of others?"Seventeen." She was not able to look me in the eye. It is only you that managed to stick it out.Under his breath, Kieran cursed. Seventeen killed, and you would have her take poison?It is not poi

CHAPTER 15: Cracks In The Door

The Vault shuddered beneath my feet."That's not good," Kieran muttered, steadying me as another tremor rolled through the floor.Tyra's fingers flew over the console. "The outer shield's compromised. She's not just breaking through, she's learning the system.""Learning how?" I pressed my hand against the wall, feeling the vibrations travel up my arm."Every time she tests a weakness, she adapts. Gets smarter." Tyra's voice was tight with panic. "The shield should hold for hours. It's been thirty minutes."A cold weight settled in my chest. "She's using me. My connection to this place.""What connection?" Kieran turned to face me."I can feel her out there. Like she's..." I struggled for the words. "Like she's tuned to the same frequency as my wolf."Tyra spun around. "That's impossible. She's a copy, not a…."“She is no longer a copycat. The truth slapped me like cold water. "She's evolving. She uses what she learned of me in her studies”Another impact shook the Vault, harder this

CHAPTER 16: The Hatch Above

Stuck! said Tyra and threw her weight against the hatch overhead.Kieran came with her, and both of them were pushing metal.“How long had it been since anybody used this thing?” He said beneath his breath."Twenty years. Perhaps more." Tyra mopped the brow. It is one more attempt.They pulled at it, and it cracked open at last with a screech that made my teeth ache. Fresh air came, with the smell of pine and storm clouds.I said, "Thank God, then stopped. "Wait."What is it? Kieran asked.I shut my eyes and allowed the senses of the wolf to spread. She is not in that place alone."Guards?""Drones. Six." I could sense their mechanical, cold, and accurate heartbeats. They are waiting upon us.Tyra looked in the gap. I'm not seeing anything.They are there. I laid my hand on the wall, and I could feel the vibrations through the stone. With two guards there. Four circling. They have realized that we are here."Kieran cursed. That spoils the element of surprise.But we have got it still,

CHAPTER 17: The One Beneath

Echo was gone.Where she'd stood, something else moved in the shadows. My chest tightened as I watched it take shape—tall, wrong, with silver eyes that cut through the darkness like knives."What the hell is that?" I couldn't keep the fear out of my voice.Kieran pushed me behind him. "That's not Echo.""But it came from her," Tyra whispered. Her hands shook as she pulled out some kind of scanner. "It literally split off from her code."The thing stepped forward, and I watched the grass under its feet wither and die. The smell hit me—burnt metal and rotting flowers."It's some kind of parasite," Tyra said, her voice cracking. "Something which lay lurking within her programming."I shook my head. "No. Not hiding. Waiting."Those silver eyes locked onto mine, and my wolf whimpered deep inside me. She knew. Somehow, she knew what this was before I did."Subject Seven has awakened." Its voice made my skin crawl…hollow, empty, like wind through a graveyard. "Reset protocol denied. Secondar

CHAPTER 18: The Hunt Begins

The scanner would not quit beeping."Council unit…five miles out," Tyra said, her voice strained. She pushed the device back in her bag and stared at us with dark eyes. These are no talkers; they are killers."Kieran seized me by the arm and gripped me firmly. "Then we should vanish, right?"I gazed upon the black clouds that were flying in the sky over the trees. They went the wrong way, all too fast and too straight. As if something was going through them.It was like a blow to the stomach. "They are not coming after Echo,"I told him. They believe that I am the problem.“Yeah, there's a problem, said Tyra, and the problem is you, as far as they are concerned.”But Echo was the one to fail."No, Kaia," Tyra spoke in a cold, matter-of-fact way. Failure to the Council means that you did not obey. You have unlocked their lock that makes you a threat."My heart constricted. "I didn't pick this."“Never mind now," she said. It does not matter whether you stay alive.“Somewhere west of her

Chapter 19: The Broken Ones

There was some sort of fear in the eyes of Malek which I knew; the exhausted, hard-travelled kind that shows in the eyes of those who have run too far and never felt safe.His voice was so low that I could scarcely hear him; but he said, "I was Subject Twelve. They changed my real name, but I forcefully put it back on myself. I can't give it up.”He was shaking frantically. “You are subject seven, aren't you? The earliest one?I nodded. “My name is Kaia.”He relaxed his body, but looked as if he was going to cry. “Well, it isn't a rumour then, you escaped in reality."“What rumour,” I asked.He moved nearer, and looked uneasily at Kieran and Tyra. “In the Citadel there were rumors, rumours of a person getting away. Somebody has managed to break their Lock altogether."His tone still went even lower. “They were not supposed to speak about you but they did. They address you as Glitch."Kieran clenched his teeth. “They put you to frighten the others?"“No,” said Malek, and shook his head

CHAPTER 20: Smoke On The Mountain

We jogged until I felt that my lungs would come out.Branches tore me on the face and arms. The mountain wind was piercing through my lungs. I could not stop, because my legs were as heavy as lead.We could still hear the firing of guns behind us in the trees. Where we had left the weather station, there was smoke.At the place where we had left Tyra…. Where we had left Kieran.I was being consumed by guilt. Each move towards the future, I felt that I was leaving them once again.“They will escape,” panted Malek behind me, he had stumbled over a fallen log. “Tyra is aware of what she’s doing.”“She shouldn't have,” I said, clenching my teeth. “All these shouldn't have been.”“Well it is, and she chose to buy us time.”Then we stopped because the forest was so thick that I could not see the sky. There the trail wound away into moss-grown rocks and tall pines. The noises of fight were stilled down by the branches and the leaves.I came into a ravine between two hills, and fell by the ed

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