THE LAST STAND

CHAPTER 3

Jaxon's pov

I've been stalking it for over 30 minutes now. Meals like this hardly come by, it was a full grown deer.

I was about to take it unaware and grab it from behind, wolves hunt in pack but who was I kidding,no packs around here, no wolves. I'm the last one existing and this makes hunting hard.

"Poor deer, see you in my stomach" I muttered silently.

I took a step and boom the deer was on its heel, it was almost hit by an arrow.

I looked around to see who it was that just made me miss this huge kill.

It was Selena.

"Ohh no, I missed it" she cried as she ran towards were the arrow had landed.

I walked out of my hiding place with a confused,surprised and angry look.

"What did you just do Selena" I asked angrily

"Oh, I was hunting" she said immediately with a stupid smile on her face

I felt like strangling her at the spot and using her corpse as bait. I started looking around if I could find a stick or something I could use to beat her back to her senses.

"Since when did you become a hunter" I asked her still searching.

I had always been the one who goes out to find meat. Yes most times, except days I felt too lazy to hunt.

"Well, I am still learning Jaxon" she said showing me her arrow

"Thats nice, come let me show you how to hold it better"

She stood where she was not moving, I know she wasn't going to fall for that.

"You could show me from there" she said slowly

"No you should come closer Selena" I said calmly. "For better learning"

"Here" she throws the arrow at me and take three steps back

"You hold it like this and aim" I tried cunningly to make her come closely, I don't even know how to use an arrow, I have never handled one before. I looked awkward with the arrow on my hands.

"You are not even holding it right Jaxon" she was laughing.

Seems she doesn't understand the gravity of offense she has committed. It was late before I realised that she had taken more steps backwards and boom she was on her heels. I chased her but I was too hungry too keep up,I didn't want to waste the little energy I had on Selena.

I would definitely get her.....

Selena's pov

I kept running as fast as my legs could carry me. I know Jaxon was seriously mad at me but I don't know why I kept laughing at the situation. Maybe it was how he held the arrow that made me laughed.

If he had shot that arrow he would kill himself and not the prey.

All the same I need to get him something to eat, hunting this days was a herculean task to do. The animals were becoming very hard to find. Life wasn't like this before,not until after the great purging of the werewolves. Most times we find corpses of animals drained of their blood deep in the forest.

Vamps are very good nocturnals, and those weak ones amongst them who couldn't chase after humans would come deep into the forest and waste good meat.

There's only one way to get good good for us to eat today,

"aiiiish!, Jaxon would be really mad at me"

But he doesn't really need to know how I got the food and besides he's very famished, he wouldn't remember to ask.

Jaxon had warned me to stop picking pockets but to be sincere its already a part of me. You might be asking why. I am an orphan so i grew up with many families, can't remember how many. They all pretended to care about you but soon you'd be working as a slave.

I had to run out of all this homes, I started living in the streets,trying to survive on my own even though I was just 10,that was when I met Tobias,he was 15 then. Meeting him changed my life for good, he taught me how to survive, he taught me how to use a sword how to pick locks, we would steal from stalls at night, we were living the best times of our lives. We even had matching tattoos,and we promised to be best buddies for life. We fell in love too, he was my first kiss,though I haven't kissed any other besides him.

But all came to an end one certain night,three nights to the great purge. He had met this weird man who had promised to make us both rich, if Tobias was willing to come with him, I pleaded with him not to leave, I didn't trust the stranger but it was obvious Tobias did trusted him, he said he once saved his life so he trusted him.

That night was the last night I saw Tobias. I was broken,I spent hours in the tavern. Drinking even though I was too young for that. Some days after the war I saw his some of his belongings in the woods with blood on it,including the head band he always tied on his head. It was obvious Tobias had been killed by this stranger.

I miss him alot, I sometimes reminisce on the good times we had together, how we would always aim for the rich and greedy and steal from them, most times when we had many we would send surprise gifts to those who have little or none to eat.

We stole from the rich to feed ourselves and give to other kids like us too who didn't have the stomach to do what we did.

I remember one night when we went to steal from the village chief, we pretended to be ghosts, we scared the hell out of him and took a great loot from him, for three days no one saw or heard from the chief. There were rumors that he got attacked by witches,some said ghosts no one ever knew what made the chief traumatized for days.

But what everyone agreed on was that he deserved it.

I remember one time I got infected with chicken pox,He teased me so bad,yet he took me to a healer,though I still have some scars of it on my face.

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The search for the werewolf had become intense as Sir Derick gave strict orders that he should be found dead or alive.

Sir Derick had spies everywhere both vamps and humans, yes some humans worked as spies for the vamps for money and some other rewards they had to offer.

They searched the woods mostly, which most of the vamps found frustrating, if only they had a better clue as to where he lived it would have been a lot easier. The description given on him was very confusing.

The fat,ugly vamp described him tall and chuby with large sweaty hands while the bald vamps description was totally different but they both agreed he was with a young girl which they both fairly described better.

No one had an idea of who this two were, after about two weeks of searching to no avail, they had to put a stop to it although not fully.

Meanwhile back at Elowen's, she had her eyes out for Jaxon and Selena,sometimes she went deep into the woods pretending to go in search for herbs.

Ever since that event her nightmares had come and became stronger, the previous she screamed so hard she woke up and her bedsheets caught up with fire, strange right?

Its a week to her 20th birthday,there won't be any party because she had no one to celebrate it with.

Though she had no friends she was never lonely as she was always out there taking care of the sick, she had many special powers.

Elowen could communicate with animals,they were the only friends she had, though she never did this in public to avoid being questions on who she was.

She was on her way to visit one of her patients as she passed through the city square, then she sighted a familiar face.

Woooo! it was Selena. She wanted to call her but something stopped her, rather she watched her and then looked around if she could see Jaxon.

"What's she doing" she muttered to herself as she watched Selena hit someone which obviously was deliberately but she made it look like an accident.

"I'm sorry" she turned to the person and kept walking

Elowen saw what happened, Selena took the man's purse out of his pocket.

Selena started walking hastily towards the forest before her victim notices.

"Hey stop her she's a thief!!!!" The man yelled.......