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Strixes Interlude
Interlude: The Long WalkThe desert was long and she didn't have any water. The little she did have was gone. She drank it a ways back. There were desert vines going all around her, but she had nothing to cut them with. The spines on the vines were toxic and if she touched them, the toxins would kill her quicker.But it would be a painful death and if she had to pick, she'd choose to go peacefully to her forever sleep.She never should have left. Her mother warned her, but she wanted to prove herself. The problem was long in the making, but she thought she could help. How foolish that was.Now she was her, walking through the desert. Damn Alice. Damn her to hell, if there was such a place. It was all her fault. No, that wasn't true. It was her fault for taking the poisoned apple from that she devil. She was desperate and she took the hand offered to her.Her linker beeped and a map icon appeared in the corner of her vision. She tapped it and it expanded. She was on the marked Red X."
Strixes The Shadow
She whistled low and quiet. As much as she hated to admit it, she was impressed. Her opinion of the lycanwas quickly improving. The pack had split in two and one was assaulting the front.She decided to ignore the smaller pack in favor of the larger, attacking wolves. The evacuation was well underway, so the Shadow had time to play."Where is the other servant?" she asked one of her servants.The White Cloaked Man looked into the crystal ball and frowned. "It's in the far corridor, away from the soldiers. None of them of them have been stupid enough to approach it."Master Shadow nodded. "Good. I would hate for our pet to slaughter it's way through the defenders."She pointedly ignored the soldiers in the room as she spoke."Very well. Then let the wolves come. I'll enjoy playing with them myself.""Alice wants-""I don't care what she wants," the shadow announced. "This is what I want."
Strixes Julius
Julius hated getting calls from Alice. It always ended with him getting a headache. She never called him with good news when he was on assignment and today was no exception.As he knight, he was bound to her more tightly than anyone who wasn't a knight could ever know, but such was his lot."You want me to watch them while the mutts attack? Are they not your agents? Should I help them?""No. You are to watch and report back," her cool voice ordered him.Yep, there was his headache. "That's... Just great." As if he didn't have enough to deal with. "Understood. I'll keep a safe distance."With the titan at his side, that wouldn't present such a problem."All the same we want you to keep a closer eye on her. The agent they're sent is a specialist."Of course they were. "And what does Corai think of this? Corai and the lycans aren't exactly allies.""She's prepared fo go to Sword. If that happens, take care of it."Now he had to work even harder. Corai and him weren't friends, but Corai
Strixes The Guard
The lycans came in fast. Too fast. He wasn't a supernatural monstet like his employers, but he had a frame of reference in the girl he worked for. The monster he saw had glided across the ground like a shadow, barely touching the dirt under her feet. When she moved, she didn't make a sound. Alice was silent. Silent like a ghost. A mad ghost of blood.The Guard was prepared for that. If Alice was a ghost, then the things that came through were banshees. They were not silent monsters of the night. They ripped through the walls, howling like beasts. The she wolf was on him before he could react and then she had a claw through his throat.
Strixes Chaos Part One
When the lycans came through, they swept past the humans like cattle. He was a strigo, so he knew he had better a better chance to defend himself, but watching his colleagues day was disturbing.Especially since they spilled a river of fresh blood. His blood lust was manageable in the face of fear, so it was surprisingly easy to resist.When one of the she wolves came at him, he pulled a knife and slashed. He was faster and stronger than humans, so that gave him an edge.He had never fought a lycan before, so he didn't expect just how fast and strong they were. Or how sharp their teeth were. One sank it's fangs into his arm.
Strixes Watcher
When the Alpha asked her to watch the beta and the hunting group, she thought it was going to be boring.Still, she would have asked for another assignment. Serving his betas was not why she agreed to work directly under him, but she was one of fangs now, and she did not disobey.If the Alpha didn't know she had a talent for stealth and spying, he never would have given the order.Whoever let it slip that she was from a family of performers was on her shit list now.That was before the hunting group ran head first into the vampire liar. She even forgot the leeches had invaded the first den in the excitement. This was going to be fun.
Strixes Chaos Part Two
When one of the lycans came at him, he tried his strength first. He was a strigo and his strength could hardly be compared to a humans, but the half wolve humanoid overpowered him. The she wolf would have taken my throat out if one of the humans tried to gun it down.The wolf jumped off him and slammed into the window, throwing him out on the street.The strigo was already healing from where the claws ranked through his skin. The three wolves ripped through the room and ramped into the hallway behind them.The human dropped the gun and the strigo went to grab it. "The wolves got past us," he said into the radio on his shoulder.
Strixes Interlude: The Prisoner
When they threw her into the cell, Gracie landed on her elbow. There was a crack, followed by a sharp pain, but better landing on her elbow than her head.At first, she was grateful to these people who saved her from the burning sand. They saved her from her long walk and gave her water. That cold water was the best thing she ever tasted.Then they called her a spy and thrown in a cell. She was one, but she had been confident the strixes were none the wiser. It looked like she over estimated her own abilities.The man who threw her in shook her head. "Shouldn't we throw her in one of the reinforced cells? If she can changes...""There's no need to worry about that," a new voice said. A woman walked in, dressed in silk. There wasn't a speck of sand or any stains on his clothes, the opposite of the gangsters that saved her. "Now that her pack is here, I'm sure she should be happy."Gracie shook her head. "Pack?""Yes. The Neptune mutts. Are they not here for you?"In true, her mission h