Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:04:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mack Thomas <mackthomas86@yahoo.com>
Subject: Mate (Part 6)

Mate

            Lucas pulled Lisa's sleeping figure further onto his chest. He
smiled when heard her let out a sigh of contentment. He had been waiting on
her hand and foot much to her resentment, but he absolutely refused to
allow to exert herself. He kissed her on the forehead and she let out a
little smile which made him smile as well, but he held some fear in his
heart. He was in quite a bit of trouble and he needed help, but if they
came for him before the rest of Lisa's pack returned they'd both be in big
trouble so held his mate protectively while she rested.

            `Damn!' Anthony swore. He and Brett had found the house, but
since it was about five 0' clock they had to find a way to sneak in. After
surrounding the area they found no weak spots in the house and were back to
square one. `We're going to have to wait until nightfall.' Brett glared at
him. `There is no way in hell that I'm leaving my mate in there with that
...' He was cut off by a deadly scare.

`I have tolerated your disrespect out of empathy, but you will NOT tolerate
it anymore. Is that understood?' Brett dropped his gaze and nodded. He
realized that he had overstepped his boundaries and corrected himself. `Now
we are going to return home until we are covered by the darkness of night
and then we will come and rescue our mates. Brett wanted to object but he
nodded his head and followed his alpha.

            Callum had no clue as to how he and Mack were to escape, and he
kept trying to think of a way to get them out of this situation. Mack had
fallen asleep, but his body had continued to tremble. Callum wanted to
shift, but the chains were so tight that he would've crushed himself so he
just held his sleeping best friend as he started to drift himself. The door
swung open and startled both of the young men into consciousness. He walked
over to Mack and kneeled before him. `Okay my pup your time's up. I'm going
to need an answer.'

            By the time Anthony and Brett arrived home they could smell
another lycanthrope on the property. Immediately they ran through the front
door and up to the room that Lisa was staying in. As soon as they walked
into the room they found Lisa sound asleep and Lucas standing on guard.
When he say who they were he immediately calmed, but Anthony and Brett did
not. `What are you doing here?!'Anthony snarled, but quickly calmed after
taking a whiff.

`Y...You told him to come see me.' Lisa said struggling to sit up. `No I
didn't, but I see why he came. You guys are mates.' Anthony said. Lisa
looked at Lucas angrily and he looked down sheepishly. `I...I lied, but I
just had to see you. Please don't be mad.' He whispered. She gestured for
him to lean down towards her and kissed him on the cheek. Lucas blushed a
little and couldn't help but to smile. He looked up at Anthony and Brett
and gained his composure. `Guys we have a huge problem.' He said.

            Before Mack could answer Callum stood. `I challenge you Gage.'
He said. Gage looked at the blonde and smiled. `And what are your demands?'
Callum looked at the werewolf with fire in his eyes. `If I win you let us
go and you never bother any of us again.' Gage smirked and said. `And if
you lose I'm going to fuck you and then kill you.' Callum nodded, never
breaking eye contact. Mack shuddered at the thought, but kept his mouth
closed. Gage released Callum from his chains and the two squared off in the
basement. Callum quickly shifted and gave a ferocious growl. The two
circled each other waiting for the right time to strike. Callum knew that
if he lost he'd die.

            `What is it?' Anthony asked although he was pretty sure that he
knew what was wrong. `We have a new Alpha in town, and he's ferocious. They
call him Ripper and he's come from Miami. He was exiled from his pack for
torturing their former Alpha before killing him which was a direct
violation of the rules. They chose a new Alpha and Ripper has been going
from state to state terrorizing lycanthropes. He heard about our lack of
leadership and he's focusing on being that leader.' At this Lucas started
to tear up. `H...he killed my entire pack.' At this everyone in the room
was stunned. `He is recruiting lycanthropes, but those who oppose him...he
kills them.'

            Callum leaped at Gage and the two toppled over. Callum bit and
clawed at Gage's flesh as Gage grappled with the lycanthrope. Surprised by
the strength of the pup Gage realized that he'd have to shift to defeat
him. He threw Callum off of him the lycanthrope collided with the wall. He
started to his painful shifting process, but something odd happened. He
couldn't completely shift halfway through the transformation it just
stopped.

 Gage screamed in pain as his shift was put on hold. He thought about what
could've been the cause of this and he thought back to the old woman at the
magic shop. He remembered her giving a quick prayer before ripping her to
shreds, and the smile on her face. `Bitch!' He thought. `She put a spell on
me.' Before he knew what hit him Callum had taken him down and ripped a
significant amount of flesh from his neck.

            Brett paced back and forth trying to gather his senses. He was
too concerned about his mate to think about this Ripper character. Anthony
walked over to his friend and placed a hand on his shoulder. `It is almost
nightfall, we need to get ready and Lisa has healed well enough to come
with us. I'm know what you're going through and I promise to get your mate
back.' Brett nodded and prepared to head back out. Lisa had sent most of
the day healing so she was fine by nightfall and she wanted Lucas to come
with them. Anthony approved the request and the four lycanthropes left to
retrieve Callum and Mack.

            Gage fell to the floor and Callum immediately capitalized on
it. He bent down and assaulted Gage biting and clawing at everything that
he could. He only stopped once Gage had stopped resisting. He got off of
the wounded werewolf and shifted back to his human form. `I won, now we get
our freedom.' Callum said and turned around and walked towards Mack. Gage
was down, but not out and he was finally able to completely shift. He
lunged out and assaulted Callum from behind. Callum was completely
defenseless and was mauled ferociously. Gage flipped Callum onto his back
and went for the finishing blow. `WAIT!' Gage stopped and looked at
him. `I...I made my decision...I lay with you.'

            The four lycanthropes ran as fast as they can to get to the
werewolves house. Brett was almost in a state of paranoia about what his
mate must be going through. Anthony had remained strong all day, but he was
starting to break. He figured that Mack was okay, because he was a
mate. Elsa had warned them that mates would be greatly desired by all
creatures, but Callum could be in serious harm. Just the thought of his
mate in harm made him run faster. `Don't worry Callum, I'm coming for you.'
He thought.

            Gage quickly leaped off of the half dead lycanthrope. Gage
immediately wrapped his muscular arms around Mack pulled him to his
chest. `He's acting as if he had not almost murdered my best friend.' Mack
thought. Even though he was extremely angry at Callum for attacking him, he
was still his best friend and had even risked his life for him. Gage
started kissing and sucking on his neck, and Mack felt as though his body
was no fire. Every time Gage touched him he felt like washing that body
part in bleach, but then a thought occurred to him. `If I can give energy,
can I take it away as well?'

            Mack pushed Gage to the ground and lay on top of him. He leaned
down and focused his eye contact focused on sucking the energy out of
Gage. Slowly, but surely Gage started to nod off. Mack reached behind his
head and pulled a silver seashell out of his locks. He had plenty of shells
located in his dreadlocks, but the one silver one was sentimental. Gage's
eyes started to drift and was vaguely aware of Mack opening his mouth. He
thought that he was about to receive a kiss, but instead Mack dropped the
silver shell into his mouth causing an immediate reaction.

            Brett hauled ass to the front door and kicked it in. He heard
what sounded to be a violent strangling sound coming from the basement. He
had never heard a noise like that before and it sounded like someone being
severely almost fatally tortured. His mind immediately went to the worst
place.  `Oh no Mack!' He thought as he rushed down the stairs. What he saw
at the bottom absolutely shocked him.

            Anthony didn't reach the house as fast, because he stayed back
with Lucas to keep an eye on Lisa. She was doing better, but she was still
not at one hundred percent. As an Alpha it was his duty to stay by her
side. Once they had arrived to Gage's house the three lycanthropes heard
sound coming from the basement. Once they made it down the steps Anthony
couldn't believe his eyes.

            (Five Minutes earlier): Mack dropped the silver shell in Gage's
mouth and the silver immediately slipped down his throat and started
burning through his flesh. Mack wasn't positive that silver actually hurt
werewolves, but he had guessed correctly. Gage pushed him off and tried to
spit the shell out, but it was no use. The little shell started burning
through his organs at a rapid rate and even as he tried to transform once
again he just couldn't heal fast enough. Gage was dying a slow, and very
painful death. Mack was a bit dizzy from his landing, but he knew that he
had another job to do.

 He stumbled over to his dying best friend and kneeled by him. He gently
placed one hand on his forehead. `It's going to be okay buddy, I promise.'
Mack then began to release his energy to save Callum. As Callum began
gradually began to heal, Mack's energy rapidly decreased. Callum was much
more injured than Mack originally thought, but he continued to give his
energy until he fainted. Callum was able to open his eyes, but he was still
extremely sore.  He turned his eyes to the left to see Mack on the floor
unconscious, and then looked to his right to see Gage with blood squirting
out of him mouth as the little shell did its work.

Brett immediately ran over to Mack and went to see if he was harmed. He
physically calmed just at touching his mate. `It's going to be okay. I
promise you that it's going to be okay. He wrapped his arms around the
unconscious body and sobbed. Anthony came in to see the gruesome sight
before him, but all he cared at that moment was Callum. He ran to his lover
and checked on him for wounds. Mack had healed them all, but Callum was
still practically immobile. `Callum I am so sorry, please tell me that
you're okay.' Callum tried to talk, but he couldn't get his lips to form
words. He struggled to say `I...I...I...l...l...l...love...y...you.' Callum
said as one lone tear fell from his left eye.

            Lucas and Lisa watched in horror/shock. Lisa had tears falling
down her eyes and her right hand covered her mouth as she could only
imagine what the two young men must have been through. Lucas was actually
surprised that the two of them were actually able to defeat, albeit barely,
the fierce werewolf. `Well it seems as though I've underestimated the two
of them. The two of them seem to make a pretty damn good team.' He
thought. The thought of them being in alliance was oddly comforting now.

            After seeing that Mack was going to survive Brett ran towards
Gage's slowly dying figure. As he got within five feet he was apprehended
by Anthony. `They've taken care of him Brett. We do not kill unless it is
absolutely necessary, besides if you rip him to shreds he would die an
honorable death. Let him die in a pathetic heap of blood like he deserves.'
Brett nodded and he and Anthony scooped up their mates and returned home.

            As the night progressed Callum gained mobility and he started
to move around more and more with each passing hour. Once he was able to
stand on his own he was able to tell the story of what happened to him and
Mack over their time with the werewolf. Even though he was dying Callum was
still able to see Mack use the little silver shell on Gage.  The other
lycanthropes as well as Callum were impressed that Mack was able to come up
with such a plan. Brett beamed with pride at the thought of his mate
kicking the ass of a werewolf that even four lycanthropes couldn't defeat.

            While listening to the story Lisa snuggled up to Lucas, and
Callum snuggled up to Anthony while Mack was still resting on Brett's
chest. Lisa beamed with pride about how much bigger and stronger her pack
had grown. Anthony was happy that everyone was together and safe. Brett was
proud of his little mate about beating a werewolf, and saving a pack
member. Callum was just happy to be home and alive. Lucas on the other hand
was on edge, he couldn't get his mind off of Ripper. He saw this man in
action and he knew that this fight would be much worse than the werewolf.
Especially since many lycanthropes had already submit to him to save their
lives. This would be the fight of their life.

            (Flashback: Ninth grade. Callum was on the ground crying after
being attacked by some bullies. He looked up with his glossy blue eyes and
saw a beautiful ebony skinned boy reaching out for him. `W...who are you?'
he asked shyly. The boy smiled broadly shaking his short dreads. `I'm a
friend, but I'm not a bodyguard. I want to help, but you have to defend
yourself first. If you choose to fight, I'll always have your back. Now
come on and let's get some lunch.' Callum reached into bag and pulled out a
silver shell. He reached out and grabbed a lock on the boys head and placed
the shell there. `What was that for?' the boy asked. `For being a friend'
Callum said with a smile and the two new friends headed towards the
cafeteria).