Chapter 12

chapter Twelve

*Ariya*

"Ariya!"

Where is that sound coming from?

"Ariya!"

Who is that?

"Ariya!"

Is that me?

"Ariya!"

It must be me

"Ariya!"

Go away. I'm trying to sleep

"Come on! Get up! I know you can hear me, kiddo."

I open my eyes and look around. It is just a dark room, empty, with a silver floor.

"Are you going to turn around and look at me or are you going to ignore me this entire time?"

I turned around when the figure touched my shoulder.

"Caleb." I sighed, relieved.

"Wow. That took a while. I guess it makes sense, you being new and all."

"Caleb, where are we?" I asked.

"In your mind." Caleb replied.

I stared at him confused.

Caleb laughed. "Like I said, I forgot to teach you some things. Right now we are talking in your mind. We wouldn't normally be able to talk where we could see each other but right now we can because your instinctive side took over. Which means until you are no longer feeding or in danger of dying, your consciousness can't take back over."

"Wait, so you're saying that right now I'm no longer in control of my body? What happens when my consciousness can take back over?"

"That's right. You'll have to learn more about that part of you from Drake. Since I'm a lycan, I don't know how to really explain how that works. As for your other question, usually when your consciousness takes back over, you pass out."

"So what are we doing here then Caleb?"

"I figured I could explain some things to you, for instance what happened after you left the house."

I nodded and Caleb began explaining how the plan was unfolding. He started off by burning any evidence that we were Navi, cleaned the place up and got rid of the ashes. From there he packed a bag of anything we would need and headed out. He put the bag on himself and went back to wolf form and ran to the overpass. Luckily, Caleb caught Drake's scent and figured Drake wasn't too far ahead. So Caleb howled to see if Drake would show up.

"When Drake saw me, he was concerned. He asked where you were. I told him that you would be on a team that was unfortunately hunting for him, but that you would explain the details later. Drake suggested waiting for you a couple miles out so we could create distance between who you work for as well as get closer to our destination. So we did. We were a little further than where you ended up. We even heard your friend Link shout in warning to you and the other girl, Mya. We ran back. Drake almost jumped in but I told him to wait. That you had come up with a plan. He really didn't like that you were putting yourself in danger. Neither did I though. But we did as you asked. Then it was too late"

Caleb trailed off and I could see his regret. He hated that I had gotten so badly hurt. The plan was to hopefully run into something so I could activate my abilities. But we didn't expect me to get killed right after. Since I was a Blood Born I would be fine, only if I activated both abilities in time. Luckily I did.

"Drake and I almost stepped in, but then your friend Link lost it and his ability went up to a whole new level. He was able to keep the rabid vampire away from the three of you. He even managed to impale the rabid! But that didn't kill the rabid as you know. You warned them and that was when Drake stepped in"

Caleb trailed off again. I could tell that he was trying to figure out how to tell me what happened next.

"Caleb? Can you show me what happened from your perspective?"

After a long pause, Caleb sighed. "I can, Ariya. I can show you everything remaining from my perspective. But you're not going to like it"

"Why do you think that?"

"Because, Ariya, you're going to live it through my perspective and you're not going to like what Drake and I thought."

"Ok, so you're protective over me. You always have been. What's the problem?"

"Ariyawe almost killed them"