The Protectors, A. D. Knight [ebook reader .txt] 📗

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"Mae, we need to hurry to class," Skye said grabbing my arm.
"Seth, I didn't mean it. . .I was acting way out of line," I whispered to Seth.
"It's okay, a lot of stress caused you to snap," Seth said.
"More than you know," I muttered. "So, what are we doing for gym? More plays?"
I was greeted by blank stares and thoughts of is she kidding me. I guess they couldn't tell I was joking around judging by the blank stares I was way off as we entered a large room. Basketball hoops hung from the ceiling. This'll be fun, I thought as Logan sneered at me.
"Logan, Seth, choose your teams. We are playing dodge ball today," Coach said.
Picking went fast, seeing as there was only ten students in this class. My friends and I were team A and Logan and his goons were team B. A for Awesome and B for Bastards. This was going to kick butt. Coach blew the whistle and the game began.
Something about Coach's voice struck a cord, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Red rubber balls flew everywhere as I tried to place it. I don't know a lot of people on the Isle, so I wonder where I heard the voice. I gently probed his mind as I avoided every ball thrown at me.
How do I get her away from her friends,

he thought.
I froze thoroughly as a ball zoomed at me. He was one of them. Not the mastermind, but one of them. The red ball I'd forgotten about slammed into my chest with a crack. It threw me backwards into the wall I was standing by.
"I'll take her to the nurse. Keep playing," Coach snapped.
Coach blew his whistle and ran towards me. That blow hurt worse than it should've, but I was low on blood. I didn't struggled as Coach picked me up. I couldn't until we were out of the gym. His hand covered my mouth as I took a deep breath to scream.
"Quiet," he hissed as I thrashed violently against his tight hold.
I couldn't open my mouth to bite his hand and I was getting weaker by the minute. I couldn't breathe. My body was trying to revive itself from the broken bones I felt in my chest. I was slipping into sleep.
"How could you bring her now," a voice said.
"An opportunity arose and I couldn't turn it down," Coach answered.
"Use chloroform. We've got to keep her unconscious," the voice snapped.
SETH, I'm sorry,

I shouted through my mind as a chloroform scented napkin was place over my nose and mouth. I struggled as best I could but suddenly everything went black and I felt nothing.

Seth

I worried about Mae as Coach carried her out. Something made her freeze, and Coach was acting really weird. I couldn't get back in the spirit of dodge ball because of that. I sat on the bench worrying. No one was able to get back to the game it seemed, which was odd.
That's when I heard Mae's scream. It was only in my mind. Without thinking I leaped to my feet and ran. I knew Skye, Jake and Ash followed me. I froze seeing Coach with a wooden stake through his heart.
Shock was written on his face. All the signs there were signs of a Vampire Hunter. Apparently he or she had Mae. There was no ash so she wasn't dead yet. If she dies, no one who even looked at her wrong will be safe from my anger.
"We'll find her," Ash said, as if reading my thoughts.
"How," I demanded angrily.
"She left breadcrumbs," Skye said pointing to an earring on the ground.
"No, she wasn't wearing jewelry. It's a setup," I said thinking.
"Let's find the people who staged this. It reeks of lies," Angel said walking forward.
"Angel," I asked looking at him confused.
Angel looked angry, standing in front of us. In his hand was the empty blood bag that Jacqui had given Mae earlier. In the other he held a vial of something clear. He looked like he'd kill anyone in his way.
"What's up," I asked him.
"Jacqui is missing, and the impostor spiked Mae's blood," Angel snarled.
"What," I snarled.
A-a-angel, Seth, Skye, Ash, Jake,

we all heard in our minds.
"Mae," I asked.
C-c-can't talk long, s-so weak,

she sent. S-s-so far away. S-s-so tired. N-n-not enough b-blood. J-J-Jacqui is here.

Her voice was fading fast. She was so weak, so exhausted. I was worried about asking her anything. She seemed so distant and cold. Her words were slurred and chattered. I worried about how she was going to survive.
It's so cold. I'm so sleepy,

she thought faintly.
"Mae, please don't fall asleep. Tell us where you are," I whispered.
So much pain. So tired and hungry. So far away. Not safe,

she repeated.
"Where," I asked.
A scream of pure agony echoed in our thoughts. It seemed to break my heart literally. It pained all of us, and before I fully realized what I was doing, I was running. I have no clue where I was going, but that didn't matter I ran.
Angel, Ash, Skye, and Jake were following me and trying to speak to me, but I couldn't hear them over the pounding in my head. I easily was running faster than I should have been to be called a human, but at the moment I didn't care.
I was shaking with anger as I blasted into the warm air. I didn't care there was still school. I only cared about finding Mae. I walked into our house, not caring or even realizing I had run from one side of the Isle to the other.
I hurried to our lab-slash-basement. We were going to find her, and soon. Ash put on a white lab coat and hurried to our test tubes and potions. Skye hurried to the supercomputer with Angel. They were our best hackers and tracers. Jake went to weapon storage, we weren't going under ready.
I went to the chemical station, putting on a lab coat as well. I grabbed the vial of clear liquid and took a sniff. No odor other than the smell of water. Damn, that means its more than likely Holy Water.
I poured a drop onto my hand and bit back a curse as it burned my skin. I wiped it off quick before anyone could take notice of how I tested what it was. I had to hurry to make a cure for the poison of ingesting that liquid. We were officially on the case for the first time.

Mae

It was cold. And not the freezing mind numbing cold, otherwise Jacki would've been cold too. Jacki was looking at me often with worry. She'd warned me I was too weak to contact them, but I'd done it anyways.
I could barely keep my eyes open as I stared at Jacki while she paced. I bit my lip, trying to keep awake. I couldn't fall asleep. I had to stay awake and free us. I couldn't let the boys have all the fun.
I felt weak and drained and my head hurt badly. I was completely exhausted and very hungry. I could tell that Jacki could see that I was hungry, by the way that she kept herself far away from me. I got up and pounded on the bars.
"Shut up," the gaurd snarled at me.
"I have to pee," I told him.
"Hold it in," he snapped.
"Empty your pockets if your not going to let me go to the bathroom," I snarled.
"Why," he demanded.
"So I can piss in one and put my bloody tampon in the other," I snarled more visiously at him.
"Fine," he said opening the door to the cell.
He led me down the hall to where the bathroom was. He unbound my hands and shoved me into the bathroom, locking the door behind him. I went fast, thought I was kidding? Unfortunately I was not. One thing that people get wrong about Vampires is that we are indistructable but we still move forward in time.
"Hurry up," he snapped.
I quickly washed my hands and dug in the medicine cabinet. The surprise in there was that there was a knife, not that I needed it for what I was going to do, but I still sheathed it and put it in my pocket.
"Let's go," he said coming into the bathroom.
"Let's not," I snapped as all the strength I had left me in a swift motion.
"Can you move," he asked.
"No," I admitted.
His sudden change in face terrified me. He slowly shut the door and slid the dead bolt into place. His face showed exactly what I was fearing would happen as he stalked foreward. I weakly pushed