First Born_One Of A Kind

by LaGloria Franks

  "As you wish."

  "God you guys are so cute it's gross." Jacob disappeared out of the room. I heard someone clear their throat and jumped. I forgot James was here.

  "I guess this meeting is over." He said. I nodded, Dylan and I started making our way towards the door.

  ****

  "How are we supposed to find them?" I asked Dylan as we lay on my bed. I had my head on his chest, making patterns on his hand.

  "I don't know, maybe we wait for them to find us. Give them a signal or something." He said, twisting my hair around his finger.

  "Should I walk around naked?" He growled at me and I giggled. "How do you think they found Derek? Maybe they'll try to swap with us soon."

  "When was the last time you seen Derek?" He asked me.

  I frowned before cringing. "I honestly can't remember, I've been dealing with so much these last few days."

  "You guys barely hung out before, so of course you wouldn't keep up with his whereabouts. But you're also close enough to him to care about him, he was the perfect target."

  "Do you think he's ok?" I asked softly.

  "Yeah, the pack would know if he- if something happened to him." He said, changing his words. I was glad he didn't say it.

  "Do you think they would tell me though? Both alphas don't like me very much."

  "I'm sure Lizzy would tell you. Now enough talk lets watch a movie, unless you want to do something else." He winked at me. I slapped his chest.

  "I want to watch a scary movie."

  "Why? So you can hide behind me the whole time?" He asked raising an eyebrow.

  "Yes, how'd you know?" I replied sarcastically.

  "I know everything." I rolled my eyes at him.

  "Go make popcorn." I pushed him towards the end of the bed. He chuckled before getting off the bed.

  "Make sure you pick a good movie."

  "Make sure you don't burn the popcorn." I narrowed my eyes at him. He held his hands up in surrender.

  "That was one time."

  "I can still taste the burntness." I fake gagged. He chuckled before leaving the room. I got up to look over my movie options. As I was looking I heard footsteps behind me.

  "That was fast, I hope you didn't under cook it." I commented without turning around. When I didn't receive a response, I looked behind me. I felt a scream build up in my throat, the person in front of me shot forward covering my mouth.

  "Ashley parker, you've been summoned by the council." Was the last thing I heard before I passed out. With one thought on my mind. Was asking for popcorn the signal?

  I groaned as I slowly start to waken. Why does my head feel like it was ran over by a truck?

  "You're finally up, thought my only company would be these four walls for another hour." I heard a voice say. I cracked an eye open and saw Derek chained to a wall next to me. Both eyes shot open as I tried to go to him, only to be yanked back. I looked down at my arms and legs to see that I was also chained. I looked around the room noticing that there wasn't any windows. There was only one door that was bolted shut and silver. Basically, there was no escaping.

  "Derek! I'm so sorry this is all my fault." I started crying.

  "Hey shh shh this is no one's fault." He tried to calm me.

  "It is! I'm assuming the council has us and they only took you because of me."

  "No, they took me because my mate ordered them too." He told me sadly.

  I looked at him in confusion. "You found your mate? And she had the council chain you? Why?" His mate must be someone really powerful if she can tell angels to kidnap a werewolf. From what Jacob told me angels didn't like werewolves.

  "She's part of the council." I felt my eyes widened at his confession. It was quiet for a while after that. My thoughts going a mile a minute. The council found me. What were they going to do with me? Will they ever let Derek go? I know one thing for sure, I wasn't just going to sit around and wait.

  "Where are we? How long have you been here?" I tried to move my arms again. The chains only reached so far.

  "We're in their dungeons I believe, I've been here for over a week now." I felt guilt hit me as Derek told me this. He's been missing for over a week and we only just noticed like two days ago. What kind of friends were we? His family was even worse.

  "I'm sorry." I told him.

  "Its fine, I was hoping my mate would eventually let me go if I promised to never see her again," He started sadly. "She told me this is where my kind belonged."

  "We'll get out of here." I promised him.

  "That's the thing, I don't think I want to leave. I could've broken out plenty of times, but I think my wolf wants to stay close to his mate. Even if she doesn't want us."

  "Derek we can't stay here. Who says they won't eventually kill us? You don't know who these people are. They aren't werewolves like us, well mostly you." I sighed.

  "What do you mean? I knew something was off about my mate, but I just assumed she hadn't shifted yet." He frowned in confusion.

  "They're angels, I'm also an angel."

  "Wow, just when I thought I knew all the supernatural. But what do they want with you? I know why I'm here."

  "My parents were archangels, making me the first-born archangel in ages, but they hid me on earth away from the council. They've been looking for me ever since."

  "So they're going to kill you? Maybe me as well." He sighed. He looked so heartbroken that it made my heart hurt. It also made me think about Dylan. He probably was freaking out now, our nice movie night turned into me getting kidnapped.

  "I don't think your mate will kill you, it would kill her as well." I told him.

  "I don't know, you should've seen the way she looked at me. There was no love there." He looked down sadly. I felt my heart break all over again at the tortured look on his face.

  "Love takes time."

  Chapter 16

  I lost track of time after our conversation. We didn't talk much, he asked about how I was doing and wondered about the pack. I told him about Blake's new mate and mine. He was surprised when I told him I had a second mate, he was sure Blake and I would be together. I also told him how Blake tried to kill us.

  Hours passed, or maybe days I don't know. Sometimes my body felt exhausted and I would sleep. Derek promising that he'd watch over me. I was hungry and thirsty as well. I mean they did take me before I could eat. I tried not to think about Dylan as I was here, it hurt too much being away from him.

  Just then I heard a sound coming from the silver door. I moved back against the wall, fear gripping me. A guy around his mid-thirties walked in, there was a beautiful lady with snow white hair with him. I heard Derek's intake of breath and figured that was his mate. She was gorgeous.

  "Oh good you're up." She walked towards me, completely ignoring Derek.

  "If you guys are going to kill me just do it already." I growled at her. I wouldn't go down without a fight. She let out this musical laugh.

  "Kill you? Why do you think we want to kill you?" She asked.

  "You're the council, right? What else would you want with me?" I was confused with the way she was acting. If they weren't going to kill me then what did they want?

  "We're not the council, we're the people that does the councils work. When they don't want to get their pretty little hands dirty, and we're sick of it." The guy next to her let out a snort, she shot him a glare.

  "Then what do you want with me?" I was even more confused.

  "You're friends with Jacob, right?" I glared at her.

  "What do you guys want with him?"

  "He works with the council, we plan to kill him." She smiled at me.

  I laughed in her face. "Jacob isn't part of the council."

  "Then you know less about him than you think." She had to be lying, no way was Jacob part of the council. He's been protecting me from them. He’s had many opportunities to kill me if that were the case. She just wanted me to doubt him and leave myself opened to an attack.

  "Keep your
lies to yourself."

  "Lies? Jacob is the one that warned you about the council, right? He's also the one that said they wanted you. Honey I can tell you now that all your facts are messed up. Jacob hasn't been telling you the truth, and I'm afraid to say that he's not your friend."

  "You're wrong about Jacob." I glared at the offensive women. "If you think turning me against him will help you in the slightest, I promise it won't."

  She looked at me as if I was the dumbest person she ever met. "Such a naïve child. He's already gotten into your head."

  "Leave her alone." Derek spoke up for the first time.

  "No one is talking to you mutt." She hissed at him. I watched as Derek flinched from her tone.

  "What is wrong with you?" I screamed.

  "I'm done being nice! If you refuse to help me your parents will die." And with that she stormed out of the room. My parents? She wouldn't dare. They have nothing to do with this.

  "We're going to play good cop bad cop, or well bad cop bad cop. Since neither one of us is good," The guy that came in with Derek's mate started. I forgot he was even in here. "Penelope wanted to just talk with you guys, and we see how that turned out. I on the other hand do not." I sucked in a breath as I saw him pull a knife from behind his back. This guy is crazy! He walked over to Derek, plunging the knife into his leg. All I could hear was screaming, as the blood started rushing out. "Shut up before I cut your tongue out!" He yelled at me.

  "Don't hurt him anymore! We'll help!" I cried. I just wanted him to stop. I don't really know what they need help with, but I'd do it. If it would stop him from hurting Derek.

  The guy laughed. "You really think you had a choice? You're tied up and have no idea where you're at. You never had a choice to begin with."

  This guy was the scum of earth. "Penelope said I had a choice." I growled.

  "She's a manipulative liar." He cackled. Derek growled when he insulted her. He turned his attention back to Derek. "And you're just pathetic, growling over some whore that doesn't even want you. She's probably upstairs banging the mailman right now." All Derek could do was growl louder, with a murderous glint in his eyes. I've never seen this side of Derek before.

  The guy walked over to me and I panicked. He bent down till he was face to face with me. "When we're done with you two you'll be as good as dead, and then we're going after your mate." I felt something snap in me as he mentioned my mate. "Didn't think we knew about him huh? I told Penelope that we should've kidnapped him instead, then maybe you guys would've actually noticed and cared."

  "You wouldn't touch a hair on him." I growled lowly. One thing I didn't like was when someone threatened my mate.

  "Oh really?" He moved his face right in front of mine. "How are you going to stop me? You'll be dead." I closed my eyes as I felt the fire building within me. My angel was ready to play.

  As I Opened my eyes, all I saw was red. "Like this," I smirked before blowing flames into his face. He fell back screaming, clutching at his face.

  But I wasn't done with him, he threatened my mate. I melted my chains off as I rose up walking towards him. I bent, grabbing his arm as he screamed in pain. I grabbed his other arm pulling it from his face, as I stared into his eyes. I could feel my body heating up another degree. My grip tightened as his screaming started up again, and much louder. Once his screams stopped I dropped his limp arms and kicked his body.

  I walked over to Derek, easily snapping his chains off using my werewolf strength. "What was that?" His eyes kept drifting towards the dude, who was burned from the inside out.

  "That was the consequences of threatening my mate." I balled my hand into a fist as we reached the door. It turned into wood, I used it to slam against the lock, it instantly broke.

  "What's the plan? We don't know where we are or how to get out of here. Not to mention how many people are in this building." Derek pointed out, as we stepped into a hallway. I looked at him over my shoulder.

  "The plan is to get the hell out of here, now run!" I took off down the hall with Derek following close behind. I knew I had to get us out of here. We stopped as we reached the end. There was a door to the left, much like how ours looked. In front of it were two bodyguards. Oh, so they get guards but not us? I wonder who's in there.

  "Do you think someone is in there?" Derek asked quietly, as he too noticed the guards.

  "Yes, the bodyguards are a giveaway." I was hesitant to keep moving. Either way I'll have to take these guards out. But who was in there? Were they prisoners like Derek and I was?

  I stepped around the corner and the bodyguards instantly started for me. Wow they weren't even going to ask my name? Fine then I won't ask theirs.

  As they ran towards me I throw fireball after fireball at them. One hit the guy in the chest, burning him alive. The other guy dodged everyone and tackled me before I could react. We both fell to the floor. Next thing I know he was thrown against the far wall, cracking his head. I looked over at Derek whose eyes were flashing. "Great teamwork." I huffed. I was feeling drained, I've never used so much power in one day.

  We walked up to the door they were guarding, I wrapped my hand around the handle twisting the doorknob. Surprisingly it was unlocked, I slowly pushed it open. The first thing that hit me was the smell, it was horrible. I heard Derek gag behind me and rolled my eyes. What a girl.

  Once the light from the hallway made it into the room, my eyes settled on two figures in the corner. It was a man and a woman, much older than me and Derek. They were chained up much like we were. Wearing nothing but what looked like old dirty rags for clothing. There was also weird symbols written all over the walls of their cell.

  "If you've come to finally kill us then do it already." The man snarled out. The woman didn't say anything.

  I cleared my throat. "We're here to set you free."

  "Set us free? You think we're dumb?" The guy growled. I took a step forward, but Derek grabbed my arm shaking his head no.

  "Maybe we should just leave them."

  "We stopped to free them and that's what we'll do." I made my way to the woman and she shrank back against the man. I grabbed her chains and quickly melted them off. I looked over at the man, he was just staring. I reached over and released him as well.

  He looked gratful as he rubbed his wrist. They were red and bruised. "Thank you." I nodded at him.

  "We have to leave now!" I followed Derek out the room. I didn't know if the man and woman would follow us, but then I heard more footsteps. They didn't even ask questions about the two guys knocked out in the hallway. Well one knocked out and the other burned alive. In fact, the woman gave a hard kick to the one that was knocked out.

  The man caught up to us. "What's the plan?" He asked.

  "To get out of here." Derek answered.

  "Perfect."

  "Do you know where we are? Or where the nearest exit is?" I asked them.

  "Yes, follow me." The man took the lead.

  "Where is everybody?" I was actually thinking the same thing. Through all our running we didn't bump into anyone besides the two bodyguards. Did they think they wouldn't need the extra protection? How foolish they were.

  "I don't know let's just keep moving." I walked slowly up the steps the guy stopped at, guess I'm leading again. There was a door at the top. I looked back at Derek and counted to three on my finger, before pushing the door open.

  "I was wondering how long it would take." A familiar voice greeted us on the other side. "Aww look it's a family reunion.

  Dylan’s POV

  "What do you mean they took her?" Jacob asked.

  Flashback

  I was downstairs making popcorn when suddenly I smelt this strange scent. It wasn't wolf or cat, in fact it smelt a lot like Ashley, but I knew it wasn't her. I sat the popcorn down and started making my way upstairs. Halfway to the top I heard a thud. I quickened my steps, feeling that something was very wrong.

  I rushed down the hall to Ashley's room, pushing the door open. Just in time to see
a guy jump out the window, holding my unconscious mate. I growled as I shifted, following him out the window. I landed harshly on my paws, that jump was higher than I thought. But I didn't care, I had a mate to get.

  I followed the guy as he ran through the woods. My growls getting louder when he accidently smacked her head against a tree. Couldn't he be more careful? I was now no more than a foot away from him when he finally noticed me. His eyes widened as he looked back, then he smirked, I snarled. Pushing myself faster I was about to take a bite out of his leg, when he hopped up in a tree. Damn angels. I watched as he hopped from tree to tree. I couldn't use my angel powers when I was in cat form, since I wasn’t full angel. But I also couldn't shift because I'd lose him.

  Not paying attention to where I was going, I tripped over a branch. I swore in my head as I face planted.

  "Keep up kitty cat!" I heard a voice mocking me. When I looked up I noticed the guy was no longer in sight.

  Flashback over

  I spent hours trying to pick up the scent again, only to come up blank. When all hope was lost of following him I went to Jacob. This all happened two days ago.