Chapter 57
Brittany groaned slightly as her eyes slowly opened. It felt like her head was being hit with something hard and the splitting headache caused her senses to infiltrate through her ears and spill onto the ground.
All she saw was darkness but as her blurred vision got clearer, she noticed some spot of light.
“She’s awake! She’s awake.” She heard someone say in an anxious but excited voice.
“HUH?” She held onto her head. “Barton? Is that you p>
Soon, she felt arms wound around her body and she was pulled into someone’s arms.
“Take her back to the vehicle. Barton and I will search the area. Naomi might be close. You’ll stay with Brittany and make sure she’s okay p>
“Sure. Just…be careful p>
As the two boys make their way into the deeper part of the woods, Talia effortless carried Brittany into the car.
Once she settled her body down and was sure she was comfortably placed on the chair, Brittany was already well aware of her surroundings at once.
“W…What’s happening. I thought I heard Daniel and Barton p>
“You don’t remember anything p>
“Huh p>
“We found you lying in the middle of nowhere…like you were knocked out or something p>
“What p>
The more Talia talked, the more she got confused.
“Wait…Where’s Naomi p>
“I thought you’d know. She was with you the last time I checked p>
“Yes but Brittany held her head to calm the storm inside. “We were at the party when p>
Suddenly her eyes widened and she dashed out of the car, running like she was being chased by something.
“Wait! Brittany!” Talia ran after her and effortless caught up with her, ran past her and barred her way.
“Talia, Naomi’s in trouble p>
“You don’t say She replied sacarstically
“What’s wrong with you. Step out of my way”
“To do what Brittany? Do you have any idea where she could be? You’re weak and shaking on your two legs. If you find the Kitsunes who took her, you’re useless fighting them in your condition p>
“You knew about the Kitsunes coming for her p>
“Brittany,” Talia sighed. “Get back into the car,okay? Barton and Daniel’s got this p>
Bushes and dried up leaves rustled under their shoes as they ventured forward, using their sharp claws to tear outstretched branches and tall grasses from their path.
Suddenly, just as they were getting close to the familiar cliff, the scent of chocolate liqueur and citrus flooded his nostrils and they flared open and the scent wafted in, nourishing his entire system like a year’s worth of refreshments.
Barton turned when he realized Daniel had stopped feets away.
“What’s wrong p>
A thick smell of fresh blood covered the entire atmosphere at once and Daniel’s eyes twitched A bit as he said,
“Follow me p>
Barton could smell the blood and he didn’t hesitate to follow Daniel.
Naomi fell hard on the ground and cried in pain as she rolled down the hill of dirt, falling into a hole.
Lightning struck the sky and soon, the trail of lightening followed her into the hole and that was all it took for the frightened woman to leap back on her feet and run deeper into the hole.
It looked like an underground cave. She didn’t know how long she ran but she was able to find a fork-route and followed the left route while the trail of lightening went right.
Daniel and Barton stopped just above the hill leading down to the cliff.
“I followed her scent all the way here.” Daniel stammered in disbelief.
“I can feel the prescence of her fox. She’s around here… somewhere.” Kelvin said.
“I can’t see her OR the Kitsunes p>
“Maybe we should climb down the hill. We’ll see better down there.” Barton said.
“It’s too steep. You think she’d fall from this high p>
“Daniel move Barton suddenly yelled and Daniel dropped to the ground along with his cousin, dodging a large fireball that knocked out a tree, burning out everything on it.
The two boys rolled expertly and found themselves on their feet and face to face with one of the Kitsunes.
This one had red hair and dark gold colored eyes and a sinister smile on her gorgeous face. Her long gown huggged her curvy body and had a slit at the sides, showing off her skin blmeish free thighs and smooth legs and there a curvy round cut made at her chest showing off her voluptuous cleavage.
She had uncountable tails floating behind her and her hands were in the air, dark magic in form of black flames surrounding her fisted palms.
“If you’re looking for your friend, I think you’d have to wait a bit. As you can see, she’s currently in that hole there and my sister is helping her out p>
“So stupid of you to literally tell us her location.” Barton amusingly said, his brows raised.
“Oh that’s not stupidity. Stupidity is when you two actually try to go into that hole to save her.” She smirked and floated higher, swishing her hand in the air, showing them the hot flames surrounding it.
“Watch me.” Without warning, Daniel leaped into the air, Morphing into his glorious wolf. He landed down from the hill, some feet before the hole and just before he made to jump in, a slick animal leaped on him and he was sent flying backwards towards a tree.
He growled in pain and anger and got onto his feet, ready to attack but froze on seeing that she had transformed into her fox. She looked slicker and smaller but the way she had pushed him earlier was evident that his huger size didn’t matter.
He leaped at her, pouncing on her small frame and trapping her with her back to the ground.
He swooped in for a huge bite but she suddenly vanished from underneath him, reappearing behind him. Before he turned backwards, she swished her tails enchantingly, towards him, and he flew backwards, crashing into another tree which made a loud eerie noise before falling back to nestle on another tree which leaned back to fall on another before the last one dropped at the top of the hill, making a bridge for Barton who flew down the tree at maximum speed and leaped into the air, flying towards the fox who was floating in the air, like a spear, and the two of them crashed to the ground rolling against each other.
Having the upper hand because Trixie (The Kitsune) wasn’t prepared for the sudden attack, he grabbed some of her tails and whirled her around, grunting in anger as he released her body which went flying to the ground, dust rising in the air at the effort of her fall.
Panting hard, he ran forward to check on his cousin, sure that Trixie would be out for a few seconds to save some time to go into the hole but just before the dust in the air cleared up, something hard penetrated his chest and he froze.
“Barton Daniel growled in his inner mind as he began running to the two, his claws elongating and leaving deep marks in the dirt from where he had pounced on.
Trixie pulled out her claw from his chest, dripping of blood. She stepped back in satisfaction, her wide fox lips smiling as Barton dropped onto his knees, stooping low to hold his chest with one hand and the other was placed on the ground to support his weight.
Suddenly, she pulled up her claws again and the length of her claws were visible. It was longer and sharper and the pointy edge of the blades glowed like a glint under the moonlight as she positioned the claw, ready to slash it, reliving him of his head.