{"sf1_id":797755,"sf2_id":"ve3dk2Qm","title":"Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty Six","author":"ThisAdamGuy","words":1664,"posted_at":"2014-12-20T05:37:00.000Z","tags":["Action","Adventure","Demon","Fantasy","Ghoul","Mage","Magic","Suspense","Transformation","Urban","Warlock","Werewolf","gremlin","wizard"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/797755-amber-silverblood-chapter-thirty-six","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ve3dk2Qm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/13/ac/13ac9ff2-f14c-4e38-b00b-9912264edd5e","description":"#37 of Amber Silverblood\n\nZeke has blocked the pack's way into his house, but D.K. isn't going to give up that easily. There's an alternate way in, but they're not gonna enjoy it...","content":"Chapter Thirty Six\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nD.K. snarled and pawed the ground anxiously, twitching like druggie desperate for his next joint.\u0026nbsp; I recognized hesitation in his body language, which was a relief.\u0026nbsp; His head may have been void of common sense, but even he had to realize that we couldn't cross a backyard filled with land mines.\u0026nbsp; For a second, I thought he would just turn around and lead us home.\n\nOf course, I should have known better than that...\n\nD.K. did turn around and run, but it wasn't the way we'd come.\u0026nbsp; He led us back around the side of the house, stepping with far less hesitation than I thought was necessary.\u0026nbsp; I, personally, flinched a little every time I put my paw down, expecting it to blow me to little wolf-y Amber chunks.\u0026nbsp; Luckily, it seemed Zeke only stored dangerous weaponry in the backyard.\n\nD.K. stopped halfway around the house, right below a window.\u0026nbsp; He growled at it, and then turned to look at the rest of us.\u0026nbsp; I glanced at it as well, and something tickled my sensitive ears so that they perked up to listen closer.\u0026nbsp; It was there, so soft that a human could never have picked it up, but it was not above my keen wolf senses.\u0026nbsp; A buzz, like there was a swarm of bees hovering just behind the glass.\u0026nbsp; Except, the noise wasn't coming from behind the glass- it was coming _from_ the glass.\u0026nbsp; I peered closer, and saw a web of metal fencing attached to the windowpane.\u0026nbsp; A single long, black cord was attached to the ends of every one of the wires, explaining where the buzz was coming from.\u0026nbsp; I shivered a little while D.K. studied the window.\u0026nbsp; Zeke had obviously been preparing for this day for a long time if he'd gone to the trouble of electrifying his windows.\n\nNow, I know that werewolves are unnaturally strong. \u0026nbsp;We can shrug off bullet wounds and not even have a mark the next day.\u0026nbsp; Fire can burn us as easily as it can anything else, but we'll heal from that ridiculously fast too.\u0026nbsp; None of that gave me much comfort, though, because I had no idea how a werewolf's body would react to electricity.\u0026nbsp; Like the land mines, though, the windows wouldn't hurt us unless we jumped up and touched them.\n\nSurely, I thought, this would be where D.K. gave up.\u0026nbsp; Going through the backdoor would blow us to pieces, and going through the window would fry us.\u0026nbsp; Surely he had to see that keeping this up was pointless.\n\nTo my dismay, though, he took a step back and motioned with his nose towards Tyler.\u0026nbsp; The massive black wolf stepped forward, and his alpha jerked his nose toward the window.\u0026nbsp; A horrible feeling formed in my stomach when I realized what D.K. was doing, but Tyler didn't even give it a second thought.\u0026nbsp; He faced the house, took three steps backwards, and then charged forward and jumped.\u0026nbsp; His gigantic body went straight through the glass, and even tore through the thick metal mesh on the other side.\u0026nbsp; I saw sparks fly where the fencing touched him, and I smelled burnt fur, but he didn't let out so much as a whimper.\u0026nbsp; Then his tail went through, and we lost sight of him inside the house.\n\nWith a bloodthirsty howl, D.K. jumped in after him. \u0026nbsp;Kaylie went next, and then, knowing I had no other choice, I followed.\n\nThe inside of the house smelled like grease and smoke.\u0026nbsp; Not cigarette smoke like D.K.'s house, but machine smoke.\u0026nbsp; I found myself in a bedroom with the lights off.\u0026nbsp; Metal and pieces of wire were scattered all over the shelves and floor, and- I had to do a double take.\u0026nbsp; Was that a _race car bed?_\u0026nbsp; It didn't matter.\u0026nbsp; I could hear sounds of a fight already coming from the hallway.\u0026nbsp; Whether I liked them or not, I was obligated to help my pack, so I ran after them.\n\nThere was dead gremlin in the hallway, and I nearly tripped over him in my rush.\u0026nbsp; It was the green haired one I'd seen at the computer store.\u0026nbsp; I stepped over him, but froze when I heard the sound of gunshots.\u0026nbsp; One of my wolves, I wasn't sure which, yipped in pain.\u0026nbsp; Adrenaline surged in my veins, and I charged further into the house.\n\nI came around a corner in the hallway and found myself in the living room.\u0026nbsp; A panicked G-Nome was trying to flee, and ended up colliding with me, knocking us both to the ground.\n\n\"Freaking flea bag!\" he shouted, scrambling to untangle himself from me.\u0026nbsp; Out of instinct, I snapped at his face, but he landed a kick in my stomach, winding me.\u0026nbsp; He got back up and ran, but a shadow chased after him, jumping over me to get into the hallway.\u0026nbsp; That shadow had been Tyler, I realized, and a couple seconds later I heard the gremlin scream.\n\nGetting back to my paws, I gave the room a quick look.\u0026nbsp; Kaylie was lying on the floor a few feet away from me, her blood staining the carpet.\u0026nbsp; She must have been the one who had been shot.\u0026nbsp; She wasn't dead, though- far from it.\u0026nbsp; As I looked, she got back to her paws and shook herself before running through another door on the other side of the room.\u0026nbsp; She wasn't even bleeding anymore.\u0026nbsp; A loud crash came from the room she'd just gone into, so I followed.\n\nThe tension in the next room was so thick I could have swam in it.\u0026nbsp; D.K. was in there, facing off against Zeke.\u0026nbsp; The G-Nome's leader was backed against a wall, a gun in one hand and a cattle prod in the other.\n\n\"Stay back!\" he said, waving the gun towards me and Kaylie.\u0026nbsp; He tried to give us his patronizing smile again, but it wasn't convincing.\u0026nbsp; \"These aren't silver bullets, but they'll still hurt like hell if I put one in your brain.\"\n\nD.K. growled, and Zeke gave a weak laugh.\u0026nbsp; \"Sorry, Dalton, I forgot.\u0026nbsp; You fuzzies don't have brains.\"\n\nD.K.'s hackles rose, and he took a step forward.\u0026nbsp; Zeke jabbed the cattle prod at him, and the wolf leaped back with a yelp when a spark shot from it.\u0026nbsp; Kaylie snarled, and Zeke turned the gun on her.\n\n\"You've already been shot once, right, Fluffy?\u0026nbsp; You want another?\"\n\nTo give Kaylie her due credit, she didn't back down.\u0026nbsp; I don't know if she would have really tried to attack the gun toting gremlin or not, but she didn't get the chance.\u0026nbsp; Tyler barreled into the room then, charging straight past me and Kaylie.\u0026nbsp; It happened so fast that Zeke couldn't react in time, and before he knew it he had Tyler's teeth buried in his side.\n\nZeke screamed and fired his gun.\u0026nbsp; The bullet struck Tyler in the back, and I knew without looking that it had to have broken his spine.\u0026nbsp; With blood dripping down his side, he made a run for the door.\u0026nbsp; Kaylie moved to stop him, but ended up getting the cattle prod in her face.\u0026nbsp; He ran out the door without giving me a second glance.\u0026nbsp; That was his mistake.\n\nI took off after him.\u0026nbsp; I don't really know why I bothered.\u0026nbsp; D.K. was the one who wanted to fight, not me.\u0026nbsp; Even with Tyler out of the picture, that still left Kaylie and D.K., and I'm sure they would both be more than happy to take down the leader of the G-Nomes.\u0026nbsp; So, why did I go after him?\u0026nbsp; Maybe it was because I actually wanted to.\n\nZeke ran through the living room, jumping over his dead gang members, and opened the sliding glass door that led to the backyard.\u0026nbsp; I stopped short, just inside the door, and watched him in disbelief, sure that he was going to explode at any second.\u0026nbsp; Instead, he ran across the yard, his feet stepping in an erratic pattern, and hopped the fence.\u0026nbsp; I blinked in surprise, but then realized what he'd done.\u0026nbsp; He had planted the land mines, he knew exactly where they were, and so he'd simply sidestepped them all.\u0026nbsp; Going after him this way was a death sentence, but I didn't have time to go all the way back to the window we'd come through.\u0026nbsp; He'd be long gone by then.\u0026nbsp; I cringed when I thought of how D.K. would react when he found out I'd let our target escape.\u0026nbsp; I got the distinct feeling that a slap would be letting me off easy this time.\u0026nbsp; Unless...\n\nThe idea was crazy, but I had no better alternatives.\u0026nbsp; My heart raced as I charged out into the backyard.\u0026nbsp; There was no time for fear.\u0026nbsp; If this was going to work, I couldn't afford to hesitate.\u0026nbsp; I replayed the memory of Zeke escaping in my head, and put my paws where I'd seen him put his feet.\u0026nbsp; I flinched with every step, convinced that I was about be barbecued.\u0026nbsp; To my own amazement, though, I reached the fence without setting off a single bomb.\u0026nbsp; Zeke's scent was still all over place.\u0026nbsp; I knew exactly where he'd gone, and I knew I could run faster than anything on two legs.\n\n_Ready or not, Zeke_, I thought as I hopped the fence, _here I come!_\n\nNEXT TIME: Oh yeah, here we go!\u0026nbsp; Amber vs Zeke, to the death!\u0026nbsp; This is gonna be awesome.\u0026nbsp; This is gonna be... so... FREAKING... AWESOME!!!\n\nAuthor's note: Yeah, I know this update is early.\u0026nbsp; I've got a pretty busy day tomorrow, and I wanted to make sure I had time to get it uploaded.\u0026nbsp; I'm sure none of you are gonna complain too much about it.\u0026nbsp; But hey, you wanna hear some cool news?\u0026nbsp; Adam (that's me) has graduated from technical school!\u0026nbsp; Now I'm back at home with the parental units (DON'T JUDGE ME) desperately looking for a job so I can move out again.\u0026nbsp; That's cool, right?!\u0026nbsp; ... right?\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Amber Silverblood","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/795249-amber-silverblood-chapter-thirty-five.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/800015-amber-silverblood-bonus-chapter-2-christmas-2014.json"}}