{"sf1_id":800630,"sf2_id":"Rno2D5ym","title":"Amber Silverblood: Chapter Thirty Seven","author":"ThisAdamGuy","words":1129,"posted_at":"2014-12-27T15:27:00.000Z","tags":["Action","Adventure","Demon","Fantasy","Ghoul","Mage","Magic","Suspense","Transformation","Urban","Warlock","Werewolf","Young adult","gremlin","wizard"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/800630-amber-silverblood-chapter-thirty-seven","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Rno2D5ym","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/3c/45/3c45d552-4efa-45ba-9d05-4efae18c4a55","description":"#39 of Amber Silverblood\n\nAmber chases Zeke down and tries to bite the son-of-a-jerk's face off.","content":"Chapter Thirty Seven\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nZeke's scent was easy to track in the woods, and the desperate gremlin wasn't trying to be stealthy.\u0026nbsp; Even with his head start, I managed to catch up to him in a couple of minutes.\n\nI howled as I ran, feeling the excitement of the hunt pump through my veins.\u0026nbsp; This caught Zeke's attention, and he put on an extra burst of speed.\u0026nbsp; He was quicker than a human, but my four legs made me even faster, and I was rapidly closing the distance between us.\n\n\"Leave me alone!\" I heard him yell.\u0026nbsp; His breathing was getting heavier, and knew he was starting to get tired.\u0026nbsp; Even if I couldn't catch up to him- which I could- he wouldn't be able to run much farther anyway.\n\nHe reached into his pocket and pulled out a small round object.\u0026nbsp; I didn't know what it was, but I figured if a gremlin had it, it couldn't be good news.\n\n\"I said leave me alone!\" he screamed again, and threw it over his shoulder.\u0026nbsp; It hit the ground and started to hiss, spraying thick yellow fog all over the place.\u0026nbsp; I couldn't slow down in time, and ended up running straight through it.\u0026nbsp; To my relief, it didn't burn or gag me.\u0026nbsp; It hadn't even hidden Zeke long enough for me to lose sight of him.\u0026nbsp; What was the point?\u0026nbsp; Had he just been trying to distract me?\n\nThen, suddenly, I realized what he'd done.\u0026nbsp; My eyes started to water uncontrollably, blurring my vision.\u0026nbsp; I blinked, trying to clear them, but they stung so much that more tears just followed.\u0026nbsp; It caught me so off guard that I forgot what I was doing and ran headfirst into a tree.\n\n_Freaking gremlin!_ I thought, growling with irritation.\u0026nbsp; _Where did he even get tear gas?_\n\nI wiped my snout with my front paw, but it did no good.\u0026nbsp; I'd have to wash my eyes out before they would stop watering, which meant I would have to follow Zeke with my nose.\u0026nbsp; Luckily, while the grenade had smelled like moldy underwear and feet, I could still smell well enough to find Zeke's scent.\u0026nbsp; I had to go slow now, though.\u0026nbsp; Even with the risk of losing my prey, I knew I couldn't run in this condition.\n\nI followed Zeke's trail for ten minutes, occasionally pausing to rub my eyes.\u0026nbsp; The scent was strong the entire time, which was strange.\u0026nbsp; I had seen how fast Zeke could run.\u0026nbsp; Even after how close I had gotten, he should be far enough away now that his scent would have weakened.\u0026nbsp; Did he think he had lost me?\u0026nbsp; Or had he lost his breath and been forced to walk.\u0026nbsp; Either way, he...\n\nMy nose bumped a tree.\u0026nbsp; Weird. \u0026nbsp;Why did his scent lead straight to it?\u0026nbsp; In a moment, comprehension dawned on me, but it was a moment too late.\n\nWith a shout, Zeke jumped out of the tree and fell on me.\u0026nbsp; I collapsed under his weight, but he hit the ground hard too and was disoriented for a second.\u0026nbsp; I scrambled out from underneath him, snapping my jaws at his face, but not before I felt the shock from his cattle prod hit me in the side.\u0026nbsp; I yelped and took a step away from him, giving him the opportunity to get up as well.\n\n\"You should have listened to me, fleabag,\" he taunted me.\u0026nbsp; My eyes were still watering, and Zeke was nothing but a blur in front of me.\u0026nbsp; He laughed, waving the metal stick back and forth, messing with my vision even more.\u0026nbsp; \"I've got to kill you now.\u0026nbsp; Can't let you go back and tell Dalton where I went.\"\n\nHe shot forward, faster than I expected, and jabbed me with the cattle prod again.\u0026nbsp; I tried to move away, but he hit me a third time, on my shoulder.\u0026nbsp; My whole leg buzzed for a second, and then went numb.\u0026nbsp; When I tried to take a step, it gave out beneath me.\n\n\"Just a stupid animal,\" I heard Zeke saying to himself.\u0026nbsp; More loudly, he said, \"It's too bad about the others.\u0026nbsp; Shouldn't be hard to make a new gang, though.\u0026nbsp; There are always gremlins hiding out in the city.\"\u0026nbsp; He laughed.\u0026nbsp; \"I'll get even more this time, and we'll make sure your pack never bugs us again.\u0026nbsp; You won't be there to see it, though.\"\n\n_We'll make sure your pack never bugs us again..._\n\n_KIMBERLY!_\n\nAnger chased the pain from my head, and I pounced on Zeke.\u0026nbsp; His cattle prod zapped me from underneath, but I ignored it and sank my teeth into his shoulder.\u0026nbsp; Zeke screamed and kicked and squirmed and stabbed me over and over again, but I refused to let go.\u0026nbsp; By threatening the pack, he had threatened Kimberly, and for that I would _KILL HIM!_\n\nDespite my best efforts, though, Zeke finally got a hand out from underneath me and jabbed his thumb into my eye.\u0026nbsp; It was an underhanded move, but it had the desired effect.\u0026nbsp; I was so shocked that I let go of him.\u0026nbsp; With a heave, he pushed me off of him and got to his feet.\u0026nbsp; His shoulder was bleeding profusely as he backed away.\n\n\"Stupid, stupid animal,\" he was muttering.\u0026nbsp; I growled and lowered myself to pounce again.\u0026nbsp; My eye hurt, but he hadn't done any permanent damage.\u0026nbsp; It would be fine in a few minutes.\u0026nbsp; Zeke, on the other hand, wouldn't be.\u0026nbsp; I was going to make sure of that.\n\nSuddenly, the gremlin went stiff with a strangled grunt.\u0026nbsp; He dropped his cattle prod and started pulling at something around his neck.\u0026nbsp; My vision was still blurry, and Zeke's thumb had only made it worse, but I was smart enough to realize somebody had sneaked up behind him and put him in a headlock.\u0026nbsp; But who?\n\n\"Hello, Amber.\"\n\nI froze.\u0026nbsp; I had never heard that voice before, but somehow there was no mistaking the person it belonged to.\u0026nbsp; Even though I'd only seen him once, his face appeared in my mind as clearly as if I had photographed it.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Gray hair, gray mustache, and dark blue eyes that pierced me right down to my soul.\n\nNEXT TIME: OMG, it's the _GUY!_\u0026nbsp; Who is he?\u0026nbsp; What does he want?\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Why is he here?\u0026nbsp; Ooooooh, you're all gonna have to wait until next week to find out.\n\nOn a side note, if Amber Silverblood were to ever be made into a TV series, I know exactly what I would want to be its theme song.\u0026nbsp; It's called \"Spirit of Champions\" by Two Steps From Hell.\u0026nbsp; Go check it out on YouTube or something and tell me that isn't the PERFECT song to introduce Amber Silverblood to the small screen!  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Amber Silverblood","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/800015-amber-silverblood-bonus-chapter-2-christmas-2014.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/803275-amber-silverblood-chapter-thirty-eight.json"}}