I figured I'd post the first half of my chapter up now. More to come in a day or two.
Have fun reading.

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Chapter 44: Crossroads.

Thomas turned away from Susan, planning on running down the stairs and out of the house as fast as he could.
Susan grabbed him by the arm and gave a short tug at his sleeve.
"You are not planning on going out there are you?" Susan tried to give him an angry look, but her fear took the upper hand.
Thomas was determined to aid his friends and he pulled his arm free from her grip.
"I'm going Susan. Go to the basement and hide until all of this is over..." Susan wanted to interrupt him, but he shook his head.
"Not this time Susan, you'll listen to me for a change."
His eyes showed no sign of fear and she knew there was no point in trying to stop him, she passed Thomas and descended the stairs as she whispered for him to be careful.
Susan entered their small basement, a washing machine whirred in the corner. The small opening between it and the wall provided her with a place to hide.
She took a quick glimpse out of the window and her eyes grew wide as she saw a severed arm lying inches away from it.
"This is madness."

Thomas stepped outside, Louie's body was resting on the ground, his fur covered in the thick mud that had formed after the rainfall.
His eyes were open he did not move a muscle. His stomach was ripped open with one clean cut and his arm had been forcefully torn from his body.
Tier's head rolled to Thomas' feet. The rest of Tier's body was trying to fight of the Werewolf with a combination of ballet and 'You stepped on my toe.'
"Oh god, we're doomed." Thomas whispered.

Tony and Michelle had accepted Majo's invitation to warm by her fire, clean themselves up and rest.
The warm water felt like eternal bliss after the hardships they had to endure. Tony's worries ran down the sink as he closed his eyes.
He heard Michelle enter the bathroom. She stripped down from her blood soaked clothes and looked at herself in the mirror above the sink.
Her fur was hanging loose in several places to reveal deep, black gashes. She slowly brushed over them with the top of her fingers, she grind together her teeth waiting for the incoming signals of pain that would not come.
Tony's hand came out from behind shower curtain, he felt around for the towel Majo had provided him with. He wrapped it around his waist and got out.
Michelle gave him a faint smile and looked into the mirror again. She sighed and rested her hands on both sides of the wash basin and looked down at the droplets of blood that made their way down her body.
Tony stood behind her, looking over her shoulder at the same body, looking past the deadness he saw beauty and insecurity.
"I think..." He wanted to start a sentence, but he could not think of the right words. Their eyes met in the reflection of the mirror and she turned around to wrap his arms around him and kissed him.

Alexander was miles away from any kind of comfort, he walked through plains and meadows. For miles and miles with no clear purpose.
Hours after he had left the village he sank down in the tall grass of a field and looked up at the clear, dark sky.
The two moons lit up the area around him, he calmed down and the anger in him cleared up to make place for sadness.
He had been cursing his co-workers for their ostentatious nature.
All he could think about now were their good attributes and the pictures of their families adrift in the seas of blood.
His hands clutched several patches of grass and ripped them out. He has lost everyone he was even remotely close to in one night.
He could taste the bitter tears that ran down his cheek and entered his mouth.
A bright light flashed in the night sky.

The ship shook on all sides as the crew entered the cockpit in shock.
Verity avoided all contact with Icarus' eyes out of shame over something that was not her fault.
Icarus sat down in the chair next to her and looked over the controls and the on screen status report. The shields had been completely knocked out after the first four hits.
The fifth shot had hit the ships stabilizers and they were now being pulled down to the planet by it's gravitational field.
Verity brought the main defenses of Carrotus on screen. 'I'm afraid we ran into some technical difficulties. Our estimate was 80 kilometers, seemed we were a bit off."
Icarus shook his head silently as he saw another blast of energy was released from the planet's surface.
It made impact as they entered the planet's atmosphere. The right side engine shook heavily and would not last much longer.
Naomi pushed Jesse down in the seat and put on his safety belt. He was incredibly afraid and he pushed his back into the chair with so much force that he was afraid he might throw it out.
"We're going to crush into the planet." Verity said stating the obvious. This wasn't the way she expected this to end, she wanted to find the vampire that would embrace her, but life often took unexpected turns.
They were so close to the planet right now and Icarus tried his best to keep his ship under control. With an incredible noise the right side engine broke off and it crashed down into a nearby field shooting up dust, sand and grass into the sky.
Only ten seconds to impact.

The werewolf laughed at the sight of Thomas in front of him. "Look at this, I just defeated a vampire and a zombie. And now I have to take on an accountant. Oh the horror." His voice was deep and ancient.
That's exactly what the young man was thinking. What on earth was he supposed to do? Take out his pen and write him to dead?
"Well, I'm going to..." Thomas wanted to start a brave speech, but before he had a chance to even finished his first line the beast came running at him with both his claws and fangs bared.
Several things flashed through his mind 'Why did I get involved in all of this? Will Susan be alright? Why didn't I bring a clear pair of shorts?"
There was one thing the werewolf had forgotten however, Thomas' wife who would always stick by his side, no matter what.
Susan slammed an iron rod into the wolf's teeth and it, being caught by surprise, fell down to the ground groaning in pain.
She hit it over the head a couple of times after this, until the beast had stopped twitching.
She ran over to Louie first, seeing as how he was the only one with both supernatural powers and a clear head.
"Please, wake up." She took his arm and slapped him across the face with it. "Just wake up will you, you have to get us out of this mess." She shouted.
The wolf groaned, making notions of getting up soon.
Louie looked over at Susan, giving at least a sign of consciousness. "You have to get up, he's going to rip me and my Thomas apart if you don't."
The vampire twitched and took his arm back and placed it against the hollow socket in his chest where it once used to be, it fused together as if it were metal melted together under high temperature.
Susan looked at him in awe as he stood up and kicked Tier's head back to it's body. "I need a little something to get me going Susan." He said.
She jumped as he looked at her with blood red eyes. "I need blood, please get me some soon before I'll do something I'm going to regret."
He opened his hand and revealed his sharp claws after which he reached out his arm for her neck. "Now!" He shouted and he had the hardest time to keep him from grabbing her tr oath and devouring her.
Thomas shoved a fat rat in his mouth and he devoured it in an instant. The color returned to his face and he looked over at the wolf which was crawling up and gave him a frightened look.
"You're not going anywhere." He grabbed the wolf by the skin of the neck and pushed it against the wall of the house. The bricks cracked as the wolf wash pushed against it, bleeding and groaning.
"How many of you do we have to kill before you get the message Sebastian?" The beast gasped for breath and it's eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.
"Stop it, just stop" Susan shouted and Louie released his grasp on the wolf immediately. "Can't you see what you're doing? You are no different from him."
The vampire stood in front of her and it felt like he had grown inches and cast a deep, dark shadow over the fragile woman.
"Thank you for saving us however, that was really kind of you." She said with a small voice.
Tier had picked up his head and placed it on top of his body just in time to see the wolf was getting back up again, on his way to bury his paws inside of Louie.
He had pulled his arm off and smashed the sharp end off it through the werewolf's brain. "Stay!" He shouted to the beast and giggled over his own terrible joke.
Yakira picked up her backpack and threw it over her shoulders, she was ready to go and there was no doubt in her mind that Susan hadn't changed hers.
They would all be getting out of here tonight and she was re leaved that they would all be leaving togheter.
Louie wanted to be sure however. "Do you still feel like staying behind Susan?"
Susan walked inside and emerged from the house minutes later with both her bags and Thomas' packed.
She took one more look at her house and burst into tears. "I'm sorry I've been so stubborn, I really am."
Tier took another sip from a small flask of liquor he had taken from their house and raised his shoulders Apathetically when he noticed Louie's disgruntled look.
"We'd best get to Peddleburg station and take the train to Earian, I know a place over there where we can hide and where no one would ask questions." Louie looked at his traveling companions, who wear all incredibly tired and beat.
Either that or drunk. "So you are suggesting we run and hide?" Tier smelled of liquor and gave him a half cross-eyed look.