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Chapter 3
     
     
    R unning over, Kevin was briefly concerned that they might not be able to get into the school easily; that the high school’s security would see him with what appeared to be a gang of rough looking, disheveled individuals and refuse to let them inside, even if he was a former teacher there. He’d thought that it might have caused problems, having to knock them out to get in.
                Yet one look at the school told him that they had much bigger things to worry about. The large, slightly dated buildings of Wicked’s high school were quiet in a way that full school buildings never truly were. Ordinarily, there would have been at least a few kids out in between classes, or running because they were late, or just hanging out in one of the large open spaces nearby. Now though, there was nothing. Even the small security hut on the gate was quiet, though Kevin quickly scented the reason for that. When he looked inside, there was a middle aged man in a security uniform, dead and bloodless. Kevin motioned the wolves with him past the gate.
                That was when a second security guard leapt out from the shadows beside the gate, throwing himself at Kevin. Kevin didn’t even hesitate. He grabbed the man, who in life had been bulky and muscular but who was too young in vampire terms to be truly strong, and slammed him back against the security hut. Kevin hit him once, twice, and then grabbed him, stepping behind the man to pin his arms.
                “Where are they?” he demanded.
                The guard opened his mouth wide, showing fangs as he tried to turn his head to bite Kevin. Carol stepped forward and broke his neck, then shoved a piece of wood that looked like a chair leg from one of the chairs in the guard hut into him. The vampire guard died without a sound.
                “What did you do that for?” Kevin demanded.
                “He was going to bite you,” Carol shot back. “Besides, you know he wouldn’t have said anything useful. You probably know as much about where they’ll be as he did.”
                Annoyingly, Carol was probably right. There were only so many places that the vampires could use if they wanted to keep a large number of students in one spot. Of those, some offered the vampires better opportunities to control the students than others.
                “The gym,” Kevin declared. “They’ll be in the gym.”
                “There,” Carol said, reaching up to put a hand on his shoulder. “You see, I was right.”
                “Just… don’t kill anyone else without my say so,” Kevin ordered.
                Carol looked away. “Yes, my king.”
                “I’m not anyone’s king,” Kevin said.
                Carol shrugged. “Maybe you should be.”
                Kevin ignored that, leading the way to the school’s gym, he crept forward quietly, signaling to the other werewolves to keep low. Most of them did that by transforming, padding along silently behind him. They couldn’t afford to alert the vampires to their presence. Not that Kevin believed the vampires would be able to stop them, but if they were in the school, then there was too much of a chance that they would have kids nearby, and Kevin knew Pietre wouldn’t hesitate to hurt any hostages he had if he saw the werewolves coming.
                So they moved as quietly as they could around the side of the school gym, working their way to the entrance. There was a figure there, standing out in the open. Carol started forward, but Kevin put a hand on her shoulder.
                “What?” she asked.
                “The guard on the gate wasn’t in plain view like that.” He stopped, sniffing the air and then shifting shape as easily as breathing. In his wolf form, the colors of the