CHAPTER NINE **CHEST**
Vandy got up early for his birthday hunting trip he was excited about his free run in the hills of North Carolina and so was Lynn because it was a full moon tonight and she would get to run with Vandy and hang out with his Uncle the Prince-to-Never-Rule. The first stop was to grab Jabari then to grab food his brother James and off to the woods. This hunting trip was a three-day epic event because it was always a full moon on Vandy's birthday and he could run free, moon chasing.
He knocked on the front door of Briggy's house while Kyle walked to the back of the house whistling and yelling Jabari's name. Jabari's wolf ears wiggled as he heard his name being called he popped up off the couch where they both laid nude.
"What?" He said to no one. "Somebody is here, baby cover up, get your robe." Briggy ran to the back room as Jabari opened the door while scratching his face. "What nigga? What?"
"Man get your ass ready we gotta go." Vandy mumbled when he talked, like his father. "Here puts some clothes on." He came in the house handing him fresh clothes. "Hurry up, c'mon."
"Alright Vandy, damn let me brush my teeth."
"Yeah because you probably been licking ass all night." Their nephew Kyle came in the front door, he was tall like him but look like the basketball player Steph Curry and he resented that always.
"Jabari, Jabari you gotta a phone. Use it, use your fucking phone." Jabari leaned on Kyle was he slipped on his basketball shorts. "Damn it's hot in here. Where's your girlfriend?" Kyle looked around.
"Ya'll fucking wolves scared her away. Baby! I'm about to go!" He yelled to her.
"C'mer for a minute!" She yelled back. "Jabari com'er."
"Let me take care of this." Jabari ran behind her voice smiling.
"Hurry up dog!" Vandy yelled behind him. Jabari smiled as he went to find Briggy, liked the lesson he was learning.
Jabari climbed to third row backseat of Vandy's Yukon with Mike, Man-Man and Lynn inside he barely saw them as he had Briggy running through his mind. Jabari smelled like her all over wearing scratches all down his back and neck and he loved every wound because they came from her.
"You smell like pussy." Kyle told him. Jabari ignored him and threw his hoodie over his head trying to go back to sleep.
"And I'd still be in some right if yo' ass hadn't knocked. Aye, nigga don't blast no Jay Cole, Pop Smoke or Wu-Tang!"
"Stop talking nasty in front of Lynn." Mike told him and he gave Mike the finger.
"I'm excited, I'm not listening to them, baby let's go!" Lynn jumped around in the seat smile. "Tonight is your night!"
Vandy was one of the few men in his family who celebrated his birthday as Pure blood werewolf's lived over 730 years to celebrate one every year seems redundant. But not to Vandy he loved his birthday and every year he gathered some boys from the family and went hunting.
They had a two hour drive in front of them all the way to the Ash County to hunt deer and celebrate Vandy's birthday in the most epic way, they all turned and ran under the full moon. They called it moon chasing.
"Aye Man-Man where the fuck is Johnny Mae and why don't your sister come around?" Mike the husband of Betty who was off in that cave with Ragnod 2 asked. He was one of the oldest grandson.
Vandy looked at him in rearview. "Yeah, why don't she show up?"
Man-Man could see his sister Nickel in his mind forever the day she walked away. "Nickel hates this shit, the fighting and when she comes around people die. So, Nickel doesn't come around."
"So, they just let her walk away?" Lynn asked him, "Hi I'm Lynn!"
"I know who you are beautiful I am Man-Man and yeah they let her?" Man-Man scoffed, his snob side showing. "She was our Emperors and she could do whatever she wanted. That's why we have the council because she refused to come back. My sister split the lands and give it to us, that's the truth."
"Where is Johnny Mae?" Mike asked Man-Man's other son and the cousin Vandy hated the most.
"They sent Johnny Mae to live with Nickel, he's their spy."
"Where she live now?" Vandy asked about their reclusive Aunt Nickel.
"She in Mountains in La Canada, in California." Jabari said. "Yo back in the day, I called Auntie Nickel when mom gave me her old phone, we talk sometimes. Aye, but Man-Man why does she look 30 and she older than mom?
"Isn't she ain't over 600 years old or something?" Lynn was fascinated with Nickel like most Werewolf's were.
"She never had pups, she had two husbands before, but no kids that how you stopped the aging process. Nickel don't mess with wolves, she only human's aggressive ass football playing humans and them boys love her. Nickel only shows up when she thinks it's important, not when we think she should."
God damn right, Lynn thought to herself.