Savannah Georgia, what the Fuck is this place

in the morning we awoke and pretended as if last night didn't happen and readied ourselves for georgia. I snuck into town and swiftly and promptly pick pocketed people of their wallets with the classic stumble and bumble routine to pull their wallets from their back pockets. most the wallets save for two had $200-$300 in them. I had a total of five wallets prove fruitful out of seven. we gassed the truck up and proceeded on the way to savannah Georgia. the town 30miles away warned us about going there saying that the people were strange and acted funny. I wasn't sure but hearing the way they talked about the area just gave me the chills like having a demon walk across your grave before you were even in it. we continued driving towards Savannah about Twenty miles out Doctor Randall fell asleep and I was loathe to wake her. I ruminated over Hazel weird appearance and how she smelled so good. I figured that doctor Randall couldn't be a true mate because I was easily attracted and deterred from her by doctor Randall and for some strange reason I felt as if after meeting Hazel I was thinking clearly for the first time and noticing things I otherwise wouldn't have noticed. as we pulled into savannah georgia it seemed like any other town the citizens were bubbly and wary at the same time cause they could tell we weren't from here. I drove till I found a gas station and pulled in and woke doctor Randall to have her keep watch. I went inside to speak to the clerk and he had a snooty attitude towards me once he turned and caught sight of me. he said "what can I do for your kind?" I thought he meant my race and being the blunt person I was I called him on it and said "your going to be rascist we can step outside and settle this like men" he snorted and said "if your kind could be considered men then yes by all means we could but your hardly human are you?" I was at a lost none of the towns people smelled like vardalaks but they could be ancient cause the ancients could walk in the sun even. I stepped out as he picked his phone up and climbed in the truck my instincts screamed run. doctor Randall was about to get out and I slammed her door shut pushing her back in and climbed in and said "we have to go right fucking now something ain't right and they don't smell like vardalaks but I get a bad feeling about them" as we started the truck up we were hemmed in suddenly by several towns people's vehicles as they climbed out moving towards our truck I shoved her out her door and we started fleeing into the store. the clerk came around the desk and he rushed towards us just as I finished locking the door. his face didn't shift to fangs and black eyes but he lifted me up and slammed me down strangely he also slammed doctor Randall down with me both of us by our throats which didn't jibe with the actions of the vardalaks as of late. "y'all aren't thinking about leaving without joining us at dinner are you? that's just plain rude and mannerless" and as he grinned he reminded me of hannibal lecter the famous cannibal and I realized why I was uneasy. they were like the berserkers of old. berserkers were humans that ate the dried out flesh of lycans and vardalaks alike. by eating the two meats of the two different species they refrained from being cursed with one affliction or the other and they gained the strength and power of the two the downside they became terminally insane and deranged. we were in a town of berserker cannibals and we weren't invited for dinner we were invited to be dinner. I realized my folly when I heard a ringing phone in the truck and I looked at doctor Randall and said "seriously you know we are being tracked and your going to bring a damn phone with us?" as intended this gave the clerk a pause before he proceeded with "well that's all fine and dandy then cause now we can have more food" I gulped because in the book berserkers were the one hunters that both lycans and vardalaks had to be weary of. he licked the sides of our faces and laughed "hoho we got bloodline lycan and we got a crowning vardalak" I looked at Randall curiously for god knows how many times now because I knew he wasn't speaking of me when he said what he did about a vardalak. in the book it mentioned that crowning vardalaks were considered powerful ancients at some point lost their memories and awoke hypnotized to believe whatever and when certain circumstances were met they'd emerge into their status again and would be a danger to deal with. there was only three mentioned but they were all supposedly dead cause no one has ran into them in centuries. not single ones name was Samantha Randall unless that was the hypnotized part for the situation for her. I struggled I knew the phone meant that hazel didn't trust us or more specifically Randall and had placed it to track us. my problem with that was no one has ever been known to kill a berserker they are the supreme hunter and any stories involving never ends with them dead but their prey always is gaurenteed to be killed. we drug her into this and I feared we doomed us all. as I started to struggle and fight I broke his arm but he acted like he didn't feel a damn thing and continued to lift us up as he walked towards the door. next thing I know the explosion made my ears ring like a concussive blast under water. we were all flung seperate directions as half the store rained down upon us. the truck was complete smithereens and all the berserkers were blown into PEACES unable to move and either half dead or completely dead. the fear of being armed at their mercy made me forget the era we were in and that there was devices that could incapacitate or kill them. the ones out side and the one inside were slowly regenerating. I got up swaying as hazel grabbed me running I literally was pulled along like a rag doll and barely noticed when we stopped moving instead it was the arguing that snapped my sense straight from the effects of the blast "what gives you? you fucking left me behind!" "oh my fucking bad I figured it's better they eat your ass rather than you crown and turn into the mother of all evil!" I looked at them and said "somebody fucking explain to me why it was never mentioned that this damn town is full of berserkers?!!!" I was starting to get mad and I had to focus on a white blank sheet in my mind to lock my emotions off. they looked at me and said "we didn't fucking know!!!" at the same time just to glare at eachother. " great then what do we do about these fucking predators cause they are at the top of the fucking food chain and will kill us for dinner?!!" hazel looked at me not sure what to say while Randall glared at her " did you bring your team with you?" "no" "did you bring more grenades at least?" she held one up in answer and I swore under my breath. we we're fucked and we needed to get to the dock. I listened and moved sharply towards the center of the town further into the den of monster eaters. as we moved we kept low and silent and I heard the click barely in time as I shoved us all three to the ground mere seconds before. as soon as we hit the ground three seconds after bullets sprayed the wall from a machine gun. I cursed under my breath cause they smelled filled of liquid silver which is bad for us. it would slow and completely inhibit the virus and the change. it was Hazel who moved she disappeared like a fucking ninja stealthy and quiet. as she moved towards the berserker I noticed the rest of the town moving down the street like an untrained marching army. I grabbed hazel grabbed Randall and jumped straight up to the roof when the reign of bullets slowed. we started running and jumped roof top to roof top towards the docks. we ruined many of the old colonial houses roofs but if that was that important we wouldn't be on top of the roof to travel. we made it to the dock and hit the ground running that's when the dog clipped me spinning my legs out from under me and smacking me hard against the dock. I felt the rage roll and controlled it and roared at the dog it barked back and realized they fed the damn thing vardalak meat and it was consumed by it. I grabbed it and snapped it's neck mid air. I moved towards the ladies hardly noticing the difference in my vision until Randall said "uh your eyes are your wolf eyes and your claws are out" I shedded away the claws as my eyes returned to normal. hazel was antsy but she spoke so calm like "if we survive this know you owe me asshole" I laughed and we boarded the boat I cleared out. we started to leave and I noticed the other boats I jumped from our boat to one of the others. I knew what I was doing was going to cut it close but we needed to prevent them following us. I drove the boats one by one close together and tied them to each other just as I was finishing the last boat the first of them was coming down the dock and I thought allowed under my breath "good at least it's that asshole clerk first" I pulled the pin on the grenade and dropped it in the middle boat as he jumped up onto it and I jumped to our boat "screaming go take off now!" she gunned the boat almost throwing me back off just as the grenade exploded sending peaces of the boats and the clerk to where we were just at. As we went down the river I sat back relaxed my body was taxed from shifting so much to the point my entire system muscles nerves joints all screamed in misery. I was hurting all over and I couldn't stop the pain it was a side effect of one shifting too much and two my sensitivity to the sun. I rolled over and before I knew it doctor Randall had placed a fire proof blanket over me and I slept for a while. I don't know what direction we sailed but we were in a motor boat so we'd have to get a proper boat. with hazel there with us I'm sure she knew some places and was probably takin us there to get a proper boat. when I awoke the boat was floating near a dock and I swore it was the dock for savannah Georgia and I muttered about that being impossible. I got up and noticed I was alone we were floating less than two feet from the dock so I jumped onto the dock. I started walking up towards the downtown area and I noticed it was eerily quiet. I looked towards the center of town and noticed smoke so I headed there. I was coming around the side of the building and heard the shouts and screams of celebration and excitement. I stopped just shy of stepping out of the shadows and looked around the corner of the building and there they were eating a barbeque and the sight made me drop to my knees. there was enough portions left on the spit over the fire of the meat to see that it was Hazel and Randall. they were cooking and eating Hazel and Randall and as I turned to run I smacked into the chest of the clerk from the gas station and he grinned like a shark as he picked me up tying me to a spit stick and bringing me over I laid on the ground as they prepared the fire for me and then I was picked up and moved to the fire by the two holding either end of the spit stick. as I got closer I could feel the fire licking at my skin and burning as I got closer I sat upright yelling and swinging out. I noticed I was on the boat covered in the fire proof blanket and Randall and Hazel were looking at me waiting. I tried to speak and I snarled and grunted. it dawned on me looking at my hands that I shifted in my sleep so I focused on calming my heart rate and getting the surge of the virus to leave my system. once returned to normal I asked "how long have I been to sleep and where are we?" she laugh and said "couple days first and second you call that sleep? up until the nightmare that caused you to shift you felt like a corpse ice cold no breath and rigid. " I looked at hazel and nodded "where are we?" "Maryland, now you want to tell me what the Fuck that was and what the actual hell is going on with you?" I ignored her as I responded "we need...." " I know you need to go to Romania we are here to get a proper boat to do that." I merely nodded and went about standing up to relieve myself over the side of the boat. we waited at the dock as hazel went into town with the keys to the boat and the title found on the glove compartment to trade for a better boat built for such a trip. as we waited Randall decided to speak to me "what was that? what is going on with your body and the nightmares like that seems abnormal to me?" I ignored her as hazel returned with keys and title to a nice new boat with a closed in cabin and alot bigger and made for the trip to Romania. she looked at me and said "we have to teach you control and there is two martial arts that do that. Kage No Michi Ninjutsu it called shadow jutsu it teaches one to fight fluid and fast like a shadow and the second is called haichi it's Romanian and teaches of self control we combine the two for hand to hand combat stealth and assassination. they are unrivaled when combined because we can use them in our shifted states too. it makes us virtual badasses." I looked at her startled by what she was saying. "we got a long trip to Romania so I'm going to train you the best I can these martial arts will allow you to learn control over your shift" she looked at me again before continuing" first stop looking so dumbstruck second we will start with haichi cause you need conditioning." as we began the routines of endurance to the limit of pain, control of emotional state, centering mental myself, and proceeding to familiarize myself with what it feels like when the virus surges in my system due to rage and extreme stress and danger to my body. as I continued training one day she threw in a random strike I barely dodged reflexively and I could feel myself getting annoyed and pissed easily. she spoke and said "control the anger control the flow while centering yourself" she kept repeating it like a mantra while attacking me consistently and constantly while I tried to remain seated and and deflect her attacks. her words made no sense and the end of every day I was hyperventilating trying to refrain from shifting and sore in the head from the blows. it went like this for a few days and with whether we had two and half weeks travel by seas to Romania. I'd train to I killed myself or them but I was determined to learn control. one she did and as she struck strike after strike and I stayed seated trying to find my center and defend myself I recognized the feel the fire in me as the rage ignited the rage was always there I was always angry but I could feel it as the virus hit my system it was like lava in my veins. I focused my senses on my body while watching her strikes and slowly my vision changed to red as I dodged and deflected her strikes she picked up speed till I could only dodge the major ones while still seated and holding control over the feeling of the virus. before I knew it she stopped and she said "Now we have a week of training for the hand to hand combat" it sounded so simple the way I write it but thinking back it was extremely painful to learn control and I came close several nights to shifting and losing it. we moved through basic strike block deflect and attack manuevers. as we increased in speed on the basics she started teaching me some of the more complex moves. "I hope to have you at least at a tier two Kage No Michi Ninjutsu. that way you can control your shift in increments with the fight." we were getting close and with two days would be within sight of the coast to start our inland trek to Romania. she warned me that berserkers, vardalaks, rogue lycans and worse roamed these lands and I couldn't imagine what was worse than a berserker but I took her word for it cause she seemed to speak from experience. as the ship started the last few days of trek a real bad storm hit like tossing our boat bad. I could see the turbulent black waters swirling up around us with the sea life like sharks and something larger and I wasn't sure what nor did I want to find out. I was for sure with this turbulence and her lack of sailor experience we were going to be capsized and as the storm got worse I seen a huge wave coming at us. the wave struck us and we capsized and the water the wind the ship it all came at me so fast as I tried to swim out the way the sea tossed me around bitch slapping me like a slut being pimped. as I looked I could see hazel and Randall struggling to swim and I couldn't be sure and I thought maybe the violent waters was distorting images as was the dark but I seen a huge like the size of a boat if not bigger shark swimming towards us and I thought surely dinosaurs aren't real too? that would really make me give up on my damn life because I had all I could handle of truth behind the myths of supernatural creatures life size factoids I could handle. I literally motioned frantically to them and Randall seen me and turned moving just as the shark snatched Hazel in one solid bite like a minuscule palate teaser. I started swimming hard me and Randall towards god knows where when the water swishing and swirling and slamming us around at some point I hit my head on something and I could remember struggling to obtain consciousness but blacked out. as I came to I could hear "breathe my man breathe" I felt the compulsion to vomit and did as spewed water out my lungs and rolled over arms pressed against the warm sand breathing slow and deep and I heard randall's voice "oh my god thank you and there he is thank God I thought that big ass shark ate him" everyone looked at her and said "you seen the demon shark?" she nodded and he said "please leave here at once" puzzled we both started walking till we were in the woods in the middle of nowhere. once there we sat down and I mourned a comrade a teacher a friend. yeah I didn't know her well but I felt like she was my friend and I was close to her. "we could always quit this trip?" I looked at her like she suggested I eat her for dinner " no we finish this and I'll find a teacher for Kage No Michi Ninjutsu but I'd like to morn her and make a memorial for her." I went about doin just that I mourned her for a day mostly hoping she'd just come out of nowhere but I knew she wouldn't. then I built the memorial once done I stepped back looked it over and turned my back "let's go to romania". the memorial said here lies Hazel beloved hunter and lycan. the trek ahead would be harder than her death but at least she could have some peace and not have to suffer through this road because of me.