Hammers in the Shadows

Part Two: Hammers in the Night - Chapter Nineteen

She nodded and came over to me, "I feel the same way, we shouldn't be forced to turn our Pride House into an armed fortress because there are people so wedded to an ancient concept that was best left in the Twentieth Century that they don't see that they are becoming something so much worse."

"Yes," I replied softly remembering something from my previous life, prior to joining the Wehrmacht Viktor had born witness to one of those great rallies that so many people have seen in historical videos, and I had to admit softly to myself that the man at the center of the rally did have a certain magnetic charisma about him, even if he was one of the worst examples of our species and the depths that it could sink to. "Hitler would be proud of them, they are working to bring his vision to the world through other means." I said softly.

Anna nodded and shivered, though I knew that she didn't really understand the full depths that the Nazis had sunk to by the end of the war. "That is why we must do everything in our power to make sure that they don't win love." She told me hugging me gently, "I don't want my cub to grow up in a world like that."

I nodded slightly, "I know love, nor do I." I told her giving her a kiss on the forehead. "We will not let them win." I finished with a firm voice, "Only by giving in, bowing down, and relinquishing our freedom do we ever let those types of people win in the end."

She nodded and smiled up at me, "We won't let them win now or ever,"

I smiled slightly in reply before I gently pulled free from my hug, "Now why don't we go down and get some lunch, it is getting about that time of day isn't it?" I asked her before heading for the door.

That night, some time after midnight I was stirring in my bed when I felt something that I hated feeling, a breaking in the bonds of the Pride, though this time it was sudden, sharp, and vicious. I sat up instantly, my hand flashing to the bedside table for the light switch, and the drawer where I kept my .50 caliber handgun. "Anna!" I growled looking to my side where my mate was also sitting up and even in the light of the dim lamps that we had at our bedside table I could see the amber in her eyes. "They've come." I growled before leaping from the bed and quickly working my way into my personal combat armour. She didn't hesitate at all as she did the same thing, and within moments both of us were fully ready for whatever would come next.

In my hands, instead of my normal rifle I had a high capacity bullpup shotgun loaded with slugs, 15 rounds in two tubes plus one in the chamber. When I'd ordered the six of them for the Pride through our sources in the US Anna had been rather sceptical about the purpose that they'd serve but now they were going to demonstrate just how useful they were.

"Who did they?" Anna asked as we headed down the hallway, and I could almost hear the pain in her voice,

"I think it was young Pietor Samsinov." I stated softly as I ran beside her I knew that his parents were going to be devastated, Pietor was their eldest cub, and their only male so far.

As soon as we emerged from doors of our private quarters and down the small section of stairs that lead into the central plaza I could already hear some noises from the ground floor.

Gathered down below us, around the tree were some fifteen to twenty Were form wolves and cats who were all dressed in black with rather familiar looking steel helmets. Even from where I was standing, hidden in the shadows I could hear their leader talking.

"Okay I want you to take no chances here, this is our home that has been perverted by a degenerate, capitalist, person who is calling themselves a Pride Lord... remember brothers no man is above another, no matter what they say."

I growled slightly bringing up my shotgun and sighting in on his head carefully. He wasn't even looking up, none of them were and I was about to educate them about the folly of not really keeping their eyes constantly on the look-out for enemies from unexpected directions.