My Hockey Alpha

Nina

Somehow, I managed to sneak into the rogues’ den, creep past dozens of sleeping rogues, and pinpoint which rogues were my friends. And, thanks to Tiffany’s brilliance in creating the antidote, I was able to cure Lori and Jessica.

But now I had to get my friends to safety, and the rogues would be waking up at any minute.

We had to move quickly, but quietly. As a trio, Lori, Jessica and I all stood as slowly and quietly as possible. I grabbed Tiffany’s medical bag off of the floor with one hand, then took Jessica’s hand with the other. Jessica, in turn, held Lori’s hand with her other one. Together, we walked in a single-file line toward the exit.

Since I came through here before, I was at least a little more familiar with the layout. I knew where the larger piles of rogues were sleeping, as well as which route to take that had the least amount of rogues.

Quietly, Lori, Jessica and I stepped over the sleeping rogues with the utmost caution. We never let go of each other’s hands; I refused to run the risk of losing my friends again if anything went awry. I already felt guilty enough for leaving them on the night of the last hockey game, just minutes before the attack began. I couldn’t let anything happen to them ever again.

When we got out of here, I had to admit that I didn’t know what we would do. Night was falling, and we were stuck in the forest. The entire place would be completely crawling with rogues and Crescents, and we were just three defenseless girls. Lori and Jessica were still in a bit of a stupor from losing days of their memories due to being rogues for that entire time. Not only that, but my leg was bleeding more than ever now and each step was agony. A throbbing numbness was slowly working its way up my leg, making it hard to move, but I had to keep going. I couldn’t let my friends down again, and I had to get out of here safely so I could find a way to go back for Enzo in order to save the town together.

Soon, the end of the tunnel came into view. I could sense that the rogues were slowly starting to stir in their sleep, so I picked up the pace as I pulled my scared friends along behind me. As the ladder came closer and closer, I felt my heart leaping into my throat with a combination of joy and fear.

help my friends through; hopefully, from there, we would have just enough time to find a place to hide for

universe wouldn’t let it

around slowly. My eyes widened as I saw Jessica frozen in fear with her foot wedged beneath a rogue’s massive paw. The rogue was waking up, its muddy yellow eyes focusing and its fangs baring as it came to the realization that there was a human

“Run.”

up first, who opened the hatch and scrambled out. Jessica came up behind her, sobbing uncontrollably with fear as Lori’s hands reached down for her. By now, the rogues were all waking up,

ladder just as the

“Come on!” she yelled.

as I began to climb the ladder. My leg, however, was almost entirely numb now and I could hardly move it enough to get up the

me in the tunnel. The rogues were alerting each other to our presence, and all I could picture was my leg being snapped in half between

over and grabbed my other hand, then together they hauled me up and out of the hatch just as the rogues made a lunge for my legs. Their teeth caught on

But we weren’t free.

to our presence, but also nearby Crescents. As I painfully scrambled to my feet with Lori and Jessica

winced with every

realized that I