Alexa's wolf scampered through the trees. She was fast. Faster than average animals. Yet it appeared that the vampire was faster. It looked like the forest had camouflaged her target. Panicked, her nose tilted high as she sniffed the air around her to trace Tom. Her direction followed her nose as she galloped the distance between herself and the source of the scent. Suddenly, her body stiffened. All her senses alerted. Her eyes glowed, but this glow was different as a yellow tint appeared around the usual beautiful shade of violet. She had sniffed human blood. In the current scenario, It was Tom's blood. Somewhere in that forest, he was injured. And he was injured with a blood-sucker.

Alexa was a hybrid. A part-animal. Her werewolf genes were usually dominated by her metamorphmagus side. However, werewolves hunt humans. And in that instant, her wolf was overwhelmed with a desire to hunt this human. Her wolf side took control of her sane human genes as she wildly looked around herself to sniff out his alluring scent. She growled in anticipation of tasting the blood. She quarried, forgetting how deep she was already in the forest.

Alexa's wolf came to halt when she saw him. The body with blood that had allured her was lying motionlessly in the shadow of a tree. He looked like he was dead. 

She pounced towards him. Her short snout sniffled around his body. Her eyes glowed yellow when her sharp ears gathered a shallow beating of a heart. It looked like he was unconscious. Mindlessly she opened her mouth, ready to bite his head off when the smell of fresh citrus invaded her senses. The smell that strangely comforted her. She took another whiff and he smelled very familiar. The sudden realization helped Alexa in gaining control of her mind. She took a few steps back spontaneously. Her head lowered as she sniffed Tom's again. It was like her animal of caressing him. It was like her animal was ashamed with overwhelming guilt. 

Now that Alexa had gained control, she could finally feel that her dark brown fur was wet. It was wet with Tom's blood. She could see that he was injured. The side of his head was bleeding profusely. It looked like he had lost lots of it. As a predator, it was quite challenging for her to ignore the scent of blood, yet, she fought hard with herself. She wanted him to live, for he was hers and she was his. She licked the cut. Animals saliva has the power to disinfect and sometimes can even cure the wounds. She just hoped that hers could heal his.

"Well, well, well!"

The slimy voice raised goosebumps in her body. Alexa turned in the direction of the vampire. The sneaky big thing jumped down from a nearby tree and joined the scene. 

"I was hoping for a better show. I was hoping that you would finish what I started, but you saved him. How very uninteresting!"

Alexa narrowed her eyes. Enraged, she wanted to destroy him. The beast had the guts to first harm the boy she loved and then stay back to mock her in her face. She stood her ground waiting for his next step. 

Sition smirked. He liked challenges. More than that he liked mocking.

"You corrected me, however. You aren't much like your father. At least he knew when to give in to his nature." 

With that said he pounced on her. She launched herself on him, but he was ready. With a strong push, he pushed her back to the ground with a thud. Defiantly she stood up and growled at him. Her paws rooted in the soil firmly, to help her stand high. However, the impact hadn't been very gentle. 

She had fast healing abilities. Hence when it pained, in confusion, she looked down at her abdomen. The vampire had slit her there in just one stroke. He had used one of his elongated nails to achieve it. The injury done like that took longer to heal. She looked back up to see him still smirking at her. 

"You didn't hope I will be easy, did you?" He mocked again.

Ignoring her pain, she waited for him again. She wasn't trained in combat by hands, so she had no idea how to initiate the fight. In one of the biggest fights of her life, Alexa was going to rely on her instincts. Not only hers but also even Tom's life now relied on her instincts. Give me strength papa, she prayed. 

Tired of waiting, the vampire attacked. He was thirsty and this dog was standing between him and his food. With his elongated canines, he ran to Alexa, but she was ready. The moment he was close enough, she bit him on his forearm. The vampire let out a hiss when he felt her canines burying in his right arm. His blood boiled in anger. 

With his left hand, he grabbed hold of the side of her neck and pushed her in the nearby tree. Alexa growled and moved her paws to free herself, but no avail. Despite the length of her wolf being more than Sition, he successfully locked her in her place with his strength. Unlike the fifteen-year-old, sheltered yet high spirited teen; the centuries-old, wild and free, well-trained vampire had enough time to master and invent new tactics. With one hand and his body strength freezing her in her place, he used his other hand to knock her out. 

Sition raised his hand again. This time he went for a kill. He was in the mood to play no more. However, he found his hand being stuck in the air. Letting Alexa's unconscious body fall on the ground ungracefully, he himself fell down with a thud. His eyes looked at the uninvited guest who had suddenly joined the scene. Perhaps it was time for Sition to know that he was not the only sneaky one. Perhaps it was time he knew that stealth is one of the aspects that Aurors need to excel in order to join the ministry. And with his years of service, Antonio Avery had mastered that skill ruthlessly.

Antonio looked at the man he had attacked. 

"Accio wand," he muttered directing his spell on the petrified figure. His warm blue eyes narrowed when the four small pieced of wood landed in his stretched palm. It looked like they were the remainings of two wands. Who was this man and why did he carry broken wands? He wondered. His mind tried to recollect if he had seen him before, but he hadn't. He was not the man to forget anyone easily.

"Pervestigatio," He muttered another spell as he tried to search for an identity of the man by finding something important in his unconscious form. His frustration grew when he found none. 

"DeDuplicia!" A chain circled itself around the unknown identity. For now, Antonio had other things to take care of. His eyes landed on a body lying unconscious near the unknown man. Never in years would he have guessed that Alexa was a werewolf. His mind wondered when he didn't recall a single instance that gave him to doubt during her stay in Avery Manor that summer. Damn Dumbledore! He cursed the old professor. The meddling man should have given him a fair warning of what he was sheltering. At least he deserved that much. Anything could have happened to him and his family. Grumbling he took off his coat and put it over her body.

"Homorphous." He saw, mesmerized, how her fur got replaced with her pale skin as her height reverted back to her normal form. As he had already covered her in his cloak, he didn't notice the cut on her abdomen and moved to the body lying in the shadows of another tree. 

Antonio rushed to the boy whom he considered his another son. Tom Riddle was an exceptional student. Thanks to his son, Anthony, Antonio felt as if he knew the boy on a personal level. He had no idea how Tom got involved in this mess. The oldest Avery kneeled down, worriedly, as he checked the young Riddle's pulse. It was there, barely yes, but it was there. 

"Vulnera Sanentur" He murmured. The first use of the spell was to ease the blood flow of Tom. The second was to knit his wounds. The third time he used the spell to disinfect and counter any side-effect. The spell had replenished the loss of blood in Tom's body up to a certain extent, but Antonio was sure that the boy still needed an external supply to get back his original strength. He felt Tom's heart reverting back to its regular rhythm bit by bit.

I got them and I am coming back. He sent his Patronus to his fellow acquaintances. The man sighed in relief. It's over.

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Is it all really over? Wait to find out in the next chapter. 

Anyway, there are too many spells here.

Accio: Summoning spell. Belongs to fandom.

Pervestigatio: A spell to thoroughly search someone. Creation of my mind.

DeDuplicia: A spell to bind someone. Another creation of my mind.

Homorphous: A spell to revert werewolf back to its human form. First used in chapter 30-31

Vulnera Sanentur: One of the healing spells that belong to fandom.

I hope you liked the chapter and Alexa's fight with Sition. There is something I want to clarify, Alexa was indeed tempted for Tom's blood in her wolf form. In HP universe, Werewolves are mindless hunters; and being a part wolf, Alexa has her weakness. Yet, she conquered it by not attacking Tom in the end.  I hope you understood why Alexa failed in fighting the blood-sucker. At the end of the day, she is human. I know a lot of you might expect the protagonist to know everything, but Alexa is not born great. She is still trying hard to find her place.

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