The rush of hot red blood from Liam's shoulder wrapped Van's taste buds in a delicious savory tangy flavor. He clenched down his jaw, very close to cracking the were's collarbone in response to the growl, when Brendan's arms came around his neck and his voice buzzed in his ears. Van's humanity was buried somewhere under all the rage that had boiled up. He was more kelpie than boy Brendan knew and the admonishments to let Liam go were lost in the echo of fury.
Van doubled down on his bite when Ewan got involved, refusing to let go. He could feel his bite being pulled back, teeth detaching from muscle and tendons, and then his prey was being take out from under him and Van let out another piercing ethereal scream of rage.
The sound cut off when his glowing red eyes met his brother's glowing red eyes. They were kin and the look said more than words. Van surged to the surface again and just as quickly as it came, the dark horse faded from his features. He gasped and grabbed shakily onto Ewan.
"What... what the fuck?" Van panted, looking wildly around them at all the faces. Liam's blood coated his mouth and ran down his chin, his neck, and had bled into his shirt to mix with his own. The kelpie blood repelled the were-curse with impunity.
There was a commotion behind them as Mr. Hartley took down two of the weres that were trying to fight forward to help Liam against the vampire that had him now. The weres hit the floor with groans, not likely to get up for more than a few minutes while their packmates dared to retaliate. Hartley took the others down in what looked like a careless backwards gesture.
Blake knew he'd need some help getting control of this situation, but the students hadn't caught onto that yet. Some on the outskirts were already taking their chance to beat a hasty retreat. Blake's sharp green eyes pinned on each of the students that looked like they had been involved, remembering their names.
"Daughter of Cerberus, no!" Blake called out in Ancient Greek to Cheyenne in her Hellhound form. Too late to save Tanek.
The viper Tanek had grabbed and pulled had struck reflexively, sinking venomous fangs into the boy's soft flesh. Within 20 seconds, Tanek was down on the ground seizing, mouth foaming, and then went still.