Chapter Two ~ Killing My Own Kind

Chapter Two ~ Killing My Own Kind

Marik's point of view

The girl that had burst into the hut must have been around my age. She hurried back out of the hut shortly after informing her father that there was a Lycan in the woods. From the short glimpse I'd caught of her, she was the most beautiful human that I'd ever seen. She had long, wavy, auburn hair and huge blue eyes. Her face was sweet looking, but covered in mud and dirt, telling me that she knew her way around a hunt. Her slim, yet curvy body had my cock twitching as soon as I saw her.

The man rushed out of the hut after his daughter, so I sprang into action. After seeing that incredible girl, I couldn't let my mother kill her. They wouldn't stand a chance against her, so I had to hurry. I threw the blanket off of my legs and tried to stand up. One of my legs was broken and had been wrapped up tight. But my other leg was fine. I knew if I could shift the break in my leg would heal instantly, but I couldn't do it in front of Hadriana and her son. If that was the reaction they had to a Lycan, God knows how they would react to me.

I pushed past the pain and managed to get up onto my feet. Hadriana gasped and rushed towards me. She tried to hold up my weight, but she was only a slight woman. I steadied myself on one foot, and once I caught my balance, I began to hop towards the opening in the hut wall. Hadriana sprinted to the opening and held her arms out while shaking her head at me.

"You can't go out there like that. The Lycan will rip you apart. Is that how you ended up like this?”

Her words rang in my ears, and an idea came to mind.

"Yes, the last thing I remember is seeing a huge Lycan. Then I woke up in here."

"Oh dear, you poor boy. You're lucky to be alive. Please sit back down, you need to heal."

"I'm sorry Ana, I can't. Your daughter and husband won't survive facing that Lycan. Please trust me, I can save them," I begged her.

She stared at me, clearly arguing with herself on what to do. She looked outside deep in thought.

"Please, Ana!"

"Fine, go, but please be careful."

She stepped out of the way allowing me to hobble out of the hut. I glanced back and saw that she and her son were watching me. I waved my hand, letting them know to go back inside. Hadriana knew what I wanted her to do. She placed her hands onto the young boy's shoulders and guided him back into the hut. I hobbled faster towards the trees, and once I'd made sure the coast was clear, I shifted into my wolf form.

The sound of my bones cracking and reshaping echoed through the trees. It sounded more painful than it was, over the years I'd gotten used to the pain it caused. Once I was fully shifted, I stretched out my now fully healed leg, releasing a huge crunch. It felt so good, and being back in wolf form was incredible, but I didn't have time to enjoy it. The scent of a Lycan hit me and I began sprinting towards it. As darted past the trees, the scent grew stronger, and I knew it wasn't my mother.

I heard a woman scream, and a group of men yelling out. When the booming growl of the Lycan reached my ears, I picked up my speed. When I entered the clearing the scene that beheld me was one of horror. The large black Lycan had a fully grown man between his jaws and was thrashing around. The sound of the man screaming made my heart weep, and when the Lycan bit down, snapping the man's back in half, I almost lost it. I had to be smart about it, I had to be able to attack the beast, without hurting or being attacked by the humans.

I did all that I could think of, I ran around the back of the Lycan and bit down as hard as I could on its tail. The creature cried out and dropped the man's mangled body to the ground. I knew he was dead already, so my main focus was getting the Lycan away from the rest of the humans. I yanked on his tail pulling him away from the crowd. I hoped that they would just gather their injured and dead and run, but they didn't. Instead, they charged at the beast with their swords ready to impale him. I knew they would slow him down, but they were unlikely to kill him, at least without any more casualties.

I let go of his tail and jumped into the air. As I came back down, I latched onto its neck and sank my teeth into its flesh. The Lycan howled into the air, making the humans jump back in fear. I used the opportunity to pull the beast to the floor. As it thrashed around on the floor, I began to run away in the hope that I'd pissed it off enough to chase me. To my relief, it got up onto its feet and began to hunt me down. As it got closer, I ran even faster. Darting in and out of the trees had me feeling free. Although my mother had recreated forests in the moon realm, it wasn't anywhere near as impressive as the real thing.

I was enjoying the run far more than I'd intended, and soon the Lycan was trailing behind me. I slowed down knowing that we were far enough away from the crowd of people. The only noise I could hear was its paws pounding the dirt, there were no other footsteps following us. I turned left and ran around a tree, bringing me in line with the gigantic beast. I'd seen my mother in Lycan form many times before, and his size had nothing on hers. In fact, he wasn't much large than I would be if I stood on my hind legs.

I'd never killed a Lycan before, but I had trained with my mother and she taught me well. I was confident that it wouldn't take long to subdue the beast. I stood in front of it, waiting for it to charge me. It didn't take long, it howled into the air, then charged right at me. I stood firm, waiting for exactly the right moment. When it was within two feet of me, I jumped to the right-hand side of the Lycan and ran behind it. As it spun around to face me, I leaped onto its chest, forcing it to the ground. Before its back crashed into the dirt-covered woodland floor, I sank my teeth into its neck again. This time I didn't bother to let go, I thrashed around and tore at its flesh until it was loose enough for me to rip it open.

Blood sprayed into the air as the beast went limp. No sound came out of the Lycan, he was dead, and as much as I wanted to celebrate and eat my kill, I didn't have time. I could hear tiny footsteps coming up directly behind me. Why I chose to shift at that moment, I didn't know, but it was impossible to stop a shift once it had started. Pure panic filled me. If they saw me shifting, they would surely think I was a Lycan and try to kill me. Just as my shift hit its peak, I fell to the ground while my legs broke and reshaped themselves. I wished I could speed my shift up, but I always shifted back into human form slower than I did shifting into wolf form.

The tiny footsteps got faster and the person would be in the clearing at any second. The panic was slowing down my shift, and I had no choice but to close my eyes and hope to God that whoever was there didn't reach me while I was still shifting. As my head and ears began to return back into their human form, I lost the ability to hear or smell for a few seconds. When they returned that sweet and floral scent from earlier bombarded my nose. I inhaled her scent while hoping that I had time to escape before she got there. But as I tried to listen out for her tiny footsteps, I couldn't hear them anymore.

I pulled myself to my feet, and as soon as I straightened up, I heard the girl clear her throat behind me. I froze on the spot not knowing how to react. She cleared her throat again, then said,

"Are you going to turn around and face me? Or am I going to have to run this sword through your back?"

I gradually turned around to face her and as soon as my eyes locked onto hers, I knew I needed to make her mine. A smile grew on my face, while her own mouth dropped open. Her eyes scanned down my extremely naked body and landed on my well-endowed cock. The sword she held so firm less than a few seconds ago, fell from her grip and clinked as it hit the ground. She couldn't take her eyes off of me, and as she closed her mouth, I heard her gulp. My smile grew wider knowing how much she wanted me. I could hear her heart racing, and could smell her arousal intensifying by the second.

Our intimate moment was cut short when a group of men came running into the clearing, brandishing their swords. The girl's father glanced down in surprise at the dead Lycan, but when his eyes landed on me, that expression turned into one of pure fury. He stepped forward and placed the tip of his sword onto my neck, and through gritted teeth asked,

"Do you want to tell me why you're standing butt naked in front of my daughter?"

As the sword tip poked further into my neck, I gulped and thought, Oh crap, not again.