11. Hunted

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I wake to the sound of Lizzy and Max talking quietly to eachother, I pretend to still be asleep and listen in, because I'm nosy like that.
"Anyway enough about me and Ethan what about you and Jas?" I hear Lizzy ask, damn I missed the bit of her and Ethan.
"I don't know what she feels about me but the first time I saw her it just felt like we clicked I don't know if she feels the same way but I really care for her I've never cared for someone this much before, but I don't want to ruin what we have", he says as he sighs,
"To be honest I know my best friend and I think she has a thing for you, and she is one hard chick to impress", she says as she laughs.
"All I know is that I have to keep her safe whatever happens I'll always be there for her", he says, my heart jumps as Lizzy begins to speak again.
"Awe where have you been her whole life huh?" I hear her say which I think she slaps his arm. He chuckles and then I hear him walking across the branches towards me.
"Belle?" he says as he gently taps the feathers on my wing.
I flutter my eyes open as he stares at me. I drop my wings as he smiles and gives me a hand, I gladly take it and he helps me up.
"Did you tell the others about last night?" I ask as Lizzy walks up to us.
She looks at us with disgust.
"I do not want to know what you two did last night Jas keep it to yourself please yuck", she says with a mock gag.
I laugh as Max begins to explain.

"What the hell?" Lizzy says as her eyes are wide at the information she has just received.
"Lets quickly get our muscles woken up and then we are going to get going", I rush out at the nervous silence in the air.
We are on the floor flapping our wings and getting the muscles warmed up for the big flight ahead of us.
I'm in the air practicing my turns when Max comes crashing into me, we clatter to the ground as I blink down at him, I look down as I am straddling him, I feel my face turn pink and so does he, I roll over and we start laughing, our faces come closer our lips an inch apart, my heart jumps in my throat at the proximity.
Then the worst happens, Lizzy screams then we turn around to see a person from the facility with his arms wrapped around her body pulling her away, I go to run up to her when a big pile of brown fur comes tumbling out of the tree and into the person behind Lizzy,
Lizzy quickly gets up as we all eye the massive wolf tearing into the helpless person peices of white robes flying everywhere, the screams soon quiet down,
"Ethan get here now we are going", Max quickly says as I hold Lizzy's hand, I begin to open my wings as Max takes off with Ethan in his arms, the wolf stops and looks at me with my wings half unfurled holding Lizzy's hand.
"Lizzy go!" I quickly say as I take off, to my surprise she is right behind me, the wolf comes narrowing towards us and jumps up and snaps it's jaws, I feel it's breath glide across my feet as I let out a squeal of fear as my wings carry me away, we pull out of the meadow and fly towards the direction we can see Max flying in.
Lizzy is next to me as I keep my eyes trained forward when I hear a clatter of paws on the ground, I first look to Lizzy who doesn't seem to have noticed the movement down below, I look down as I see a blur of a wolf running through the trees and dodging around branches. In that split second I hit a tree head on and fall, I quickly grip onto the tree with my claws dug into the bark, I fall a few metres but quickly hang onto a tree branch with my wings on either side of me, I quickly pull myself up and onto the branch and tuck my wings in, I flatten myself against the trunk at the fear of being spotted, I hear branches breaking below and glance down to see the wolf walk under neath the tree, I silently watch as it begins to sniff around, I gulp as I cast my eyes off into the distance at the sound of a group of approaching footsteps, it looks behind it as a group of people come into view, I hold my breath as I eaves drop in their conversation.
"We need to find them before they get to the humans", a man says as the wolf yips in response,
"One of them is here but keep your voices down we don't know anything about them, the rest is trying to track the others as we speak", I widen my eyes at the thought of getting captured again, I need to get back to the others somehow.
I snap my head in the direction of howling in the distance that my friends were going, oh no I need to help them.
I look back down as a sound of a chainsaw starts, then the tree begins to shake as I see them half way through the tree im sitting on, I grab onto the trunk as it starts to sway, and then it falls. I push myself off and beat down hard, I look up and I'm quickly met with a branch from the falling tree and I'm brought back down from any means of escape, I hit the ground a few feet away from the people,I bring my head up to lock eyes with the wolf as it shows me it's teeth. Time to run.
I get up and bolt through the trees as I hear numerous foot falls pounding after me, I hear the sound of water so I turn and go in that direction, I see a break in the trees and I quickly jump over a fallen dead tree and I'm skidding to a stop at the edge of a cliff, I unfold my wings and jump up into the sky and beat down, I look up to the sky just as pain shoots up through my tail and I'm yanked backwards with a startled scream, I land on the cliff edge as im being forcefully tugged away my claws scraping against the stone and my wings flapping helplessly against the stone, then another round of pain explodes through my left wing the same tugging sensation happens throughout my wing, I scream in pain as I'm turned onto my back, I look down to see a wolf shaking its head and pulling back with my tail in its mouth, I look to my left to see my wing being ripped about by another wolf as it shakes it about like a chew toy, it's cut short as a person comes out of the opening,
"Leave" he simply says and the wolves let go. I quickly scatter up and to a side of the cliff wall to see that I'm cornered, I drop into my defensive crouch with my right wing shaking violently half opened with my left wing laying limp at my side slowly leaking blood from various holes, I hold my tail up behind me so the injured part isn't touching the ground, littered around the cliffs edge is specks of brown fur and broken off pieces of feathers from my wing, I keep my hissing and growling up as they seem to watch me.
The wolves are in similar defensive positions growling and bareing their teeth at me.
The person steps forward which makes me unfold my wing in one swift moment startling some of the people into a crouch, I bare my teeth in a warning at him as he steps even closer he looks at me as he stares at my canines surprised. I give off a series of growls and hisses when he speaks after assessing me.
"What are you?" I cock my head at his question still not letting off the growling.
He looks behind him and gives the wolves a hand signal and they disappear through the trees. I stop hissing but lightly begin growling and slightly straighten keeping my eyes on the treeline and the people in front of me.
The man looks at my wing now covered in blood,
"What are you?" He asks again a little less stern than before.
I take a deep breath as I straighten a notch, my wing still partially outstretched,
"I don't know what you mean", I push out with a growl of annoyance at my throbbing wing and tail.
"What happened to you?" He questions .
"I was turned into something I didn't want to be", I say with an undertone of a growl, he sighs as he looks down,
"Who made you this way?" He asked as his eyes lift back up to mine, I hesitate as I look at the group,
"People in white robes, scientists", I say as the growl wears off, he nods as realisation hits him, he looks at my wing again before he speaks up once more,
"Follow us, we will get you cleaned up", he says with a small smile, he turns around and then the group starts going back into the forest,
I hesitate before I decide to go with him, I'm useless with a possible broken wing.
I'm walking slightly behind him for about ten or fifteen minutes when we enter a clearing with a massive house, you could call it a mansion, planted in the middle of it.
I stop to take it all in, the man notices and stops and waits for me, he motions for me to carry on and I follow.
He leads me through the house and shows me to a room and pulls out a chair.
I sit gingerly as he looks towards the door as a medic walks in with a bag, she hesitates then she carries on walking over towards me, I narrow my eyes at her and inhale, fear radiates off her in waves making me inhale another breath, I figured out I could smell the toxicity of emotions but only at the highest moments, she slowly comes over as I give her a side eye,
She begins to get to work on my wing parting my feathers to get a better look.
"What did this?" She questions glancing at me but then looking up at the man, he looks down at the floor.
"We were trying to chase her down but two of the pack members got too carried away", he explains, she looks back down at my wing and huffs in annoyance. Pack members? Werewolves? I knit my eyebrows together as I piece it together.
She straigtens it and flexes it, the anger from her hits me and I have to raise my eyebrows at her,
"They only tore the skin, no broken bones lucky enough, I have no idea how though, I'm going to clean it and see how it goes from there", she says as she starts to clean it up,
"How do you know?" I blurt out as I scrunch my face at the stinging at the tip of my wing, the medic looks at me with an apology,
"Well I've looked at bird wings before, yours is no different.... Just bigger", she shrugs as she places some ointment onto each of the teeth marks, I hear the man clear his throat and I look back to him,
"Why don't we start from the beginning?" The man asks me, he looks at me to start speaking,
"Well I got kidnapped they started injecting me with something then I'm about to get rescued, then it goes downhill from there and here I am", I finish as I raise my arms around me, he nods as though he has scanned through each and every word I have just said,
"That's a lot to go through", he says still gazing into my eyes, I think back to my friends,
"Do you know where my friends are?" He smiles at me as he leans back in his chair,
I look down as the medic is now putting my arm up in a bandage, I turn back to the man,
"They are on their way", he says after a pause.
"Anymore injuries?" The medic says looking at me expectantly, I open my mouth then close it and just look down at my tail in my lap, She looks down and carefully picks it up with both hands, She sighs as she parts my fur at a large gash in my tail.
"You really need to get them trackers under control", she says as she starts to clean it up, I look at the man and furrow my eyebrows, he catches on to my confusion and straightens,
"The wolves that attacked you are my trackers in my pack-" he is disrupted as someone bursts through the door, I stand quickly and knock my chair over with my good wing unfurled as I glare at the two figures in the doorway.
"Its alright you can sit back down Belle", the man says to me, I snap my glare to him at the use of my name.
"Someone told me your name" he says with his hands out at my still tense form.
"You could have knocked", he says with authority in his voice towards the two men, they both visibily shrink back into themselves,
"I'm sorry alpha", they both said in unison.
I get even more confused as I slowly lower myself back into the chair and the medic resumes what she was doing.
"As I was saying before these two hooligans barged in, we are werewolves and I'm the alpha and these two are my two trackers", he says as I lift my brows at the two men, I kind of already guessed but it's still weird for him to actually announce it.
"Come anyway near me and you will lose your hide", I warn them with a deep growl at the end. They both look up to the now I know alpha at my words.
"They won't hurt you again don't worry", The alpha reassures me.
I lean towards him which makes the two trackers go on alert.
"You haven't told me your name", I tell him as my pupils dilate, a look of nervousness flashes across his face as he answers.
"Mason. My name's mason", he says as the medic slaps her hands together in a finished motion, I didn't even realise she was still bandaging up my tail,
"Alright all done I will check on them tomorrow and see what we will do from there, I'm Anne by the way", she says as she stands and gives me a smile before walking out. She scowls at the two men as she passes them.
"Alright let's take you to your cabin", I look at him as he begins to stand.
"I think I'll be alright on my own thanks", I say as I stand and stretch my legs.
"You ain't going anywhere but here", he says darkly as he walks out, I follow him outside a bit shaken at his words,
"Can I be with Max?" I ask hopeful, he ignores me as he leads me out to a secluded cabin behind the big house.

He opens the door and leads me inside,
"Maybe", he says as he leaves, pfft alpha my arse.
I look around the small cabin and scavenge through the cabinets looking for food, all that flying worked up an appetite, thankfully I get lucky.
I sit down on the sofa and eat contemplating whether to run for the hills or to stay put.
A few minutes go by and I hear someone walk up to the door, I stand ready to slash or bat at whatever is going to come through the door, but it then opens to reveal Max.
I launch myself at him and he catches me, he quickly pulls me back as he stares at my wing and tail, his feathers shake and tail starts to swish.
"No Max it's fine now no need to be angry at least I'm alive right?" I tell him which seems to calm him down, he pulls me to his chest in a firm hug,
"I thought I lost you", he whispers as I feel dampness on my shoulder.

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ow sweet was that reunion? This chapter was a bit violent but not too much I hope, anyway I hope you enjoyed the story so far and don't forget to comment in how you like it so far and what you think might happen in the future, also vote if you'd like as it helps a lot. Here's some more new characters that has been added and a little scenery template.

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