Unclaimed

Chapter Forty-Nine - Instict

Beau

I'm walking the edge of our borders. Something telling me to stay on the edge. Just to listen.

Just to wait.

I groan at myself. Continuing on my path ahead, letting my feet sink into the mud and soil of the earth as I pace the borders. Through the mark I could feel Judas calling for me, begging me to come home and out of this rain but I stood my ground.

The rain continued it's onslaught and today it seemed more aggressive than before. But regardless I stayed put. All I have to do is wait.

For what?

I don't have a fucking clue.

"Beau!" I turn my head to see Vadim walking up to me holding a wide black umbrella. Funny that he's using such practical means to avoid the rain instead of magic. Once he's closer he moves in to shield me with the umbrella. His tuned skin seemingly more blue in the doom and gloom of the rain.

"What are you doing out here?" He asks.

"I don't know." I shake my head. Droplets of water flinging from my face and hair. "I really don't know. I just feel like I'm supposed to be here. Like I'm supposed to wait for something."

"You've been coming out here every day for the last three days. You keep this up any longer and you're going to get sick!" He says and the thunder of the storm makes him jump.

"When will this storm end?" He asks.

"Storms come all the time here!" I say still peering into the burr of the rain, just hoping to see something. My skin prickling and the hair on my arms standing at attention.

"But not even this storm can be broken with magic." He says. "It seems beyond the force of magic."

"Nature will always be beyond the force of magic, that's why it's nature!" I shout back and we both stop at the sound of screaming. Someone yelling through the sound of the heavy rainfall.

Vadim seemed to hear it too as he stepped forward.

"What is that?" Vadim's ears perking up at the sound.

I listen closer.

"Help! Somebody!" I step out from under the umbrella peering into the rain, until I see a thin silhouette staggering forward. "Please!"

Without thinking I dash froward, picking up my knees as I run towards the blurred form. Vadim running behind me. Getting closer to see that it was a young girl, about my age. Stumbling forward as she clutched a brown blanket over her shoulders. Her hair soaked with water, sticking to her face and neck as she coughs hard. The coughing fit shaking her whole body as she fell.

I get to her, falling to me knees in front of her as she slumps forward letting her head fall on my shoulder.

I hold her letting my hands fall on her back but she cries out. I quickly peak under the blanket just as Vadim comes running up having abandoned his umbrella, letting the rain hit him as he runs up. He sees the damage.

"My god." He shudders.

"We have to get her to the hospital, Vadim!"

"Traditional medicine won't work for a fairy. We'll bring her to the fields, we can help her there." He says and without missing a beat I switch my body anchoring her arms over my shoulders. Lifting her off the ground and carrying her on my back to the fields. Moving as softly and as swiftly as I could as I feel her warm tears hitting my shoulders.

"It...it hurts!" She sobs her breath hitting my shoulder through the wet fabric.

"I know, we're going to help you! It's okay!" I say as Vadim runs ahead of me, both of us making it to the wheat fields. Hundreds of dome shaped tents, propped up and protected by a barrier of magic that shielded them from the rain. Running through the tents to the main one in the center. It was slightly larger than the others which was the only difference.