I'm A Shifter Queen

CHAPTER THREE: TSUBAUKI

You could hear people gasp throughout the crowd. Once the music changed and Zachariah stop singing people started talking about the deer shifter.

"I thought she was a wolf shifter."

"She is. She has two forms." Outrage floated off the students in my school. Fear filled my senses. There are so many shifters here that could kill me with just one snap of their jaw, and I wouldn't doubt that the jealous men and women would.

"First she steals my mate now she's got two forms?!" One of Victoria's lakeys -Rachel said in unjustifiable anger. "There is no way I'm following her." My mate came to stand by me. He muttered something under his breath. I started shifting again this time I took my wolf form. Zachariah knelt beside me and looked me right in the eye. His blood red eyes showed nothing but eternal anger. I held back a whimper

"Stand up. Don't let them disrespect you." He said roughly and tugged on my ear. I stood on shaky legs not used to shifting so many times without my control. I thought that Headmaster said that it wouldn't take any energy "Hurry up." I growled loudly at him. "Save that for them." I growled again and looked him dead in the eye. "Don't challenge me." He warned. "You won't win." That did it. I've just met him and I'm sick of his additude. I brought my top lip above my teeth a growled as loud as I could. No one tells me I can't do something! No one! "Alright then have it your way." He shifted into his 6'12" wolf with red eyes and growled. There was one major difference between us. It wasn't our size. No it was the strength of our wolves. his growled bounced off the trees with such ferocity that all the shifters here whimpered, including Headmaster Korvick. I stood taller. He is making everyone scared and that is not what a prince should be doing! We started walking in the classic fight circle. I began to think of how many fights he has been in. Oh well. I may be a small shifter but I've won some fights on the holidays when the school would send me to packs so I could learn about how they work. Being an orphan means there are a lot of things I don't get to learn.

I snapped out of my thoughts when Zachariah charged at me. I moved to the side just in time. He almost ran into the crowd. He turned his large body so he wa facing me. I growled as loud as I could. He jumped at me. I ducked luckily he misjudged how tall I was and how short I could become if I dropped to my belly and jumped over me. I took that chance to jump on his back and took the scuff of his neck in my jaws. He let out a little yip- I'm not sure if anyone else heard it but me- as I bit down as hard as I could. The copper taste of blood filled my mouth, and Zachariah tried to shake me off, but I was not going to let go that easy. The moment he got onto his hind legs to jump on his back I let go and moved to the side. Of course he knew that I had let go so he didn't follow through with his move. Instead he drop his front paws that landed with a loud thud and turned to face me. There was a strange look in his red eyes as he took in my wolf again. He nodded his head slightly before shifting back into his human form. He told me shift- this time without using the overly powerful alpha voice I knew he had.

"Come with me. We must talk about what is expected of you. Fighting me is not one of them." He said rudely.

"You know there was I reason I fought you and not my school."

"Less people. You thought you could take me." I laughed a dry laugh.

"Ha. No. I fought you cause I am not going to be a victim. Not like my mother was. I will not stand for being treated like crap. Not by my mate." Zachariah crossed his arms that were almost the size of my torso across his chest.

"And here I thought you to be weak." I growled.

"You want to know how many wolves I fought that were around your size? Every Christmas I'd get challenged by members of the packs I'd visit. Wanna know how many I beat? Nearly half of them. Just because I'm small doesn't mean I wont fight." A look of almost pride flashed across my face.