The Tiger's Body

Chapter 26

After some searching we did catch a scent, it was fading fast as it started to rain lightly, if it had rained a lot the scent would have been goneand I would have been left at a dead trail, but I wouldhave gone back to the house the man had been staying in and wait for a second chance. We were following a deserted road in the dampness of the night.

From a far we could hear wolves howling, and a few bats flapped around trying to get it's food and stay dry at the same time. As we walked down the dirt road I peered for any signs that we were getting any closer, the tracks that had embedded themselves into the dirt road were slowly fading with every drop of the rain.

My stomach growled but I paid no attention to it, I hadn't eaten in about two days now. Too desperate to find that man.

From a distance both our ears perked up at the sound of mumbling in the distance.

My heart beat picked up in adrediline. I lurhced forward Tyler bounding beside me as we followed the sound to a branched off road in the woods, hidden by some bushes. Leaping over the bush as Tyler crawled under it we jogged for a bit. The scent was gone as the rain picked up and it was masked by the musk and moss.

'Remember, if you see them control your tiger and relax, we'll make them pay for what they did to you.' Tyler coaxed. I nodded as I brushed against him with a huff, he did the same to me as we followed the car tires.

A pressure started building up in my chest, as if it was telling me I was close. My peice of peace I'd been in desperate need of was close to coming to me.

A sliver of blood lust came to my head but I pushed it back down. Soon the forest cleared out a tiny bit and a warehouse stood in front of us. Trucks and loading vans like the one I had been in were lined up, people stood outside, loading them with things, there were about twenty people. Guns and knives sat at their waists in a belt.

I stepped back in shock, these were the men. This was a lot more people then that night.

Then I seen the guy from the van I had been following walk out, he was talking to another guy, one I recognized too much.

A vision of me in my human memories came to me as I kicked the guy in his area very hard.

I growled. While Tyler swatted me and told me to shush. I did as I was told and watched on. I realized after awhile that this was some kind of drug organization, a gang of drug dealers.

A group of men started scouting the area, checking around the brush, me and Tyler both scampered back a bit and hid under some large oak leaves and bushes. As they neared us, Tylerh ad a plan forming in his head.

'When they get closer to us make a noise to distract them, from there I'll jump on them, but we have to be quiet still.' He said. I nodded as I moved away from Tyler, sliding to the left so that he had more room to kill. My fur tingled as they got closer, and when they were in hearing range I growled and stepped onto some dried brambles, snapping them, making my growl a little bit louder as they struggled to hear.

The sound of their guns cocking had me on alarm but I wasn't to worried.

Just as the first two men walked through, nearly stepping on me in the pursuit Tyler jumped from his spot and started mauling the first guy, breaking his neck in seconds as I took on the second man, accidently slicing my claws into his stomach and the inards came out, he managed a bit of what seemed to be a scream. It drew the attention from the other guys who raced towards us coming to investigate where the men had just disappeared to.

They had no chance either as we left them lying in their own pool of blood. It took the other men unloading a few minutes to finally notice that their scouters were missing, knives and guns were pulled to view as a larger number of people walked away, but yet the man that I had my eye on still sat talking to the other guy, I growled in frustration. It was him I needed.