Deadly Beauty

Chapter 3

I wake up in the forest feeling content but lonely. The forest felt peaceful and the trickle of water in the grotto was calming. I went to the crystal clear stream and drank some water. My stomach growls and I decide it's time to go on a hunt. I shift into a wolf and sniff. There are lots of guardians around but there's a rabbit just around the corner that is 100% rabbit. I get low to the ground and hunt my prey. I see the rabbit and it's over in a second, so is my meal. I shift back feeling full. Looking around I feel bored, there's nothing left to do! I sit back down under the willow tree and haphazardly twirl my fingers causing a small gust of wind to blow around me. A smile forms on my lips, might as well see what my new powers can do. I close my eyes and take a deep breath feeling the nature around me. A lone fish is swimming in the lake, and a deer and her baby are grazing in a field. There's a slight breeze the moves the grass beneath my feet. I take another deep breath. The wind picks up, the fish is risen from the pond in a bubble of water, the grass grows by the deer's feet. I smile and open my eyes, looking at the fish I put it back in the water. No need to scare it. But then my peaceful haze is broken when I smell my mate coming. I hear a roar and my panic picks up double time. I can't let him find me. I can't. I can't. I can't.

I walk toward the stream and jump, shifting into a fish right before I hit the water. I swim over to the other fish in hope that the smell of a normal fish will block my smell up a little bit. I hear Hudson land in my grotto. I get territorial over it for a second but Trin shushes me, telling me its my mate and that I can share. I don't want to share but I sit still anyway, waiting out my time. I hear him start to leave so I swim to the surface. Shifting I step out of the stream and head over to the willow tree. About to enter my safe place i'm grabbed from behind. My instincts kick in and I use my weight to throw my attacker over my shoulder and onto the ground in front of me with a loud thud and a puff of dust. Coughing, I swat the dust away and look down. Of course it's Hudson.

"Leave me alone" I glare at him.

"No, we need to talk" He brushes off dust from his clothes.

"I don't want to talk!" I yell and turn away from him.

I start walking away only to have a gust of wind stop me in my tracks. I don't look back as I douse him with water from the stream. I feel the heat of fire and turn just in time to avoid getting burnt to a crisp.

I turn to him in shock but he just grins. Anger slowly works its way up from my toes to the tip of my nose. I can feel my claws come out and my eyes start to turn a bright yellow. That day when Hudson was taken away, was the day I was locked away from society too thanks to my unnatural gift. I was born with an animal side, a wolf to be precise. Since that day I have been training to be the greatest warrior of all time. The secret weapon, and it seems my dear mate just remembered that while he has spent his time studying the elements I have spent my time training and fighting. The fear in his eyes makes a shiver of excitement go down my spine, yep i'm a predator through and through. I grin a slow, deadly grin and tap into my speed. Before he can blink I've tripped him and returned to my original spot. He brushes off dirt as he gets up and glares at me, but there's still fear in his eyes of what i've become. Pain fills me up, consuming me like a forest fire; he's suppose to be the one person who isn't scared of me. My remorse and overwhelming sadness is put on hold thanks to the smell of fire. I jump, rocketing myself through the air and onto a tree branch above me.

"You could have killed me!!!" I scream down my voice full of the anguish and pain I feel.

"I'm not a monster, I wouldn't have killed you" He looks at me accusingly.

"Neither would I" I whisper softly, he acts like I had a choice in it all but I didn't, I never really did.

A tear slips down my face as I transform into an owl and fly away, my heart a heavy stone in my chest. I loved him before he was my mate and having him say those things to me hurt; a deep pain that cut right through my core. I was so focused on my pain, my human emotions particularly, that I didn't notice as I started shifting into a human. My feathers slipped back into my skin, and my wings turned back to hands. I don't even try to stop myself from falling, my heart is shattered and so is my will to live. I curl into a ball and just let myself fall. But someone has other ideas, i'm swooped up into a pair of claws.

"No!" I scream in desperation "No! Just let me die, please just let me die" I pound my hands against his claws "I don't want to be a weapon" I whisper and drop my hands lightly in my lap, repeating the same statement over and over again.

"I don't want to be a weapon"

"I don't want to be a weapon"

"I don't want to be a weapon"

We drop to the grown slowly and i'm let down gently. I land with a light thud and stay there curled into a ball. But then I hear him come up too me like he's going to hug me and I look up my eyes glowing

"Don't come near me I don't deserve your pity or comfort. Do you know all the things i've done? All the things I was forced to do? You should have just let me die"

My wolf is begging to be let out, to get the chance to go on a rampage but I hold her in. "You need to leave or my wolf is going to destroy you, you need to leave right now" I plead with him.

"No I can help you"

"No you can't!! No one has ever been able to help me! Not my parents or trainers, no one!!"

"Yes I can" He says with determination in his voice but fear in his eyes.

"Leave" I let loose a snarl.

He cups my face in his hands and kisses my nose, "I'm not leaving you, we'll get through this together"

He wraps his arms around me in a bear hug and for the first time in my life my wolf settles instantly. She curls up inside of me and purrs, but the purr slips out of my mouth as I nestle closer. At this point I don't care, I miss the feeling of being loved by someone other than my parents. The moment ends all too soon.

"Better?"

"Yes much better" I nod against his chest

He starts to pull away and I sigh knowing that we have to talk now. Familiar green eyes meet my hazel ones. He's about to say something when my buzzer rings.

"No, no, no" I mumble.

Hud looks at me in confusion so I just hand over the buzzer to numb to explain. On the screen it reads report to hq immediately to begin your new assignment. Hudson pales and looks up at me. I just shrug and kiss his cheek before I stand up.

"I have to go"

He only nods and that's all it takes before I shift and am gone.