Dani's Harem [Reverse Harem]

Dani - Pull my string and hear me talk WTH??!

Nathan tries to leave the safe enclosure of the tunnel and I know if he does he is going to die right now, I grab his arm and yank him backwards to me, he wasn't expecting it so continues to fall until he lands on the ground at my feet. He opens his mouth probably to have another go at me and I cover his mouth. He stares at me from the ground and his eyes go wide when they meet mine he closes his eyes but not before I see the fear and confusion in his gaze. I don't know what he sees but right now that is not important, the sense of imminent danger is blaring like church bells in my ears. What I told Nathan was true back in the cabin if they catch us he will die. I crouch down beside him and Jocks hackles go up and he starts to growl. I put my hand on him and he goes silent still with his teeth bared and his body lined ready to lunge.

Then I hear them, the voices. I try to ignore them because all the hairs on my arms have stood up and I know somehow that something is going to happen. Nathan gets up from the floor takes his rucksack off and I see he is wearing some sort of holster with a gun on one side and a huge curved knife on the other. The voices are so loud now that tears are burning in my eyes from the pain and even though we are on the very edge of our nerves I give in and try to hear what they are so insistent I know.

At first, it is just a loud jumble of many people's voices that seem to be trying to talk over each other, the pain in my eyes has lessened but I now have a migraine which is making my eyesight blurry. I have to put my hand on the wall because it seems the floor is rolling under my feet and I am pretty sure I am going to hurl. A huge shiver runs up my body and I break out in goosebumps. Just as I think I am going to pass out from the battle within me the voices coalesce into one coherent voice, a male voice which I have never heard before comes from my own mouth and the words that follow are ones I will never forget. 

" Return the heart the shining ones crave, 

Save the ones who can light the way,

The kin divided must be united, 

If past wrongs are to be righted,

Seer and Guardians, Demon and unsighted, 

Must stand together, not divided,

If they fall so shall all,

only their hearts will stay our Fall,

Magic fades and so shall we, 

unless the hidden ones light the way,"

Fear slides down my back and my body is locked up, frozen in panic. Struggling I try to function, force my mind to accept the unacceptable. I finally open my eyes and realize I am still in the tunnel but Nathan isn't with me. Jock stands between me and the exit in a battle stance and I recognize the sounds my mind was struggling to catch up with is fighting. I crawl on my hands and knees biting my lip hard enough to draw blood, shuffling over the drops that have fallen into the mud.

The sounds are closer and I really don't want to go out into the open but the sheer terror of the voices predictions screams in my mind. Guardian? Do they mean Nathan I wonder to myself trying to distract myself and failing greatly? At the exit I can see Nathan fighting off a mountain of a man while another stands against a tree watching the battle. Grunts and little yelps of pain are filling the air and I can see that both of them are cut up, bruising is evident and blood is running down the side of Nathans head. Nathan gets hit by an elbow to the side of his head and wavers somewhat whilst shaking his head as if to clear it. I must have made some noise when the elbow connected because the man who was leaning against the tree is now walking towards me.

The thin man has long dirty black hair and his clothes are caked in mud and other things that I don't wish to think on. My back hits a tree as I didn't even realize I had left the tunnel or that I was even stepping back from the man making his way towards me. He smiles at me and my heart stutters in my chest, my lungs expel precious air and can't refill. I don't even need my voices to tell me how bad our situation is with this man staring at me with evil wanting in his eyes. My heart starts beating again frantically and my breathing starts up harsh. That smile turns into an amused grin as he comes closer and I hold out my arms as if to warn him off. He chuckles as my hands shake and my legs tremble. Growling from my side is one of the greatest sounds I have ever heard in my life and watch as Jock steps forward and his growling becomes snarls and barks.

I want to look for Nathan but am too terrified to take my eyes from the man who has stopped just a few meters away from me.

"Well aren't you a pretty little thing, what a reward you will bring me girl. Good thing that it is quite a journey to the doorway, I get to have fun with you first. Our Lord never mentioned anything about playing with the merchandise after all. The weaker I make you the easier it will be for him to break you anyway. You can come with me now and I won't kill yer dog but if you don't come with me I will kill it, the dog wouldn't die fast either. So come along little thing before any others try to take you. They won't be as nice as me either. You might want to hurry it up before Bubba over there has finished your pal, he is by far worse for yer health than I am."

I tremble against the tree terrified by this gangly stranger's words. What do I do? What do I say? Jock is still in a protective stance between me and gangly and I glance to Nathan and see him on the ground fighting against the mountain who has straddled him, pinning Nathan to the ground while he rains punches into Nathans arms that are covering his face. I whimper in fear that he is going to kill Nathan and then I will be alone. I bought him into all this, I got my mother killed, I got others killed trying to save me and now Nathan is being pulverized trying to protect me.I don't want to cower here like a mouse but I know I can not stop him either.