Fireheart

Chapter 13

Bruce pushed me up against the wall and brought his face close to mine. The fire wrapped around his hands were beginning to burn my arms.
"Little fucking Clan Leader's pet." he said. His breath smelled of wine. Inside, Wolf bucked.
"Let me go, Bruce." I growled. Make yourself seem like a fight. Maybe he'll leave you alone.
"Why the fuck should I do that?" his words were beginning to slur. Around us, his friends kept watch and egged him on.
"Because I wouldn't have to hurt you." I said, beginning to see gray. Wolf wanted a piece of him. He had been terrorizing us for weeks now.
"And how are you gonna do that." he said, chuckling. He pressed his knee onto mine and forced my legs apart. Oh, Gods.
"I was thinking. There's no way the Clan Leader has fucked your sorry ass. He just doesn't have that look in his eyes when he sees you yet." Where was he going with this?
"And you're also pure. You haven't tried to give it to anyone like that whore Garnet has. You know how many of us she's offered to fuck since we got here?"
I began to snarl. Wolf was bristling. I felt my hands beginning to curl into phantom claws around his thick forearms. Any minute now, she'd begin to leak through and break his skin.
Bruce snarled back as he began to wiggle his hips. He was trying to get his pants to fall, I realized.
"So that got me to actually think. That if someone else were to take that purity from you," he brought his mouth to my ear. "Phoenix wouldn't want you anymore."
I growled. A real growl, starting in my chest. He tilted his head to one of his lackeys and they threw a fist at my nose. I hardly felt the pain but could taste the blood. I would heal eventually. But my vision was completely gray at this point. He laughed and muttered something about getting pants off to another person. I felt tugging at my own dress and kicked. It connected, which earned me another punch in the nose. Unfortunately, my dress tore with the attacker's fall.
Bruce shook his head and pressed himself against me. I could feel how hard he was against my thigh. Let him get close again Wolf told me. I listened and waited.
"I'm gonna give you beaten and broken back to Phoenix." Bruce said as he lowered his face to my shoulder. I was too Wolf to reply, but when he almost had his face at my shoulder, I lunged. My teeth by now had become thick and sharp, and they dug deep and true into his cheek. The burning stopped in my arms as he dropped me. I rolled as I hit the ground, and ended a good ten feet away from him and any lacky, who had backed away when he was ready to start with me.
"Fuck this shit!" he screamed. "Imma fucking kill you!"
I pulled the rest of my dress off and growled as I melted into wolf. It's never come this fast before-

In just seconds, she's approaching the bleeding male. She gives no chance for him to fight as she closes the distance. She wastes no time in leaping on him and digging at his false fur. He screams, grabs her by the throat, and throws her down. She yelps, and feels a pain in her hind.
"Holy shit. She's Shifted!" one of the other men yells. Though she focuses on the one with blood on him, she senses the others flee. They must see the threat in her.
"Fuck those guys. I'll kill you myself, you mutt."
She bares her teeth and leaps again, despite the pain in her hind. The males steps aside, and she growls as she realizes she missed him. If she couldn't directly grab his throat, she'd just fight dirty.
She runs an arc around him and grabs his upper thigh. He screams and tries to twist towards her. She tears away, taking a chunk of his flesh with her. He screams louder and grabs at the wound.
"You bitch." he mutters. He grabs for her, and she leaps at his face again. She's grabbed at the top and feels her teeth hook into his eye socket. He screams and punches at her ribs. She doesn't want to, but she let's go. The male is now half blind and has to turn his head to see her.
She wheezes as she does, but she runs another arc around him and grabs the back of his knee. He falls, and she climbs him. She is too quick and grabs the back of his throat. She can't shake him, so she uses her teeth to dig. He grabs at her, but it feels more and weaker as she digs deeper into his throat. The blood sends waves of pleasure through her body.
"Fyre!" screams a familiar voice. Not the male under her, but another male, she realizes. It's Phoenix says the other half. He's alpha, listen to him. The male under her falls forward. She can no longer hear his heartbeat. She takes chunks of his flesh and swallows, drinking in the blood,
"Fyre, he's dead." says the Alpha. He comes closer to her, and she snarls. He doesn't back down.
"Fyre, I need you to be human." She doesn't break eye contact with him. He keeps coming closer to her until she can feel his breath. He wants to comfort us the two-legged one says. He runs his false paws over her back, the feeling both odd and nice.
"Come back to me," he whispers.
He'll protect us. The Alpha sits in front of her, his legs folded in front of him.
Sleep the other half urges. She doesn't want to. The Alpha isn't a wolf. She can protect him. But she is hurt. She needs to be protected. She lays her upper half in the lap of the Alpha, and whines as she breathes. Not long before she falls into sleep, she feels him pick her up. She is too tired and hurts too much to fight. Just before she leaves the world, she feels herself being placed on soft ground that smells entirely like Alpha....

I wake up but keep my eyes closed. I can hear Phoenix's breathing slow and deep somewhere in wherever I was. Bruce's blood was sticky and dried on me. I wanted to gag. Bruce had meant to rape me last night.
I hear Phoenix's breathing change, and realize he's awake. I open my eyes and see him standing to my left. I was in a large, soft bed on top of black blankets. Phoenix had blackened blood dried on him as well.
"Are you okay?" he whispered. I shook my head. I wanted to cry. I didn't want to kill Bruce, but last night it was him or me. I couldn't hold it in anymore, and I actually began to cry.
"Oh, Fyre." Phoenix says. He sits next to me in the bed and pulls me into his arms. He holds me like this for a while, not saying anything until I feel like my eyes are gonna fall out of my head.
"I'm so sorry, Fyre." he mumbled when I had calmed down. "I was supposed to protect you. I didn't, and Bruce almost hurt you, and I'm sorry."
"You don't have to be sorry." I reply, my voice raw. My throat felt like it was going to close up.
"Yeah, I do. I told you I'd protect you, even if you didn't want me, and I failed. I'm just sorry, Fyre." His voice sounded on the edge of crying as well.
"If you hadn't Shifted, they would've hurt you so bad. But luckily you did, and they ran to get someone. Anyone. I'm just so happy I followed you."
"What did you do with Bruce?" I asked, wanting him to talk about something else.
"After you Shifted back, I went to find Garnet. Garnet went and had Jerrik raise him. Asked him why he was going to... hurt you. He told us, and Garnet burned him." I tried not to see it and failed. I was quite happy they did, anyway.
"I'm not giving you an option anymore. You're moving in with me." Before I could protest, he said, "Your stuff is already here."
I shook my head. Let him protect us Wolf said. This time, I would listen. I would let him protect me.
He brought his face down to mine and kissed my head.
"He was wrong, Fyre." he said to me.
"What do you mean?" I replied.
"I would want you no matter how many men you've been with."
I brought my hand up and laid it on his face. He looked into my eyes and smiled. Those green eyes. I looked from his eyes to his lips. Parted in a smile, and begging for a kiss.
I was crazy. I was crazy for thinking I didn't want him. He was handsome, and cared for me, and wanted me. Not just handsome, but I cared for him. Wanted him close. Who knew when I'd ever feel this way again. What if Phoenix was the love of my life?
No better time than now to find out.
I picked myself up and wrapped my arms around his neck. He, in turn, wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me against him. I kissed the corner of his mouth, then kissed his lips. He kissed back, hungrily. He pushed his tongue against my lips, and I opened up for him. We kissed energetically, and I held back a moan as his hands explored my back.
He pulled away, and I had to hold back an angry snarl.
"Let's get cleaned up before we go any further." he said, a smirk on his face. I smirked back and nodded my head. Let's get cleaned up.
He picked me up, an arm under my back and another under my knees. He took me to a doorway off of the right of the bed and opened the door to reveal a steaming hot spring, just big enough for four people.
"Perks of living in a cave created by volcano." he said, setting me down.
I smiled as he left the room, and let me bathe in privacy. The hot water was amazing, and the soap smells like pine. Not that you could smell it on Phoenix over his death and brimstone smell.
When I was done, I dried off and wandered back into the bedroom, only wearing a towel. Phoenix had changed and was sitting on the edge of the bed. I walked over to him.
"I can grab your clothes from the closet." he said.
I felt a heat in my gaze as I laid my hand on his shoulder, and pushed him back on the bed. I dropped the towel and straddled his lap.
"Fyre." he whispered, smelling of excitement. I leaned forward and kissed him, and smiled to myself as he once again explored my back with his hands. His hands grazed my ass, cupped my breasts, and came to rest on my waist, after tugging off his shirt. He had a tattoo on his shoulder. A skull with roses wrapped around it. I smiled and kissed it.
"I got that when I was 15." He whispered. I shushed him and laid my hands on his chest. His sculpted muscles flexed under my touch. He sat up, pulling me against him. He flipped me under him and started kissing my neck. He tasted me and made love to me until he just couldn't anymore. When we were sweaty and greedily holding each other under the blankets, he kept purring my name.
"Fyre." he whispered into my hair.
I smiled. "Yes, Phoenix?"
"I love you."
I flipped over on the bed so I was looking at him.
"I love you too, Phoenix." I said, meaning it. I was crazy for thinking he couldn't love a person like me.
"I'm sorry I ran out on you." I said. He just shushed me.
"Don't worry about it." he said, giving me a soft kiss.
"I was nervous telling you. That you didn't love me as I loved you."
"I thought you would be better with someone else." I whispered. Phoenix smiled at me.
"There is no one else." he said, pulling me against him until his deep breathing filled my ears.
A girl could get used to this.