Wild and Free

Chapter 13: Bruises

recap= "What is it?" Kenzie asked Auden, looking away from me.

"I don't know but we're not alone," she answered quickly.

(Still Mason's point of view)

Before any of us could react, a huge slate grey wolf jumped out from behind a cluster of rocks, landing in front of the three girls. Cassie let out a high scream and both Auden and my sister jumped back, surprised.

Three others joined the first, surrounding the girls in a triangle shape. Each wolf was the exact same, male, dark ashy grey coats with solid black eyes. Kenz and I were twins but even our wolves weren't completely identical like these were. It was strange.

"Shit," Kenz yelled. She turned to me, her eyes filled with fear, "Mason!"

Kenzie was a badass fighter, almost nothing scared her. So the look she shot me across the forest made me scared.

The three of us immediately jumped into action, sprinting our fastest over to the riverbank. We all jumped over a fallen tree and landed in wolf form.

Auden and Cassie let out a gasp and I inwardly cursed myself for breaking the rules but it wasn't something I had to worry about at the moment.

"What the hell?!" Cassie shrieked as one of the wolves growled right near her. She screamed, scrambling backwards away from its fangs.

Kenzie's eyes turned white and I knew she was getting a vision. It couldn't be good. At all.

"Run!" Kenzie yelled once her brown eyes returned, bolting through a gap in two of the wolves, grabbing Cassie and Auden by the arms and dragging them with her.

While one of the grey wolves was distracted looking at the girls, Riley pounced on top of him, pinning him to the ground. Greyson took on the one to the right, swiping his claws across the other's face, leaving a nice bloody scratch. That left me the last, and naturally the largest one.

I didn't have the chance to even blink before he came at me.

The air was knocked completely from my lungs as the brute force and weight of the gigantic wolf crashed against me. I snarled in his ear and used all four of my legs to try and push him off me. Taking some of the tactics that the black she wolf used against me and Riley, I kicked him right up against a thick tree trunk.

He crawled to his feet and came at me again, this time I was ready. He tried to knock me down again but I planted my feet and absorbed the impact. I latched my teeth onto the fur at his neck when he was just in front of me and bit down as hard as I could. He yelped and went limp, allowing me to fling him aside like a ragdoll. A thud sounded when he hit the ground.

He coughed and hunched over for a second before whipping his head around and glaring those solid black daggers at me.

Oh well isn't the little prince a smart one, a menacing voice said in my head, the wolf I'd hit somehow worming his way into my mind.

I didn't recognise the voice as anyone I'd talked to at the pack hour, nor did I recognize his wolf appearance and it made me worried. Just the thought that we might not be alone on our territory made my stomach churn.

Clearly smarter than you expected am I right? I fired back, risking a glance at my friends.

The opponent that went after Riley was laying limp and unconscious a couple yards away, blood flowing from his mouth and various other spots. Riley's leg, that was still healing from the black wolf's bite, had opened up again and was bleeding. He also had a couple scratches on his shoulders but compared to the other guy he'd gotten away easy.