Klauwen

T W O

C H A P T E R T W O

Athena

The thumping of my heart it the only sound pounding through my ears. There's no other motion or feeling that rushes through me other than complete peace.

My heart stutters, and falls, and it's picked up again as there's a pounding on my chest, yet I don't feel the pain of the blows. The pressure picks up, and I feel like a can of pop that someone shook and opened up.

The hissing comes from my mouth, burning my throat, as my eyes burst open to the lights of a room. A bright room with a stench that makes my nose crunch at the smell of rubbing alcohol.

It's empty and I'm confused, it's like there's no concept of time as I push myself up. My shaky arms beg me to lay back down and get rest, but there's something pressing going on. It's a muttering, a constant chant in my head and heart. Something unfamiliar to my mind, yet so familiar to my soul.

As I try to put some weight on my feet, to move around, my body protests profusely. My legs begging me to let them rest. And the idiot that I am, I do, while I'm standing upright.

It's no surprise when my head meets the ground and a fuzzy figure runs towards me, wearing a white coat.

***

"She needs to wake up soon." A voice wafts into my ears, drumming on my head. "With her wounds and now her head injury, it's important for her to gain consciousness, so that the extent of the damage done to her can be seen in full and treated."

It's the voices of two people, having an idle conversation, while my heart is beating almost out of my chest. I don't know whether I'm alive or...

No, can't be, it must be a dream or hallucination.

My skin burns, naturally, I try to scratch it away.

Before I can move more, my hands aren't able to do it anymore. It's heavy, too heavy for me to move, to scratch the insistent itching.

"You have to stop; you're going to hurt yourself." There's a feminine, soft voice speaks.

A weight is lifted from my eyes as I open them, only to be greeted by the bright lights of before. My heart was still, until the moment that I realize that I'm not in a dream state and this sure as hell isn't the dungeon I have been locked in for the longest time.

"What-" There's a face in front of me, with another woman walking in closer to me. My freeze instinct kicks in. There are no windows in the room and the only place where through I can escape, would be the door that they are blocking from me by standing to the side of the bed.

"You are safe now." The younger woman, probably my age, looks at me with sympathy shining in her eyes and I can't blame her. I must look like I've rolled down the side of a mountain and was squashed by rocks.

Shaking my head, the panic sets in. "Where am I? What happened? What territory is this?"

The older woman's face is grim as she looks at me with a worrying look. I don't know her at all, but I can see that there's something seriously wrong.

The air is tense, and I don't know what it is, but something is nagging at the back of my mind.

"You're in the northern regions of the fifth content." Her tone isn't condescending, it's more like she's speaking slower so that I can grasp what she's saying.

"I would assume so." My snarkiness doesn't bode well with her as she straightens her back. "Sorry." Clearing my throat, I try to sound more polite, even though every part of my being is screaming at me to go on the run, before I'm kidnapped and taken back to where this all began.

"Don't be." The older doctor says. "We're in Nyx's Town, in the mountains of the Tribe."

That word causes shivers to roll down my spine. Never have I ever not wanted to be in the mountains. As a creature of nature, the mountains lure my Fur out, conjuring thoughts of adventures and...

"The Red Alpha is here?" It isn't just fear that rushes through me, per say, it's more like fear and something else mixed with it. The state that my mind and body is in, I wouldn't putting it past myself to be a little delusional.

"Why am I in the Tribe territory?" The place is too close to the grounds that I used to live upon. It's too close to the place I used to call home.

The younger woman looks to the older woman, both looking uneasy, "I think it's better that we rather get the Alpha in here to talk to you, it's sensitive business that we don't know much about."

Panic sets in, my body feels even more powerless as I waste my energy, shaking my head.

"No, I don't want the Alpha in here." The pitching on my voice, is something low to a decimal that would easily break glass. Okay, maybe I am exaggerating a little.

"I'm sorry, honey, but that's the only way that you'll know what happened." The older woman puts her hand out in front of me, slowly as not to scare me. "I'm doctor Kasey."

My hand is shaky as I take hers in mine, "Athena."

The younger woman takes my hand next, "I'm Mavis," Her white, long hair shines even brighter in the light as she moves back to her position where she was standing earlier.

My mind is still in disarray, unable to comprehend exactly what is going on.

The foundations of the room about shakes as the biggest growl I've ever heard crashes through the building, vibrating against the door the only thing keeping it from being knocked down, is the hinges hanging on by a thread.

"What's that?" My voice is shaky, fear starting to burn my throat as my mind reverts into itself.

Mavis is breathless, her eyes wide with fear, "That's the Alpha, he's looking for his mate."

My mind starts spiralling into something that's close to a dark hole, leading me down the things that's happened in the past.

A past that paints the walls of my heart dark with pain and despair.

The footsteps draw closer, the shuffling of feet almost as loud as bodies are pushed into the walls, the fiery tempered male's aura pushes into the door along with his hand.

The air is charged with something electric and terrifying as the biggest, most dangerous Alpha stares into my eyes.

The only dumb words that can leave my mouth, does so at the best moment possible, "Who's the beast?"