bound to the moonlight

Bound to the moonlight 10

Matt

I growled crouching down bouncing on my blacklegs in excitement. My ears flickered as I desperately caught out any sign of Amy. My hearing was being assaulted by way too many sounds and I found it impossible to distinguish what it was I was searching for as they were all too much it was too intense all of them were too intense, it felt almost as if I was under attack from every sound. My head snapped to the left as I heard it a twig snapped, I growled lightly in anticipation and shuffled forwards on my belly, a light breeze ruffled my fur and there it was Amy her scent floated to me on the wind, clearly understanding that she was upwind she suddenly sprinted off into the foliage that I could hear moving under her . I didn't think I just sprang up onto my legs and ran after her. My hind legs splayed around clumsily under me and tangled up with my front legs, I tumbled over but managed to stagger quickly back to my feet, and resumed running. Amy's plan sort of worked, obviously I was still having some problems especially in the finest sort of actions, when I slowed down and tried to slowly stalk her. But when she ran and I instantly sprinted after her it went quite well as I wasn't thinking about where all my limbs were or should be , and it felt amazing like I was finally achieving something I'd been trying to do for so long. Amy was right about that my instincts could take care of that a lot better than my conscious mind. Or was it that I just really wanted to catch her? I mean it was obvious that I had feelings for her feelings that I would continue to call love even if she wouldn't, but since I had shifted, it was as if what I had felt for her had suddenly snapped into overdrive, making what I had felt for her before seem like a childish crush. When I lifted my nose all the smells in the world were so much all clamouring for my attention and suddenly Amy's scent had hit me so hard it actually felt like a physical pain hit my gut, and I craved that scent. I stumbled to a halt swinging my head from left to right, I stalked forward a few steps and pushed my nose out of the tangle of brambles I was huddled in. If I could have smiled I would of as it was it came out as a loud sort of snarl.

"Not discrete." Amy said flicking a twig playfully at my bramble. I gave up on tactful stalking and just leapt out; Amy turned and ran through the trees. She was quick, but I was faster. Humans can't run. They loll up around on two legs in an awkward sort of stumble. Whereas this form the form I was in now this was designed to run, and I was moving so fast, it felt like something so perfect this was what this form was made to do. I breathed deeply and stretched my legs out elongating my body as I smoothly flew through the dark trees gaining on Amy with every passing second. I could smell her scent so intently, I could feel the heat radiating from her body and hear her breathing, I could hear her heart beating. I crouched down and leapt powerfully my paws impounding firmly on Amy's back and I felt her tumble to the ground my momentum carrying me with her. She landed gently with a surprising amount of grace , I didn't my momentum carried me on bowling me off of her and I tumbled across the ground until I hit a tree hard. I scrabbled around and leapt to my feet in time to see Amy sitting a short distance away leaning back on a tree casually smiling as though she didn't realise she was coated in mud. I softly padded over to Amy who didn't move she just continued to smile.

"I surrender." she said simply lifting her hands up. I nudged her shoulder and Amy leaned over resting her cheek on my muzzle. I purred in contentment as Amy placed a hand onto my neck her fingers plunging all the way through my thick fur to press onto my warm skin. "I can't take you in this form. So I'll just give up." She whispered. I dropped my head and grabbed at my hoodie and began gently pulling on it, feeling the material rip a little under my teeth. Amy batted me on the nose. "Behave." She said playfully and I released the fabric if I had been in human form I would have been grinning at this. "This achieved what you needed though didn't it?" She said, "You know how to do this when you don't think about it and let yourself just do what it needs to do. This is part of you, you know what to do." She smiled and flopped back down onto her back lying down breathing heavily, "you can't half run you know." She panted slightly "It was good for me it let me stretch my legs but I had to run a hell of a lot faster than I expected." She smiled and looked, was it proud. I wished at that moment that I could talk I wanted to talk to her, I wanted to ask if she was proud, it for some reason was very important to me, I mean she had seen me shift, I had been more vulnerable with her than I had with anybody else. Now I was a hunter a predator and yet she had seen me huddled on the floor twitching in a puddle of my own vomit. The stupid thing was I didn't care if anything I felt like I loved her more. I felt like I could trust her more, I would trust her with anything, my loyalty, my love, my life. I walked around to Amy's side and lay down next to her placidly. Amy smiled and shuffled in closer nuzzling into my chest. I purred deep in my throat as Amy snuggled down loving her warm weight and her beautiful scent wrapped around me, and more than anything I loved the feeling that for the first time I would be capable of protecting her. I nibbled gently into the top of her head loving her scent washing into my nose. I felt her heart pressed into my chest began to double in pace. "I love you too," she whispered lifting herself up to press a gentle kiss to my nose. She then snuggled down into my chest contently I heard her breathing slow and deepen as she relaxed and began to drift off to sleep. I purred and wrapped my large body protectively around her. Suddenly the entire world seemed like a possible threat to her and I had to protect her from that. I had too I don't know when it had happened but at some point she had become my life, she was it now. I don't know how but it was like the transition had snapped everything into focus and I understood things better and I knew she was everything to me, she was my world.