Chapter 3
Hunter
I am walking through the woods along Route 993 while on patrol for my tribe. When all of the sudden this tantalizing scent. Noting like I had ever smelled before. The scent was an unknown animal, but also human, I follow it and see a girl with auburn hair kneeling in the brush looking at a pack of coyotes gnawing at a deer carcass. Then one of the coyotes smells the same tantalizing scent, and curiosity instantly takes over his actions. The alpha male begins to walk towards her, licking his jaws as his eyes lay on his next meal. I have to stop this, so I begin to sprint toward the girl who instantly tenses. I leap over her and tackle the coyote to the ground, baring my teeth to him as he shows his neck in a sign of surrender. I let him up and begin to chase the rest of them away, yowling and hissing as they all run with their tails between their legs.
I begin to circle back to the girl, her green eyes filled with fear as her body remains tense as I walk over to her. My tail flicking nonthreatening as I walk toward her. She holds out her hand to me, and I begin to sniff it gently. Taking in the scent, I see that she is scared to be in front of a mountain lion. Especially since there are no mountain lions in Irwin Pennsylvania. Coyotes yes, mountain lions no. So I understand where her fear is coming from. I run off into the brush across from her and transform. She began to walk away, and I began to panic, "Wait, don't move." She turns around and her green eyes widen as she looks at me, "Jesus Christ man! Put on some pants!"
I look down to see that I am still naked, and try to cover myself to make this encounter a little less awkward. I begin to panic seeing her face as my desperate attempt to stop her begins to fail, "Listen, I really need you to come with me. It is really important." Her eyes linger up my body to my face. Looking up at my dirty blonde hair, then trailing back down to my eyes. The same eyes she saw on the mountain lion. She begins to gawk as she comes to this reaches my eyes, " You are the cat, that saved me? What are you?" I shift my weight nervously as she begins to suspect me, and I cannot say that I hid it well, " That is not important right now. I need you to come with me, please." But I instantly see that I am failing as I take a step toward her, and she takes a step back. Her eyes are wide with worry as I try to take another step toward her, the girl tenses even more as she says, " Look, I am not going to trust a man who says to come with him, when he is butt naked. I am also not trusting a guy who might be a mountain lion shapeshifter thing. So I am leaving and calling the police." She turns to walk towards Route 993, panic rises in me as I clap a hand over her mouth and push the pressure point on her neck causing her to black out.
I gently place her on the ground and bind her hands together with some fabric torn from her shirt. I do the same at her ankles, making sure that she would not be able to get out. I leave her there for a minute to find my clothes hidden near by. I come back fully clothed to the still knocked out girl. I gently pick her up and begin to carry her to the tribe. I walk in silence for a good hour, until she begins to stir. Her eyes land on me and a low hiss escapes her lips, her eyes widen at the show of distaste her body was showing me. I begin to smile as she looks down with a growl stuck in her throat.
"Relax, I am just going to take you to my village. There may be a person who can help you." I look down at her and see that she will not even took at me. I chuckle at this, "You can at least tell me your name." She looked at me and with a painful tone in her voice she said, "And why should I? How could I possibly tell you my name, when you knocked me out, and bound my hands and feet together?" Her anger was rising, and she started to squirm in my arms. Trying to get out of my grasp, I began to growl, the mountain lion wanting to come out and challenge the little bitch trying to get away. I went to push the pressure point, when she snapped her jaws at my hand. I look at her with a shocked expression as she hisses at me, showing me enlarged incisors.
