I remember the night they came vividly, the night my world got turned upside down. It's funny how when something tragic happens two things occur . It's either one replays the whole thing over and over again as if in a slow motion or just blocks out the whole thing like in what the doctors term "selective amnesia" . Well what happened to me was the former. I keep replaying the whole night in my head over and over again . I never should have survived it but by some miracle I did and that's why I'm here telling this story. I just wish it could have all gone differently . It was a cold dark night with no single star in sight which was very strange . I heard the hoot of an owl from far away. An ominous sign, filling me with a sense of foreboding. Below me, a butterfly fluttered up from a patch of tall grasses and danced dangerously close to my face just before disappearing into the dark starry sky likely headed someplace else, somewhere better. I should have known, should have sensed it, but I didn't, not yet anyway until it was too late . Not until those damn wolf hunters came after me, hunting me down with their silver bullets and arrows like I was a goddamn dog. I let my feelings get in the way , it clouded my judgement my reason. My senses had been going haywire all day but I ignored it because I was angry. Angry at my dad, angry at the proposed marriage but most of all angry at myself because I felt powerless. My life was going to change and there wasn't anything I could do about it.
"Boom!" The sound seemed to come from far away, my ears ringing from the ensuring loud reoccurring echo. Then came a blood curdling roar which shook the ground followed by high pitched screams. I stopped in my tracks my body shaking with dread. Several gunshots were heard as bullets fired into the sky came raining down like hailstones in rapid succession. What happened next was nothing but a blur. I heard a loud thud as I watched one of the palace guard fall from above and he landed on my feet dead with a bullet wound to his head, and blood gushing out. I wasted no time shifting into my wolf form, my body breaking, stretching and reforming painfully . Shifting had always been a very painful experience fore and tonight was not even a full moon making the shift at will a thousand times more painful than normal.Bones snapped , crackling like dried twigs , my skin rippled and I dug my teeth into my lip to hold back a scream of agony .Mama always said that I was a special kind of wolf , a different kind of breed . I counted from one to ten in my head trying to block out the pain, my heart rate increasing as white fur sprouted from my skin, pupils dilated ,my nose elongated into a snout , claws formed and tail sprouted , my powdery blue eyes replaced by glowering red ones in the dark as I shifted into Ariella my wolf.
I looked around as four hunters came out of the shadows . One of the men had a gun. Two of them had crossbows with arrows dipped in what I suspected to be silver . The tallest of the four men just held a long silver leash and was practically brimming with energy. With his posture, I could tell he seemed to be in command. I growled as I leaped in the air to attack the man with the gun. I almost had my teeth in his jugular when I got hit on my side with an arrow from a crossbow . Mad with the pain I howled, but before I could react , a collar was clapsed around my throat which was made of silver . I yelped and squealed in pain as their leader attached his silver leash to my collar and began pulling the chain connected to my collar, roughly dragging me to God knows where . I growled loudly again thrashing wildly against the silver collar , trying to shut out the pain . The silver had begun burning away some of the flesh in my neck , the pain steadily draining me of energy . "Breathe Aly" Ariella my wolf commanded speaking to me through our mind link. " Let me take control " . I hesitated having never given her full control , she could be real deadly when she wanted to and I realized in that moment that I didn't care. "Common Aly it'll just be a moment " she said. "Alright " I said simply .I took a deep breath and , activated my mental telekinesis and with one last burst of energy I gave into Ariella . It was like taking the back seat of a car and watching some one else drive . I saw everything through her eyes brief as it was . She strained against the leash tapping into my will power and using telekinesis to disband it from the collar. Never had I been as grateful for the purported psychic ability to manipulate matter or energy using the power of the mind , a non physical means . She gave me back control after the leash was removed and I quickly sprinted away quickly into the cold, dark night the hunters still firing at me , chasing me hot on my heels or rather paws . I just ran.... steadily and in no particular direction. I just knew I had to get away from them.
My heart hammered furiously in my chest as I skidded to a stop, my paws hitting the cold hard ice with a loud thud. I was eeriely aware of the stillness of the night, the biting night breeze and stark dark silence . I was so tired having ran for miles but I still had a long way to go . It wasn't easy losing those wolf hunters and the injuries sustained to midriff did a pretty good job slowing me down immeasurably but I couldn't stop running , I had to find out who had betrayed us, me , my pack and my family.
The snow crunched under my feet as I trudged along the dark mountainous hills . The snow flakes falling around me felt like sharp needles on my skin which was filled with cuts and bruises but my fur did a pretty good job keeping me warm.
"They will pay " I remember growling in anger as I felt a wave of dizziness wash over me . Suddenly I caught a whiff of the sweetest scent ever . It was this woodsy smell with a hint of honey ? And dewy rain drops . I actually smelt him before I saw him , correction before I saw all 6 ft 8 of him even in partial wolf form he still towered over me , an enormous , gigantic wolf ten times the size of a normal wolf and a hundred times more terrifying with black fur and dark glowing ruby red soulless eyes . What was weird was that his scent was familiar too familiar. Bare feet, thick thighs with a sparse dusting of hair on his lower legs , short dark hair black as night and curly atop his head , lightly brushing his forehead, stubbled cheeks and chin , sharp nose , chiseled chin and plump lips which parted to reveal razor sharp fangs and canines . His chest was lined with abs and his arms corded with stacks upon stacks of pure sinewy muscles . His very image was the very paragon of virility and boy did he look mad.I think my tattered and near death state had something to do with that.
"Mate " he growled.
I didn't even get a chance to panic or even scream.
"Mate" Ariella squealed in my head jumping for joy. "We found our mate. or rather he's found us and boy is he hot".
"No shit Sherlock" I thought " well at least they'll be no journey to the Blood moon pack" I muttered as I blacked out my vision plunged into blackness like it was lights out and strong veiny hands wrapped around me hoisting me up effortlessly and in a flurry of movement had me on his back and out of my pack's land to safety and for good and also to an unknown destination.
There you have it folks.
My name is Alyssa Jackson and this is my story , and we'll trust me when I say ....I'm just getting started.