Amber

My eyes opened and I felt immense pain hit me on back of my hand. Instinctively my hands raised but I found that there were tied behind my back while I was tied to a tree.

Panic started building in me as I finally analysed the surrounding. I was in the forest, the one behind the concert arena. It was dark and I was held captive here. There was no human around to look out if I managed to escape. Instantly I wriggled in an attempt to loosen the ropes around me.

It was hurting as the rough edge of ropes cut through my skin but I kept trying. I tried and tried causing my skin to cut open because I could feel the warm blood trickle down my wrist and soared waist.

I yelped out in frustration, not sure what was happening. And like an answer to my frustration and questions, a tiger walked in.

I sucked in my breathing, watching in fear and awe as I looked at the royal predator walk towards me. I was terrified , yes, but I knew somehow the tiger was not here to kill me. It had other motives.

Was I insane to try to think reason behind animal actions?

"What do you want?" I asked as calmly possible.

I mean there was no one else to see that I was crazy enough to talk to animals.

And then something outwardly happen and the in front of me replacing the tiger was man. No, that was completely natural for a man to turn into an animal, I mean I truly believe in were-animals.

The man the tiger turned into was Eibhir Mainle.

I was freaking out and there were various all sensible reasons.

Firstly I was tied up to a tree. Secondly a tiger just shifted into a man right in front of my eyes and then it turned out that the man was Eibhir. I guess I was insane and needed to see a shrink.

Somewhere deep down I knew I had seen this tiger in my dream, or maybe heard? I have heard his growl in my nightmares. This was not making sense even in my head.

"Surprised Amber Mikelson?" Eibhir said with a nasty look on his face.

I just glared at him.

"Why am I here Eibhir?" I asked bravely.

God, that man can turn into a tiger! Freaking whole striped tiger!

"Why do you think?" He counter questioned narrowing his eyes at me.

"I don't know." I replied keeping up the brave facade.

"You are important Amber, really important. Because I never step out to do any mission by myself. I am the leader. But now my best soldier refused to finish you so I have to do the job yourself." He said walking like a true predator around me.

My eyes followed him around too scared to let him out of sight and turned back into tiger.

Werewolves are hot...in movies and book but were- tiger...shudder.

"Important? Why? Because I click pictures? You are making no sense here." I asked thoroughly confused by his words.

He laughed darkly and I cringed.

"My dear Amber, you are selected by prophecy. Well the prophecy said something special about you which I obviously can't reveal to you not being one of us." He said a sneer forming on his face.

"One of you? What are you, gang of shapeshifters?" I said sarcastically.

"Right on Mikelson." He said making me gape in shock.

What? What? Shapeshifters? No he is joking, right?

But looking at his expression and turning from tiger to man thing, he probably wasn't.

This was not real, I read to many books and now I am imagining myself as the chosen one, the prophecy girl.

Eibhir let out a loud growl causing me to flinch.

"I am as real as it gets, if you are doubting about it." He said glaring at me menacingly.

"Are you going to kill me?" I asked the most important question, terrified that I will be dead for apparently some stupid prophecy.

I now understood how all those hero under prophecy burden must feel. Agitated. How could few words affect your whole life? And if people can really see the future why not try to make it good before it happens.

Or maybe that is what EIbhir is doing, I might be some evil thing he wanted to kill before bad happens. No, no then Voldemort trying to kill Harry will not make sense.

"I have to kill you not like I want to." He said with no remorse in his eyes.

And then he shifted into a tiger again.

Please don't kill me, please don't kill me, please don't kill me. I chanted in my head.

Tiger growled and then it changed to a whimper like it was confused and needed help. I looked at it confused. What was happening?

It looked like there was an internal battle going on in tiger's...Eibhir's head.

"Eibhir." I called out to confirm that I was not mad and he actually was a shapeshifter.

He snapped his teeth at me and my mind went blank with fear. The tiger came over it pain and mind battle and lowered itself in a stance to leap on me. But before it could do that, a familiar dark form of panther leaped on it, making the almost twice the size tiger stumble.

The two predators faced each other and growled fiercely. I loved my panther, he was not just an animal, he was my saviour then.

It bared its teeth towards Eibhir (shock still persistent that he is a ...tiger?) and the large tiger stepped back. It was mesmerising seeing them move in perfect synchronisation. But now I was not worried for my life, I was worried for the safety of my panther. He has already been hurt because of me once.

As panther was about to attack, a white wolf walked in growling , not dangerously, rather in a calm warning way.

My head was swarming now, partially in pain and partially in shock. What I was seeing was not normal , not real and definitely not right. But the panic that should come by now was nowhere near since panther came along.

They can't all be...shapeshifters, can they?

The warning growl from the wolf turned the other two animal civil. Umm a wolf that can 'scold' a panther and tiger? Who said I was not insane?

Again, almost giving me minor heart attack, tiger shifted back to Eibhir.

"Traitor, that's what you are? And for whom, a girl? Ironic isn't it and I thought you couldn't feel emotions all this while." Eibhir said to the panther.

Couldn't feel emotion? Somehow in back of my mind in clicked.

Asking me to leave the town, the similar scent to my panther, close to Eibhir...It can't be? Could it be?

"I am not a traitor Eibhir, I asked for a valid reason. And I did warn to you stay away from her." Ian stood in place of my panther death glaring at Eibhir.

Before I could react to this, the white wolf now shifted to Marc and I let out a low yelp. All three of them turned to look at me. I gave them a sheepish look. I had the right to freak out a little. I just saw three shapeshifters, shifting form right in front of me.

It was a miracle I was not fainting from shock.

Because it all pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle....Those amber eyes from my panther, those amber eyes from my dream, those amber eyes belonged to none other than Laserian O'Fearghaile.

He was my panther!

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