Chapter 14
Someone came running up to me and I saw that it was a werewolf that was armored like a guard of a sort.
"Your Maj--"
"Don't call me that just call me Percy okay" I interrupted
"Okay then Percy a prisoner wants to see you and he said that it was urgent" the wolf said
"How urgent" I asked
"He wants to challenge you for the throne" he said and then stepped back a little as I heated up from anger.
"Bring me to him" I said "he needs to be taught a lesson" and then the man started to run in the direction that he came from and I jogged after him. He was rather small for a guard at only five feet six and I easily towered over him.
"Why does he want to challenge his king" I asked
"When you killed Lycaon there were still some of his followers here, and when he died they started to go crazy and attack others because their soul was taken with Lycaon when he died, and so we had no choice but to lock them up so that they wouldn't hurt anyone else" he said and then he shifted and started to run. I ran a little faster and was running at his side un-shifted, and he side eyed me like I was crazy.
"What I can run fast" I said "it's no my fault that I got turned"
What are you going to do when we get there si--um--Percy the wolf asked
"I am going to take him up on his challenge and tear him apart" I said calmly and a large dark prison building arose in the distance and we slowed to a walk, and the guard changed to human form and yelled for the gate to open.
"Open this damn gate you stupid mongrels" he yelled and I looked at him surprised
"It took a little while but I rose to the top of the chain around here" he said and the gate still wasn't opening
"HEY OPEN THIS GATE" he yelled and a body was thrown over the walls, and it landed at my feet. I bent down and saw that this man had been stripped of his weapons and armor and torn to pieces by claw an tooth, and then they did a rather crappy job at beheading him because his head was still attached by the spine.
"I think I'm gonna be sick" the man said and then a set of footsteps and some dark hair rose above the prison walls.
"I will do no such thing for you" the man said and his skin was so pale that you could've thought him a vampire instead of a werewolf.
"Who do you think you are" I said
"Oh so your here" he said I was hoping that you'd show, so that I could kill you and then take your coat as my own"
"You have some nerve to challenge me to a fight" I said "but if you want to die then go ahead"
"No I think that you are going to be the one to die today, and I'll take the new position as king, and kill everyone in this wretched kingdom, and create my own. From Scratch" he said and then his hand went down and a glint was shown just before a rifle was pulled out and aimed at my chest, which now had a red dot on it.
"You coward" I said "your going to try and take the easy way to be king"
"Yes I am, and who cares if another person dies at this castle" he said and I saw his finger go to the trigger, but he didn't fire yet "do you know how much people I had to kill to get over here"
"No I don't and I--" he cut me off going about his psychotic rambling
"I had to kill everyone in this damn place because they all were fighting to get out and frankly I am starting to get sick staying in here, but they put a curse on me and this damn bracelet keeps me from stepping outside of the prison's borders and shifting forms, and here I was thinking that I would have a couple of minions to do my dirty work for me" he said "oh-well I guess that I'll just have to kill you from here" I looked at him in complete anger not wanting to use my powers because I wanted him to think that he could win. I heard him pull the trigger and I watched the bullet slowly go into my chest right where my heart should've been, but sadly for him he was going to be in for a treat and it was going to burn his ass. There was nothing worse than watching the very thing that you could've stopped without a thought go into you because of a plan that you knew would work, but I needed him to believe that he killed me. I needed it to be a surprise when I tore him apart, slowly giving him all of the pain that he deserves to have.
When the bullet went through my back I fell over in a dramatic pose as blood slowly soaked my shirt, the blood was half real. It was leftover blood from after my body healed up and I changed, but I felt my wounds close as I lay there in the floor faking death.
"Now that that's done, Herald would you please pick up that filth and bring him inside of the gate" the psychotic werewolf said and then there was a creaking sound as he raised the gate, and I stayed limp as Herald dragged me in by the feet.
"I'm sorry my king" he said and I smiled as the grass slid under my body, and then my vision darkened and I could tell that we were under the gate and out of his sight. I moved my leg a little and we stopped moving for a second, but then started again and the grass changed from dry and nice to wet and slick. I could smell the stench of fresh blood and death and it was overwhelming, and I had to fight from gagging or trying to move away from the smell and feeling.
"Now I just had to cut off his head" the crazy man said and a loud thump was felt before a slight scraping sound signaled that he had gotten out a blade of a sort. I sprang into action and even though I was in a little pain he had forgotten to make me take off all of my weapons, but I didn't need then because as soon as I opened my eyes he fell onto the ground in shock and I lept up and shifted into my silver wolf and lept on him growling and pulsing with power.
If you wanted to kill me you shouldn't have done it trying to be a coward, but right now you are probably in too much pain to listen to what I am telling you I said and picked up my paw from his chest but instead of setting it down on his side I put a claw to his neck and I saw that it was enveloped in black flame, and his skin was sizzling an turning black, blacker than his severely burned chest. I took my claw away and I could see the bones of his neck, and then I waited standing above him with fire pulsing throughout my body. My claws were different colors of fire, and my body was enveloped in boiling water, and my head was armored with silver.
"How-how are you alive" he said "it was a sil-silver bullet" he was wheezing barely getting enough air in his system as pain wracked his body.
When I was turned the werewolf decided that it would be very interesting to cut me up and bite me several times throughout the body, and then he cut up my chest and bit out my heart. Literally I said and his horrified face told me that that was worse than what happened to him I woke up three days later terrified and I went to the hunters who took me in even if I was a werewolf, and Artemis claimed me as one of her own, but my father Poseidon Disowned me and Hera claimed me as her son and blessed me. Soon after I joined the hunt there was a full moon and I changed, and because I was guardian of the hunt and moon. My fur turned to silver and I became immune to anything that would kill a regular werewolf. Trust me when they saw a wolf as big as me they tried to kill me and it took them three broken arrows and a-lot of talking to to convince them that I was their guardian, and I still am. He started to cough up blood and I could sense that he was half gone already from the severe burns on his chest making his ribs show all cracked and destroyed from the weight and pressure of my paw.
"Please kill me" he started and I was surprised a little " I can't bear this p-pain anymore"
I don't think that you heard me I said and looking at him making him nod as fast as I've ever seen before and then go into a fit of blood filled coughing I'm going to tell you this, next time you try to kill something...make sure that it stays dead I swiped my paw across his body and reduced him to ashes.
"How are you still alive" Herald said and I growled loudly at him making him back up a-lot and trip on a dead body falling to the floor. I started to walk out, and I saw that the gates had closed, and I made two X like scratches through them and the hot iron fell to the floor. I walked through and did the same thing to the other one leaving Herald standing there looking at me in shock.
I'm sorry, but I need to go and cool down before I kill anyone else accidentally I said I am going to go for a run, but I'll be back don't worry I said and then I shot off in a blaze of fire, but I mad sure that the fire that I left behind wouldn't burn down the city. I looked behind me and I saw a streak of water and large paw prints leading out of the city. I had jumped over the wall and was standing on the outside of the city looking it it's thick metal walls. I used to run through the forest to have fun, but I decided that the only reason I was going to go through the forest was to find a deep lake to go into. I smelled the air and I smelled a lake a ways away.
It will give me time to think and cool down as I go I thought and then I shot in it;s direction thinking about my hunters and what they were doing. I thought for a while and then I realized that I had zoned out, but it was too late because there was a blasted tree right in the center of my vision. I crashed into it and started to roll on the ground crashing into more trees or stripping them down to the center, and when I was done rolling across the ground all I heard was the creaking and splintering of falling trees, and the taste of dirt in my mouth. I spit out the dirt but stopped as a bunch of thumps created a mini-earthquake throughout the forest that I was in, and then a tree behind me started to creak and I turned around slowly, looking at it and the last thing I saw was a ten foot trunk setting across my vision before everything went dark.
I don't know how long I slept but it must've been a while because there was something cracking next to me. I tried to look up, but my muzzle was pressed down by something hard and rough. Then I remembered about the tree and I tried to move, but the tree seemed to weigh a ton. I lit my body of with white fire and sat there as the tree that was on me slowly burned. After three hours I felt the trees center over my back start to get hollow, and I stood making it split into two and roll off my back, but the other part was still on my face. I HATED it but I tried to slid my face from under it but it wouldn't move, I tried to lift up the blasted thing but it just stayed there. On my face like it was hugging it for dear life. I growled but it sounded more like a muffled whine from outside. A couple sets of feet came my direction, and I growled loudly shaking the earth a little and the tree moved making me yelp. I got an idea and I directed an earthquake to shake the tree on the right side to shake it off of my face. I heard some muffled yelling outside and some running around. After three minutes the tree finally rolled off and I stood and stretched shaking the dirt off of my face. I had a bunch up my nose and I realized that if I had a heart I would've died from suffocation under that tree. I noticed that my face wasn't covered in metal anymore and I realized that it must've gone away when I was knocked out by a tree. I looked around and then my eyes stopped at a little fire a little ways away, and I walked over to it. Then a branch at my left snapped and I heard guy curse under his breath.
"Are you stupid" another voice scolded him, and this one was a female "you could get us killed"
"Says the one talking" the guy says and they are too busy arguing to notice me creeping up from behind them after I slowly went around them.
"Where's the monster" the girl suddenly said and they both had a heavy smell of fear as they looked around but I had climbed up a tree and was now watching them with great interest.
"What kind of monster can burst into flames randomly" the male asked
"I don't know maybe a Minotaur, or a hell-hound, but if it was a hell-hound we would've been dead or running by now" the girl said and I was starting to think that she was a daughter of Athena, and I jumped down from my tree and landed on both of them with a claw on both of their throats.
You know if you know that there is a monster nearby it is best to either run at once, climb up a tree and hope that it can't find you, stop talking, or all of them really I said and they were well above the fearful spectrum because right now by the beating of their hearts I assumed that they were terrified don't worry I am not going to kill you I just want to know who you are I watched them and I saw the girl pull out a silver knife.
"What are you waiting for werewolf why aren't you killing us yet" she said trying to pull out her knife without me noticing, so I looked at her arm and she stopped knowing that I knew what she was doing. Then all I saw was a flash of silver and a thump rammed into my side and I was surprised, but I made the hilt of the knife stay glued onto my body due to my powers over silver and fire. Then I fell to the ground by the male kid and pretended to start breathing hard, and the girl lept up and got her brother up, and she leaned in-front of my face and I could feel her breath on my muzzle.
"That's what you deserve werewolf" she said and then she started to walk away "you kind should be wiped from the earth" and when they were out of my sight I got up quietly and followed them after absorbing the silver into my fur and making it glow a little more than it already had been. I let the hilt of the knife drop on the floor making a crunching sound that would only mean that I had turned to dust, and then I used a little silver and made it the way that it was before I melted it into a mess and absorbed the rest.
I slowly stalked them in the shadows listening for anything that might try to kill them, and even though the girl was very prepared for an attack. She knew nothing of what this forest held, and what was watching or trying to kill them. A centaur was aiming a bow at them, and then it let the arrow fly. I lept in the way and the arrow broke on my fur with a snap, but I didn't care about that because the Centaur was fleeing away in terror. I ran at it full speed and cut it apart with my claws before taking a little meat for myself. It was half horse after all.
"What was that" I heard the male kid ask but they didn't dare to come in the forest. I knew because the girl looked at it in fear, and I felt something sandy under my paws, and I looked down to see that the rest of my dinner had evaporated into dust. I considered wither or not to show myself to them, but I decided I would wait until I was absolutely needed. I quietly made my way back to them and I saw that they were walking again and a little faster than before.
Thanks for reading guys and I'll have another chapter out soon, 2-21-18, 3047 words.
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