Heartbroken By A Hunter - Freya Rose Series Book Two

Chapter Two - Freya you're awake!

Mason's Point of view:

Evan and I quickly followed Brad and Trent out towards the purpose-built holding cells in the woods. It was a brick and steal built building nestled within the trees.

We slowed down as we approached the building and I noticed that the security door was open slightly. I looked down towards the floor to see what was stopping the door from closing, disturbingly it was crushing one of the dead guard's hands.

I could tell the door had tried to slam back shut with some force because the guy's hand was almost sliced in half. I cautiously stepped over the pool of blood and tugged on the heavy door. As I pulled it open the guards mangled hand fell apart onto the floor.

With the door now open I could see the extent of what Finn had done to the poor guy, scanning over his body I couldn't even recognise him. His face was completely gone, left in its place was crimson flesh and veins. His unsightly and gruesome smile will haunt my dreams forever.

You don't realise quite how many teeth somebody has until they don't have their skin or lips to cover them anymore.

One of his eyes was hanging down his face, it was just dangling there still attached by his optic nerve. That injury stood out to me the most as his eye laid there perfectly intact, against the backdrop of his destroyed face.

I glanced over the rest of his body and saw that his stomach had been gouged open and his intestines were spilling out onto the floor.

All I could think was that, I hoped he'd died quickly and didn't go through too much pain. Evan followed in behind me as I knelt down to check the guard's security badge.

"Dude it's like a f*****g slaughterhouse in here!" Evan said in astonishment as he walked past me and inspected the rest of the corridor.

I watched him as he entered the cell that Finn had been kept in. The cells were made from 4 walls of bulletproof glass that sat caged within solid silver bars.

The glass of the cell was covered in the second guard's blood, making it impossible to see the c*****e that laid within it.

"Wow, you thought that guy had it rough? You should see the guy in there," Evan said while pointing over his shoulder with his thumb at the cell behind him.

"Is it that bad?" I asked as I stood up.

He sighed and replied,

"Well there's not a lot left of him, let's just put it that way."

I screwed my face up in disgust, I had seen a lot of gory scenes in my time as a hunter but this was by far the grossest.

"I'm guessing that Mr bones in there," he pointed back towards the cell again.

"For some stupid reason opened the cell door. Finn killed him then face off guy here," Evan pointed towards the guard on the floor.

"Has come to investigate, seen Finn chowing down on bones, so he's legged it like Usain Bolt, but Finn's mauled him before he could make it out of the building. Then face off guys hand stopped the door from closing properly so Finn got his born free moment."

I nodded in agreement then turned to face Brad and Trent.

"You two!" I shouted and snapped my fingers at them to get their attention.

They both stood there with their mouths open and eyes wide taking in every little bit of horror that laid before them.

"Yes, Fionn, what do you need us to do?" Trent asked as he stood to attention and waited for my orders.

Brad was still in shock and didn't acknowledge me at all. I huffed in annoyance then yelled,

"Brad!?" He quickly glanced at me then replied,

"Sorry Fionn, I'm listening."

"Good, I need this place cleaned up as quickly as possible. Under no circumstances can we have the other hunters finding out what unfolded here today, do you understand?" I said my orders firmly.

I turned to Trent and began to give him his orders,

"Trent, you're going to need to bag up both of these bodies. I then need you to carry them to the incinerator and burn them, can you do that for me?"

He nodded and immediately headed for the supply closet to fetch the body bags. Brad looked troubled so I gave him a questioning look.

"You can't be serious Fionn? What about their families? They'll want a funeral or at least to say goodbye." He snapped at me.

I furrowed my brow at his outburst and replied in a harsh tone,

"I know that Brad, but what do you suggest we tell them huh? No doubt they told their Fianna's who they were guarding down here. Do you want to be the one to tell them that Finn ripped them apart?"

He didn't reply, he just lowered his head to the floor and shook it slightly.

I moved closer to him and put my hand on his shoulder and spoke in a kinder tone,

"Look I know this is a tough situation but right now we need to focus on cleaning this s**t up and finding Finn before he kills anyone else. Then we can work out what the f**k we're going to do about this entire mess and figure out an explanation to give to the guard's families, ok?"

He looked back up at me and smiled slightly then asked,

"Ok Fionn, I understand, what's my orders?"

"Right I need you to help Trent bag these two up and carry them to the incinerator, if anyone asks what you're doing, just tell them we found two more werewolf carcasses out in the woods ok?" I waited for a response and he nodded in compliance.

Trent had come back out with the two body bags so I then addressed them both,

"Once you've finished I need you to meet the rest of us at the armoury hut in the woods, there we will load up with capture equipment only. Then we will hunt down Finn and bring him back here understood?"

They both stood to attention and replied,

"Yes, Fionn!" In unison.

I nodded at them slightly then ushered for Evan to follow me out of the building.

"We will send down some of the girls shortly to clean up the blood, see you guys in a bit," I said before we exited the building.

Evan and I began walking back to the cabin, Evan pulled out his phone to ring Ellie so that she could prepare the girls for cleaning and the hunt.

"She's not picking up, silly cow probably let her phone die reading her stories again." Evan huffed as he shoved his phone back into his pocket.

As we approached the cabin we heard an ear-piercing screech.

"s**t!" Evan yelled as we both glanced at each other then bolted towards the cabin.

We got into the cabin and stood on guard as we searched every room on the lower floor for anything out of place.

"Where the f**k did the scream come from?" Evan asked me in a hushed voice.

"I have no idea, maybe upstairs?" I questioned as I pointed to the ceiling.

Evan nodded and began to creep towards the stairs, I followed behind him. We rested our backs against the wall and slowly made our way up the stairs. Once on the landing, Evan waited outside his and El's room, he cautiously opened the door and peered in, he popped his head back out and shook it slightly, the relief could be seen clearly on his face.

We quietly made our way towards the next bedroom, as we approached we could hear loud bangs coming from inside the room. I paused outside the door and lifted my foot ready to boot it in. I turned to Evan and counted,

"1....2..........3!"

"Arrrrggghhhh!" A girl screamed.

Before I'd had a chance to kick it in, the door flung open and Stevie screamed as she threw her can of monster at my head. It bounced off of my face, hit the wall then crashed to the floor. My hand instinctively shot up to my forehead and rubbed the spot where the can had hit it.

"What the hell Mason!?" Stevie yelled at me with her hands on her hips.

I was in too much shock to reply.

"You scared the s**t out of me, why are you both lurking around outside Carmen's bedroom like that?" She asked in confusion as she proceeded to fold her arms across her chest.

"We heard a scream and we thought it came from up here, sorry for coming to your rescue, we won't bother next time!" Evan replied sarcastically.

"What? We didn't scream did we, Carmen?" Stevie shouted out to Carmen.

"No, it wasn't us," Carmen shouted back from the bathroom.

"Then who was it? Where's El?" I asked Stevie with concern.

She looked up into the air trying to remember.

"Um, about an hour ago, she said she wanted to go and sit with Freya, she likes to talk to her every now and again, she said she finds it relaxing or something. I personally think she just goes down there to read her smut," She casually replied.

"Crap!" Evan mumbled under his breath then took off running back down the stairs.

I hurried after him and followed him to the basement door. He typed in the code and yanked open the door, I ascended into my hunting form as I rushed down the stairs quickly followed by Evan.

A deafening growl welcomed us as we entered Freya's room, it was quickly followed by many ferocious snarls.

"Sssshhhhh! If you don't move he'll settle back down again." El whispered.

I looked over to the back wall and there she was pressed tightly into the corner.

"El are you....." Evan began to ask, another deafening growl filled the air, El quickly placed her finger on her lips and shook her head, we got the hint and ceased communication. El pointed over towards Freya urging us to watch.

I looked over at my beloved Fianna, she still laid there sound asleep like the beautiful Angel she was, but perched on top of her chest was a humongous werewolf.

It was covered in red and dark grey fur with light blonde accents, it was also a lot larger than the average werewolf and it had these piercing ice blue eyes that had our hunter's vortex swirling around its pupils.

The wolf began to whimper as it licked Freya's face, I cringed at the sight and held back the urge to cut its throat open. If that was any other werewolf it would have been dead within seconds of me entering the basement.

But I couldn't bring myself to kill it, how could I kill one of my oldest friends, it would feel like I was killing a brother. We needed to find a way to help him.

This has never happened before, a hunter has never been turned into a werewolf, first Freya and now Finnley. Many of us were bitten by werewolves 2 months ago when Tristan's pack attacked us and no one else has turned. Finn, however, was the only one that was bitten by Freya.

He was normal for a few days being bitten. The wound healed like normal and he felt fine.

Then all of a sudden he got the flu, which is unheard of within the hunter community, we get injured all the time but we never get sick.

He then got a fever, then he had delusions for 2 days and kept talking about someone called Selene. He'd also attacked Stevie in the middle of the night, scared her half to death poor girl, that's when we decided to lock him up.

She hasn't been to visit him at all since he attacked her. We have kept her updated but she just couldn't bring herself to see him.

He then returned to normal for a few weeks so we chanced it and let him out, he was out for a couple of days then got into a fight with Evan over something silly and began to shift, that's when we decided to lock him up permanently until we could find out what was going on.

Finn continued to whimper and lick Freya's face.

"Finn? Is that you?" Stevie quietly questioned as she crept down the stairs.

Crap! Evan must have forgotten to close the door, I thought to myself.

We let her pass and she made her way towards Finnley. When she got to within a couple of feet away from him, he turned and snarled at her.

She jumped back startled and said to him,

"Oh Finnley, I am so sorry I wasn't there to help you through this. Please forgive me, I love you."

She then placed her head in her hands and began to sob. Finn's wolf turned his head to the side and stared at Stevie, he then leapt off of Freya and cautiously approached Stevie.

He scowled at Evan and I so we held our hands up and backed up a little, just enough so that we weren't on top of them. But not too far as we still needed to be able to get to Stevie quickly if Finn decided to turn on her again.

Finn reached Stevie and whimpered at her, nudging her elbow with his nose. She pulled her hands away from her face and looked down at him, a smile grew across her face and she sat down on the floor.

Finn licked her tears and purred as he rubbed his face on hers. She giggled and stroked his fur. I sighed with relief as I saw Finn being loving to his Fianna, maybe he was like Freya and could control his wolf? Maybe he wasn't a savage beast after all.

My thoughts were cut short with the blood-curdling screams of Stevie, Finn had sunken his canines into her skin just between her shoulder and her neck.

She wailed out in agony trying to fend him off with very little success. Evan and I rushed to her side, I slid my arm around Finn's solid neck and began to pull him backwards.

He snarled and snapped his jaws trying to fight me off. I jumped on to his back and tightened my grip around his neck while Evan was busy helping Stevie to her feet.

I looked up at him with panic in my eyes, Finn was stronger than any wolf I'd ever fought before and I was struggling to keep a hold of him.

Evan got the hint and called for El to help with Stevie,

"Ellie quickly, take Stevie to the holding cells and call the Dr down to help her." He said frantically.

El rushed over to Stevie and held her up.

"No! Please don't put me in the cells, I don't want to be in the cell next to him." She cried out as she took her blood covered hand away from her neck to point at Finn. Finnley whimpered in reply as he tried to shake me off.

"It will only be for a little while Stevie, just while the Dr gets you all patched up, we can't let anyone know about this remember," El whispered to her then ushered her up the stairs.

"Can you ring Brad and Trent, we're going to need all the help we can get to get him back to his cell," I shouted out to Evan as I struggled with Finn's gigantic wolf.

Evan nodded and pulled his phone out of his pocket, he turned away as he began to speak on the phone.

I decided to test my theory that werewolves can control their wolves, I had seen Freya do it and I wondered of Finn could too.

"Right here goes! Finn, it's me, Mason, can you understand me?" Finn's wolf huffed and I instantly felt his body begin to relax. He stopped thrashing around and became still.

Wow I think it's working! I thought to myself.

Finn's wolf began to lower himself to the ground and as he did he began to whimper a little. It felt like he was apologising to me, weird I know but that's what it seemed like to me.

Feeling a little more at ease I stepped off of him and stood to his side then watched as he laid down on the concrete floor. He rested his head on his gigantic paws and sighed. My body relaxed as I began to trust that Finn was now in complete control of his wolf.

"What the f**k Mason!?" Evan yelled at me as he turned back around and saw that I'd let Finn go.

I tried to tell him to shush but it was too late, his yelling had startled Finn. His wolf leapt off of the ground with lightning speed and pinned Evan to the floor. Finn was snarling and snapping at Evan's face and all Evan could do, was hold his fur just below his jaw and try to push him away.

I jumped into action and threw my arms around Finn's waist, he was too darn big and my arms wouldn't fit all the way around him so it was hard for me to keep a grip of him as he thrashed around.

"Mason do something!" Evan screamed at me in a panic.

I tried to think of something to do, I held my head back and screeched as loudly as I could into the air, I know that makes werewolves fall to the floor and cover their ears.

I finished my screech and looked back down towards Finn, he was completely unaffected by the screech and was still trying to rip Evan's face off.

"Wow, he really is a mega wolf!" I said out loud in amazement.

"Ok dude can you save the bromance for later and concentrate on getting this oversized mutant off of me please!" Evan managed to grunt out between snarls and lunges from Finn.

"Oh my god, Evan!" El screamed as she ascended while running down the stairs.

She flew forwards towards Finn but he'd already spotted her. He lifted one of his huge paws and effortlessly slashed it across her face, blood splattered everywhere and she passed out instantly causing her to plummet face first onto the concrete floor.

"EL, NOOO!" Evan screamed and tried even harder to push Finn's wolf off.

I quickly focused all of my strength on pulling Finn off of Evan so that he could go to Ellie.

"Arrgghhh!" I groaned as I ripped the wolf away from Evan, I flew back and landed on the floor, I hurried to right myself but before had the chance to Finn had pounced on top of me.

I tried to do the same as Evan and hold his neck away from me but my hand suddenly slipped and his face lunged for mine, I turned my head and closed my eyes as I prepared for Finn to rip my face off as he did to that guard in the cells.

"FINNLEY ENOUGH!" She growled from behind me.

Instantly Finn's wolf crawled off of me, bowed his head in submission, then ran over to her like a little puppy dog. He wagged his tail and yapped at her with excitement.

I rolled over onto my stomach then cautiously raised myself to my feet. I kept my head down looking first at her bare feet then scanning up her body to her lovingly smiling face, then I met her beautiful ice blue illuminated eyes.

"Freya you're awake!"