The Prince's Mate

Monster in Heat

“Lycan?” Cecelia asked staring at Lifa’s back and then at the small blades, she’d figured it was some kind of beast but a Lycan wasn’t something she’d expected to hear anytime in her lifetime, and she couldn’t even question it because unlike earth where she was from it seemed like anything at all was possible there. “Ly-Lycan... As in a werewolf?” Cecelia asked as she stared back at the hulk sized silhouette

“What-no,” Lifa scoffed. “A werewolf is a reasonable creature capable of sentient thought, this monster before us is carnal and thinks only of conflict and death, so please do not move yet, I am going to engage it, and when I do, you will run, take a straight path back the Morhaven, do not stop for anything along the way, no noise no sound, and nothing you see, follow the lights and seek refuge in the first residence you can until daybreak, and do not look back.” She informed Cecelia of what was about to go down, but staring at the red eyes of the now confirmed Lycan and seeing the massive silhouette, Cecelia couldn’t even move a limb, she’d seen people and creatures of varying breeds and crossbreeds all day, but this was the very first creature she saw and couldn’t comprehend, as of a library had been opened up in her head she suddenly understood the motif and reason behind what was happening.

“If I turn my back Lifa it will come after me,” Cecelia began breathing heavily as some truth manifested in her mind. “This thing came here for me, which means if I go back to Morhaven it will one hundred percent follow me there, you might be able to distract it, but unless you can kill it -which I have a feeling you can’t... It’s pointless, someone wants me dead, it could be anyone I’ve met in the passed three days, from the prince’s to the queen or maybe one of the men from the council who wanted to burn me and chop my head off, this is their doing, whomever they are.” She had a look of both depression and horror as the massive Canid Lycan went bipedal, reaching a height of four metres tall as it began growling.

“This is even more reason to protect you then!” Lifa snapped loudly causing the blood red eyes to focus on her instead of Cecelia, but just as Cecelia had stated the beast’s eyes scanned her for a single second before it went back to Cecelia and narrowed again. “I do not have the capacity to kill it, you are right, but I do have the power to keep it distracted for a few minutes, that is enough time to get you far enough where you-“

“-won’t it kill you?” Cecelia began shaking as the Lycan took its first step off the carriage toward them. “Whatever we do now, aren’t we gonna die anyway?” She asked again, and tears began damming up at the corners of her eyes, she did manage to stand though, when it took its third step toward them, it was such a large beast that three steps had covered more than five metres in an instant, and it didn’t seem to be in a rush either, but this caused Lifa to lose her cool and rush forward at it, Cecelia no longer had the capacity to speak, but to Lifa’s credit she was like a little ninja as she dodged around the monster’s swipe and sliced her blades at the wrist intending to cut open the artery, which did happen, but before she could even reach the ground again the Lycan spun and swatted her with its tail then grabbed her by her head and held her up, in the end she’d been capable of only one strike, Lycan were in fact intelligent, they simply chose violence as their norm, not that anybody would know this since they all got bodied and dead men told no tales.

Cecelia saw this though, when the creature looked at it’s bleeding wrist and then looked back at Cecelia it showed sensible aggression, and for some reason she noticed the distinct annoyance in it’s expression, this is also when she realized she was seeing quite clearly in the dark, there were no colours and everything just seemed like a shade of blue aside from the lycan6’s eyes, but this was pitch darkness, she shouldn’t have been seeing anything at all, she also noticed that Lifa’s had already fallen unconscious, but the real shock came when the Lycan looked back at her and dropped pics instead of killing her, it definitely had only one target, and despite getting its wrist slit that hadn’t changed, it prioritized her above everything else, and this scared her beyond words as her muscles rippled with a burning sensation and her heart thumped on the verge of bursting a vessel, before she could even ponder on what was about to happen her back was turned and her feet slapping against the ground as she made a mad dash toward the forest before her.

Never in all her life had she felt such fear, and the promise of mortal pain she believed was about to be inflicted on her made her lose much of her sanity as her eyes dilated and her pace increased, she thought for a moment, for just a moment that her meagre speed would be enough running away from the beast but as her foot crushed the first leaves in the thick of the forest a tree-like object came from her side and slammed into her flipping her world upside down, vertical, horizontal a d diagonal as she spun across the thick of the forest crashing through branches before hitting the soft muddy ground again, somehow she wasn’t injured enough to stop moving because she sprung back to her feet and began running in a random direction again, but as cruel fate would have it she ended up running right back into the same monster she was trying to escape from, and before she could react fast enough the Lycan swung a backhanded blow at her that hit her again like a log and sent her cascading through branches, tearing at her skin and shredding her clothes in the process, when she hit the ground again she crashed directly against the bark of a large tree leaving her dazed as blood began running down her back and forehead.

In this fight or flight situation Cecelia spun around at the first growl, and picked up a rock beside her, she was seeing everything in triples and knew she’d be unable to run again, so she faced the beast head on, but as soon as she could identify which part of what she was seeing was the Lycan it grabbed her by her torso and slammed her against itself leaving her groaning and gasping for air, and then it threw her back to the ground again causing her to see white spots across her vision as her head and back made contact with a root, through this she remained conscious, even now when her eyes could t focus and her arms and legs had given out on her, she still relied on her ears and sense of touch, and as a result, she began screaming out when the Lycan took hold of both her legs and opened them after tearing at the back of her dress, she felt something cold press against her inner thighs afterward, and then a second later the creatures tongue traced from her knees up to the hem of her underwear, her heart began sinking to the depths of despair, she was too winded to scream loudly, and too beaten up to resist, not that she’d be able to either way.

“Please-wait... No stop!” She screamed out as the creatures tongue forced it’s way through her clothes and picked directly at her mound, causing her to shrill out in horror, and struggle to the point where even her bones felt like they were about to turn to dust, she’d torn every muscle in her arms and legs trying to escape what she rightfully though would be her last s****l encounter, which would kill her, but as her arms rested unable to move any longer, the Lycan rested her torso in the ground and raised her ass and continued to lick her, and she was so weak, so paralyzed, that all she could do was cry with her long dry and hoarse voice, she did t know what had happened, but it felt like she’d been like that for over an hour, constantly licked by a monster, her tears had flowed so long and so hard that they’d already stopped, and her face and the ground around her head was glowing brightly from it, she couldn’t fight what was happening, she’d tried and failed and her body had given up on her, but even then she could feel everything, every pain as the Lycan pressed its arm in her back and the other in her head, forcing her face into the ground, she didn’t know what was happening but she was sure she was exposed now from behind, and the feeling of dread from before came back billion fold when she felt something large and hot slide between her inner thighs and then began slowly making its way upward. “Please... Stop...” She whispered, unable to make or note a single word behind that, she begged.

Her eyes had regained focus, and she could feel the breath of the monster on her neck as it growled and hummed against her, the hand against her back slowly dragged it’s claws down her spine tearing her clothes even more and marking her skin before it rested on the top of her ass and raised her dress, but then there was noise, at her side and she saw Lifa’s foot for a split second approaching before the Lycan shrieked out and pushed her causing her to roll and crash into the same tree again then flop onto her side where she had full view of the Lycan and how it was holding its groin that was gushing blood, she’d never been so glad to see blood in all her life, as it meant that Lifa’s had likely chopped its d**k off or done something similar to sausage splitting to it, the Lycan roared to the canopy and looked around mad as a hippo in heat before its eyes settled on her again and her panic caused her heart to almost stop, from those same trees she saw Lifa spring down, her clothes had been torn short and her sleeves torn off so she could move around, and she did so with amazing speed landing on the beast’s head and stabbing it in the eye before it grabbed her like before.

Lifa screamed out in agony as she was thrown into the ground hitting it like an apple, and Cecelia heard the distinct sounds of bones breaking as she hit the soil, but before the monster could do any more harm, an arrow hit it in the neck, and when it turned and roared to the direction it had come from several more dug into it’s chest and legs and a spear was suddenly bedded in the shoulder , it shook itself and pounded the ground and roared once more before speeding off in that location, and then Cecelia blacked out, her eyes opening again only to see Lucas as he walked toward her with Brute the guard and several other soldiers bloodied and walking behind him.

“Did the monster already have its way with her?” Lucas asked, and one of the female soldiers quickly came and raised her dress in full view of everyone and probed her like an animal with her bloody hands.

“She has not been tainted highness.” The woman responded, and then Lucas turned his back and began walking away.

“Cover them up and carry them back to the castle, I will have to report this to father.” He left as the woman apologized in secret to Cecelia and placed a caring hand on her cheek assuring her that they were now safe.

She felt sick to her bones, even as those very bones felt like they’d experienced several deaths, she had the feeling that whomever did this wasn’t going to be pleased about her being alive, and she knew whomever it is was likely in the castle or close to it, but at the same time she knew that there was currently nowhere safer than that castle, so now she would be her own jailer.