calming the storm

Chapter two: storm

my side aches as I roll over I bite my lip to prevent from screaming out in pain I don't want them to come in and finish their beating from yesterday

I'm storm I'm a strawberry leopard shifter and the last of my kind I spent the last two years in an underground dungeon watching this group that calls themselves The Hunters YouTube and kill my family to try to force them to shift and reveal to humans that the supernatural world exists. my family didn't break and it costed each of them their lives. now it's my turn. I can take the beatings the hard part is keeping echo hidden. echo is my leopard and the closer she is to the surface the quicker I heal. I need her to stay buried so I appear human so I don't get to communicate with her or shift. oh how I long to shift.

are you ready to give up and shift for us I hear a gravely voice say as the metal door to my cell opens

it's going to take a lot more than you have to offer to break me I snap back before I can stop myself.

ah yes me and my mouth definitely not the time for attitude

I hear the crack of his favorite whip well before I feel it

thick sharp razor blades slice through my back time and time again. one...two...three..five..ten..I start to lose count I zone out and just let them whip me my back aches. they know I'm supernatural because no human could still be alive after all this torture but to prove it to the world they need me to shift and show my supernatural side. I will die before I show her to them. I will not subject her to their torture.

they flip me on to my back

fuck that stings

I feel them put the wet rag over my face I brace myself as they pour water on me I cough and sputter trying to breathe until my throats raw.

ring..

his phone ringing saves me from the rest of my torture...for now

he slams the bucket down take the rag off and storms out to answer his phone.