The Moon's Warrior

Chapter 6 Two Many Years in Hell

It has been two years since been kidnapped.  I’ve been living in this hell for too many years and I’m ready to get out. The numbness has grown even stronger and I feel like I am starting to lose my humanity. Bellona has warned me that the more numbness I feel the more wolf I am becoming. Alpha Randal has been coming by to my cell every day to remind me that as soon as I turn 18, he will have the mating ceremony with me and all his pack will watch, so that I learn my place. Well tonight is the ceremony, but Gwen is going to help me escape. Hopefully Bellona has saved enough strength to help me shift, since I just had two fights yesterday. It will be dangerous though. Bellona has warned me that since I have been relying on my primal instincts to fight and survive that this could trigger me to stay a wolf forever. Which almost doesn’t sound that bad, being a wild animal for the rest of my life. However, Bellona disagrees and says that if I was found by a pack then they would kill me instantly because I would be a risk to werewolf race. Gwen’s plan consists of knocking out one of the guards when he comes to check on me and take his keys, freeing me. She will then sneak back to the party and play it off that the guard let me free. I just hope that this plan works, it’s my only way to escape. I have been pacing around my cell for a few hours now, I hear the guard coming down. “Hello slut, I can’t wait for my alpha to f**k you. Then once he is done, we will all be able to have a piece of you for the trouble you have caused.” He says to me with an evil smirk. Gwen stabs in the neck with a tranquilizer. He is out within seconds. She grabs his keys and unlocks my cell, I have a little trouble shifting but when I do give Gwen a quick lick on the hand. She breaks the small window, which then I jump and squeeze out of it. I run with all my might. I run and run as my legs can carry me, the father I get the safer I am for a little while. I am also afraid if I stop, that I will collapse, I run through a big mud puddle to try and cover up some of my scent. I also run through a few creeks to try and make my scent disappear some more. “Ouch!” I yelp when my paw lands on a sharp rock. I hope nobody heard me but damn that hurt. I have been running for hours and my paw hurts, though I finally got it stop bleeding and I ran a few miles of the opposite way, so if anybody is following me, they will follow the blood trail that way. After running for few more hours, I am so thirsty. I should be okay to take a small break to rest and get a drink. I smell a pond up a head, so I slow down and trot to the pond, still staying alert to my surroundings. I bend my head down and take a few long gulps. The water is so cool and refreshing, it feels amazing in my parched mouth. I lift my head back up to check out my surroundings, so far everything is clear. I bend my head back down to get another drink when suddenly 5 wolves jump out of the forest. I instantly turn around and growl at them, but I have my neck showing that I mean no harm. A handsome man with beautiful emerald green eyes walks out of the forest and stands next to the wolves. “Shift” he says. I lay my ears back and growl at him, showing my teeth. “Shift, I will not tell you again.” He commands. He must be their Alpha and the large red wolf with blue eyes must be his beta. The others are probably warrior wolves. I let out a snarl and snap my jaws at him before I turn around and run.  I look behind me to see the Alpha shift and his wolves close on my tail. I have a wolf on each side of me and the rest behind me. I just keep running forward as fast as I can so maybe I can get away from them before they make it in front of me to surround me. Suddenly I am off the ground and into the air. I start to struggle, try and get free from this trap. However, the more I struggle, the more I get tangled and the more my anxiety rises because I am caught. I am being lowered, I look down and there is a wolf sized cage. Once I am in the cage the shut the top down and lock it. They put on black gloves and pick up the cage and start carrying me. The Alpha looks down at me and says “You should have just shifted. It will be okay though.” I just show my teeth at him; all the swaying is making me sleepy. I collapse in the cage from exhaustion, I let sleep overtake me.

Jax’s POV:

                        I was in my office doing some paperwork when one of warrior’s link me “Alpha, there is a female alpha at the pond on the south border.” “Just observe her till I get there, be ready to chase her to the rope trap.” I link him back. “Yes Alpha.” I shift and run to the pond, on my way there my wolf is getting excited. The closer we get I smell a faint sweet scent. However, the scent is not strong. “It’s MATE!” Hercules yells through the bond. “She is a rogue though.” I link him back. “So? Be careful with her, I know you must trap and question her.” Once I am a few feet away I shift back to my human form and slip on some shorts by the nearby tree. I give my command to warriors to go ahead and jump out but be ready for the chase. I walk out of the forest and see the rogue. She is dirty and thin, rogue life must have not been easy for her. “Is it easy on any of them” Hercules links back sarcastically. “Well no, but she is the roughest looking one that I have seen” I link back to him. “Shift” I tell the rogue, my mate sternly. She raises her hair, lays back her ears, and pulls her lips up to show me her teeth while she is growling at me.  Even though she looks menacing she has beautiful blue eyes. “Shift, I will not tell you again.” I say commanding and my voice raised a little. She snarls and snaps at me before she turns and runs. “If she is our mate, then why is she running from us?” I link Hercules. “I know you feel the bond, dumb human. However, mate or not rogues know that trespassing on pack lands is punishable by death. So, she is probably scared” He links me. I don’t reply back to him, but I understand what he is saying. We chase her right into the trap and lower her down into the cage gently. The female rogue is in rough shape. However, since Elle’s disappearance we catch every rogue on our land and question them and she no exception, mate or not. “Do not torture my mate like you did the others” Hercules growls at me. “I will not her dummy, she is my mate also.” I link him back before blocking him.  She is so light that I can’t even feel her weight in the cage. The poor wolf is skin and bones, I can all her rib bones and her back bones. She is also covered in mud and a little bit of blood. We finally get down to the cells, I take her to the interrogation room. We put down the cage in the cell in there. “Kai, get the pack doctor here now and help with her supplies.” I order him. “Yes, Alpha.” He says. I tell the rest of the men that they are dismissed. I unlock the cage and gently grab her out of it and take her to the interrogation table. I check her pulse; it is still there but it is faint. It is surprising to see her still in wolf form, usually when a wolf is injured or goes unconscious, they shift back into their human form. Shelia the pack doctor comes in with Kai. “Alpha is she breathing okay and how is her pulse?” She asks me while getting stuff out of her kit. “Her breathing is fine, but her pulse is weak.” I tell her. My next words shock her and Kai. “Please give her your best, she is my mate.”. “Yes, Alpha. Okay let’s get the muzzle on her in case she wakes up. Next, lets shave a small patch on her leg and get the IV going.” She tells us. The next thing she says is “Kai, go grab a bucket of warm soapy water, we need to get her cleaned up.”  Kai leaves and then comes back with exactly what she asked for. She grabs the three rags and hands us each one. We work in silence getting her cleaned up until it is time to flip her over on her other side. Shelia tells us “Okay on the count of three we are going to gently flip her over and lay her back down. One….Two….Three…”  We have spent a good two and half hours cleaning her up. The doctor has changed her fluid bag three times already and notice a deep cut on her front left pad. I gently take the soapy rag and start on by her ears and work my way down in between her eyes, when suddenly I see her scared beautiful blue eyes before the turn a gold amber color. She tries to get up, but she is slipping on the metal table. “Shhhh, it is alright. We are trying to help you.” She growls at us and falls off the table, ripping her IV out. She lets out another growl and backs into the corner. All the hair on her back is standing up, she got her ears laid back, showing her teeth at us while she is letting out low growls. “Why are her eyes a gold amber color doc?” I ask Shelia. Shelia doesn’t say anything; she is just staring at the wolf. “Doc?” I say a little louder but not too loud. Still no reply. I slowly move towards the doc and tap her shoulder “Doc are you alright?” Kai also looks at the doc questioningly. “Yes…. Look at the wolf but don’t make direct contact.” Doc says. “Okay..” Kai and I both reply. Looking at female wolf I notice her fur color. It is black with sliver tips, almost making her look sliver. The next thing I notice is her right paw. The tip of it looks like it got blood on it. “Doc? Is she a legendary wolf?” I ask. The doc replies with “It seems to look that way, but only male werewolves can be the legendary warrior. From what I have a read only a male wolf can be a Moon’s Warrior.” She says. Kai calmly says, “There must be a reason the Goddess chose a female to be a legendary warrior, but it must also mean that there are challenging times ahead of us.” I always forget that Kai majored in Werewolf History, so he can do teachings on his off time. The wolf is still in the corner with her golden eyes staring at us. “Kai, why are her eyes golden?” I ask him. He says, “The Moon’s Warrior is closer to the wild wolf so when their wolf takes over, they have gold eyes like a normal wolf instead of our black eyes when our wolf is in control.”  “So, we must be even more careful with her in this state.”  I say.  “Let’s all sit down looking away from her and see if she calms down.” The doc says. We all do as she says and after about 15 mins, we hear the wolf move into a laying position. I slowly move my facing towards her and so does Kai and the Doc. Her eyes are beautiful topaz blue now. I whisper “Hi, I am Jax. This is doctor Sheila and My friend Kai. We just want to help you.”  She looks at all of us studying us closely, then she lays her head down on her front paws. She seems to be a lot calmer now. “Can you shift back so that I can examine you better?” The doc asks. “Kai, please go grab her some extra clothes” I tell him. “I will turn around.” I tell her. I can hear trying to shift and her whimpering, but she must be too weak to shift back. “Can I give you something to help you shift? It will hurt for a minute.” The doc asks her. I see the doc filling up a syringe, then I hear some whimpering and a few yelps. It breaks my heart to know that she is hurting, and I can’t do anything about it right now. Kai comes in with his eyes closed and holds out the clothes.  The doctor takes it from him and walks away. I hear the water running and her sipping some water. “You can turn around now.” She says quietly. I turn around and see the biggest shock of my life. It is a bruised and cut up Elle.