Chronicles of the Wolf Book II: A Wolf in Sheep's clothing

Chapter 16

I took a deep breath. Partially to get Sammie’s scent partly to calm myself down. Her scent drove me wild already without taking a deep breath of her. She smelled interesting, a very feminine female scent, it was a definite female scent, a distinct scent of cherry blossoms, or something like that and fertile…very fertile. I was trying not to get too lost in her scent so I started to look for a similar scent in the city.

“Anything?” Walker said.

“Patience boy,” I said.

In order to really explain a Beghrest senses I need to compare it to something of comparable magnitude. Do you know how in a crowd, you can still hear somebody who may be talking to you in front of you? Well that is how we Beghrest can isolate things using our senses. Our millions of years of being a predator we had evolved into being able to predict where our prey goes and not only that but also be able to isolate it in a sea of scents.

Of course, it didn’t help that I was looking for a female in a sea of scents when I was potentially going through a rut. A similar scent to Sammie whose scent was driving me mad already. After a while I finally smelled a similar scent, it was not far from here.

“There,” I pointed west, towards a place that reminded me of those old tombs that were just outside of the Bel’hatore Forest that my father once told me was where the Old Chiefs were buried.

“Is it just me or is that place super creepy?” Tanya said pointing out the obvious. We silently agreed with her.

There was some sort of creepy vibe to it, there was no other way to describe that. It just had a very creepy aura to it, I didn’t like it considering I had felt a creepy vibe from where Eugene was hanging out at.

“I have a bad feeling about this,” I said.

We had heightened our defenses, we were now on the edge for anything really. Especially after seeing what Eugene was, could the other Storm Bringers be like him? That was something that we thought of as we had headed in this direction.

I looked around and sense something off. It was more than just creepy. There were these trees…I…I was pretty sure they had moved in my direction. I stared at the trees and looked at everyone else.

“I swear those trees look like they got closer,” Umberto said.

“You feel that too?” I said. “Boy?”

I suddenly noticed that Walker and Tanya were missing.

“Boy?” I growled angrily. I thought the brash i***t had wandered off because Tanya had convinced him to go off on a tangent or something.

“Where is Tanya?” Sammie said suddenly realizing she was missing.

“Those idiots probably snuck off together,” I growled and looked around.

“No, I don’t think so,” Sammie said. “Tanya wouldn’t up and leave like that.”

“Are you sure?” Umberto asked. “They are two horny kids after all.”

“Last I saw neither had horns,” I said to Umberto.

“No, I mean…” Umberto started to say, but he decided not to say anything.

I looked around and tried to pin point their scent, but it didn’t make sense. It was almost as if they had disappeared into the ground.

“What in the world?” I said.

“What?” Umberto said.

I used my senses to playback a following scenario:

I saw Walker and Tanya hanging close to each other and within a few moments Tanya had disappeared into the ground with Walker reaching out and grabbing her hand and they both sunk into the ground. I ran towards where I saw them fall into.

“They fell in here,” I said looking over at Umberto and Sammie.

I reached where they had fallen into. I saw that here was dirt that was suddenly shifted as if it had been filled in quite in a rush.

“The earth caved in?” Umberto said as he ran over and started digging the ground with me. We moved some dirt, over and over until finally I saw Walker’s hand through some dirt.

“Boy!” I said. Umberto and I dug the dirt out faster and faster and soon pulled him out.

“Stand aside.” Sammie said jumping and quickly feeling his chest.

Sammie quickly reached and started compressing his chest. Seconds later Walker sat up and coughed out dirt. She looked around panicking and looked at all of us.

“It has her!” Walker said.

“What has her?” I asked.

“Didn’t any of you see it?” Walker asked we all looked confused. “That thing that came out of the ground that crabbed Tanya?!”

I looked at the dirt and suddenly I realized that something came out of the earth and grabbed Tanya. I then started to put things together I realized that the trees had moved, something had moved them. And that something was under us and had gotten Tanya.

“Something is in the ground!” I said.

“What?” Umberto said.

I jumped towards Sammie, feeling that whatever was under us was after the females, and Walker was an unfortunate bystander. I moved extremely fast and grabbed Sammie and rolled with her in my arms and quite nimbly got back on my feet and turned around and saw this very odd creature come out of the ground.

“What the hell is that thing now?!” I said.

This thing came crashing out of the ground with this massive thud. I had no idea what the hell I was looking at. In all honesty I was getting tired of not knowing what the hell I was looking at, but this time I knew that what I was looking at there was no way that this thing was some sort of natural creature.

It towered above us, with these massive moth-like wings, and with these sickening arms that looked almost like that of a man with fingers and hands. It had four hands and two legs that looked almost female. Its body looked like it was part ant, part spider, part something else I had no idea what it was. This thing was utterly terrifying, and it gave this shrill howl.

“What the living sh(insert explicative here) is this?” Umberto asked.

“More of Hunraken’s creations?” I asked. I had managed to put myself between this thing and Sammie who looked terrified at this thing.

This thing was at least 9 feet tall, but it was probably 12 feet long with those massive wings at least being 15 feet wide. This creature rumbled loudly, and it made the earth shake violently. The strange crypt-like settings around us became even more unsettling.

“It has to be,” Umberto said.

“What are you waiting for shoot the damn thing,” I said to Umberto.

“I can’t look at what it has,” Umberto said pointing.

I looked at what he was pointing at. I had not noticed that Tanya, was unconscious in this transparent looking ball that was stuck to the back of this thing.

“I can’t get a clear shot, the way it’s trashing about,” Umberto said.

“Damn it,” I said.

I needed to think quickly, and I needed to find a way to save Tanya and attack this thing, plus on top of that I needed to protect Sammie, however thinking on instinct I reacted quite quickly. Using my speed to my advantage I got Tanya and threw the creature back into the hole.

Tanya woke up suddenly in my hands as I landed.

“What happened?” Tanya asked.

“A giant bug attacked us,” I explained.

“Thank god,” Sammie said and ran towards Tanya and they hugged deeply. Then she pulled back and saw this goo on her. “Yuck lets see if we can get that goo off.”

I stood back and looked at the hole in the ground. I wondered what that creature was and why it had attacked us. I had this suspicion that it was after the girls, and the reason it was after the girls might be the same reason that Eugene had been after Rana.

“Anyone care to explain what the hell that was?” I asked.

“Probably another unfortunate victim of Project Rho,” Umberto said.

“That much was evident,” I said. “I mean what the hell was it?”

“Some wild combination of insect and some unfortunate soul,” Sammie said.

“You mean to tell me Norman Hunraken was creating things like that and you did nothing?” I asked.

“You don’t understand the circumstances,” Sammie explained.

“Maybe not,” I said.

I calmed myself down. The adrenaline was still pumping through my veins and making me almost feel like I was on fire. I felt my heart pumping in my ears and I felt like if I took her now I probably would ravish her about 10 times before I would leave her alone. I tried to shake it off.

“Hey,” I jumped when Umberto grabbed me.

“Don’t do that unless you want your head missing,” I growled.

“Duly noted,” Umberto said holding his hands up.

“You okay Hunter you seem like you are on edge,” Walker said.

“I’m fine boy,” I said, then I added to Sammie. “We need to find this friend of yours.”

“With that creature here,” Sammie said. “I am not sure she is here, well at least not intact.”

“What the hell does that mean?” I said.

I checked myself suddenly, because I realized that I was getting more aggressive. I was starting to feel that maybe I was dangerous to my friends. I didn’t remember all the things that would happen during a rut. I had no idea at all. All I knew was that a Beghrest male would become extremely agitated and would be driven mad by a scent of a female, and it would get worse as he went through it.

I didn’t notice at first but somehow, I had walked off.

“Does your race go through ruts?” Sammie asked suddenly. I had not seen her sneak up on me and whispered it so that only I could hear it with my enhanced senses. I nervously gulped and nodded. “How bad does it get?”

“Really bad,” I said.

“I can help you,” Sammie said.

My heart nearly exploded when she said that. It was beating like mad, and I knew where it was beating the blood to. Sammie had made some excuse about needing me to check some other place for Theresa when she got far away enough, she looked around and said it a bit more formally.

“So, your race goes through ruts how often?” Sammie asked.

“I am not quite sure,” I said honestly. “How did you know I was going through a rut?”

“I thought you were since earlier,” Sammie said. “You seemed like you were about to rip Umberto’s head off, and the three of us near you was clearly driving you crazy. How bad does it get?”

“I am not quite sure about that either,” I said.

“Why not?” Sammie frowned.

“This is the first one I’ve gone through,” I said.

“Oh, you’re a young one then?” Sammie said but in a very adorable way.

“I’ve only heard that it gets so bad that males that sexually attack females during ruts get pardoned.” I said.

“Wow that bad?” Sammie said.

“Apparently,” I said.

“We can’t have you do that on Tanya…” Sammie said.

“I know,” I said almost in fear for her. Even though she was considerably too young to have her own fertile scent like Sammie did, I had heard that not even young females were safe from a male Beghrest in a rut.

“Okay, I’ll help you with that then,” Sammie said again.

I vigorously shook my head.

“No,” I said.

“Don’t be a tough guy,” Sammie said. “Besides I don’t mind.”

“It’s not that,” I said.

“Are you worried you’ll break me or something?” Sammie asked.

“You haven’t seen my strength,” I said.

“You’re so adorable,” Sammie snorted very cutely. “You have no idea what I am do you?”

“A female Fakir?” I asked c*****g my eyebrow.

“Yeah my outer appearance is that,” Sammie said. “But I am an Android.”

“What the hell is an Android?” I asked.

“I wasn’t born, I was built,” Sammie said.

“So, you’re a ribbit?” I asked.

“It’s Robot silly,” Sammie snorted cute again. “And no not really like that.”

“But you said you were built,” I said.

“Yeah I was,” Sammie said. “But everything about me is pretty much like a fakir female, and I mean everything. Even my s****l organs.”

“But…” I said.

“But, all of it is built, every single las bit of it, even my s****l organs.” Sammie said.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“I mean that someone took painstakingly long time to really research all the organs of a Fakir and made fake organs and then put them all in a fake body and created us.” Sammie said.

“Us?” I asked.

“The whole lot of us,” Sammie said.

“You mean you and the others like you?” I asked. “This EIGHT, Theresa, and you?”

“And the others too,” Sammie said.

“You’re all Altoids?” I said.

“Androids,” Sammie corrected.

“So that is like a ribbit?” I said.

“No Robots are all metallic and junk I’m not.” Sammie said almost seductively. “Although fake my organs will be very real.”

“I don’t like the idea,” I said.

“Look either you and I do it, or you accidentally snap and bang the crap out of Tanya if you get any more on edge,” Sammie said almost feeling like she was stating the obvious.

“I…I’ve never done that,” I said.

“Oh, young and unexperienced,” Sammie snorted cutely. “Come on, I’ll show you exactly what to do I’ll guide you, and we’ll take it slow.” She smirked seductively. I think red flags should have gone off on me by now, she never acted like this until now and I wondered what had come over her. I should have known something was off.

But I was getting too on edge to let the flags get to me. Maybe I should have paid attention, maybe I should have seen it coming. However, by the time that I started to suspect things, it was too late. I had fallen in this trap.

“There you go,” a voice said.

“What the hell?” I said.

I looked around and was suddenly in a very strange room, I didn’t recognize what this place was.

“Sedate him,” a female voice said.

“Wha…” I said as someone appeared behind me and stabbed me with some sort of thing or another. A second later I was felt really, really sleepy a second later there was nothing but darkness.