Jonathan's POV
Three days ago, I woke up from a car accident to find myself lying in an abandoned alley.
Five kilometers away from any sign of life, I am not feeling my lower body, and every inch of my body is in pain.
Especially my broken arms.
I was on my way to visit Dr. Agness Voss, the most beautiful human in this world and the love of my life, when I got into this stupid accident.
I sincerely believe this woman is my fated mate. Although I don’t have my wolf to confirm that. But the kind of control she has over me tells me she is the one.
But she is also the woman I hate with everything in me.
It would not come as a surprise to me to learn that she is the person behind the car accident.
Because it is not the first time she has tried to kill me.
She failed last time. I hope she fails this time, too. Before I die in this world of hers and her people, my biggest wish has been to give her a test of her own medicine. For now, she is not my major concern. My last wish is my biggest concern.
You allowed me to be taken away from my people. You allowed them to take away my wolf, please Moon Goddess… please do not let me die like this without fulfilling my last wish.
I need to get out of here to fulfill it. I have tried by all means to move my body, sadly for me, three days later, I haven’t moved an inch. I am still at the exact spot the driver left me, and I have only been able to roll once.
I clawed a few inches on the first day before my arms gave out, and that is it.
Having lived for three days with no food, not a single drop of water, and the worst part of it, not a single person passing anywhere to the farthest of my vision, I would call on for help is the scariest thing I could ever have imagined living through.
Except for flies, vultures, and rats eating at my rotting body. It’s just darkness accompanying me through uncontrolled blackouts during the days and nights.
I just woke up from a blackout a few seconds ago. And just like always, I gather what little strength I have and push. But nothing happens. I am used to this. I wait. Take a deep breath.
Realizing how low in energy I am feeling. A thought crosses my mind, and I wonder. If only I could get something to eat!
I am so hungry to the point I can eat anything right now.
I have tried a couple of times to go after the rats, but I am too slow. It’s not the first time I’ve eaten a rat. I have eaten them a lot in my wolf form during the run.
Moon Goddess! Please, just one of these rats!
Even before I have finished making the prayer. As if the Moon Goddess heard my plea before I made it.
A massive number of rats. I have never seen in one place at the same time in my life, start to surface from the corners of the underground surrounding the tunnel.
All of them are moving in one direction towards me. The first thought is that I won’t survive if they all nip at me at once.
I try to push back my body, and just like usual, nothing happens, and I sit up at ease, ready to try to fight a losing game.
But when one of them jumps at my mouth, and my teeth don’t miss, digging into it. Fresh blood. The meat running down my throat is everything.
I realize it might not be as much of a losing game as I previously thought.
The rats will have a feast, but so will I.
I don’t waste the opportunity and make sure my mouth doesn’t settle for just one. I try to wound as many as possible all over the place.
But not a single rat is nipping at me.
That is weird.
That is when I realize they are all using me as a ladder and want nothing to do with me. But still, I am not letting food pass me by.
This is an opportunity that may not present itself again. Wanting to have something for later.
I wound like five of them, and a few seconds later, the flow they were on to me decreases tremendously to a point where I realize there are no more alive rats surrounding me.
What alerts me is the realization that even the ones that have been constantly surrounding me, nipping on my rotten wounds for the last three days, are gone.
And so are the vultures.
The vultures are circling higher than usual, scattered far away from me. Abandoning food mid-feed is not something for a vulture.
Something has alarmed both the vultures and the rats. Having possessed a part that allowed me to be an animal like them once.
This tells me something is coming.
A natural disaster is on the way.
I have to get away from here.
But before I move, I wonder what the disaster might be. What is it? Floods, hurricanes, earthquakes? I need to know what I would be up to. And now that I had a bit of energy, I could come up with a good survival plan if I knew what I would be dealing with.
Raising my eyes to the end of the tunnel to see the unusual fog that had appeared suddenly. I now know what is on its way.
It was the same weather. The same strange stillness, the wind that felt like it had stopped, the air feeling heavy and pressurized.
I am feeling like what I felt minutes after I opened my eyes and found myself in this human world on my first day in this world.
One minute, I was in my pack in my wolf’s form on a run, the next minute, I opened my eyes to find myself tied down in a hospital bed.
It took seconds from the time I noticed the weather change to when the earthquake happened.