Dark Moon Rising

Episode 9

                       Longest chapter so far I hope you all like it sorry it took so long.

                                 Megans POV

What…… huh……. I try to blink my eyes but my head is hurting so bad. I can literally hear my heart beat each time in my head I feel it pound each time it beats. I feel like I have got hit by a mac truck! Owww!!! Sitting up I start rubbing my head in the back and I can feel something sticky in my hair. What is going on what happened to me? Trying a little harder this time I start to finally open my eyes and try to look around. I cant see anything passed my hands out at arms link, everything is blurry. I wait a few seconds longer and finally my sight starts to become clear. As I am looking around I notice I am in some sort of cage or cell like place. Panic starts rising from my stomach into my throat. How did I get here I cant help but wonder out loud. “ I brought you here little goddess. Why was a sweet little thing like you out all on your own in the scary woods?” I turn around and finally see a tall skinny man with a nasty looking scar right through his right eye standing there while running his eyes down my body. I get a shiver through out my body and I don’t like this situation at all! “ Why would you bring me to a place like this? What have I done so wrong to you to be subjected to this kind of treatment?” I all but yell at him. He starts laughing. What in goddess name! Is he laughing at me!? This creep is starting to piss me off! “ I know exactly who you are! We have been looking for you for a good long time.” He says to me. My breathe hitches in my throat. Goddess please don’t tell me he is with who I think he is with. “ Who are we?” I whisper. “ Oh sweet heart I think you know exactly who “WE” are. Does the name Samuel mean anything to you?” He smirks at me. As hard as I try I can not for the life of me hide my fear of knowing now for sure this man in front of me is working for or at least with the same man who not only killed my father but also helped in destroying my pack and caused my mother and myself to run but who has been after me my entire life. “ I see you know exactly who I am talking about.” He laughs at me. “ You know maybe just maybe Samuel isn’t “paying” me enough for tracking you down and finding you, just maybe I want you for myself. Would you like that? I could save you from what ever “future” he has planned for you?” He says while laughing at me. I cant help but have quiet a few questions in my head. I mean who exactly is this man? Why would he want me? I have a feeling why he would want me but I mean why would he want someone as weak as me? I am a werewolf just minus a wolf. “ Who are you?” I ask him. He looks at me shocked almost as if my question has confused him. “ Really! That’s the first question you can think to ask me? I just offered to take you with me instead of giving you to Samuel. Are you crazy?” He states. “ No but if I am going to be trapped down here with you and you expect me to answer your questions then I would kind of like to know who I am addressing and answering to.” I say with a good bit of attitude in my voice. “Okay lets see, my name is Max and no it is not short for anything! I was hired by Samuel to find you and bring you to him. Before you freak out no I have not brought you to him yet we are a good ten or so miles away from him and he is currently awaiting my call for when I find you. I am wondering though if you are his mate as he says why would you run from him? I mean mates are together for life why would you run?” He asks me. I am shocked to say the least! How? Why? And when would Samuel figure out that I am his mate? I haven’t been of age for very long to find my mate now and I haven’t seen that man. “ Why would Samuel think I am his MATE?! I have never met this man and I especially have not seen him since I have been of age to meet my mate or at least attempt to find him.” I say to him. I really want to find a way out of here. The one man I have been trying to run from for as long as I can remember is telling people I am his mate why would he think that and what is he going to do to me when he finds me? I start looking around again I look up and notice a window above my head that does not have any bars like most of the other windows I see. I wonder if there is a way I can get through there? How would I get Max to leave the room long enough for me to get through it and run? There is no way I can out run him I mean he is a werewolf for goddess sakes! “ Are you really thinking so blonde like?” He says out of nowhere. I am surprised. “ What do you mean? “ I stutter out. “ Oh you must think I’m stupid. You stand there looking around, not even trying to hide it and looking up at that window for entirely way to long. I mean I can practically see the wheels turning in your head.” Max says shaking his head at me. “ I guess I am not as stealthy as I thought huh?” I sheepishly say to him. “ oh you are as “stealthy” as a stampede of buffalo through a china shop.” He says. “ Look I just want to leave! I don’t want to go to HIM! I want to leave and not have to deal with this s**t anymore. Why cant people just leave me alone? Why does my life have to constantly be in some kind of danger? I mean I have stayed away from packs as much as any girl can especially being on her own. I know I am wolfless which sucks I may add! But why cant YOU PEOPLE leave me ALONE!?” I frantically cry out. I didn’t expect him to answer but at the same time I figured he would laugh at me or something being the arrogant ass that he has been to me since I woke up. He really did surprise me with what I heard him say to me next. “ Look I don’t want to be the bad guy here. I have a mate back home with a child on the way and she left her pack to be with me. I have always been a rogue ever since I can remember. I know I should not say or do this but what if I can get you out of here?” he says to me. “ WAIT A SECOND! If you have a mate and a child back home why in goddess name would you ask me to be with you. Well you didn’t exactly ask me you pretty much said you were not going to take me to Samuel and you would take me for yourself.” I say to him. “ oh that. Well I was pretty much trying to see if you were like Samuel told us all you were.” He says as he rubs his hand on the back of his neck. Even though I do not know this “Samuel” I am starting to really want to kick him in his balls! “ And what kind of person did he say I was” I ask him angerly. Raising my eyebrows at him with my hand on my hip I stare him down in one of my best b***h face stares. “ Never mind I know he is wrong I am sorry forget I said any of that. Can we please start over and I try and get you out of here?” he states to me almost scared of me. How is he scared of me? I know I am acting like a b***h right now but I am no stronger than a regular human. I have no real strength he could brake me in half if he wanted to. “ If you can get me out of here that would be great! Can we go now?” I wonder if there are more gaurds outside. I start to ask him but just as I open my mouth to say something else I hear a door open and I start to freak out. Okay girl calm down maybe who ever is coming in is a friend of his and will help him get me out of here. Maybe this is the person who will help keep me safe I say trying to give myself a pep talk. “Well well well look who finally woke up. So you couldn’t tell me the pretty little vixen woke up huh Max? I guess you want her all to yourself?” The stranger says. I look at him as he is saying all this while walking up to my cage and he is running his eyes up and down my body. His eyes are turning black with lust while he mentally undresses me with his eyes. I cant help but want to throw up he is so gross looking at me like that. If he even tries to touch me I swear I will kick him so hard in his family jewels offspring will not even be an option for him in the future. I may be a girl with no wolf but I will go down kicking and screaming before I let any man touch me who is not my destined mate. I may be with out a wolf but I know in my heart the moon goddess would not forsake me and not give me a mate. I cant help but rethink my previous thought of not having a wolf, I mean is Angel my wolf or was that just some crazy dream? “Who knocked me out anyway?” I suddenly ask not really caring if Max or the other guy answers me as long as I get an answer ( I want to kill the one who put their hands on me!) “ That would be me sweet thing. Max couldn’t stop staring at you and well I thought if I got to you first Samuel would let me play with you a little before he finally got here.” He answers me still looking at me in a way no man should look at me. “Well at least you answered honestly I guess that means ill be killing you faster than I would if you would have lied about it.” I laughed out to him. You clearly can see the shock in his face but quickly covered it by laughing at me. “ How would you kill me? Take a look around honey, you are the one in a cage while I am out he…….” *Smack* “ Well finally he shuts up!” Max says” Max slowly while eyeing me carefully walks towards my cage and starts to put the key in the door. “ Now if I let you out can you trust me and let me get you out of here” Max asks me. I think about it for a few minutes finally convincing myself that Angel did say someone would be helping me and keeping me safe and I should trust them. I look at him while almost glaring finally smiling and nodding my head yes at him while saying “ yes I think I can do that as long as you don’t do anything for you to loose my trust.” Unlocking the door Max backs up and I slowly walk out of the cage looking around for some kind of escape ( yes I know old habits die hard). “ Okay follow me.” Max says. He turns towards what looked like nothing except a wall but a door was there and he pushed it open I am guessing this is how the now knocked out guard came into the room. Max puts his hand up letting me know to stop and wait. He pokes his head out into the hall way and motions his hand for me to follow. I really hope I am not walking right into Samuels hands I think to myself. Walking down a long hall way I start smelling what I can only describe as the best smell I have ever smelled in my life. I cant help but wonder how this amazing smell is doing in this trashy hell hole of a place, but quickly dismiss it and keep walking. We come up to another door that leads us into a room with nothing but large boxes I am guessing crates with something in it but thankfully no one except Max and myself are in the room. Suddenly at the end of the room a trap door in the ceiling starts to open with a stair case extending down from it. Max motions for me to hide so I do what he tells me. I am starting to freak out but try and calm my breathing. “Be quiet do not make a sound and try not to breathe it echos really bad in here.” Max tells me. I crouch down behind a large crate and try looking around for any good places I may be able to squeeze into to hide myself better. As I hear someone walking down the stairs I can hear the person breathing very loud but almost erraticly like they are excited. I start smelling that great smell again but its getting stronger. “Who are you?” I hear Max say loudly with a growl. “ I do not need to answer you. Now who are you and what is this place? And where is my MATE!”  I hear the unknown person growls even louder out to Max. Did he say mate? Could that be what I am smelling? My mate? No my mate cant be from this area. I couldn’t be mated to someone assiociated with these evil people who kidn*pped me. Maybe he isn’t from here I mean Max doesn’t know him. But…… then why would he be here? “ I have no idea who your mate is but there is no one else in this area except me so it would be in your best interest if you leave now!” Max yells out. I hear a growl so loud the crate infront my me and behind me shakes. “ I know she is here do not lie to me. If you are trying to keep her away from me I will not think twice about killing you! I do not care who you are or why you are here!” The man yells out at Max. I cant let Max get killed for me and since I am very sure I am the only female here I know this person is looking for me. Just as I am about to jump out I hear what sounds like running and someone struggling to breathe. I can not hide any longer! I poke my head out and what I see makes me jump out of my hiding place! I jump out and I can fully see this tall man well no more like this man who looks like a god at least from the back side of him holding Max up off the floor by his throat with one hand while the other hand is with drawn and has his claws out. Only guess is he is about to kill Max and I can not let that happen! “ STOP!” I scream out! Just as I scream out to them both men look at me and the man holding Max up drops Max and stares at me like he wants to eat me or something. Normally this look would cause me to feel sick to my stomach but this time I have what feels like electro shocks running through my stomach with butterflies flying around. “ Who.are.you?” I stutter out at the man.  He starts walking towards me slowly while eyeing me I guess scared I will run which does not sound like a bad idea at this moment to be honest. “ Stay away from her!” Max yells out while still trying to catch his breathe. “ Max I am okay just shut up! I wont let you get killed for me! You have a wife and child to get back to!” I say to him. Looking back and forth between Max and myself the man finally speaks…… “ My name is Damien and I am your mate my dear! Now what is your name and why are you in a place like this?”