She is a Hunter

~Mystery Man~



Meanwhile, in another big and eerie mansion, a guy with a pale face seemed so anxious. He stood alone in the 20 square meters room with nothing but a long and heavy chain. The room was located in the basement of the mansion, purposely prepared for his friend.

He seemed trying to call someone, but he got no answered. He tried it several times until he gave up.

“Where is that idiot?” Frank whispered to himself with a very upset face. He walked back and forth impatiently. Sometimes he looked at his watch. He suddenly went out the room and walked up upstairs with fast steps. His step stopped when he saw his mother passed through.

“Are you going to search Fender? He seems not to be in here at this moment,” his mother asked.

Frank nodded, “Yes, Mom. I’m worried about him. He promised me to come here. But until now, I don’t know his whereabouts. With this full moon, it’s dangerous for him to be out there,” he answered, “I tried to contact him, but no answer.”

Mrs. Damon sighed a bit, “You’d better hurry, Sweetheart, before something bad happen,” she advised.

“Yeah,” he replied. Without thinking any further, Frank whooshed to his car which was parked at the yard. He started his car and drove away fast. He actually didn’t know where he wanted to go. What in his mind was only finding me, even though he didn’t have any destination.

How can I just trust him that he will show up in my house? That idiot, I’m going to hit him once I find him, he thought angrily.

His car ran fast through the lonely road. Frank seemed not to want to waste any more time. He thought about Moonlight High, that Fender might be somewhere around the school. Maybe I’m going to find a clue about Fender’s whereabouts there, he figured, or maybe he’s in the wood, trying to find a safe place to turn?

But he didn’t realize that a pair of red eyes following the car from the woods. That thing was running fast along the car behind the bushes and trees. Several seconds later, it popped out the woods and jump straight to the running car. Frank was aware that something was planning to confront him, but it was too late.

The beast pushed the running car until it crashed down just like what it ever did to Fender’s car before. Frank’s car was stopped several miles away with backwards position. The car’s door was suddenly torn and Frank showed up fast with an upset look. There was a little blood in his forehead. The beast moved slowly about ten meters away from where Frank stood. They looked each other with hate.

“The alpha,” Frank whispered, “I’m going to kill you right now.”

They both moved toward each other at the same time, trying to strike down one another. The wolf jumped out and pounced to Frank until the two of them rolling in the ground. Frank tried to strangle it while the wolf tried to bite him with its big fangs in its mouth.

Frank successfully threw away the wolf from his body and stood up. But the wolf itself seemed to be under control.

I’m not going to make it. It’s too strong, Frank figured. He already felt out of energy even though the battle just began. He picked his penknife from his pocket, a knife made of silver which was effective against werewolf. He pointed the knife to the werewolf who still looked at him without any move.

I think I’m too cocky to face an alpha alone, he wondered.

~Fender~

When I opened my eyes, I found out that I was tied with a tight and strong robe, right on my hands and my legs. That werewolf, I knew for sure since I realized the smell of him then, was standing and studying me. I leaned on the main stairs, on the old and dusty living room. I tried to break loose, but I couldn’t. I just yelled at him, asking for him to free me.

He shook his head, “You’re a new werewolf and it’s a full moon. You’re going to lose control. I won’t break you free and let you kill someone.”

“You are the killer! And you’re the one who turned me!” I yelled again to that big guy.

He wrinkled his forehead and touch his thin beard around his jaw and then his brown hair, “I think there’s misunderstanding here. I’m not a killer, and I can’t turn you. I’m still a beta just like you. Only an alpha can give a curse to human,” he explained.

I stopped yelling and moving, for several seconds I was thinking. So, he’s not the alpha, I thought. “What are you doing here, Carter?” I asked.

He furrowed again, maybe a little bit confused since I knew his name. But he didn’t ask me about that, “It’s because of the alpha. I left my pack just to investigate it,” he explained.

“Permanently?” I asked again.

He shook his head, “No, only temporary. After everything is settled, I will go back to them. I kind of miss my old place here. By the way, Newbie,” he looked at his watch and stare at me again, “I think it’s time.”

Firstly, I didn’t even realize what he was talking about. I was just about to ask him, but when I felt something different inside me, I knew that the wolf was about to come out. I screamed out when I felt like all my bones were going to break. It was all painful, yet incredible. I couldn’t describe the feeling, but there was one time when I felt like I was in the middle of orgasm and everything in pain in the same moment.

My body started to change, began from my back when I heard clearly that my back bone was cracking and shifting slowly. I could feel my fur started to grow from my back. And then my face, my handsome face was gone, turned into a half-shifted werewolf face that all your face was stretched and your nose was very snub. I could feel my mouth is filled with fangs.

“Hold on, Kid! It may be hard, but you can control yourself. Try to hold on your mind,” Carter yelled at me with his glowing gold eyes and furry face. It seemed like the full moon affected him too. But he still could control himself. And then suddenly he punched me on my face.

“Why did you do that?” I yelled, my screaming sound was lower than before but I could still feel the pain all over my body. Somehow, I felt my sense a little bit come back to my head.

He pulled my collar, “I’m just trying to put back your mind. Never lose it!”

We both heard something whooshing fast from beyond the fragile main door. Suddenly, an arrow flashed in and pierced right through the door and landed right next to me. Exactly a few inches right next to my face. I suddenly figured if that arrow really pierced through my forehead. We were shocked. We realized that something dangerous would come from the outside.

Carter looked back, “Hunters!” he whispered.

When I heard him saying hunter, I figured there was Ino among them, and that guy was going to kill me. Then we heard the sound of arrows whooshing again. Carter suddenly pulled me and ran, dragging me along through the stairs. Those arrows pierced through the door and some bullets were following after. This is going to be bad, I thought.

Carter was still running and dragging me with him while I was still fastened by the robe. They successfully broke the door and got in. One of them shouted upstairs and they chased us again. I didn’t know why Carter brought us upstairs since it was the dead end. But it wasn’t the dead end at all. He stopped running when we reached the end of corridor at Dale’s mansion where there was a large window in front of us. Then suddenly, he threw me through the window until I screamed and fell down to the ground.

The pain was going worse when my face hit the ground. Damn it! That was a very bad landing, but much better than an arrow or a bullet inside my body.

Carter jumped off and landed on his foot. He used his claws on his hands to cut my robe as fast as possible. When I successfully broke loose, he yelled at me, “Run!”

But we weren’t too fast. Unlucky me, one of those hunters was successfully shot me with an arrow. I was screaming very loud when that arrow pierced my back shoulder. I almost fell down but I tried to keep running. And when I looked back, I was in shock.

I knew that girl, the one who shot me. I recognized that pretty face, but there was no smile I usually saw. Her eyes were cold, staring at me from the broken window on the second story.

“Norah,” I whispered. That sweet and cute girl I found in my school is a hunter and she just did shoot me with her arrow, I thought desperately. She is a hunter!

We kept running into the forest until we were sure that they couldn’t follow us anymore. Carter stopped and went back to me. He pulled the arrow from my shoulder, hearing my screaming then threw it away.

“Are you okay? You don’t lose your mind, do you?” he asked me.

I fell and sat, still feeling the pain all over my body. My breath was rushing, “I don’t know. God! Is it always going to be hurt like this?” I complained.

“That’s okay. The pain, the change, it’s going to be part of your life. You’re going to be used to it. Now get up!” he helped me to stand up and we continued our runaway again, “They’re still chasing us,” he said.

“Why don’t I change into a wolf?” I asked suddenly.

“The pain you got from that arrow kept your mind awake,” he explained, “That’s why I hit you at the first time you’re going to change. When a non-purebred beta fully shifted, they will lose their control. It’s not going to be easy if you fully shifted.”

“How can you control yourself?” I asked again. He didn't even punch himself to make him still conscious.

He looked back at me, “I’m a purebred, born to be a werewolf while you’re the one who was cursed by the alpha’s bite. It’s easy for us to control our changing. Moreover, I’m old enough through this life.”

“Stop!” I said and I really stopped running, “I think we’re far enough from them. By the way, how could we not hear they’re approaching us?”

Carter did too, and turned to me, “They’re hunters. They’re not ordinary humans. I don’t know how they can do that, but hunters can stalk us while we don’t even realize it. Even vampires who have the better hearing can’t know when a hunter approached them,” he explained, another knowledge to me. “There’s something wrong about this. They’re not supposed to attack us,” he guessed.

I didn’t speak for a while, still easing my breath. Sometimes I looked at my hairy arms. I thought I was afraid to look at my face.

“They’re hunters anyway and we were monsters. Of course they attack us,” I said.

He shook his head, “It’s not like that. Hunters won’t attack randomly, unless they are chasing the true murderer.”

“So, you think that the killer was around here?” I asked.

I saw his nostrils were moving. He smelled something, “Do you smell it?” he asked.

Yes, I smelled it. It was a werewolf. We began to hear its steps, its movement approaching us. I looked at Carter. His lips were moving and saying ‘there’ without a sound.

When I turned around, I saw a very large wolf. But it was not the same wolf who attacked me at the first time, it was smaller. I could smell it, and I thought I recognized that smell but I still couldn’t figure it out.

“She’s a new beta just like you. And she’s fully shifted,” Carter whispered.