Is She Taking A Mud Bath?

Location: Pearl Cave

After a week, another eyewitness had been brought forward.

Ricky the sleeping jock looked at Jaxson and Klaus who had loosely tortured him for the truth.

Klaus splashed ice-cold water at his face and woke up the startled teen handcuffed with zip cuffs behind the chair.

"Wakey, wakey kid." Klaus slapped the jock slightly, irritating him.

Klaus grabbed his jaw tightly when Ricky spat at his neat-looking shoes.

"I dare you to spit again, wise guy."

He let go and Ricky bit his inner cheek.

He was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time when he witnessed a murder that happened a month ago.

He made an anonymous call to the police. But the police couldn't do anything when the killer was still on the loose.

When the case landed on Ethan's desk thanks to the mayor in town, he wanted to know who gave him the anonymous call. But the police had no idea, and that's where Nico came in.

The student council kid managed to trace the call and find the location of the person that made the call, which turned out to be Ricky.

He was confronted by Nico the next day, but Ricky already denied the claims that it was him that tipped off the cops.

Since Nico hacked into the CCTV camera outside the diner that day, he had proof of his identity when making the call.

Not wanting to get involved in the murder of his town, Ricky was planning to transfer to a school outside of the island.

However, the order to capture Ricky had come through due to Alpha Roman's aka Ethan Verrono's command.

Jaxson sat down with a sketch pad and finished his description of the killer he described.

"Is this the guy who you saw kill Rachel?" Jaxson asked showing him the sketch.

Ricky shook his head.

"No, he's scarier looking than that. His hair isn't neat and he's got a Khal Drogo kind of face."

"Khal Drogo?"

"Haven't you seen GOT douchebag?"

Klaus yanked Ricky's head back, making him pant out in fear.

"I'm sorry? What did you just say? You arrogant little fish face."

Klaus spoke in a way that literally said I was going to pull my claws out and dig my nails into you.

Then footsteps arrived making Ricky suddenly cry and scream

HELP!

"Klaus, play nice." A dark smooth voice said now entering the scene.

Klaus let go and leaned annoyingly up against the wall.

Klaus and Jaxson had been trying to interrogate the kid, however, they hadn't been lucky, getting the exact description.

Ricky then saw a tall shadow being cast over him and then he saw a man wearing a full black yokai mask.

Ricky stopped crying when he looked up at the man.

"Who the heck are you supposed to be? The devil?" Ricky scoffed, not impressed with the scary masked man.

The silvery glow of his eyes sent chills down the teenager's spine.

Ricky started screaming and jerked in his seat, making him fall backward.

Ethan cracked a grin behind his mask, seeing him tremble before him.

Clicking his hand left Ricky speechless and he fell unconscious off the chair. He could feel an incredible power, making him feel paralyzed already. How was this masked man doing this?!

"No, Ricky. I'm your worst nightmare." He concluded.

He put his palm over his head and invoked his Sandolores powers.

He would have dealt early with the kid if he hadn't been too distracted by Sasha. He would have kept track of who came in and out from the border and most of all his inner wolf's keen desire to see Mia, again.

He missed her scent.

Roman (Ethan's inner wolf) now took over.

After infiltrating Ricky's hormonal teenage mind. Rachel was murdered behind the diner's alleyway when she went to take out the trash, which was the scene where Roman saw the incident. She was a tall girl in her mid-twenties whom Ricky had fallen for.

Roman saw the killer's back but as soon as he turned around in Ricky's memory, the image became blurry.

Roman was tired and couldn't concentrate. All he could catch was a tattoo of the grim reaper on the killer's backhand. This was just before he phased into a light grey wolf with yellow glowing eyes.

Roman came out of the kid's head and almost fell down on the floor.

"Alpha!"

"Roman!"

In a flash, Klaus and Jaxson held up their Alpha before he hit the floor.

Due to an injury caused by the punk a$$ firefighter up on Storm Mountain many moons ago, Roman threw away his mask. He clutched at the scarred part of his once handsome face.

The marks burned on his face and chest, letting him know that he was slowly losing his Sandolres powers.

The more he used this power, the more hungry he became.

Roman let Ethan surface and take over before he got the urge to feed on the mildly knocked out eyewitness.

"What happened, what did you see Ethan?" Jaxson asked.

"The kid was in love with that waitress. He heard her screaming in the back of the alleyway and I saw the killer... (sighs) He wasn't clear enough. He has a tattoo of a grim reaper on his right backhand and he's definitely a rogue..."

Ethan further described the killer's wolf.

"A rogue? But we have the highest border security on the island, plus any rogues that pass through our territory would have to have special clearance through me and Klaus." Jaxson explained.

Ethan was pissed. He'd have to find out how that punk got in his land before he ripped his throat out.

"Well somehow he got in and we can't let that happen not while I'm taking care of that lamb, whom I need to go and see."

Here he was acting as her guardian and providing for her with his own credit cards. As he saw his credit card statement, he was astounded by the fact that she had brought over more than twenty plants to put in her small apartment. Mark once lived.

He was quite surprised to see that she also purchased a phone, without him knowing. What a sneaky little lamb.

Roman was eager to see her and give her a spanking for breaking one of the rules.

"But Ethan what about little Dicky? " Klaus said deliberately mispronouncing his name.

"Lock him in the cell. I'll deal with the teenage brat once I'm back."

Ricky nervously gulped whilst he pretended to be asleep.

Looks like he wasn't about to get a transfer off this island any time soon.

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Ethan ( now in his true form as inner beast Roman) made sure to hunt well this evening.

He'd caught himself a juicy-looking deer and parched his thirst at the lake. He was just about to phase into his human form as Ethan and dress in his casuals before he went knocking on Mia's door for an explanation about her recent phone purchase and other items.

However, he heard some footsteps approaching near the lakeside and caught a whiff of a particular scent in the air.

Mia?

Roman smirked to himself.

{E} Mia what are you doing? You're not supposed to be out here?

Ethan spoke inside his beast's head whilst discreetly watching her, through Roman's eyes.

{R} Oh, she just keeps on breaking rules, doesn't she?

Roman snickered intrigued by the girl's bravery to venture into the forest all alone by herself.

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Kavyaa took in her surroundings and was relieved that it wasn't a completely dark night. She smiled up at the moon and looked around nervously.

"Good, no sign of any wolves..."

{R} Oh, but this wolf is watching

"Hello anyone out here?" She called out

{R} Right here baby.

Roman went to take a step forward, but Ethan who mentally had him on leash made him stop.

{E} Are you crazy, do you not remember what Mark said?! No wolves are meant to be around her.

Roman scoffed and rolled his eyes.

{R} Here's the part where I don't care, because A: Mark isn't here to protect her B: We are. C: So she's kind of screwed whether she likes it or not.

{E} Roman calm yourself, she's not Sasha.

{R} Urgh, don't remind me, I can't believe we f^cked her last night just because she got us some sponsors for the hotel. That's the last time I'm tapping that annoying piece of @$$ Ethan!

{E} Look it's not her fault she's a horny she-wolf, she's our girlfriend and we need her right now.

Roman rolled his eyes.

"Well, it looks like there's no one around," Mia said slowly undoing her zipper and putting it to the side.

She removed her shoes and put them to the side.

Roman sat down discreetly and watched as the young teenager let down her hair from her messy bun and then started to undo her jean pants.

{E} What is she doing?

{R} A sexy strip tease.

The white spaghetti top and white bikini pants were now all she had on. She then rolled over in the cool grass, chuckling at herself as the grass tickled her skin. She then walked over to the huge patch of mud then slid herself right into the patch covering herself with mud all over her body. As she dug her fingers through the soft cool clay-like mud and slapped it over herself, she breathed a sigh of relief.

She hadn't done this in a long long time. However, Kavyaa really needed it. Mud was her only sense of relief when those bad headaches started. Furthermore, she needed to relax quite badly since she had been thinking about Kane, this past couple of months, and, strangely enough, her new guardian, Mr. Ethan Verrono.

There was something about that man that she was drawn to, and she couldn't quite understand why.

Kavyaa rubbed more of the mud soil over her face and neck, smiling to herself.

{E} Ok? So she's having a mud bath?

{R} During a cold spring night? Perhaps she's hot?

In truth, Kavyaa was quite hot due to her headaches. She knew if she didn't bring them down a fever would surely break out.

As she stroked her arms and legs and massaged herself with mud, she was truly relaxed. Continuing to stroke herself with the cool mud, she closed her eyes and lay down in the muddy ditch.

As Roman watched her bathe in the mud so sexily, he became intrigued. After enjoying all the cool mud she had on her, Kavyaa quickly removed her spaghetti top, leaving only her white lacey bra on.

Ethan was trying to be the gentle wolf, and trying not to look. Ethan and his inner wolf couldn't help but feel aroused as she lay there looking quite serene amid the rugged beauty surrounding her. This was as she rubbed some mud over her half-boobs and flat-toned torso.

He couldn't help himself and suddenly released a low growl of pleasure making Kavyaa suddenly snap her eyes open, gasping as she sat up quickly.

{E} Roman!

{R} I'm sorry but that lamb is hot!

{E} And underage!

{R} Damn!

She looked nervously around and quickly got out of the mud.

"Ok, playtime is over." She quickly wore her pants and shoes back, relieved that her headache had at least calmed down.

She quickly put on her muddy spaghetti wet top, shoes and grabbed her hoody. Kavyaa looked towards the way she came and was suddenly confused.

$hit, which way did she come from?

"Hmm, I think I came that way?"

{E} No sweetheart that's the wrong direction.

{R} So what if it is? We can always point her in the right direction?

{E} Roman no!

But it was too late, Roman had gone on the prowl and was discreetly following her.

Kavyaa sighed and relaxed sensing no more animals around her. She had a funny feeling that she was walking around in circles for the past twenty minutes which troubled her.

By a nearby tree, she placed her hand on the ground. Slowly a rose bush grew out, stunning her secret admirers. Roses grew to a rich yellow color.

"Ok, this time I'm not going to walk past the same tree." She sighed and got up to her feet again.

A distance behind Roman, then quietly approached the yellow roses and sniffed it.

{E} Did she just...

{R} Yes, she just grew that out from the touch of her palm.

{E} Which means she's no human, which could also mean she's a monster.

{R} If she stunk of a Yokai (monster) I think I would have picked up on it.

They were so engrossed in her lovely scent of lilies and lavender that suddenly

//SNAP//

A loud sound of metal was heard.