Chapter 16

"You are a wolf?" She asked as she wasn't sure.

She had sniffed him to find out what creature he was but still she was still not sure of his identity. He did smell similar to her kind but she could tell he was different, she just didn't know in what way he was different, apart from his physical features that she thought were sinfully beautiful she didn't know what made him different from the rest of her kind.

"What do you think?" Damon replied, giving out a faint smile.

"That you are a wolf but there is something different about you, I just don't know what that is," She said, still having that calculative expression.

"I have always been told I was special," Damon said, sounding a bit cheeky.

She stared at Damon for a while: "It's not safe here," she said looking around.

"Come with me." She instructed before walking into the uphill forest by the side.

Damon stood still for a while, probably contemplating whether to follow or not but after a few seconds he moved to the direction where she followed.

"My name is Amelia by the way." The wolf girl said as she senses Damon coming behind her.

Damon didn't say anything, he just kept following her.

She stopped at a large tree and on the trunk of the tree were some clothes- a blue jean and white top lay. She picked them up and got dressed in them.

"Let's go." She then said once she was done.

"And where are we going?" Damon asked.

"To see the others or are you scared?" She said giving out a somewhat wicked smirk but Damon ignored her question and walked ahead of her.

"Hey, wait...where are you going?" She asked, trying to keep up to pace with him as Damon was walking fast.

"To see the others," Damon replied with a smirk of his own.

Location: Deep inside the forest.

"Ahhh!"

A loud warrior's cry which was quickly followed by a powerful swing of the hand, intended to make contact with the opponent's chest.

However the opponent was quick and agile to dodge the attack by leaning his waist and upper body backwards so the flying arm of the attacker goes across him instead of colliding with his chest. The momentum of the attacker drove him further some distance away from his target after he failed to make contact with his opponent.

"Haha," his opponent made a mockery laughter that got the attacker looking pissed.

"You can't touch me, I am too fast." The opponent further taunted, flexing his chest that was bare since he wasn't putting on any clothes except for a tight short, same as the attacker.

"I will have your head." The attacker growls loudly pointing to him aggressively.

"Then come get it," The opponent said, gesturing for his attacker to charge at him.

"Ahhhh!"

The attacker yelled again as he ran towards the opponent, this time around he unleashed many deadly flying swings of the arm...

But ended up being frustrated to death as every single attack of his missed the target even when he seemed definitely to connect he narrowly missed and his opponent used his overly committed approach to land a blow against him. As the attacker threw a failed punch across the opponent's face, the opponent grabbed hold of his arm, pulled him against his body; thereby lifting him off the ground and up in the air and what followed next was a very painful slam on the ground.

"Ahhhh!"

The attacker groaned in pain with hands desperately trying to touch his back as if that would relieve him of the arcing pains he was feeling at that region and it was all too amusing for his opponent who couldn't stop smiling mockingly at him..

"Dominic!" Someone called and the opponent turned around when he heard someone called his name and he instantly recognized the voice to belong to that of his girlfriend.

"Amelia!"

he called out happily as he saw her emerging from the dark bushes of the forest to the sandy camp where he and the rest of the shapeshifters now call home.

Both of them locked into a tight passionate hug and Dominic was full of smiles but then his face became all serious when he saw Damon behind her.

"Who is he?" He asked in a not too friendly manner.

"Oh, this is Damon. We just met today." Amelia said to Dominic.

"Damon, meet my boyfriend, Dominic." She further stated, conducting an introduction.

"It's nice meeting you," Damon said but Dominic just stared at him and he wasn't trying to hide the fact that he didn't like him from his facial expression.

"Come with me," he said, dragging his girlfriend Amelia to a private location and Damon just smiled faintly.

The attacker who was previously moaning in pain moments ago was now back on his feet and he walked up to Damon.

"Hey, my name is Henry," He said with an outstretched arm.

"Damon," Damon replied, taking hold of his hand in a firm handshake.

"You are new here, I can tell..." Henry engaged Damon in a conversation and though Damon was responsive to his questions his main attention was on Amelia and her boyfriend Dominic.

From where he stood he could still listen to their conversation thanks to his super hearing ability which is five times better than an average shapeshifter.

"Why did you bring him here?" Dominic interrogated his girlfriend aggressively.

"Because he is one of us and we look after each other, remember?" Amelia explained.

"What do you mean he is one of us? He isn't a member of this pack." Dominic argued.

"Regardless if he is a member or not. He is a wolf like one of us and obviously he is oblivious of the dangers that lie within the streets and alleys of Lack Town. I can't watch a fellow wolf going to its end without intervening. You know that's not in my nature," Amelia said with convection.

"Amelia_" Dominic wanted to say something but she cut him short.

"Enough of this. Why are you acting like a child? You don't even know him yet you are already pushing him aside. Have you forgotten so soon you were once a lost wolf without a pack when my father the alpha found you and gave you a family and purpose?" She said and immediately his facial expression changed into a guilty one.

"I..I am just trying to protect our pack." Dominic said and he had a more calmer approach this time around.

"No, you are just acting like a jealous, little boy. My father would be ashamed if he was still alive." Amelia said and with that she walked away before Dominic could say anything further...

Damon couldn't help but smile faintly from where he was as he overheard everything that Amelia and her boyfriend Dominic discussed and he knew she was right, Dominic wasn't trying to protect their pack or anything like that, he is actually feeling insecure because of him and yes he is definitely jealous…

Amelia walked past Damon during the process where she was trying to get away from her boyfriend but she still took some seconds to glance over at Damon's direction as she passed by and when her eyes and Damon's met It felt like she was trying to communicate something to him but probably because she didn't have enough time to say it she wasn't able to.

"Amelia…Amelia.."

Dominic called, going after her but she was walking too fast and soon after she transformed into the brown wolf and vanished into the dark forest.

Dominic came to a stop and his breathing was loud and his hands gradually folded into tight fists below his waist. He was clearly angry. After standing still for some seconds Dominic turned around sharply and walked towards Damon's direction.

"You shouldn't have come here," his voice was laced with anger and hatred as he stood only inches away from Damon with their eyes staring into each other's eyes.

"I go wherever I choose to." Damon replied and that got Dominic really pissed.

It seemed a battle between them was destined to break out at the intensity at which their eyes peered at each other, especially Dominic, he was looking blood hungry while Damon remained his usual calm self..but then.

"Hey Dominic, give it a break." Henry pulled his friend away by the arm.

"Let go of me!" Dominic said, pulling his arm forcefully away from Henry's grip as he was still bent on having an issue with Damon.

"Tell me what's more important to you, fighting him! Or Amelia's safety?!" Henry yelled at him and that seemed to get Dominic's attention and he turned to face him.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"Amelia is my kid sister, I know how she behaves. She left here upset and you know Amelia does the craziest things when she is upset and that sometimes are things that put her life at risk. The last time she was angry over something she jumped off a cliff, who knows what she would do this time around." Henry said and Dominic's pupils danced in worriedness inside its sockets.

"We have to find her, let's go!" He said then he quickly transformed into a mighty, big black wolf which was twice the size of Amelia's wolf form which is really impressive since Amelia's wolf form is quite big.

Henry also transformed into a wolf, a gray wolf it was huge but not as huge as the black wolf but a bit bigger than the brown wolf.

The black wolf who is Dominic gave Damon a deadly stare before it ran into the forest in search of Amelia and the gray wolf followed him.