Rylee's Pov
"Ugh, how much further?" a young wolf asked as they kept going deeper into the woods after walking for hours straight without a rest.
"Are you a wolf or a nightwalker?" someone teased and the others laughed tiredly.
Cameron walked up to me, "are you okay?"
I smiled tiredly. I wouldn't be tired if I wasn't limping all through the time. So many times I had almost slipped by walking normal but I always got a hold of myself right before anyone would notice. We had been walking for the past five hours after our first rest in mid afternoon. Everyone knew letting Mr. Tyler be our field teacher would be so exhausting but we didn't actually think he would exhaust us to that extent. "I'm fine, thank you?"
"You sure? I can carry you if you can't walk again. You already have an injured foot and if people who are okay are complaining, I can't imagine the pain you must be going through now."
"I am tired, Cameron," Monica groaned, walking up to him. "I am not sure I can take even one more step."
I smiled at that, "I think she is more tired than I am."
Cameron smiled softly and turned to Monica, no matter what, she was his mate and he was entitled to look after her. So squatting in front of her, he let her climb onto his back and they continued their tiring walk.
"Alright students, we will camp here tonight," Mr. Tyler finally said and a lot of happy groans sounded everywhere. He ignored them and continued, "we will take a few minutes rest and the men would go hunting."
"Oh thank God," the females moaned in agreement while the males groaned.
"Why does it always have to be the males?" a Young male wolf complained.
"Because we are the males, the natural alphas," Another bragged and they all agreed while the females rolled their eyes at them. The argument didn't last long for they were all tired and hungry.
I found a good spot and rested on it to get a quick rest before the meal would be ready. I didn't know how long I slept but I was awakened by soft whispers. I laid on my spot, my ears on high alert to know what was going on.
"What do you think it is?" a voice whispered.
"I don't know but I feel like poking it," an excited voice replied.
"I don't advise that. Look, we may be creatures of the forest but this is not our forest. I have not been relaxed since we stepped foot in here and I would advise we just stay at a place and wait for the males to come back," another voice warned.
"Oh, Miss. Scared-y cat has spoken," a voice I recognized as Natasha's taunted and I wondered what they could be doing now. For some reason, I was in support with Kamryn fondly called Miss. Scared-y cat because she never supports anything that would bring harm. I always thinks the girl was too much but this night for a reason I couldn't tell, I was in support with her that we don't do anything we want.
"Just ignore her, Nat, come on, let's do it," Jessica said.
"Obviously," Natasha replied.
I couldn't take it anymore so I got up from where I was lying down. "You do know that this is not our woods and whatever we are not supposed to do shouldn't be done," I said, bringing the girls attention to me.
"Um…who invited Miss. Know it all?" Olivia asked, looking around scornfully.
Natasha scoffed. "Hey you, why don't you be a nice defected wolf and go back to sleep while we the strong ones inspect our surrounding?"
I smiled. "You are forgetting something Natasha, I may not be your future Alpha, but I am your future Luna, so you better respect me or the first thing I will be doing when I assume my throne would be to kick you out of my pack."
"Well, you need to find a mate first to think about being my Luna," Natasha mocked and the rest of the girls laughed.
I felt a burning anger inside me and it wasn't something that often happened to me. I stood up and glared at Natasha. "You know what, I think I have held this in for so long, how about we try it out, here and now." What am I doing? I questioned myself. I was used to Natasha always taunting me about being alone so why does it annoy me now hearing her say the same thing? I tried to ignore it but I was already getting ready to transform and that was when I realized, I wasn't the one angry, it was my wolf and she was really, really angry.
"Finally," Natasha smirked and quickly undressed when she saw that I had transformed into my snow white wolf with piercing blue eyes snarling at her. She transformed into her grey coloured wolf and gnarled back at her.
Olivia and Jessica quickly got out their phones to record what was happening for their future gloat, knowing full well that Natasha would kill them if they didn't present a video of her victory to her when she was done.
I growled angrily and took the first leap, landing on Natasha and we both tumbled on the ground, ruffling the dried leaves. Natasha got up and growled back and attacked, her teeth fighting to grab onto my legs but I was very stealth for a limping wolf. She noticed that and growled angrily.
'How can you be so fast with a wounded leg?' She asked angrily through the mind link.
'I am not you that shows my weakness in a fight.' I shot back. 'You have always wanted to spar with me, what's the matter, scared now?'
'Never,' Natasha yelled and rushed at me but I avoided her attack and gave a strong kick with my hind legs that sent her flying into a tree. A branch broke off and fell onto what looked like a big spider web and a loud growl sounded at the contact. I stopped my attack and glanced around her, Olivia and Jessica heard the growl again and Melanie screamed.
"What was that?" Olivia asked, her fear evident in her voice.
"I don't know," Jessica replied.
Melanie screamed again. "I told you not to touch that, I told you not to touch that."
"Shut up!" Olivia and Jessica shouted at her and even I said the same in the mind link.
'You bitch' Natasha attacked with full force but right before she could touch me, something knocked her away. The girls gasped as they saw something crawling out of the damaged spider web. They couldn't describe the creature but they knew one thing for sure, it was a monster and they shouldn't be there.
Olivia and Jessica quickly transformed into their wolves to be able to run faster and Melanie joined them as well. I turned to run also but my leg got stuck in a hole and I kept wriggling to get free.
The disgusting creature reached out and grabbed me and I turned and attacked with my claws, causing the animal to growl angrily again and slashed its long claws on my chest. I whimpered in pain and the creature attacked again, hitting me forcefully that I flew and slammed into a tree.
Natasha watched everything in horror and seeing that the creature was more focused on me, she slowly crawled away, not even thinking twice about helping.
Due to the wound I had suffered, I was forced to shift back into my human form. I glanced at my bloodied chest and then at the creature that was still coming at me with blood red eyes. My body was trembling out of fear and I could sense my wolf's fear as well. We can't win this, the creature was too strong and with how weak I was, I feared I would die with another strike from it.
'Help,' I cried in the mind link, wishing the male wolves would hear me. If all of them could attack, then maybe they could stand a chance of winning. 'Help, Cameron, are you there? Please, help!'
The creature turned to me with its burning red eyes and roared, a shrilling sound that irritated my wolf so much. The sleeping birds all leaped into the air at the dangerous sound and I knew then that I may have annoyed a stronger opponent.
After the shrilling roar, the creature charged at me and I closed my eyes, knowing that there was no way I would survive that. No one had answered my call for help and it means no one was coming. I was all alone, facing a monster I had never seen before and that looked a hundred times stronger than I was. I sucked in a deep breath and waited for the pain I knew was coming.
But waited I did and nothing happened. I could hear sounds around me and then opened my eyes to know what was happening only to see something move at the flash of light in front of me and deliver a strong blow at the creature. A man dressed in a long grey coat suddenly appeared in front of me and a loud growl sounded that I had to cover my ears for the sound almost burst my eardrums. I stared at the man in front of me who was growling at the animal and was surprised. What is he doing here? I wondered as the creature launched again and I heard his voice loud and clear before he attacked. "SHE IS MINE."