FINDING THE HUMAN
ATLAN
Atlan could not understand why his wolf had become so sensitive. The smell was so strong that it was intoxicating him.
Who is he or she that is making him this restless.
He growled loudly, this was the time when he becomes a monster, this is the time when he kills, but for some reason the smell gave him another kind of feeling at this point, what could that be?
Who is out there, who is he that is challenging him right now.
Whoever it was must be powerful.
“Your Majesty you must calm down, you know it's been long you went to the woods, if you go now, they might think you are the enemy”.
Right now, he didn't seem to care about that. All he wanted to do now is to go see what it is that is in the woods.
The smell seemed to be calling him and he needs to go. He has to go and see who that is.
His warriors tried to stop him, because they know what will happen if he breaks loose.
He pushed them all away, injured some, at this moment no one could stop him. He can't be stopped right now, for he was never going to leave unless he had seen whatever it was that is pulling him.
He ran into the woods with full speed his eye has changed its colour to golden brown, his fangs so sharp. The more he ran into the woods the stronger the scent he perceives.
Atlan increased his speed into the woods and there he head the footsteps of people trespassing into the forest. He listened with his erected ears and he could tell that they were in numbers not just one.
The scent he perceived also came through the crowd approaching. Who could they be? Why are they in the woods? All these questions ran through his head.
Their scent is that of humans and not werewolves. What are they doing in the woods?
Atlan looked around him, and found out he had come a long way from home.
He was so focused following the scent that he couldn't even tell when that he had passed his boundary.
He wanted to go back, but he couldn't. He had to see the reason why his wolf was this panicky. He had to see the person who has made him feel at edge.
He could not explain what he was feeling, but all he knew was that the smell was making him go insane. Woever it was must be an enemy, he thought.
“Raquel, what do you think the beast would look like? Do you believe the beast feeds on flesh like was said?
“Stop saying that Jerry, if you are trying to scare me it won't work”.
“I'm sorry, you know everyone is scared after hearing that loud growl.”
“No matter how ruthless that wolf is, he cannot escape me because I must hunt it and wrestle it to the ground.”
“Wow, I like your courage Raquel, I really would live to see how you wrestle this wolf to the ground”.
Atlan could hear them as they approached where he was hidden.
He wondered if they were talking about him or the one wolf that has been disturbing this parts of the woods.
This is the first time he had come all the way here. Never had he left his boundary. Right now, if it does happens that they are looking for this wolf, then he's in danger.
He wanted to take a step into the woods but changed his mind again.
What will be the need of him leaving if he cannot see who that smell belongs to.
Why does the voice of this Raquel sound strange to his ears, just who is this human?
Hearing her voice made him feel nauseous, just what is happening to him right now.
The more the footsteps approach, the more the scent came on strongly.
Suddenly, he saw them, little humans, putting on something strange.
He observed them from his beastly eyes. This was the first time he's seeing humans live after many centuries ago when he saw his first human.
Thinking about that woman and her baby made him feel sad at that particular time. He knew they must have died centuries ago.
Atlan watched the humans who wore same type of clothes with something on their legs which seemed so heavy on their feet.
Suddenly, Atlan caught sight of a girl. She carried a weapon in her hands dressed same way.
He closed his eyes, tracking the scent with his sensitive nostrils, and suddenly he discovered the girl was the owner of the scent.
Atlan got himself deeper into the woods that no one could recognize him.
He could change the colour of his wolf to be like the forest and no one would know he was there, but for him, nothing gets past his eyes, without his knowledge.
He watched her, as a guy was hovering around her, calling her Raquel. So, she is the Raquel, the one who had been talking about taking his wolf down.
She was the one who called him into the woods. But seeing her now, she doesn't seem to possess anything of his liking because all he saw were hefty wears with boots and helmet covering her face.
The only thing he knew was the scent. If he could perceive this scent so strong only in her, then what does this mean?
Could it be that she is his enemy who needs to be killed? Atlan was so lost in thought that he didn't known when his tail hit the branch of a wood and that brought the attention of everyone in the woods.
“Oh boy, this will be disastrous, there is no way he would let anyone of them escape without killing them. If they find him out, then they must die by his hands.”
“It's the beastly wolf!!!”
Someone shouted and every one of them stood guard with their weapons pointing at his direction.
“Shoot!!”
Atlan was confused for he didn't know what that meant but when he saw something like fire flying through the air from a a weapon on their hand which seemed deadly
He had watched it from the movies of how people die when it hits them.
Atlan wasn't going to let these humans kill him, though he knew he wouldn't die, but he cannot let them defeat him. Just then it seemed his time had come as the night became dark.
Immediately he turned feral his one growl had sent the humans screaming at the top of their voices. He growled even louder, and suddenly the helmet from Raquel fell off her face and he could see her face clearly.
She doesn't seemed to be affected by his growl as she stared at him with her rifle in hand ready to shoot.
Then it struck him so hard to see the colors of her eyes.
They were bluish, not just any blue, but that same colour of the human child he found in the woods. Atlan stopped growling, his heart stared pounding loudly in his chest. He saw her aim at him, but he could do nothing, he was dumbstruck looking at this little lady in front of him.
It was when the fire from her weapon hit him that he realized she was trying to kill him while he was daydreaming about her eyes.
Immediately, Atlan became so furious.
“These humans never learn”. Immediately, he ran towards her while she continued to fire at him.
He didn't stop, his paws, so big and massive on the ground. The moment he got to where she was, he grabbed her with his teeth and took her on a race back to his pack.
She tried to take blow at him but she couldn't. He was big and she fighting him was impossible without her weapon now.
"Let me go, you beast!"
She screamed and shouted but he never listened to her. He plans to take her to his castle and keep her there with him forever if he had to.
The moment he got to his castle, his beta looked so horrified upon seeing him with a human girl.
He bypassed him and took her straight to his room, but she kept on hitting him. She was a fool if she thinks those little slaps will work on him.
Once he was in his room, he threw her to the ground.
The moment she fell down, she quickly scurried off the floor and struck a pose. He watched her intently as she set her two hands in a fist, one leg backward and the other forward.
She must be joking, if she thinks she could fight him that way.
Since he couldn't talk and his growling will only scare her, he kept shut and waited for his beta to come in.
He would do a better explanation than him.
“Look, I don't care if you can hear me or not, but I suggest you let me go as soon as possible.”
Seeing how raged she became, he could tell that she's very feisty. For some reasons, her every action amuses him, but he couldn't say anything to her but just watch her throw her tantrums.
Her voice made him feel raced and her scent, the scent was so intoxicating, but he knows better than to dwell on that.
The reason why he brought her here was her eyes.
If he's not mistaken, she's the human child from centuries ago, but what he's confused about was how come she stayed alive all these years when she's just human.
Her smell tells him she's human, so he's confused. He wish he could ask her the reasons why, but he's just in his beastly form.
“Show yourself, why don't you turn to your human self and let the battle begin, or are you so scared to fight a human!?”
Atlan became raged, how dare she refer to him as scared.
He didn't want to growl but this human is damn making him rage at this point.
He let out a loud growl which sent her flying to the hard floor, and with that, she passed out.
Good, now he can get back his peace. How he hates noise.
His growl made his beta dashed into the room quickly.
“Where were you when I needed you to be here?”
“Huh, you wanted me here? I thought you needed some privacy, your Majesty”.
“What privacy are you talking about?”
His beta seemed to be lost for words.
He seemed confused when he saw the human girl on the floor.
“You must have knocked her off with your growls.”
“She asked for it”.
Atlan meant to roll his eyes at this point, but he couldn't.
“How did you find her and who is she?”
“You will get to find out when she's awake, and please find a way to shut her up the moment she wakes up.”
Atlan left the room to get himself some meal. All because of her, he had forgotten to get his meal.
He ran back into the woods to scavenge for food to eat.