Chapter 3

Zmiyrenan’s POV

It was not even a loud sound that woke me up. It was kind of a soft grunt that had awakened me from my slumber. What kind of sound would wake me up after seven hundred thirty five years I didn’t understand. I looked around my cave, it was a gorgeous cave no doubt but I knew in my mind that it wasn’t something inside my cave. Someone had intruded my mind. And that was impossible!

Well until now. Who was this being that it had been able to intrude in the mind of the last known living dragon of this realm? I shook off the bats that had been sleeping on my back and also a few more creatures who had nested against my body and yawned out wide. Ecch! These rodents thought that my body was their nest. I quickly rose from my position over the mountain of the gold coins and shook off my body and immediately turned into a form which had been loved by the insipid creatures called human beings the last time that I had ventured out of my mountain.

I breathed in deeply as I focused on the sound that I had heard and quickly discerned that I could listen in to the creature’s breathing. It sounded laboured and in pain.

And it was female!

My eyes opened wide in shock as I immediately pin-pointed her location at the back of my mind and shifted to the place where she was. I had waited till the time my magic had formed and had waited to think that now after all this time I would finally be granted a mate…a mate who did not even know that I existed. A mate who had called me out in her moment of need and done it unaware that she had called me out.

Finally I reached this forest where she was. She was moving and I could not exactly figure out where she was but I could track her down. I opened my mouth and stuck out my tongue and breathed in. Uhhh! To be young again.

The scent of a number of full human males and also some wolves…some of them who had not bathed in dayes…ewwww and gun powder and some kind of slimy oily smell filled my senses. I immediately shifted again, albeit to a much smaller form and started moving after them.

“Where did he go?” one of the men asked which meant that they had seen me. I knew that they were talking about me…ehh! How did it matter! They were going to be dead soon anyway. The man who spoke moved around but did not find me. It wasn’t like I could hide, or so he thought as I could understand from the look of his face.

“He is not over there either,” one of the other man said, gesturing around the building with his elbow while gripping some kind of automatic machine in his hand. It wasn’t the kind that I had encountered before but these machines, they all smelled the same.

He nodded at the other man. “We need to find…’

The screaming begun around him. And by the time he had turned around, all he saw was the feel of one of his men disappearing into the shadows of the upper building. As if something had dragged him up the wall, well or some one.

But…that was impossible…right?

I could see the look of his face. The bewildered look…no no…noo…He took a step forward but immediately stopped when his teammate’s body hit the ground and it was not even his full body. Everything below his torse was gone, as if he had been torn apart.

Yeah! I liked to do that.

He had his men took a step back in the darkness but they could not see anything and nothing more mattered.

Another one of them, I yanked him up into the building and they could hear their teammate’s screams but before any of the could attempt to help I tossed out his body into the small bit of light that would allow him to see.

He gawked at the body before him. It had been torn apart in less than five seconds. He and his men passed silent glances before they all backed away, turned and moved towards their vehicle somewhere else.

There was no amount of gold that was worth this kind of insanity I guessed!

I moved in silence as I remained covered in shadows and tracked the female’s scent. I had no idea what she was called but her scent lingered all around just like her blood did. They had taken her to this abandoned building and it was well up from the ground level. I tried to launch my body through the window but I did not fit. I tried shifting but still no, only my head got through. I was getting angry now…I growled in annoyance and found that I burst through the side of the wall and I knew that my natural advantage of surprise was gone. But I didn’t care any longer.

As a natural predator, the largest in the universe, I knew a freaking kidnapping when I saw one.

And that woman was in the middle of that ambush without anyone else beside her. But that had not deterred her at all. Everyone who had been around her was a wolf and they were all growling and almost shifted half to attack her again.

No one looked at me because no one could see anything. I stood on splintered wood, and broken wall as I stared at the woman who was my mate. I watched in amazement that the woman, no…she was not even a woman, this one was quite young. She repeatedly stabbed a man in the neck, her entire body on top of his shoulders, legs around his neck.

Another man came towards her and she stopped stabbing long enough to slash the new on comer’s throat, then slash again. This time straight across his face, ripping him open from forehead to underneath the jaw before burying her knife into the throat of the victim she was currently riding like a horse.

Both men dropped and she expertly landed on her feet.

She turned towards me and cocked her head and said,” I know there is someone else here who can cloak and disguise but I have to warn you to come out.”

Interesting girl! She could feel my presence when no one else did. I shook off the shadows from my body and came into her vision as I wanted to ask her why had she been kidnapped but that would not have been appropriate at the moment. After all, I had just watched her butcher two wolves with just knives and from the rest of the eight bodies littered all around her I had to accept that this could wait.

“Are you okay?” I asked. She cocked her head at me again and said,” What language are you speaking? I don’t understand it.”

Oh dear!

And then she shook her head and I had to rear back as her left eye wobbled a bit which meant that her eyes was not completely in her socket. I wanted to scream and cover her face and heal her but something made me feel that this woman was not going to appreciate the help that I would offer.

I looked at her in horror as there were cracking sounds around her face and her eye snapped into place securing the eyeball. And then she turned towards him and said,” I don’t know if you are friendly or even if you can understand me, but I am going to take you as friendly. There is a syringe sticking in my back, will you please pull it out for me?”

She turned and I saw a big syringe stabbing her shoulder. And I could smell what was inside it. It was an aphrodisiac. There were more chemicals as well but I quickly tugged it and found that it had lodged in her bone and tugged it hard. And after a few pulls finally it was free and there was a small hole in her shoulder.

“Uhhh?” I did not know what I would say but I said,” Mademoiselle?”

“You are French?” she turned as she looked at the syringe in my hand and then said,” This does not look right…this doesn’t feel right as well!”

I shook my head wishing she would understand my words but before I could say anything she dropped down like a dead weight and I had to hold her as she went completely unconscious and her body was rigid but there was consciousness in her. But her eyes were open.

Persephone!

That was her name…

“Please,” she said softly as I could see a tear slide down her eye and her mouth closed in a gasp.

I could understand that she was conscious but she had no control over her body, almost like it was paralysed. And I knew that I had to save her. No matter what, I had to save her…she was my mate and after nine centuries of waiting I was not letting go off my mate in this way…