Chapter 94: _They’re All Animals!

Chapter 94: _They’re All Animals! Odessa’s POV ***** "Watch out!" Everything had been going swimmingly at first. I was navigating my way through the Blood Oak Woods when I came across two humans, a male and a female. I’d been watching them argue to themselves like a couple when all hell broke loose. What exactly happened? Well, this... "Ahhhh!" The woman among the two humans screamed in horror, falling butt first to the ground as the ’things’ that had been hiding in the woods came out. One of the ’things’ had slashed the neck of the male human, sending blood everywhere and taking his head off his shoulders until it landed close to my feet. I slowly lowered my head with stupefaction as I realized what was a few feet away from my feet. That was a human head... A freshly severed human head. The shock that I felt before soon turned into adrenaline that made my heart pound heavily and that adrenaline soon turned to anxiety and then pure fear as my body shook. Meanwhile, when I brought my gaze back to the scene with the human woman, I realized what the ’things’ that came out of the woods were. "Wolves..." I mumbled, my breathing becoming hitched as I swallowed hard. And not just any normal wolves too. These were unnaturally large with glowing eyes and seemed to be playing around with the human woman and not exactly eating the fallen human man. "L– Leave me alone!" The woman who was around my age screamed weakly, her voice cracking as she attempted to get up. It was then that I realized why these ’wolves’ were unnatural. They’re werewolves... Shifted werewolves. A cold shiver ran down my spine as my flight instinct began kicking in. However, just when I was about to run for my life, a hand grabbed my right arm from behind, forcing me to turn around and look at the owner, causing a gasp to escape my mouth. "Well, well, well..." A male voice said with a whistle, chuckling soon after. He was shirtless and had a lean build, his face handsome and looking like he was in his twenties or something. However, his eyes glowed with a red light and his lips curled up into a sadistic smile. "P– Please, let go..." I whispered, but my words came out almost nonexistent due to the numbing fear that made me shake. Yes, I was surrounded by werewolves in the Blood Oak Woods but at least none of them seemed this... Lawless. Celine clearly wanted nothing more than to kill me but at least she was held back by the laws of the pack. I didn’t know what ’laws’ held these mysterious werewolves and I was certain none of them would hesitate in killing me. "Hey, boys! Look what I got here!" The male werewolf who held me said with a snigger, using one hand to hold my jaw before he turned me around to face the other wolves. I gasped from the pain I felt in my jaw, struggling to catch my breath but even that felt like nothing compared to the numbing terror that shot through my bones when I saw the sight before me. The wolves who had been attacking the humans had now successfully pinned down the human female and had her face to the ground. She was still alive and struggled to move, swatting her arms helplessly around the ground but it was no use under the weight of the ashen fur wolf on top of her. There were four other werewolves apart from the one pinning the woman and I watched as one slowly shifted back into his human form, his bones snapping unnaturally throughout the process. "Ah, Tonka. What do you have there?" The werewolf said with a voice that came off almost as a growl, his nose sniffing despite the distance from me. "She kinda smells human. But yet there’s something off about her..." I held my breath back, praying to all the deities I knew that these men wouldn’t find out that I was a witch. My human blood has always been more recessive but right now, it was the first thing they perceived about me because of the potion I used in masking my scent from them. If that potion stopped working, then I... "Her face looks familiar, I thought you would be sharp enough to realize." The werewolf who held me, ’Tonka’, said with a grunt, his grip on my jaw increasing. "So, you didn’t watch the broadcast during the grandest wedding of the continent?" Oh no... My body shivered with fear when I realized that this one recognized me. As if to add to my fears, the wolf who had the human woman pinned didn’t waste any time again and shifted back to his human form before he yanked her off the ground, his mouth curling into a sly grin. "Oh, this one smells and looks good..." He mumbled, sniffing close to her hair and ignoring her whimpers and cries before he turned his gaze to Tonka. "Can I–" "Knock yourself out, you sex-starved perv..." Tonka said with a snigger, sighing lightly as he held my jaw tighter and forced me to look back at him. "We’ll take the Alpha King’s Witch Bride here back to camp." It was as if my whole world came crumbling down at that moment, my eyes widening with shock. Tonka sniggered even more when he noticed my reaction, his breath, which smelled of metallic blood and alcohol, falling on my face before he whispered. "What? You think your spell or whatever you used to hide your scent would be enough to fool me?" I bit my bottom lip, glancing back at the others. The rest, who were still in their wolf forms, dragged the human male’s headless body away as if they were planning to eat him. As for the one with the human female, he dragged her to a corner, covering her mouth as he unbuckled his belt. A cold shiver ran down my spine but what I felt instead of fear this time was pure anger as I found enough strength and managed to use my right elbow to hit Tonka on his stomach. He released me briefly and that gave me enough time to step away from him, my chest heaving heavily. "Y– You all are animals!" I yelled out with pure disgust but before I could make an attempt to flee, I felt a heavy force hit the back of my head, followed by a beastly growl. I fell face-first to the ground, slowly using my right hand to feel the back of my head. Blood... "Rookie mistake, witch." Those were the last words I heard before my eyes fluttered weakly and everything went dark.