Ferocious

Chapter 7

Desperation

Ever since he developed, Astro usually feels two kinds of power from two sources whenever he is transformed.

First the normal mixed senses, power and prowess of a wolf and human combined to give super reflexes, super strength, super sharp senses, speed and fighting prowess.

The other source though he ignores because of the feel of turmoil and instability that comes with it even as it surges within him promising extreme power.

He doesn't know what could happen if he taps from it, so he doesn't especially since someone he loves and wouldn't want to get hurt is near him.

The fiery glow of his veins remained as he chose to stick with the normal power source but yet kept the other source in handy, even as he charged the lynx headed for him, fully transformed into his werewolf form.

The lynx leapt towards him but Sheila was faster, she had transformed to her huge and glorious white wolf form and had pounced at the leaping lynx catching it in her jaws.

The lynx wiggled free in time before she could crush it and reared back to strike again.

Meanwhile seeing as Sheila had dislodged the one that leapt towards him, Astro had turned his attention to another, a werelynx who appeared to be female.

She snarled as she scampered towards him slashing at him, but he had the superior speed and had maneuvered through the slashes to stand behind her as he gave a slashing hit of his own claws.

His strike squarely found the back of its mark but he was hit and thrown off balance by a tackle to his side from the other werelynx, the leader who also dug his teeth into Astro's side.

Astro's bellow mixed with the cry of the werelynx that he himself had struck earlier then he quickly rolled around his new attacker striking him solidly with an elbow to the jaw.

The strike dislodged the werelynx' teeth from his side and he immediately rose to a crouch then stood on his hands to strike at the werelynx with his legs in two quick successive s***h kicks that found their mark; one to the chest the other to the face which drew blood and a piteous cry of pain from the werelynx.

Astro did a quick scan around and found all three full lynxes on Sheila viciously attacking her and although she furiously held out pretty well, it was obvious they were going to have her beat soon.

Astro discovered the lynxes had actually pegged Sheila to be the more dangerous of the pair as well, because she was a full wolf just as he had also noted the full lynxes as the greater threat, but in this case they were wrong.

'you should've come at me with more of you' he thought to himself and started speedily towards where the fight was.

The female werelynx tried to get in his way to block him and have another clumsy go at him,

but there was no stopping him, he leapt up jumping above and over her and struck the back of her head with his foot with his foot's claw stabbing the strike point as well and he continued towards the tangle without faltering his stride.

He got there and pounced at the lynx on top of her, dragging it off her with the force of his weight and striking it hard with his claws before taking a deep bite at the lynx throat,

then he found its backbone and drove a powerful blow right at it, the blow snapped the bones, paralyzing the werelynx ensuring its death was slow and agonizing as he had previously opened a couple of veins with his bite to its throat earlier.

He turned around and found Sheila subdued by the remaining four, they were all on her, pressing her down sideways and the leader werelynx had his claws up in a striking position above her neck, poised in the kind of strike that cuts opens the jugular vein, tears out her throat and causes death within the fewest minutes.

"stop right there or I kill her" the leader said.

"Astro please run, save yourself" Sheila pathed to him, "I still have the strength to dislodge them and cause a distraction long enough for you to escape, please run" she kept pathing,

but Astro was ravenous with rage at how they had pinned her down and he also knew that with the way they pinned her, she couldn't possibly free herself.

"you can't escape this fate, just surrender and you won't have to see her die" the leader continued,

"my fate, has been sealed long ago, it is you who can't escape me, it is you who can't escape the consequences of my fate!!" Astro bellowed and he gave himself to that other source of power in him, drinking from it gluttonously.

Thunder boomed again and again as he transformed into his other core being, the demonwolf this time and everyone paused as he transformed even more growing a bit broader and taller but much more menacing and dark.

The fiery veins on his body became more lucid, his fur and form became smoky and shadowy but was still solid all the same.

The red glow of his eyes shone with such intensity that it seemed to be all you could see,

then suddenly, everything stopped, the thundering, the noise all around, and even Astro had disappeared.

The lynxes became uneasy and were about to bolt in fright when suddenly a smoky form appeared behind the leader and grabbed his still raised arm.

The leader yowled piteously at the pain he was getting from the burn being caused to his arm and the smell of burning flesh filled everyone's nostrils,

then a loud c***k sounded followed by silence as Astro snapped the werelynx leader's head backwards such that the back of his head now touched his back with blood spurting out of the torn neck.

The others immediately bolted, completely horribly terrified but the demonwolf haven't had his fill yet.

He moved seemingly in a flash and grabbed one of the full lynx by the hind legs as it was running away, he pulled it up off the ground and held both hind legs in his hands then tore the lynx into two and dropped the carcass.

The female werelynx backed up to a tree terribly frightened then suddenly the demonwolf was holding her head in his hand.

He struck her head to the tree behind her repeatedly till it cracked open and yet still continued till it turned into mush in his hand.

The last lynx had more time to escape and was already pretty far away running as fast as it could in fear for its life but the demon wolf suddenly appeared right in front of it that it crashed into him with full force.

The demonwolf was unmoved by the crash, instead he picked up the lynx limply in one hand and struck it at the hard earth repeatedly, he stopped and checked if it was still alive and as he saw it twitch he struck it on the ground some more before finally dropping its long dead body.

*

Sheila had never felt this kind of fear before, she was back standing on all fours still in full wolf form and she looked at the desolation caused by the entity residing in the young man she loved.

She had never seen such brutality before, she was so scared she couldn't even move.

She thought about running before it came back but she knew there was no escaping it.

She suddenly remembered that she herself had said with her own mind to him that they just had to deal with it and move on, well, here now comes the part of dealing with it.

'this is gonna be harder than I'd thought' she thought to herself.

She felt him coming before she saw him, a menacing presence approaching, a dark entity en route towards her.

He approached her slowly, hardly making a sound as he moved stealthily through the woods toward her.

The very first lynx he'd killed while still in his normal werewolf form hadn't really died and it still lay twitching and whimpering on the floor.

But as the demonwolf approached he stepped on its head and crushed it, finally ending its miserable life.

He got to a few feet away from her and stopped, he just waited and was looking right at her as if he was weighing her soul.

"Astro?" She pathed to him, hoping to reach his conscious self within, hoping he'd hear her call as she repeated the call with more certainty.

Then sounds like cloth tearing, thunder as usual and the sound of ripping flesh could be heard as he started to revert.

He moved from form to form till he was in his night black full wolf form, he then pathed as well "Sheila, lets go home".

***

Both of them arrived in Astro's apartment, it was still very early in the morning, just a few moments from first light.

They reverted to human form right in front of the apartment before entering,

they couldn't revert before reaching the clan's settlement because they had no clothes.

Sheila got into the bathroom to freshen up and she wore one of Astro's shirt oversized such that it reached down well past her thighs.

She came out to see a dejected looking Astro with tears welled up in his eyes.

They hadn't said a word about anything on the way back.

Astro looked up at her from his sitting position on the bed and the tears in his eyes dropped in rivulets.

Sheila kneeled before him and held both his hands in hers, she looked at him straight into his eyes and gave him a strongly confident smile as she said, "we will deal with it".

Then she pulled him up and urged him to go freshen up as well,

he spent a longer time in the bathroom though, all the event of the night playing over and over in his head.

He had been conscious of everything, he hadn't been locked in one corner and taken over by another entity as he'd thought would be the case,

No, he had been himself, only more savage, more aggressive, more bloodthirsty, more rage filled,

his darkside had gotten intensified ten fold when in the demonwolf form and he had wreaked so much havoc in mere seconds.

He shuddered in fear at the thought of what he could do should he get out of control while in that form, so right then and there he vowed not to ever let the demonwolf out ever again.

He had also picked up the intense fear Sheila had felt, he stood looking at her because he felt she'd probably run off in fear if he moved any closer even though the feeling completely faded right before she started calling to him.

She had felt incredibly scared but in her defense who wouldn't at seeing such a menace and the catastrophe that followed.

While cleaning up he also discovered he couldn't find any battle scar on him, all the bite and scratch marks were gone including the scratches Sheila gave him while they were making love, all he could find was the scar in his left shoulder, a left over of the incident with the werepanthers.

He finished up and dried himself, he got into a shirt as well along with shorts and came out to find Sheila laying on the bed looking really tired.

She patted the spot beside her on the bed indicating he should also get on the bed beside her, he started feeling his own weariness at that point.

He laid beside her and they faced each other, he scanned her body for battle marks and found them much to his displeasure.

He turned on his wolf eyes and picked up all the injuries on her body gotten from the fight, one on her shoulder, a couple to her stomach, some on her back as well as her thigh and legs, too much.

He touched the one on her shoulder and she winced in pain, he looked into her eyes with worry but she shook her head to dissuade his worry.

"all I need is a good sleep and they'll fade away along with the pain once the healing process starts" she said to him.

He also knew the wounds will heal in time and some might leave scars but he didn't want to wait that long for her to be out of the pain.

He really wanted to do something, to ease her pain, to take it in him if possible, he held her hands tight in concern and felt a surprisingly gentle surge in him which he gave himself to.

Fiery red lines formed all over his veins at that point and they flowed through their joined hands to her.

The lines moved along her body and reached all her wounds.

She winced at the touch of the lines to the wounds but relaxed as she started feeling relief due to the instigated healing process.

The lines receded back to Astro's body turning black after they'd finished with the healing on a wound and as they reached his body once again he felt the pain they brought with then although the pain subsided pretty fast.

Sheila was beyond marveled at what just happened, she felt no pain again at all, just like that.

'seems the demonwolf came with some blessings along with its curse' she thought to herself.

"I love you Astro, that much will never change" she said to him.

He smiled and looked into her eyes "I love you as well Sheila, always".

no more words were needed at that point as they interlocked their hands and fell into a tired deep sleep.