The Shape Shifters Chronicles (on hold)

Hercules

As a little boy, I was always a loner, like I was a shy type. But don't estimate the shy types though. They can be the most lethal, most dangerous person in the world.

When I was young, I was always picked on by the other boy tigers. My parents says it's just a phase, it'll go away. But it didn't. By the time I was 13 years old, I got bullied by a group of boys and I almost died. I was badly hurt. My father on the other hand was sick of it and he had his best warrior tigers to help me learn how to fight after I was all better. My mother well she didn't want her baby to be neither of those things. A wimp or a bully. But also agreed about needing to protect myself. After two months after being in the med bay, getting all healed and s**t, my father had took me down to the warrior training yard.

From that moment on, I had trained my hardest, my fastest, making myself the strongest Prince alive, that no one would want to bully me again.

From being the most weakest/shy type to the most strongest/deadliest type.

When I was 15 years old, I had went back in to school and came across those same boys that wanted to pick on me again but this time, they were shocked on how I turned it around on them. When I fought back, breaking a few of their arms or legs or even almost killing one of them like they did me, I had got kicked out of school.

My parents were mad about the ordeal because when they had broke something on me and almost killed me, they didn't kick those boys out when I was 13 years old. But me being the prince was another story. My father told them to f**k off and that was the moment he had me do better things for my life.

I worked on missions from time to time with the warriors and done some side work training some of the new tiger cubs.

But over time, we had problems with the hunters around the area. Killing off some of our own in their tiger form but also some of the other animals around the area. Like they were regular hunters just enjoying a kill to put on their wall or to even eat from. I mean I was a hunter as well in my tiger form looking for a nice deer to eat as well but still.

We were tribes fending off what little animals we eat. We kill one or two from the food chain to keep the animal kingdom in balance. Just like the movie; "The Lion King", where Mufasa had told his son Simba that from the ants to the deer's we're all one. When you die and go to the grass those other animals like the deer eat the grass. Were all about circle of life.

But there's those who don't care about the circle of life they just do it for fun or they are to eager they just want them all to themselves. Which are like the hunters or some other animals. Like rogues tigers that we come across in our time. But were not the only shifters that protect their pride land's. There are others. And that is where I had found my mate.

Yes, my mate wasn't a tiger and my mate who had saved me from the hunters.

The hunters had came across my tribe and killed my tribe. We wasn't in our tiger form either we were just minding our own when they had evaded our town. Some of us did shift and I was one of those ones that did. I had to protect my family my tribe but my parents had yelled for me to run and some of the others to run because there were to many.

And me being the other blood line left of my family, I done just that.

But not knowing they had traps set all around the areas, I had came across one and got myself trapped in my tiger form. I was scared for my life and heard hunters coming along to finished the job. But not until she came along.

A cheetah was walking around and came across me. She had looked at me the shifted. She was beautiful, like no other. She went to help me get out of the trap, but as she was, hunters came along and went to shoot her. I growled at her and them. She looked up at me and guessing she had saw them in my eyes, then shifted into her cheetah form and ran fast. She was so fast that I could hardly keep up with her at where she was. She attack all the hunters that was there. When I noticed they were all gone, I had shifted into my human form to try and get myself freed but she had came back in her human form to help as well. When she saw I was human she had stopped and looked at me.

"Your a shifter like me." She had said when she got to me.

"Yes, I am. I'm the prince of my kind. Well was until the hunters had came and killed of my tribe." I told her.

"I'm the princess of my kind, soon to be queen." She told me as she finally got the trap opened.

"Thank you, so much for saving my life." I said then looked up at her. "I'm Hercules, prince of the tiger kingdom. Well what's left of it here."

"I'm Xena, princess of the cheetah kingdom." She told me. "Let me take you back to my tribe and get you all fixed up. Its gonna take awhile for you to heal after what that trap had done."

I had nodded and she put my arm over her shoulders.

"Why were you out here?" I asked her.

"A mission. I have a camp set up at one of our points just ahead." She had pointed ahead of us.

"What kind of mission?"

"Hunter ones, they've been killing off some of the animals from the kingdom."

"Like my kind?" I had somewhat questioned but more of a statement.

"I afraid so, my prince."

When we got close to the camp, she had meowed to tell her guards it was her. When we came view the guards all stood up and saw that she was carrying me.

"My princess, what is this?" A man had asked.

"Kolkata, he was hurt. He was in a hunters trap." She had said as she sat me down on one of the beds.

"Hunters trap?" One of the other warrior had said.

"What was you doing out there. Thought you were asleep, princess." Another warrior guard had asked.

"I was out looking for food. I was hungry. And I can do what I am pleased to do, Kobe." She had told him. "Plus he's a tiger prince. The last of his kind. The hunters killed his tribe off. He was luckily got away. Now, Jozef help this man. Your the medical aid here."

"Yes, my princess." Jozef said bowing his head.

"And when your done with him, put him in my tent I'll sleep out here in my cat form. I need to be alert."

Jozef nodded and took care of me. He had helped me into a tent and took care of my leg.

"Your very lucky that the trap didn't do more than this." The man had said.

"I was in my tiger form, running when I had got trapped." I told him.

"My prince, why didn't you fight back. Your a tiger, one of the most powerful beings in the animal kingdom." Jozef asked.

"Jozef, is it?" I had asked. He nodded. "I was fighting, but there were to many. My parents had told me and a few others to run, so I had done what they had ordered. And since I am the only one from my bloodline, I had to." I had told him.

He shook his head for a moment then poured something on my leg that hurt for a moment then took out a needle and thread. He lit the needle up for a few minutes then looked a me.

"It's gonna hurt." He told me.

"Can't be worse than how I'm already feeling." I told him. "Just do it and get it over with."

He nodded then started working on my leg. It didn't take long for him to stitch me up, then wrapped it up. It did hurt but I took the pain. As he was done, he gave me some meds for the pain then told me to rest. Which I did.

It was over for me for the night. And hopefully, its a good night sleep for me for awhile.

Hope y'all like chapter 2 of the prince, Hercules's back story how he came to the moment to meeting the princess, Xena.

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