Hunters moon

41: Rage

Quintin was boiling over, his anger reached new levels, Kishra knew with him there he'd have no choice but to kill this girl, her sense of humor was sickening.

"You think this is a game!? I have no words for you anymore! I know I can't defeat you! But I swear! Even if it costs me my life I will f*****g try!" He screamed and charged her.

In a flash Kishra was up into the air, avoiding Quintin's flying kick which ended up destroying the chair behind her. Kishra landed behind him and kicked the girl up, forcing him to catch her, but as he did Kishra kicked the both of them back and they hit a wall, making the wounded girl scream in agony.

"Now you're really pissing me off!" He yelled setting the girl down and coming at her again, swinging, but she avoided every blow effortlessly, he swung and kicked but she caught his foot and swung him by it, throwing him into a poker table. Quintin could feel that red surfacing, his skin crawled with rage and the pain of the impact worsened it. Kishra was laughing at him, still her wicked smile never left her face, it pissed him off further.

"You want to know what happened to Nina, Naomi and Claire do you?" She asked halting his next attack.

"Cleopatra turned them into mummies, they will serve under her forever now, they can't be killed, and the curse will only lift when Cleopatra dies, this is why I can't betray her, she will do the same to me!"

Quintin watched her bewildered, he couldn't get words out to insult her anymore, who cares what her fate was when she betrays Cleopatra!? There was no words to compare her to what he actually thinks of her now, all his mind registered was kill, kill, kill.

"You! And that b***h Cleopatra! I swear I'll kill both of you, hear my words!" He roared, a roar, his voice not human anymore, with his tongue he felt the sharp fangs in his mouth, fangs!? The anger consumed him, he couldn't draw hate anymore, sadness for the girl? Nothing!

He couldn't draw out any other emotion, rage had him and he tensed up, roaring from the deepest core of his being, a force left his body like a gust, knocking Kishra from her feet, tables chairs and dead bodies blew across the room, the wounded girl found a sideways table and his screaming, living in her own nightmare.

Fur grew out of Quintin's arms, he saw it happen, the pain in his joints as he shifted to his saber form fueled his anger further, just as Naomi said it would, frustrated he viscously rubbed the contact lenses out of his eyes, then with the same red visioned silver glowing eyes he looked upon Naomi, he now looked up at Kishra, who stood stupefied that he could shift without a full moon.

Outside clouds started to gather, coming in and swirled, the first signs of a brewing tornado.

Not fully transformed yet Quintin once again bolted at her, this time she couldn't avoid it but still blocked it and struck him so hard he flew back. Quintin was a ticking time bomb, the more Kishra fought him back the angrier he got, until Quintin's human consciousness left him, and the saber took over, completely overtaking his human form.

Controlled insanity, Kishra felt it, this beast stood in front of her, just as he stood watching her in Angola, only this time, she felt the insanity like cold air in her face.

It lifted its paw then waved down.

Outside of the ship the tornado suddenly spiked down towards the cruise ship like a spear, the ship being steel rocked hard when the hit came, but the tornado grew in size and started spinning the ship in circles.

Kishra held on to a mounted table, she didn't know what was going on, wind started blowing through the doors and soon a vacuum formed, sucking every loose lying object towards the exits, even the dead bodies, The girl managed to cling on to a pillar, preventing her from being sucked out, but her grip was weakening.

Kishra started laughing.

"Amazing! This is truly amazing!" She yelled and looked at Quintin "I hope you can understand me cat! That human will never understand you! He will never comprehend! I will make sure you never find Cleopatra! And in return I'll make sure she never finds you! I want your power to grow even further than this! So one day I can come to you again, like last night, remember me, seek me out, don't forget me! One day you will belong to me!"

"Keep dreaming" Quintin's voice rasped at her.

"No force you possess can control me, I can sense it, you're only saying that to ease your mind over your defeat"

Kishra looked at him in anger "You severely underestimate me, I could kill you in a heart beat"

"Then come! I'm waiting!" He roared again, but she only laughed.

"No no boy, I told you, you're way too much fun, I'll leave you in peace for now, so don't die when I'm away ok?"

"Where are you going to go!? You have no way out! Where on a ship in the middle of the ocean!" He roared.

"You see? You clearly don't comprehend what I'm capable of, if you thought I was trapped on this ship, then think again"

"You're the one who doesn't comprehend!" He screamed and launched from his position, in his claws a torrent of wind spun creating static electricity then crackles of lighting erupted from his paw, he was now aiming to strike the claw into her, but her realm jump saved her, his claw struck the table behind where she was and destroyed it completely, angered at this he roared loudly again.

The tornado died down but the ship still slowly spun, the girl who clung on for dear life laid on the floor breathing heavily, when she heard it was silent she sat up, looking around she saw everything was totally destroyed, and regardless of that strong wind there were still body parts laying here and there, she felt sick, her stomach cramped, but the pain in her shoulder made her give a pitched shriek, then she heard the growl, looking in the direction she saw that cat, was it the guy, what was his name? Quintin? It spotted her, snarling it charged making her scream she felt for something to defend herself and threw it, in mid throw she saw it was an arm, he caught it and that made him stop. It pinned the arm down and ate from it, this finally made the girl throw up.

The red in Quintin's eyes faded just as before, he blinked and looked down, the half eaten arm jammed in between his paws made him realise he ate from a human again.

"f**k!" He roared slapping it away, but this made the girl shriek before him.

He realised she must be scared out of her mind, but before he did anything he gave a last scan of the room to make sure Kishra wasn't around anymore, then he turned to her.

"Are, are you ok?" He asked but she screamed hysterically throwing him with pieces of debris she could grab hold of.

"Stay away from me!"

"Relax would you! I'm not going to hurt you!" He said slapping away the pieces.

"You're a monster! How can I relax!?"

"If you continue like this you will bleed out and die! We need to dress that wound!" He yelled.

She stopped throwing realising she felt dizzy, then fell over sideways.

"I knew it!" He said quickly coming over and picked her up. Luckily there were medical boxes all around the ship so he quickly got some dressing out and wrapped her in it, the blood stopped flowing even if the wound was deep, he sighed hearing her breathing calm down, with hazy eyes she looked up at him.

"What's your name?" He asked.

"K, Katja" She said softly.

"Ok, Katja, I'm so sorry you had to live through this, but you can rest assured that I'm not going to hurt you" He said standing up, now with the situation calm he felt his adrenaline subside, and slowly shifted back into his human form. He had to leave her there to find new pants but returned as quick as he could.

"You still ok?" He asked seeing she was laying with her eyes closed.

"I feel ok, for now" She said looking up at him "You, it really was you"

"Yes, I'll explain everything, you don't mind if I carry you right?"

She shook her head and he picked her up, starting to walk to the bridge he softly talked to her.

"Ok Katja, my name is Quintin, and as you have found out we are living among werewolves"

She looked up at him with her grey eyes "You say it so calmly, were you afraid when you first found out?"

"Yes, in fact, my parents were killed by werewolves, and I've been running from them ever since, that was about five years ago"

"I'm sorry"

"It's ok, I've found out in the last year there are good wolves, and bad ones, so not all of them have to be feared"

"Then what are you? You're not a wolf?"

"I was, scientifically altered, you could say I'm a human experiment, created to combat werewolves, uh, the bad ones"

Katja thought of the recent happenings as she listened to him "So, will I become a werewolf now?"

Quintin swallowed "I, fear so, but maybe, just maybe I can help you"

"How?"

"The man who created me is a genius, there might be a way for him to help you, I think"

"You think?"

"He created me using werewolf dna, you now have werewolf venom in you, if he could alter the dna in me to be a cat, then maybe he can destroy the dna before the next full moon"

Katja felt a relief, she heard that wolf speak "They never have control over themselves and will go on a rampage"

Katja didn't want that, thinking how the world will hunt her down like game, and she stalk the shadows like a nightmare.

"So how do we get off this ship?" She asked.

"I have a team who was supposed to come help me against this werewolf, they should be arriving shortly"