Chapter 16: Taint 1.

I'm about to shift back and confront the rogue when a huge blur cuts me off. Like a flash, twigs and branches snap, loud whimpers and sounds of struggle ring in the air and I'm shaken back into the scene playing a few feet away from me.

Twice my size, deep coffee-brown and spilling with a menacing stench of hostility. An aggravated aggressive male rogue tackles the female rogue to the ground, snapping its dentition in her face and digging it's claws ferociously into her flesh.

My wolf tenses with anger and charges at them. Channeling my energy into a single move, I knock the bulky bully off the female rogue and he's sent on a rolling spree. 

The wolf on the ground looks in a very bad shape that fuels my rage and I try to get it to follow me before the wolf returns by nuzzling its face.

The wolf stands and I lead the way, heading anywhere but away from that rabid beast.