Horror

~02~

Minsi gripped her duffel bag. She tried her best not to stumble and fall as she ran across the forest. She only stopped when she was standing outside the Maplewood pack border. She was panting and breathing like there was no tomorrow. Sweat dripped all over her body, and her legs were sore and bruised with thorns and stones that she came across while running.

She stood there waiting, and no sooner did a loud blast break out back at the place she was running from. Then a siren started to wail. A painful smile stretched her lips. Duke might’ve succeeded in wiping her existence in his pack, but she also needed to wipe the pain that he heartlessly gave her before she left.

Earlier, when she was done packing, she ran into Lupa. Who went ahead and mocked her further as if they weren’t friends since school. Minsi was going to silently leave, but what Lupa did to her made her crave revenge. So while they all left the pack house to head to their daily routine activities, Minsi went through Duke’s armory. The room in the basement where he stored his arms and other equipment.

She was only a mere herbalist, and the forest was her comfort place, but she knew what a bomb looked like and what she needed to do to detonate it. She took a handful of them and walked back to the same room that caused her so much pain just a few hours ago. She then placed them on the same bed that he had found his pleasure before fleeing away. 

Minsi watched as the pack house burnt down with a raging fire and crumbled into ashes. The same fire that was raging deep inside her broken heart. She didn’t try to wipe her tears anymore and just let them stream out. 

She was about to take a step and get the hell out of there because it was the only way she was going to survive now, when suddenly a group of wolves surrounded her. She stopped breathing, and her heart slammed hard in her chest. They were rogues. All of them. And she knew this because they were black and their red eyes glowed as they pinned her down with them. She knew she was fucked up.

There was no way she could take out four rogues. She would die if even one of them decided to attack her. She was no match for them. Minsi wasn’t trained to fight because nobody wanted to train her. Nobody wanted to waste their energy on a big fat nobody. She took a careful step back, and the wolves moved toward her as well. 

Minsi was an orphan, but she vividly remembers how her family used to love her and treat her like a gem. She wished her mom and dad were alive today. They were the first and last people to show her that nothing was wrong with her body. That she didn’t need all the herbs that she was taking night and day to lose weight and become appealing in the eyes of other people.

Maybe this was how I was going to die. Today was my last day on earth, but at least my lifetime pain was going to end as well. Minsi thought with a grim heart. The wolves started to run at her. Instead of doing anything to save herself, she shut her eyes, and tears rolled down her cheeks as she waited for her death. She could hear them nearing, and the ground beneath her shook. She fisted her hands hard at her sides and murmured. “Mom, Dad, I’m finally going to rest. We are finally going to unite again.”

A ground-shaking roar pierced through the night, making her flinch and tremble. The roars made her skin hair stand, and her wolf cowered, just like her. Whatever it… It was around her. Another roar came, followed by snapping of limbs and painful wailing and howling that made her heart pound even harder inside her chest. It went on for another round before everything went dead silent. Her whole body was shaking at this point because she knew she was next. 

She was panting as if she were in a marathon, and then she managed the courage to open her eyes and take a look. She had to crane her neck to take in the whole features of the creature. Before her stood a couple of feet tall brown wolf. What made her shake even harder was the form he was in. From his waist to his head, he was in his wolf form. Big, broad, and intimidating with its golden eyes and sharp fangs that glinted in the dark. And from his waist to his feet were legs, human legs. The beast wasn’t moving. Minsi staggered back, gasping in horror.

She’d heard the myth about wolves like him. Not all wolves have the ability to shift half wolf, half human. Only a select or lucky few could. Like the Lycans or the high breeds in the hierarchy. Even some of the most powerful wolves in the hierarchy couldn’t shift half form. And before her stood one of them with his eyes zeroed on her. It’s chest puffing and huffing through its nose. She could feel the power oozing off him.