Instant Justice

Travis

A gunshot. We had heard it while Jackson my Alpha and I were patroling the forest surrounding the south side of the Forest Moon Pack. My wolf, Midnight, surged forward as Axel, Jackson's wolf ran just ahead of me. 

"Do you smell that?" Jackson asked me through the link.

"Blood." I said as we ran. But something more.... it smelled like, jasmine and chocolate and the sweetest smelling perfume I'd ever smelled. What is that?

"MATE!" Midnight yelled in my head and took control of my body by zooming past Jackson to follow the scent.

Jackson was stunned until he heard Midnight's thoughts, then he raced with me to find her.

The scene we came upon was not where I ever thought I would find my mate.

There were hulking men standing over her laughing while another one was grabbing his crotch, his pants looked like there was some blood on the front where his hand was holding his genitals gingerly. He was holding a gun at his side. 

And my mate was lying in a bloody heap at their feet.

I saw red. Midnight saw red. We launched ourselves at the men who were too busy laughing and  congradulating the man who was holding his crotch for 'killing the bitch', that they didn't see us until I was on top of the first goon and had ripped his head completely off with my teeth and threw it at the other goon who screamed like a child and fell onto his ass, trying to scoot away from me only to back into Axel's huge black paws. He looked slowly up at the beast towering above him and promptly.... wet his pants! I could hear Jackson laughing in my mind. 

"Really brave, these ones."

Midnight snorted and then turned to the man still holding his crotch. Now he was pointing the revolver at me. I huffed out a strange, growling laugh at him as if to say, go ahead. Take a shot.

He obliged.

He unloaded his pistol as Midnight just stood there. Oh, we could feel them, but just two seconds later they were already healed so, no damage done.

His eyes widened in disbelief. Yes, that's what I wanted to see. The fear. He was going to feel a lot of that. I advanced on him slowly, my huge paws crushing bracken on the ground the closer I got. He fell on his ass on the ground and tried to scramble away, but for every five scoots he took, one step of mine took me closer than he could back away. Finally, he could go no further as I was literally right on top of him. I put my huge paw over his head. I should just step on it and crush his skull. It was certainly very tempting.

I glanced over at the broken woman again, then back at him.

"Take her!" He cried out. Was he seriously offering me someone else to kill to save his own life? Wow. Just pathetic. "She's nothing! Take her! No one will miss her!"

It was strange how he was talking to me like he knew I could understand him. Maybe he just knew how close to death he was and thought, since I had looked at her and she was bleeding, that I would go for the scent of her blood and he could escape.

I growled at him and lowered my bared teeth to his face. Talking about our mate like that was not going to give him mercy and he was simply too stupid to realize it.

Now he was getting it. It was dawning on his face. He was just about to breathe his last breath and it was going to be a painful and terrifying experience. He curled into a ball like the coward that he was. By this time I was done with this disgusting piece of garbage.

He wept like a baby. Very satisfying.

Behind me, Jackson had shifted and was helping my mate. I wanted to be with her so I decided to dispatch of this pathetic excuse for a man quickly. 

His screamed as I ripped his throat out, then he just gurgled. I quickly shifted and ran to my mate.

She was unconscious, an obvious wound to her head. Her long, black hair was matted with blood. Her skin was so pale I feared that she had already died but I could hear her heartbeat. It was faint, but it was there. Even in a filthy nightgown and bruised and bloodied up, she was still gorgeous and I felt my heart rate spike up.

I picked up this tiny woman, noting how light she felt and began to run. We had to get her to the Pack. We had to save her!

Jackson had shifted and was running in his wolf form, allowing Axel to take the lead. He was linking the pack doctor and the warriors to cover everything. He called some of the Omega's to let them know to get some things from my place like extra clothes, toothbrush, anything I would need to stay with this woman in the hospital.

He knew she was my mate. He could sense it and he was making sure we had what we needed for her. That was why I trusted him not only as my Alpha, but as my friend as well.

When we reached Forest Moon, the Doctor Allan, a kindly elderly woman, was already waiting with a gurney and her medical bag with several of her nurses with her. They didn't try to stop me from holding her hand when they wheeled her to the hospital, they just let me run alongside. They knew, just as Jackson had, that me being next to her was the best thing to heal her because of the mate bond, and frankly probably the only reason she was still alive now. Her heart was barely beating, so mine was helping hers to continue to beat.

"Mate must live." Midnight said in a broken voice. "mate must live."