Run Away

"Triston!" he had heard his mate yell out his name. Immediately, and without thinking, his head whipped around and he snapped his teeth at Damaris. She didn't budge, didn't show any sign of fear and Triston calmed a little.

"That is enough!" she said to him sternly.

He growled at her in protest and turned back to Zina whimpering on the floor and in her mother's arm. She was bleeding from her mouth and Triston looked down at his arm which she had bitten, there was a tooth embeded in it. With his other hand, he held the tooth in between two claws and then transformed into his human self with a chuckle.

"Your new found title of being the Alpha Prince's mate has gotten so deep into your head," Triston said to Zina, but kept his eyes on her tooth in his hand, "I will keep this as a souvenier, and let that pain be a reminder to you of who I am."

"I promise you," Zina said to him, bitterness and hate in her eyes and voice, "I will make you pay for this!"

In a flash, he transformed into his wolf, seized Damaris up from the floor and threw her on his back, giving her very little time to adjust and hold on to him, before dashing out of the house, his Delta and Betas following closely and fast behind him.

Damaris held on to him like her life depended on it, grabbing a hold of his fur with her body pressed flat against him. She saw he was racing towards the forest and she spoke to him through her wolf and in her mind.

"Where are you going?"

"Back to Elyria." he replied curtly and sped up.

"Elyria?" fear came into her heart. Everyone knew about the rivalry that had been going on between the two kingdoms, and although she knew she wouldn't be safe here anymore, but would she be any safer in Elyria, moreover, she was leaving something behind. Someone...

"Wait!" she said to him in her thoughts just as he broke into the forest, "We have to go back!"

Triston ignored her and ran on ahead, past trees and over exposed tree roots. He was careful to go very low underneath branches for Damaris' sake, but the girl would not stop screaming at his wolf, and when he would not listen to her inside voice, she started shouting out loud.

"Triston stop!" she screamed, "We have to go back! We have to go back now!"

The forest was a large one and some deeper parts of it served as the border between Nyxoria and Elyria, at his speed, they reached and crossed the border in no time. Everyone, when they came of age could feel when they had crossed it, it was like an invisible wall of force field, and had a mild sucking effect when one crossed.

Damaris thought to let go of him then, but at his speed, if she fell off, she could really injure herself, slamming hard and rolling over the uneven and debri filled floor of the forest. She gritted her teeth and remained quiet, pressing her body tightly against his back.

As soon as they cleared the forest and came out the other side to Elyria, they stopped and Damaris, without wasting time, slid off his back. Triston transformed back into his human form and Damaris, fueled by anger, transformed quickly into her wolf form. She barked angrily at Triston who was startled by her sudden behaviour and tripped, landing on the ground. 

She charged at him, snapping her jaw and baring her teeth as she loomed over him. The others with Triston, still in their wolf forms made to attack Damaris but Triston held out a hand to stop them. Damaris would never hurt him, no matter how angry she was.

She held his gaze for a while as she heaved in and out in anger, and then just as suddenly as she had attacked him, she transformed into her human self.

"I told you to stop!" she yelled at him, "I told you we had to go back!"

"Go back to what?" Triston was surprisingly calm in replying her. He chose to remain seated on the ground and just looked up at Damaris, "You can no longer be safe in Nyxoria."

"And I will be safer here?!" she charged at him again, "With what is going on between the two kingdoms, do you really think I will be safe here, Triston?"

"Yes, you will," he frowned, "You are with me and you are my mate, so yes, you will be safe."

"And what about my sister?"

Triston narrowed his eyes and tilted his head at her in confusion, "What about her?"

"Excatly, Triston!" she yelled and kicked into the dirt, "What about her?! You are so stubborn and tight headed to listen to me! Why did you think I kept screaming at you to stop! Did you think i didn't have a reason? You just..."

She went on and on and he just watched her, a smile slowly growing on his face. Triston had never had the opportunity to see Damaris get angry like this. She had come off as a quiet and reserved girl that had no complaints about anything, even if it was not to her favour. Seeing her like this was just as surprising as it was oddly pleasing.

"If only you had listened to me, you would have realized that my sister was not there with us!" she yelled on, "She's back in that house! And if Zina finds her..."

"We will go back for her..." Triston said calmly and made to stand up from the ground.

"No!" Damaris yelled out again and Triston's eyes shot up to her. He frowned and she continued with a finger poking against her chest, "I will go back for her!"

And with that, she transformed into her wolf and dashed back into the forest, heading back to Nyxoria and to that house to get her sister before Zina and her mother would find her where she was hiding.