Chapter 6

• Amara's pov
• Are we dead yet?! I mocked asked Cora as she traveled more through the unmarked territory. So far she couldn't smell rogues nor foul creatures and I was glad I coaxed her into not turning back before giving her full control.
• She gave me a snort while she tried to find amicable hunting grounds. She ran down a hill which led to what I thought was a spooky thicket of where we were and as she entered I could feel a bad chill, a really bad chill.
• It was like this place was desolate made up of thick trees which were so tall that the rays of the moonlight hardly penetrated. It was so dark that Cora had to squint while also relying on her werewolf sight, Do you think we should maybe turn around?
• You are chicken! She blurted with a smirk as my uneasiness roamed through her which was quite embarrassing as I suggested this in the first place.
• I am not! I scowled as she giggled before venturing further into the forest and just as we got deeper, we heard growls.
• Loud angry growls filled our ears and then snarls, Cora turned up her snout picking up the scent and at that instant, I felt her worry, Rogues Amara! Feral rogues! She cried out before turning to sprint off but she was trapped and caved in as a bunch of them jumped from the thickets, surrounding her, sizing her up with their angry snarls filling the air.
• Cora count! I ordered and she squinted trying to make out their forms, there was the bigger one who was the leader, and then there were five others making them six in total.
• They enclosed her forming a circle. Their foul scent was strong and repulsing as their growls were irritating.
• "If it isn't the poor princess, all by herself right where she shouldn't be." Their leader spoke immediately, his reddish eyes glinting mischievously, "How do you feel about this situation your highness? Scared?!"
• "The word should be irritated mutt!" She snarled at him digging her extracted claws in the ground, the need to protect and defend rising slowly.
• "Feisty leader! Feisty!" Another one spoke adding to Cora's annoyance and she Huffed with a head shake.
• "Now here's what will happen your highness…" He mocked with a wolfy grin which made his acts of future lewdness clear and we weren't going to allow that, "You are going to be a g…"
• "Oh, I know!" Cora cut him short and she earned a bark, "You and your dogs will take a lap at the count of ten Mississippis like the good boys you are."
• "Shift you wretched wolf!" He growled moving towards her, "You possess guts, just what I am seeking. I love them writhing in pain beneath me while trying to fight me off despite knowing they won't win."
• "Classic." Cora rolled her eyes, "No one orders me around, now run along before I bare my guts before you."
• "Can I go first?" One of them asked panting towards Cora and she sent him a terrifying growl, the wimp stepped back.
• "You are quite stubborn." Their leader said, "It will be fun breaking you, and mind you, no one can hear you scream, no mummy or daddy to come save you."
• "I came out hunting for deer but I might as well settle for what is before me." Those were Cora's final words as she leaped in the air attacking their leader. She slashed her paws across the right side of his face injuring his eye and enjoying as he fell back howling in pain.
• The rest came onto her, attacking with their claws and canines. She kicked one with her hind paws while snapping her jaws around the neck of another inching her canines into him. She threw him aside, his body hitting one of them that advanced before turning to face the rest that tried to corner her.
• "Get the bitch!" The leader growled struggling with his sight and two of them leaped towards Cora with their canines bared. She sprang up in the air causing the both of them to collide as their claws and canines met causing severe injuries to themselves.
• The one whom she had hit with a body was back on his paws and was accelerating towards her, she moved at him and head-butted him, Slash his side! I cheered her on and with her extracted claws she tore at his side, his howls were like music and the smell of his blood mingled with that of the rest.
• Cora let out a loud howl of victory and Just then the leader pounced on her back imitating a mounting stance, No! I cried as she struggled to push him off, after much effort she managed to do it and didn't waste time poking her paws in his good eye and blinding it just like she did with the other one, and just as she was about to snap his neck, a black mass of fur flashed before us, strong jaws clamping down on the wolf and throwing him aside, Daddy!
• Mummy was here too, I could hear her growls as she snapped at the other wolves before attacking them.
• "What the hell were you thinking Cora?!" He barked at us drawing my attention.
• "You promised that you will let us do it on our own this time!" Cora argued stepping away from him, "You broke your promise!"
• "Because I was trying to avoid this!" He retorted referring to the whole rogue incident.
• "And I fended them off well! All by myself before you all came along. why can't I be trusted with my own security?"
• "Look." He moved closer bumping his head on Cora's and just then Mummy came along with a not-so-happy look on her face.
• "We are only looking out for you." She said before he could continue, "You can't do this on your own yet?"
• "Of course, I can! I just proved myself! Is it because I do not have powers like the rest of you?" Cora spat bitterly as she stared at them.
• "That is not true." My dad spoke, "Why do you always think that it boils down to that?"
• "Cause it does!" She sneered and I knew she was about to cry and so was I, "No matter how much training and whatever I pick up to get better at. I will never be good enough for myself neither will I be able to protect the kingdom and rule!"
• "Cora, don't say things like that!" My mother said sternly, "You know that is not true."
• "It is." She shook her head, "That's why you kept moving the coronation date and the hunting process, I am not stupid!" And with that she ran off, sprinting away from them with the tears blurring her vision.