Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : Fantasy

Pain!

All I feel was pain. My neck was throbbing with pain as the large and hard metal scrape on my skin on every movement I made. My arms hurts as the metal-made rope tightens around it. My feet was sore on this never ending walk. Tonight, we will be transported to the northern border as tribute to the Alpha. I heard rumors about him. He was ferocious, ruthless and a blood thirsty beast. Everyone of us were told how our life would me a living nightmare as soon as he took liking of us. No one really likes the idea but we got no choice. We are just slaves. We have no words on the fate we are given. Slaves are meant to shut their mouth, and accept fate without fighting. My head snap to my right when I hear someone fall on their knees, a brunette girl much larger than me fall in exhaustion and her rope dragging her as it was connected to the truck in front of us. As much as I like to help her, I have no strength left to carry one person. My body refuses to heal itself and I am not feed for almost like a century.

We were all exhausted when we reached our destination. My eyes roam on my surrounding looking for an escape route. There is none! My mind was screaming for help as I saw men standing like statues on every corner. Their heads held high, looking straight ahead of them. I drop the idea of escaping and try look around again, the brokers finally released us from the rope on our hands. A sigh of relief escape fom my throat when I felt my hands again. Though the rope left a tingling, redish mark around my hands. My hair falling front of me, covering my face as we strode inside the border, escorted by the brokers. I dont waste my time brushing it away because I felt strange glances being thrown to us. Feeling a little embarrassed I drop my head low to let my hair cover my entire face. Then the broker halted us in the middle of what I see was A plaza. 

"What a pleasure to see you Alpha Zeon!" The broker's cheerful voice broke the silence. He was making me gag. Everytime he pretended to be a kind man, it giving me creeps inside. He was not kind. He was evil, a devil incarnate.

"Enough pleasantries! What do you want?" A loud and baritone voice echoed making me shiver and all the girls whimper. 

"I brought tributes, enough to suffice your needs, Alpha!" He said. 

"What are you scheming? I don't need tributes!" He barks, making me jump on my feet. His voice is way scary than the brokers. All the veins in my body was tingling, my blood boiling in an odd way. And I can stop myself from shivering.

"These are tributes offered by the southern tribe as a gift, of course. Our Alpha would want to establish friendship wih your tribe as you can see, and he was hoping you are to keep one or more of his gifts for you!" The broker spoke again and I can feel him grinning in a devious way. One part of me was hoping that the Alpha will change his mind and would keep us but the other part was terrified of what will be in store for us after that. Either way, we will never be free again. This is my fate and I have to accept it. The fate to die a slave.

MATE!

The baritone voice spoke again and it tempt me to take a look. I raised my head and brush away some hair covering my face. He was there! The ruthless man that the broker talk about. He was standing before me, so near that he was the only one I can see. He was so tall and huge that he block everything in my sight. His long dark coal hair swaying with the cold breeze. His blue green orbs sharply staring back at me with unspoken familiarity. It was as if he was telling me that I should only look at him and him only. Bringing my hands up on my mouth, I bite a finger to stop myself from quivering. 

"Release her, broker! This one is MINE!" He called. I saw the broker stumble on his feet as he rush towards me. A moment later, I felt the metal on my neck loosen. My hand absent-mindedly touch my neck and my eyes widen as realization struck me bigtime. I look up at the man in front of me and open my mouth to say Thank you but no voice came out. My throat was dry and burning. He put his hand over my shoulder bringing tiny sparks to dance over my exposed skin and shook his head telling me its okay. I nod my head and look at the broker who was now grinning widely to us.

"Leave and dont dare come back! Tell your Alpha, I would think about his offer, but I wont raise any expectation if I were him." With that, the ruthless man pull me away from the crowd bringing me to his manor.

A large metal door stands proud in front of me. A loud creak echoed to my ears when it began to open automatically. He was holding my hand firmly as he pulls me inside. He said nothing. Ask nothing. We are just walking back to his home. I watch my step below, too scared that he might be mad if I trip on my foot. We enter a bright room just as we reached the inside. The walls are white and everything I saw was white. There was a white bed near a white table an a white chair under it. Then a girl in a white skimpy dress came out of the white curtain. Her dark black hair emphazsizing the color around her. She got a stethoscope on her neck and an injection on her hand.

"Alpha! What a surprise!" She beamed and her eyes falls on me, examining my face. I blush and look down on my feet.

"Heal her wounds!" He said. My head snap to him and I tug on his shirt. "What?" He snap at me. Biting my lower lip I shook my head. For the years of being a slave I learned something. That is not to argue with your master.

"Then you can wait outside as I work on her!" The girl seems not to get affected by his grumpy attitude. She pushes him out of the door and when he was gone. She smile at me at help me laid down on the bed.

"Oh my, where did you get this wounds, dear?" She ask. I dont answer. I just close my eyes and let myself drift into a peaceful darkness. My friend and comfort.

"She fall asleep the instant her back laid on the bed. Her wounds wont heal fast but it will nonetheless. Alpha, may I ask where did you get her?" 

"A southerner broker brought her here as tribute from the Alpha."

"I see, the pack who likes to keep slaves."

I whimper when I heard those words. My eyes still close but I know they were there. My tired body refuses to move and i felt the bed beside dip down and a warm body close to me. Then a hand travel across my face, caressing it gently and brushing away my hair, tucking it on the back of my ear.

"Mysterious isn't it?" I heard the girl said. "I bet its a birth mark, she also got the same as yours in the back of her nape." She added. A shiver run into my skin when I felt hands on the back of my neck touching my birthmark. It was a cresentmoon-like tattoo with a small circle right in the middle of it. It was there since I was born, so its was a birthmark. 

"Alpha, are you going to keep her?" My heart beat doubled at her query. What if he wants to beat me like what they did to me? What if he dont really intend to keep me and was planning to kill me? But why did he heal my wounds if he want to kill me? Does that mean he wants me? He wants me to serve him and become his slave?

"Rina, the question is not worth answering!" He said in a stern voice. I can feel emotions flooding on it. "She is Mine to keep to start with. All this years, I was wondering why I cant find her? Now, I know, those damn southerners have her." A wave of rage hit me and a whimper escape from my mouth. Why is he affecting me like this? I never felt so much rage before, not in the presence of the southern Alpha or the broker. I dont really care when they are mad. I dont even raised an eyebrow when they started insulting me. I dont shed tears when the beating session began. But this man, his mere voice makes my stomach clench painfully. He makes my heart beat the way it was not use to and its way painful than of the beatings I have everyday.

"What's wrong with her?" He ask, his voice full of worries and concern.

"Alpha, please calm down, you have to. I think she can feel you, it hurts her."

"You mean she connects?"

"Looks like it. She might not know it but her body reacts." The girl said. It confuses me but then the waves was gone. He must have calm down as that the girl told him. I was thankful of that. I took a deep breath and release it. Then I was loss again, the voices around me fading like smoke and I was completely alone again. Alone in my dark solitary side.

I was again awaken by the odd tightening of my chest. I squirm under the soft fabric and I whimper, hoping it would stop soon. I open my eyes forcefully and bright lights blinded my eyes. When my sight finally adjusted with the lights, I saw him standing by the door, the veins on his neck tightening and I can tell he was angry. Another wave of that rage hit me, and I cried out of pain, it feels like my heart is going to explode anytime. My hand reach my chest and I rolled my body making me fall on the bed. All of the sudden the angry man was beside me, reaching his hands to help me, I crawled away. Trying to put distance, hoping that the pain would stop. 

"Stop backing away from me young lady and just let me put you back on the bed." He said, he looks frustrated and mad at the same time. I froze and nod my head, tensing a bit when he lift me off the floor and put me back on the soft mattress. As the pain subsiding, I took the liberty to look at him, his eyes becoming more gentle and his face brightening a bit. I sighed in relief.

"That should be it. Now young lady, would you tell me your name, or should I name you?" He ask, I shook my head and open my mouth but then I failed. I touch my neck and rub it a little. As if understanding, he give me a cup of water. My eyes darted on the cup suspiciously before I decided to accept it and drink it in a gulp. The burning of my throat was gone but still not enough. I give him back the cup and ask for more. I smiled when he understand what I Meant. I gladly drink my second cup and ask for the third time. He patiently wait for me, watching every move I made, making me a little concious. When I was satisfied, I look at him and our eyes met. First thing I notice was his teal blue eyes, mine was aqua blue but his was way more stronger in color, almost like drowning me in his stare.

"So?" He said, taking me out of my thoughts and I blush. 

"Senri, thats my name." My voice came out dry and groggy, as if I just woke up from a long long sleep. "Sorry!" I added, hoping he doesnt mind it. What if he gets mad?

"My name is Zeon, I am your mate and you are mine." He was straight forward when he said that. My eyes widen at him and I panic! A mate? I thought that doesn't include me? I have a mate? And he was an Alpha, a ruthless Alpha? Why me? Im so confused. He cleared his throat, pulling me out of my thoughts again, I look at him, his eyes studying me, or my face or whatever but Im sure he was looking at me, with those teal blue drowning eyes, so deep that I might die if I keep staring. I pull my eyes back and lock it on my hands. I never had thought this would happen. 

"What's wrong?"

''Nothing! Its just that, I didnt expect to have a mate, this is not what I am told."

"What it is?" His voice patient and gentle. And I am thankful of that.

"Well, mates doesnt exist for my kind. I thought, I was mateless like of the others." I said. I felt him become tense on my side as he shift, towards me, his large hand found mine and he entertwined our fingers. I froze a bit and relaxed after a while.

"You smell like a wolf to me, how are you different from us young lady?" There he goes again, making me tensier than I could be. His warm breath fanning on the skin of my neck and I felt him inhaling my scent. Did he just... my thought makes a pause when his eyes met mine again. His teal blue eyes were gone, it change into golden, a beautiful shade of gold and it takes my breath away. Literally. I held my breath and my eyes lock on his, my hands absentmindedly reach for his face, I brush some strands away from his face giving me a full view of his eyes.

"I- I dont know." I said. I was imprisoned by his spell. A spell that locks all my being on him. He grins at me and he laid his head on my shoulder, I gasp when his weight followed after. He was laying his head on my chest, his left hand holding mine, tracing circles on my skin.

"Mate." I whisper and he mumbles something I barely understand. A gentle breeze fanned on my face and I give out a sigh. I let myself drift again into sleep. This whole thing makes me tired and his warmth making me so sleepy.