CHAPTER 2
Rena's POV
They had slipped a rope over my neck and were pulling me somewhere. It hurt but I had put up as much fight as I could and there were just to many of them and they were to strong. I couldn't understand what they even wanted me for.
I knew they were humans, there was a part of me that remembered that I too was once human. Then the hunters had come and I'd been left to fend for myself in the wild. If not for the female leopard that found me I would have died.
Something hit me hard on my hind side and I roared out in pain. I swiped my paw backwards and make contact. The feel of flesh and bone crushing under my powerful paw was wonderful. Then the humans pulled on the rope and forced my body to the ground. I couldn't even lift my head.
They started to surround me. So many stinky humans. Then they started grunting and making noises. I suddenly was assaulted with so much pain. My bones started to pop and crunch inside of me until I felt them totally rearranging themselves. I screamed and reached out with my soul to beg them to stop.
“Please, not again. Don t force me into this form again”
Then I felt my mind go blank for just a moment before it cleared and I peered through eyes that had minimal clarity and missed more then they saw. The humans were continuing to make noises as they circled around me in this small weak form. Some reached out and touched or poked at me. In this body every touch hurt and ached. I wanted badly to shift back.
I closed my eyes and focused on my leopard, I called her forward but nothing changed. I remained stuck in this human form. I opened my mouth and tried to roar but a strange little high pitch noise was all that come out.
I swung the weak little hairless paws towards the people but it appeared to have no effect. Then just when I thought I'd had enough it got worse. The humans pulled me by the rope and forced me into the river.
The plunged me beneath the water over and over again in what I think was an attempt to drown me. I flayed around and tried my best to keep my head above the water. I pushed at them with my paws and I bit them with my tiny blunted teeth. They continued to hurt and rub at me painfully until they caused my hairless body to burn and ache.
Finally they decided to stop trying to drown me and pulled me from the river. They again surrounded me and covered my hairless body with another animals skin. I didn't need some dead animals skin on my body, I had perfectly good skin of my own. The smell was horrific and caused my stomach to want to heave. I coughed and eventually managed to empty my stomach of my most recent meal.
The humans seemed to become agitated by my coughing and punished me by again trying to smother me. They pushed something over and over again into my face that cut off my breathing. I held my breath and managed to outsmart them and eventually they gave up on trying to smother me too.
I looked at the humans smugly as I realized that I had outsmarted them yet again. They must have realized it at the same moment since they all started jumping up and down and making lots of noises. Then a very large male human entered the circle and walked towards me. He had something that shined brightly in his tiny paw. I watched as he slid it against his arm and blood welled out of it. Then he pulled at my and used the glinty object on my arm. It stung and burned and I saw that I too started to bleed.
Then the male leaned in and placed his mouth on my arm. I think he was lapping at my blood. Strange since I felt no teeth. If he was going to eat me alive he would need more teeth. He grabbed the back of my head and pushed my face onto his bloody arm.
Fine, I thought I will accept. I bit down on his arm and tried to pull a chunk of flesh off. I heard the male make a noise then my world went black. I awoke and found I was still stuck in the weak human shape. I was tied down against the ground with each of my limbs pulled out and away from me. The male that I had tried to chew on earlier was above me. He no longer had his hairless body covered. I watched him trying to understand what he was doing and couldn't make sense of it.
He laid his body on top of mine so that he covered me from head to toe. He was saying words that I think I used to understand but couldn't quite understand. Then I felt him moving around between my legs. I realized just seconds before it happened. He was going to mate with me in this form.
I didn't look forward to having sex as a human. I had been approached often in the wild, and had many males fight for my attention but none had been lucky enough to catch and mate me. I however loved the challenge. There would be no challenge with this male. If we were in the wild, he wouldn't have to tried to catch me to get me to accept him. I wouldn't know if he was worthy or not since I was already trapped.
I found myself sad that I would have to breed with a male that didn't earn it. I might have a sick litter if he wasn't strong and healthy. I might be forced to eat my own cubs if they are born deformed. I'd seen a leopard forced to breed with an unworthy male and knew she lost her entire litter that year. This is common in the wild, these humans should know better.
I felt a sharp pain in my birthing area and knew that he'd begun the process of leaving his seed. I wanted to fight against him and the ropes but know it was hopeless, so I stayed silent and perfectly still so that he could finish quickly.
I felt moisture leaking from my human eyes and knew that it was from the pain that my body was experiencing. He grunted and groaned while he moved up and down and back and forth inside me. It seemed to go on for far longer than I thought was normal before I finally felt something warm and wet down there.
I watched as the human pulled himself off of me. He looked at me and I think he noticed the tears. He pushed his face into mine and licked at my lips and made noises. He kept making the same cooing type sounds. Finally, he moved away from me and I felt grateful that he'd finished. I had meant to stay awake and vigilant but the events of the day had exhausted me and I'd fallen asleep.
I was awoken with the male back between my legs. The pain was worse than the last time and I couldn't help from growling out my pain. I hissed and whined over and over. I started to move and buck my body around in an attempt to stop him from continuing. Nothing I did worked.
The more I hissed and bucked the wider he smiled. He cooed and hummed at me. Then he reached out and started to roughly pinch and bite at my breasts and nipples. I grunted and tried to express he was hurting me.
The level of pain was beyond anything that I could have imagined. It seemed to go on and on without end. Finally, I again felt warmth between my legs and the male pulled away from me. I breathed a sigh of relief. The male hearing me, moved close to my face and again licked all the moisture from my cheeks and mouth.
This time I started to identify some of the words he was cooing at me. Words from when I was a child something like
“good girl” and
“glad you like me”
I realized he was confused and thought I had enjoyed his sex play. I racked my brain trying to remember the right words to tell him it hurt and was bad and I didn't like it, finally I remembered and said
“more bad”
I felt myself smile at my cleverness of remembering human words. Now he would know that I didn't want any more bad pain and sex. He started to move and I expected him to leave when I suddenly felt him shove himself back into me and start again. I screamed over and over
“more bad, more bad, more bad” but he didn't stop. He said just lied and said
“yes” like he would stop but he didn't.
I couldn't take the pain anymore. I had closed my eyes and prayed to god to save me. Then I passed out and thankfully didn't feel another thing.
Micah's POV
I could tell my mate was near by. I smelled Bastet people and somehow knew that she was with them. I approached their camp quietly and tried to get a fix on where in the camp my beloved was located. I couldn't visually see her anywhere in the camp. I took a deep breath in through my nose and was immediately able to identify the scent that had to be by beloved. It was the most amazing smell I had ever before h
ad the pleasure of sniffing. It was a combination fresh baked apple pie and violets. I sniffed again and picked up the underlying scent of cat and realized that she too was a Bastet.
I sat silently on the edge of the camp and allowed myself to separate from my body. I moved though the camp entering caves and dwellings in search of my beloved. I'd gone from hut to hut and hadn't found her yet. I called to her soul but got no response. I felt myself becoming full of rage and fear. Not again, I couldn’t have failed her again. She must be here. I used my speed to my benefit and began to run at top speed through the rest of the camp.
I had checked every household except the Leos. I ran through the entrance of the Leo's cave and was appalled and enraged at the sight before me. My beautiful beloved was staked down to the ground naked and spread eagle. There was a small amount of blood on her thigh and I could tell she had been recently used.
The pride Leo was sleeping comfortably on his bed without a care of my beloveds well being or comfort. I reached out and touched my beloveds cheek and felt the moisture that had yet to dry from the tears she must have recently cried.
I bellowed out in rage, I knew this was my fault. I snapped myself back to my body and raced towards the Leo's cave. I was going to kill everyone that hurt her. I would punish them and save my beloved so that she would never be hurt again.
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