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Maya’s POV
The man had been observant enough to figure out that something was going on and for that moment, I was thankful that he did. Few seconds after he had proclaimed that we were surrounded, some men jumped out of the hills, armed with machetes and other weapons.
They were probably roadside robbers and immediately entered into combat with the guards that were there. The man who was holding me captive was also being attacked and while that happened, I had been left unattended to.
I remember that something had been submerging my powers earlier at the dungeons, I assumed it would be different since we were outside and I tried channelling my powers again.
The tingle I would usually feel before I go into full rage wasn’t forthcoming and I kept trying, screaming my lungs out and hoping I would be done before the fight between my captions and the roadside robbers would end.
My new wolf finally yielded to me and I began to transform. I was gaining more and more sensation of the powers and soon afterwards, I was a full fledged wolf.
I yelled around, smashing everything in sight and attacking the men who had been fighting themselves all along. Without spending much time to wait for them to fight back, I flew off of the cliff into the water that was miles below us.
My reaction had been really rapid and random and when I woke up after being washed ashore, remembering what had happened, i was both amused and impressed with the fact that I pulled that off.
By the riverbank, there didn’t seem to be any form of life and thankfully, my wolf had no ripped off all the piece of clothing on my body at the time that I made a transformation. I still had something to cover up.Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.
I was grateful that I had escaped, but then I realized I would be sought for and it would be another stress if they found me. I rested for a bit before picking myself up and moving ahead so I wouldn’t get caught by my assailants.
I had walked how many miles and I was feeling hungry already. I would constantly curse and murmur under my breath for the fact that there wasn’t anything edible in sight.
The trees were mostly dry or didn’t bear any fruits, there were no animals running around and I couldn’t have possibly killed one to roast as food. I took a break and sat on the ground.
“What the heck is going on!” I exclaimed. I could no longer bear the frustration the past days had brought upon me. Maybe they were not days. Either way, I was at my worst.
I stayed there for some time and stood up once more to see if I could try to get myself something to eat. Maybe a tree would miraculously turn up from which I would be able to consume its fruits. Even I had tried a dozen times already, there was nothing I could do again apart from hope.
I ran into the bushes and kept looking around for the trees if they had anything on it.
Walking through and thoroughly looking to the best of my sight didn’t help, I was still starving as much as I did when I entered into the place.
I turned my back when it didn’t seem like there was an exit there. It felt more safer to walk on the open land where there wasn’t so many things that could serve as camouflage.
The people who had kidnapped me never really expressed what they would do. They only made known of it that I would get sold and that was it. Elora was an enemy all along, an unexpected surprise. Venom wasn’t seeing me and I was not able to reach him, that was bothersome.
At one point, I broke down and began to sob gently. The tears walked up my eyes immensely and the emotions were overpowering me. It didn’t look like any solutions were forthcoming.
I laid in the sand, I had not made it out of the bushes where I went to get food. My body itches and I felt strange insects climb my body, but it didn’t beat he reality that help was not coming anytime soon.
I woke up in the night after what was maybe a third sleep of the day. It was all dark and cricket noises filled the place. I was jealous of the insects, they had food to eat and I couldn’t’t even survive on my own.
In my defense, the place was obsolete and even my assailants never appeared. I thought they would search for me and I would be able to fight them one more time but fate didn’t seem like it wanted to work that way.
Getting up, I started my journey again. Hoping that something would happen. A miracle from the gods, maybe something from the moon goddess, just anything.
Lo and behold, something happened. Light at the end of the tunnel.
There was a tree with coconuts. If was surprising, I probably passed the place a million times in search of something and I never really found a tree close by or where I would eat something from.
I ran as quick to the coconut tree. There were both ripe and unripe coconuts on it and I didn’t mind. Saving the best for last, I started with tearing up the unripe coconuts so I could drink the nectar from it.
We had been exposed to those kind of food back in hell’s pit when we would be servers and anything that was rejected would be on the menu for all of the slaves.
I could control my fangs and claws with my new powers and I was able to tear it to a desirable shape. I had probably consumed 5 coconuts before I was even able to take notice of my environment.
I could see eyes in the night, they had arrived. I had been ambushed.