Page 7 of Jackal's Pride
To be fair, I actually didn’t mind Gavin when we were playing a game of cards and he wasn’t leering at me, but that didn’t happen much.
I fought the urge to cringe as I walked around. “There’s something we’re missing…” I said more to myself than him, but hey, if he managed to figure something out, I wasn’t going to complain. In the end, all that mattered was who collared Jackal first.
“I can show you what you’ve been missing,” he went on.
Ugh.I exhaled, catching sight of him coming closer. “One more step, and I’ll neuter you.”
“Don’t know what it is.” He shook his head and flashed his fangs. “I can’t stop, not until I finally taste you.”
My head snapped to the right. It was faint, but I sensed another presence. “Did you sense that?” I said in a hushed tone.
“Your heart pounding?” he asked huskily. “Yes, I do.”
I shoved him away as I stepped to my right and examined the rocks near the wall. Even with my enhanced night vision, it was hard to make out what might lie around the jagged edges. I materialized a flashlight and shone it on what appeared to be broken fragments. Now that I got a closer inspection, it wasn’t debris at all. Leaning down, I could see that the destruction was deliberate. It was like someone smashed together thousands of rocks and left them there. Overtime they managed to form together, but you could still see the cracks where they’d all once been separated. Someone that could smash all these huge ass boulders together like this had to either be extremely strong or extremely big or both.
I leaned away and materialized the collar to study it. “Gavin, do these collars lengthen any more than this?” I held it up.
He squinted his eyes before smirking. “It’s magic, Maureen. Once it gets close enough to the neck, it automatically latches on.”
I nodded, satisfied. “Rightttt.”
I gripped it tight but made no plan to dematerialize it. I had no clue where Jackal was, but Iknewhe was here. Closing my eyes, I reclaimed my fate’s vision and immediately I saw the glowing black chain all over the place in the cave along with mine and Gavin’s. I followed it around and caught sight of it leading right next to where I stood. I poked my head on the other side of the rocks, but I still couldn’t make out anything. Waving the flashlight around the small space, I realized that there was no way I’d search for a notorious entity beneath a demon-made boulder. If it weren’t for the chain leading inside the small hole, I definitely wouldn’t dip my head into it to check.
“What are you doing?” Gavin muttered behind me, no doubt staring at my ass in the air.
I hoped that maybe there was some sort of drop off underneath us where Jackal was possibly hiding. What else would explain why an entity went missing for so long? I didn’t care—I gasped as I caught sight of something black right about the same time I touched something frozen… Was it fur? My eyes widened at the size of him. “A puppy?” I mumbled almost sweetly. Until said puppy opened one bright green eye and peered into mine. The wave of power that awakened with that gesture sent both chills and heat slithering up my spine. All that power that was hidden came bursting through the cracks of the cave.So, so much.
I staggered back just as the rocks I stood on flew apart and sent me flying. I was so caught off guard that I landed on my ass. “That’s not a fucking puppy!” Gavin hissed. I glanced up in time to see the giant gorilla tumbling out of the wreckage he created. He wasn’t a puppy anymore, but I recognized the raging emeralds staring around the cave. His eyes lit up in the darkness, a bright contrast to the dark fur. He roared, and I shivered right before I remembered the reason I came here.
My gaze flickered to Gavin right about the time his eyes lit up toward the gorilla. “That’s the Jackal? He’s mine.”
When Gavin jumped with the collar in his hand, the gorilla backhanded him like he weighed an ounce. Gavin smacked into the cave wall with anoomph!The gorilla rounded on me and roared, drool dripping from his teeth and lips. He was way bigger than the average gorilla.
“You took me by surprise there,” I told him as I gripped the collar tighter. “But let’s get this over with, shall we?”
I jumped, then faded just as his giant hand came after me. I re-faded back behind him, but he was smart. His body, while huge, swiveled around easily and wrapped his hand around my torso.Jesus.I faded out of his grip and re-faded on top of him. I brought the collar down over him, and the rest was history. A flash of light sparkled around the collar as it wrapped around his neck and sealed.
“Easy,” I whispered surprising myself at how gentle I sounded. The collar shimmered, and the gorilla slumped forward. I cast a grin to where Gavin had fallen to see that he was gone. My lips stretched wider. The vamp most likely left the moment he was thrown.
Standing on one of his shoulders, I glanced down at the panting gorilla. I expected more of a fight from a raging animal. Collaring him was too easy, nothing like Fear or Harvest. I jumped down and faced him.
“Can you understand me?” I asked, and two huge emerald eyes blinked back at me before the gorilla dropped on his behind and rapidly shrunk. I watched in fascination as he shed his fur and smooth caramel skin took its place. So he had a human form after all.
I hadn’t realized I was shining the light on him mouth agape until the beam hit his exposed cock.
Holy mother of—
Although he shrunk a lot, he was a huge man—everywhere. My brain went on vacation as I got lost in my thoughts. The man before me was perfectly sculpted, like a bronze god. Could this really be Jackal? I expected his hair to be hanging over his shoulders and fuzzy. Instead, it was barely an inch long. And those eyes…
Stop staring between his legs.
I blinked then coughed to clear my voice. “Are you really Jackal?” I asked.
He squinted down at himself, propping his elbow on his knee he just bent up. Just as quickly as he did, he practically whimpered as he grabbed his chest and leaned forward. “Stop! Stop! STOP BEATING!”
What?
I only understood him because I knew every language known to mankind, even those that were lost. He was definitely using something from the olden times.