Making an Ash of Yourself
#36 of The Moonrise Chronicles
Billy dropped to the floor. "I
might finish this bastard off myself."
"No! Her loss is lamentable, but I
want to question him. Then, if I think it's necessary, I'll feed him his
silver."
Billy looked at Rey sharply. "What
good will that do?"
"Son, didn't you notice? Not all
those injuries were from the car crash. There were teeth marks on him. Edward
bit him. If he's part werewolf, than those antibodies are going to cause this
fellow to transform. When he does, he'll
find out just how much fun it is to be the prey instead of the hunter."
Billy heard the man groan. He
walked out and hauled him into the living room. He dropped him in front of the
ashes. A few swirled into the air. "You killed a bright young girl. Tell me why
I shouldn't kill you now!"
The hunter raised his head and
looked at the remains on the carpet. "I couldn't have killed her."
"Why not? It was your gun. It was
your silver."
"Gun yes. Silver no. There was no
silver in the gun. Only lead."
"BULLSHIT! Look at this! She burned
up!"
"Maybe so, but not because of me.
No silver in the gun. Only lead."
"Then explain to me why I have a
pile of ashes here on the floor?"
"I do not know."
Billy cold-cocked the guy. His head
hit the floor with a thud. He turned to his Uncle Rey. "You've got a week.
After that, I'm tearing this guy to pieces."
Miles away, in an area thick with
trees, a werewolf was tearing his way through the forest. Behind him another
was doing her best to keep up with him.
She knew if she could get within range of his nose, her scent would pull
him in. The same went for his. It was going to be the only thing capable of
burning off his rage. She hoped beyond hope that she would survive the
experience. He was a lot bigger than any other werewolf she had seen. Of
course, that wasn't a very high number.
He paused for just a moment and she
took the opportunity to launch herself over his head and stood there, making
sure she was upwind. His eyes focused as his nose sniffed the air. "Female."
"Yes female."
"What do you want?"
"You!"
He sniffed again. "No."
She was taken aback. "No? I'm in
heat you idiot!"
"No!"
"Why not."
He paused. "I don't know."
Despite his words, his cock was
working itself in and out, undecided as to what he wanted. She took a desperate
stand and sprayed him in the face with her urine. He roared and shook his head.
But it was too late. Her pheromones were
working their way into his brain.
He pounced. She was expecting it,
but for his size, he was fast. She might as well have been prey. He grabbed her
neck and forced her down. It was terrifying, even though she knew what to
expect. What she had never counted on was mating with an outsized specimen of
the breed. She had no idea how the young
girl had managed it. She had been a tough little scrapper. It was too bad that
things had to work out to this end.
She had little time to contemplate
the girl's sacrifice. Edward was heading into his breeding stance. Once that
happened there would be no going back. She knew this not from experience, but
from stories from her mother.
She said a little prayer and held
perfectly still. She felt his cock slice into her backside and begin its
journey to her womb. Her eyes nearly bulged from the force of that mass driving
up into her body. He was pushing so hard
that her front paws could hardly hold her in place. He fixed that when he put
them on her shoulders and bore her down. She could feel his claws as the sunk
into her flesh. The pain was nearly unbearable.
Werewolf mating was never a calm
and quiet thing. Sex maybe, but not mating. There were too many hormones and
pheromones and other chemicals in the mix for it to be quiet. Add to that one oversized Dire Wolf version
of a werewolf, and things were going to get noisy. A lot of it was going to be
coming from her.
It started when he was in all the
way. She could feel his knot as it expanded to the filling point, and then past
it. The pressure was intense. Again, she had to give a nod to Maggie. The girl
was tougher than she looked. But then
again, she had never had to take him on full force. And she really meant full
force.
Werewolf mating couldn't even be
looked upon as rape. It was beyond rape. A werewolf and human might do it, with
the male being human. That was fairly tame. But when a male werewolf entered
into the fray, the situation became grave. A human female wasn't likely to
survive. The body couldn't adjust to the force and the size of a normal "were",
much less Edward..
Edward's mind was clouded over. He
was still there, just shoved way back in the back where he couldn't get in the
way. There was no room for a rational mind anywhere close to an act like this.
It was as feral as you could get. It would make wolverines and Tasmanian's
Devils look like trembling newbies.
With a growl he thrust in sharply.
She let out a howl. Whether he ignored her cry or it drove him onward, he did
it again. To her it was like having a smoldering log from a bonfire rammed
between her legs. It was hard, it was hot, and it was absolutely intense. It
was amazing how her body began to respond. What should have gotten worse as
time went on only grew in intensity and pleasure.
Her back feet went into a dance, an
uncontrollable little motion that was a release of tension as it built to a
crescendo within her. She was even conscious of biting her own tongue as his
cock passed back and forth, stretching her insides to the breaking point.
The Dire Werewolf was preoccupied
with her smell. At the moment there was less attention to any other feelings,
either physical or emotional. This was a matter of having something deeply primal
being triggered by her scent. It was
like feeding. There was a need to fulfill a basic requirement of his life
cycle. His body was doing what needed to be done heedless of any concerns or
cares the mind might have. Edward could feel it all. He couldn't affect it, but
he was experiencing the whole of it, and it was good.
His savage thrusts were lifting her
ass right off the ground. His knot prevented his escaping her body, and for
that she should have been thankful. His cock was so engorged that pulling it
too far out might have pulled her insides right out with it. As it was, she was
trembling and sweating in a very undignified way.
Her howls increased to a point that
they sounded more like shrieks. They doubled as her body reacted to all of this
stimulation by having an orgasm. Her cunt had no room to contract, and squeezed
down painfully around the massive intrusion inside her.
The male's body, hardly something
that could be called Edward at the moment, was responding too. As she squeezed
him in a ring of firm flesh, he felt the call from his deepest regions. He felt
that sensation rise to the base of his cock before moving upwards and out. The
passage of his sperm was suddenly painfully hot and incredibly sharp. He
roared, adding his voice to hers as their combined output drove away every
living creature in the neighborhood.
Somewhere inside that giant
werewolf body there was a human mind. It was nearly overwhelmed with the
sensations running through this form, but there was little he could do about
it. Even now, when it should be sated, he could feel the hormones driving it
on. His cock refused to budge. His knot
remained hard and tight inside her. His hips started to twitch again.
Verona relaxed, but only
momentarily. If what her mother had told her, the drive could last for days.
And this was only the first round. Sure enough, she could feel his muscle
twitching. She sucked in a couple of deep breathes and hunkered down as low as
she could go. It hardly mattered for when he pushed and lifted at the same
time, he left her dangling from his
cock. Only by stretching her legs completely were her nails even able to touch
the ground.
Her whole body became complete putty
as he worked her over a second time. She could hardly move a muscle, and
anything she could move was only in a vestigial way. He was large and in
charge, and until his body decided it was done, he was going to continue. The
fact was though; he had no control over anything at the moment. He would finish
once the smell came through to him that she had conceived. This was not sex. It was mating. The point of
sex was pleasure. The point of mating was to conceive.
His body was being forced to
produce copious amounts of sperm. His balls were swelling as they were pressed
into overtime. His body trembled at the smell of her overpowering aroma. This
was no kid's game. This wasn't a romp on the bed. This was a serious,
baby-making endeavor.
The second round lasted long than
the first and the third longer than the second, and so on. To simplify matters,
it was four days before they were finally able to separate and even think about
making their way home. Both were too tired to move, and they slept for a whole
day, through sunshine and moonlight, until they were rested enough to return.
Edward was back to being human
again, and he finally had the opportunity to mourn the loss of Maggie. He was
emotionally overwrought, yet despite this feeling, he was so tired and sated
that it didn't hit him as he felt it should.
They returned to their feral selves
and taking the back ways, made the trip back to Wolf Creek in good time. Edward
found the distance that he and the hunter had originally covered to be more
considerable than he had realized during the chase. They had ended up a good
twenty five miles away.
They knocked on the door. Sophia
came out to great them. She gave them both huge hugs. "Come in, come in." She
ushered them in and set them to getting cleaned up and dressed. She was careful to not mention the ashes that
had been on the floor. She decided to let him ask. Then she'd know he was
ready. The others stayed out of the way. Edward had just come off of a loss and
on top of that the mating ritual. His mind was probably still reeling.
He was blunt and to the point.
"What happened to Maggie's body?"
"Well son, when we got back from
trying to keep up with you, all that was left was a pile of ash."
He nodded. "I figured as much. The
same thing happened to Albert Fish's body. I only wish I had finished off the hunter.
I seem to recall being talked out of it."
Billy spoke up. "That's not a
problem Eddy. We brought him back here. Ma's been threatening him with a live
roasting over the wood stove. Hell, she hasn't fired up that old thing in a
while. But like she said, there are more than enough mouths to feed."
"I'd like to have a few words with
him. There wasn't a chance you guys recovered the box is there?"
"Sorry Eddy. There wasn't enough
time to look. We might go in another day or two, but there are still road crews
down there repairing the guardrail and the road. You tore up the county pretty
damn good."
He nodded and went silent. Now he
had lost Maggie and the ring. And now he was going to be a father. How had his
life suddenly gotten so out of control?
"How long were we gone?"
"Going on a week."
"I guess then that I should
congratulate you on being grandparents." He made a slight bw to Reynaud and
Lupenia.
"I assumed that was going to be the
case son. And thank you. Our way isn't the human way and it was probably pretty
strange for you. The rest of us have years of lead in before it hits. You've
had pretty much no time at all. It's amazing that you're still all together in the head."
"Together? Don't count on it. So
where's this fellow at?"
They walked out to the barn. The
hunter was hooked up in chains, in a way that is too gruesome to speak of. But
he was still alive. Edward grabbed his chin and looked him in the eyes.
"I don't know you well enough to
hate you. But I can come close. It's my opinion that you should die. But I like
what I see here. You can hang here and rot for all I care. You have taken away
some of my most precious things. So unless you can get them back for me, I have
no pity on you whatsoever."
"I do not want your pity," the man
spit out. "Because of you I am changing. There is no more dishonorable thing
for me than that. I would rather die than live through becoming an abomination
like yourself."
"Strong words. What happened to
being tired of killing? It didn't stop you from murdering my daughter."
"Daughter? She was not your
daughter. I may not have your acute senses, but I know what my nose tells me.
She was wawkalak; you are rougarou."
Edward squeezed the man's face,
feeling the rage building up. He was right, she wasn't blood kin, but how did
he know?"
"What the fuck is a wawkalak?"
Marcus stopped him before he
crushed the hunter's skull. In his building rage he had partially transformed.
"A wawkalak is one of the kind. They are from the region of Siberia and Russia.
But how this murderer could tell is beyond me, unless he is lying."
"There is no point in telling a
lie. She was wawkalak. And I did not kill her. The gun was filled with lead
shot."
Billy was sounding pretty upset.
"Then explain to me how she ended up as a pile of ash on the floor."
"Because she's always going to be
smarter than all of you combined!"
While the voice echoed around the
barn, it came from the rafters. It was female, and it was young. A second later
a nude and fully intact Maggie Peterson dropped from the loft. Edward collapsed
in a heap on the floor. Everyone else just stared.
"What? No one listens to a damn
thing I have to say. You're all like, hide the ring, bury the ring. Now look what's
happened. You lost the box, didn't you? As for me; poor little Maggie!" At this
point she was in front of the hunter, "You assumed I was dead. Who can blame
you. When I woke up after that blast it felt like I had to be kick started to
get moving. "
"But Mags. They said you were
nothing but ashes on the floor."
Maggie kicked the hunter in the
balls and then dropped on the floor next to her father. "There were ashes on
the floor all right. Sophia has a really neat, big wood burning stove. The thing
is pretty old. It's also filled with ashes. When everyone left, I kind of
figured out what had happened. So I gathered some up and sifted them in the
rough shape of my body."
Edward has so angry he just about
hit her. "But why? Why put me through all that?"
"Chill out. When you left the house
I'm pretty damn sure you were counting on me already being dead. I don't blame
you. That hole took a while to heal. "
"That doesn't explain your actions.
Why make everyone think that you're dead?"
"Simple. I know you love me, and I
love you. But I can't breed with you yet and Verona can. So I got thinking that
it you thought I was out of the picture, then you'd quit fighting it and give
her a baby. I think it would be cool to have a sibling."
Edward was sprouting hair. Maggie
leaned in and kissed him. "Relax. You guys keep thinking I'm fragile. Like this
guy says, I might be part Russian. Who knows? But for now, you see, everything is
alright. I'm fine, Verona has a baby on the way and we have our very own
werewolf hunter to play with."
Edward got up and took her by the
hand. "Where are we going?"
"You young lady are going to get
the paddling of a lifetime!"
Her eyes lit up. "I hope you don't consider that
to be a punishment. It sound's fun!"