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Episode 6

I did not know how much time elapsed since we started running. Awiti wasn't tired and she smiled to me every time she looked back. I was right behind her in less good shape. Somehow the running exhausted me more than before.

“We will stop here." She pointed to a huge tree with big roots and wide crown. It was a thorn tree according to the books I read. At the base there was a little camp established already with a fire place and a few leather rugs on the ground. Suddenly it reminded me the place I saw in my vision Myka gave me.

Awiti pointed to a rug and she sat onto the next one. “Sit here." She commented too. So I did accordingly and waited till she made a small camp fire and put a metal kettle above. She did this whole procedure with hitting stones to each other. I felt myself in the past with cavemen.

“What will we do today?" I asked as she became silent after the fire was lit. Bongani was already sleeping in the shades only a few meters away. Lazy hyena!

“I would like to know more about you. How you realized your ability, how you learned to control so far and everything you can tell me about it." She asked and I was shocked. 'If I tell her I fucked an unconscious lioness when I first met Samantha and she somehow blessed me with my gift for it, maybe she wouldn't get it on the right way.' I was thinking.

“Well…" I started." … I think I got my gift from the lioness I have met. A month ago. I do not know what else could I say. From that moment I was able to sense, feel and control lions with simple words." I admitted and tried not to look in her eyes. It was an oversimplified explanation of the truth which I wasn't ready to share.

“I see. It is strange that you think a lioness gave you the… gift… as you called." She rubbed her temple. “Was that the first time you met lions up close?" She put a few twig on the campfire. I just nodded. “In that case, your beast sensed the lioness and woken. The gift was in you from the first day of your life." She explained. I thought different as Myka showed me the opposite.

“I have to tell you something. I can… reach to not just lions." I admitted slowly. She was surprised and opened her mouth like she was about to say something then she changed her mind. I was a little embarrassed to confess my secret to a complete stranger.

“I wasn't expecting that." She scratched her chin, then took the kettle from the fire place. It was emitting a thick line of stream already. I got a standard military cup, with a carabiner as an ear and she put a few leaf into it. After she poured the hot water onto the leafs she looked into my eyes and was waiting for something.

“I think I'm a Beast Master." I just said and looked into the cup. The green leaves and some yellow flower were floating on top of the water, suddenly I thought that I will need milk and sugar too, but then I realized I was in the middle of the nowhere.

“Master of all Beasts." She whispered and inhaled the scents of the liquid. “Unique and rare gift." She added and sip a little.

“What tea is that?" I asked diverting the topic. It was obvious that I confused her in a way. She thought I was just an ordinary Beast Crawler but I had to admit I was something more.

“Rooibos tea. Nothing special." She just waved away my question. “Tonight I will introduce you to the spirits, but now, let's see your gift in motion." She put the cup down and quickly stood up. I did the same with a little hesitation.

“So I just…" I started and gesticulated with my hands like I was shooting magic from my fingers. She was frowning clearly not liking what I was doing. I stopped and lowered my hands.

“Just use your gift. You can concentrate on Bongani if it helps." She hurried me so I looked at the sleeping hyena. The whispering was in the corner of my mind, as always if animals were close to me, it wasn't hard to make it louder till I heard the drums and the chanting. I was ready to tear myself away from this in case I lose the control again.

“I'm doing it." I commented if it wasn't obvious.

“Describe the experience." She ordered and slowly walked around me, measuring from top to bottom.

“I hear drums and chanting on a language I don't understand. I feel musk in my nose it is covering me like a blanket." I started, but as always it was hard to think straight under this influence. It was something instinctual, something that has no thoughts, it was acting, feeling, living without thinking. And it was already louder than a second before, it started to flow out from hand.

“I feel your beast crawling out. The covering musky scent is your aura." She said, aligned her hand to my chest and made a little push in the air till she touched the scent cloud. Suddenly I lost the drums and the chanting, she pushed it back into me. I was gasping for air.

“What was that?"

“Your ability was around you, like an aura. Beast Crawlers, Shamans, spiritual beings can feel and touch your aura. With some exercise we can even push it away." She showed me her small hand like 'I just muffled your gift with fragile fingers.' She then smiled apological. “When you extend it to an animal, it will think you are a spirit and do whatever you want." She explained and I was confused. “Also they will accept you as an alpha male. Other males will surrender; females will offer themselves for mating."

“But I'm not a spirit." I was protesting the idea. I let the rest fly over my head.

“Indeed. You are a human with the ability of a spirit." She caught the bait. I wasn't ready to speak about mating. “All the gifts were given by the spirits, at the moment when you were born. So every gift is a small piece of a spirit. Animals can recognize this deep in their heart. It is an instinct they were born with." She explained and I did not know what to say. I had the gift, given by a spirit to control every animal near of far. Awiti knew a lot more about this so I was willing to accept all she said. But there was another question I really craved for to get answer.

“Why?" I asked and she did not understand. “I got this thing with the animals. Why? What should I do with it?" I specified my problems.

“You can ask these from the spirits. Tonight." She smiled and sat back to the rug, sip into the tea. I was too excited to sit and wait. I knew the spirits won't answer with words. Maybe I won't be able to understand if they would use human words. But I had no choice as Awiti shook this problem off of herself.

*

Till the sun took its road to the other side of the sky we talked a lot about my and her abilities. She did the same aura extending thing like me, but she was only able to reach out to hyenas. She discovered this thing when she was only a little girl. From that moment she lived in the nature with the beasts.

The musky scent I felt, was a translation of my mind. There wasn't any scent, just my aura covering me. Also I did not smell the animal's odor, but their aura. When I felt the two things merged it was the auras merging. Awiti also told me I can learn to extend it to hundreds of meters and call for animals nearby, no matter the species. She named this Cry of the Wilderness. She could do the same with hyenas.

Then the night slowly prone to our little camp with the small fire lighting only the circle we were sitting. This was the moment she asked me to close my eyes and stay calm.

“I will ask the spirits to gather around, then you will be introduced to them." She said.

Soon I felt she was moving away and then she was singing something on a language I did not understand. It was mesmerizing and calming. Her voice was beautiful. Soon the air was filled with something that pickled my skin. It was like I was sitting in a pool with rising water level. But this time the air was getting thicker. I would have called it magic, but I was still skeptical about these things.

Then I felt the musky scent slowly reaching me, it wasn't my gift, I did nothing. I felt this only once in my life when I met with the white lioness, having blue eyes. The air was moving from all direction and the presence of something bigger than me filled my bones. Awiti said I could open my eyes.

Myka was sitting in front of me with laughing eyes. She was happy that we met again. Next by her there was Eban on a small rock cooking his head and winking at me. The drums were sparkling in my head and coaxed me to look into Myka's eyes. Everything got brighter around me as I did, the blueness engulfed my vision again. The lioness spirit mesmerized me and I was falling into… something…

“She is Hadiya, which means Gift. She is the spirit of the beasts." Awiti started to introduce them and her voice pulled me back from a place I won't understand. It was full with colors and feelings. I took a step back and sighed also avoiding the eye contact with the spirits, meanwhile she continued; “He is Eban, means Stone. He is the spirit of the nature forces." The known resonations and pulsations was already in the air. Then a hyena came with blue eyes and she was emitting some kind of power from her. I felt biting my skin and strange humming noises came from the deep of my mind. She was influencing me with her presence, like I was a part of her. Which wasn't fortunate as the drums did not stop no matter how hard I tried to muffle them. That cacophony was getting out of my hand.

“She is Aisha, which means Life. The spirit of all is living." Then a zebra stepped into the light of the campfire, he seemed happy almost smiling with the horse face. Also with eyes like the clear sky. “Masud, the Fortunate. He is the spirit of the Luck." I nodded him as he was nodding to me as well. I made the mistake by looking in his eyes. I heard clicking noise like rolling dices and felt like I had a personal force field protecting me, the scent was vanillin. Then Awiti looked around like she was expecting someone else too.

I tried to close out the tornado of the noises and feelings. It was harder than anything in my life before and only achieved when I was concentrating to my gift only. Drums I was familiar with, the male voice chanting on an unknown language, the musky scent in my nose. I slowed down my breathing till I wasn't hearing the humming anymore. The clicking noises faded away, the resonations from Eban vanished too. I took another deep breath and looked at Awiti.

“Where is Akilah?" She was asking the spirits. They looked in every direction too. “Oh well. Akilah means Intelligent, she is the spirit of the knowledge. Maybe she has other things to do or has less knowledge than I thought about arriving in time." Shrugged and bowed deep in front of the spirits. I thought I must copy her movements.

After it was done, I stepped to Myka… I mean… Hadiya and caressed her face, she leaned to my palm and purred. It was a warm welcome. My gift was only whispering in my head, it changed to a deeper tone, it melted into my bones and ran through my veins, covered my skin with musky scent. I won't call it aura. Her scent merged into mine and we were there in the perfect harmony. No tricky eyes, no falling. Awiti was right, I knew in that moment. I got my gift from Hadiya.

“So you know each other. I'm not surprised after all. She was the first spirit I met when I was outcast from my village as a child." She said but did not seem to be mad about that. “I think she met with every other Beast Crawler or Beast Master in the history. These are her gifts after all." She shrugged that it was obvious.

“And the others? Can they give gifts too?" I asked still caressing Hadiya. I understood why George was in love with her. Despite he was not able to feel this… togetherness, he must have been influenced by her raw beauty.

“Eban maybe. If he shares his ability with someone, it means that person will be able to control the nature forces. But as I know he did nothing similar since hundreds of years." She explained and I got an indicative nip on my fingers by Hadiya's teeth when accidentally hit her nose in my sudden twitch. 'Eban did share his ability with me… no, it can't be that I can now control the nature… well it should be a problem of another day.' I thought and suddenly I felt myself tired. Lots of things happened with me in a really small time frame. I needed more time to digest and sort these things in a row. Spirits around me with blue eyes, humans with special abilities, me as a Beast Master… 'I have to do something with these or I will lose my mind eventually.'

“Aisha seems really strong." I diverted the topic and also my thoughts.

“She is the spirit of the life, of course she is strong. She can heal your deadly wounds or make you ill if she wants. But mostly she concentrates on the youngsters and help them survive." She explained.

“I'm a youngster." I protested in an instant.

“You are an adult." She said factually. “Masud use to help the youngsters live another day too." She went before the question. The zebra blew a big one, maybe just to agree with her. I was standing there, caressing the most beautiful being on Earth in a circle of spirit animals, in the middle of Africa and I slowly realized, I was fine with it. Maybe extraordinary will melt into just everyday stuffs. Like making tea, having a breakfast, to wrap a shoelace. It was a moment of the recognition.

“They seems to like you." Awiti's sound made me realize the mentioned circle just got smaller. The hyena, zebra, bird spirits were around me and touching their nose, beak to my body. I did not understand the behavior. Hadiya stood up to her hind legs and put her paws onto my shoulders. I was just standing there with dropped jaw. She pushed me back onto the ground, but I never reached it. I was swimming in feelings!

The world was in blue flames around me, it was full with life, it smelled like dried grass, the trees were giving clicking noises…

*

The sun was high when I jumped up like something bit me. I was laying on the rugs of Awiti, but she wasn't there. Bongani also vanished. Looking around there wasn't anybody but me. The spirits did something that knocked me out. I hope I did not get any other gifts as it was a trouble to got used to my current one. The minutes had passed, no footsteps or rattling grass.

“Of course they left me rot here." I whispered to myself rubbing my face. My head was still spinning a little so I drank the last drops of cold tea from yesterday. The only questions were; What will I eat? Where will I find some water?

Waiting for a few minutes did not solve any clue so I just took a direction and walked away. I turned by hunch and hoped for the best. Luckily I saw some watering hole gleaming from not far so I headed that way.

Twelve minutes later I could ease my thirst and I found a tree with African Locust Beans next by the water. I knew from the books I got, that it wasn't toxic for humans so I could ease my hunger too. To my biggest surprise I felt myself comfy in the middle of the nowhere. Soon the whispering in my head became louder, which meant something was nearby me.

It did not take more than a minute when I realized it was a big cat as the scent and the noises in my head became stronger and stronger. I thought I will give it a try and extended my musky scent in every direction. It was a strange feeling, like I had numerous tentacles sneaking out from my body and slithering in the grass. I became aware of my environment more than I should observe with only eyes. I knew every haulm, every bug and insect living there, till I reached the animal I was looking for. It was a leopard. A female leopard.

“Come here girl." I called out and she was jumping in front of me. She was a beautiful gal, a young adult with wide head and shining eyes. My scent was following her movements and soon merging with hers. In that moment I knew she was in heat and this fact ignited my blood too. She was purring and rubbing her head to my thigh.

“All right. I will give you what I have." I patted her head and pulled off my shirt, shoes and soon I was sitting in front of her completely naked. I was worried only for a second about crocodiles in the lake, till she presented herself crouching into the feline-pose. I saw in an instant, that we could face with some difficulties; she was smaller than I used to.

“Well I will give it a try, but I don't know if it will work or not." I admitted and knelt to the target. Her pussy wasn't bigger than the nail on my thumb. It looked tiny compared to my cockhead so my doubts were valid. I knew felines have stretchy canals so I applied some saliva, despite she was flowing her transparent fluids too and pushed the tip to her spot.

She started to purr louder as I was pushing with more force, till the point when her little entrance opened up and embraced the first inch I offered. She was super tight and extremely hot! I had sex with lioness in heat colder than she was. It was surprising but in a good mean. The next surprise almost knocked me from my feet, this little girl pushed herself onto my cock with a force of a running rhinoceros.

“Easy!" I cried up when I bottomed her out half way on my penis. I had to grab her hips to keep my balance. She was eager to mate and her vagina muscles started to milk my rod. She did a fantastic job as the tiny muscle rings were grabbing and releasing my shaft. “Don't worry, I will give you my semen soon." I patted her rump and pulled out a little, just to suffer another sudden rush from her.

She was so vehement, I fell to my buttocks with wide open legs and she was sitting on my hip. This strange turn of events surprised her too and she did not know what to do next. I slowly raised her hindquarters with my grabbing hands and then let her slid back. She got the hint and started rode me with fast but small movements. It felt like she had a fit sitting on my cock witch sent vibrations through my body.

“Holly whiskers!" I cried out when she made a bigger movement and I hit her cervix so hard it was almost painful. Then she did again and again, but at the fifth time her vagina flinched, she yowled and my cock slipped out. The sudden event made me cum in ropes but it was shot into the air landing in front of me to the ground. I was panting heavy while I watched her rolling from side to side on her back. She had a great time and if she would have stay another second I would have filled her.

“All the semen went to waste." I heard Awiti only from a few meters away.

“What the…" I cried and jumped to my cloths covering my shrinking member with my shirt. “How… when…what?" I mumbled with pounding heart, as I almost got a heart attack.

“It was interesting to watch her ride you. Too bad you weren't able to cum inside." She was chatting like we were friends for a hundred years and it would have been the most natural thing between us; speaking about sex with animals. Moreover, watching the other having sex with animals.

“Oh damn!" My face went red like a traffic lamp I was so embarrassed. “Stop talking about it!" I turned away and pulled my pants with one swift motion. The leopard girl was just lying on the ground and watching us, with fluttering tail. She was stratified, not like me.

“Don't worry Tim. We are bounded to beasts in every aspect of our life. Bongani isn't just my friend, he is my mate too." She admitted after I pulled my shirt over my head. I froze in motion for a second.

“So you two… ehm…" I gesticulated with my hand like I would like to put two pieces of Lego together. She nodded, smiled and caressed the hyena next by her. I just noticed the beast was there, I was so bewildered. The hyena licked her hand in return.

“It wasn't the first time for you… oh… “ She raised her eyebrows. “…the lioness you first met." She concluded and I nodded, not looking to her eyes. “I suspected but as you did not mention, I wasn't dare to bring up this topic."

I looked to the leopard and Awiti was looking something in front of herself for a few minutes. Then we agree that we will talk out this topic later, when I calmed myself down enough. She admitted she had sex with his hyena friend and she saw me dicking the spotted lady. Yep we had a lot to talk.

Back at the camp I brought up this and she told me her little story. She was attracting the hyenas living near her small village when she was only six years' old. The villagers soon concluded she is the source of the beasts' strange behavior and they tied her to a pole far from them. Even her mother and father helped the procedure and denied her, not caring about how loud she cried.

Then a pack of hyena heard the crying little girl and set her free, attacking the villagers still waiting around. They hoped the hyenas will eat her alive. That was the first time her beast crawled out from her body and touched the animals. She understood them and they understood her, handling her as an alpha female, despite she was only a little girl.

As she felt herself in safe with the beasts she ran away with them and called herself Awiti from that moment, though she was born with a different name. Awiti meant; the child thrown away.

She was raised by the animals so she was acting like one of them for long time. She ate raw meat, she slept naked under the bare sky snuggled with them, she even mated with them when she was grown enough to feel the lust. But then one night she met with Hadiya and the lioness spirit opened her eyes. She gave her a vision where she understood her own nature and forced her out from the delusion she was living. She realized that she is a human with a gift given by the blue eyed spirit, the gift to understand the hyenas, but she shouldn't live like them.

The night came fast listening the tale of that strange African woman, how she grown to woman and how she travelled around Africa with her friend Bongani. She saved him from a group of hunters when he was only a little cub and he was following her from that moment. Bongani meant grateful. Then they slowly became more than friends.

Awiti only stopped speaking when she reached to the point they met with me. It was late night by then and I caught myself on yawning continuously. The story was fantastic and her performance were engaging I did not realize the time and the world around me.

“Sleep now Tim." She did accordingly snuggling by her friend and mate. I laid back to a rug and soon I was sleeping deeper than ever before.

I was dreaming about lions.

*

I was awake on the next morning with the first light of the sun. Awiti and Bongani was nowhere so I thought they might have gone for a hunting or something else. As I slowly stood up, stretching my muscles, when I heard steps not too far from me.

“Tim! Are you ok?" It was George shouting at me from a few meters, Joe was standing in the grass behind him and looking me with unreadable eyes. How they found me? Maybe Joe is a better tracker than I thought.

“I'm fine. Sorry for vanishing, but I was learning about my ability from Awiti." I scratched my nape, it was embarrassing that he was the person who made possible this whole thing and I let him down by running away.

“We were a little worried about you. Joe said you just ran away without a word. Then you did not show up for three days." He patted my shoulder but I looked at Joe. He stood there without moving a muscle and looking at me unreadable. As I looked into his eyes, the whispering came, just like if I would have done it with a beast. 'What are you?' I was wondering. I reached out to him with my gift. The musky scent grew from my skin like a tentacle and slithered towards him in the grass. It reached his legs and as I touched him, he kicked the air and my attempts away.

“Holy whiskers!" It was so sudden I fell from my feet. He kicked away my ability like anyone would do with a ball. Only Awiti was able to push my attempts back into my body. But it was too late, I touched him and the beast inside him. It was a wolf! An African golden wolf. I stood up, mumbling about my blood sugar level, and saying I was fine to George's interests. Joe had a wolf inside him, a beast. That was why my gift jumped forward when he was near. But the question was; how that is even possible? I have never felt Awiti's inner beast, the hyena inside her but Joe was like a wolf on two legs. It was confusing.

On to road back I was sitting next by him and concentrated on staying inside the vehicle, so I couldn't ask or inspecting this riddle. George was a rally driver in his previous life I was sure about that.

Back in the buildings my first way was to the showers, then the kitchen. I found food in the nature, but I was craving to drink some black tea with milk and sugar and eat a slice of toast with butter. They were the small pleasures I missed in the wilderness. After that my plan was to hug and kiss every single lion in the pride, one-by-one. Especially the lionesses. 'In that case it will be more than just a kiss.' I thought.

Joe stepped inside and closed the door behind him. His eyes were forecasting an upcoming storm. I had no idea what made him angry.

“You know it, don't you?" He asked harsh while I slowly put down the plate, ready for everything.

“You are a wolf, yet a human. I don't understand this duality. I see you and feel you as I feel all the beast I have ever met since I have this gift." I explained and he was running is hand through his hair. Seemed a little calmer already.

“I knew you will notice. You are a Shaman after all." He sighed and sat down to the table. I just rolled my eyes. Thanks to Awiti and the spirits, I understand the differences between Shamans and Beast Masters. “I'm a wolf-man, or werewolf if you wish. We are protectors from the ancient times" He said and I found my jaw on the ground.

“Werewolf? So it means that you turn into a wolf at every full moon?" I guessed but he was laughing on me. All of his anger had passed away. Maybe I was the first person he confessed what he was and this was a relief for him. Keeping secrets is hard. I knew that.

“No, it's just the Hollywood nonsense. I possess every ability a wolf has; Sight, hearing, smelling. I'm stronger, faster than a human. But I won't turn into a wolf at every full moon, and I'm fine with silver too. Although it has drawbacks." He stopped for a second while I was grabbing on the chair and slowly sitting in front of him. He had a heavy secret.

“Drawbacks?" I asked, casting the whispering in my mind back into the darkness.

“Sudden rage, bloodlust, inappropriate thoughts about wolves. Mostly. But I cannot tolerate vegetables, fruits… and chocolate." He admitted.

“Like dogs?" It slipped out and I got a dose from that 'sudden rage' as his eyes flared up in anger, then he took a few deep breaths and the beast vanished. “So, no shape shifting…" I diverted the topic, maybe not the best way.

“Not like in the movies. Sometimes, mostly at night, my eyes could shine like wolf eyes. But that is all." He shrugged. That was a new and strange piece of information. I thought I will like Joe as he was sympathetic and we had this secret he shared with me. Maybe I could share my secret too. Or at least a part of it.

“I'm a Beast Master." I said suddenly and he looked at me with raised eyebrows. “Not a shaman or druid. I can reach out for every kind of beasts, but I cannot control the nature and turn into an animal or stuffs like that." I sighed. It was true but I will not admit that maybe, just maybe I will learn how to control the nature as I do with animals. Eban's visit and sudden power sharing was a strong hint on that. Awiti also mentioned; somehow spirits liked me more than an average Beast Crawler, or even Beast Master.

“Oh. But I was half right then. I sensed your allurement, like a magnetic field. You whispered to my inner beast. Then you did that thing with lions, the cheetah and even the hyenas… it was amazing I have to say." He laughed up a little. “And you called me Wolf once."

“When?"

“On the day when you ran away. You called me Suluwo, which means Wolf in African language."

“I cannot even remember that." I scratched my temple.

“You looked like you loosed your mind. Maybe that is why." He shrugged. “But I knew you debunked me which frightened me greatly. I keep this as a secret for long time, then you waltzed here and figured out within days, despite we only met a couple of times." He admitted then stood up. “I have to work now Master of Beasts. See you soon!"

“See you soon Suluwo!" I stood up too, he froze for a second when he heard the name but then just smiled, shook his head and walked out.

“The world is a strange place, indeed." I whispered to myself drinking the last drop of the tea.

End

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