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Chapter 4: Hunting
As you can imagine, the next day was anything but pleasant. Maria learned her lesson, so did Sorrell, but she has begun ignoring me and has not come out of her and Maria's bedroom since breakfast. I'm glad that she is eating this time at least, usually she pulls the 'I'm not hungry' when I punish her for something, which makes me feel horrible.
Amon continued to support me and help me with her like usual, but he started to get a bit harder on her tonight to help me out more. We were all able to get the truth of where they went, what they did and why from Maria. She also told us about Sorrell's freak out after they left the house, she still doesn't know what caused it because Sorrell wouldn't tell her.
At the moment Linica is watching the girls while Amon and I are back in North America hunting for when Axel wakes up. We need to be prepared to get him healing as soon as possible so we can work on changing his diet, which won't be easy to do in the slightest. He will most likely eat what we will give him to heal himself until he can hunt on his own, but after that point we need to keep his diet straight which will be where the problem comes in.
Amon is currently watching from the trees while I am in my wolf form on the ground, stalking a herd of white tailed deer. The deer are currently eating in an open field, having came out when the sun fell and have been here since we got here about 10 minutes ago.
I observe the small herd of seven, knowing we can easily take out all of them. I turn my head to look at Amon, he smirks at me and nods, taking flight.
I turn around and take off toward the group of deer that immediately upon hearing my feet begin running off into the trees.
Before four of the deer have the time to react, sharp long black feathers fly down from the sky and pierce through their hearts, immediately killing them upon impact. I run after three the others through the field, quickly catching up with one as I pounce onto its back causing it to collapse onto the ground. I sink my teeth into its neck and begin ripping its neck open, I hear the sound of two of Amon's feathers fly through the air above me and land inside another deer's heart, the other feather hitting a tree the last deer slipped past before his feather could hit it.
I continue ripping into the deer's neck, enjoying the taste of its blood before jumping off it and allowing Amon to throw a feather into its heart, killing it as well. I turn into my hybrid form and wipe the blood off my mouth as Amon lands beside me.
"It's not fair that you get to have a drink while you told me not to eat anything from these animals." He says, laughing before recalling his feathers and catching all of them.
"I was thirsty, okay?" I say, giggling while I begin teleporting the deer back to the island, having to walk over to each one and touch them to do so.
"Maybe I'm thirsty too? I mean, I'm doing most of the work here you know." He says as he follows me, grinning.
"Whatever! I'm sorry my wings aren't like yours." I say, giggling.
"You're fine." He says, smirking at me, "As long as you let me get a snack out of the next one."
"Sure." I say, teleporting the last one away and looking at where his feather landed in the tree, I smirk at him, "Nice shot."
"Thanks!" He says, smirking as well.
I laugh at him, "How did a deer outrun one of your feathers anyway? I thought you were always a good shot."
"I am, I just got distracted and threw that one a little too late." He says, fixing the feathers on his wings after he gets the feathers reconnected to them.
"Distracted by what?" I ask, watching him work on his wings.
"A smell, I have smelt it before but I don't remember where I remember it from..." He says, moving his attention from his wings onto me.
"...Oh. Do you remember if danger came with it or not?" I ask, watching him.
"No. I don't, it is kind of a nostalgic scent…" He says, looking around.
"Huh. That's really weird…" I say, looking around too.
"We will be fine, let's keep going." Amon says, smiling before taking off into the sky again.
I watch him, a bit nervous because of the scent he picked up and the fact he picked it up while I didn't, meaning whatever was causing the scent must have been in the sky with him.
Amon waits for me in the sky, watching and beginning to grow concerned. I fly off the ground and up to him as we resume our hunt.
The rest of the hunt I never dropped my guard, having learned from my past experiences to never drop my guard especially if something were to distract Amon to the point of him missing his target like that.
Once we return to the island, Amon helps me move four of the deer into the chamber Axel is in, skinning a few of them as well. As time goes on we will bring more food in for him to eat as needed.
By the time all of this is prepared, I can sense Axel is getting closer to regaining consciousness. I sit in the chamber with him, his body on the ground now, the blanket still underneath him.
Amon finishes bringing in logs for a fire in the middle of the room, easily lighting them and starting a fire allowing us to see the whole room without the use of night vision.
"Thank you, Amon." I say, looking at him and smiling.
"You're welcome." He says, "I will let you both be while he wakes up." He says before leaving the cavern.
I turn my attention to Axel's body, the light from the fire flickering around, making it seem like everything is moving a little.
He remains still while I watch him anxiously, sensing he should wake up any minute now, my tail wagging fast.
I watch his chest, also focusing on his heart and waiting for it to begin beating again.
I sigh quietly, hating this waiting game.
Suddenly my senses pick up movement in his chest, his heart beginning to beat again very slowly, the organ barely able to operate due to being mostly necrotic. I gasp loudly once it begins beating, holding my hands on my cheeks while a big smile forms on my mouth.
"Axel!" I say, watching his body, his lungs not being kick-started yet.
I watch as he takes his first breath, consciousness returning to him finally after so many years.
"Axel!" I scream out while he begins to fold his mandibles back weakly, I wrap my arms around him on the ground, squeezing him a bit hard without noticing.
He moves his arms so they are lightly around me, beginning to quietly groan in pain from my hugging, 'Easy…'
I realize and loosen my hold on him, beginning to cry hard while holding onto him, "...I'm sorry...I missed you...so bad…" I say between sobs, beginning to soak his chest with my tears.
'I know...I missed you too…' He says, I begin sensing pain coming from him as his body begins to realize the state it is in.
I stop hugging him and wipe the tears off my face, "Here…" I say, standing and dragging one of the skinned deer over to him.
He slowly sits up, the pain very apparent on his face now while he winces and groans. He begins to smell the deer, making a face of disgust.
'I imagined you would have something more pleasant for me to wake up to…'
"Sorry...it's all we got...you will be okay."
He hesitantly begins to eat from the deer, changing his eyes first, continuing to act as if it's the worst thing he has ever eaten.
"Come on Axel...it's not that bad. It's better than what I was forced to eat a long time ago." I say, giggling.
He lets out a soft growl at me, knowing that it's true. He continues eating other parts of the deer after eating the eyes, seeming to be trying to heal his lungs next for obvious reasons.
He begins changing his eyes after eating for a little bit, once his new eyes come in, I am surprised to see his eyes have retained the appearance they had when he turned Evelynn, instead of a light green they are now a dark green with the same slit pupils they had, similar to a cat's eyes, making him seem more inhuman than he already does.
I stare into his eyes, fascinated by them, he also stares at me, possibly because of the fact I don't look like I aged a day since the last time he saw me.
Besides my hair stopping past my hips, not much else about me has really changed.
"Your eyes are different...they look like they did when you turned Evelynn so long ago...except a darker green."
He slowly moves a hand behind me, gently taking hold of a few strands of hair while pulling his hand back, watching the length of my hair fall through his fingers.
'Your hair is much longer than I remember.'
I giggle, "Yea...I haven't really had an opportunity to get it cut. Did you hear me?"
'Yes. I am more focused on you for the time being.'
I smile, "That's sweet, but I'm wondering why your eyes are staying like this now."
'I would assume it is because of the lack of angel blood inside my veins.'
"Yea, I figured that but I was also wondering if it could be from eating eyes from an animal. Amon says his eyes never change color no matter what the eyes came from and that his eyes are his natural, original eye color."
'Both could be true.' He says, continuing to eat and not seeming to be concerned or interested in the subject.
I continue to watch him, my tail wagging fast.
"Told you deer isn't bad." We hear Amon say from the entrance to the chamber, his arms crossed and a grin on his face.
Axel growls at him, 'Fuck off.'
I giggle, Axel looks at me, 'Where are we? Where is Sorrell?'
"We are on a small island near South America, we decided to move away from the states for safety reasons...I didn't feel safe living at Linica's old house because that demonic Wolcin from so long ago could have told Alex where we were staying. Sorrell is inside the house outside of here." I say.
'What makes this island so safe to you?'
"Well, besides Amon's barrier, Linica has been using her abilities to control gases to basically create an illusion around the island to where the island seems transparent from outside the barrier. We can see out but nothing can see in."
'And she does this with...gases.' He says in a skeptic tone.
"Yea, in the same way I can control blood she can control gases." I say.
'Okay. Why isn't Sorrell in here.' He says, looking over at Amon then at me.
"...Well...she is a bit complicated recently…" I say.
"She doesn't like you as her father, she thinks you don't care enough about her to stick around while she grew up, like I did for Maria." Amon says.
Axel begins growling at Amon, clearly wanting to take his anger out on him if he was able to walk.
Amon raises his hands, "Hey I have nothing to do with it!"
I sigh quietly, knowing more stress is yet to come.