A/N: Too late if you wanted to decided, because I decided! Mwahahaha sit back and enjoy the shit storm to come.
CHAPTER 6: The Race Against The Last Petal.
ZANA P.O.V.
This man, who told me to address him as Yuki, led me down a brief alley way, to a side door into a building. It looked to be a small Japanese restaurant, with a couple tables and a sushi bar. Yuki ushered me to the bar, and began preparing some Sake for me. I gratefully took the container and the small glass and poured myself some of the hot liquid.
"Soo," Yuki said slowly, looking around his store cautiously before speaking again. "I notice that you have wings... I could see them when you were running." He finished, eyes landing on my grey orbs as he spoke. I choked a little, cursing myself. Of course I forgot to cloak myself in my hast to get away from the previous upsetting situation.
"Well there's no point in lying," I said with a nod and he smiled at me. He began to speak about some type of club near by for people like me. As interesting as that sounded, I couldn't help block him out as my head clouded with different thoughts. Thoughts about Raph, actually. And not even bad thoughts, good thoughts, dirty thoughts. Thoughts about taking him to this club and grinding up against him. Kissing his lips, feeling his strong arms embrace her.
"So do you want me to show you where it is?" He asked, snapping me from my thoughts. A blush stained my cheeks, I could feel it. God, why did I have to think about him like that! He was a pervert, staring at my naked body! I should be furious... I took another sip of sake, frustrated with my conflicting thoughts. I refilled my cup, just to drink it back down again. I could feel it, beginning to swim my head.
"Perhaps," I said, looking up at Yuki, with a smile. "Are you some typa creature too?" I slurred slightly, and he smiled wickedly.
"I am."
"And what is that?"
"One of the very worst..." He said, with a sick cackle. It made me shiver to my bones, now on edge. Was I foolish to trust this man? My head was so groggy from the sake, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me when his eyes started glowing and eerie red. However, when he started to grow, hair coming out of his body, snout and fangs also growing, I stumbled out of my seat, knocking it over and turning to bail through the door.
"A wolf's gotta eat too and a winged Faerie sounds like a delicacy to me!," he howled, voice much deeper and menacing than before. I cursed myself for being such a fool, making it out the front door, just for him to smash out of it seconds later. I started running as fast as I could, trying to push the slightly drunken haze I was in away, so I could focus.
"HELP!" I screamed, praying to God that one of the brothers were near by. I could feel him running behind me, so close, but I was just out of reach. I wish my wing wasn't broken! I cursed again, pounding my feet harder against the concrete. "HEEEELPPPP!" I screamed again, quickly cutting into an alley way in attempt to lose the beast chasing me.
After a good 5 minutes of running from this thing, and he still being hot on my trail, I was getting tired. My legs throbbed from the amount of exercise they were receiving. I considered giving up, before I heard the thud of a few bodies and some rustling.
Suddenly, big strong arms picked me up and I let out a terrified scream, waiting for the searing pain of the first bite to come. When it never did, I cracked my eyes open. I was moving, but I was not walking myself. Slowly, I looked up to see a familiar green face. Raph, my night in shining armor! Man, I've never been so happy to see him and his brothers, who were kickin' wolf ass behind us.
Once we got to a safe distance, he set me down. Not for long, though, because overwhelmed with fear and adrenaline, I threw myself against his rock hard body and held on tightly. He returned the embrace and I buried my face into his plastron, as hot tears spilled out. His grip tightened and he whispered things like apologies and that it was going to be okay, because he had me now.
I calmed, surprisingly, his words had an effect on me like no other. I was stunned, my chest felt so weird, like 1000 butterflies were now hatching from their cacoons in the spring time. His green orbs met mine as I looked up to him, face burning. Quickly, I pulled him down, and met his lips with mine.
We both weren't sure what to do at first. I had never kissed anybody but family and I don't think he's even kissed his family. It was clumsy at first, before we got into the groove. My chest was exploding with happiness and he drug me as close as I could go to him and deepened the kiss, tongue hesitantly entering and searching my mouth.
It felt so right. Finally, we broke, both gasping for air. His skin was a darker shade of green and his eyes were lidded and he was... smiling at me. I smiled back.
"I'm sorry, Zana.. I should have never of looked at ya, but yer so damn beautiful, I couldn't take my eyes off of ya," he said, not loosing the gripe on my waist. He pressed on, "I was so mad, that Leo saw ya too, because for some reason, I wanted ta be the only one ta see ya like that, especially when you confirmed that it was a sacred thing for yer people." His skin was even darker now, and he adverted his gaze. "I've felt connected to ya since yer little ass saved me and my brothers."
I stared up at him in wonder as he spoke to me, his words resonating through my body and making me feel electrified. And then it hit me like a brick house.
He was my mate.
I had only heard stories of how you felt when you met them, and it had been so long since I have heard one, or even thought about finding a mate. But now, now that I felt it, I heard my mom's sweet voice in the back of my mind.
'You will know, because they will cross you and hurt you, but you will forgive them. And you will feel it in your bones, a shock of light and realization. You will know.'
I gasped out and Raph's eyes snapped to mine.
"Are you ok-"
"You're my mate... do you feel it too, Raph? Through my whole body, I feel like I'm on fire," I gasped out, clutching him tightly as these new feelings of my chest and heart being pulled tight. "My mate, I never thought I would ever meet a mate. I never thought it could be something other than a Faerie, but you are it and I was so stupid not to recognize this sooner."
It was now his turn to stare at me, stunned by my words. A smile cracked his serious face and he nodded, picking me up and pinning me to a near by wall. I wrapped my legs around him and he kissed me slowly, tenderly. "Yes, I feel it too, Zana." My heart was beating out of my chest as I deepened the kiss, before breaking and whispering that we should go back home.
RAPH'S P.O.V.
I had lost her, there was not even a trace that she had left behind. Frustrated with the dead-end search for Zana, I sat down on the top of a building and called my brothers on the Shell Phone. I let them know she had run off and that she could possibly be in danger and they agreed to meet me, Donnie locking in my Shell Phone to his GPS. I hung up and looked down into the alley way below me.
It was so confusing. Normally, if I did something that was morally wrong, I would apologize and that would be that. But I had apologized, and I still felt guilty. All I could see was the look in her glossy eyes, the look of hurt and betrayal. I felt like a jerk for hurting this girl who has been haunting my mind from the moment she walked into my life. Why did I hurt what was mine... Why do I keep calling her mine!? She's nobody's, Raph, get it through your head. I growled at myself, falling back onto the roof. I wanted her so badly to be mine though, I could feel it through every nerve in my body, my urge to see her face, touch her skin... not even sexually now, just to be by her would be enough.
My brother's showed up and asked me what had happened. I explained the situation and they all looked a little disappointed in me, especially Leo. What else is new though? After a while of Donnie trying to get a signal from the Shell Phone he had slipped her her pocket when she first arrived with us, I decided, for once to be honest with my older brother. I pulled Leo off to the side, and explained myself to him. And surprisingly, it looked like he understood. He wasn't happy, he looked a little let down actually, but he knew why I had done it.
That's when I realized he had feelings too. I asked and he confirmed, but he said that he did not feel it like I had described. It was more awe than love, he determined after talking to me about it for a moment. Just then, a scream ripped through the night sky and we immediately recognized the voice. Zana.
We were in action immediately, locating her quickly. Leo instructed me to grab her from the beast and carry her to safety. I jumped at the opportunity to save her, touch her. I swooped in, grabbed her and took her off down a separate alley, while my brothers fought the beast. We came to rest about a mile away, near the sewer entrance. We were to wait here for my brothers.
That is when my world did a 180. From her hating me, to her literally trying to plaster her body against mine. I loved every second of it. After we kissed for a while, I broke the silence, trying to explain myself. Her eyes were glowing a gold I had never seen before and she looked almost, lustful? Content? Then she called me her Mate and my body felt like it had a fuckin' Epiphany. I did feel the same, I just didn't know what to call it and now, now it was so clear!
We kissed a few more times and at her request, I carried her down to the sewer below.
A/N: I hope you like this chaptaaa. Okay so it's gonna get down and dirty in the next few chapters. So if you aren't into that life, then I suggest you don't come back. Mwahaha. :) Please let me know what you guys think by reviewing!
