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Chapter Forty-Nine

With his cloaking device turned on, having him to be hidden to the eyes of anyone or anything in the area, Cohra raced down the path he had been traveling with Marion just a little while ago prior to being made aware to the fact that there was someone out in his area with a gun. Someone who was a little too close to where he lived with his mate. He would track down the source of where the sound was coming from and deal with the individual quickly.

He brought his body to a stop at a fork in the path and took a moment to absorb the sounds before he registered some voices in the nearby distance to the right that was heading in his direction. Glancing to a nearby tree, Cohra squatted down before jumping up into a high branch to get a good view as to who it was that was heading his way. His attention turned to where he had the sounds coming from and focused his vision on it as he looked in the direction.

His sensors picked up what appeared to be two men coming through the area with military fatigues covering them from head to foot and various weapons on both of their bodies, indicating that they were not just civilians that lived in the area but soldiers. Those who would be worthy for him to take as a prize killing to put among his trophies. As they drew closer, he listened in on the conversation the two of them were having.

"Did you hear about that wild story involving an american college student recently?" One of the guys asked the other one that was with him. He found him to be shaking his head before he gave an answer to him. "Apparently, a female university student has been taken hostage by someone living here in the jungle and that same person murdered one of the other university students that was staying at that abandoned camp site that we came to a little while ago."

So much for thinking that Raven was going to be claiming Bridget as his mate after all if they have already taken off and out of the area.

"You are bullshitting me right now." The other soldier said, unconvinced by what his companion was saying. "That can't be true."

"That is what the guide told our boss and that is what he told me."

"So, what are we doing out here?"

"We have to track down this person, force him to tell us where he is keeping the university student, and get the girl to safety as quickly as possible."

"What are we to do with the lunatic when we come across him?"

"I was told that we were to bring him in alive but if he chose to put up a fight...to not hesitate putting some lead into him." He smirked at him as he brought their movements to a stop for a moment. "In my opinion...I plan on shooting him regardless."

"Even if he doesn't put up a fight?"

"Why should we give someone who is going to kidnap and sexually assault a college student a chance to live? He has done something horrendously awful and he has to pay the price for his actions."

Those slimy guides have not only went to the authorities about me...but they have made it appear as if I was some crazed man living out here who abducted Marion and raped her! If I see them again in the near future, I am going to make them regret ever showing their faces in my part of the jungle.

Cohra was filled with rage at realizing that the two men who he had allowed safe passage to in his part of the rain forest with their groups for awhile had turned on him, and chose to pass off a story to the authorities in the region that he was some lunatic who had done something terrible to Marion against her will when he hadn't. He would make them pay for their actions the next time he encountered them in his area of the rain forest. For now, he would have to let the two soldiers on the path below him make due for what he wished to do the guides. His gaze remained on them from where he was as he noticed the one that had been doing all the talk to be standing right underneath him while the other soldier that had been with him was heading off down the separate path that would lead him around to where his home was that he shared with Marion.

He debated on which one of the two that he would go after first for a few moments, weighing out his options as to which one would be the best choice to go with to ensure that the other wouldn't try to make a run as he was dealing with the other one. Moving his attention down to where the smartass soldier stood beneath him, Cohra retrieved a thin but very powerful lasso made out of leather from his belt that he wore. He made sure to have a noose fixed on it as he started to move it around over his head in a circular motion, building up speed with it, and hurling it down to wrap around the man's neck quickly. Once it was secured, Cohra was quick to pull up to where he was as he was gagging out screams to alert the other man that was still close by. He had the man to be on the branch where he was before he revealed himself to him. His eyes watched as pure terror revealed itself within his gaze moments before he had his blades to come shooting out of his right sleeve and drove them right into the throat of the soldier. The amount of strength he used caused his head to sever from his body, leaving the heavier part to fall back onto the ground.

That is what happens when you come into my territory, thinking you are going to kill me and take my mate from me.

His gaze looked to the severed head that he was holding onto that still had a look of fear on its face from what he had done to it. He chose to let the head fall back down to the ground where the body was for the time being before he let out a fierce roar to echo out across the area, warning the other soldier that was out there that he would be next once he got to where he was located. Jumping out of the tree, Cohra got the remains of the human and drug them away with him to where he could put the body out of sight and turned his cloaking device back on as he went back on the hunt for the other man who was looking to take him out and steal Marion from him.