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P.O.V Confederacy/South

79 years later

1692

We have been staying in a colony called Salem, they weren't really friendly to the tribes though so we had to adapt. They gave us new names, mine being Jayson, and Náhookos being Alfred, we never got last names though, none of them felt right. When we were alone we would always call each other by our original names. We also grew up more physically, now being around 8 years old, we were getting ready to move on to the next colony when it happened.

"Alfred? Where are you?" I exclaimed wandering around the streets, it's been 2 hours since he hasn't come home to the house we've been staying at for the past 1 ½ years. There was a nice old woman there that let us stay with her, and we helped around the house, she said we reminded her of her children. They had all died or were still living in England, she gave us money even though we tried to refuse. We kept the money hidden in the forest, so if something did happen we would have money to take with us.

"Come on Alfred," I mumbled turning around in the street, I let out a sigh and decided to head back to the house to see if he got back. There were people with pitchforks and torches in the street, but that has now become a common occurrence here ever since the witch trials had started up three months ago.

Náhookos and I always felt bad for the women that would be drowned, crushed, hanged, and even burned. Most of them didn't even have magic, but there were a few that did, they were always doing nothing wrong and most were advanced enough to escape, but there were always those few that couldn't.

I kept walking along to the house and the streets got even more crowded, that's when I noticed they were crowded around the house. Then I heard the call, "THERE HE IS! GET HIM!" I looked to where it was shouted and there was a man pointing at me. Everyone turned to me, I looked around with wide eyes, they started grabbing me and I struggled trying to get out of their grasp. I knew I could with my strength but there was still a chance I could get out of this scots free.

They put chains on me and led me to the jail cells, they threw me in one of the first cells, I hit the wall painfully, my shoulder almost popping out of place. I got up and shook my head. One of the men that runned this prison walked up to my cell. "We got a special occasion for you," he taunted, "What did you expect giving into the temptations of the devil?" he laughed as he walked out of the prison. "Shádi'ááh?" I heard a whisper, my head whipped to the side running to the wall where on the other side I had heard his voice.

"Náhookos!" I exclaimed, "Are you alright?" he let out a small breath, "I'm fine," I leaned back on the wall sliding down to the floor. "What do you think they'll do to us, Shádi'ááh?" he asked in a meek voice, I was about to respond when the townsfolk came barging into the prison. They unlocked Náhookos cell first, dragging him out roughly, anger turned underneath, I ran up to the cell bars and was about to tell them off, but received a sharp slap across the face instead.

They opened up my cell and dragged me out too, I thrashed and dug in my feet, trying to make it as hard for them as possible. They took me to a raised platform with a noose hanging down from the beam that went across, I struggled again but they were able to get me up there securing it around my neck. That's when I saw it, Náhookos being dragged to another platform but this one had a pole in the middle with sticks and logs surrounding it, a pyre. I saw as his eyes went wide, his brain short circuiting not able to do anything as he was tied to the pole and everyone backed away from it.

The torch was brought up, "NÁHOOKOS!" I cried out, struggling renewed the noose got tighter around my neck. He looked at me, tears starting to roll down his face, he tried to move but the rope around him stopped him from going anywhere. Tears dripped out of my eyes as the torch was brought up to the wood, the dry wood caught fire immediately. I launched forward but the noose choked me back, I thrashed as the fire creeped up to his legs he let out a scream at the burning. 'NonononononononoNoNoNoNoNO"NOOOOO" I screamed something snapped in me, storm clouds came in seconds releasing their furry on the ground below.

Everyone panicked as lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, the rain put out the fire in the prose. I was able to get out of the chains but someone hit the lever and the trap door beneath my feet gave way. I struggled as I hung there in the air, I was finally able to to break the noose dropping to the ground. The storm had already made the ground wet and muddy. I slipped and slid as I made my way over to the burnt pyre.

I got to the pyre climbing up, the stench of burning flesh had already tainted the air, I got up to the raised platform. Náhookos was still tied against the pole, his head hanging, passed out. Good thing because his legs were still smoking, bone and muscle were showing, his skin was black, flaking, and bleeding.

Sounds and shouts from the townspeople came back though my ears, I looked around for the quickest escape, the town people were coming back to their senses. I grabbed Náhookos holding him close to me, as I climbed down and snuck off one of the townspeople saw me, "THERE GETTING AWAY!"

I took off as fast as I could into the woods, some of the townspeople following me. I was able to find a small cave. I put him down gently then covered up the entrance with bushes, I switched into my Mountain Lion form and crouched down in the bushes by the side of the cave, my forms natural camouflage coming into effect.

Not long after, about five townspeople came running through, "Hey! There's a cave over here!" one of them pointed out. I let out a low growl as they started lumbering towards the cave, they stopped hearing the growl but brushed it off, bad choice. As they got closer I tensed up and jumped.

I killed the first one instantly, he had been trailing behind the rest, easy picking, the second one was just as easy. The third one was a little bit harder but he too fell. I stalked up to the forth one, who was able to grab a loose rock, he threw it at me but I was able to easily dodge. I lunged at him taking him down with my weight and tore his throat out, something hit me in the side as I was thrown off him.

I shook my head to clear it from the impact and looked up, my eyes narrowed in hatred, the fifth one was the one who locked me up and lit the pyre. I growled deeply, he's eyes widened and fear rolled off of him in waves, he backed up right into the cave. I stalked forward towards him as he continued to walk backwards, I continued to tense up as he got closer and closer to Náhookos.

He ran into the cave, and I was close on his heels, he immediately stumbled upon Náhookos. I growled at him getting his attention, he backed up as I stalked forward putting myself in front of Náhookos. He suddenly smiled, laughing and looking between Náhookos and I, "I burnt him good didn't I?" he chuckled. Fury washed threw me, how dare he hurt Náhookos and laugh about it! I jumped at him with a roar, tearing him apart as he screamed.

I transformed back covered in blood and breathing hard, "Shádi'ááh? Are you alright?" I heard a weak voice from behind me. I turned around and ran the small distance to him, "Hey, I should be asking you that." He nodded, "But you're covered in blood?" I looked down and saw I was soaked, "I-It's alright it's not mine," I said.

He furrowed his eyebrows and tried to move his head to his legs, "Hey, hey, hey! Look at me ok," I said, turning his face to look at me. "Shádi'ááh I can't feel my legs. Why can't I feel my legs?" he asked in confusion, still trying to turn his face that was still caught in my grasp. "They just fell asleep on you, ok?" I explained, he nodded, "I'm tired," I put his head on my shoulder covering his eyes in the process. "Then go to sleep, they'll feel better when you wake up," I uttered. He nodded lightly, "Ok." I looked outside the cave as he fell asleep, I soon fell asleep with him.

Author's Note:

I almost cried writing the pyre part. I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Please comment so I know what to do and don't next chapter! Till next time! Peace!

-Azar