~ chapter 10~

Ares was still sorting out his reaction to the night before. He could imagine Amara asking him to kiss her again, but she was awake this time and he had to become her mate. "So you've asked endless questions about my colony, what about yours?"
"What do you mean?"
"What's your family like? What are your friends like are their any males that have grabbed your attention?" and if there is they had better be more than half decent for you.
"Well my mom and Grandmother are really nice and supportive. I don't have a lot of friends...I like being alone usually and as for males...there's Stafall..."
"Hmm...? what's he like?"
"Annoying usually but he cares a lot about me too..."
"I see..."
Ares picked up pace so he was side by side next to her,
" So, do you like him?" Ares asked curiously, he really actually did'nt want to here the answer, he did'nt want to be hurt. Amara shrugged ,
" I've known him for all my life, and he has made his point clear that he likes me, his arrogant, annoying, and caring. He is not like all the other males in my colony. He actually cares about me, my mother even thinks he is a good choice." Ares felt like he got punched in the gut, but he did'nt let it show. Staffall. What type of name is that, least his name was after the greek god of war, Staffall was named after a falling stick.
" Hmmm, what does he look like?" Amara cocked her ear at him, grinning for a second.
" Well.. he has sleek blueish black fur, with silver streaks... and I don't know he looks like a big silverwing male" Ares nodded least he had an advantage on the apperance side. OH, yeah a cannabial versus a sweet little bat with big black eyes, which one is cutier. Great, he lost in that competeion too. At least he was a better fighter. Ares flew ahead, pretented like he had saw some food, or something. Thats when a large force hit him to the side, Ares rocked back and forth, before stabeling, he looked at Amara, who was giggling. He was'nt really in the mood for one of her games. He flew back to meet her when it hit him agian flipping him onto his back and then back onto his tummy. Okay... clam down, amara could'nt have done that.
" Amara, are you doing that?" Amara scrunched up her noise, and answered no. The force hit him again, hard, and he caught a flash of beige fur. Before stabling himself and pulling ahead of amara. He heard amara cry out, and he looked beside him and saw Troy. Amara looked at the Vampyrum; claws hooked diving down onto Ares. His fur was a pale brown, his muscles were taunt and large, his eyes where balzing in their sockets with insanity, jaws open slaivia dripping, shoulders hunched with deadly intent, but most of all it was his size he was a least three times larger than ares and wieghed a lot more. Ares rolled avoided the teeth and claws by an inch of luck, but instead the bat hit him with enough force that would cause amara to fly through a tree, Ares fell down through the air before leveling off and flying back up desperate, but before he could make it back up, four more vampyrum swarmed him and the fighting began down there. Amara was hovering frozen, thats when the buring eyes of troy fell onto her, smiling showing his teeth. He dove ready to crush her between his jaws, amara twisted out of the way but was smacked by one of his wings and flew into a branch. Amara looked up and saw his snout barrling down onto her, she crawled backwards desperate; his jaws clamping inches away from her, as she kept moving back nothing else ecouring to her just survival one false move of her claws she would be dead but she did'nt take the time to be careful she rushed it praying to her faith and hope as her heart pounded against her chest. She rolled off beating her wings, with terror his hot rank breath steamed onto her fur, HE's going to get me any second now. Amara wanted to curl up and hide forever, she wanted a spilt second to accept her fate but all she could do was fly beating her wings until they were screaming with the will to survive, the crashing of his wings was behind her and gaining. Her heart was racing, crashing against her chest pulling her forward. She was living the moment of life and death; she could taste blood in her mouth. Thats when she felt it; a horrible pain in her wings and lower back she could feel his teeth sink into her; She screamed out in agony, and then nothing, she blanked in and out, blood tripping down her fur like thick syrup, she was lifless unable too move a finger she was dangling from troys jaws. She could feel him tasting her blood, any second and she would be torn apart, she wanted to scream to the world, HELP ME!. Thats when it became all clear, Troy was laughing, amara looked with her eyes the only thing she could move, and saw Ares flying, with a blank, confused look on his face like he did'nt want to belive what was happening, Then his chest moved faster and faster like he was hypervantaling, Amara watched as ares eyes went flat black with pure...rage. Ares snarled, fur bristilng, he never looked more terrifying and beautiful in all the time she knew him. Troy tossed her aside like a peice of trash. Amara hit the branches unable to move, then like a miracle she sprun to life gripping a branch with her claws. Amara looked around all she could hear was the sounds of snarls and unatural screams of fury. Then a bundle of blood, fur, and fury crashed through the trees and landed benneth her on the lower branch, amara watched with amazment as Ares took on the savage bat they're teeth making horrible empty clanks as they tried to rip out eachothers throats, Ares looked like he somwhat had the upper hand, as the both of them sunk there teeth into eachother, ripping fur, spraying blood, angry snarls of pure bloodthirsty rage. Then they're was a horribe, wet, ripping noise. Amara whimpered as she saw Troys teeth had sunk into Ares shoulder, Ares yowled in pain and struck opening his mouth wide sinking his teeth into Troys neck and shouler. The oppenet bat howled in agony as the both fell off the branch, still attached to eachother, growling like hell hounds, the larger bat folded his wings against his chest and flayed them forward, causing Ares to sail back hitting his shoulders and wings, hard on a branch, Troy landed on his wings with his rear claws, but ares pulled away with a sicking , ripping noise, Ares snouted Troy in the throat, and tried to dive out of the way, but the enemy was smarter than that and he sunk his teeth deep into the tip of ares wing and threw him against the trunk. Ares landed on all fours, hissing and crawling out of the way of Troys, snapping jaws. Troy took flight as Ares hid, the pale bat dove and both of them flew out of the trees, Troy sunk his teeth into Ares wing, causing him to flip over and land on a branch, Troy pinned him, looking for an opening as Ares snapped his jaws inches from his throat. Amara flew, fast, and landed on Troys face sinking her teeth into the corner of his eye. He cried out and ares slipped out of his hold, Amara jumped off but a wing made conact with her and slammed her down on the branch in between Ares and Troy. The gaint bat reared; his claw hooked ready to slash out her throat, she watched as Ares landed above her. Troys claw swiping him across the face, blood dripping onto the branch. Before Troy could strike again, Ares batted Amara off the branch; out of harms way. Troys teeth sunk into ares ear, blood pouring down ares neck and chest. Ares jaws snapped but could'nt make conact with his oppenets skin, instead he batted him with his wings, but the blows where weak and sluggish, he was'nt in the right poistion to get the right strikes. Amara watched flying around them waiting for an opeing but ares flaying wings would'nt allow her. His eyes where full of pain, Troys eyes gleamed in a sick way and he gave his head a voilent shake, Ares eyes went out of focus blacking in and out from the pain. Amara knew insantly what Troy was trying to do, he was trying to stun ares enough that he could get a cheating chance and kill him, already her friends limbs where striking slow, and hoplessly, like his life was slowly fading. Amara flew in front of Troy, barly avoiding Ares wings, she flared her wings, flattened her ears, bared her teeth, and let out a bloodthirsty shriek of fury, at the same second she spun out an echo illision, a large eagle with thick muscles and a large beak; with blazing eyes. Troy let go of Ares ear, and fell back to the sudden image; and sudden it was the picture faded almost instantly, Troys eyes blazing with fury, Ares lifted his head and bit the branch snapping it, Troy fell unable to take wing fast enough. Amara watched, and saw his wing membrane get implaled by a thick twig.
" FLY!" Ares shouted; already troy was thrashing ready to escape; they flew until exhaustion and bloodlost caused them to land in the base of a tree, the opening was covered by leaves and was so close to the ground Troy wouldn't suspect it. Ares then let himself breath normally. "Amara? Are you alright?" Ares asked her. They were both wounded but he pushed aside his own pain to deal with hers.
"I'll be okay, it's you who doesn't look so good... you're bleeding really bad..." Ares shook his head.
"This is nothing... a few of those leaves you Northern bats use and I'll be okay..." Ares dropped from his roost landing on the ground. "Or maybe not..." Amara roosted beside him, outside the enterence was the healing leaves, she grabbed some and went to work on his wounds. Ares sighed as they stung. He was still bleeding. His eyes suddenly felt very heavy, and he felt cold. As soon as he closed his eyes he felt warm until Amara woke him up. He made a few muttered protests.
"Don't fall asleep Ares," She told him. He knew why, if he went to sleep now. He'd never wake up...he was dying, zypher was wrong he didn't have 1000 lives, he had one and at this rate it was nearly over. He wanted to say how he felt but the words wouldn't come. He couldn't admit he loved her and then die...it would hurt her. So instead he tried to joke.
"So now, you've met Troy." Amara smiled at his obeying her.
"Yeah, I can see what you mean about your family never being close."
"That was nothing, I just couldn't let him hurt you..." Ares looked over her wounds which she'd already put the poultice on. "I failed at that."
"No, he was going to eat me Ares, you saved my life."
"And you saved mine, many times." He winced as he tried to move. Amara nuzzled him.
"rest but don't sleep, moving will make this worse." As it turned out every wound Ares sustained would turn into a scar.