Luna's encounter with the female stranger begins very rough.

Something is then said that encurs the wrath of Luna.

Luna stood at the other end of the beach, arms crossed, tail waving, and eyes with that same malicious look staring the stranger down. She knew that by this time, she would have been successful in her search for another victim, but this one wouldn't be easy to capture. She could tell that this one had determination and vigor swelling inside of her, and she wasn't going to go down without a fight. Luna wasn't necessarily going to give it her all, because she didn't want to kill her before it was too late, so she decided to use a generally small amount of her energies. "I see that this girl is very determined and won't go down that easy," she reviewed, "nor does she look like the person who would quit and give up. I like that quality. At least I'll have some kind of challenge. After all of this boredom, I may actually find someone who can fight back. Delicious."

The stranger was thoroughly prepared to begin her fight with Luna, but first she had to find out what she was whispering about. "Hey! What are you whispering about over there?" she called.

Luna heard her and chuckled. "Excuse me?"

"I know you heard me! What in the hell are you whispering about?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not talking to anyone but you."

"Don't play stupid with me! I know that you were whispering something back there behind my back, so I want to know what it is! Answer me! Do you hear me?"

"Yes, yes. I can hear you just fine. Although, I might not later because I might just go deaf because of you screaming too damn much. Do you hear ME?" she mocked.

This caused the female stranger's blood pressure to skyrocket out of the park. She wanted to run over there and give Luna a taste of her own medicine, but that would be coming shortly when Luna was going to get sorely beaten by someone she didn't even know all that well. "No. Not yet. I'm waiting for you to attack first," she threatened.

Luna was surprised to hear this. "Me? Attack first? All right, whatever you say," she agreed. When she was offered the chance to attack and make the fist move, she offered a sort of compromise to the stranger. "Now, don't worry. This will be quick and painless. All you have to do for me is just hold still while I do my thing, then I'll let you go free. Maybe I will, or maybe I won't kill you. Who knows? I might even just kill you and leave your dead, rotting corpse here on the sand so everyone can stare at it in horror. It's your choice now. Do you wish to fight or die?"

The stranger stood silently. She didn't have to think about Luna's "compromise."

"I'm waiting for a response," Luna said, putting a hand to her ear.

"Don't think that you can fool me with you little ice breaker of wanting me to hold still while you slowly kill me. No. It's not going to work like that. There's no way I'm going to hold still and just stand here while you slaughter me; and that's exactly what you're not going to do. You're not going to kill me, are you? Yes, that's right. I know that you don't want to kill me, because if you do, that'll ruin you little plan that you have in store."

Luna's happiness and calmness quickly turned to anger and confusion. "No, it isn't," she growled, trying her best to conceal her thoughts and defend herself.

"Don't try to play stupid with me. I already know your little plan and what you plan to do with the people that you actually do plan to get. It's funny, actually," the stranger continued, "that after all of this, your plans will be for naught. You don't have anywhere else to go."

She knew that Luna was backed into a corner with nowhere left to go. Luna thought about it for a second and realized that nothing could possibly compare the kind of trouble that she was in. How could anybody except her what she was going to do? That should have been concealed and kept secret. How did she figure it out? Luna was so confused and baffled. Maybe this was someone that she couldn't get. She seemed to have been outsmarted by someone that she didn't even know at all. That was embarrassing. Luna didn't want to believe that her plans could fall apart that fast. If they did, they'd have to fall apart piece by painful piece. She had to find a way to stop her right here and now. Just then, without thinking, she charged the stranger with her claws outstretched at her. She ran towards her at full speed, fully prepared to slice a hole right through this mysterious person. Immediately when she began to charge the stranger, she froze in place. She found it very hard to move. In fact, she couldn't even move at all. She was being held down, frozen in one position with both feet flat on the ground. She tried to make a motion, but she couldn't. Her legs felt like they were being held down with two 1,000 ton blocks as she tried to push herself forward. Her body felt like her flesh had just been ripped from her bones. Her head felt like a gong. Something was constantly banging on it, causing it to ring and pound. She couldn't take anymore of the strain, so she lashed out. "What…did you…do to me?"

The stranger laughed. "What? You look like the smart one. Why don't you figure it out? After all, I am just a stranger."

"Damn you," she said aloud. This wouldn't have been such a big problem if she had noticed what was going on with her thoughts. She couldn't hear them! "What? I wasn't supposed to say that. What have you do to me? Answer me!"

"I've constrained your train of thought. You are unable to perform the various movements that were executable before in your primal state. Your central nervous system has been contorted and misshaped to a void of inaudible control by me. I now control you like a mannequin on strings and wires. You cannot think nor act – in any way – for yourself any longer. In layman's terms, I can now control your mind, and there's nothing you can do!"

"How dare you," Luna growled.

"What a way you use your words, huh? You need to be nicer to the people you meet," she kidded. "Now then, like you say, hold still while I do my thing."

To be continued…

Chapter 7 is in progress.