Traxex activated the Shadow Blade before they reached the top road so she would be able to scout. The Undying was not far behind her and so they engaged in their first real battle. Three enemy heroes and three allied heroes were fighting. On their side was the Tinker, the Ancient Apparition as support and the Brewmaster. On the enemy side was the lycan, a woman with green skin who looked to be dead, and a phoenix. So that was the reason Traxex hadn't seen the wolf man. He had run up here. She tried not to feel disappointed by his leaving her behind, but she knew she must be frowning.

The six were fighting against each other and it looked as if the Ancient Apparition and the Tinker wouldn't last much longer. And that even though the lycan was still, or again, in human form.

The Drow Ranger drew nearer, readying her bow and her Frost Arrows to be ready to engage. That was when the lycan turned around, his eyes focusing on her though she was still invisible. He had somehow detected her and for a second she stood unmoving, immobilized by his gaze, his eyes starting to glow as he kept looking for her. Then the Undying appeared behind her and the wolf man howled. The next second a huge wolf was in his place, his teeth bared. Then he attacked. But not the Undying or Traxex. He turned towards the Ancient Apparition, who was already on the retreat. It took him only a second to catch up and only two bites to make the kill. After that he turned towards the Tinker, but the robot had already left the battle field by teleporting away. That made the odds even again, because now they were three against three and the invisibility of the Shadow Blade faded at that moment. It would take some time for the item to be ready for use again and until then Traxex had to get along without it.

The Brewmaster, totally undisturbed by the death of his support, went for the dead/undead woman. So Traxex followed his lead and took aim. She had to bridge the time until she could go invisible again and it had no use to worry about the lycan. She had to try to help with killing the other two enemy heroes and then she could think about the rest. The woman was easy to kill because though she was fast, the Frost Arrows slowed her down enough for the Undying to make the kill. But then the phoenix transformed into a burning ball, right in front of Traxex. And the lycan had arrived. The Drow took one last look at the scene and decided she had done enough. She turned right, in the direction of the forest up here, and started running. The burning ball could mean nothing good and the wolf was totally focused on her. Her allies would surely be able to kill the phoenix even without her and so she would lure the lycan away from the road. Or so she told herself.

The rush of the blood in her body told a totally different story. One of the thrill of being the prey in a hunt. In a hunt where the hunter was such a glorious male that simply his sight took her breath away and made her heart beat faster.

A low growl sounded behind her and a shiver went through her body. The tiny hairs in her neck stood up and her nipples hardened. She tried to run faster but right at the second where her Shadow Blade was ready again a body tackled her from behind.

She was turned in the air so that she didn't hit the earth but landed on the only slightly softer form of a male human body. She gasped for breath but was rolled onto her stomach immediately and pinned to the ground by a big, male body.

The lycan had caught her. And he was currently in human form lying on top of her. He had to brace some of his weight. Traxex was sure he would crush her otherwise.

So he was strong but knew how to wield his strength without harming her. Like he had with the landing, turning them so she would land on top of him rather than the other way around.

Slowly a hand tugged her hood away from her face, revealing her white hair. Traxex tried to wriggle free, tried to push the man from her back. But he simply put more weight on her back, making it harder for her to breathe and impossible to break free or even move. And then he used the blades on his hand to caress over her cheek and down her throat. The Drow Ranger froze, the sharp blades too near to her vulnerable spots for her liking. At this point she could only assume that the lycan didn't want to kill her but she couldn't be sure. He had said nothing about that and only because she was highly attracted to him didn't mean he would feel the same.

Though she had extremely sharp metal at her throat, her arousal didn't dim. If anything, it rose, her heartbeat a dull throb in her pussy. Her breath came in short gasps and she wasn't sure it was from the weight currently pressing her to the ground. She was completely at the mercy of the lycan and, to tell the truth, she liked it.

Her hair was lifted from her neck, slowly, and then she felt his hot breath on her sensitive skin, just beneath her ear. Traxex bit her lip to stop the moan that had been about to burst from her lips.

The lycan pressed his nose under her ear and then he took a deep breath, his face buried in her neck. He growled again and it sounded almost like approval. Her nipples tightened even more, now almost to the point where it hurt and she closed her eyes. She felt as if her whole body was on fire and since she couldn't move an inch she could as well enjoy the sensation the nearness of the wolf man evoked in her.

Then his hot tongue traced the skin on her neck. This time she could by no means hold back and her low moan sounded through the woods.

A growl was her answer and the lycan pressed his pelvis against her ass. His erection was obvious even through the layers of clothes between them. He was big and hard and Traxex wanted desperately to touch him, to feel him filling her.

He licked her neck again and when she shivered, he fisted a hand in her hair, immobilizing her even more, and then he bit her. Gently, without leaving a mark, but hard enough for her to feel the sharpness of his teeth.

The Drow Ranger moaned again and tried to tilt her ass upward, to rub against his hardness.

"Kitty," his deep voice was rough, his accents deep, and his lips brushed her ear as he spoke. "As much I would like to fulfil your wish, this is not the best of places. But, as you can see, I am totally able to catch you. Every time I wish to." He nipped one last time at her throat, then he stood.

Traxex almost whimpered at the loss of his weight on top of her. "Don't stop!"

A low chuckle that made goose bumps pop up on her skin. Then she was picked up from the ground by strong hands and put on her feet. Her breathing was still too fast, as was her heartbeat. Her pussy throbbed and her nipples hurt. She raised her gaze when the lycan put the hood of her cloak back into place. He even arranged her hair like before, surely because he could let his fingers trail through the strands that way.

His eyes were still glowing yellow but his features had softened. He was almost smiling as he watched his hand in her hair. As he took a step away from her he arranged his cock, grimacing slightly. Traxex followed the movement of his hand and looking at the outline and she involuntarily licked her lips.

A growl echoed through the woods and she shivered. "Go. And next time you run from me maybe you should run somewhere where we can take this further." He leaned closer. "Or I will ignore the danger of fucking you in the middle of the woods and simply take. I don't really care, but I think maybe you do." The almost smile was gone from his face and he looked dangerous and deadly again. Especially when he showed his teeth briefly. "I want to fuck you, badly, and the smell of your arousal doesn't make it any better. Now it is up to you to decide where we will have sex the next time we'll meet."

At the word fuck her pussy throbbed even harder and the way the lycan's nostrils flared she was sure he could pick up on it. Hell, she wanted to get her brain's fucked out by this male.

And though her body screamed for her to go on, she knew that he was right. They were all too much in the open here and she definitely didn't want to encounter some of the other heroes while she and the lycan were going at it.

Taking a deep breath, a little too shaky to speak, the Drow Ranger simply nodded.

"See ya."

The wolf man was gone and Traxex tried to make her body calm down. Then she turned towards the top road, since she was totally uninjured and still in the vicinity, to see, if she could help to make a hero kill. She stopped as soon as she had vision onto the road but was still in the shadows of the trees. The Ancient Apparition was alone and against him was the phoenix. Two against one. Without hesitation, banning all thoughts of the lycan from her mind for the duration, she took aim with her Frost Arrows. The first one hit, the Apparition acted immediately with a spell of his own, the second arrow hit. The Brewmaster appeared behind the phoenix from the stream and the bird had no chance. Luckily enough the last hit was one of Traxex' arrows. The money from the kill got her some Boots of Speed so she was, finally, able to run faster. With a 'thumbs up' at her allied heroes she left the road through the stream.

While running, her mind thought about places where she could go with the lycan. She would have to make the hunt harder as well because it had been way too easy for the wolf to catch her and it had to be a challenge for him. She would definitely use her Shadow Blade next time to run away and not to engage. And she would try to hide and not run in a straight line. That was stupid anyway because everyone assumed you ran straight. Maybe she could even mask her trail somehow.

On the middle road she was able to get another kill because the dead/undead woman was attacking their first tower, so when the Drow neared she was at her back. The woman started to retreat because she saw someone porting in but then Traxex had already let her first arrow fly, followed by a wave of silence, that rendered the woman unable to cast spells and shoved her back towards the tower she had tried to get away from. The Tinker, who materialized then, activated his abilities, hitting the woman with some laser and a rocket, while one Frost Arrow after the other hit its mark, the last one killing the woman while she was still standing in the stream. She hadn't gotten very far since the beginning of the attack.

"Nice. Good job." With that she went on to the bottom road. Two kills in such a short time were really good for her. It got her money and experience, both things she desperately needed, especially if she wanted to make the hunt more challenging for the lycan or if she wanted to have the slightest of chances to be able to escape him.

The hedgehog and the undead man (damn, were there many undead in this war?) were attacking their first tower. Since she didn't want to attack them alone she stopped, her feet still standing in the water of the stream. The enemy heroes headed back, then, and the Undying appeared. They surely didn't want to fight under the tower but hoped to lure the Undying away from the building. When it was safe enough, Traxex left the stream and joined her ally. Together it went on as it had at the beginning of the war. Boring. But she and the Undying weren't able to get the two enemy heroes either, because even with his Tomb Stone and her Frost Arrows the hedgehog was almost impossible to kill and the undead always remained far behind the soldiers, so he was out of range from all possible attacks.

But Traxex now kept looking for places under the trees where she could hide when the lycan attacked, so she didn't really mind if the fight on the lane was boring or not. That way she could at least concentrate on a potential hiding place. All the while she had an eye on the forest to her right to see the wolf man as soon as possible.

"Undying, I have a Shadow Blade. When the lycan attacks, run. Don't look after me, I'll get away. And we don't fight against three, so don't try to attack either. Place your Tomb Stone if you like to slow them down, but it won't make a high impact on the lycan. He will be unbelievably fast anyway."

The undead nodded. Good. Because as badly as she wanted to get more of the lycan, she didn't want to be responsible for the death of an ally, if she could prevent it. Since she was sure that the wolf would try to catch her, no matter what, she was positive that the Undying would be able to escape.