A/N: Merlin's POV
It had been two days since the incident with the tree branch. Fortunately there hasn't been any more cause for me to use magic in Primrose's defense.
I decided that maybe Primrose and Arthur were right, that I was being a bit too standoffish. Just because I can't have romantic relationship with her, doesn't mean we can't be friends, as long as we're here. It was just so easy to be open with her, it was almost too easy.
But our chaperone did help with that. Whether we liked it or not.
"That is way too much information!" Arthur shouted, after Primrose had begun a rather detailed description of her brother's symptoms after he accidently peed on poison ivy when they were children.
"Oh, come on, Arthur," Primrose said though bouts of laughter, "Don't be such a girl."
We started laughing again when the first drops of blood fell on my hand. "What the-" I looked up and see a dead stag hanging from a tree, his body mangled, more blood drops falling from the sky.
"Oh my God," Primrose gasped, her mouth open. Then she quickly closed it before anything could get in.
"I'm no expert at hunting," I said, "But I don't know of any animal that does that."
"Me neither," Arthur adds, also sounding shocked, "And I do hunt."
"Prim, could this be one of those-" My voice trailed off.
"I don't think so," She said, "I've never seen anything like this."
We all just stood there for a moment, staring at it, then at last Primrose said, "We should probably get out of here. Now."
We ran down the trail, not looking behind us, until we were far away from the carcass. More or less because we were still fleeing when Arthur and Primrose fall to the ground. I stopped before the same thing happened to me and reach out to help Primrose up, and cringed when I saw what they had fallen over: Another carcass, this one of some type of large cat. "What is going on?" I exclaimed, once I had Primrose up.
"I don't know," Primrose said, looking scared herself, "But whatever it is, it isn't good."
We all started running down the path again, then we heard it. A loud flapping overhead, louder than any bird any of us had ever heard. I looked up and overhead was a creature unlike any I had ever seen before. In the sunlight I couldn't make out details, but I saw a human silhouette attached to what looked like a pair of giant wings. It landed on the ground and we could see more detail. It was taller than any of us, its body covered in tick, course brown fur. It also had gigantic, bat-like wings that spread out so that it took up the width of the trail.
I though back to what Primrose had said a few nights before. About the creatures called Mutts. "...so savage that even their own creators couldn't control them. And they were intelligent, not a good combination."
"I guess you were wrong about it just be a story," I whispered to her.
The Mutt let out a primal scream. That got us moving began and we starting running down the trail away from the creature, but I heard it rise in flight again. Suddenly its shadow was down upon us, and the next thing I knew Primrose was no longer next, to be, but being raised up into the air, her legs kicking and screaming.
"Prim!" I called out, watching in helpless horror as she was being carried off.
Primrose didn't say anything, just wordless screaming as the creature carried her away.