Ch 4: Hunt The Huntress

When Luna walked inside, Dove could hear her shouting even with her mind barely conscious, though she couldn't make out what was being said. She was too exhausted and her body was too overwhelmed from the pain in her neck to be able to keep herself alert. Loki was pulled from Dove and the woman gripped Dove, slapping her cheek trying to make her wake up fully, "This…this is all your fault! Why didn't you leave things be!? You had to go and push her back then and now you show up here and anger it! I had it under control until she met you!"

Dove weakly tried to pry herself free, grumbling intangible words and she blinked a bit, eyes dazed. There was no reason to fight with Luna. She already believed all that herself too after seeing it with her own eyes. Her head was throbbing and her neck burned and ached. Loki managed to pull Luna off Dove but she slipped from the counter in a stumble, getting herself back where she had been laying down before and slowly curling up, just wanting to get her body to rest.

Luna was still angry, shoving Loki off of her, "Let go. What will you do? Broken Huntress who can barely stand huh? You need me if you have any hope to really walk!"

Loki raised her hands, frowning, "Just chill out lady will ya?! Why don't ya start by telling me what I need to know while ya fix me and maybe I can help!"

Luna grunted and glanced over at Dove, having half a mind to throw the woman out into the snow to let Wendie take her and be done with all of this before her morality got the better of her and she helped Loki back to bed, continuing to work on her, "I once had a child. Just one. But the father was evil man. Killed and ate his whole family one day before my child was born. It took time to realize it was him but then they came for him, killed him for the crime. I helped. His crime cursed our child with this monster."

Loki grunted at the way Luna's semblance felt working through her body, feeling like it was reversing the damage like a film on rewind, every bit able to be felt painfully now that she was conscious for it all. The woman frowned at her, "hush. It is working. I had to keep my child away from others, never to have the friends. She would want to bite and that would turn into a hunger. That hunger is outside, eating my brother now. It worked for so long but I guess your friend was special. My child ignored all the rules and warnings and cared about that silly girl. Not sure how that progressed into the hunger but it went from friend to obsession. She must have tasted but why your friend stuck around after I do not understand. It is foolish."

Loki knew that answer pretty well but she wasn't about to tell this stranger that. Seemed a bit too private to just go blabbing about with all things considered though it did clear up a few things about Dove she had always been curious about but never wanted to ask or pry, "It marked her once… and again… think it loves her or something?"

Luna laughed, "No. That thing cannot love. Your friend is a desire maybe but not loved. It will stop at nothing to consume her…. one way or another. If we were smart we would get rid of her before the wendigo kills us all."

In a surprisingly swift motion, Loki sat up and grabbed Luna by the shirt, anger raging in her face, "You even dare to make that implication again and you'll be the one I throw to the beast, you got me?"

Luna wasn't threatened but finished healing Loki quietly anyway, going to make something for them to eat as Loki got up and watched Dove laying there on the thatched bed on the floor, shaking in a ball in her sleep. Loki was still furious about the situation but she let herself truly think about it all. The way Dove never wanted to talk about her school life before Haven or much about any past relationships. The way she avoided getting too wrapped up in tenderness with anyone or those three words.

Three years of Dove giving her love in her own way that never was questioned now made Loki reel on what that had actually meant. What had she been thinking about all those years when Loki poked at the shackled walls built high? Knowing about those marks now, Loki could recall so many moments Dove had given that area of her neck attention or been annoyed if Loki touched it too much.

She punched the door frame with a grunt before accepting a bowl of soup from Luna, who went into the room and pushed Loki out, closing the door. The woman wasn't really hungry but forced herself to eat it anyway, bringing half over and sitting next to Dove, poking her shoulder with the spoon, "Hey… eat this or you'll be useless."

An annoyed but quiet tone responded, "I don't want it."

"Just fucking eat it," the pink haired woman growled.

Dove curled a bit tighter, fingers scratching at her neck slowly, "No."

Loki growled a bit and tugged Dove's shoulder to turn her some, "You haven't eaten in days."

Dove sighed and sat up slowly, eating the rest before handing the bowl back, "Happy?"

Loki just tossed it across the floor, staring into Dove's distracted eyes, "No. I'm not. But I'm healed so let's talk about how we are going to end this so we can get the fuck back home ya?"

Dove looked away, making Loki even more irritated. The pink haired woman turned and shoved Dove back down, pinning her there and staring down into her face, watching her look away, "Did you love her?"

Dove's eyes glanced back up at Loki, a bit surprised at how calm her voice had sounded even with how rough she was being, "Does it really matter?"

A hand moved to lace into Dove's bangs and reveal the hidden blue eye. She could see how trapped Dove looked in her eyes and not in a way that the woman would enjoy. No this was more like someone who felt they had no way to survive their situation. Slowly, Loki sat back over Dove's waist, watching Dove quietly, her voice a gentle whisper now as Dove watched her, "Doesn't it?"

Dove took a deep breath and rolled her face against Loki's hand, her own hands moving to clasp around it, "Once. But that was years ago. I don't feel that way about her anymore and I got over it. And then I met you."

She felt Loki press her forehead against her own and looked into pink eyes watching hers, "Have you spent all this time worried that some stupid mark no one could see would keep you from me?"

"I didn't… know if it would matter… it all just happened back then and then it was all gone before I knew what was even placed on me. Other faunus stayed so clear of me I thought it… how can I be yours if she doesn't let me go? How can that even be fair to you if I belong to someone else…"

Loki leaned in closer, hands holding Dove's face as she nipped at her lip, "As if that stained flesh would stop me from taking what's mine. Do you love me?"

Dove nodded, feeling those hands grab her wrists and hold them above her head, closing her eyes and relaxing her form to Loki's every whim, "Yes."

Loki tugged her lip with her teeth a bit before biting along her jaw to her ear, "Do you want to be with me?"

She shivered, back arching a bit towards the woman above her, her legs squirming a bit pinned beneath Loki, voice breathless as Loki licked along the shell of her ear, "I do, god Loki I do."

Teeth clamped down on her ear and she bit her lip trying not to let out a sound, hands tightening on her wrists until the skin burned, "Prove it. Marry me Dove. Help me finish this mission and when we get home, marry me."

Dove let out a whimper, so many things running through her mind and so many worries but Loki bit her ear hard again, making her gasp, "just say yes Babe."

She nodded, voice shaky as she answered before pressing her lips into Loki's hard, "Y…yes…"

The woman kissed her back deeply and roughly, teeth clanked together and tongues fought for space but shortly after, to Dove's dizzied disappointment, Loki pulled away, "when this is over, I'll show you how wrong you were to keep all this bottled up. You'll learn your lesson thoroughly. But until then… I don't have any interest in fucking some monster's bitch."

Dove frowned and sat up as Loki was getting to her feet, yanking Loki back down, "You jerk!"

Loki chuckled, grinning her vicious grin at Dove as she fell back, looking up at the two toned woman, "You love it, don't lie."

Dove rolled her eyes and flicked Loki's forehead, Loki letting out a relieved breath, "There's my girl. Thought I lost you to all that sorry sap bullshit you were drownin in, Babe."

Dove let out a sound of annoyance and rolled Loki off her, scratching at the bite a bit before sighing, "I don't know how to stop her but I do know she's after me. Maybe we can use that somehow?"

Loki's frown made her fold her arms, "Well I'm open to other suggestions."

Unfortunately, Loki had no other ideas and it was actually a really good start even if she hated to admit it, "Ok fine but how do you plan to do that without gettin screwed?"

Dove really hoped that was figurative as she tried to think, "I was able to stab her hand before she was able to kill you. I think if I do it right I can hurt her. She doesn't expect me to fight her. Especially not while you two idiots are busy playing turf wars with my skin here."

She pointed at her neck with unenthused eyes. The two sat trying to put a plan together that didn't involve Dove basically letting Wendie take her but they were coming up pretty empty handed. When they took a short break, Dove dug through the dust she had come here with, sorting through the mostly gravity dust for the few fire cuts and pulled some of Loki's empty shells over, packing them with the powder, "this will at least help. She is afraid of the fire."

Loki watched her as she made the bullets, taking them to load into Ragnarok as Dove topped off Reaper's gravity chambers and filled a different dust into a chamber that fed into the blade. Dove rarely used it but it was a handy addition recently that could prove useful.

Other than the occasional distant shrieks and growls, they had not had the beast close enough for days. There had been nothing to eat really other than broths. Dove was sitting by a window staring out into a heavy storm as Loki leaned into the wall nearby, "I can see ya thinkin Babe. What is it?"

Dove sighed, "She's toying with us. She is waiting us out. If we aren't careful, we will walk right into a trap."

Loki hated to admit she had considered this too. The beast would get close enough to the treeline from time to time to remind them she was still watching but never stay long enough for them to spot her or try to make chase. Luna wanted to go try to find something they could eat before the storm got too bad but they weren't sure if she was also part of the trap so they had resigned to being hungry.

After nearly a week of hunger and powerful blizzard winds, the weather went quiet and no amount of begging or yelling stopped the older woman from going out for food while there was a chance to find it. She refused to be like the monster if they all got too hungry and that statement alone had been the reason the two Huntress had finally quietly allowed her to leave.

When she didn't come back for hours, the two were getting nervous. Luna was needed to keep the wards fresh and if she didn't renew them every so often they would wear away in a day or two and leave the two of them without anywhere safe to go from Wendie.

Loki was restless, yanking on her boots against Dove's protests, "I can't take waitin any longer. I'm going find her!"

"Loki, wait! That's what she wants you to do…" before Dove could finish her words, the darkest steps slowly pounded towards the door, snow and ice crushing beneath the heavy foot falls as the two of them froze.

Closer and closer it crept until it stood at the edge of the reach of the wards, that mind numbing clicking growl calculating as it seeped out towards them in the still of the air outside before a harsh loud thrash was against the cabin door, like a very weighted object crashing into it with the wettest, cracking sound that ended in a sound of something falling into the snow beneath.

Those footsteps receded afterwards and then the shriek came from a distance, the beast must have taken itself away with its speed. Blood was pooling thick and slow from the cold under the door and leaking into the cabin, making them both nervous as Loki stepped closer finally, looking to Dove before opening the door.

Dove gasped causing Loki to look, Luna's body crumpled, battered, broken all over and missing chunks and pieces was there in a heap at the foot of the door, hardly recognizable if not for her tribal tattoos that were still left visible, tactically gnawed around and left untouched in the right places to be unmistakable. Dove turned her head as Loki kicked the body away as respectfully as she could think of quickly, slamming the door and throwing the locks, not that any of that would help.

The two dowsed any light aside from enough fire to stay warm and covered the windows, making a pallet on the floor by the fire to avoid freezing. As they sat there, Loki poked the flames with a rod, "How long you think those spells have left?"

Dove sighed, glancing around staring at the fire, "until morning maybe?"

That was so soon and they weren't even sure that their current plan would work. But now it had to. They had one shot. They were deep in a forest they didn't know nor know where they even were in it, and if they failed they would have no security to run back to in order to try again. The looming end of their lives was becoming so real that Dove bit her lower lip and leaned into Loki's shoulder.

She had an idea but she was certain Loki would hate it, "Loki… do you trust me?"

Loki looked at her a bit confused as Dove tucked some hair behind her own ear before moving to slide onto Loki's lap, looping her hands behind Loki's neck and staring at her face, "Do you trust me?"

The blanket closed around Dove as Loki's arms wrapped around her, pink eyes watching her carefully, "Yea… why?"

Dove leaned forward, kissing Loki's lower lip, shivering at the groan that left her lover's lips, "I need to be covered in your scent then you have to let her take me away."

Loki was quick to anger, nails digging into Dove, "Absolutely fucking not!"

Dove squinted but shifted a bit, pressing her hips down into Loki's and running her tongue along Loki's lip, "Trust me please? You need to make her jealous. She needs to feel like possessing me is more important than killing you. Then let her take me away. I won't let her have me I promise. But if you aren't there, I can get close enough…"

Loki growled a bit, yanking Dove against her, blazing gaze staring into blue and red eyes, "No. Fuck no you are mine to hell if I'm just gonna let some fucking bitch drag you off to claim you or fuck you or whatever bullshit she wants from you!"

Dove leaned in close, fingers tangling in Loki's long pink hair and tugging lightly, "Prove it. Show her I'm yours. She should feel as angry as you did. When she drags me away, I'll finish this, for that village, for me, for us," she nibbled Loki's ear, voice dripping with her plea, "Hurt me Loki… like only you should."

Loki shivered. Dove had hooked her. Dove didn't like this idea either and she wasn't completely sure she could actually succeed before Wendie overpowered her and did whatever she wanted but she didn't want Loki killed and she was sure if Wendie thought she had Dove in her grasp, Dove could strike undetected.

Loki dropped Dove onto her back, leaning over here and pinning her wrists down to the ground, her body shoved between Dove's thighs as she leaned down and ripped her teeth at the bite from Wendie, hearing Dove cry out and feeling her jerk and squirm beneath her. Loki pressed her body down against Dove fully, slotting their hips together and grinding hard, not caring if clothing was in the way, pulling Dove's wrists into one hand as she shoved her shirt up some, digging her nails at the scarred L in Dove's hip until she was able to recarve into it with her fingernails, relishing in how Dove squirmed and moaned her name.

She could hear the beast in the trees shrieking louder. It was mad. It was watching them, that confirmed it alright. It had been watching them Loki figured. The fabric between them was not comfortable and rubbed painfully but Dove was reeling, pressing her own hips back into Loki eagerly. Loki would destroy her if she had more to hurt her with but this would work too for now. She was looking forward to when they could get out of here and Loki could make good on punishing her though that was for sure but right now she needed to stay on track.

Loki leaned forward, body sliding back some, and bit hard into the scarred skin of Dove's hip, making Dove's hips jerk and spasm for friction she was being denied, nails digging into her wrists. Loki's free hand got Dove's shorts and leggings down enough to latch teeth into supple thighs by her core, Dove gasping.

Loki's mouth eventually worked its way to her sex, biting and sucking at the sensitive skin and groaning as Dove's hips rocked into her face with need at every touch. She made use of her free hand not holding Dove's wrists to explore all over skin, trying to make as much of Dove marked in her scent as she could and hoping it would work since neither of them could really test it.

By the time Dove was cumming against Loki's tongue and shaking, dribbles of blood from Loki's nails and teeth everywhere on her body, Loki could see the silhouette of the beast in the trees, clearly heaving in deep breaths and standing it's full height hunched forward. It was furious now. just spurred Loki on knowing she was pissing it off.

She shoved two fingers roughly into Dove, thrusting them as she bit at her clit, watching dove unravel under her grasp, adding a third finger with no warning and stretching them apart as she curled them to only further have to force them in, biting at the skin of the area harder before sucking and nipping over Dove's sensitive raw bundle of nerves, never drawing her eyes away from the beast's form in the trees through the window as she fucked Dove.

Her hand let go of Dove's scratched up red flesh of her wrists and dug her nails into Dove's side, carving them up her side to her breasts before grasping one tightly and squeezing hard, Dove's body shaking and bucking around as she moaned, putty for Loki to play with however she pleased as the woman hit her release once more, back arching and thighs squeezing on Loki tightly.

An angry howl came from the woods as Loki let Dove come down, holding tender wrists and placing loving kisses along the angry flesh as Dove panted, staring up at her with eyes glazed over with pleasure. As Loki slowly covered her body in warm, loving touches of her lips, Dove whimpered softly, tugging at the woman's shoulders until Loki flopped beside her, rolling dove ontop of her in the warmth of the blanket as the woman melted into her, face resting in Loki's neck, "fuck…"

Loki chuckled. It was satisfying to still be able to please Dove without the need of bondage or toys or sharp things but when she felt Dove's fingers working at her pants she watched her carefully, Dove still breathing heavily, "I said I needed to be covered in your scent. But so far all you've done is cover yourself in mine…"

She watched Dove sit up, hips sliding perfectly as she tugged at Loki's pants and underwear until their flesh touched, grinding her hips down into Loki's harshly. Nails gripped and dug into pale hips as they rode along Loki's own, fingers gripping into the skin so hard bruises were forming and blood was dripping from under her nails on Dove's hips and ass. Dove was sliding her body just right into Loki to please her, arms held above her head to expose herself to her lover beneath her, eye-catching even with her top on.

One hand slid deliciously painfully down Dove's thigh making the already sensitive woman cry out, leaning her head back, "S…so close…"

Loki smirked, grinding up into Dove as well, "Don't you dare cum without me bitch."

Dove shivered and bit her lip, "I… can't much longer."

Loki slapped her high hard enough to sting the skin and Dove fell forward, holding herself up over Loki staring down into her eyes, saliva lightly dripping from her mouth as Loki tortured her skin, "P…please…"

If Dove was begging looking at her like that while riding her like this, Loki lost it. She leaned up, capturing Dove's lip in her teeth and biting hard enough to make it bleed and cause Dove to spasm in her orgasm as Loki fell over the edge with her. When they came down, Dove ran soft fingers along Loki's wet folds with one hand, the other pulling the shirt away from her neck and dragging the slick fluid all along the marked flesh before letting Loki watch her clean her fingers.

"Well that's a new kind of hot I didn't think I'd enjoy," Loki cockily joked as she watched Dove paint more of Loki's release along her flesh.

Dove rolled her eyes before kissing her, "Shut up. We should rest while we can… I heard her out there too…"

She rested down into Loki's chest and arms, sighing as she bit at her bruised lip. Normally this was when she would push her aura and get rid of all the marks of their exchange but with their trap in mind, she had to keep it all, "Loki…"

Loki hummed in response, the fire barely enough to lit the room anymore. Dove buried her eyes in Loki's neck, "Just so you know… I wanted to say yes anyway if you asked. Even before. So don't ever leave me, you fool."

She felt Loki's chuckle in her chest under herself and closed her eyes, both trying to rest their bodies even if they were not going to get any sleep.

—-

Wendie had seen all of it, even when it got very dark inside due to her night vision. The faunus was furiously shaking, the bloody naw dripping from that last warning kill as it tensed and flexed, haunches raising the beast to its full height, towering in it's nearly fourteen feet before it howled out, releasing that deep shriek into the trees and stomping around in a pace when it hunched back onto all fours.

Its chest heaved rapidly with its irate breaths and claws scratched madly at the sticks and ice below powerful hands and feet, growling a deep feral sense of jealous rage when Loki dared taunt her by watching her, challenging her. But the final straw was watching Dove touch that claimed mark during such an event. Howling and shrieking, the beast thrashed about, running closer until it was thrown back by the barrier made by the wards still holding and crashed into the snow on its back with a growl.

Wendie's eyes were glowing like fire in the night as she scurried to her feet, smashing claws and fists and feet into the snow covered earth and stalking about around the barrier, testing it constantly in places before sitting and waiting at the area near the front door, eyes watching the magic with forced patience. When it wore off she would be ready and the two would be at her every mercy. She was done playing. It was time for this hunt to reap it's rewards.