by Wilde, Rhea
I hated myself for it. I gripped his hair within my hands and started to grind my hips against his face. Thorne began to work even harder, placing his hands against my ass. He gripped me tight between his palms, so tight that I could feel his nails beginning to dig into my skin.
But just as I was beginning to enjoy myself, Thorne pulled away from me and stood back up. He looked into my eyes and continued to try and hypnotize me.
“You see, Ariel? It feels good, does it not? But your instincts… your feelings… they are only those of a human. Imagine how much greater your senses will be when you become one with me.”
“No…”
“Very well.”
I was hanging on desperately. I didn’t want to give him what I wanted even though my body had already conceded. My mind was still intact. I wouldn’t allow Thorne to do what he had planned for me.
The man tugged on the chain and dragged me. I took several steps backward as he pulled me. As I moved backward, I finally saw what they had placed behind me. It was the same apparatus that I had seen in my dream. The metal platform with chains resting at each of the legs that held it up.
I didn’t have much of a chance to take it in. The man holding me pushed me down and I fell upon it, my body meeting the cold iron. I tried to get back up but he was already down in front of me, shackling my wrists with the chains connected to the cuffs. He did the same to my ankles. I was now bound entirely, bent over on my hands and knees with the metal platform keeping the rest of my body from the ground.
I looked up and watched as Thorne started to pace in front of me. Slowly, he started to lower his pants. His thick cock sprang free in front of me and he held it at my face.
“You know what to do with this,” he said. “Don’t be shy.”
For some reason, his hardness seemed appetizing to me. I didn’t want to give him the pleasure he wanted. But I found my body unable to fulfill my request. I fought from opening my mouth but my face gradually started to drift forward. I took his cock into my mouth and Thorne moaned with pleasure.
“Yes, Ariel,” he groaned. “Please your chief. Please the alpha and you will earn your place next to me. It is what you want. It is what you deserve.”
I could only move my head so much because of the shackles around my neck but I sucked on his cock with a fervor I had never felt before. His thick cock felt so good in my mouth. It was too large for me to take entirely but Thorne was doing his best to assist me. He shoved himself deeper and held it within my mouth as it tickled the edge of my throat. It was so thick that I was beginning to have trouble breathing. Finally, he released me and I gasped a deep breath. I held my mouth open as I tried to take in as much air as I could.
“Yes, Ariel. Please your alpha… Please your…”
Something was beginning to happen to him. As he grunted his commands to me, his voice started to change. It became deeper and gravelly like something was caught in his throat. He shoved himself back into me as he started to change. His cock started to grow even larger in my mouth. I opened my eyes for a moment and could see that he was beginning to transform. The hair on his body became thicker and darker before it eventually coated him entirely.
He pulled his cock away from me and I looked forward at the brown fur-covered beast now standing in front of me. The shirtless man who had tried to seduce me was gone, replaced by a werewolf.
“Now, Ariel. I will make you the queen you were destined to be. By experiencing the pain the Rucai have endured, only then will you understand what it is like to be one of our clan.”
I was now completely alone with him in the room as he had no need for someone to hold me steady. He stomped to the other side of me and even though I couldn’t see him, I could feel his presence behind me. I started to worry about what he might be up to when I heard a whip through the air followed shortly by a stinging sensation across my ass.
“Ahh!” I cried out from the sudden pain.
“Our clan has been broken down and beaten. We’ve been killed, murdered and buried. We were left for dead. But we arose. It’s what makes us strong. And this pain you’re experiencing now will reward you with the pleasure you desire.”
He whipped me across the ass again and I cried out another sharp gasp. I found myself now breathing heavily in anticipation of the next whip. I closed my eyes and the tears built in my eyes every single time he hit me. There was nothing I could do.
“Stop fighting it, Ariel. Embrace it! Embrace the pain and unleash the desire within you!”
He whipped me again as the words start to ring inside of my head. I didn’t want to listen to him but there was nothing else to focus upon. All I could hear was the sound of Thorne trying to influence me.
I started to grow numb to the pain. My ass was now red and swollen even though I couldn’t see it. I could feel the welts upon it. None of it bothered me. I found the desire for him to stop replaced by something else. It was a rage. I was growing angry. I opened my eyes and suddenly saw him standing in front of me.
“Yes, Ariel! That’s it! Let the anger consume you. That is what it means to be a true Rucai. Unleash it.”
“No!”
I cried out to him and the look on Thorne’s now beast-like face was one of growing frustration. He threw his whip down to the ground and stomped back behind me. I felt his hands gripping my ass and spreading my cheeks apart.
“I know what you want, Ariel. Is this what you want, Ariel? Then let me give it to you.”
I felt the thickness of his cock pressing against my entrance. He pushed himself into me and as my lips parted for him, I felt it surge through my body. With his hands gripping my ass tightly, Thorne wasted no time as he started to thrust in and out of me. He was fucking me hard and quickly already and my body was jerking against the platform it rested upon.
I closed my eyes and begged for him to stop but he didn’t comply. I slowly started to lose myself. I remembered what happened to Summer and I feared it would happen to me as well. I was now pleading for someone to come and save me. I screamed at the top of my lungs as Thorne fucked me.
The pleasure was rushing through my body. I couldn’t deny how good it felt. The feeling of his cock twitching and throbbing inside of my body was one of intense pleasure. Thorne held my body and had his way with me. I complied with his treatment of me by providing him more lubrication from my opening.
But I didn’t want would happen as a result of this. I didn’t want to lose what I had and end up like all of those other women who had been brutally mistreated.
“You are my queen, Ariel. So I’m going to fuck you like you’re my queen. Breed with me. Repopulate the Rucai so that we can take what’s ours. Take my seed within you.”
“Please…”
I was beginning to lose myself. Some of the fluids were beginning to spill from his cock even though he hadn’t come entirely. I could feel it burning between my legs and spreading through the rest of my body. It was a strange sensation. It wasn’t just pleasurable. It was like my body was being taken to another level.
As my body shifted against the platform, I looked down at my hands that were cuffed against the ground. Something was happening. My hands were beginning to thin. My nails were beginning to extend. I was transforming.
“Yes, Ariel. Become the animal you were meant to be… Come with me… Come… with me!”
I felt him beginning to ejaculate inside of my pussy. I cried out as I felt his seed beginning to fill me up. Something had happened. I was startled to hear the sound of my own voice. Instead of a cry for help, my yell was more of a primal scream.
I continued to growl as Thorne pushed himself up against me. As he did, I closed my eyes. The darkness had disappeared. I saw something strange.
I was somewhere else. I found myself on the open plains. I was on the grass just outside of the monument. I was looking through the eyes of someone else. Another one from the clan. But who was it?
Suddenly, I saw a man in front of me. I ran my claws across hi
s throat and eviscerated him.
I opened my eyes and gasped at the vision. I was met with hands that were no more, unfamiliar claws extending from each of my fingers. I listened to the sound of Thorne beginning to unshackle me. He released me and when I stood up, I looked down at the rest of my body. My body was covered in a layer of brown fur. I turned to Thorne and he stared back at me. I closed my eyes again and there I saw it through Thorne’s eyes. I had transformed. The woman I had known my entire life was replaced by a beast. Now I had no reason to further believe that none of this was possible. I had become the very thing I had feared this entire time.
“Yes,” Thorne said to me. “You see, Ariel? My seed would have destroyed any other woman but you… you are stronger than any other woman. You are the one who was destined to be my queen and lead the Rucai to the prosperity they deserve. There is nothing you can do about it now. You are one of us.”
I was overcome with a mix of emotions. My instincts had changed. I couldn’t figure out what I was feeling. I couldn’t think straight. I was trying to focus on everything that had just happened but I found myself overcome with wanting nothing more than to fulfill my basic desires. I wanted sex. I wanted food. I wanted to kill.
I looked at Thorne, wondering when I would be given the opportunity to fulfill my new desires.
Chapter 23
Thorne walked up to me and embraced me. He gave me a passionate kiss and I found myself wanting nothing more than to give him what he wanted. He was mine and I was his. We stood alone as beasts in the middle of the room, trying to satisfy our sudden cravings.
But when I closed my eyes, I saw the vision I had just seen moments earlier. I pulled away from Thorne and sniffed into the air.
“Something is wrong,” I growled.
“What is it, my queen?” he bowed to me.
“There’s someone here. Someone is coming here.”
“Who?”
“Close your eyes,” I told him. “Smell him. See through his eyes. He is killing our own kind. It is the only way I can see.”
I closed my eyes once again and I found myself deep within the castle. The beasts were surrounding me but I was fighting them. I was biting at them, slashing their throats while I growled.
“Who am I?” I said. “Who has come to slaughter the Rucai?”
“It is Shadow,” Thorne said to me. “He is a traitor. He must be stopped.”
With my new body, I followed Thorne down into the depths of the castle, searching for the traitor that he had labeled. As we moved deeper inside, I could hear the growls of my new brethren echoing against the walls. It sounded like a slaughter and when I heard it, I rushed even faster to see what was happening.
I entered the hall and found all of the Rucai lying on the ground, beaten, bruised and bloody. The traitor growled as he slashed one final wolf to the ground.
“You!” Thorne shouted at him. “Shadow, you dare kill your own kind?”
“No!” Shadow shouted back to him. “I won’t allow you to do this. This is not the Rucai. We are not murderers. This must stop now.”
“You are not the one to decide the destiny of our clan! You have no right! What is to be done with this traitor, my queen?”
I took a few step forwards and I looked at him. Shadow stared at me for a moment and I saw a look of confusion on his face.
“Ariel…” he whispered. “What did he do to you?”
“I… I have found myself,” I said to him. “I have found my place in the Rucai. I am the Alpha Queen.”
I watched as Shadow started to change. The imposing beast slowly transformed into a familiar figure. Instead of a werewolf, I saw an ordinary blonde man. He stood there in the nude with no shame, his hands offered out to me.
“Ariel,” he said to me. “This is not you.”
“Don’t tell me what I am,” I growled back.
“Listen to yourself, Ariel,” he pleaded with me. “You’re not one of us. You’re not thinking straight.”
“Don’t try to influence me.”
“It’s me, Ariel. It’s Vaughn. Don’t you remember, Ariel? Do you remember how it felt when we were together? I loved you.”
“Ha!” Thorne scoffed. “Don’t make her laugh. There is no need to push your idealistic and foolish human morals upon her. She’s left that behind her. She knows what’s important and she’s no longer fooled by the emotional and irrational feelings that you’ve become attached to.”
Thorne took a step in front of me and blocked me from looking at Vaughn.
“Don’t listen to him,” Thorne said to me. “He is weak. He is a traitor. He has turned his back on the Rucai and deserves to be dealt with. The only punishment for traitors is death!”
“Please, Ariel!” Vaughn shouted over him. “Close your eyes. Look at yourself. That’s not who you are. You cannot deliberate between life and death—”
“Shut up, traitor!” Thorne interrupted him. “My queen, please. Look at what he has done to your clan. I am your alpha! I have the right to destroy him!”
I was unable to control my own thoughts and instincts. The girl I knew as Ariel was gone. I shook my head as I thought about what I used to be. I wasn't a human anymore. I was the Alpha Queen of the Rucai. I looked around at the destruction and made up my mind.
“You are the alpha,” I said to Thorne. “You are my chief. Kill this traitor and be done with it.”
“It will be done, my queen.”
Thorne turned to the blonde man standing across the room.
“Then I challenge you!” Vaughn shouted. “You are not fit to lead the Rucai anymore!”
Vaughn started to transform once again, the blonde man being replaced by a beast with silver fur, white streaks lining his stomach and arms. The brown beast Thorne rushed at him and I screeched as the two of them engaged one another.
It was a violent tangle. Silver and brown in a ragged swirl before my eyes. A dance in which either one of them could fall dead with a single misstep. Thorne lunged at Shadow’s throat, trying to take a bite out of him. Shadow stepped back and slashed at him, cutting him across the chest. Thorne stumbled back in pain as the blood spilled down onto the ground. But it didn’t deter him from jumping back into the fight.
I watched with eagerness, waiting to see who would come out on top. They wrestled with one another, trying to dig their claws into the other’s flesh. Thorne grabbed Shadow and tossed him to the side, causing his body to skid across the stones. Thorne started to stalk him, his head low as he paced toward him.
“Finish him!” I growled. “Kill the traitor!”
I didn’t know what had come over me but I wanted nothing more than Thorne to follow through with my order. He was the chief of the clan. I wanted him to impose his will upon him. As Thorne picked the beaten Shadow off of the ground, he held him around the throat.
“You know what happens to traitors of their own kind after they die?” Thorne said to him. “There is no place even in Hades for you. Your soul will be condemned to an eternity of misery. How does that make you feel, Shadow?”
“No!" Shadow shouted at him. "I am no traitor. You are. The one who would bring upon the destruction of a city and innocent lives... You are a disgrace to our clan!”
“Brave words from a wolf who is about to die. Look, Shadow. Look upon your queen. You could have served her but instead you chose to be a disappointment.”
Thorne gripped Shadow’s head between his massive paws and turned it toward me. I looked into Shadow’s eyes. The blueness sparked something inside of me. Something that I remembered.
I closed my eyes. I saw what I had become through Shadow’s eyes. My humanity was gone. But it was more than that. I felt what Shadow felt. The feelings he had for me. They were still there. And I could feel how sincere they were. They were real.
I gasped as I opened my eyes. A moment of clarity washed over me and the instincts and desires I felt rushing through my body were now gone.
“She is my queen,” Shadow mutter
ed. “She always will be. But you are not my chief.”
Thorne started to squeeze Shadow’s eyes. I could see the life beginning to slip from him, the blue sapphires growing dimmer with each passing moment.
“Argh!”
I growled as I felt a sudden pain shooting through my back. I fell down onto the ground and continued to shout in pain. I rolled over onto my back and looked up at the man standing over me.
“It’s okay, Ms. Everhart,” Irvine said to me. “You’re going to be fine.”
“What is this?” Thorne growled.
I rolled over onto my side as Irvine’s distraction had given Shadow the moment he needed. He ran his claws deep into Thorne’s throat and Thorne shouted violently. I watched as he dug them in as hard as he could, blood beginning to pour from Thorne’s throat. Suddenly, I was watching Thorne getting the life getting drained from him.
“You… fool,” Thorne said to him, gasping deeply. “Look around you… You have killed your entire clan… And now you kill your own chief… You will never be an alpha!”
Shadow responded by yelling even more violently and squeezing the rest of the life out of Thorne. Thorne’s body became lifeless as it fell to the ground, his head nearly separated from it. Shadow stood back on his feet and started to walk over to me.
I looked up and Irvine and Sasha were now standing next to me. I raised my hands above my vision and saw that my claws were returning to the human form I was more familiar with, the fur beginning to disappear. My vision was cloudy. I was gasping for breath and doing my best to gather myself. Sasha and Irvine continued to comfort me and console me.
“It’s okay, Ms. Everhart,” he whispered to me. “I’ve injected you with an antidote. You’re going to recover.”
The three of them stood over me as I slowly started to regain my senses. Finally, my vision became clear and I caught my breath. They picked me up off of the ground. My naked body was the least of my worries but Irvine picked some scraps of cloth from the ground and wrapped them around me.
“Don’t try to move too much,” Sasha said to me. “Just relax.”
