I had another thing they didn’t -wings.
Bunching up the muscles in my legs, I pushed off the ground and took to the air. It was more difficult to take off from the ground, especially with the wolf’s added weight, but I could still do it. Beating my wind furiously, I whipped up a cloud of dust and dirt that blocked the humans’ vision. I rose higher and higher until the humans were about half theirnormalsize.
“See you, assholes!”Ispat.
Something sharp grazed my wing and made me growl. I saw the spear falling in an a downward arc from the corner of my eye. There was a tiny nick in the bottom of my wing and it beaded withblood.
No matter. The important thing right now was saving the wolf - myfatedmate.
As a final fun farewell, I inhaled and blasted a wave of fire towards the humans. They screamed and danced backwards, scrambling to escape the flames. They gave up the fight. They fled back to wherever they came from, leaving only dying cindersbehind.
“That takes care of that,” I muttered, and beat my wings harder to join Ruby back high inthesky.
“You just had to make a big display, didn’t you?” she said withasigh.
“Nothing wrong with a fire show.” I grinned. “Were youwatching?”
“How could I not?” she mumbled. Then she flew closer to the precious life in my arms and said, “Hello there, wolf. We won’thurtyou.”
With a yelp of surprise, the wolf transformed back to his human form. My heart squeezed with affection. With his dirty blond hair, golden eyes and tan skin, he was just as beautiful - if not more - inthisform.
“What’s your name?” Ruby asked when the wolf didn’treply.
Finally, in a flustered voice, he asked, “What thefuckisgoingon!?”
