Chapter 219: Hurt
"You\'re beautiful. I want you."
Meredith\'s heart fell in her stomach as fear coursed through her body. As she was desperately flailing her arms and legs, she realized that she is now in the arms of a being who reigns supreme at night.
She is in the arms of an Incubus who might soon mark her if she is not careful.
"No! Meredith!"
Atlas changed his form into a werewolf. As he was about to chase her, Austin extended his arm to stop him. Atlas became frustrated by the second when he was stopped, wondering why the fae decided to do so.
"What are you doing!? Meredith\'s taken away from us!" he complained as he reverted back to his human form. "If you only allowed me to chase her, I couldn\'t done so and--"
"And what?" Austin interrupted, shaking his head. "You cannot possibly jump as high as the incubus flew!"
"Then you suppose I just let this go?! Austin, I--"
"Listen to me!" Austin said harshly, doing his best to calm Atlas so they will be able to save Meredith in the most efficient way. "If you follow the incubus, you will be led to a trap. They are not that thick."
Atlas\' adrenaline was on its peak. As his breathing was quick, he tried his best to listen to Austin as his eyes were dead set on the forest before them.
"If you follow them, he might alert his kind and we will be led to a trap. We do this stealthily and quietly. You have a strong sense of smell and you can track Meredith with that. If you risk going after them head on, you might risk her safety," he added, Atlas now looking at him.
"But--"
"What if they feel threatened and they\'re pushed to the corner into hurting Meredith so you don\'t get to retaliate? Think about that, Atlas. You\'re an intelligent man; you should know what to do in order to save Meredith better and efficiently."
Atlas hate to admit it, but he was right. He let out a sigh and shook his head, throwing his hands up in the air as he was now convinced by Austin to do this the calm way.
"So, what now?"
"We do this stealthily like I said." He opened his pouch and then gave him two vials, the werewolf arching a brow at him as if waiting for an explanation. "The vial with the red potion is a potion that grants us temporary invisibility. The vial with the yellow potion gives us temporary levitation."
Atlas got the potions from him and continued to listen as Austin already has a plan in mind, pointing at the path of snow beneath them.
"We need to levitate a little from the ground. I came in prepared just with a variety of potions just in case and lo and behold. If we stealthily track them and they see tracks that we leave, they\'ll track us."
"Alright, I get it," Atlas said, letting out a sigh. "Shall we drink this, then?"
"Yes," the fae said, looking at him with serious eyes. "You have to track Meredith with the best of your abilities. That\'s essential. And remember… attack stealthily. You don\'t need to kill them, just knock them out so you don\'t provoke the others who might see the unconscious bodies."
"Tsk…" Atlas clicked his tongue. "Killing them would be quicker and better," he mumbled, Austin shaking his head to disagree.
"And further incite anger to the other incubus as it will highly alert them compared to knocking them out? Not likely. They know we\'re after Meredith and will protect her by all costs, then."
"But--"
"We\'re going to take this as an advantage," Austin interrupted once more, making Atlas further understand the plan. "Do you know why the incubus swooped in and abducted Meredith? It\'s because he thought we are humans and we won\'t do anything about it in the wilderness."
Atlas was silent, only nodding to what he said as he continued making sense.
"Now we have to take this advantage and make it as an element of surprise, driving them to a corner so they\'d give Meredith back. We threaten them with some of their people in our hands until they give her back."
"Alright, I understand," Atlas said, already opening the potions. "Let\'s start it then. I don\'t want this to take longer than it already is."
Without wasting another second, he drank two potions in one go and so did Austin. As the effect started happening after three seconds, the two of them set onwards to the forest to save Meredith.
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"Fuck!! Can\'t you just let me go?!
"Feisty aren\'t you?" the mysterious man who\'s obviously an Incubus said, letting out a chuckle as well. "The name\'s Denver."
"I don\'t care about your name!" Meredith replied harshly, continuing to flail her arms and legs so he would let go. "Put me down!"
"And letyou fall?" Denver said, arching a brow at her. "Well, aren\'t you a weird mortal woman. Usually humans will give up and not want themselves fall. But you on the other hand, would rather choose that and die."
Meredith didn\'t say a word. She wouldn\'t want to risk her identity. As she come up with a way to escape, she successfully did so when she elbowed Denver on his chin, making him let her go.
"Fuck!"
As Meredith was falling quick to the ground, the air hitting her face and her body, she didn\'t care. She wanted to be hurt rather than be in the hands of this Incubus.
"Aaaah!!"
However, she exclaimed in extreme pain when she felt a claw dig her leg muscles, making her wince in pain. She is now being carried upside down as Denver continued to an abandoned ruins deep in the forest.
"If you only did not retaliate, then I would have carried you better!"
He hissed as he flew away, Meredith still crying as the pain was unbearable. She then passed out, making Denver sigh as he thought to himself his evil intention.
\'It made me want to take you more… feisty like that. I wonder what it\'s like to attack you later in your sleep.\'
A/N: Hi guys so it\'s seems I have made some few mistakes and I will be correcting them. Meredith has a new face and you might be wondering. How Sofia and he brother recognized her. Tomorrow we get the answers. Thanks to the readers who pointed it out. It\'s been a while so if you see anything please let me know.
Thank you