My Bloody Revenge novel Chapter 43

Lyra looks between Jaze and Lydoran. So alike yet so very different. Both have massive black

wings but Lydoran’s are charcoal while Jaze has inky black with a hint of blue. But there’s were

their similarities ends and differences begins. Unlike in human form Lydoran gets this amazing

white hair instead of his usual black and then there's his signature eyes, they really turn pure

silver in color and everything stands out against his dark skin. Standing side by side they look

mighty and otherworldly, like fallen angels. One dark and the other light. Magnificent sight to

see. Another thing that captures her eyes are the swirling tattoo on the side of Lydorans neck

and on a closer inspection she finds that it covers his entire right side. Its patterns are similar to

her own.

"What a sight we are." Lyra says with a crocked smile.

"Of course. We are vampires after all." Lydoran answers cockily with a smile to match. His voice

has gotten darker and sounds of an accent flows with every word spoken, which gives a harsher

clang to his speech.

"What are we hunting tonight?" Jaze asks excitedly.

"Can we make the wings retract or something? Cause I won't be able to run properly with them

flapping around."

"Yeah, just follow what you just said." Jaze says in matter-of-fact kind of way. More annoying

than helpful, which he is well aware of too. Lyra ignores him and concentrates on making them

retract and hiss in pain. It hurt a lot but thankfully it didn't last for long.

"Please tell me it won't always be this painful."

"The more you transform less painful it will be. First time is always the worst." Lydoran explains

while retracting his own wings. "Let's hunt some deer."

They start running at a leisurely pace, mostly goofing around allowing Lyra to adjust and getting

used to her new transformation. At first, she stumbles around a lot and gets caught in bushes

or tree roots and even accidentally breaks a tree at one time. It reminds of a child learning how

to walk. Eventually she gets the hang of walking around with a tail, sure it was retractable like

the wings but she stubbornly wanted to learn and now all that's left is learning how to walk

with wings as well. She not only has to learn how to walk but also control her newfound

abilities which isn’t as easy as she first thought it would. Hence plowing down a tree.

"How do we hunt?" Lyra scrunches her eyebrows in deep thought realizing she’s following on

something she knows nothing about. How intelligent of her.

"With the help of our instincts. Use all your senses, love. What do you hear, see, smell?"

Lydoran walks up and embraces her from behind to center her.

At first Lyra doesn’t hear or smell anything out of the ordinary. Her sight is slightly better, she

can see where she put her feet, but there is nothing extraordinary about it. It almost angers her

until a thought hit. Some years back Elmir played a game where she had to wear a blindfold and

although her sight was gone the hearing got better. Closing her eyes Lyra tries again, focusing

on the surrounding and gradually sounds invades little by little until she can hear more

distinctly and accurately pinpoint what and where. Running water to the left, flapping of wings

in the tree tops right above and faint heartbeats to the right. She can suddenly smell the water

despite being nowhere near it and all the trees and bushes. The sweet scent of jasmine flowers

wafts by followed by something rotten as a gust of wind comes their way. Lyra scrunches her

nose at the rancid smell of dead animal. Opening her eyes slowly she's stunned by how vivid

everything is compared to just moments ago. "Wow..." breathes out in a whisper.

"What did you find." Lydoran looks at her with a cryptic smile.

makes it taste heavenly. Sensing the presence of another predator she takes a few deep

breaths to identify the source and deems it a non-threat. Taking a few more gulps she stands up

and turns slowly and comes face to face with a large grey-black wolf. A few steps behind she

spots at least four more but somewhat smaller wolves yet still larger than the average wolf and

all of them have their eyes on her. Standing proudly, she keeps eye contact with what she

assumes is the alpha. No one moves and it irks Lyra so without nothing to lose she bows her

head and steps aside allowing the wolf to take her kill. Heck, she has taken what she wanted

from it anyway so it would only be a waste to leave it.

"Were we hunting on your territory?" The sound of Lydoran’s voice startles them. Seems like

they didn't hear him coming.

Where there previously stood a rather oversized wolf a proud male now stands. Roughly the

same height as Lydoran, maybe a few inches shorter. Lean body and slightly tanned. Naked too

although that doesn’t seem to bother him. "How many of you?" he asks with a surprisingly light

voice. Almost boyish but still manly.

"There is one more of us. I’m very sorry for intruding, we didn’t know the territory were

occupied. I hope my consort didn't insult you?"

"On the contrary, she bowed and offered her prey for me to take. Manners from a child, a very

powerful child at that. The power radiating off of her threw me off at first thinking she was an

older vampire. You are lucky to have such a strong mate."

"And don't I know it." Lydoran answers with one of his signature smiles. "We will be going now,

but you have two more deer here you are welcome to take. Have a nice night alpha. Lyra..." he

holds out his hand for her to take and together they walk away.