Chapter Two

It feels like I am missing track of the trail from where I came out when I notice I have been walking for hours, yet no sight of the small house I left earlier. 

The cry of the owl switches on goosebumps on my skin and fears circulates in my heart,  the thought of going back to the community has warned me twice against deadly animals. 

Ouch!, a sharp object punctured Zena's foot, and she stopped walking, stood on one foot while she put up the other leg, and saw a long withered thorn that pierced under her foot,

which slowed down her movement while she walks lamely, yet she insisted on going to see the strange man she spent her night with at his place.

I could hear waterfalls gushing heavily, like spring is close by in the woods, and never did ị notice the waterfalls the last time I was here.

As much as, I had the thought that I'm lost, I still could not turn to return to the community rather I kept walking down deep into the woods. 

“Who are you looking for?”,

My heart flicked into cessation and my body quivered with a shock immediately I heard the voice while trying to hold myself from the quake I received from the strange lady. 

Although, I was fast enough to turn, and I'm very certain I saw her face like a critter, shifting immediately I turn to see who crept in on me.

I was not expecting to see a lady in the woods, though she looks pretty and twenties looks good on her. 

The strange young lady moved very close to Zena like she was about to bump into her. 

And she suddenly starts sniffing Zena's body as she moves around her like a dog who has seen and perceived a familiar scent.

I wondered what the strange lady could be sniffing on my body, or maybe she likes perceiving my smelling scent because I could remember correctly that, I haven't taken my bath. 

And, who is she by the way? Zena talked lash to herself.

Could she be the wife of the strange man that saved me last night because they both seem unusual?

The strange young lady proceeded to sniff Zena from her body to her hair and she was frightened of what her instincts told her about who Zena could be.

Shortly thereafter, she start leaning backward, and Zena could notice the fear reaction from the lady, but at the same time, the lady started drifting left to right like she was aiming for an attack. 

Surprisingly, the lady bounced on me like an angry dog, in a twinkle of an eye, I was on the ground while she prostrated on me as she suppress with her fist and weight.

Growling deeply her voice changes into a varmint animal and she opens her mouth so wildly like she was about to eat me. 

I could see a flame of anger in her eyes as she narrow knitted her brows together like an angry lion and her mouth extended so wildly that her sharp canine tooth grows longer. 

Fears spread through my heart, glaring at her face as it shift into the uncertain image I suspected before. 

Death bleeds in my thought and I was weak physically because her weight was ten times heavier than she looks. 

I knew for this moment, that I'm dead for sure because I'm in the middle of nowhere and no one will ever hear or save me. 

Even the mysterious strange man, can't coincidentally be around here to save me because I'm deep in the woods. 

Thick slippery saliva drops from her mouth to my face while she roars, trying to dodge the saliva from getting into my mouth I had to turn my face to the left side with my eyes close tightly but suddenly, I stop hearing her growling. 

I return my face to her face when I felt her strength has lessened me, it was unexpected when I glimpse that she was gazing at me with a terrified look. 

“What are you doing here don't you know you don't belong here?” she asked Zena with a dismay feelings 

“I am looking for someone and I assume he stays here, in the woods.” 

She stood up from Zena, and she gave Zena a helping hand to stand up too and she said, 

“You assume? meaning you are not sure of where you going either?” she replied to Zena with a discouraged feeling as she hurriedly walked out from her with a bizarre look.

“Please wait don't go! why did you stop doing what you wanted to do?” Zena asked her while dusting off the dirt she got lying on the ground from her hair to her dress.

She paused walking immediately after she heard Zena's question, and she said backing Zena, 

“I don't pry on the weak pack and more  especially not an Alpha”

“What do you mean by an Alpha?” Zena quickly asked.

But the strange lady ignore her question and she was approximately wanted to leave again when Zena called her a strange name. 

She turned and walk close to Zena while she said, 

“What do you mean by that? can you repeat what you said?” 

Zena was more frightened this time, if she had said anything wrong that might have provoked the lady and she stammered to repeat her statement. 

“I said, friend! can we be friends? you and me, please?”, 

She glared very close to Zena, looking at her eye ball to eye ball which made Zena not to be able to predict her next responses. 

“Okay!, fine...we are friends but be careful of who you choose as friends,” she affirmed and ask Zena. 

“So tell me, are you lost?” 

Zena could sense trouble and this might be a trap if she clearly states that she is lost rather she boldly replied, 

“I know where I'm going, I came to see the waterfalls by myself because I have heard a lot about the spring.

and for your other statement, you are right, because I wasn't sure of where I was going and I have never been in the woods before.

Please, can you show me the way to the waterfall?” Zena requested, 

But the strange lady stares at Zena while trying so hard to scrutinize the character of the strange weak Alpha she saw in the woods. 

“Hello, are you okay?”, Zena asked when she notice that the lady thought could be far. 

“Yeah!, I can show you the waterfall, moreover, you are there already and I don't think it's safe for you to be here alone.”

Zena quickly replied because the thought of being alone again in the woods strikes her thoughts again and this time she might meet the mysterious animal that kills. 

I have to be careful not to allow the strange lady out of my sight because she could be the means for me to return to the village else I'm stuck in the woods or be killed.

“Since you are here now, can you accompany me to spring?” Zena requested. 

“Sure, it's nothing thou”, She obviously smirk at Zena and both of them walked down to the spring but Zena was still limping. 

“Oh!, what happened to your legs, why are you not wearing your shoes?, and sorry for my manners, I'm Katherine but my friend me Kate.” 

“Nice name Katherine, maybe I could use the Kate because we are friends already” Zena replied while she pause to check her foot that was badly injured. 

Kate notice that Zena was three feet behind her and she stopped walking to respond to Zena, 

“Are we friends already?”, Kate asked and noticed how Zena grimace her face to show off the pains she is passing through from the dry thorn that pierced her foot and she hurried to assist Zena. 

“My goodness, your foot is turning blue, I think you have been poisoned.” She said in a serious tone.

“Poison? it can't be, who will want to set up a poison trap in the woods here?” Zena asked in a frightening tone.

“They call themselves hunters,” Kate replied, but she was not surprised by the strange thorn that punctured Zena's foot.

She knew it was her trap because she was being chased by the hunters when she ran in a circle way that swerved the hunters in another direction.

However, she wondered why will the poison be effective on Zena because it can only be effective on a wolf pack.

But she double-cast her thoughts, she was not expecting Zena to be like her kind because Zena portrays the weak strength of a human.

“Gosh, let me take you home, you need to burn out the poison else it will paralyze you,” Kate said in an assurance tone.

Already, Zena's eyes were beginning to turn clouds, and her last words were, take me to Angus Farm.