The Monster Tamer

"Before I answer your questions, can I hug you?" Mark asked.

His questioned made me flinch. Just after that hot passionate kiss we shared, how could I expect him not to do anything while hugging me.

'Not just that. I am also not sure if I can keep my own sanity, seeing just how hot he is.' I thought to myself.

"Do not worry. I promise I will not do anything that you do not want to." Mark said with his right arm raised. "It is just that the inside of this cave is a bit cold. I am sure you are feeling that as well."

When Mark pointed out the temperature, my body instinctively shivered. I remembered that I am only in my undergarments right now, and now that I am not near Mark's body heat, I am starting to feel cold.

"A natural body heater right here." Mark smiled innocently, as if it was so natural to having this conversation with me. He opened his arms and wait for me to fall in his arms.

Against my own judgement, I walked towards him and fell on his embrace. His arms wrapped around me comfortably as if it was so natural.

'I can endure this.' I thought to myself. 'I wouldn't want to die from the cold. I still have many things to do.'

Mark carried me near the fire and sat me on his lap while he sat on the hard ground.

"Isn't this position a little too awkward." I blush on embarrassment.

"We just shared a fiery kiss just a while ago and you are getting shy in this skin ship?" Mark chuckled. "I just do not want you to get cold, that's all. And I like this, having you near me and feeling your warmth. It makes my chaotic heart feel peace after so long."

"You sound like an old man." I teased him while giggling.

"Well you could say that the experiences that I have been through have made me more mature than I should be." Mark replied with a sad kind of smile that I felt my heart being squeezed after seeing. "Would you like to hear the story of a werewolf?"

"I-If you wish to." I became rather shy, knowing that someone I just met is opening his heart to me.

I was not sure if this is because of the mate bond Mark is talking about, but I feel like telling him my life struggles as well. I feel so comfortable being with him.

"Maybe my story can also shed some light on some of your questions." Mark said with a smile. "So where will I start?"

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(Mark POV)

I was still a young boy when my pack was attacked by humans. My pack was the last lycan pack in the US continent. We have been living far away from human civilization, trying to avoid contact with them as much as possible. Our pack has made an own settlement deep in the forest and we were living peacefully without any problems. That was until that faithful day.

At the dead of night, we heard a bunch of helicopters hovering on our settlement. Our settlement was shrouded with some fairy magic that was given to us by our fairy friends, and so we did not think we would be found out. But we were wrong, dead wrong

Not long, the enchantment that was cloaking our settlement went down without a warning. After that, human vehicles came and invaded us. At first, we were able to stand ground, with the adult lycans shifting to their beast form that was towering in height. They fought with the humans that were using the latest technological weapons.

Their high powered weapons were able to break thru to our defences, our lycan warriors were falling one after another.

"Mark, you have to go with the others and escape." My mother has told me.

"B-But what about you and father?" I looked at my mother who was afraid and was etched in her eyes.

"Your father is the alpha of this lycan pack. He needs so hold his ground and fight back." My mother said.

"But what about you?" I was crying. "You come with me, mom."

"I-I am sorry my little boy." My mother hugged me tightly. "I need to be with your father. You will understand after you find your own mate in the future. Be safe, my son."

"No, mom… mom!" I screamed for her, but she turned around and shifted into her beast from and joined the battle.

I was left with all alone. I tried pushing the other lycans that were escaping to go to where my parents were, and that was where I saw them die fighting.

My father was hit by a shower of bullets. Regular bullets do not harm us lycans, but my father was bleeding all over. That just means the bullets were made with silver, the only thing that can wound us.

When my father's beast form fell on the ground lifeless, my mother whimpered. Seeing her broke my heart. It was as if her heart was ripped out from her. She howled loudly that the other lycans joined her.

*AWOOOO AWOOOO AWOOO*

My mother then stood by my father's lifeless body and growled. She launched an attack to the humans that killed my father.

"Kill her." A human that looked like the leader of the group ordered. After that, bullets rained on my mother.

My mother was able to persist, limping and blood was staining her beautiful white fur. When she was near the human leader and was about to attack, that human pulled a sword and slashed my mother's throat. Like my father, she fell on the ground bleeding until she breath her last.

"NOOOOOO!!!" I yelled with fury. I looked at the man that killed my mother with hatred. "I WILL KILL YOU! I WILL KILL YOU!!!"

The human leader walked towards me menacingly while holding the sword that was stained with my mother's blood. My body felt hot, as if I was boiling inside.

"No, don't." A man in a lab coat stopped the human leaders. "He is an alpha lycan's offspring. He has not yet gone thru his first shift, if I am not mistaken. I want to study him, see how lycans shift for the first time."

"Suit yourself." The human leader had a blank face and waved a hand towards his human subordinates.

The humans surrounded me. They had guns pointing at me. I was not afraid of death, now that my parents are death. I just want to kill the man that kill them, before I leave this world.

But rather than bullets, wires came out of the guns. The wires pierces thru my body and electricity ran thru my body.

"Ahhhh!" I screamed in pain.

I trashed all over, making the humans holding the wires on my body flying. Even if I was still a child, I am still a lycan and have strength much stronger than humans. The humans were having a hard time keeping me still while I was trashing, the electric shock was painful, but I was able to resist it.

But then I felt something prick my arm. When I looked at my arm, I saw a dart sticking to it. I quickly took it out, but my head started to feel fizzy. I got dizzy and the surroundings started to blur. I blinked my eyes, but my sight only cleared for a second and it became fuzzy again. I felt my body weaken, and then my legs folded under me. I sat on the ground trying to hold on to my consciousness.

"Wolfsbane. This is some kind of poison to you lycans and werewolves." The man in a white lab coast said. He picked up the dart and looked at it. "I put a little dose together with a sedative. I know your kind can burn any medicine in your body at a fast rate, and so I put some wolfsbane with it. Do not worm, a little dose will not do any harm to your body. It will just make your fast healing ability to dull, making the sedative effective. Goodnight, little lycan." The man had a chilling smile etched on his face before I lost consciousness.ｆ𝘳e𝒆w𝗲𝐛𝘯𝐨νe𝚕.cｏ𝓶

"Could you imagine what happened to me next?" Mark asked. I shook my head, not knowing what kind of horrific experiments those humans could have done to a small lycan child. "I became their guinea pig and was experimented since then. I cannot remember how many times they have pierced my body with injections and put tubes. They also tried to see how far a lycan's regenerative abilities go. Lycan and werewolves seldom have scars on our body, but they can still have one. They gave me this."

Mark showed me his back and I saw a huge scar from the right shoulder blade down to his waste. It was not that nasty to look at, but you can just imagine how deep could that have been. I cannot hide my surprise.

"I was able to escape when I was in my teens, and that was when I met you." Mark said and smiled sweetly. "I believe that was eight years ago.

My eyes went wide in surprise with his words.

Edited by:nalyn