Chapter 11: The Escaped

Chapter 11: The Escaped

When Choven left Azhea in his cave room, he accidentally dropped the key on the floor without noticing it.

Azhea's eyes looked at him with wide eyes full of nervousness. She put her contact away at the key before he could notice it. Her palms were getting wet, and she held her feet to stop from trembling. She acted cool as long as she can, and lucky her, Choven didn't saw the key.

When Choven walked out of the cave, Azhea was staring at him until he was no longer to be seen. She made sure he was not outside. The moment she heard his footsteps walking away from the place, she immediately used her feet's fingers, wrapped the key around it, and kept hold of the key, she lifted it high and grabbed it immediately. She hid the key on the blanket.

"Thanks, God!" She breathed in and out, her eyes were flickering by the thought of running away. While Choven was still outside and when he came back, he saw Azhea sleeping and he felt better and slept too.

Around 5:OO in the morning when everybody was asleep, Azhea slowly opened her eyes, peeking around the place, making sure no one was around. She slowly lifted her body and got the key, she unlocked the chain, but when she stepped her feet down the floor she got surprised to see Choven on the floor.

"I'm almost got caught," she thought, took a deep breathe, and tiptoed. She looked on her back and front over and over again to see if Choven was still asleep. And when she finally went on the exit, she peeked outside the cave and saw nothing but darkness... "Thank you, Lord, no one is around," she whispered. She was too nervous and wasn't sure how successful was this escape plan. But for her no matter how risky it was, she needed to try.

She slowly went out and silently strode her feet.

"You can do this," she murmured as she wiped her forehead, she was dripping with sweat, but the more she went further and further the more her nervousness was cleared off. Since the minute she left the pack's place, she never looked away at the place.

"I'm glad no one noticed I was gone," she thought but she knew that she still need to be careful and don't feel comfortable. She ran away for an hour.

"Hey, Casper, I saw something here," Max said from the distance.

"What it is?" Casper asked.

"Shhh," he hissed at Max and gestured him to went closer and be quiet.

"Oh my God! That's pretty big, Max," he said and Max hissed again.

"Hid from the trees," Casper whispered and they both hid side by side.

Azhea could hear their voices and she was having a panic attacked.

"They can't catch me again," she was determined and hid behind the tree. She looked at the two men and she wasn't sure if they were werewolves or human beings. She found it difficult to distinguish because there were no signs to tell apart the differences. However, when she saw them having a tattoo on their neck and shoulder, she was sure that they were humans. For her werewolves getting themselves tattoo was a crazy thought, it was impossible that they would even find those types of things interesting. She chuckled in her mind, and about to get out towards them to ask for help but...

BANG!

"You caught it?" Max shouted.

"Holy cow, Max! I did," Casper was laughing out loud and Azhea hid back again to where she was before.

"Aw, bull's eye," he chuckled. Max praised Casper.

Azhea still had no idea what was happening but when she looked closer at them she got surprised when she saw a big deer, bleeding so hard.

She was speechless but there was nothing crueler when she saw them shot it again.

"Look who's here, Casper." Max was smiling.

"What?" Casper asked while he was busy looking at the deer he just killed.

Azhea kept watching them and she saw five young deer, she knew that they were just born at the moment that these hunters killed their mother.

"Oh, we're having a party tonight," said Max and pointed his gun at the baby young deers.

"No, please don't kill them," Azhea wanted to shout that phrase but she couldn't do, no voice was coming out inside her lungs but nervousness.

Her eyes turned into waterfalls when they cruelly also killed them, and she knew that if she asked for help earlier she couldn't trust them either. Looking at their appearance, they looked like they would only make fun of her, and what was worst, they would bother thinking why was a woman wandering around a forest that people don't visit that often, and she was all alone.

"Azhea, what should we do?" She asked herself, she was still thinking to ask for help but then she heard another gunshot, and at this time their guns were pointed at the sky. They were hunting birds.

"Yahoo! One down, baby," Max shouted and loaded his gun again.

"No, what are they doing?" she cried. She could discern the tragic deaths of the birds and others.

She hid and never showed herself to the hunters.

The hunters were busy cleaning their mess and carried the animals.

Azhea could hear the sound of their truck starting but she never changed her mind about asking for their help, instead, she all did was cry and cry. She actually treasures animals, she learned to love them because of her mother but at the moment, she understood clearly Choven's feelings.

"You were right, humans are more than than a beast than your kind, we didn't care if your an animal," she was having a great pain while on the other side. Zhukre was busy watching Azhea.

"Task, why are you crying?" Zhukre thought as he was seriously watching her being emotional, he didn't pity her but he was annoyed by her reactions.

"Seeing your kind killed our kind hurt you, hah? Urgh! What a waste and dumb of you, you had the chance to go home back there,'" he said as he slowly walked towards her.

Azhea looked at Zhukre and she was ashamed by what those men did.

"You have no right to cry, you knew that it was your kind's nature," Zhukre said but she didn't say a words