The Lycan Princess and the Temptation of Sin by Moonlight Muse

The Lycan Princess and the Temptation of Sin Chapter 12. An Attack

SKYLA.

I don’t move, the first rule of survival… stay calm… I keep my breathing steady, my eyes blazing plum purple, the exact colour of whatever or whoever that is… we’re pretty far but those eyes look almost… reptilian… I’m not completely sure as I’m not close enough… and then again, there shouldn’t be snakes out here… this is England, not

Australia.

I briefly wonder if I actually ended up falling asleep and dreamt that I’m in the land down under. I finally get why they call it that. That place must be hell with the number of things trying to kill you over there. 7

Focus Sky.

The smell of the earth and the crisp air are enough to tell me that I’m definitely wide

awake.

Neither of us moves for several seconds and I slowly rise to my feet, eyeing the reptilian or whatever it is. Wait, maybe it’s a snake shifter! Do they exist? Hell, anything can exist, I mean, I’m a Lycan.

Despite how calm I am, that sense of foreboding is only growing, and my gut is telling me that I should assess the situation and start by getting inside… but before I can, I hear Malevolent meow from behind me.

“Go inside.” I say, terrified for her life as those purple eyes turn towards her.

“Meow?” Malevolent tilts her head, looking at me. She’s on edge. I can see the way her fur is standing on end as she stares into the darkness. I don’t think she can see it, but she

knows something isn’t right.

I mutter

towards her; wrong move.

sinister hiss and then that

towards us.

some reason, I’m unable to see it. There’s a darkness surrounding it and at times I swear it feels like it disappears, but I don’t stop to ponder, darting towards Malevolent as I shift into my

fur stands out in the darkness, sadly – unlike Dad, I don’t really blend into the

huge snake, its thick body covered in shimmery black scales that hold a dark plum hue to

terrifyingly huge it is. I may be 7 feet tall, but this thing is way, way, way,

Fuck!

spins around, its tail catching my right flank and throwing me to the ground. The impact knocks the breath from me as pain rushes up my side. I’m glad that it no longer cares about Malevolent. Its menacing eyes turn on me as I jump to my

the point of being a damn Lycan if I

noodle? 9

Focus girl! 1

things can go right through me… but what makes my eyes widen is when he

the cobbled stone path darken under what I’m assuming is poison. Jumping to my feet, I run at it. This time I

not even able to throw it to the ground. It flails around but I hold on, trying to sink

it’s normal

I’m running out of options. The smartest thing would be to

burning this place down. Yes, I’m living in the middle of the woods and I can cope with spiders to an extent, but anything oversized like this,

darts at me. I catch its mouth, feeling its sheer power as I force its mouth open, my arms screaming in agony as it tries to bite down on me. Fuck, these

my breast. My eyes flash and I use my legs to kick it off me, just as a little ball of soft black fur launches itself at me, nudging my face as I