Wanderlust Beastkin, Beauty and the Beastkin-Chapter 82: Miasma and Shadows

Beck’s Perspective

"If that’s the case, then I haven’t missed my chance to claim you for myself," she exclaimed, flashing Beck a bright, toothy smile. Her golden eyes sparkled with a fierce, eager glint as she gazed into his eyes and playfully licked her lips.

Unfortunately for her, her suggestive licking was lost on Beck, since he was so used to females randomly hitting on him that he had become desensitized and therefore usually tuned them out entirely. So, when the little black fox female, who was known as a beauty and was used to males throwing themselves all over her before she was sold to the bear beastkin after he decided that he had to have her, and paid her village an exorbitant price for her. She started to wonder whether this strong male didn’t seem infatuated with her because he was playing hard to get, or because she had bear scratches on her.

Beck leaned over and poured a healing potion into Skye’s mouth, and Yumi eyed the bottle greedily. "Do you happen to have a couple extra of those?"

Beck looked into his pocket, which held three more potions, and then handed two to the fox female.

She quickly swallowed one of the potions, and as Raven thought the second one was meant for her, a warm smile spread across her face as she slowly lifted her hand. However, she was taken aback when Yumi uncorked the bottle and began applying the other healing potion directly onto her own skin. Although Yumi would have healed perfectly well without using the last potion on herself, she was eager to expedite her recovery to restore her beauty immediately rather than waiting a few days. She was determined to win the affection of this strong male before they went their separate ways. Yumi believed that as long as she could regain her beauty, no man could resist her charms, and she was usually right, but Beck was not just any man. Being considered a great beauty in his own right, even amongst his own beastkin species, who were known to be legendary beauties, he was immune to physical beauty and instead found inner beauty attractive. Physical looks alone had no impact on him.

After a long pause in which Raven stared at her supposed friend with wide eyes, she turned her attention to Beck with pleading eyes, and he looked into his pocket with a small sigh and then took out the last one and handed it to Raven.

"Thank you," Raven said in a small voice.

Beck hadn’t wanted to give away the last healing potion since he liked having a backup plan for emergencies, but he wasn’t about to refuse the healing potion to an injured female who needed it. While the females were rapidly healing, Beck hurried to the other females and released them. Having no more healing potions, there wasn’t anything more he could do except ask the females who were well to help those who were in rougher shape, head towards the currently unmanned gate into the snatching grounds.

There were three females who were incapable of moving at all, and so he was forced to put them in one of his large bubbles while he carried them to the front gate. That was where he and Elara had promised to meet so that they could head towards the woods and leave this place. It made him nervous to have to do such a dangerous thing on her own, but he trusted in her determination to get done what needed doing, and if things turned sideways, he would do what he had to do to rescue her.

Shortly after he came to the gate, he saw Elara walking towards him, though she was carrying two large things over her shoulders. Then, just as she approached, he saw that the two bulky things over her shoulders were actually males that she had flung over her shoulders.

He raised an eyebrow at her as she approached, "I see that you have brought souvenirs with you."

Elara’s Perspective

She returned the eyebrow raise. " I see that you’ve also brought souvenirs," she said while pointedly looking at his floating, blue-tinted bubble full of females.

His face flushed fiercely red. "I’m just saving these females who don’t seem to be able to walk."

Then, from behind him, a little head framed in long hair that looked like a night sky poked out with large dark blue eyes framed with thick eyelashes—an adorable little face with a cute little nose and large, beautiful eyes like a doll. Then the image suddenly changed when she smiled, and long, thin fangs became visible. The cute little female suddenly rushed out from behind Beck and ran with her arms outstretched towards Elara, who quickly set the males down and opened her arms for Skye.

"I’m so glad you’re here. I was so worried when I saw you had been captured by that brute," Elara said while holding the slightly shaking Skye.

"It was awful, I can’t ever go back to him, Elara. I can’t," said Skye.

Elara took hold of her face and tilted her head so that she was looking into her eyes. "You won’t have to, alright. You’re going to stay with me, and we’re going to get far away from here. We’re going to meet up with my friend Perla, and we’ll settle down somewhere safe and far away from here."

"What if Perla doesn’t like me? I’m a vampire bat, beastkin don’t like vampire bats."

Elara released her face and gave her a gentle head pat. "She’ll love you, you have a family with us now, so don’t think anything of it."

Skye rubbed the side of her face against Elara as young cubs and partners tended to do when they were instinctively leaving their scent on those that they loved. Elara was surprised initially, but she didn’t mind. Elara took her hand as she watched Beck walk over and pick up the two males she’d set down with one hand and create another blue-tinted bubble, and less than gently stuff the males into the other bubble. A satisfied smirk appeared on her lips as she saw his lips thin, and he easily lifted them up and stuffed them into the bubble with signs of apparent jealousy.

She let out an involuntary snort as she watched him. He glanced over at her facial expression and blushed fiercely as he ducked his head and gentled his movements.

It was adorable to see such a devastatingly beautiful male become jealous of other males on her account. After they were unceremoniously put into the bubbles, what was left of the group that hadn’t run out of the snatching grounds already left as a group. Most of the females wearing red had already fled just as soon as the gates weren’t being guarded but as they walked through the rest of the red clad females who had been hiding, climbed out of the trees and silently followed the group, so that by the time they left the grounds, they were a group of thirty females and three males, an unprecedented situation.

As they left the grounds, there was a loud rumbling, and a fissure within the ground began to rumble and crack open. The sky shivered, and the sparking light that had filled the air since the early days of Duarte Village shivered, and in the sky, there was a resounding crack, and a tear appeared. From within the tear, there was darkness, a darkness so profound that it was like the void within a black hole, bottomless and without end. Then from within that darkness, there was movement, and thin wisps of dark purple miasma curled in through the crack, and a large, deep red glowing eye peered through the crack on the other side.

Perla’s Perspective

I stared at those silver eyes so close to my own and his lips near mine and felt my heart give out a flutter as my heart pounded in my ears. I glanced at those beautiful lips and stunning eyes, his ethereal beauty right before me, so close, his skin clear with a slightly glittering sheen, like an angel fallen from heaven to seduce me. I couldn’t look away, though my head screamed at me to run; it was muted by the pounding of my heart.

I bit my lower lip nervously and he glanced down at it, and a devastatingly sexy smile graced his sinful lips. He was everything that my mind told me I should avoid but I was tempted. He ran his pointed nail gently across the side of my face and along my lips where my teeth had nicked my lip. While staring into my eyes, I couldn’t take my eyes off of him as he leaned in and flicked his tongue across my bleeding lip, causing the injury to immediately start healing while he savored the taste of my blood. I swallowed nervously as I reached up to touch his beautiful hair that looked like molten metal. He pulled back to study my face and then leaned in once more to kiss me and then suddenly paused and sat up as he breathed in deeply, and the silver of his eyes flashed and his expression suddenly shifted into a cruel expression as he suddenly stood up.

He glanced down at me with a contemplative look in his eyes and then pointed at me. A strand of silk shot out from his finger and tied my ankles together.

"He leaned in and left a gentle kiss on my forehead. "I will return shortly, and we can talk then. We have much to discuss. I won’t be long, my darling." Then he shot out a web dome, smaller but like the one around his territory. "Sorry for the inconvenience, but I can’t allow you to be taken away from me," he said while looking at me and pressing his palm against the dome to strengthen it with his mana.

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