Editor's note: this story contains scenes of non-consensual or reluctant sex.
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Normally the full moon was Jessica's favorite night of the month. She would turn and run wild in the woods, do some hunting, terrorize some villagers, the usual. The last thing she expected was to find herself the prey.
The wind rushed through her hair as she sprinted deftly through the wood, her heart beating like a drum. Just ten minutes earlier she was stalking a rabbit when the first tranquilizer had flown past her shoulder and embedded itself in a tree. Thus begun the chase. Her powerful legs and canine agility gave her hope that she would outrun her hunter, but he seemed to show up inexplicably close, and she would have to change her course. She knew he was male by his scent, which made her all the more scared.
These thoughts and more swam through her head as she crested a hill. All was silent. She hid behind a copse of trees and tried to catch her breath. Where had he gone? Was she safe now? She peaked out from the trees, not noticing the dark form beginning to materialize behind her. As soon as his scent reached her, she swung around, only to be shot point blank in the chest with a tranquilizer dark.
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Jessica awoke in an unfamiliar room. By the smells and sounds she was picking up on she knew they were still in the forest, perhaps in a cabin by the look of the walls. Fear bolted through her when she tried to get up, but found her wrists and ankles were shackled to a bed with an unfamiliar material. She became aware, as the tranquilizer wore off, that something was stuffed in her mouth as well.
Suddenly the light in the room flickered on, and she heard footsteps. Out of the corner of her eye she could see the now familiar figure of her pursuer. She began to tremble. A few muffled whimpers escaped her gag, but the man just laughed softly, as though enjoying her pitiful attempt at pleading. He held out one hand and fire erupted from his palm, and it dawned on her that he was a warlock. What was a warlock doing near a mortal village? Werewolf hunting, she answered her own question.