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When he started out, the sun was shining and there weren’t very many clouds in the sky, although he was aware that could change at any moment. He felt a little guilty because he told himself he should be patrolling, but he went to the north side of the mountain just to be able to relax. There was no way that the hunters could cross over the top of the mountain unless they had been out camping for several days.
Finally, the tension had eased out of him, and he decided that he would take a couple of passes over the south side of the mountain to see if there was anything interesting going on.
At first, the only thing that he saw were a couple of elk and some big horn sheep rooting around for food.
The clouds started to roll in and Luke decided that he should probably head back.
Suddenly, he spotted something in a small clearing. He stared down and saw that there were three people.
I had better check it out.
He dove down as low as he could go without making noise or causing a downdraft. Luke’s heart sped up when he realized that one of the people in the clearing was Jamie. The other two seemed to be giving her a hard time. Luke thought he saw one of the people holding a gun.
Luke dipped a little lower and saw that the man was pointing a gun at Jamie. Without even thinking, he landed right next to Jamie. He recognized the men from Dillon’s poster. They were hunters.
Surprised, the man with the gun swung the weapon at Luke and fired. The bullet bounced off of him.
Taking a huge breath, Luke breathed fire at the man who had shot at him. He dropped down to the ground, dead. The other man was trying to pull something out of his coat pocket. Luke let out a hot breath of fire, and the man screamed and collapsed to the ground.
Jamie was frozen. She didn’t move or even seem to breathe. Her eyes were wide open as she stared at the two burned men laying curled up in the snow.
Luke shifted into his human form.
“Jamie, are you okay?”
Her face was ghostly pale and she was shaking as she looked at him and nodded.
“I’m okay. They didn’t hurt me.”
“I need you to stay here, okay? I have to take care of them.”
She nodded, silently.
Luke grabbed both of the men in his claws and took off. There was a cave toward the top of the mountain that had a huge dark ravine inside of it. He dropped the men in without feeling anything. This was war, and someone always lost when there was a war.
He was tired. It had been a long time since he had flown this much, but he couldn’t afford to slow down.
Jamie was just where he had left her. She had already started to bury the ashes from the men’s bodies deep into the snow and then used a pine tree branch to cover up the area.
Luke landed next to her. He cupped her chin and turned her face toward him.
“Are you sure that you are okay?”
“I am,” she assured him.
“It’s a little cold to be standing out here naked. Can you finish covering up everyone’s tracks except for your own?”
“Yes.”
He kissed her quickly and said, “I’ll see you back at your place,” then shifted and took off.
Luke shifted, dressed, and made sure that his tracks were covered up near the cave and started the long journey back down the mountain to his truck. His arms and legs were aching and it seemed like it took forever. The snow had already started to fall softly and covered his hat and coat. He had never been so glad to see his truck in his entire life.
A hot shower and his soft bed were screaming his name. He wanted nothing more than to head to his place. He realized that he needed to talk to Jamie, and groaning loudly, he turned his truck in that direction.
The house smelled delicious when he walked in. She had already started dinner.
“I’m starving. You’re an angel,” he said.
