THE BEAST IN ME

e dragons split their land into territories. M

reputation in every land there was. We were fe

urance greater than the other shifters, we could climb trees no ma

he nightfall, and gave us the complete camoufla

nto our human form and how we were carnivorou

and detect whether an imposter, rogue, assassin, or enemy was approaching. No matter how light their footst

of smell because it was the only way that helped

came of age when they

time because our life spa

d to fight one another for the female's hand. Despite being mated, any male inte

from afar watching and guarding their

ew of them. My kind was rarely mated to another kind of shifter, so it

ere somehow similar to the wer

ocks, trees near their caves and houses. The stronger the scent was,

er whenever the mating season began. The females were

ught each other and the top five winners were given an oppo

cruff of her neck and drag her back to his den, where he wo

n mate for a few min

to the strong pheromones they both released. The male would bite and mark his

they spend an extended period either confining the female in a den or cl

er mate one male and warn off the other males seriously. Most of them took

ltiple mating partners, and their male pa

d increased, the more they developed their weaponry, the more danger we en

rn how to keep ourselves hi

The males wouldn't stop fighting for the females who by now were way fewer than then. Mo

age. My instinct would soon kick in and force me to fight

And so I took off with a few clothes and gold bars in a bag. I

ready made and I was

r I had traveled in search of land that wasn'

o I easily managed to take down. I got thei

yone. And another five years to build up a mansion that was

m the human land. And behind my beautiful mansion was a forest where I haunted freely and

nd feed from the animals around us. But the human in me

ng was goin

eason began. The beast in me became aggressive and in need of his mate. He wanted to find her and breed her the whole

usually found myself lying next to a naked, female dead

ver cross the river because that's where the

knew well because