Beauty and the Beasts

Pretending he was looking for new prey, it appeared that Parker hadn’t noticed the beastmen following him. The dense foliage provided the best cover. Very soon, the leopard was nowhere to be seen in the forest.

 “Roar—” Where’s the leopard?

 A tiger gazed around with a lost expression.

 On the tree above the tiger’s head, a leopard was quietly edging up to them. As if sensing something, the tiger prepared to look up.

 “Howl!”

 What followed was the ferocious roar of a leopard. A patch of yellow glided down from above, pouncing right for the tiger below. Parker opened his mouth filled with sharp fangs and took a ferocious bite from the back of the tiger’s neck.

 The pitiful roar of a tiger could be heard throughout the forest, startling the birds and attracting the attention of the wolf beastmen and tiger beastmen, who instantly ran towards the sound.

 Parker clenched his teeth tightly, shaking his head maniacally with the tiger that was one size bigger than him in his mouth. Sensing the movement of the other beastmen, he immediately loosened his bite and climbed up the tree.

 The discarded tiger beastman struggled to get up on his four limbs but wasn’t able to. Finally, it gave up and slumped down on the ground.

 The six beastmen came charging from different directions. The leopard agilely scurried up a tree. The wolf beastman in the front leaped onto a tree trunk, following Parker closely. With a kick of his hind leg, he scurried up another half a meter before opening his mouth to bite the leopard’s leg.

 The wolf’s mouth was only the distance of half a palm away. The leopard didn’t turn around as his soft and light body allowed him to easily climb to a higher height.

 The wolf beastman found himself biting air. His front limbs were clinging onto the tree trunk and couldn’t let go, so he kicked his hind legs wildly. But after persisting for a few seconds, he still ended up gliding down helplessly.

 “Tsk!” Parker stood on the tree branch in a leisure manner, gloating.

 A tiger beastman pushed at the injured tiger with its head. The latter was barely breathing as it laid limply on the ground, the fur on the back of its head wet with blood. With a roll of its eyes, it stopped breathing completely.

 “Roar!” The devastated cry of a tiger was heard in the forest.

 Next to a bonfire, Rosa abruptly raised her head and gazed ahead, before rapidly looking down at her left arm.

 On her tanned arm, a majestic orange-colored tiger tattoo was speedily becoming fainter, until it vanished in the blink of an eye, as though it had never appeared.

 “Ah! Bai Qingqing!” Rosa clenched her teeth and jumped to her feet. “Bring me there!”

 Several strong-bodied naked young males transformed into their beast form. A tiger walked to Rosa’s side and arched its limbs for her to climb onto its back, before moving in the direction of the roars.

 However, one white tiger didn’t move. It remained standing next to the fire, with three limbs on the ground and one paw raised to the fire to warm it up.

 Rosa turned around and said to the white tiger, “Winston, you come along too.”

 Winston looked up, revealing his face that was half-covered with a scar, before raising his paws to his mouth and licking it.

 He was making preparations before eating. Now that his front paw was clean, it would be convenient for him to hold down the meat using his paws. After all, the other males were Rosa’s mates, while he was nothing to her. He didn’t want to let Rosa see his body.

 Rosa said coldly, “Don’t forget what you promised my father. Do you wish to lose the protection of the tiger tribe?”

 Winston’s silver eyes swept over Rosa and he could see the taunting in their depths. Both he and Rosa’s father were four-striped beasts. No one was protecting the other. This was mutually beneficial to them. Without him, her father would be in the same predicament as him.

 Rosa continued staring at Winston. In the end, Winston still got up. Feeling his warm and toasted paws on the cold mud, Winston felt even more vexed now.

 Seeing that Winston didn’t dare disobey her, Rosa smiled disdainfully. “Let’s go.”