Hawtness - Hawtness - Volume 3 - Chapter 8

“What is going on?” I asked inside my head.

“I don’t know…” Xavier said, looking around nervously using
my body. “Only way to find out is to keep going”.

The building erected here was not a tent like most of the
structures within the valley. This was a hard brick building. It looked like it
had been some kind of power station or something in the past. It looked like
the werewolves had repurposed it for their needs. Upon entering the building,
we were greeted to a long hallway. The lighting wasn’t on, and light coming
from the cracks of partially closed doors was the only light to go off of.

The entire place had an old feel, with a thin layer of dust
over everything. When they had decided to toss Daniel in this place, it
appeared to be done out of necessity. Calling the place a jail was giving it
far too much credit. It felt a little earie to me. I wanted to grab on to
Xavier’s arm and hold him closely. If he knew that, he’d probably be wearing
that perverted smile. Unfortunately for both of us, Xavier and I were in the
same body, so there was no way I could cling to myself.

“Daniel?” My voice called out.

I pinched myself.

“Oh, what was that for!” Xavier cried.

“Be quiet!” I snapped. “Do you want to get jumped or
something?”

“Ah… sorry…” Xavier looked guilty for a second. “Being dead,
I forget things like danger sometimes.”

“W-well, watch after my body better. Sneak in.”

Xavier nodded, and immediately crouched down. Moving to the
side, he quickly found a spot keeping to the shadows. In fact, he seemed to
really natural at it. His eyes were open and alert, and he moved with a
smoothness I didn’t expect. As a ghost, he must be used to skulking in the
shadows. Yeah, it was probably something like that.

As we moved down the hallway quietly, we began to hear
voices at the end of the hall. Xavier paused, turning his head and listening
for a bit. The voices were coming closer. Ahead of us was a T-intersection, and
we could see a light coming from the right. Xavier smoothly grabbed a loose
stone and threw it the other direction. The pebble made some noises as it
skittered down the hallway.

“What’s that?” Two men walked right passed the T and
continued on towards the sound of the pebble.

As for Xavier, he continued on passing behind the two men
without making a noise. The men were only distracted for 15 seconds, but Xavier’s
timing was perfect, and when they turned back, we were already hidden in a
corner where the light didn’t show. I stared in amazement. When did he become
so suave?

“It must have been a ghost.” One of the men said, turning to
head toward the direction we had come from. “Let’s get back to the entrance
before someone grows suspicious.”

Xavier wore a frown on my face. Well, they weren’t wrong. It
was a ghost who made that noise.

“Suspicious of what?” I whispered in Xavier’s ear.

“Exactly.” Xavier nodded to himself, turning and continuing
on the path the two had come from.

We didn’t have to walk far this time, as we heard noises. We
quickly realized that the noises were of someone struggling. There were grunts
and the sound of punches.

Xavier quickened his step until he reached a door that
seemed to have light from more than just the sunlight through the window.

“Just confess to the crime!” a person with a werewolf face
but otherwise still a human body punched Daniel in the gut.

I let out a cry of shock. Daniel was strapped up to the
wall, both arms up. He was stripped naked, and he was currently getting worked
over by two equally muscular men. I wanted to attack them with my sword, but
there was just no way to do that. Xavier was in control.

“Can you take one of the men by possession?” I demanded, trying
to come up with a plan.

“I didn’t kill him… I said…” Daniel coughed. “There is
nothing to confess.”

“Oh, we know you didn’t kill him.” One of them laughed. “That’s
why it’s even more vital you confess!”

“You… Guh!” The werewolf punched him in the face; Daniel was
bleeding from his lip now.

“Confess to the crime, and then this will all be over.”

“You’ll let me go?”

“No… but we’ll make sure your execution is painless!”

“Gah!” He took several more punches.

I couldn’t watch this anymore. “Xavier!”

Xavier stood up straightened my watch and then casually
walked into the room. When I said I wanted him to do something, getting
captured here was not what I expected! He casually pulled out a cloth from my
pocket and then grabbed the first man. He put the cloth over the man’s face,
muffling the noise as he chocked him out. He did it just as smoothly as he had
snuck in. I was floored.

He moved in my body like I was a ninja, and his behavior
felt cold, cool, and professional. The Xavier I knew seemed to be replaced by
someone I didn’t even recognize. He had done it smoothly and quietly, and the
second guy, the one with the werewolf face currently punishing Daniel didn’t
even hear it. In fact, he didn’t notice anything was up until the man fell to
the ground, and then he only realized it because Daniel’s face had turned to
shock.

The werewolf spun around. Fear shot through me. Xavier
really was going to get me killed. It might have been easy for him to choke out
a werewolf who hadn’t heard him coming, but what chance did he have against a
man who was perfectly aware he was there. He was going to get me torn limb from
limb, I knew it!

He grabbed something off the table and chucked it at the
man. The werewolf went to leap forward, but with the object hurling at his
face, he dodged instead. Xavier closed the distance in an instance, sending an
elbow into the man’s nose. With a crunch, his nose was broken. This stunned the
werewolf, and Xavier struck him three more times, causing the man to eventually
fall over unconscious.

“Wow…: I said, unable to believe my body had just done that.

“Daniel.” Xavier said using my mouth, “How’s it hanging?”

I groaned, wanting to kick Xavier for his bad joke. Daniel
didn’t seem to catch it and instead shook his head. “I didn’t murder anyone.
Whoever these guys are working for, they’re trying to set me up! Jane, how were
you able to do all that?”

“It wasn’t me!” I said and then sighed.

“Ah… I’m not Jane…” Xavier laughed. “I’m Xavier possessing
her body. We weren’t expecting a fight, but we didn’t want to go by herself to
meet you. Had we known it would have ended up like this, I might have no let
Jane come along.”

“Xavier? How did you manage to do this?” Daniel asked,
slightly bewildered.

Xavier paused, looking down at the two people he had knocked
out in seconds, and coughed. “Ah… that. I don’t know. It was almost like… I was
going off memory. Some kind of muscle memory or something.”

“My muscles don’t remember doing that?” I said in confusion.

“Not you!” Xavier shot back and then shook his head. “Xavier’s
body. The real Xavier. Maybe he’s a kung fu expert or something. I usually have
never possessed a human this long before.”

“Well, it doesn’t matter how. Let’s get Daniel out of here!”

“Right, your chains…” Xavier reached for the chains but
Daniel pulled back.

“No! No…” Daniel shook his head. “I have to stay here. If
I go now, they’ll definitely decide I’m guilty. I’d lose my place in this
tribe.”

I stared at Daniel with a complicated frown that likely
mirrored the one Xavier put on my real face.

“They’re trying to frame you, you said so yourself!”

“Someone is…” Daniel said, “But their plans already went
belly up with you Jane. That’s why they’re so desperate to have me confess.
They’re afraid you might be able to get be absolved of all crimes.”

“So, I really do have to win this thing after all?” I said,
feeling a bit helpless.

“No, that’s the last resort. You need to trust in our
methods. I will be found not guilty since I didn’t commit the crime.”

“You’re way to earnest!” Xavier stated. “You were seen with
Jorgan’s body. What did he mean when he said he agreed with you?”

Daniel blinked. “We met to discuss the Alpha competition. As
two of the most likely choices, I wanted to see if there was a way to choose an
alpha and forgo this blood competition. A few werewolves die every time in it
through accidents, and now isn’t a time to lose some of our strongest. I made a
recommendation on who should be alpha, but Jorgan was hesitant. That was when
he suddenly shoved me out of the way and took the attack. That attack was
intended for me, but it was too quick and I didn’t see. So, Jorgan approved
with my plans in the end. I am pleased.”

“Don’t be too pleased!” Xavier protested, “You’re in here!”

As Xavier said this, I could hear some people entering the
jail. They appeared to be running, so they must have known we were in here.

Two half-changed werewolves entered the room. One of them
lunged for me, or should I say, Xavier. Without hesitation, he dodged the man,
grabbed his wrist, and then broke it. The creature let out a howl as Xavier
kicked him off into the side of the room. Grabbing a sharp pick from the table,
Xavier immediately struck at the next guy, aiming for his eye.

“Enough!” A voice cried out.

Xavier’s pick stopped a centimeter from a second werewolf’s
eye. His eyes were open in complete shock. I was also surprised. Just who was
Xavier, or rather the man Xavier had possessed? He attacked like that without
inhibition. He would have killed that man if he had moved an inch farther. It
was ruthless. Xavier seemed to realize this too. He grabbed his wrist and then
dropped the pick, back up. He was sweating and breathing hard, and I could feel
the fear and confusion in him, considering he was in me.

“You… his mate?” The man who yelled for us to stop was the
elder from before.

“I have a right to be here,” Xavier responded, trying to
sound like me. “As his mate!”

“What are you doing… attacking these men?” He demanded.

“They were trying to torture, Daniel,” Xavier responded. “Was
forcing a fake confession what you had in mind?”

Hearing Xavier voice my own anger, it felt very relieving.
As for the elder, he turned white as he looked at the tools on the table, the
state Daniel was in, and the two men on the floor. It was little doubt what was
going on in here. There was only one conclusion an educated person could come
to.

“Ah! It’s not BDSM play!” Xavier waved his hands defensively.

I let out a shriek of embarrassment in Xavier’s ear, two
possible conclusions an educated person could come to. The elder shook his
head, wiping his forehead with the same cloth Xavier had discarded on the table
after knocking out the two men.

“Of course… I’d never think something like tha-“

He suddenly pulled the cloth away and unfolded it. I
suddenly realized what cloth Xavier had pulled form my pants. It was my
underwear! This old man was wiping his forehead with my panties!

Xavier snatched the panties from his hand instantly.

“Not BDSM!” He reassured the elder, “Improve your security!”

“R-right…” The elder was still stunned but he nodded. “We’ll
make sure Daniel is protected, and we’ll definitely question these guards and
find out what happened here.”

“Sounds good!” My body turned and immediately began running
away while squeezing my underwear tightly in my grip.

That’s because in my head I was screaming and fighting. “Get
out! Get out of my body!”

“Jane! Be reasonable! The werewolves are going to suspect
something if I pop out now. Wait until we’re outside!”

“Out! Out! OUT!”