The Lycan Emerges

CHAPTER 4 - THE LYCAN EMERGES

Sharp pain slices through my chest, making me gasp. But without a wolf, I couldn’t experience the full pain of breaking a bond.

 Caspian falls to his knees, clawing at his chest, blood seeps through his chest down his hands. 

I take a step towards him then stop. I stand there watching him gasp in pain. The one who had been my safe haven since I was six and had lost my father to exile.

His friends go down trying to stop him from clawing at his chest. I clench my hands into fist to keep myself from pushing Melody away from him.

She shoots an accusing look at me. What? Okay it’s bad now that I said it first.

The pack members start closing in around us, looks of accusations thrown at me and I try not to shrink into myself.

Caspian looks up at me, his eyes dark with raw pain. Fur begins sprouting out of his skin and I take a step back.

When he begins getting back to his feet, I turn and run back to the packhouse.

I push open the packhouse door, trying not to fall flat on my face. The whole world for some reason, kept spinning around me. My head is pounding, painfully. 

With heat spreading through me, my whole body felt like it was on fire. The cool air of the night coming through the windows does nothing to quench it.

I stumble through the sitting room to the kitchen, with the intention of getting some ice. My hand closes around the handle of the fridge and when I pull it open, the whole door comes off with it.

I stared at it open-mouthed, but I didn’t have time to dwell on it because intense pain began to flood through my body.

“Goddess please!” I cry out.

I reach for the Ice filled bowl, but just as my hand touches the rim, my legs give out. I go down, the bowl of Ice coming down with me.

Sounds of broken glass fills the place but no one comes because everyone is at the field.

The heat and pain makes it hard to breathe and I find myself gasping for breath. My hand reaches out…

To the goddess? To the mate I rejected? I don’t know.

Snap!

“Goddess!” I shout when my arm bends at an unnatural angle.

Then my knee shifted, intense pain shooting through me.

It finally dawned on me. I’m finally having my shift.

I tried to stand, to get to my room. But the pain was too intense, my back ached on the floor.

Silver fur shot out of my hands. I could feel my body expanding.

Tears rolled down my eyes from both pain and excitement.

When the pain finally stopped, I was covered in silver fur. I looked around, everything was brighter than usual.

The tiny dead spider on the left side of the wall close to the ceiling was clearly visible now. My ears perked up, the noise from the Bonding moon filtering into my ears.

Are my senses supposed to be this heightened?

Slowly I pushed myself up but inside of standing on all fours, I found myself standing tall on two hunched feet.

My head grazes the ceiling to the point where I have to bend over to be more comfortable.

I reach up to touch my snout, letting out a growl instead of a gasp when I find it longer. Longer than normal.

Slowly, on unsteady massive feet I turn towards the mirror hung on the wall in the sitting room.

A massive Silver furred Lycan stares at me, its eyes filled with horror.

As the lowest Ranking Omega, I have never had the chance of travelling out and meeting other children of the goddess. So my knowledge of Lycantropy comes from books.

But one thing I knew was Omegas never got to be lycans. The shock of my reflection had me staggering back into the refrigerator.

It comes crashing down with a loud sound. My ears narrow into a sound in a nearby distance.

Footsteps quickly coming closer.

My heartbeat increases, the pack guards nearby must be coming to check what happened.

Suddenly I feel myself being pushed down subconsciously.

What’s happening?!

A low growl answers from within.

Soon enough, I find myself looking at things but with a certain drowsiness. My limbs begin moving on their own without my permission.

I ran into the main part of the pack house before I knew it. The packdoor opens and the pack guards burst in.

There’s a moment of pause as their eyes find mine, their mouths drop open. My body doesn’t give them time to respond, I’m running towards the side wall.

I close my eyes.

There’s a moment of pain spreading through my front. I feel the wall in front give way then the cool caress of the night breeze.

When I open my eyes, I run deep into the forest away from the pack house, the field, Cassiel, Liora and closer to the pack border.