The Shift Tinx Novels & Stories

“Good morning, Dion. Good morning, Sena. Let’s eat. I’m starved.” After we get our food and sit down, Ajax tells me that Tana is ready to start working with me today. “Do you really think it’s safe?” I ask him. “I think so. It will be good practice for you to connect with your shifter,” he says, not saying anything about Phoenix while others are nearby. “You did so well last night. I have to think that you’ll do even better with practice.” “It’s easier with you. You help calm both of us,” I say.

“You don’t have to have another party if you don’t want one. Everyone understands. They are wondering though if you would like to shift. I am assuming you still haven’t shifted since your birthday.” I look up at him and realize that I have been told I shifted that night but I don’t remember it. ‘Yes let’s shift,’ Irena says excitedly. “Irena wants to shift.” “Do you want to?” I nod my head as he stands and reaches his hand out to me. I take it and let him lead me outside. ‘Irena?’ ‘Just relax and let me push through. It won’t hurt at all.’ I find it weird that it’s not going to hurt but I do as instructed and relax as I feel Irena push through. The shift happens flawlessly and I stand in fro

Creed whined but gave him control; for that, I was thankful. "To return to your body, do the opposite of what you did to shift. Think of your human self again. It will hurt less than the first time, but we need to prepare you for your second shift." Phoenix nodded before stepping back. "We got this, easy as pie." She smirked, reassuring me. She gave over control as I switched back. I picture my scarlet hair, my toes, my fingers. I pictured my freckles and my sun-kissed skin. The sound of the bones breaking filled the room, but the pain wasn't as bad this time. After a few more shifts, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt anymore.

Fl‍oodlights casti​ng harsh shadows​ across obstac​l​e c⁠ou​rses and combat r‍ings. "We don't have much ti‍me," Daxen s‌ai‍d. Hands on hi‍s‌ hips​. Assessing me. "So we⁠ focus on w‌hat matters. Partia‍l shift. Enhance‍d senses. Basic pack f‌ormatio‍ns." "Pa⁠rtial shift?" My voice came out smaller than I intended.

Sol was already there, stripped to his combat trousers, his bronze skin glistening under the gym’s halogen lights. "Tonight, we stop dancing," Linus rumbled. "The Eclipse doesn't fight in human skin. They fight with teeth and fire. Shift. Now." I didn't hesitate. I didn't need to strip or prepare. With a surge of heat that radiated from my core, I called to the wolf. Usually, a shift is a violent, garment-shredding affair, but the High Alpha line had its perks. My clothes didn't tear; they simply vanished into the shift, merging with my essence.

Even Marino had begun to show a strange affection, bringing me silk scarves and jewelry from his travels. How was I to know that was just the deceptive calm before the storm? It was crazy how the world could flip on its axis in a single night. The night of my eighteenth birthday. October 15, 2021. The night I shifted. In our circles, shifting had become a private, almost sacred affair. While families celebrated afterward, the actual event was usually solitary, followed by a week of isolation to allow the subsequent heat to pass in dignity.

I asked, and he sighed, looking away. "The shifter world is more complicated than you think. The companies that make the suppressants are the same companies that make the blockers. They exist as a way to protect and destroy," he explained, and that confused me even more than the whole debacle. "What does that even mean? When shifters commit crimes that are horrible, they are put on these medications to destroy their glands, and they are stripped of their ability to release pheromones. It's a sort of crippling." He looked grim as he spoke.

Nix told him and sighed, she wanted to be his wife more than she could say. “Shift, it will help to heal what we couldn’t with magic,” Aarshon told her with a smile. He noticed Sage blushing. He pulled a T-shirt on to hide his chest. Nix had to struggle to shift; once she did, it was a fight to shift back again. Her right side didn’t want to shift back. Finally, she shifted three more times and felt that most of her body was healed. “You need to shower, and then eat,” Sage told her mom when she had shifted back the third time. Nix nodded but didn’t have the strength to get into the shower. Sage left to get Aarshon to help Nix shower.

“How about we all go back to class, then?” “But Ms. Tanis, your cheek is swollen. You shouldn’t teach like that!” I was worried about how the other students would look at her for being injured. She ruffled my hair. “I appreciate the concern, Ari, but I’m the adult. I have to make sure that your three are one of the best students when you head to the sixth grade. I’ll be fine. It’ll heal when I shift.” I forgot the adults did a mandatory monthly meeting where they shift. Today was that day in our kinsmanship. Rei and Hiru both looked at her, concerned. Hiru was the first to speak. “Won’t you get in trouble if you shift right now?”

Brandon asked her confused As they walked Glen raised a hand and fluttered it outwards. “Tonight is the last night of the Celebration and on the last night we will be having a huge dance. Every Shifter will be out in that yard....and the last thing I need is someone trying to pull you out to dance and you not know the steps. Mantilo told me all about you mister lead feet....” Glen shook her head as she turned into a room suddenly.