"Alright, just let it do what it wants. Don't fight or work with it." I coached Damien the morning before the full moon. I knew this was the night he would be born. Damien had complained that it was really hot outside and told me all of the symptoms he had. I was so nervous and excited all at the same time.
Nervous because I have never been a guardian for someone's first turn. Excited because my brother was being born into the pack and I knew we would finally be able to brawl truly. I had been disappointed when I learned Inuyasha didn't have a dog form.
"I know." He said.
"Don't worry about doing something you don't remember. The first time is always fuzzy, even to natural born alphas!" I continued.
"Alright sis."
"Don't be nervous, you get nervous and it'll carry over to your transformation."
"Sis, are you doing this for me? Or are you doing this for yourself?" He asked. I looked over at him. He was writing in a note book for school he had in his shoulder bag. He looked calm enough to me. Was I the only one really nervous about this?
"You're right, this is nothing to get worked up over. I guess I'm over doing it because I don't want to fail you again." I sighed laying back in the grass.
"Kira, you're not a God. You make mistakes and somethings are out of your hand. Stop beating yourself up. You're way too strong for that." He sighed dramatically.
"Yeah, Yeah I know. Then again, even the strongest people beat themselves over their mistakes. It's in everyone's nature." I said.
"No, I mean you beat yourself up you're going down and you'll be put even for the full moon. You're ridiculous." He said ruining my deep and serious mood.
"Seriously?" I glared.
"Yeah, you could take the Juggernaut head on." He insisted.
"Man get that shit out of here." I shook my head pushing his shoulder hard enough to send him to the ground.
"My thoughts exactly." He huffed sitting back up. "Stop being so serious."
"Alright, duly noted. So what do you want to do while we wait for the moon?" I asked.
"I don't know, really I'm content sitting here." He said returning to his writing. I raised an eyebrow at him and leaned in. He was writing down a bunch of words in English. He raised his shoulder and twisted away from me. "Buzz off!" He snapped.
"Come on! What are you writing? A diary? A love letter to Rin? Making a written recount of you wet dream last night?" I asked.
"No! Mind your business." He defended.
"Your business is my business! We're officially a pack now! Remember?" I said nudging him with my elbow. He rolled his eyes and sighed.
"If you really need to know. I'm marking the dates. With no phone days can start to get away from us. I just, I don't know. I feel like if I don't do this, one day we'll be lost and we'll forget what is important." He said tapping the eraser end of the pencil against his chin.
" Look who's being serious now." I huffed.
"Am I wrong?" He asked.
"No, you're not wrong. Someone needs to keep up with what has happened in the past." I said.
"Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." He quoted.
"We shape our tools then our tools shape us."
"We are what we behold?" He gave me a funny smirk.
"Good quote though. Right up there with If you want something, go get it. Period."
"Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't. Not even me. Pursuit of Happiness." He said smiling.
"Mom and dad sure did know how to pick movies on a Saturday night." I reminisced.
"They sure do. Family traditions, structure and bonding. It was their Bible." He chuckled.
"Yeah..." I said looking up at the passing clouds. "Say...why not take a page from that Bible." I suggested.
"In what form?" He inquired.
"Let's start a tradition. Something to do together, pass on to those whom accept it. A recurring action that is meant to remind us of what we are, our dreams, our goals. I don't want to just, freelance my entire life."
"Isn't that the Alphas privilege?"
"Ha! Bullshit. You have been talking to those fanfiction junkies friends of yours too much." I huffed.
"Maybe." He chuckled.
"YESSS! One thing I won't miss, is your damn fan club." I grumbled.
"I'm not going to miss it either." He said.
"Thank God! Who knew Rin would secretly be the thing to stop your love for your fan club."
"Yeah well... My Playa days are over."
"Ha! Playa! Someone get me some milk!" I howled in laughed.
"Yeah yeah." He grumbled as I continued to laugh at his expense. We stayed silent after that. He continued to write in his note book and I day dreamed. The day seemed to pass rather quickly. Actually, the days here seemed to pass in the same likeness.
I found it to be a contradiction because there was no electronics to waste my time. Yet, I found it passing by like it's going out if style. I ended up doing something productive, which was work out. I didn't get the body I had by simply being a weredog. It'll be harder for me to lose it but it was still possible.
"Sis, there's roughly three hours until the time that we shift. Are you sure you wanna keep doing this? You're just going to get tired and if you're not careful I will end up kicking your butt!" My brother scolded.
"Not even if a was in a coma squirt." I grinned pulling up into a sit up.
"We don't fall into comas...right?" He said before seriously thinking it over.
"Very rarely, if one of us do it never lasts. The next full moon will wake us up. There was even a time where a female had almost no brainwaves. Yet she transformed on the night of the full moon." I informed him stopping in what I was doing.
"That's kind of creepy! Did she act like her normal self as a beast? Did it cure her?" My brother exclaimed.
"Cure? No, but she did act the same as she had always. The next morning everyone had to rush her back to the hospital. However she died before they could."
"That's kind of messed up, like in a zombie weredog messed up way." He declared.
"It's kind of cool though." I smirked.
"Kind of..."He agreed narrowing his eyes at me. When the sun started to set Damien was bouncing around with nervous energy. The roles were switched now, with me telling him to chill and him being serious. "Sis...I can feel it coming." He whimpered.
"Just don't fight it. Relax, you can do this. Pack born far weaker than you have successfully been born." I assured him.
"I know this is going to sound bad but I wish mom and dad was here." He wined.
"That's alright, I don't blame you or anything. I'm here, so that's what you are just going to have to deal with." I sighed heavily looking the darkening sky. It was going to happen soon now. "Take your clothes off." I said as I started to strip. He didn't hesitate to do what I said. Once we were both naked we sat a good distance away from each other. I felt the start of my change and growled.
"AAAHHH!" Damien let out a cry as his bones snapped for the first time. I watched as he contorted onto all fours. A tail began to grow, his skin split open. I have seen others shift before but seeing my brother go through it made me cringe. So I did what my guardian had done for me my first shift. I reached out from in me and infiltrated him. I shouldered the intensity of his first shift. My own transformation never felt this long before. Yet sooner than thought, two giant dogs were standing side by side under the full moon.
I watched as my bother hung his head, eye closed. His breath came out in pants and his body was tense. Before he did anything I pressed my aura into him. Immediately reminding him of my position over him. He growled at me. Being a strong male of our kind his instinct was to immediately challenge me for the title. In a flash his eyes were open.
Teeth were bared, growls permitted from the both of us and we became a warring mass of platinum blonde. Our barks echoed off the forest ground and through the trees. Two giant dogs having a fight was pretty loud after all. I pushed him way head butting his shoulder. Trees feel down as he crashed into them. The sound sounding like our bones as we shifted.
When it was all said and done I had him by then neck. My jaw was clamped down enough to hold, not break. He tried to buck me off but when he was unsuccessful he stilled and whimpered.
"Alpha." He acknowledged in our tongue. I let him go and stepped away.
"Omega, pack brother." I acknowledge him back. "Congratulations in being born." I said puffing up in pride. My brother was only slightly smaller than I was. A proud representative of our breeding.
"Kira?" He asked blinking back to who he truly was.
"Damien."
"What now?" He asked.
"Now, we go hunt far away. We wouldn't want to deplete the villages game." I said looking towards the distance. There was a plains far from civilization we could responsibly hunt.
"ALRIGHT! LET'S GO!" He howled running ahead of me tail wagging. I sprinted towards him and didn't stop until I was just a little ahead of him. Through the night Damien mused his new abilities as we hunted down boar, deer and bear. I was almost relieved that my brother was so versed in our ways already. It made the night past easier. When the early morning came me and my brother were back near the village laying together in a... Well for lack of a better term...a puppy pile for two. When the sun came up, Damien was the first to change. He got dressed then laid my clothes beside me. When I changed back I immediately got dressed.
"I'm not even tired, yet I am sleepy." He said rubbing his eyes.
"Yeah, you'll get used to it." I grunted stretching out. "Come on, let's go for a jog." I said slapping his shoulder before setting off.
"I'm sore!" He complained but jogged behind me.
"This will help you dumb dumb. Just push yourself a little and it will go a long ways."
"Really?" He asked.
"No, I'm just trying to make you feel good." I smirked hearing him groan behind me. This was fun now, but was going to grow old sooner or later, I just knew it.
