A/N: HAPPY HALLOWEEN WEEK! The following set of chapters is going to be set in an AU where the characters are all monsters! The first couple of days or so will consist of flashbacks from past years, told from the perspective of the characters. So, without further ado…
Chapter 10: Werewolves in… uh, Panem…
~Thursday: Theo Campbell~
I was but a tiny freshman when I was bitten… And it happened a little like this…
I spent my whole school day with my best friend Mason. Obviously, the two of us together reeked of human in a school full of demons. I'll never forget the insane, demented, hungry looks that were given to us that day.
Everyone wanted human.
My twin Nathalia went into witchcraft, while Mason and I went into wizardry together. And we would've stuck with it… If neither of us had gotten bit.
So we stuck together until lunch, when he got bit by his girlfriend's (now his ex's) best friend, a sophomore named Gale.
But that's another story.
It was after seventh period. I was out to walk home when I was dragged into a storage closet violently.
For a second, I saw nothing but black.
Then, I saw a pair of luminescent pale green eyes: for just a second: before they flashed bright red and stayed there.
I already knew who it was. His name is Matt Brown. He has an obnoxious amount of little siblings, and he's kind of a genius. That was all I knew about the guy. He was a junior at the time, and tall and strong. But I was a tiny freshman… So it was already a losing battle from the start.
Anyways, I heard a quiet growling.
"Freshman…" a smiling voice said through clenched teeth.
I looked around, cowering.
The light clicked on as he growled, "You're my prey now."
I whimpered, "P…Pr…PREY!?"
"It's Halloween, son. And it'd be a severe injustice if you didn't get… The full experience…"
He hissed, grinning to reveal teeth that were getting sharper and sharper with each second.
"You know what I am, don't you? You know what you're going to become, don't you?"
I shook my head, "N…No!" I tried to move towards the door. He growled, "It's called a werewolf!"
I fumbled with the handle before finally opening the door and running away from there.
I ran and ran and ran, out of the school and to the city.
It's weird how fast the full moon takes the sky, even in the daytime…
That was the biggest mistake I made.
The transforming boy gets me trapped against the wall, blonde hair beginning to cover his entire body, claws and teeth growing in rapidly, eyes glowing.
"Welcome to the pack, Theo Campbell…" he growled, before plunging his teeth into my shoulder.
The pain was unbearable. I felt my whole body going limp already.
Matt growled and ripped the skin clean off my other shoulder as well. I slumped down to the ground, just willing myself to die already.
He ran his sharp claws down my torso before I heard a loud howling and he ran back to rejoin his pack.
I woke up to a liquid being poured down my throat.
And blech, it tasted GROSS.
My eyes flew open faster than ever before and something completely changed within me. Immediately, I felt empowered, stronger, faster… And bloodthirsty.
I swatted the glass away from my lips violently.
I saw my sister Nathalia and a girl from my grade named Finch looking down in the cauldron of another girl. She provided a low chuckle before wiggling her fingers. Everything disappeared.
"There you are," she said, "How're you feeling?"
I groaned, not wanting to admit that I felt much better.
"Theo!" Nathalia hugged me and smiled, "You're an official monster now!"
"I am!?"
"You are," the oldest witch, whose name I thought is Katriena or something, said.
Nathalia kissed my cheek, "Come on! Let's go outside so I can have my own personal brother-dog!"
She was right.
The second I stepped outside, I felt an obnoxious amount of discomfort. Slightly curly brown hair pushed through my skin, my nails expanded to enormous claws, fangs grew out by pushing through my gums… And then I started to howl.
The more I saw the moon in the sky, the more I wanted to howl.
The more I howled, the more I wanted to see the full moon.
Nathalia petted my head with a giggle, but I snapped at her. Then I saw Mason running to catch up to the pack. I gave my sister a bark goodbye and then ran out to join him.
A/N: Also, by the way, Matt Brown belongs to Wetstar! At Second Glance... READ IT.