"Cassie, morph!" Toby cried, leaping forward, wrist blades out, but I was already changing. Gray fur began to sprout on my arms and legs, and my spine twisted as I lost my ability to stand erect.
This is couldn't be happening. It just couldn't be- and yet I was changing, here, on this place that had no right to exist, as the people I cared most about rushed forward to destroy me. Erek stood in front of me, my shield as I changed. I could see Toby struggling to hold the others off and she was losing. She was only one, and she was holding back, unwilling to really hurt any of them.
Our 'friends' had no such qualms.
(No!) I cried out silently as I saw Jake's tiger claws pierce Toby's thick skin, as Marco's gorilla fists pummeled into her chest, as Tobias' talons and Ax's tail struck with ferocious accuracy. God, they were killing her!
She cried out once before falling and then she was gone from my view.
(Toby!) I screamed, leaping forward as the last of the changes finished. I let all the panic, fear, confusion slide away from me as the wolf instincts took over. A member of my pack was in danger and I had to protect the pack at all costs.
At all costs.
I leaped and my jaws snapped towards the first unprotected throat within my grasp- the striped, muscular tiger throat.
(Cassie!) Jake's voice cried in my head as I seized his jugular with my teeth. I faltered in my attack and he turned on me, his large tiger body easily overcoming my smaller wolf one. I let out a yelp as I felt his large teeth close over my leg.
Images tumbled all around me as pain shot throughout my body- bleeding, stumbling Toby, struggling to regain her footing as her once friends attacked relentlessly, and Erek, standing, watching in horror and unable to do anything to help.
(Jake, please,) I begged as I struggled to beneath the overwhelming power of the tiger. (Please! This isn't you! God- ah!)
He relaxed his death grip slightly and my breath caught in my throat. (But this is me now, Cassie. Don't you see?) There was a note of sadness in his voice that broke my heart.
(Jake-) I whispered. (Please, just-AH!)
He snarled, digging his claws in me and tightening his jaws around my leg. (I am sorry about this,) he said, (but the One means more to me now than you do.)
His words hurt me worse than any wounds he could inflict. (Really, Jake,) I hissed through the pain. (I hope that makes you happy- because the One will never care about you.) And with my last ounce of strength I threw him off me and pulled myself to my feet. (My fight isn't with you Jake. It's not with any of you!) I screamed out loud. Time seemed to stand still for one moment. (It's not with you,) I said again. (It's with him. The One. I'm done with these games. I'm ready for him. You hear that! I'm ready for you!) I screamed.
And then he was there.
Sorry this took so long, and sorry it's so short. Not only have I been really busy lately, I've also been struck with a massive case of writer's block. Tell me what you think of this newest part please!
This is couldn't be happening. It just couldn't be- and yet I was changing, here, on this place that had no right to exist, as the people I cared most about rushed forward to destroy me. Erek stood in front of me, my shield as I changed. I could see Toby struggling to hold the others off and she was losing. She was only one, and she was holding back, unwilling to really hurt any of them.
Our 'friends' had no such qualms.
(No!) I cried out silently as I saw Jake's tiger claws pierce Toby's thick skin, as Marco's gorilla fists pummeled into her chest, as Tobias' talons and Ax's tail struck with ferocious accuracy. God, they were killing her!
She cried out once before falling and then she was gone from my view.
(Toby!) I screamed, leaping forward as the last of the changes finished. I let all the panic, fear, confusion slide away from me as the wolf instincts took over. A member of my pack was in danger and I had to protect the pack at all costs.
At all costs.
I leaped and my jaws snapped towards the first unprotected throat within my grasp- the striped, muscular tiger throat.
(Cassie!) Jake's voice cried in my head as I seized his jugular with my teeth. I faltered in my attack and he turned on me, his large tiger body easily overcoming my smaller wolf one. I let out a yelp as I felt his large teeth close over my leg.
Images tumbled all around me as pain shot throughout my body- bleeding, stumbling Toby, struggling to regain her footing as her once friends attacked relentlessly, and Erek, standing, watching in horror and unable to do anything to help.
(Jake, please,) I begged as I struggled to beneath the overwhelming power of the tiger. (Please! This isn't you! God- ah!)
He relaxed his death grip slightly and my breath caught in my throat. (But this is me now, Cassie. Don't you see?) There was a note of sadness in his voice that broke my heart.
(Jake-) I whispered. (Please, just-AH!)
He snarled, digging his claws in me and tightening his jaws around my leg. (I am sorry about this,) he said, (but the One means more to me now than you do.)
His words hurt me worse than any wounds he could inflict. (Really, Jake,) I hissed through the pain. (I hope that makes you happy- because the One will never care about you.) And with my last ounce of strength I threw him off me and pulled myself to my feet. (My fight isn't with you Jake. It's not with any of you!) I screamed out loud. Time seemed to stand still for one moment. (It's not with you,) I said again. (It's with him. The One. I'm done with these games. I'm ready for him. You hear that! I'm ready for you!) I screamed.
And then he was there.
Sorry this took so long, and sorry it's so short. Not only have I been really busy lately, I've also been struck with a massive case of writer's block. Tell me what you think of this newest part please!