Over Night
Chapter Three
His heart was beating furiously as he entered the trees. Soon he didn't hear the screams of children but the wind through the trees causing the leaves to rattle against each other. He gripped a tree as he balanced himself and moved on but fell in the dirt. His hand held his stomach, he was afraid if he let go all his contents would spill over and to the ground.
Crack
Puck turned around at the sound, but saw nothing. But it was unclear and hazy, his vision was not at it's best.
Crack
He did a full turn and found nothing unusual. His attention turned to his legs, that were limp and useless, and caused him pain every move he made.
Crack
He finally determined where the breaking sound was from. Another crack repeated and he witnessed with great horror, the break of his right arm. The sound was the breaking of his bones. His legs first, now his arms, each killing him with agonizing pain. He felt his back jerk forward and he concluded his ribs were following; it produced a noise that was unpleasant and ugly to his ears, like fire crackers going off simultaneously.
He couldn't dare himself to breathe in. But the pain was unforgivable that he screamed out, "Ahh!" and muffled it by turning his head into his shoulder.
His body was cold and trembling, numb and weak, there was nothing to do but lay in the dirt. When he thought he was going to die, die on the Forrest floors his eyes caught something. His skin started to move, he felt like worms were crawling underneath his skin. Suddenly little pricks started growing from his skin.
Hair?
He was abruptly on all fours and he let out a ear splitting howl into the night. He ran. He was confused, angry. He didn't know what he was or what was going on but it was bad. The cool air hit his face as he darted further into the woods. He saw every tree, every log, every bush that was ahead of him. He even smelt the foul odor in the air, a dead carcass lay beside the trail.
He smashed into a tree before delivering another intense howl. He heard all the animals near by scatter at the sound of his growl. A deer ran out in front of him, frightened by a towering animal. He let a low gnarl come out of his mouth as he viciously lowered his head at the animal. Ready to prance on the tiny thing, but something hit him to the floor.
The same mutant animal as he was, growled in his face, splattering saliva on his face.
Get off of me! he ordered.
The smaller of the two backed away from him and lowered his head.
What the hell is going on? he snarled out.
Noah-
What the fuck? Puck yelled. What the hells happening? His heart beat shot up again causing him to lose patience and composure. He was ready to bolt again when the thing before him shrunk.
Puckerman! the guy shouted.
"Finn?!"
Noah Puckerman couldn't believe what he just viewed. The thing, coated with hair, sharply transformed, before Puck's eyes.
Whoa, cover you're self up man! Puck thought loudly.
Another voice came from within his mind. A woman's voice. She laughed out causing Puck to flinch in shock.
Puck looked around him and saw in the shadows of the trees, stood another thing. He heard her breathing and heart beat pounding away in her chest.
"Puck," Finn called out.
Puck drew his head down to Finn and huffed out a breath in his face. There was so many things he could do to Finn at this moment and Finn would be completely helpless.
Focus Puckerman!" The girl's voice said.
Santana?! Puck's head darted back to the thing in the shadows. What the hell's going on? Puck backed away from the two and flew through the trees only to be tackled by the Santana-thing.
Concentrate Puckerman! she told him with a growl in her throat. The wolf backed off of Puck and stood behind Finn.
"Come on Puck, don't do anything you'll regret."
Puck snickered darkly in his head. Just like old times.
Santana growled at Puck once a again.
"Calm your heart beat and we'll talk this over," Finn tried.
Puck tried. Then his mind was all over the place, a mile a minute. Finn betrayed not only Puck, but Rachel and his heart pounded harder and his rumble in his chest grew.
Oh no you don't Puckerman! Santana thought but Puck had already jumped over her and Finn and made a run further in the Forrest.
"Fuck!" he heard Finn cuss. Then he heard him in his head again.
Puckerman relax! Finn roared loudly and Puck felt his wolf form stop. Calm! he ordered again.
Puck let his wold breath as he stood still.
Now, Finn stopped in front of him. Look behind you.
Puck stood on the shoreline of Lima lake. The moon reflected off the water and Puck saw himself for the first time. He moved left the wolf moved left, Puck moved right the wolf moved right.
He was a fucking wolf?
Puck felt himself fall to the ground. He was naked on the wet sand of the beach and he saw Santana's wolf chortle.
Finn threw a pair of shorts at him. "Put these on."
Puck did what he did and slipped them on.
"Now are you ready to listen?"
Puck nodded his head at Finn. Noah was exhausted with all the shit he had just gone through, he gave up trying to fight.
"You're the true alpha," Finn finished.
"Huh?!" Puck freaked out as he jerked back. "But you just told me you were the alpha of the pack?"
Finn shook his head. "You're the true Alpha. Your father had it in his blood and passed it down to you and your brother-
Puck had had enough of this. "So your telling me that my old man gave this thing to not only me but my brother as well? What the happened to leaving money behind for your children?!" He stood from the log he sat on and paced in front of Finn.
The rest of the pack circled the perimeter, keeping the outsiders away and their new Alpha in.
"Wait! What about my sister? Will sh-
"No," Finn cut in with a shake of the head. "The first born always has a wolf gene. Second born slim chance, third born? Not a chance."
"So my brother might not get the gene?" Puck asked.
"Fifty, fifty chance."
"This is fucked up!" Puck pulled his mohawk as he kept pacing back and forth.
"Calm yourself Puckerman," Finn grimly said to Puck.
"Yeah, yeah." Puck waved it off as he steadied his heart.
"So what about this imprinting shit?" Puck asked when nothing else was said.
Finn sighed. "Imprinting is the most tragic, painful and beautiful thing someone can go through."
"You imprinted on Quinn," Puck said with new found knowledge. "That's why you left Rachel for Quinn, because you imprinted on her fucking best friend!" Puck growled at the hurt Finn had caused Rachel.
"It's not a decision anyone of us choose! It's fate," Finn snarled out. Noah was upsetting Finn's wolf by disrespecting his imprint. "Or it's suppose to be."
"Can't you hold it back, block those feelings?" Puck asked with real interest.
Finn shook his head. "No. It can't be done. When you imprint on someone it's magnifying. When she is gone you feel her, her pain, her happiness, is inside you. When she's gone you want to be with her, like you are being pulled to her. It's fate."
Puck stayed still as he looked to the ground. "You tried to fight it."
Finn removed his gaze from the lake to Puck. "Yes." He paused. "I loved Rachel, I tried to fight it so bad for her, but I couldn't because Quinn became my everything while Rachel became second."
Puck shook his head again. "You hurt her so bad, you have no idea-
"I know," Finn cut in. His gaze that was then locked on the ground looked up to Puck, "And you're going to hurt her so much more. That's why you can't see her, talk to her, nothing."
"What?!" he replied. "Are you crazy?! She's going to go over the edge! She needs me!"
"Puck you have-
"Screw this! I don't have to listen to you, I'm the true alpha! I don't have to do what you say."
"Puckerman settle down!" Finn shouted to Puck. Puck went calm and bowed his head at Finn. "You are only alpha when the present alpha gives it the okay-
"Then I just won't join this stupid gang than! Goodby-
"Puckerman stop and listen!"
Puck stopped when the alpha voice took over his body and his wolf had no choice but to obey him. He turned to Finn and waited for him to continue.
"Noah you are the real alpha and you are going to be the alpha. And for Rachel, you have to do what's best for her. If you start a relationship with her, what's to happen when secrets start to get bigger and harder to keep from her? When something goes bad they always go for the ones we love and when you imprint there's nothing you can do to stop it."
He knew this was for her protection. It was the right thing to do, but he didn't feel like doing the right thing. But his inner wolf felt obligated to follow the wolfs ways, even if Noah didn't have a say. By what Finn had told him, he was from a long line of strong superior wolfs, Puck felt he had to pick up the role his father left for him.
If he didn't, would that mean for his brother? Would Jacob would be alpha?
Finn also said Jacob is bound to alter into a wolf, but when he does, will he be beta?
"We'll give you space to sort out what I have just told you, but eventually you'll have to link with the pack."
With that, Finn merged into the shadows of the night. His new found powers gave him the ability to hear everything within a one mile radius. The soft pounding against his foot told him that the rest of the pack were still running the boundary of the trees; making sure no non supernatural being wandered into the area. Noah knew he wasn't trusted with his strength at the time, he had only been a wolf for a total of 45 minutes.
All the information and commands Finn told Puck slowly started to bubble up his anger under his skin. The burning sensation began to settle in his core, his pants started to get heavier and faster, he tightened his fist til it started to shake, and before he could register what he was doing, he was a wolf once again.
Pieces of fabric sprinkled the ground. He finally realized how hulk felt when his clothes, shredded apart and how extremely frustrated he must have felt.
I feel for you, hulk. Puck thought.
Please tell me you're not thinking of comic book characters at a time like this?
Santana? Is that really you?
She huffed. Sure is Puckerman, who would of thought my ex-boyfriend would be my alpha.
Puck heard a distance away, a snigger come from an animal. Santana. Puck had come to the terms that he was going have to man up and become the leader of this group no matter what. Jacob being apart of it, was what scared him the most.
Shit. He thought. What am I going to tell my family?
Just tell them you're going through your period. Worked for me, family doesn't even question it.
Yeah, that might work, the only problem is that I don't have a fucking uterus, Lopez!
Whoa! Calm down big boy! Another voice added to the conversation, supplying Puck's anger with fuel. It was Mike Chang. Noah Puckerman! Alpha, Alpha, Alpha.
I always heard that Puckerman was a animal in bed, but I didn't think it was literal. Yet another wolf a few meters away from Puck. Matt Rutherford.
Mike laughed, his whole wolf form stumbling over his own paw. He busted through the bushes with Santana and Matt by his side.
Mike has a light grayish color to his fur with. Leaner, compared to Finn and Puck, but if Puck had to guess, he'd say he's one hell of a runner.
I bet Rachel knew before us, that Puckerman was a wolf. They've been shagging-
Shut it Lopez! Puck growled through his teeth.
Ooh Santana got the alpha angry! Matt said much like a child. He rubbed up against her, chuckling into her brown-reddish fur.
Santana tried her best to keep from talking back, against the alpha voice but her wolf pushed harder. Now we know his weak spot! Rachel, She sang out Rachel's name, trotting around Mike and Matt.
Guys. A voice spoke up in a low voice. We shouldn't be doing this to him. Blaine Anderson. His small wolf shyly walked into the clearing with his head bowed, afraid to make eye contact with their new Alpha, or soon to be.
I am standing right here! Stop talking as if I can't hear you! Puck shouted in his mind.
Rachel, Rachel, Rachel... Santana continued strolling around her wolf pack members with her tongue hanging out, showing she's happy.
Puck had had enough. He pranced onto Santana, taking her down to ground and pinning her. I said to stop, all of you! He roared, sharp teeth showed as a rumble from deep in his chest grew.
Santana whimpered under her leader, her eyes connected with Puck's. There was authority shinning in his eyes and clouded over with fury. Santana's weak eyes could only take so much before she shut them, and balling up into the ground, frightened by the power she witnessed.
Noah jumped from Santana, circling her carefully, before facing the others. He was startled to see them bowed and silent. All three males and another wolf lay and hang their head to him.
What are you guys doing? His voice still held it's dominance and rage still at the edge.
You're the Alpha now, you just showed the pack that your wolf doesn't take shit. You basically kicked me off my ranking. I'm Beta and have to comply with what you order. That was Finn. His voice was shaken up and he spoke as if he was baffled.
What ever he had with Rachel was no more. At that moment he knew he had a new responsibility that was unavoidable. He thought he was making the best choice for Rachel and himself.
"So..." Puck trailed off once he had emerged back into his human form. "What-how- what exactly is a wolf's purpose?"
Finn scratched his neck, slightly behind Puck's figure and the other four trailing behind the two. "Let's head over to my place, we'll get this all sorted and situated."
Finn's house didn't change much,actually nothing changed, if Puck checked he's pretty sure his gum he stuck under the table one summer day is still there.
"I like, what you've done with the place, Mrs. Hudson," Puck awkwardly said to Finn's mother. It's been a year and a half, since he's been in the Hudson's' house. Mrs. Hudson resembled the same lady as before and Puck smiled.
"Good to see you, Noah," she replied as all the other pack members scurried up the stairs.
"alright," Finn stated as he slapped down a map of Lima in front of the pack. "This is our property, Wolf property, also known as Puckerman property." Finn snuck a look to Puck and saw a frown, but he didn't urge Puck to talk. "And this," he drew a circles around an area outside of Lima, the opposite side of the lake, "Is Evan property-
"Another pack?" Puck questioned, his hand on his chin observing all the notes Finn had written on the map, some time ago.
"Not exactly-
"Vampires," Santana answers bluntly.
"W-what?!" Puck stands from the table.
"Wolfs' design is to protect the people of Lima, from them..." Finn nodded to the map, meaning the vampires of the Evan property.
"They actually kill people, for food?"
"Well, these ticks haven't," Finn bit into a sandwich he had, observing the map closely.
Mike flops onto the bed, picking up another sandwich. "They're harmless," he spoke, food flying from his mouth.
"But highly annoying and know it alls," Matt scowled out. "We were built to hate them," Matt shrugged when Noah gave him a strange look.
"There's ten in the assembly; eight guys and two girls, they all have their partners with them."
"Partners?"
"Like how we imprint, well they have soul mates too. except theirs is more of a brotherly, sister way. It's their other half, and when they are together they fight stronger."
"Do they have a leader? Like us?" Puck snatched a sandwich from the plate.
Finn nodded. "His name's Sam Evan."
A/N: Ooohh, kind of a cliffhanger. Thanks for the feed back last chapter means a lot, babes! So how do ya feel about this chapter? REVIEW, FAVORITE, FOLLOW!
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