Ch 8: Guidance
I was stuck with Kali while Deucalion was gone. We were at the mall that was extremely dusty and looked busted to a new level. I was sitting on the escalator staircase while Kali was on the other side. I was just looking at my hands and making fists, back and forth. Kali never even looked at me yet, she seemed distant. It was dark and blue with a sense of loneliness in the air, I decided to break that.
"How are you?" I asked not looking at her
She didn't answer
"I uhhhh…. Can't imagine what it feels like to be back from the dead. I'm sorry for you. Maybe you can be different now and we can be better."
"I can't be better. I can NEVER be better." She said gritting her teeth
"After a while you can start feeling yourself again and you can be normal."
She didn't say anything. She looked lost and confused. Maybe she didn't want to come back, I know I wouldn't want to. The nightmares she would have would break her if they didn't stop. That was one side effect of the ritual. She must feel alone, I can feel it. I decided to move a little closer to her and she frowned at me. I looked and saw her hands were on her lap, I slowly put my hands on top of hers.
"I know you're alone and scared. I'm not like Deucalion, you can talk to me. We also do have to get along so let's get to know each other."
Her frown slowly melted and she gave a little smile. Then she spun her feet to the left and pointed her toe claws against my throat. I swallowed hard thinking I was an idiot, it was centimeters from my throat. Then she got my hand and ripped it away from hers.
"Touch me again, and you're going to lose your head." She said still smiling
"Sorry won't happen again." I said in a squeaky voice
I then moved away from her and for a while we did not speak. Then kali got up and ripped my ring from the rope around my neck. For a second I wasn't really sure what had just happened because I was so mad, I got up and my eyes glowed red.
"If you know what's best for you, you're going to give it back" I said my voice rising
She bent down on her knees and jumped down to the middle of the mall and turned around and looked at me with the ring on her ring finger. Then she got her claws and scratched the floor making a spiral.
"Know what this means?" she said
"An empty threat?" I said
She smiled. "Why don't you come see how empty it is down here?"
I looked at her for a second. It was like she was trying to get me mad, maybe this was part of the training or maybe she was just a hot bitch. Either way I was going to get that ring back if I have to take it from her dead body. I jumped down close to her and a second from impact I punched the ground and the whole floor vibrated and cracked. I looked up at her as a full wolf and said.
"Last chance, give it back or I will bite your finger off." I said
"With your little baby teeth I'd love to see you try." She said
We charged at each other. It was pretty embarrassing what happened. She broke my arm in less than four seconds by me trying to swing on her and she grabbing me by my wrist and completely snapped her whole arm to the right making my right arm completely useless. It felt like jelly, all lifeless and too easy to move. I roared in pain and fell to the floor on my back holding my broken arm. She then got on top of me and before she could react I clutched her face and something strange happened. I suddenly got stronger and hade a surge of energy, I looked at my arms and saw black veins being transferred from Kali to me. I then head butted her and she got off me. I stood up and saw Kali staring at me with an expression I didn't think I would ever see on her. Fear, she was holding her face with her hand and she looked weaker, she had slight bags under her eyes and a slight wrinkle on her chin.
"What did you do to me?' she said gasping for breath
I was confused. I looked at my wrists and the black veins were gone, maybe I imagined it and Kali was just messing with me or maybe…I sucked the life out of her just a little bit and I got stronger. I'm not sure but next thing I know kali is walking towards me and I blinked and activating my eyes. Kali stopped and looked even more scared then before. She pointed a shaky finger at me and said
"Your eyes, what the hell?" she said
I blinked thinking maybe something would happen but nothing did. I didn't understand what was happening and a part of me was scared. I rushed to Kali and grabbed her shoulders and looked her in right in the eyes so close to mine.
"What about my eyes, what's wrong with them?" I yelled
Her eyes widened and then they shut and she collapsed. I got down and put two fingers on her neck to feel a pulse, and I did. I listened closely for a steady heartbeat and I did. So she just fainted out of fear? I looked around to look for maybe a mirror or something. I found a sharp piece of glass and looked into it and saw nothing but my same old red eyes. Maybe Kali was so scared she just imagined it? I didn't know but now I have a body I got to carry. I walked to Kali and swiped and took the ring from her and put it on.
"Take this from me again and you will have something to be really scared of". I whispered and picked her up and took her to her to the top of the abandoned mall. Once I was there I set her on her bed and placed her and waited for her to wake up. It took about an hour and a half and she woke up. Then I noticed something. The bags under her eyes were gone and the wrinkle as well.
"What happened?" she asked
"I was about to ask you the same thing, you said something about my eyes but nothing about them looked different." I said
She sighed. "Your eyes were exactly like the warning gibbous, the first moon phase and the white side of the moon was red and the other part was black. I saw it in your eyes.
"Why?" I asked
"Deucalion explained this to me once, this power where each moon phase gives you a different power and this only happens when you latch on to another alpha and strip them off their power. It is only temporary but if you do it at night its more effective. The power that you did on me is called the slumber eye. It can make the victim fall asleep if you look into their eyes very closely. It also gives the victim nightmares. If you sucked the life out of me more and looked at me I might have slept for 3 days if you did it at night with even more horrifying nightmares."
"So what are the other powers?" I asked
"That's for you to figure out and for me to see the fireworks." She said
"How do you know all this? I thought every alpha gets a special power."
"It was probably passed down" she said
I thought for a second "So Deucalion knows my mom or dad?"
"I don't know, maybe he knows of them." I said
"So why is it not a combination of their powers?"
"She might have died before she unlocked it and you only took it from your father, or maybe she's half a wolf, I don't know there are too many factors to consider."
"How did it feel when I took that power from you?" I asked
"Like I just rolled out of bed and I was weary and tired."
"I felt the complete opposite, like I just red ten cans of red bull."
She laughed. I didn't know that was possible.
"When I did that, you had bags and wrinkles and now they are gone."
"Werewolves have much longer spam of lives and my body realized the bags and wrinkle was unnatural and it wasn't ready for them to appear. So my heling powers got rid of them."
"All this time I thought of what my one special power was; now you're telling me I could have eight?"
"It has cons, if you suck too much at once it could just backfire and the effect could happen on you. It's just like taking someone's pain away. I will admit though, you are special."
"How did I unlock it so early?"
"You didn't, for all we know you have unlocked 1/8 of it. It will develop and mature as long as you do."
"You seem so nice now, why were you such a jerk back there?"
"Orders from Deucalion, sorry about the whole ring thing, I just thought it would piss you off."
"Mission accomplished then." I said
She laughed again. I guess we can be normal.
Warning gibbous= Slumber eye which causes the victim to fall under a slumber of nightmares if one eye is looking too closely at another. Duration could be as much as 76 days without the user being extremely vulnerable to death