Hello, everyone! Sorry, the update took so long, I've been working on an original story and kinda got sidetracked. Anyway, enjoy!
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Chapter 5: Uneasiness Is Something I Should Have Listened To
I was running through the wood in my wolf form, and I came up to a cliff overlooking a huge waterfall. Raising my muzzle to the sky, I let out a howl. My ears perked up at the sound of a wolf howling back. The bushes rustled and another wolf appeared and approached me slowly. This wolf was golden brown with piercing green eyes.
Opening my eyes, and squinting at the bright morning sun, I realized that I was still in the clearing that I transformed in last night. A few memories surfaced last night, for one I remembered that I have a brother out there somewhere. "But why didn't I remember him", I thought to lift my hand to rub my face. When I lowered my hand I saw there was now blood on it. I sniffed and relaxed it was only the deer's blood from last night.
Getting up I noticed something, I was totally naked, all of my clothes ripped when I changed. "Well that's just great", I said out loud. My heart started to pound when I realized that my wolf pendant wasn't around my neck. "Shit! No, no, no", I said while digging around in the pile of dried flesh and ripped clothing. I let out a low growl when I didn't find it there. "I really hope I left it at home", I thought as I took off running towards home.
The trees rushed by in a blur of motion, I was running at speeds that weren't humanly possible, but I wasn't fully human. I could see the roof of my house quickly approaching. Running into my yard, I vaulted over the pool and quickly disappeared into the house.
After sprinting upstairs to my room, I let out a sigh of relief when I caught sight of my pendant on top of my nightstand. I picked it up and put it on, running my finger over the cool metal of the wolf's head. The pendant wasn't anything special, just a golden snarling wolf head with a wolf fang attached to the bottom of it. It was a gift from my father, the fang was from one of the alphas that he had studied.
I walked into the bathroom to wash the dried blood off of my face. My eyes widened at my reflection, a dark auburn streak had appeared in my hair, and my birthmark was darker almost like someone painted over it. Leaning in, I noticed that flecks of blue in my golden eyes. The wolf was making itself known now.
Walking downstairs after getting dressed, I noticed Max's leather jacket hanging over the back of the couch. I picked it up and put it to my nose, breathing in his familiar scent. The smell was strong, he must wear it a lot. "Might as well go and return it. It might also give me a chance to test out my abilities".
Walking down the street, I marveled at how good my eyesight was now, everything was so vivid and colorful. And my hearing, oh my gosh, I could hear everything.
I stepped up onto the Thunderman's porch and was about to knock on the door, but a voice from inside stopped me, "There's a werewolf in Hiddenville", I froze "How could they possibly know?"
"Thunderman, Electress, I want you to find this wolf and eliminate it", the voice said, it was defiantly female.
"Of course Super President Kick butt, you and the Hero League can count on us", Hank said
If Kick butt said anything else I didn't hear it, I dropped the jacket and took off running.
"The Thundermans are superheroes? And they want to kill me? What did I ever do?", I thought as tears streamed down my face.
Without realizing it, I ran back to the clearing where I changed last night. I collapsed on the ground, my body shaking with sobs.
Gradually my sobs died down and I wiped the tears out of my eyes. Deciding I needed to burn off some tension, I got up and started to run. I scaled up the trunk of a large tree and began running from branch to branch. I smiled and let out a howl, I felt so freaking good just letting loose.
Stopping on one of the branches, I closed my eyes and leaned up against the trunk of the tree and smiled. My smile immediately fell when I heard a scream. Taking off towards the source of the noise, running from branch to branch. Stopping when I saw two small children backing away from a rather large grizzly bear.
Something inside me snapped, my lips pulled back from my teeth in a snarl. I felt my wolf fighting to get free. I dropped from the tree branch and charged through the bushes, feeling myself change into a wolf mid stride. I collided with the grizzly bear and sent it tumbling.
Backing up, I put myself in between the kids and the bear, trying to protect them. I let out a snarl, my back arching and my fur standing on end, making me look bigger. Not that I needed it I was significantly bigger than the bear.
The bear swiped its paw at me and I easily dodged it. I launched myself at the bear knocking it over again but this time, I snapped it's neck trying to get a hold. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain in my side, I let out a yelp of pain as the bear's claw came in contact with my ribs, slicing the flesh open.
I could feel blood running down my side, but I charged again, this time going lower. My jaw latched onto the bear's leg. I started to violently shake my head until I felt flesh tear and the bear roared in pain.
Looking behind me, I noticed the kids were still standing there. I barked at them, trying to tell them to run away, but they didn't move.
With a roar the bear attacked again, I quickly scampered out of the way, careful to keep myself between the bear and the kids. "I have to keep them safe". The bear stumbled due to its injured leg, it's muscles and part of the bone clearly visible through the wound. I jumped onto the bear's back clamping onto its neck. I felt the flesh tear, blood sprayed from the wound. The bear collapsed, bleeding out and I got off of it's back.
The sound of whimpering made my head turn, the children, who looked to be about 10 and 11 clung onto each other for dear life and I realized they were scared of me. Lowering my head in a submissive gesture, I let out a whimper. I took a step closer, then another until I was right in front of them, lowering my nose to gently nudge the little girl.
She tensed up, then relaxed when she understood that I wasn't going to hurt her. She extended a hand for me to sniff, then began to pet my thick auburn fur. The boy was still hesitant to come near me, so I laid down, putting my head on my paws. It wasn't long till he started to stroke my fur.
The young girl, who had long brown hair and was wearing a bow in it, ran her hand over my birthmark on my hip. Which was a paw print shaped patch of lighter fur when I was a wolf. The boy, who looked older than the girl and he also had brown hair, leaned into my shoulder and nuzzled the fur there.
A growl made my head snap up, the bear had managed to get up and was limping towards us. I got up and nudged the kids trying to get them to run, this time, they seemed to get it. The boy grabbed the girl and they both took off running.
Turning my attention to the bear, I snarled again showing off my blood smeared fangs. I charged and knocked the bear down on it's back. Latching onto its neck I ripped open, blood spraying everywhere and finally, the bear went still. But, I wasn't taking any chances, I continued to rip and tear into the bear's neck until I snapped its head off. The head rolled off to on side, blood still oozing from the stump where it's head use to be.
Leaving the decapitated bear, I raised my nose to try and track the smell of the two kids to make sure they were alright. I followed their scent up to the edge of the woods then stopped, I don't think people won't notice a giant wolf walking through town.
I felt myself relax and turn back into my human form. "Why are my changes so easy and painless? Last night's change was pure agony.", then it hit me, "My pendant! I wasn't wearing it last night and now that I am I can change painlessly. And I won't lose my clothes", I thought to look down and noticing that I was still fully clothed. "I'm never taking this thing off again", I thought while stepping out of the cover of the trees.
Thankful that my sense of smell was almost as strong when I was human, I began walking down the street, following their trail. I turned down a familiar street, the scent was getting stronger. I suddenly stopped in front of a very familiar house, "No! That's not possible. I would have known if he had any other siblings", I was standing in front of the one house I didn't want to be near, the Thunderman's house.
Shaking my head, I started walking towards the door, "I have to make sure they are okay". Then I caught sight of them, playing in their driveway like nothing ever happened. Letting out a sigh of relief, I started to walk away, but before I could take two steps something hit me in the back of the head, knocking me off balance. I stumbled and noticed a soccer ball rolling on the ground.
"Sorry", came a female voice along with a familiar scent from behind me. I picked up the ball and turned around to find the very same girl I saved from the grizzly. "No worries", I smiled handing the ball back to her.
"I'm Nora", she said, taking the ball then pointed over to the boy, "That's Billy"
"Juliet", I replied
"You look familiar"
"Do I?", my heart began to pounding
"Yeah, aren't you my brother's girlfriend?"
I let out a silent sigh of relief, "Yeah, I am"
"I thought so. Max showed me a picture, but you look a little different"
I raised a brow, "Oh? How so?"
She pointed at my hair, "You've got that streak in your hair and your eyes have more blue in them"
I played with the auburn color in my hair, "Yeah, the streak is new, and my eyes change color, depending on the lighting", I half lied. The streak is new, but my eyes have never changed color due to the light. She nodded believing my story.
The next few seconds happened in slow motion, a car came barreling down the road without warning, catching both of us in it's headlights. Nora turned to a nearby tree and shot lasers out of her eyes. Yes, you heard me right, lasers, out of her eyes. The lasers cut through a tree branch causing it to fall into the street in front of us, fortunately keeping us from being hit. Unfortunately the car swerved, bumping off the road and heading straight for Billy, who stood there frozen in fear.
Immediately I moved sprinting towards Billy and the car. I pushed him out of the path of the car and replacing it with my own body. The car collided with my torso, sending waves of pain through my entire body. Letting out a growl I slammed my palms down on the hood of the car and dug my heels into the pavement, eventually stopping the car's movement before it could smash my body into the garage.
Walking around to the driver's side door, I became aware of a very strong smell of alcohol. "This guy's totally spiffed"
"What?", Nora said her face pale, clinging onto Billy for dear life.
"He's completely drunk", I said anger creeping into my voice. I hated people who drove drunk, I hate people who drink, in general, they're the whole reason my father died. The edges of my vision began to turn red with anger, as I yanked the door open to find a dazed and highly intoxicated man.
I reached into the car and grabbed a handful of his shirt. Yanking him out and onto the ground, I punched him in the nose, hard. The drunkard howled in pain, clutching his now broken nose. "You bloody idiot!", I shrieked punching him again. "You could have killed these kids! Just because you were too stupid to call a bloody cab!"
Drawing my fist back to deliver another blow, a warm hand grabbed my wrist and the other wrapped around my waist pulling me away from the man on the ground. I struggled to break free, all I wanted to do was beat the shit out of that man who almost killed more people I cared about. "Hey, easy Juliet. That's enough", Max said still holding onto my waist and fighting for me to stay still. I caught sight of Billy and Nora out of the corner of my eye. They were both pale and shaking.
I froze, "What's happening to me? I have never gone off like this in my life". I broke out of Max's hold and ran to the kids and pulled them into a hug, "Are you guys okay?"
Instantly their grip tightened on me, they were both crying. "Shh. It's okay", I soothed, "We're all okay now".
I felt a hand in my shoulder, "We should probably go inside. My parents will take care of this guy", Max said. I really didn't want to, I was about to get up and leave, but Billy and Nora tightened their grip even more. I nodded picking up both of the kids like they were nothing, placing them on either of my hips.
I got a weird look from Mr. and Mrs. Thunderman, but quickly dismissed it and carried them inside. Setting the kids on the couch I noticed something off, something didn't smell right. Suddenly, I felt sick and my ribs hurt. I let out a slight whine, leaning against the couch while clutching my ribs. When I pulled my hand away it was slick with blood, "Shit! That damn car must have reopened my bear wounds. I really thought they would have healed up by now". I looked down and saw a dark red stain slowly appearing and the bottom half of my shirt was ripped exposing my birthmark.
Max's eyes went wide when he saw the blood on my shirt, "Sit down. I'll go and get the first-aid kit", he commanded just before he ran upstairs. Closing my eyes, I tried to block out the pain that was pulsating through my body. Suddenly a cold hand on my birthmark made me jump, I opened my eyes to meet Nora's concerned face.
"You're the wolf, the one that saved us", she stated
"And you cut down a tree branch with your laser eyes", I replied
She looked suddenly frightened, "Don't tell anyone that we are superheroes, please."
"I won't, as long as you don't tell your family that I'm a wolf. Deal"
"Deal", she said smiling
Just then Max came thundering down the steps with a first aid kit, "I found it!", he panted.
I gave him a weak smile as he opened up the first aid kit and pulling out the antiseptic and some white bandages. As soon as the antiseptic hit my cuts it began to burn. I jumped back with a yelp of pain, my skin turning red where the liquid had touched it.
"What's in that stuff?", I whimpered through clenched teeth.
"I don't know, it's some new stuff we got", Max replied coming towards me with the bottle again.
"Don't. I think it's doing more harm than good"
He froze. Then he put the bottle down, "Okay, at least, let me bandage it for you".
I sighed and nodded, lifting up my shirt and exposing the marks. He came closer and started wrapping the white cloth around my midsection. My body relaxed as I felt his fingers ghost over my stomach. His hands suddenly disappeared and I looked at him.
"All finished?", I asked
"Yeah.", he stood and took a step closer to me, "You should be fine now. Sorry if I hurt you."
"It's alright. I'm fine", I whispered. He leaned closer, I heard the doorknob turn and quickly backed away. Mr. and Mrs, Thunderman walked in.
"Are you guys okay?", Mr. Thunderman asked his two youngest children. They both nodded, both still looking a bit shaken. He turned to me, "And you? Are you alright?"
I nodded, "Yes sir. I'm fine".
"Well, you look exhausted. I don't think you should walk home like this.", Mrs. Thunderman came up behind her husband. "You can stay here tonight"
I only nodded, I was too weak to speak.
A warm hand on the small of my back made me turn around, "Come on, we can go and hang out in my room", Max said leading me downstairs.
I stood next to his bed, I didn't feel good, there is something really off about this house since the last time I was here. My line of vision began to blur and sway.
"Are you okay?", Max asked. His voice sounded far away. My knees buckled and everything went dark.
I knew I should have just gone home when I had the chance.
Well, there you have it! Another chapter, done! This chapter is a lot longer than the others, I just couldn't figure out where to stop. I'm thinking, maybe a few more chapters then I'm gonna wrap it up. Please let me know what you guys think! I really would like to know!