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The Lycanthrope Trilogy: Heart

Chapter 2: Jealousy

"Light user, Fou Chang, please step out and transform."

"Soul, come. Light Power: activate!"

"TRANSFORMATION LIGHT FURY!

"Onyx user, Alec Glass, please step out and transform."

Alec moves from my side to the field. "Micah, come. Onyx Power: activate!"

A black spider monkey with a tail covered in spikes is absorbed into his chest, and he lifts into the air. His black cat ears and tail gain the appearance of onyx, though moveable, and his hair becomes curlier. His eyes go from baby blue to solid black, no whites or color, while black stone covers his body. When it shatters, Alec is left in a long-sleeved half-shirt, jeans, fingerless gloves, and combat boots, all black, and the gem on his neck becomes the enter and exit point of a chain choker. His wings are bony and bat-like, resembling Kanda's, but the skin between the fingers is like translucent onyx in a thin sheet. Lastly, a chain whip with an arrow-like end appears in his hand. "TRANSFORMATION BLACK JEWEL!"

"Begin!"

"Light Blades!" Fou shouts before she runs at Alec. The ravenette jumps out of the way easily. "Onyx Sickles!"

Fou jumps and beats her wings to avoid the ice sickle looking black stones, and when the stones hit the ground, they disappeared.

I found it interesting to watch the battles. Alec beat Fou, Hevlaska, and Reever, but Klaud and Marie overpowered him, though with some difficulty. Now for….

"TRANSFORMATION INFINITY SHADOW!"

"Begin!"

"Double Illusionary Sword!"

Kanda ran at Alec with the two impossibly sharp weapons, blasting through the Onyx's attacks easily, and for the most part, the match consisted of Alec running for his life. He tried to strike the alpha a few times with his whip, Onyx Chain, but Kanda blocked with Mugen easily. In the end, Kanda had Alec pinned.

"Mystic user, Allen Walker, please step out and transform."

"Misty, come. Mystic Power: activate!"

"TRANSFORMATION MYSTIC STORM!"

Once again, Kanda barked threats at the morons stupid enough to whistle as I braced my left arm in front of me.

"Begin!"

Neither of us moved. My plan had originally been to grab his whip and try to electrocute him, but I had a feeling that it was made out of Shadow like Mugen, which meant I could easily be slung around the clearing as a result.

I knew that Alec didn't want to risk attacking me because he didn't know anything about what kind of power I had, and over the last few months, I had become one of the strongest members of the pack. I may not be able to take on Kanda, Marie, or Klaud single handed, but I had beaten everyone else at least once. Though I can't harness the raw form of Fire or Air, I'm still powerful due to my Myst. No one came close to this form of element, and it was ultimately my secret weapon against my opponents.

I cautiously stalk around Alec and watch his ears flick. A flap of my wings. No twitching. These people were too easy. After a moment, I lift off the ground and begin to fly past him, back and forth, and a few trees take a kick or two, which really confused the ravenette.

Alec swung his whip aimlessly as I growled, "Cloud Cover."

Black mist poured from my wings and enveloped Alec, much to his displeasure as he loudly cursed. I hover on one side of the field and toss a rock onto the other side. Immediately, the whip lashes out, and I take my chance to sneak up behind him with the speed of a light. His body tenses as I wrap my arms around him from behind, and I whisper, "Voltage."

When I let him go a few seconds later, he falls to the ground, and the Myst is cleared by the time I pin him. "That was too easy."

Alec coughs. "Mystic is electricity?"

"Yes," Kanda says as I help the ravenette to his feet, "but Moyashi is extremely talented with inferring and picking weaknesses."

"Not a Moyashi," I mutter and I try to unbalance the alpha by bumping his hip with mine, but he's practically a stone. I continue to attempt to unsteady him, and after a few moments of this, Kanda rolls his eyes and returns the gesture.

"That was mean!" I scold as I stand and rub my butt. "My arse hurts now!"

Kanda kisses my cheek. "Did I ever mention how cute you are when you say 'arse'?"

I don't reply, my blush prominent on my cheeks.

Alec smiles and bows slightly to me. "I'm honored to be training alongside you, Allen."

My blush darkens as he straightens again, and I say, "N-no, I'm h-honored. Trained by an alpha and training with a former beta is more than I could have hoped for."

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I hold my book above my face, my feet propped against the wall. After the battles, Kanda gave Alec a tour of the Order, but luckily, I got to come back to the bedroom and take a shower. I'm not sure what was taking them so long, but whatever.

That's when I hear Alec's voice from the tunnel leading to Kanda's and my room. "Okay, so Tiedoll, Klaud, and Chaoji are the Earths. Miranda, Komui, Hevlaska are the Waters. Lenalee, Marie, and Winters are the Airs. Lavi, Reever, and Bak are the Fires. Fou is Light. You're Shadow. Then Allen is Celestial and Mystic."

"Correct," Kanda says, now in the bedroom. He glances at me. "Does laying like that help you read better?"

I shrug and sit normally in the butterfly position. "Maybe. I'm not normal, if you hadn't noticed already."

"I think I realized that about the time you received the Celestial element and then proceeded to fall head-over-heels in love with me."

I blush furiously. "Shut up!"

"Shut me up."

I glare, but I refuse to 'shut him up', though it was tempting. Kanda turned back to Alec and pointed to my old "bed", also known as a blanket and giant pillow in the corner of the room that were collecting dust. "You'll be sleeping there."

"Isn't that unfair?" I ask.

"How so?" Kanda asked in reply. I raise an eyebrow at him. "I'm sleeping in the bed with you, and you're making him sleep in the floor?"

"You could be sleeping in your room right now, mind you."

"He can take care of himself though, obviously."

Alec interrupts, "It's fine, really. Cam did the same thing."

Though I probably should have left it, my curiosity got the best of me. "Cam?"

Alec nods. "My old mate and alpha."

"I'm sorry," I say and look down. He smiles. "It's fine."

About thirty minutes later, Kanda, Alec, and I sat in the dining room with the rest of the pack. I say, "So tell us a little about yourself, Alec."

The ravenette took a piece of groundhog. "I…um…I've been a lycanthrope for ten years. I like to read and write. I love heavy metal and screamo music."

"Really?!" Klaud and I exclaim at the same time. The woman glares at me. "You like that kind of music?"

"Yep," I say, nodding.

"Breaking Benjamin?"

"Yes."

"Three Days Grace?"

"Saw them live."

"Papa Roach?"

"I tear my heart open. I sew myself shut, and my weakness is that I care too much," I recite from "Scars".

"Hollywood Undead?"

"Charlie Scene is awesome."

"Name the rest of them."

"Johnny Three Tears, J-Dog, Da Kurlzz, Funny Man, Deuce, but he was replaced by Danny."

"Halestorm?"

"My favorite."

"Favorite song?"

"'Freak Like Me'."

"What album is it from?"

"The Strange Case of…."

"Name seven Evanescence songs."

"'Bring Me to Life', 'Everybody's Fool', 'Cloud Nine', 'Sweet Sacrifice', 'Tourniquet', 'Lies', and 'Taking Over Me'."

Klaud pauses, and I see Kanda open his mouth out of the corner of my eye, but Klaud growls, "Shut it, Brother."

"Just pointing out that the two of you could be good friends," he said.

"Yeah, tell me that again after you dye your hair hot pink."

Kanda doesn't reply, and I have to close my eyes to rid myself of the mental image of him with pink hair. Ugh.

Alec said, "Anyways, but I'm not that interesting."

"No, I think that's really cool. What kind of writing do you do?" I ask. His blue eyes gleam. "Mostly fantasy. I wrote a lot about lycanthropy."

"That sounds interesting. I was actually going to be a literature editor."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Top of my class."

"Do you think you could read some of my writing sometime? I would love your opinion."

I smile. "Sure! I'd be honored!"

Small conversation floats around the room, and I mutter to Kanda, "Would you stop it?"

"What am I doing?" he asked and glanced at me. I glare. "Stop oozing testosterone! Just because I have something in common with Alec doesn't mean I'm going to sleep with him or something ridiculous!"

"So you're going to sleep with him now?"

"That's exactly what I'm talking about! I don't have feelings for him, and you need to get off my back about it!"

"Why are you so worked up about it?"

"Because it makes me feel like you don't trust me!"

"I can't make you feel anything."

"You're jealousy is ticking me off, Kanda."

"I can be jealous if I want to be."

"You don't own me."

"Who said?"

My first thought was to gape, but instead, I stand and hiss at him, thoroughly startling everyone in the room. Kanda even looked surprised as I growl, "You better get it through your thick skull that I am not your property. The next time I ever hear something like that from you, you can kiss the dream of me being the next nittca goodbye!"

With that, I stormed out of the room.

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I plop down on my bed. There was no way I was sleeping in the same bed with Kanda after what he said. That jerk.

"Hey, Allen? Are you okay?"

I turn to Lenalee as she walks into my room and sits on my bed. "Yeah, I'm fine."

She raises an eyebrow at me. "Really? I've never seen you that mad since that whole Mystic wings experiment."

I glance behind me and blush. "Sorry."

"It's fine, though you scared some of the pack," she said as I forced my wings into my back.

"I couldn't help it. Kanda was acting like…."

"Kanda's acting like a guy who thinks another guy is after his boyfriend. It's not uncommon."

"He pretty much said that he owned me."

"It's amazing that he still has testosterone to spare."

I flop back onto the bed. "Why me?"

Lenalee laughs and lies back much more gracefully for the sake of the baby. "Lavi went through that, too."

"Really?" I ask, glancing at her. She nods. "Yeah. Remember how I said that Kanda was originally my mate?"

"Yes."

"Well, Lavi and Kanda went through about a one month period of hate towards each other for that reason."

"I thought that Kanda didn't have feelings for you?"

"He didn't, but when a male lycanthrope gets a mate, that mate truly becomes like their property, but in a loving way. The male will treat them like a precious belonging, and they will react to other males as if that was the case. Right now, Alec is a threat to Kanda, and he'll react in a very possessive and jealous way. It's just how it works."

"I don't like how it works."

"In my opinion, you need to set boundaries."

"I really hate alphas."

"I hate morning sickness, too, but I think there are some things that you just can't control."

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"Dang it!"

I glance at the shower stalls at the sound of an agitated Marie. "Someone flush on you?"

You know how showers sometimes stop working or get really cold at school when people flush the toilet? At the Order, the water gets scalding hot, but the Fires are so lucky that it doesn't hurt them.

"No, I've been standing in here for five minutes, and the water won't touch me."

Komui said from another stall. "It's so irritating, right? It took me forever to learn how to suppress my powers."

"What do you mean?" Marie and I both ask, though I have a feeling I knew where Komui was going with this.

"When I got my element, I couldn't touch water for days because my body repelled it."

I pause for a moment before I ask, "Marie, should I get Kanda?"

I think over that. Kanda had mentioned his hair….

Hair that won't dry.

When I'm doing something and not laying on it, my hair takes four hours to dry at most. It's been seven hours since I showered, and I've been working the whole time.

"Hey, Marie, when you're done, come to Kanda's room."

I don't wait for a reply and dart out of the shower room, followed by the entire boys' wing. When I get to Kanda's room, Alec is in his "bed", and I ask, "Where's Kanda?"

"Sulking in the bathroom, though he's been in there over an hour."

I knock on the door. "Kanda? We might have a problem."

"I realize that, Moyashi."

"Marie's body is repelling water."

"He's lucky then."

"Why is that?"

The door opens, and I stare at Kanda. "Did you get in the shower with your clothes on?"

He wore dripping wet pants and a t-shirt and he rolls his eyes. "Yes, I decided it worked better than using the washing machine."

"What are we supposed to do?"

"Gather the pack so we can make sure this isn't happening to anyone else. One of the females might be going through it."

In five minutes, Kanda and Marie are standing in front of the aghast pack.

"Are we missing anyone else?" Kanda asked. I glanced around, and my mentor and I ask in unison, "Where's Klaud?"

Fou quickly darted into the girls' wing, and I bite my lip. Klaud might be having the same problem. What if this is related to the elements? But wouldn't there be spirit beasts, too? Ugh, too many questions!

A scream erupts from the girls' wing.

Of course, everyone ran to Klaud's room, though the quickest was Kanda, who apparently knew where his "little sister's" room was. I follow behind him, but I think we both assume that Fou's scream is the result of an attack. We couldn't have been more wrong.

There was a tornado in the room. Papers, clothes, and other objects flew through the air while Fou crouched in the corner, her head under her arms. Klaud stood in the middle of the room with a terrified expression on her face. "Brother, what's happening to me?!"

Lenalee and Winters stepped into the room, completely unaffected by the wind, and they put their arms up. Lenalee grimaced as some of the ferocity of the wind lessened. "Geez, Klaud! You're strong!"

"I don't want to be strong!" the blonde whined. It was amazing to me that she looked so scared right now. Not the independent, "it's me against the world" woman I had known. Just a scared little girl in a woman's body.

As the wind's power decreased some more, I creeped behind the Air users and got to Fou, who was still crouched in the corner of the room. When I get to her, I nudge her shoulder. "Fou, are you okay?"

She doesn't reply, and fear sparks inside me. I push her shoulder to the side, and she fell over, eyes closed and unconscious.

"Fou!" I say as if it would wake her up.

Author Note: I'm back! So I decided not to post the new story, which I think some of you are happy about. Fou those of you who have read and kept up with a lot of my stories, you know I don't go long without updating, so I just took a break. I guess most think a less than two week long break isn't much of a break, but it is to me! *sticks out tongue*

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