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The Lycanthrope Trilogy: Heart

Chapter 4: Fight

Apparently, Kanda decided that it was better for one element to battle all the new ones at the same time. Not three against one, but one after the other. No one beat Marie and Kanda, and Hevlaska just barely defeated Klaud, much to the younger woman's irritation. Now for my turn. Yippee.

"TRANSFORMATION MYSTIC STORM!"

"Begin!"

Marie paused, though I thought he was planning what he was going to do as far as attacking goes. I mean, I doubt that he wants to get fried, and now that he was part Water, I could easily transfer my Myst through him, not that the idea makes me happy. I would prefer not bringing death to my alpha/boyfriend's beta, but then again, he might…uh…foggy me. No, that just sounds weird.

"Afraid?" I taunt, though it wasn't the best idea.

"Fog Blast!" Marie commanded, and I jumped to the side to avoid the white balls of Fog. I saw what happened when Lavi got hit by that stuff, and quite frankly, I didn't want to turn white. Well, whiter. I was already pale with snowy hair.

I move into the air, beating my lightning- and cloud-filled wings, and Marie begins to throw the balls of Fog into the sky while I fly back and forth to avoid them. After a moment, I shout, "Myst Bolts!"

I saw Fou cringe out of the corner of my eye, and Marie must have had the same thought she did as lightning struck the ground around him, though he barely made it out of the range of the electricity. Barely. That made me happy. Very, very happy. Joyful. Ecstatic. Jubilant. Pro―you get the picture. I was chasing a beta! Yippee! And that's not sarcastic!

While Marie continued to leap away from the Myst, I kick off a tree and zoom to his side. His eyes widen momentarily as I rest my hand on his chest. "Voltage."

He falls to the ground, jerking slightly, and I pull his hands behind his back.

"We'll leave it at you aren't experienced with Fog yet," I say with a smile, and Marie stands with my help and rubs his chest. He nods. "Sure, but next time, can you turn down to electrocution power?"

I shrug. "Maybe. You never know."

He rolls his eyes and walks off the field before Lavi says, "Snow user, Kanda Yuu, please, step onto the field."

Kanda walks closer and crouches on his hands and feet, though it looked odd with the blades protruding from the back of his hands.

"Begin!"

Without a moment's hesitation, the bluenette charged at me, and I blocked his weapons with Edge End. "Voltage."

Immediately, Kanda flies into a tree.

"Were you even trying?" I ask in confusion as I pin him. He coughs up blood before he hoarsely replied, "I personally can say that I made a stupid mistake. The blades are made of Water, not Shadow like Mugen is. I wasn't thinking."

"Dang right, you weren't," I say, but I give him a quick kiss anyways.

Klaud was next, much to her obvious aggravation. Why? Why did I have to fight her again? Lau Jimin squashed me last time, and the entire thing lasted ten seconds, not counting her transformation.

"Screech user, Klaud Nine, please, step onto the field."

Klaud did so and scowled at me, and I mentally said a prayer.

"Begin!"

I clap my hands over my sensitive feline ears just as Klaud opened her mouth and screeched. The red amulet on her arm flared, and Screech flooded from the brunette. The sound still hurt my ears. A lot. It really did sound like someone running their nails down a chalkboard, and it was not pleasant in the least.

Klaud continued the attack and walked closer to me. I backed away, but the sound prevented me from using my Myst. It made me beyond vulnerable.

Though slowly, the wheels in my mind turned, and I flashed back to when I got the Celestial element. It was a long shot; I knew that, but I didn't have much of another option. I grit my teeth and stop backing away, much to Klaud's surprise.

Less than a moment later, I take my hands away from my ears and struggle to block out the sound while Screech fuzzes my vision slightly. Five seconds of lightning fast speed. That's all you need. Prove to Klaud that you're more than a nittca wannabe.

I bite my lip and front flip over Klaud before I jab her back, feeling under her wings. A moment later, the sound of Klaud's Screech disappears, and she collapses and writhes in pleasure while moans spill from her mouth. I quickly pin her.

I don't bother helping her up, and she glares at me as she deactivates and pants.

"I guess my lesson helped. I wasn't sure if you even remembered that after seven months," Kanda commented from behind me. I turn and smile at him, but when the bluenette moves to help Klaud, she slaps his hand away with a death glare and stands on her own before she stomps away.

I watch her trudge back to the Order. "Great. Now she has another reason to hate me."

Kanda's eyes follow my gaze. "I don't even know what I did this time. Which is worse because she'll say that it's obvious. For a 'little sister', she acts like a married woman."

"Yeah, and you're skin will be the color of your hair."

He grimaces. "She can be a viper when she wants to be."

"Which is all the time."

He glares, and I innocently say, "I was just stating a fact."

"Opinion. Not fact."

"She hates me!"

"That's a fact. You're learning so quickly."

"Shut up, Snowball."

"Snowball?"

"If I'm Moyashi, then you're Snowball."

He simply stares at me, and I roll my eyes.

Oo_oO_Oo_oO

Later that night, Kanda couldn't sleep. He kept having this feeling that something was about to happen, though he couldn't tell what it was. Allen breathed evenly into his mentor's chest while Alec slept on his "bed". Kanda found nothing abnormal, but even so, he stood from the bed, replacing his body with a pillow so Allen wouldn't wake up. Actually, the whitette was closer to a rock than a sleeping cat, but regardless, the alpha took the extra precaution.

He slipped out of his room, his footsteps silent on the cold stone of the cave the lycanthropes called home. When he made it to the main area though, he realized his senses were correct, much to his disappointment.

"What are you doing?" he asked the blonde cat, which had tried to sneak out of the Order.

The cat morphed into its anthro form. "Brother, I…um…."

"I thought I told you to stop going out on your own," he said sternly.

"I-I-I was just going h-hunting. I s-swear!"

"Why are you stuttering then?"

"Because you scare me when you're mad." Klaud looks at her feet, Lau Jimin perched on one shoulder and Quilla on the other. "I already told you that I don't like feeling like Fou's stalking me."

"You told me you would stop. Do I have to assign myself Fou's role? Because I will, and you won't get past me."

Anger sparked inside her, and Klaud yelled, "You don't understand what it's like to not have any freedom! Fifteen years of that crap made me beyond thankful for the fresh air!"

She walks toward him until their noses nearly touch. "Your parents may have beaten you occasionally, but you have no idea what it's like to have your parents sell you to some man who forces you to clean the house during the day and ties you to the bed and rapes you at night. Sometimes, I spent days without food in a cage in a dark cellar before I got the rotten meat even the dog wouldn't touch.

"So yeah, I wanted to go hunting at midnight without someone watching me the whole time. I'm sorry I broke your trust and all that bull crap."

She turns to walk back to her room, but Kanda caught her arm. "Klaud―"

"No," she growled, "I don't want to hear it. I swear you can kill me the next time I try to act like the traitor the entire pack thinks I am."

The blonde lycanthrope jerks her arm away from her alpha and stalks into the girls' wing.

oO_Oo_oO_Oo

"Kanda, are you okay? You seem upset," I say as my boyfriend walks out of the bathroom. He shakes his head and runs a brush through his hair. "No, I'm fine. Klaud hates me at the moment, but she'll get over it."

I nod, but when he walks into the bathroom again, I hear him mutter, "I think."

Alec rubs the black gem embedded in his neck. "That girl has some seriously powerful mood swings."

"Tell me about it. Did Trinity ever act like this?" I ask. He shakes his head. "No, but it might just be personality and have nothing to do with her past in the trade."

I nod. "You're probably right."

After a moment, I ask concernedly, "Is something wrong with your mark?"

"What?" he asks, but then he pulls his hand away from the jewel and smiles. "Sorry. It gets really sensitive depending on other people's emotions."

"Really?"

"Yeah, it's always been like that. Kanda's sadness, if you can even call it that, fills the gem and makes it sore. Same thing with happiness, only it feels good. For anger, it's hot. And so on."

I scratch behind a certain attention-seeking fox's ear. "That's really cool."

"Thanks, though it becomes more or less irritating in battle. Pain is that same as sadness only more powerful. I basically feel the same pain as a hurt pack mate does."

"Did you feel Kanda and Marie's pain yesterday?"

"Yeah. You pack a punch for a Moyashi."

"Hey!" I yell. "I'm not a Moyashi! How do you even know what that means?"

"I took Japanese in school for one year. Moyashi means 'bean sprout', correct?"

I grumble, "Yeah, whatever."

He laughs, and I stand and walk to his "bed" before I whack him behind the head playfully. At this, Alec's eyes reveal a strange glint, and he tackles me. My moment of self-conscious is overridden as he tickles my overly sensitive sides, and I begin to laugh at the top of my lungs and struggle to push him away. It was pointless. In my rendered vulnerable state, the ravenette overpowered me, much to my―and my hips'―irritation.

"Alec…cut it…out!" I laugh, my eyes almost like a bug's. After a moment or two more of his torture, he finally pulled away, and I gasp for breath, sprawled on the floor.

"I know what to do when I'm mad now," he said. I glare. "And we'll see how long it takes before you become barbeque."

Alec thought over this. "Good point. So if I make you mad, I'm fried, and if I make Kanda mad, I'm an ice cube."

"No," I correct, "if you make Kanda mad, your death will be much more painful and mostly likely very bloody."

"Dang straight," I hear from behind me.

As Kanda walked out of the room, Alec leaned closer to me and murmured, "Does he even have a heart?"

"I heard that," the bluenette growled from the tunnel.

"You were supposed to!" the ravenette, who I think is now on Kanda's "to die" list, called.

I laugh. "I assure you he does. Granted, it's microscopic―"

"I heard that, too."

"―but it is there," I finish. Alec smiles. "As much of a jerk as he can be, he is very admirable in his own way."

We pause, but no reply comes from the tunnel. I assure, "He heard that, too, but he won't acknowledge it."

"Can he hear everything?"

"Probably. He can hear the waves of telepathy, even if he doesn't know what's being said."

"Impressive."

Alec and I decide to go hunting together, but as we walk out, I stop. Klaud had a nearly murderous aura around her as she lied on the couch, a book in hand, and I noticed that the aura only grew when Kanda tried to sit next to her. In less than five seconds, Klaud hissed at him, ears laid back and tail lashing as she stood and walked away. Lavi noticed this as well and plopped onto the couch next to his best friend. "You're getting hissed at a lot, Yuu."

"Baka Usagi, stop calling me that!" he growled, but the retort contained hardly half the malice it usually did.

Alec, however, noticed something on the other side of the room. Correction, someone. He glanced at me before he resumed his inspection of the other person. "I don't remember him. What's his element?"

Confused, I follow the Onyx's gaze. My worst enemy, or maybe second depending on where Klaud was in all this, walked out of the boys' wing. I grimace. "That's Alma."

"Alma?"

"Yeah. Do you know what a Morph is?"

"Yes. Witnessed one."

"He's the body of Shiloh Nile."

"Shiloh?"

I saw Kanda's ear twitch despite the "conversation" he was in with Lavi. I knew Kanda still wasn't comfortable talking about the former nittca and I would feel terrible if he didn't want Alec to know. After a moment, the alpha nodded silently with a glimpse Alec's and my way. "You can tell him. He'll ask at some point anyways, so you might as well get it out of the way."

"So that you don't have to deal with him asking you?"

He doesn't reply, and I say, "I'll tell him while we're hunting."

Kanda growled, "Baka Usagi, why are you asking me? Do I really look like I give a flip about your spawn's name?"

"Well, you are going to be the godfather―"

"Heck no!"

I laugh. "Come on, Kanda, it's not that bad. Just imagine yourself filling up the baby's bottle!"

And here I go:

Kanda yawned as he heated the bottle in the microwave while he bounced the crying baby girl in his arms. "It's okay, little one. Uncle Fuzzy is going to feed you."

She began to purr when he gave her the bottle, and soon after, she fell asleep. While the baby slept, Kanda changed her diaper, singing a lullaby the whole time.

My eyes widen in horror, and I begin hitting myself in the head. "It's scary! Make it go away!"

Lavi must have known exactly what this meant. "Ooh, Allen, send it to me!"

One minute later, the redhead hit himself in the head. "It's scary! Make it go away!"

After a moment, he looked at me and added, "Uncle Fuzzy? Really? How is Kanda fuzzy?"

Kanda glares at me. "What the heck does he mean?"

I laugh nervously. "Um, nothing! Really!"

"Then what was scary?"

I don't reply and send the "daydream" to him, my head down. When no words come from Kanda, I look up at him, and he had the same aura as Klaud did a few minutes ago. He stands and turns to me, eyes blazing and fists clenched. "Moyashi, I am seriously going to murder you!"

I squeak in fear and grab Alec's hand before I run for my life and don't stop until I'm in a tree about a half mile from the Order.

"You know he wasn't serious, right?" Alec asked as he dangled by his knees from a branch. I scoff. "That's what I thought, too."

"What changed?"

I reply, "As a prank, Lavi and I put vodka in his Pepsi, both fully aware that he hates it more than any other alcohol."

"And?" he asked when I don't continue.

"Remember the alcohol discussion?"

"Yeah."

"He filled a two-liter with rum, my most hated alcohol, and made me drink it all in five minutes. I was vomiting all night and had the worst headache ever the next day."

"Didn't you say you'd never been drunk before?"

"That doesn't count! I was forced!"

Alec laughs for a moment, but then continues more seriously, "So who's Shiloh?"

I look down. "I never met him. Five years ago, he was Kanda's apprentice and mate, but when the vampires launched an attack on the Order, he jumped in front of Kanda to protect him. Alma became Shiloh's body, and his spirit was absorbed into me. Some emotional stuff happened, and his spirit left me."

Alec smiled sympathetically. "So that's why you were hesitant to say anything in front of Kanda. Well, behind him, but you get my point."

"Yeah, but he said it was fine. Just don't say anything about it in front of him."

The ravenette nods. "What was his element?"

"Light, but Alma doesn't have any power. His hatred for me makes up for it," I mutter, the last part mostly to myself.

"Huh?"

"Well, Alma's in love with Kanda and―"

Alec held up his hand to stop me. "No need to explain further. In my old pack, there was a love hexagon."

"Hexagon?"

"Forewarning: I'm about to confuse you."

"That's fine."

"So Cam had two mates, Katie and Lizzy. When I got there, Emma and Mike started fighting over me. There were four very irritated lycanthropes in my pack when Cam announced his relationship with me."

I smile. "I guess I'm lucky I only have to deal with Alma. Besides, Kanda can order him around when needed."

"But can he order you around?" Alec asked as he sat normally on the branch next to me. I admit the question surprised me, but I reply, "He tries to sometimes, though I generally don't care. He knows I hate it when he acts like that. Why?"

"Just curious."

I shrug. "Okay. Whatever. Ready to hunt?"

"Yep. I bet I'll catch something first."

"You're on!"

Author Note: So due to me being lazy and procrastinating to do my summer reading, the chapters will be more spread out. Sorry! Also, I wrote a poem called "Snow White" a few days ago to raise awareness of bullying and cutting. Please check it out, and please, Please, PLEASE REVIEW!