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The Lycanthrope Trilogy: Heart

Chapter 8: Glow

Midnight loomed over the Order. I rub my hair with a towel and ask Kanda, "Are you sure? The patrols are pretty extensive and―"

"Yes, I'm sure. I'm not a china doll," he cuts. Alec and I mutter in unison, "Though you look like one."

Kanda glares at both of us and opens his mouth, but he's cut off by a scream. This was followed by someone exclaiming, "AWESOME!"

I face palm. "That was Lavi, wasn't it?"

Kanda doesn't reply and stands from the bed. Alec and I follow him out of the room. When the three of us get to Lavi's room, we open the door to a strange sight. Darkness cloaked the room, but Lavi's body emanated a yellow light. He smiled like a lunatic at us. "Look, Yuu! I'm a glow stick!"

Kanda didn't even snap at him for using his first name. "What is wrong with you?"

"Mentally or physically?" Lavi asks. "Physically I'm glowing. Mentally…I just have issues."

"Glad we clarified that," the alpha muttered.

Marie walked in. "What's all the commotion about?"

"Lavi's glowing," Lenalee said, who I hadn't noticed sitting on the bed.

Fou entered the room, took one look at Lavi, and stated, "I think I know what the other element of a Media is."

Murmurs of agreement spread through the room. A moment later, a loud cat cry erupted from somewhere in the Order. Followed by another. And another. Kanda rolled his eyes. "Lavi's room, Dewdrop!"

Five seconds later, a black and white flash darted through the room, hardly visible in the dim light, and jumped on Kanda, who landed on the floor with a thud and curse. Dewdrop licked his face and purred. While I was too busy looking at the sight, I missed a fluffy, blonde streak until it had taken me to the floor next to Kanda and started to lick me.

"Misty, stop! That t-tickles!" I laugh. She pulls away and watches me with her large, rose-colored eyes. "Misty and Dewdrop couldn't find Master Allen and Kanda, so Misty and Dewdrop got worried. Is Master Allen okay?"

"I'm fine," I reply and scratch behind her ear. Misty wags her tail and says, "Are Lavi and Lenalee okay, too? Lavi looks glowy. Lenalee smells weird."

"What?" Kanda and I ask at the same time. Dewdrop walks toward Lenalee and sniffed her. Lenalee looked at Kanda. "What's she doing?"

"She said you smell weird," he deadpanned. I nod. "Misty said the same thing."

Kanda and I stand, Misty in my arms. Dewdrop walked back to us and stood on her hind legs with her paws planted on Kanda's lower stomach. She stared at him and mewed. After a moment, he nodded and said, "Fire and Light and Fire and Water."

"Water and Fire?" Lenalee asked. "The heck would that be?"

I shrug. "Not sure, but it sounds interesting."

She glanced at her swollen stomach and then at Kanda. "What about my transformation? Couldn't it hurt her?"

"Him," Lavi corrected.

"It," Kanda settled. Lenalee said, "Whatever. Answer my question."

The alpha raised an eyebrow at her. "You think I'm a doctor?"

"Stop being a smart aleck! You're the only one in the pack who was born into lycanthropy!" she snapped.

Kanda stood in place for another moment, Dewdrop's feet still propped on him. With a frustrated growl, he walked to the pregnant woman and sat on the edge of the bed. "Lay flat on your back."

Lenalee obeyed. When Kanda lifted her shirt, Lavi looked as if he would have a conniption. The bluenette glanced over his shoulder at the glowing lycanthrope. "Cool it. Do you want her to miscarry?"

At this, Lavi relaxed his body while his face saddened. "Sorry."

Kanda turned his attention back to Lenalee, who seemed distressed by his words, but she said nothing. He ran his hand over her stomach with his eyes closed and said, "Take a breath."

She did so, and when he instructed, released it. Kanda moved his head close to her stomach, his wolf ear over her navel. "Again."

Once she finished, he pulled back. "Arch your back until only your shoulders and feet touch the mattress. Hold it for five seconds."

Lenalee seemed to have no trouble with it.

"You'll be fine to transform at least twice, but you'll need to go easy on the fighting," Kanda said and stood. Lavi looked at his own feet as the alpha passed and growled at him.

oO_Oo_oO_Oo

"You didn't have to be so mean, Kanda," I said and crossed my arms. He glanced at me from the bed, but Alec spoke before he could, "It's an alpha thing. Cam did it a lot."

Kanda glared at the former omega. "Would you shut it about this Cam guy already? I don't care."

"I was talking to Allen, not you," Alec retorted.

"Knock it off!" I growl. "Kanda, stop being such an arse! Alec…just shut up."

The ravenette cursed, something I hadn't heard him do before, and rolled over to face the wall. Kanda cussed as well, though much more colorfully. I mutter, "I'm sleeping in my room tonight. Next few nights actually. Don't kill each other."

I took two steps into the hall.

"Looks like you're getting the cold shoulder."

I bark, "Alec!"

"Shutting up."

"Just remember that our rooms are close together. I'll be listening."

"Creeper," Kanda muttered.

"I heard that."

"You were supposed to."

I shake my head and walk into the main area of the Order. Most people were in bed again, so it surprised me when I saw Klaud and Winters on a couch together, arguing.

"Would you drop it?!" Klaud hissed. Winters shook his head. "No, I won't. Whose is it?"

"It's yours!"

"That's impossible."

"I'm telling you; you are the father!" the woman insisted. She obviously struggled to keep her voice down.

"We haven't had sex since the last time you went into heat. That was five months ago, and you aren't five months along."

"I'm two months."

"That means you know whose it is since you remember the conception date!"

Klaud opened her mouth, but Winters cut her off. "It's Kanda's, isn't it?"

"No!" she cried. "He's my brother!"

"He's not your brother, moron!"

"He's not the father either! And he can be my brother regardless of blood!"

Winters stood. "Seriously, tell me. If it's not Kanda or me, whose is it? You know who the father is!"

Klaud looked like a little girl huddled in fear on the couch as Winters loomed over her. Wasn't he supposed to know about her past? My body reacted on its own.

I pushed the man, who easily towered over a half-foot above me, away from Klaud and into a couch. "Get away from her!"

He sat, stunned, where he landed. I got on my knees beside Klaud and cringed at the terror in her wet, amethyst eyes. After a moment, I wipe away the tears that streaked down her cheeks. "Shh, it's okay. You're okay."

It sounded cheesy. I realized this, but I hadn't taken enough psychology in high school to help very well. Regardless, Klaud seemed to calm down a little. "K-Kan…."

"Do you want me to get Kanda?" I ask. I heard Winters walk to the boys' wing.

The woman jolted and shook her head before she stared at the couch on her other side. "No. H-he's stressed as it is."

I direct her gaze back to mine with a hand on her cheek. "He'd do anything for you, stressed or not. Winters had no right to try to force that information out of you."

"So you heard?" she asked timidly. I nod. She continues, "What do you think?"

"Huh?"

"I mean, I guess I'm afraid you figured it out…."

I pull away and sit normally on the couch. "According to Winters, it's not him. I trust that it's not Kanda. I just assumed you went out and hooked up with someone, but forgot to use protection or something, though I didn't really think you were that kind of person."

Klaud bit her lip and looked away again. I hesitantly say, "But you didn't hook up, did you?"

"Will you hate me? Will you be disgusted, think I'm stupid for keeping the baby?" she asked in reply. Tears dripped off her chin.

"I'm not going to force you to tell me. And if you have to ask those things, then you need to rethink it and decide what kind of person I am," I say. "One, I'm not a judgmental person. Two, if Kanda accepts you, I accept you."

After a moment, I add, "Though I may have issues if you were the traitor or killed someone, and I doubt both."

I stand and move to the kitchen. When I open my soda and turn around, Klaud is sitting on one of the bar chairs. She asks, "Can I ask you something?"

"Fire away." I take a sip from my drink. The blonde lays her chin on her folded arms and stares at the marble countertop. "Why are you so accepting of everyone? I mean, it took a long time for me to accept myself the way I am, but you do it so…easily."

I smile. "My foster father, Mana, always told me that the whole 'treat others the way you want to be treated' thing was a load of garbage. Just because you treat someone with respect, doesn't mean they'll do the same, and when that happens, you end up treating them as they treat you. It doesn't solve anything. I learned in church 'what would Jesus do'. The problem with that is there will always be a person who twists His Word around. After a while, I made up my own saying: 'Ignore the skeletons. Love the person. The past is the past. Make a future that lasts'."

"I don't get it."

"Well, I wasn't done yet," I say. "What it means is that everyday can be a new beginning. Erase the bad parts of yesterday and draw in the new, better parts today. It's like proofreading. If you were to write a book on a boy who was adopted, will you write about the meaningless parts about what happened to lead to his adoption and focus on it? Or will you write about his new life?"

Klaud glanced up at me. "So I'm supposed to write a book about―?"

"No, don't write a book. I mean, if you want to, I'm not going to stop you, but that wasn't my point. Take my relationship with you for instance. My mental book about what happened the day we picked the unicorn berries consists of your favorite Hollywood Undead songs and some key information. I didn't write down the comments about how much you hate me."

Silence fell over the room. After a minute, I throw away my soda can and move to the boys' wing, but I'm stopped by Klaud saying, "Wait."

I turn and stand statue-still. Klaud's arms' grip tightens. "Thank you."

I smile and return the embrace. "You're welcome."

"I…you…Kanda and I will tell you who the father is tomorrow night. I need support, and you can give it better than Kanda can at times."

I pull away. "And why is that?"

"You say the right things sometimes," she mumbles and stalks into the girls' wing.

Oo_oO_Oo_oO

"I can't wait!" Lavi exclaims as he, Kanda, Alec, Lenalee, and I walk through the forest. His new spirit beast, a frog made of what seemed like molten silver named Chrome, sat on his shoulder. Lenalee's new spirit beast looked like a neon green rat, though she insisted Alura was a mouse, just a very large one.

"We gathered that much," Lenalee giggles. "We should do something to pass the time. It's still a few miles to Lake WillowDrop."

I smile and sing, "For those that don't know me, I can get a bit crazy. Have to get my way, yep, twenty-four hours a day, because I'm hot like that. Every guy everywhere just gives me mad attention, like I'm under inspection. I always get a ten, because I'm built like that."

Lenalee picks up, "I go through guys like money flying out my hands. They try to change me, but they realize they can't. And every tomorrow is a day I never planned. If you're going to be my man understand…."

"I can't be tamed!" we sing. "I can't be tamed. I can't be blamed! I can't, can't, I can't, can't be tamed! I can't be changed! I can't be tamed!"

Lenalee and I burst out laughing. I glance over my shoulder and notice that Lavi had forced himself between and Alec and Kanda. I growl, "Can't I have fun without you two trying to kill each other?! It's ridiculous!"

Alec looks to the side. "Sorry, Allen."

I look at Kanda.

"Whatever," he mutters. I knew I wouldn't get anything more out of him, and Lenalee and I continue to walk in silence. Stupid boys.

An hour later, I glance around the area that surrounds Lake WillowDrop. No Lolita. Haze flies to Kanda. "Earth and Water and Light and Air have appeared."

He nods and turns to Lavi. "You go first."

The redhead nods. He walks to the tree with white and red swirled together. When he touches it, everything glows. I hear him say, "Chrome, come. Platinum Power: activate!"

Chrome leaped into Lavi's chest, and the lycanthrope lifted into the air. His hair turned silver and his left eye did the same. The eye patch that covered his right eye fell to the ground and revealed the multi-colored orb underneath. Platinum, the molten silver, covered Lavi's body and became gray pants and a matching muscle shirt with black combat boots. Wings sprouted from his back and unfurled, like angel wings made of metal. White fire flared at the tops of the appendages. Lastly, a glass ball surfaced on his forehead, much like a large marble. "TRANSFORMATION PLATINUM FIRE!"

A few minutes later, Lenalee presses her hand to the red and blue tree. "Alura, come. Toxin Power: activate!"

The green "mouse" dissolved into her chest, and Lenalee lifted into the air. Her eyes turned bright green and her eyelashes lengthened while the ends of her black pigtails dripped Toxin, a green, glowing goo. Toxin covered her body before it became a lime colored dress. It had a long sleeve on her right arm and nothing on her left. The hem began at her mid thigh, but it slanted drastically so the very bottom reached her green pumps. Black, fingerless gloves covered her hands, matching her metal choker. Her wings resembled a Water user's, spider web like, but instead of blue, they glowed green. "TRANSFORMATION TOXIC BEAUTY!"

oO_Oo_oO_Oo

Lenalee's power allowed her to throw balls of Toxin at people, which results in agonizing pain and death for the victim unless treated. Poor Kanda went first and learned the hard way.

Platinum seemed like a defense at first, which it can be, but it can attack. Kanda just got everything today, like a metal spike lodged in his shoulder. I was not happy with Lavi licking my man's shoulder. Lenalee only put Kanda's fingers in her mouth, so I didn't mind as much.

On the bright side, for me at least, Platinum shares the same characteristics of the periodic element platinum, and transition metals conduct electricity. Toxin retains mostly Water traits, and it's easy to throw lightning at it. Mystic Storm has yet to disappoint me.

"Kanda?" I ask as I sit on the bed. Alec told me he planned to watch the Golden Girls marathon tonight, so he would most likely fall asleep on the couch.

The bluenette glanced at me over the top of his book. "What?"

I look down. "Klaud told me she wanted to tell me who the father is."

"I realize. I was the one who suggested it in the first place, but knowing her, she's probably pacing in her room right now. She won't back away from a promise, but it may take her a while to get up the courage."

"Is there a reason why you opened up to her?" I ask. "You hide your emotions, but not around her."

"I rarely hide them around you, too."

"I'm your boyfriend. There's a difference. She could have just been like any other girl, but you returned her feelings of siblinghood."

Kanda closes his book and lays it on the nightstand. "In all honesty, I don't know. I suppose it could be that she was my apprentice, but I think it's something else. I don't try to figure it out because it would be like asking why I fell in love with you or Shiloh. I don't know the answer to that either, but it happened, and I accepted it."

"It could have been God's plan," I say. He shrugs. "Maybe."

Klaud walked in. "Okay, I'm here."

Author Note: Ooh, who's the daddy? If you think you know or want to eat pizza, please, Please, PLEASE REVIEW! Can't be Tamed-Miley Cyrus.