Blaire pov
Finally it was time, after another three long weeks of waiting it was time. I've been waiting way too fucking long for this, to never age again, to become an immortal of my own design. I swear I gained like five wrinkles just form waiting. But it's not like I could speed the process up or anything. I wasn't a scientist or even a doctor. That Guy that Selene had captured, Canice was his name right. Now that I think about it he's kinda cute, you know in a nerdy kinda way, strangely my type. After he got over the whole 'Please don't eat me I taste terrible I'll give you gas,' and the pissing himself stage, he was surprisingly easy to talk to. It didn't take too much convincing to get him to believe our family history and even less time to convince him to help us. Apparently humanity wasn't too kind to him either. He then spent the next three weeks working closely with my uncle Michael to decipher the documents that chocolate cop Sebastian had given us. It's not like I was bored or anything during that time though, quite the opposite in fact. I did as much training as I could under the tutelage of Selene.
But god damn that woman is tough, I – no none of us could get a hit in. Not even David Clarisse and Eve, her star pupils. Plus on a side not that woman was fine as hell. To think that she still has a body like that after six hundred years. Now that is one river I wouldn't mind swimming in, if you catch my drift. Ahem, anyway aside from training I spent a whole lot of time learning stuff. About anything useful really, history, war planning, colonization, stuff like that. Plus I'd always find the time to mess with Canice. I don't know what is about him but I can't help but find it easy to just, talk to him. I could rant about anything and he'd just sit there and listen. And I mean actually listen. He'd ask me about my goals and what I really wanted out of all this and I found it so easy to be truthful and upfront with him. We'd gotten to know each other quite well these pass couple weeks. So much so that we were starting to get cat calls from my family. He was the one that called me personally to tell me it was time.
I felt like I could run there fast enough when in truth I was the first human member of my family to arrive. The other's arriving moments later, almost as eager as I was for this. We gathered in the counsel room as planned and Michael stepped forward to speak. "I would ask you all if this is what you truly want, but that would be pointlessly redundant. As you all know I've been working with Canice here." He gesture to the man in question, who bowed slightest. Then he sent me a secret wink, one small little wink that had my ovaries quivering. Yeah that does it, the first person I'm sinking my teeth into, is gonna be him. My cousin's voice pulled me out of my impromptu fantasizing.
"We've been trying to find a way to create all new immortals, and we have. We've discovered that by separating the original Corvinus strain from the blood, then splicing it with the DNA of something else. That creation of a new species is possible." I clapped at the news, "Bout freakin' time. If you'd taken any longer my boobs would've started to sag." That line got me smacked upside the head by my mother. "Pay Blaire's antics no mind," she said. "Regardless I do share some of her impatience on the matter. As I'm sure the rest of you are." She addressed the rest of the family. Gramps nodded then gave a grunt while Uncle Andre started to look a little fidgety. "Why do you look so uneasy uncle? Wait a minute; don't tell me you're chickening out on us." I glared at my uncle, he shook his head slowly.
"It's not that" he said hesitantly then turned to Micheal. "Um say, is it like possible to like, oh let's say, swamp out something you chose for something else." We all looked at him like he had just grown a penis out of his forehead. "What, the, fuck, are you talking about, cause I'm lost". He rolled his eyes at me then went on. "Look all I'm saying is that I want to switch the creature I picked. As it turns out Iguana's are vegetarians, didn't know that before." He said giving a small sheepish chuckled, I face-palmed. "So I'd like to switch out for something with a little more, bite." Now he was smirking to himself. "Just spit it out already, we don't got all damn day here". I shouted at him, my impatience getting the better of me. He threw is hands up in mock surrender, "Alright alright," he said. "If you must know, it's a Komodo Dragon. I had a vampire guard go get a sample a while back."
I would have answered back but my jaw had hit the floor and rolled off somewhere. "Hmm, I see no real problem with your choice. I'm sure you've thought it through considerably. Furthermore it would seem that we've been sidetracked in our topic here." My mom said, bringing the conversation back to its true source. This brought me back to the main point as well. "Oh man that's right," I turned the Canice. "You guys found a way to make us new immortals right." I asked him and he nodded. "Yep we did. So it's basically what Michael was saying earlier. We separate the pure strain, and then bound it with another DNA sample and presto. Although there is one thing, apparently this will only work on someone born with a natural compatibility with the Corvinus strain. In other's words it will only work on you guys." He wrapped up his speech and gained a whistle from Uncle Andre. "Oh and Sir Andre, granting your request is totally doable." He calling in a guard to whisper the command to him then sending the guy off.
"So would it be right to assume you've already create the serums designed for each of us then." Grandfather inquired and all our attention was on the poor boy now, god he looked nervous. "Um y-yes, we have. They're ready for you whenever you're ready." He answered shakily and I practically launched myself from my chair. "Well then what the hell are we waiting for? Let's do this." I shouted, lunging forward and grabbing Canice by the collar before bolting out the door.
GOD my heart was pounding. I mean, this was it, this was really it. I didn't want to hear anymore theories; I didn't want to wait another second. This was what I wanted and I wanted it now. Somehow as we were running, I went from dragging Canice by the collar to dragging him by the hand. Not that he was complaining about it. If anything he looked oddly happy about it, hmm? Well whatever the case it can wait till later. As we burst into the training hall we saw a few people there practicing some combat drill. "EVERBODY GET THE FUCK OUT, NOW." I wasn't exactly in the mood to be subtle, plus there was the added bonus of being a Corvinus. Our name got us instant respect and obedience, man I am so gonna abuse that privilege once I'm immortal. I spun around to face Canice only to catch him staring at my hips, his eyes quickly darted up to mine and I couldn't help but grin. "Dude, were you just checking out my ass?" I said stilling grinning, he spluttered on his answer. "W-what no, of course not, I was just-", he paused then squared his shoulders and looked me straight in the eyes. "Actually, yes, yes I was. Sorry I just couldn't help myself, you're just so incredibly beautiful and -, oh man this is so weird right now." He mumbled out in a panic.
If I had doubts before, I didn't now, not after he said all that to me. I mean, I've always been self conscious about my body, never thinking myself beautiful enough, always wanting to improve something about me. But this guy for what whatever reason he had saw me as beautiful, saw me as enough. So yeah now I was sure, I was so making this guy mine, he just doesn't know it yet. "So where's the serum" I said trying to get over the awkward silence, noticing he wasn't carrying anything his hands. "Um about that, you sort of dragged me here before I could pick them up." He said laughing sheepishly. "Luckily for you I brought it" said Uncle Michael as he and the other's strode into the room. "Such impatience, I fear for the coven you will create," said my grandfather and I stuck my tongue out at him. "Since we are here we might as well get this started. Would you agree dear." Selene said turning to Michael, receiving a nod from him.
"Alright then, let's not waste anymore time. Eve, take your grandfather to his designated room, David and Clarisse, you do the same with Maria and Andre. They nodded with a 'yes sir' before taking said people to their predetermined locations. Now for those of you who don't know. The designated rooms are the places selected for when we were going to go though the transformation process. Seeing as we were going to be out of our fucking minds for a while, or worse... permanently. These rooms were reinforced to strengthen the walls and outfitted with vents to either pump in chloroform or something of a more, lethal variety. Plus they were customized to each of us. For instance my mom's room came equipped with an indoor pool, for, you know, if she wanted to swim.
Finally it was time; everyone was in place while Michael and Selene went to the control room. Then I heard Michael's voice over the installed intercom – through I guess the others could hear it to. "I won't waste my breathe trying to dissuade any of you, you've all made your choice. So if you're ready, let's begin." The one in my room with me to administer the serum was Canice. He came up to me and took my right arm, positioning the needle close to my main vein with shaking hands. I don't know why I did it, it just kinda happened. I grabbed him by the neck and yanked him down into a kiss that I'm pretty sure could set cloths on fire. When I broke the kiss and opened my eyes he was staring at me wide eyed. "Umm, w-what the hell was that for?" he asked bewildered. "So that I have something to fight for I guess." I said looking down; he suddenly seemed to be contemplating something.
Then without warning he looped his hand around my waist, pulling me in and crushing my body to his. Then he kissed me with a passion then basically had my panties struggling to take itself off, I mean holy shit he was good. We wouldn't have stopped had it not been for the interruption over the intercom. "Um ahem, if everyone is ready, we should begin." That snapped us out of it pretty quick; we looked away from each other in awkward embarrassment. "We are so resuming this later." I said to him and he was in full agreement, then his features took on a serious note. He repositioned the needle and looked me in the eye again. "You ready" he asked with now sure hands. I put my hand over his, locking my gaze with his and declared, "hell yeah". Together we sank the needle deep into my vein.
Hmm, so far... nothing. Wait did it work or not, please tell me this is just a lag effect. Canice had already cleared the room, would have been too dangerous for him to stay. So now I stood here by my lonesome, feeling like an idiot. "Hey are you guys sure you gave me the right serum, cause I ain't feeling shit." I would have complained more if it wasn't for the inhuman scream I heard then. My head snapped to sound and judging by the pitch I knew it was my mom. For the first time since we started this venture, I felt scared. That scream just now sounded animalistic, painfully, not like my mom at all. But I didn't have time to worry about that because just then the pain hit. I felt something snap inside me, my transformation had begun. I now take back everything I said before; I no longer want to be an immortal. Not if it meant this pain, this hell. Childbirth was more preferable to this. To having every joint in my body dislocated, every muscle torn, every bone contorted. I was reduced from an overconfident and all too eager wanna-be, to a screaming don't wanna-be in minutes. I could not only feel the changes within my body, I could hear it. See my bones snap and grow beneath my skin, see my skin change colour and texture. Feel the muscles in my back shift and thicken, then push outward past my shoulder blades. It was like my brain was divided, each part processing a different sensation yet all at the same time. The pain took presidents, the wonderment of it second. It was like being pulled through a taffy puller yet still being conscious of it all. Part of my brain consider suicide just to make the pain stop, contemplating if this was really worth it. A next part noted the feeling of something large and heavy, yet soft and wet on my back. Another noted how everything in the room now looked. I could see the dust in the air; see the motes as they swirled to every pass of wind. See the cracks within the cracks on the walls.
Then I noticed I was looking at my back. Or more specifically the giant fucking wings sprouting from my back. And when I say I was looking at them, I mean that I was literally staring at them. My head had turned a complete 180 degrees to see them. Two massive six foot wings growing from each shoulder blade complete with matching tails feathers. Wait, what, tail feathers. But this revelation was lost to the newest sensation, the feeling of my skull splitting apart. Have you ever had a headache so bad you considered decapitation? Now this is the part where things get iffy, meaning I don't really know what happened after this point. I do remember screaming over and over again, but that's about it. The human part of my consciousness was pushed out as the more animalistic side took control. All I really remember is bits and pieces after that.
Then I wake up, in the ceiling, confused, sore, and hungrier than Jesus after forty days in a desert. I couldn't make heads or tails of anything, wait, why the fuck am I in the ceiling. More importantly why does the ground look so close, like it's just an inch away? And are those, claw marks. Ok first things first, how do I get down. As if responding to my internal question my body moved of its own accord. Leaping from the rafter I felt something unfurl on my back and I glided gently to the floor. "Ok, that was weird." I said more to myself than to anyone else. I began to survey my surroundings, turning in a complete circle to take in the room. The scenery helped me to remember what had happened, the transformation. Suddenly everything made sense, I turned my head – amazed and scared at how easy it now was – to look at my wings. They were so beautiful, a warm cinnamon brown colour to them. Then I started noticing the rest of me, my arms up to my elbows were more of a rubber-ish texture than skin, my nails were two inch claws. I was taller – finally – about six foot five. My body felt far lighter than I remember it ever feeling, did I lose weight or something – sweet, bonus. My legs were very much like my arms, that same rubber-ish texture to my skin. From the knees down however, ending in, what the fuck, are those four inch talons. Now here's the really weird part. My entire torso, from my elbows and knees up to my neck, was covered with a soft, inch thick layer of cinnamon brown feathers.
As I continued to observe myself I heard sounds coming from outside the door. I turned to the sounds, my body instantly going defensive as the door slowly opened. There first person in the room was Canice, instantly my body relaxed. That is until the super massive lycan enter the room. I went rigid again and made a noise that was all new to me, a feral snarl. But Canice put his hands up quickly in a show of peace. "Easy now Blaire" he said as he slowly advanced forward. "No one is going to hurt you, I swear. We just want to know if you're alright now." I cocked my head to the side, almost attaining a ninety degree angle. What the hell is he talking about? I tried to answer him back only to discover that I couldn't speak. Panic started to well up within me and he rushed forward, sensing my distress and taking my hands- claws in his. "Everything's going to be ok now" he said while rubbing circles on the back of my hands with his thumbs. "You've been out of it for the last two weeks, but I think you're back in control of yourself now." I could feel myself calming down at his words, his touch. Until I really registered what he had said.
Two weeks, what the fuck does he mean by two weeks?
TBC
Author's notes: oh man I am so sorry this took me so long. It was a combination of laziness and writer's block. But I got it out finally so please don't hunt me down and harvest my organs. Hit me with your thoughts afterwards. I would really like to know what you guys think.
