New Age

Chapter 26-The REAL Fight Begins

It's been around a week since I finally FINALLY got control of my powers and let me tell you I am EXTREMELY SORE. I'm not only sore from shifting but Scarlet's been bringing me to the roof and gym every day after school so that I can get more control over my werewolf powers. Only reason she's doing this is because of the letter I got a while back. I mean I get her trying to help me get a bit more control, but I don't understand the other part. I've said it before, and I'll say it again it was probably just a dare. In other news, I haven't heard from Lin in a while, and I don't know why. I kinda want to go back to the mindscape place to see what's going on there. I just realized that I also haven't seen or heard from Jake or Kelly and her gang in a while now. I honestly don't care about Jake anymore but I kinda wonder where Kelly's gang went whenever she disappeared into the woods that day.

I sat up from my bed and realized that I also haven't heard from Milinda in a hot second, so I wanted to visit her. I hopped out of bed and started getting ready. Getting real clothes on, shoes on and brushing my hair. While brushing my hair I noticed something, let's just say, odd. I was looking in the mirror brushing my hair, not only was I actually able to see myself, but I was also able to see a few brown wisps of hair mixed in with the blue. See that's weird because my original hair color was brown. The only reason that my hair was blue was because of Lin. I paused once I noticed it and leaned in closer to the mirror. I looked at the top of my head and sure enough, my roots were brown.

I ran out of my room to go and tell Scarlet. I bust down her door, but she wasn't there. "Huh, maybe she went to go and see Milinda too..." I thought out loud. I shrugged it off and went to find Milinda. I stepped out of the dorm and realized I had no idea where Milinda's dorm even was. I sighed after realizing this then pulled out my phone and texted Scarlet

"Hey u know where Milinda's dorm at?" I decided I might as well venture around while I'm out here and so I did. The cafeteria always has a box stocked with newspapers that no one reads. I wanted to look at them to see what's going on outside of school. I picked one up that heard the headline "SPRING FAIR COMING SOON IN CLOVERDALE" In the amount of time that I had been here I have never heard of a festival, maybe it was a new thing or an annual thing I didn't know, either way it caught my interest. I decided to bring it up to Milinda or Scarlet later once I found them.

I wandered around a bit more and decided that I would go to the library. On my way there I spotted a few people who once they saw me walked away faster. I saw other people who laughed once they saw me, I was used to it at this point. I finally got to the library after what felt like forever and entered. It was empty as usual and that's how I liked it. "Well, isn't this poetic?" I turned around and low and behold it was Jake "God you again, I thought you were dead or something? What's your deal with following me around?!" I yelled at him as it echoed through the library. "Hey, calm down now, I'm just trying to be nice and check up on my friends." The nerve of this guy! "Don't even TRY to say we're friends, we aren't friends and we never have been friends." He smiled at my remark and said "You sure? Last time I checked we were the best of friends long ago. Come on, don't you remember?" He shrugged and continued "Well not to dwell on the past, in other news, I heard you finally learned how to be somewhat normal, how's that going for you?"

"Wh-who told you?" I don't remember Scarlet telling anyone besides Milinda and a few other people but we both agreed that Jake was a crap person, and we shouldn't tell him! "Oh, you know, I have my ways." He said, looking at his nails. "That's not the point! What do you want from me anyways?!" He looked at me and smiled "I want to help you" I paused "Help? All you've done has been a nuisance to me!" I was getting more and more pissed by the second. "Ah that's what I'm looking for!"

"What?!" I yelled feeling the anger swell inside me "Anger and rage baby!" he said snapping his fingers "Strong emotions are the key to well anyone's powers! Werewolves are known to be short tempered so it only makes sense that your kind would evolve to use this to their advantage." I. Was. LIVID. I shifted as fast as possible and lunged at him. Next thing I know he's gone. "Come on, I know you can do better than that! Show me some real rage!" I turned around and there he was again. I tried to tackle him but then was gone again. He appeared at the doorway and before he could say anything I tackled him. I busted through the door of the library and tried to find him but couldn't. I looked around and he was running up the stairs. "CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!" He yelled. I ran up those stairs faster than I ever have in my life. I saw a few people who were following and recording the whole thing. I lost sight of him, but I didn't lose his sound. I heard him enter the gym and closed the door behind him. I ran up the stairs, barely turned and entered the gym to see him standing there. Filled with unruly rage, I didn't care if anyone was watching. I just wanted to beat the living hell out of him.

I walked up to Jake, as calmly as I could and stared him down. "Come on wolf girl, try it. Let the rage fill you with determination! Allow it to help you." He went on. At this rate there was a crowd of kids in the gym filming the entire thing. I looked around at everyone and they all were ready for a show, and that was exactly what I was going to give them. I pulled out my switchblade and there was a collective gasp from the crowd when I flipped the blade out. "Oh, come ON Zena! We all know that you couldn't stab me if you even wanted to. Besides, you'd just be proving the point that you are: dangerous." I knew I was already shifted but something felt different about shifting with that knife. It wasn't the knife that made it feel different, it was the way I shifted. I looked Jake dead in his dead soulless eyes and said, "I'll show you fucking dangerous-" and I sliced my wrist wide open with the knife.