Nielu [REWRITTEN]

26 - As Ash Rises...

"Today's agenda is to simply have fun! We don't really wish to converse with Alpha werewolves considering we're not werewolves." the girl tells him.

Ethan hums. "Sounds fun."

"Ah, you're the sarcastic type. No worries, I'll still befriend you!"

"Sierra! Is Ethan up?" he hears Harper shout.

"Why don't you get ready and meet us downstairs, we'll start the day's agenda then." Sierra beams and slowly but surely takes her leave; shutting the door behind her.

Ethan spots a notebook on the bedside table and grabs it along with a pen he sees laying beside it. Throwing the pen into his left hand, he opens the notebook to the first page.

What's going on?

1. Dreams of Harper. Twice.

2. I have a wolf form that neither of my parents nor my sister have.

3. Cardarelli. Two times have I heard this name. Three if I choose to include the fact I heard it at Starlight.

4. I have teleportation...and telepathy. How???

5. Sparks of electricity race through me when I touch Harper. Surprisingly...comforting.

He sighs and shuts the notebook close. The teenaged Ultima sets the notebook back on the side table, placing the pen down beside it before remembering something. Picking it back up and tossing the pen into his left hand again, he quickly adds his thought.

6. This week...I've never felt so exhausted..something going around?

Ethan's icy gaze glances downwards at it. This month, this week, has been rough. He thought it was much earlier in the morning...and all he's wanted to do is sleep.

Adding onto that last thought. Something definitely is going on with my body.

I just want to sleep....and there's the fact I thought it was two in the morning when it actually was four in the evening.

Am I going crazy? Am I hallucinating things?

"ETHAN! Are you coming!" he hears Sierra shout. "We're waiting!"

He flinches. "Yeah!" he hollers back, closing the notebook again and setting it back down on the bedside table.

Ethan slowly pulls himself out of his bed and merely stands there in his room before he finally decides to make his way down the stairs. His feet stop just before the stairs heading down start. He inhales a sharp intake of air, exhaling as he braces the stairs slowly.

"I hear him." Alfred comments. "Your footsteps and heartbeat give you away."

"And here I thought you weren't a smart werewolf." Ethan grins, reaching the bottom stair.

"Har Har." the other werewolf mutters. "Real funny."

"Hey Ethan! Ready to go?" Harper asks him.

"After I talk to my parents." he fishes out his phone from his back pocket, turning it on and showing all the missed calls and text messages from his family.

"You should probably let them know your okay." Zack says with a smile.

"No kidding, damn. How many missed messages do you have? A thousand?" Alfred squints his violet eyes at Ethan's small phone screen.