Half- Ruined (Book 2 in the Morph Trilogy)

Chapter Twenty-Four

Emma

Voices louder and louder haunt my dreams. I can hear my brother screaming, and my Mom yelling. I sit up straight panting and coughing. Sweat rolls of my cheeck and onto my black hair. My hazel eyes shine bright with tears. I hug my knees and look down at my shoes. The laces have been removed, and so has my sweatshirt. My jeans and sneakers are caked with mud. I go to brush it off and see a pair of shinning black shoes. I start to shake in fear as my eyes travel up to the owner's eyes. Emrald green eyes stare back at me.

"Can you stand for a second." He says smiling down at me. I nod my head and stand up directing my attention back to the floor. I stare at it as if it's the most interesting thing in the world. The man speaks one word that I do not understand.

"Shift." I look up at him

"I don't understand." I say trembling. Something about his apperence scares me. Or maybe its just the fact that he kidnapped me.

"Turn, morph, change whatever you want to call it." I look up at him confussed, and still scared. His tone rises and I jump a little.

"Lucas, come." He calls. A boy only a few years older then me walks in quickly and stands beside the man.

"Shift Lucas." He says. The boys face drops and he starts trembling." He closes his eyes and falls to his hands and knees. His face tightens with pain and he starts to scream. I watch suprised as the boy becomes a little deer." The deer shakes on his woobly legs. The man looks up at me. He points at the fawn.

"This is what I call pathetic." He kicks the little fawn and he falls to his belly looking up in fear at the man.

"Now shift." He demands.

"I...I don't know how." I say. The man shakes his head and pulls out a gun. He looks at it for a moment and then points it at me.

"Shift now." His voice turns as cold as ice." My heart rate increases, but nothing happens. The man then calls to someone. I hear crying in the distance and another man comes out carrying a little boy. A look closer and I see that the little boy is my brother Jake.

"Shift now or else." He smiles. Something snaps inside me and I'm on my knees, panting. The pain comes back again, the pain from last night." I fight against the pain trying to make it go away.

"Emma don't fight it, embrace it." The man commands. His gun returns to its holster. "The pain will kill you if you fight." He says watching me struggle. "Let the pain take you away." I follow his advice and let go, I'm no use to my brother dead. I feel every snap as I become some wild animal just like the boy.

"Very impressive Ms. Emma." I look up at the evil man and my teeth grow into my lip. I hear the man yell something about a Jaguar. The man looks me up and down with his stupid smile. Then he looks over at the helpless dear and speaks the words that make my heart drop.

"Kill it." I look over at the little fawn, small and helpless." "Oh come on you're the more powerful morph, kill it." He taunts. I look away and hear a little kid scream. A boy scream. Something sharp hits my back. I turn and Instead of finding the man with the cold eyes, I spot a man with a white coat. Something snaps inside me and I bite the man's ankle, my teeth sink in and I hold on. Then I come back to reality and I release the man. He hits me. I run away on my new paws, towards the fawn. I see the gun being raised and pointed at the fawn. The little boy looks up in fear.

I run faster and jump in front of the little fawn just as the bullet hits home. I'm jerked backwards by the force, and land on the floor. I morph back just as my head slams into a wall and my finger goes backwards. I gasp for breath as the man rants off a line of colorful words. I hear clearly everthing as he shouts for medics. He also includes things like weak, foolish and not supposed to happen. A few minutes later men rush in with a bed. I'm carefully placed on the bed and pushed through halls. A man snaps his fingers in my face speaking fast. Something about keeping my eyes open. I feel really tired and asume the man won't mind if I just close my eyes for a second. My eyes close faster then I expected and I fall into a deep sleep.