A Werewolf's Demise

Chapter 20: Turning

I raised my head up off of the cold concrete floor and I wiped the slobber off my cheek. I slowly picked myself up as soon as I stood on my feet my head started to spin. I heard a distant ringing in my ears that sounded like a train horn in my ears.

"Ugh, what is that god awful noise!" I said, wiping the sweat from my forehead.

I felt a heavy and unsettling feeling it made it hard to breathe almost like my lungs were rubber. I looked down and noticed that my hands were shackled to the concrete wall. I started to panic. I looked for a way to get out. The room was pitch black and I couldn't see a thing.

I looked down at my chains trying to break free." Hey! Why am I chained up?"

My voice bounced off of the concrete walls and back to me. I looked for a way out. I thought I saw a door in the far back dark corner. I swore I saw someone moving or maybe my brain was playing tricks on me.

I looked towards the direction I thought I saw movement in. "Hello?" I asked.

I then realized the only way I'm getting out of here is from my own rescue. I looked down at my shackles again with the poor lighting. I could barely see anything.The only light in the room came from the moon light through a storage drain with all rusty metal bars over it.

"Hello! Derek? Brett?" I yelled in a panic.

I started to bang my chains harder against the wall.The noise from the bagging made the ringing in my head ten times worse.The pain from the ringing made me tumble over in pain like someone took a sledge hammer to my skull. I laid there and fell asleep. I woke up to the sound of the metal door scraping the floor.

"Alex?" Derek whispered.

I faced the direction from where the voice was coming from."Yeah, I'm here!"

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry! I should have stayed down here with you! I'm sorry!" He quickly unlocked the chains.

"What are you talking about?" I asked in confusion,

"You almost shifted! Someone could have gotten hurt!" He said swiftly grabbing my arm and dragging me out the door.

"Ow! Ouch! Derek! You're hurting me!" I yelled.

"Sorry, I don't know why i-nevermind" Derek then let go of his death grip on my arm.

I walked up the cold stone steps. "Where are we?"

"At the shifting area for new shifters, Like yourself." He smiled.

The moonlight shone on his tan skin and gleamed in his eyes. " Derek how come you didn't shift?"

We stopped in the middle of the forest trail"I have control I can shift on command. I don't need the moon! One day I'll teach you how to control it!"

I looked him in the eyes." How did you learn?"

"I had no choice!" Derek said calmly." When I was young there was a hunter outbreak and we all had to go into hiding," he cleared his throat." Having hunters around forced me to learn control because my anger issues. The hunters finally left us alone. There was almost a war. For almost a century we have stayed out of the spotlight until now. Some lone wolves are threatening exposure and if that happens I will be forced to rejoin my father and his pack. If I refuse he will be forced to kill me."

"I'm sorry! What are you going to do If this happens?" I asked.

"I don't know but, my dad, he's a monster! I never want to be like him! I rather die than rejoin him!" Derek said.

"Derek." I said softly. "you could never be like your father. you are so pure at heart I don't think you could."

I followed him down the dark wooded path that seemed to go on forever.