The Wolf's Howl

Chapter Five

~ Dawn's POV ~

I gasped,

“Troy?” I whispered.

His head bobbed as if he were nodding. It was too much to handle,

“Seth take me home.” I whispered quietly.

Okay.

He thought, his thought sounded hesitant, but he didn’t argue. He jumped over the rock in the center of the clearing and I heard a low, painful groan. Then Seth walked back from the other side fully clothed. He took my hand, which caused my heart to beat faster, and led me back through the trees to my house. He looked at me a couple times, and opened is mouth to say something but I slowly shook my head,

“Not now.” I whispered.

He sighed, and ahead was an opening in the trees. Finally, I thought, We are back. But instead of my house there was a dark gray house, with a barn in back of it.

“My house.” Seth said answering my unspoken question.

~ Troy's POV ~

I watched from the bramble around the clearing as Seth arrived, and not alone. He had brought Dawn! My eyes widened and I let out a low whine that only Seth would hear. His eyes flickered towards me, but he didn’t say anything just jumped over the rock and changed. I have always loved to watch others change, even though it’[s painful it’s neat. In the changing process you are pure wolf, no human left, but after the change is complete your human brain comes back, usually. If your first change is sussesful than all of them will be, normally. All it takes is one bite from a werewolf and there your a werewolf forever. Your first change is on the next full moon, you are forced to change, but after that it doesn’t matter when you change, as long as you change at least once a month.

The day I was bitten happened to be a full moon.

A searing pain swept through my body, causing me to scream. What’s happening? I thought panicking. I picked up the scent of rabbit, warmth flooded from the cage of my little sisters rabbit. All it took was the couple seconds of no human control, to snap the rabbits neck and tear its fur. Then almost painfully it all came back, What had I done?! In wolf form I slunk out the open window in the basement, and sprinted towards the woods where I heard a growl that made me feel below this new wolf as he stepped out the brush. He was pure black, with green eyes. His gaze rested on me and in my head I heard a voice that I somehow reconized as his, ' Welcome to the world of the werewolves.'

~ Dawn's POV ~

I sat on Seth’s bed trying to comprehend what he just told me, and what I had seen and heard. Seth was a werewolf, and from want I had seen Troy was too.

“Troy only became a werewolf six months ago. So the process is still painful for him.”

“But I hear you groan and whine in pain when you change.” I pointed out.

“Well yeah it will always hurt a little but it’s mostly discomfort.” He reassured me.

“Are they all the werewolves?” I asked confused and convinced that there should be more.

“Uh yeah there is one more, you see we have to shift at least once a month, so some of us only change on the full moon, and some are only human on a day they choose. There is one wolf that is a werewolf who doesn’t like to change, and you saw her yesterday. No it’s not Owl, the one that tried to attack you,”

He said knowing I was gonna ask him that,

“She is the dark gray female you saw yesterday, Shea. She is Skylar’s sister.”

“What happens when you don’t change?”

I asked him just as a long mournful howl rang through the air.

“Come see for yourself.” He said, his eyes sad.

He picked me up, causing my heart to race again, went a full out sprint towards the howl.

About a hundered yards away he slowed to a stop and put me down, slinking through the trees as if he were a wolf. I followed slower, when I got to the clearing I saw Seth, Troy, Katie, Luna, all in wolf form and in the middle was Skylar, who was in wolf from also, crouched over a small frame. Skylar’s snout was resting on a small head, a wolf’s head. Skylar sat up, and I got a clear look at the wolf’s eyes, they were glazed over, this wolf was dead. Skylar let out the saddest howl I could imagine and the others joined in. It was then that I noticed the how similar this wolf was to Skylar, I then understood what Seth had men about needing to change, the dead wolf was Shea.

Troy

We all watched Seth walk away with Dawn, but what made me mad was that he took her hand and she let him. I was fuming inside, and appearently the others could feel it.

Easy. Skylar warned, sending his message through to my head, and came to stand next to me.

I looked at him grateful for his support.

Let’s go back to the rest of the pack. Luna sent out to us.

I flicked my ears to show I agreed. Katie took the lead and lept on the rock above the pack’s clearing. She whipped around, grief clouding her eyes. Skylar made it up the rock in two bounds, Luna and I walked up not wanting to see. The second Skylar looked over he let out a choked whimper, and lept down. Luna and I looked over just as Skylar let out a mournful howl. Shea was dead.