Different [Completed]

Chapter Twenty Six

DEDICATED TO CherylTurner8, people, start following her! Inspirational I say!

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I wake at three o clock in the morning. I realise the date. It's November 1st and that means it the kids birthday. This is shifting date. This is when white wolves and black wolves shift. My wolf is unsettled. Inder's eyes are a startling yellow. "They're going to shift!"

Seconds later he's carrying Clio, Cyrus and Duke all at once. Carter fidgets in my arms. Just like Clio, Duke and Cyrus. I begin to run once I've finished going down the stairs. I don't know how Inder does it. He's ready way ahead of me. Carter kicks within my arms, yelling something I can't make out.

Inder lays them all down in birth order, Duke on the right hand side, Carter on the left. "One, two, three," I say just as the moon visually brightens. They all move around, fidgeting. They scream but I can't stop it. I can't stop the change.

Duke screams, his eyes are the same startling yellow just like Inder's. I bend down and stroke his hair, as mug as I could to calm him down. Then it happens. I close my eyes as I can't bare to watch my babies suffer. Duke's back bone cracks. He screams a piercing scream that could crack the sky. Black hair spreads around his tiny body. He just keeps screaming. His arms and legs become paws and legs. His nose and mouth stretch out into a snout with a pink nose like his lips. His ears swivel to the top of his head and orbit backwards to make his wolf ears. The rest of his body takes form.

I look at my baby Cyrus, shifted in a white wolf. Just like me. Clio is still struggling. My little princess writhes around. Her mouth and nose are a snout. Her bones crack into position. Her ears become her wolf's ears and her arms and legs become paws. She's a white wolf as well but on the tip of her tail is black. She's a mixture of light magic and dark magic.

Inder has crouched across Carter. My chest tightens. Down there my baby is not shifting. He looks as if he's shifting and convulsing at the same time. This can be bad. Very, very bad. If your body is in a spasm, a convulsion, whilst it's your first shift, it can kill you because you morph in between wolf and human. It keeps on going until your dead.

Carter's back cracks.

I don't know if it's broken or if he shifted. My eyes are closed. I don't want to open them because I might jinx his life. Carter screams for about two minutes. I hear a sob rattle through Inder's body. Don't tell me he's dead. Carter can't be dead. He was just three today. He has so much to live for.

He screams once more showing that he was alive. I let out the breath I didn't know I was holding. I open my eyes. I gasp at the sight in front of me.

It's more or less that his back is broken. Will he be injured for life? I see the dislocation in his shoulder. It's pulled out of its socket. His head has moved it's self into a weird position. It's as is he's a cub, but like a human. His eyes are closed but I can see a slit of white. He can't even close his eyes properly. I listen for his heart beat. It's as clear as daylight. He's alive.

"Inder." I say dryly and quietly.

"Call an ambulance."

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They rush him on to the stretcher. I can see they are trying to straighten his body. They are just humans who know nothing. I'm in utter shock. From the way he is. And the fact he didn't shift. Inder hid Duke, Clio and Cyrus before they came.

"Ma'am, what happened to the boy, Carter, I believe?" The doctor asks me inside the van. I nod. "H-h-he f-fell o-out o-of t-the tree!" I stammer/yell. "He fell out of the tree? And that happened? Where did he fall onto?" He questions. "O-on t-to t-the r-rock!" The lie dripped of my tongue like the way I breathe. "Aaah, I see." He replied.

The ambulance went faster. We arrived at the hospital, the same one I gave birth in. I swear it was a wolf hospital? They are already taking him into the operation theatre. To straighten his innocent body. To see if they can help him survive.

Every minutes seems like an hour.

Every hour seems like a day.

The hours tick past. I feel as if I've been here forever.

"Ma'am?"

I look up. He had a pitiful look plastered on his face. "Well Carter...."

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Inder (Hahahhahah!)

I look down at my cubs in wolf form. Duke is just like me. Clio nuzzles her nose against my leg. "Where'a Mommy?" Her voice says in my head. "She's with Carter, baby, they'll be back soon, don't worry." Duke curled into a ball, looking as cute as ever.

Cyrus looked ready to kill, killing his usual aloof(People who keep to themselves) persona. He stepped back on his hind lets and let out a sneeze. That was the cutest thing I'd ever seen. Did I the Alpha just say that? In four months I'd be the Alpha of over 100 packs from each continent from the world. You don't get that everyday.

Clio jumped up on to a rock. Duke began to chase her around. He tumbled over and Clio stood there, a Wolfy grin on her face. Duke seemed disappointed. I relaxed, knowing my kids were safe. Cyrus jumped on to my back, giggling at the sight. I heard the rustling in the bushes.

It was them again. The nature watch people. To video us and put it on the television. My wolf likes to be in the limelight anyways.

"And here we are, a male and his litter of three, relax near the Gladstone river." They video our every move. If only they knew. "Alas, where is his female? Where is his mate?" At the hospital with my last child, worrying uncontrollably. I decided to act wolf. I knew where there was an abandoned wolf den we used for moments like his.

I bit softly at Clio's neck, grasping on to the excess skin. I picked her up and looked towards Cyrus and Duke. They began to follow me. The watchers followed slowly behind us. The wolf den was a massive hollow tree with other trees surrounding it. The rocks were mossy, like a bed and there was a smaller pond.

"Inder, it's Sophia, I'm coming to help you out." Sophia's voice said in my head. I put Clio down on a rock. Sophia came out. She was in wolf form. She came to me and purred, acting as if she was my mate. I had to go with this. Our necks intertwined. Clio, Duke and Cyrus came up to us. It was like a family union.

Sophia picked Clio up with ease, seeing as I had already gotten her excess skin. I slowly bit at Duke's placing him inside the tree. I did the same with Cyrus. I made sure that they were gone.

I sniffed. They were clear out of sight. I let the kids out again. For a first shift, this was quite easy.

Actually,

I wonder about Carter. Worry slaps me in the face. I can't bare it any longer. Carter and Peri.

Please give me the news I want!

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As I said, dedicated to a beautiful woman called CherylTurner8, follow her! Totally an amazing person!

-Tate

xox