The Little Lockwood

Three

EDITED

I walk down the side walk in the main square of Mystic Falls and hum my own little tune, it's around 8 o'clock at night and the warm fall air is just what I needed. My hair piled up in a tight bun, the breeze on my neck felt wonderful.

I've discovered a few key things since my encounter with the Salvatore brothers a few days ago. That's their last name, Damon and Stefan Salvatore, very important.

Kat is here because she wants Uncle Mason to get a silly moon stone for her. The moon stone is what binds the sun and the moon curse. Tyler has said moon stone. Elena Gilbert is a descendent from Kat which is why they could be twins they loo so much alike. Tyler keeps pushing for answers about Mason's strange strength and mine but we ignore it as best we can. Damon and Stefan are also both in love with Elena. It's obvious to anyone who watches the brothers around Elena.

Then I hear it as I'm walking.
Distant screams.

Not just anyone's screams.
My eyes widen....
Uncle mason's screams.
Screams of agony.
Screams of pain and torture.

"He's changing...," I whisper to myself and check my phone.

The time is 8:30pm. I look up and my heart sinks.
It's a full moon tonight.
The moon seems to sparkle and wink at me as I gaze at it in horror.
How could I have forgotten. I'm always there when Mason changes. We change together since I can change at will and I sit with him through the night. We play little games and race each other.

I run through town discarding my high heels I was wearing at the moment, and I speed away and into the forest at top speed. Letting my physical senses take over.

I take a deep breath as I race faster, and leaping over a huge fallen tree, I transform.

My bones all shifting naturally, like I was made for this.
This wasn't a curse placed on me like Mason.
I was born into this, which is why shifting doesn't hurt and is instantaneous.

I hit the ground on all fours and shake out my coat of black fur, my eyes glowing bright.

I race even faster in my wolf form and speed to my uncle.

I see Stefan and Tyler and a blonde girl vampire coming up quickly. I can smell the vampires from far away.

Then I see Mason's smaller wolf form go and attack the blonde vampire to the ground, pinning her there.
I let out a howl and speed faster and knock him completely off of her and into a tree, he falls to his side.

Uncle Mason gets up quickly on all fours and growls to challenge me, his werewolf side taking over completely. There's no human in his eyes right now, just animal.

I stand in front of Tyler and the two vampires, my height challenging my uncle's.

I'm a Lycanthrope.
I'm a wolf, but I'm stronger and almost as big as a horse when standing up tall like I am now.
Where's uncle Mason is just a tiny regular wolf.

I let out a roar,

"STAY AWAY."

Uncle Mason submits and bows his head to his chest, because I have the upper hand and he slouches low and stays down.

"Get out of here. Go to the cellar before you hurt Tyler or anyone else," I growl to him.

No one else can understand since we are speaking in wolf, but uncle Mason's wolf form shudders at my commanding Alpha/Lycanthrope voice and slinks away to our old family cellar where he should've been the whole time, locked up.