Hybrid

Chapter 14: Paws

*Emma's wolf*

*I call her the devil, cause she makes me wanna sin. And every time she knocks, I can't help but let her in.*

I felt.. weird. That's the only word I could think of to describe the feeling.

Maybe foreign.

Other than being sore it wasn't a bad feeling.

Just.. different.

I must have blacked out for a moment cause it was a little hard to open my eyes. While I couldn't see, I could still hear everything clearly. There was yelling, lots of yelling. I could here footsteps and snarls all around me.

I groaned softly, the noise was starting to hurt my ears. Cracking my eyes open, I peaked out from under my heavy lids. It was night but still very bright. I watched in confusion as some of the pack members ran while other stared in my direction with shocked expressions. My brain has hazy and I was having a hard time getting my bearings.

Get up. My beast commanded.

I tried, I really did but I couldn't get my feet to work right. Tilting my heavy head down, I looked at paws.

Paws...

I shook my head and closed my eyes not believing what I was seeing but when I opened them, I still had paws.

Then it hit me.

I shifted. Holy shit, I shifted. I tried to turn my head to get a good look at myself but I was tackled from the side. Snarling, I faced my attacker as he stood over me with his canines looming much to close to my muzzle.

Zachary snarled as he held me down with his large paws. My beast roared. I struggled underneath him, trying to escape but I still was accustomed to this form yet. Getting my legs to cooperate was still a struggle.

He reached down and sunk his jaws into my shoulder, his fangs pushing past my scales and skin meeting tender flesh. I yelped and tried to claw his soft underbelly. My beast tried to push past me and come forward, she begged me to let her take over but before I could hand over the reins, Zachary was shoved off of me.

Replacing him was a smaller blonde wolf. She snarled fiercely at him as she guarded my new body. Pacing back and forth between us, she kept shooting looks at me and the tree line just on the edge of the property.

She wants us to run. My beast stated.

I scoffed at the idea and forced myself into a standing position. I wasn't leaving without her. That earned a rumble of approval from my female.

Giving my body a shake, I rolled the tension out of my shoulders and faced the two of them. From the looks of his eyes, some of his humanity had returned but each time he tried to step around his sisters smaller frame she snapped out at him. He wouldn't be this patient for long.

Taking my first few steps with my beast, I let her slide forward just enough to help me learn. Zachary watched me with a growl as I came up behind Emma. Some of the other pack members even snarled and barked at me but I ignored them. Bumping her flank with my nose, she turned to look at me and gave me her best wolfy smile. I noticed I was larger than her as I had to look down at her muzzle.

Even with all of this going on, she is still able to smile. My sister never ceases to amaze me.

With her back turned to her brother, he took the advantage and charged. Still unsure of myself, I handed control to my beast and she took to it like a pig in mud. Snarling she met him head on, dodging at the last minute and catching his side with our claws. Emma hit him next, slamming her shoulder into his flank, he was spun around and landed hard on his ass. Part of me wanted to laugh but this was neither the time or place.

Emma nudged me again, pushing me towards the tree line but I showed her my teeth and gently grabbed her fur to try and drag her with me. She stared at me for a moment. I could see the wheels turning in her head.

When she didn't move, I nodded my head and pressed our side against hers trying to tell her that we stick together. She seems to understand and whined sadly. Even though she had rejected the pack, this was here home. This is where she grew up. I tried to nuzzled her neck reassuringly but I felt the hackles on my neck raise.

Spinning, I saw Zachary mid charge and shoved Emma out of the way. He caught me good on the same injured shoulder, pulling a yep from me. We scrambled around on the dirt, I was able to land a few decent swipes but he had the upper hand. Not once in my life have I ever trained to fight, anything that came from me was out of pure rage and instinct. He on the other hand was born for battle.

Blood coated our body but we weren't going to give up. My beast was furious. Swipe after swipe. Bite after bite, she tore into him the best she could. He was relentless though, no matter how much we hurt him, he was out for blood and all of it.

Emma jumped on his back, tearing into his neck but he just swung her off easily. She was no match for him, even with her alpha blood.

Suddenly there was a high pitched screech and Zachary dove off of me with a yep. He shook his head back and forth while we did our best to stand. His face was covered in blood and he kept pawing at his right eye.

Hearing the flapping of wings, I looked up and saw Demi was flying above us, blood coating his talons. I shook my head in disbelief. He screeched once more and swooped in low next to me then took off to the tree line.

I felt Emma push at my flank and move past me to follow him. She barked once then took off running. Glancing back one more time at Zachary, I seen some of the members surrounding him, trying to guard him while his eye healed. They all watched me with murder in their eyes for hurting their alpha.

I didn't want to be around when that happened. So we dug claws into the soft dirt and took off. It was exhilarating, I felt so powerful as we soared past the pack house and quickly caught up to Emma. Low limbed trees and bushes whipped against our sides and faces but it didn't stop us. Smaller creatures quick scurried away at the smell of us. We were predators and queens of the forest.

For now anyways.

We didn't even make it two minute past the tree line with we heard a howl sound off behind us. I bumped into Emma and she nodded her head and agreement. We couldn't let him catch us. If we didn't that was the end of it.

I caught sight of Demi flying low under the tree tops in front of us and took the lead from Emma to follow him. He knew these woods better than either of us and I had a feeling he was taking us somewhere.

*So I know I said I would maybe put up a picture of Lilith's beast on this chapter but she hasn't even had a chance to look at herself.. Sooo... Maybe next chapter, I pinky promise it's coming soon! *