Breaking Silence

Chapter Fourteen

Something was going on with my body as my bones were cracking. Suddenly it all stopped, but my bones weren't going back in their original shape.

I tried opening my eyes to see what was going on, but it felt like there was a heavy weight weighing down my eyelids.

"Everything is alright sweet. Grandma is here," my grandmother cooed in my ear as I felt my body being lifted up, before I was placed the tub filled with water.

"What's wrong with her and why did she just stop mid transformation?" Jovano's voice was shaking with nervousness and I could tell that he was worried making me smile knowing that he truly loved me.

My grandmother chuckled as she grabbed my arm. "The transformation is supposed to take place in water so that the moon and her can be connected for their bond to form."

I was wondering why she was just holding my hand but that thought quickly drifted away, when she began snapping my bones back into place.

My mouth flew open to let out my screams of agony, but that didn't stop her as she continued to pop them.

"You're hurting her." Jovano tried to move her away from me but she growled at him, causing him to step back and let her continue.

"She'll live through it and besides, I have to put the bones back in place so that she can begin shifting again. I had to go through this process three times before it was done properly," she chuckled, as she moved on to my feet.

This was the first time that I had felt such an agonizing pain, but I managed to get through it thankfully, as she finished popping my toes into place before getting up from besides me and leaving me in the tub.

As I tried to open my eyes once again, this time I was successful as I saw a worried Jovano and my smiling grandmother, but I quickly shut them once the pain from before kicked in as the fire inside my body lit up.

The water around me was bubbling as my bones began cracking once again. My skin reforming around them as I could feel the fur beginning to poke through them, but something didn't feel right about it or maybe because this was my second time going through this.

After what seemed like hours, the pain finally sizzled down as I slowly opened my eyes. Everything seemed so clear and my vision was a thousand times better than what it used to be. It was like I was seeing things like I never did before and it was truly amazing.

When I looked at Jovano, his mouth hung open as my grandmother chuckled at him. I didn't know why he looked at me like that until I finally looked at my hand, which I was expecting to be a paw but it was not.

My hand was still the same except covered in fur and my fingers were longer and so were my nails which were much pointier and sharper. Instantly, I was out of the tub and staring back at my reflection in the mirror.

There staring back at me was a girl with wolf ears and long, wavy silver hair with large round silver eyes that was shining like the moon. I never thought that I was beautiful but the girl in the mirror was absolutely stunning with her beautiful pale skin. My human features had contorted into that more similar to a wolf. 

My nose was longer and pointer and my teeth was poking out of my mouth. Thankfully, I did not have whiskers sticking out from my face.

Looking at the rest of my body, I saw something which I had never even dreamed of before. There above my butt was a long, bushy, silver tail, that was going back and forth. I wanted to laugh out loud, but knowing that this was real, I managed to keep it in. 

My ankles were covered in fur similar to my hands. My feet had seemed to get a bit larger but I naturally had tiny feet, so it wasn't much of a difference compared to the other changes. Also, my nails had elongated into claws. 

"How do you like your third form darling?" My grandmother asked, snapping me out of my thoughts and causing me to look at her. She hadn't aged a bit from when I had last saw her.

"Third form? You mean I have another one?" I questioned, my eyes widening at the thought of there being a second transformation that I had to go through.

"Don't worry darling," she chuckled at my expression. "There's no second transformation, you already went through both so there's nothing to afraid of and in case you are wondering, the first transformation is your wolf and this one is the combination of the two," she said. She had basically answered all the questions that were in my head.

Turning to Jovano, I saw that he had finally shut his mouth and now he was just watching me from head to toe. It was then I realized that I was naked as I rushed into the bedroom at an incredible speed, before grabbing a towel.

"How do I shift back?" I asked my grandmother who had now stepped into the room with Jovano following behind her.

"You kind of look like a furry," I heard Jovano mutter to himself, causing my grandmother to lightly growl at him.

"Pretty simple really. All you have to do is just re-imagine how you looked before and you should look just like that," she said, her attention back on me. Her voice was still the same calming was as I remembered with that sweet and cheerful tone mixed into it.

Listening to what she said, I thought about my short blonde hair and light blue eyes before feeling a tingly sensation going through out my body. I didn't feel any different until I looked at my reflection in the mirror in the closet to see that I was back to myself, with a few changes.

A few of my scars had faded just a tiny bit but they were still visible. My hair was back to how long it was before and my blue eyes were shining more than ever and just a little bit lighter making at seem gray.

Before I could say anything, my grandmother's arms were wrapped around my body as she tightly hugged me as I hugged her back just as tightly. It had been too long since I had last seen her and I had missed her terribly.

"It is now time for the resting process. Your body needs to adjust to your new forms and it will take some time. Probably a day or maybe even two," she said when I had pulled out of our long hug.

I nodded my head as I climbed onto the bed. I noticed that Jovano had not spoken a word to me ever since I got out of the tub and that bothered me but I let it go as my body relaxed. His furry comment seemed to be harsh towards me and I did not know how to feel about it.

My eyes closed shut as I was sucked away into a dream.