Shifting With The Snow

Ch. 1 (Eira)

I did my best to push up of my bed. I wasn’t exactly sure what time it was. The curtains had been drawn. I groaned as I put my back up against the headboard. This was Jackson’s room, or ours to be right, but why was I here. I looked around, it was the same as before, the yellowed walls, bare of any personal items. No pictures, no designs, nothing. I hated it.

I rested my head against the headboard. Alot of things were hurting. My shoulders being the worst. I heard the door knob turn. I brought my shoulders back. I couldn’t let the pack see me like this. I was the highest in the pack, technically.

Joseph pushed the door open. He’s the second in command. He was great compared to Jackson. Joe went and checked up on the wolves after he was finished with the wolves he had tried to "fix".

“You need to lay down,” he stated.

I raised my voice. It was normally low. “I will not, Joseph.”

He sighs, “Eira, we both know what type of shape you’re in. Everyone felt you.” He used my nickname. My name is Aneira. I’m part of a werewolf pack. I know that’s abit odd, since I’m not a werewolf myself.

I let my voice go back to it’s level, “I know. I could feel them, faintly.” They took me in as there own when the found out I could shift. We are a pack, and since Jackson’s dead. I was the one connected them, now.

This is not exactly what I was expecting. The mate of an alpha is not supposed to be able to take over. Females weren’t meant to be part of the hierarchy. They were just basically there to look pretty and have kids. I know it’s sexist, but that’s how it’s always been. With Joe being second in command, I thought he was going to take over, but as you can see, you can’t fight nature.  

I went over Jackson’s death in my head. I had killed him. I was the only one who wasn’t under complete control. I should of been, but I have a large amount of weird anomalies surrounding me, and there was no way to know what they were. My parents had left me when I was too young to remember them. I mostly stuck to the woods. I know odd for a three year old, but I knew it was always going to be my home. He didn’t want me to have any say, just like the rest of the pack, my pack. He was killing them all off one by one. There was no heart in him. I thought so at one point,if didn’t know already he was my mate. I know even though he was heartless, he was still my mate and we had a bond. Twisted and distorted for most of the three years we were together. I was 15 when he chose me. I had no say in it. It happens very rarely that two people can just be mate bonded, and not be mates, even if the mate is being human, but I’m not that either.  

What I am is not something that could normally take out a werewolf. I’m supposed to be lower on the food chain. I’m a shapeshifter, this encompasses any animal. You can be a wolf shape shifter, it’s different than a werewolf, but I don’t need to get into that. I’m an owl shape shifter, since I could remember, which was after my parents had left me, I could do this. Other birds taught me flight for my first year. I never shifted back to human. Why bother, nothing to keep me warm, and I was shunned from the humans before I could even talk, but shapeshifters are rarely heard of in urban legends, and secondly, an owl is a rare animal. I was a prize to people, or werewolves, which is why Jackson chose me in the first place.

The only thing was now, be being what I am, how the hell was I going to take care of these wolves. This was going to be abit hard to settle into for everyone. I sighed and leaned my head back on the headboard, again. Then, I thought of something that may help.

I put on my alpha role again, “Joseph.” He rose an eyebrow. He had been my bestfriend when they took me in. I was seven at that time. He was the only one who would actually talk to me when I first was made to accept them. I couldn’t really talk, since I lived in the woods most of my life until then. Now it was still only him, but he was the only who even tried to teach me to speak. These days, the others only made gestures or talked, because I was the mate of the alpha.