The Last White She-Wolf

Three - Shift (Edited)

❀ ✿ ❀ ~ Eva ~ ✿ ❀ ✿

Hours later, I wake up in a dark room, light from the moon shining through the curtains. I groan and shift in the bed and gasp in pain as my joints ache.

A door opens, basking the room with light from outside and a guy walks inside, reaching his hand up. I grimace as the ceiling light turns on and he smiles, "You're awake, finally."

I squint at him as my eyes adjust to the light faster than I assumed they would. "Who are you?"

"I'm Justin, remember?"

"No..." I trail off, looking around the small, barely furnished room. "Where am I?"

"You blacked out, so you must not remember it. Cait!"

My eyes widen as I remember Caitlyn and I driving away from the pack and getting as far away as we could. Caitlyn pushes through the doorway and rushes over to me, enveloping me in her arms, "You're awake!"

"Yeah," I smile and hug her back, ignoring my body that screams at me to rest. "What happened?"

"You shifted and Justin and his sister came across us."

"Really?"

"Yeah,"

My eyebrows furrow immediately, "But... how? He wasn't..."

"There's a way to bond, in a way, connect with another mateless person. It forms a connection like that of a mate. It was a way to save girls from dying... but it rarely works and I as began to try it, you blacked out, or your subconscious must've blacked those memories out because it was so painful."

"So, we are-"

"Connected?" he nods his head. "Yeah... I'm sorry, I didn't have a choice."

"I understand, I'm grateful, you saved me."

He smiles and nods, "We have food downstairs for you if you're hungry, and after we are gonna go on a run."

"Where are we?"

"You guys were just at the California state line when we came across you." Justin murmurs and I furrow my eyebrows and nod.

"I could eat a bit... how long was I out?"

"It was around four pm when we found you and it's now nine, so four hours just about."

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"We're triplets, my sister Jessie and this is my brother Jason."

"I've never met triplets before," I murmur as we walk outside. The house a small two-story cabin in the middle of the woods. Throughout eating the food they made earlier that night, I tried my best to hide my sudden new attraction to Justin as I kept as far away from him as I could. I can't believe he is basically my mate now.

"Eva?"

"Hm? Sorry, zoned out."

"Stand behind this," Justin says as his hand appears on the small of my back, sending soft sparks up my spine. I bite my lip hard and avert my gaze away from him as I stand behind a makeshift curtain. I strip my clothes off and make sure I'm hidden behind the curtain. "Okay, we're gonna teach you how to shift, okay?"

"Okay,"

"Take a deep breath and close your eyes, envision yourself as a wolf, imagine shifting... shifting will hurt slightly the first few times but your body will get used to it and will stop hurting, okay?"

I nod slightly as I inhale and exhale, closing my eyes as I picture myself as a wolf. I feel pinpricks start at my feet and crawl up my body, feeling like being stabbed with needles everywhere. I let out a groan as I fur begins to sprout from my skin and my joints ache as my bones rearrange and before I know it, I'm staring down at a pair of white paws.

The curtain is pushed aside and the four of them gasp softly and Justin smiles, "Beautiful."

"Wow..." Cait murmurs and blinks a few times and I tilt my head at them. "You're white... like all white, everywhere."

Justin disappears into the cabin and comes back out with a mirror, holding it up. My eyes widen as I see myself in the mirror. Standing before me is an overly large stark white wolf, with a small black crescent moon on its forehead.

At that moment, the last words my mother uttered comes back to me.

"You will be the strongest white wolf ever to be born. I love you so much, babygirl."  

My eyes snap shut and my legs give out underneath my as bow my head in sadness. I miss her so much. Why did she have to die?

I think about that day so much. Why did she say that? Did she know... what was about to happen? Why else would she have said that?

Justin's voice snaps me out of my head, "Eva? Are you okay?"

I shake my head and then push myself off the ground, nodding my head at him. I step behind the curtain again and shift back, ignoring the dull pain throughout my body.

"You're a pura lupus?" Jessie's eyes widen. "Sorry, I just love werewolf history and I've read so many books on pura lupus'. They're so rare, apparently, the last one that was alive died six years ago."

Caitlyn frowns, knowing that'd been my mother. I nod at Jessie, "I guess... I didn't know that I was. My mother was."

Jessie's eyes widen, "Your mother was the last one?"

"Yeah, that I know of."

"What happened?"

I look away, "Car accident."

"Wow... I'm sorry." Jessie frowns and I nod my head.

"Me too,"

"I have some news..." Caitlyn smiles over at me and I quirk an eyebrow at her.

"What is it?"

"Jason is uhm," she pauses and grabs onto his arm, smiling at him as his face turns red. "He's my mate. While you were out... I shifted."

"But your birthday was months ago."

"Finding your mate can happen anytime after your sixteenth birthday." Jessie nods her head. "I still haven't found mine and mine was last year."

"I'm sorry, Jessie."

"I'm sure he'll come around... sometime." Jessie chuckles nervously.

"Alright then, are we ready?"

I nod my head and then take a deep breath, close my eyes, and envision myself as my wolf. I'm on all fours a second later and stepping out from behind the curtain. The others quickly step behind a bush or tree and shift, the four of them coming back out with their clothes hanging from their jaws as they set them on the porch. I follow suit and we head back into the woods.

Relief comes to my joints as I stretch my legs, my paws thudding quietly against the brush as I weave through the trees after them. All four of them seem much faster than myself and I'm barely managing to keep up with them.

An hour later, we find ourselves on a cliff, overlooking a small town. In unison, the five of us raise our heads to the moon and let out a long howl.