The Moon Will Fall (Moonlight 2)

Chapter 39-Hold On

My thoughts twisted as the shadows began to engulf me. I could hear strangled painful howls surrounding me as I felt dark thoughts race and grow in my mind, trying to control me. Trying to make me into something I wasn't.

Yet, this had been exactly the moment I was waiting for.

I closed my eyes, drawing on something that I was only just beginning to understand. The words of that old journal came to me and I heard sharp gasps from around me, as I stopped blocking out the bond and was flooded with a sense so new to me. I stared her down as I felt the howl rise in my chest, my entire body growing numb. All I could see was bright light around me, as I felt a surge of warm energy spread. It was like shifting but much more powerful.

I looked to my hand, that was glowing with white, and spreading. I felt a pain in my body, and I curled over letting it engulf me. When I opened my eyes again, I realised that I had shifted, but somehow it felt wrong. I frowned, I'd become the thing I'd tried to stop, then hadn't I? It hadn't worked. Cautiously, I looked down at my paws they were blonde still but glowing with a soft white light. I let out a sharp gasp. It was like how I had seen Calum before, but the light was stronger.

Slowly I tilted my head towards Michael's direction noting that there was a second glowing wolf in his place, eyes glowing with a fierce golden. Was that him?

'Mikey?' I questioned, silently wondering if all this was an illusion.

'Luke?' He questioned in response, the glimmering wolfs eyes meeting with my own. 'What did you do?'

I considered his words for a moment. What had I done exactly? It was difficult to say. So, I decided to tell him what I knew.

'I think I gave us a chance of beating this, you in?'

'You bet,'

Mei, as the Shadow Wolf was looking between the two of us, the fear was evident in her glowing red eyes.

'What the heck, you're both supposed to be like me? I don't understand. They told me this would work.'

'You don't understand what we are, either.' I smirked at Mei, 'I guess the three of us aren't that much like each other at all.' Then I added, 'I mean at least Mikey and I have a pack.'

'So, do I?'

I raised a confused eyebrow. She let out a long and fierce howl. It didn't split through my skull this time. Michael and I exchanged hesitant glances at one another. Did we try something now?

I didn't have time to think though. I gasped as I looked across from us noticing the glowing red eyes and the shadows rising from the wolves that were now flanking Mei. My stomach twisted, realising that she'd made dozens of Shadow Wolves before Finn. She must've known what would happen, no wonder she hadn't been disappointed. We were outmatched, there was so many of them.

I stepped back fearfully, no matter what Michael and I had managed to do there was no way we could beat that, there were far too many of them compared to us. While I was glad that it seemed neither of us had become Shadow wolves I had no idea if we could do anything compared to them.

I heard the crunch of metal, and then two loud howls from behind us. I blinked, turning back to see that Calum's eyes were glowing with golden as he stood with gritted teeth managing to open the bars. Somehow despite the wolfsbane he'd managed to split them open. His hands didn't appear to be smouldering either. Ashton stepped out from behind him. I saw the slight white glow around them like earlier. My throat caught what had I done?