Lone (BxB)

Chapter 7

In front of me stands a full-furred wolf with a mane bushier than a lion's, paws larger than any cheetah I've ever seen, fur darker than any black cat I've ever encountered, and teeth larger and sharper than any bone or knife I've ever held.

The resemblance between this wolf and the Alpha that I killed is uncanny... except, I don't feel the black aura around this one that I felt around his father. Emanating from him is the dark white scent, filling the room with its soothing.... Ah... I should be afraid right now, for Jason looks ready to tear my body to shreds.

I take a deep breath.

Jason, on all four of his paws, walks slowly towards me, much like a lion observing its prey, deciding if it's worth killing.

My heart would have burst out of my chest if my eyes didn't pick up the white scent... but that doesn't mean I'm still not fearful of what has just happened.

I didn't even see it happen at the time that it did, but I could already see how it was done. A Beta had been signaled of the defeat of the Alpha and came to hunt us down. The Beta was a female... whose aura resembled that of... Jason's... of course... there are two Alphas. An Alpha-male and an Alpha-female. I would have expected that the Alpha-female would have brought reinforcements, but she just came out of nowhere and tried to attack me... For I believe I had traces of the Alpha-male's aura on me. After talking with Griffon, all traces of that aura disappeared...

When the Alpha-female came in, immediately she stood up on her hind legs and transformed. With the moon full, her powers awoke quickly, but without it being completely dark, she wouldn't be able to attack with full power unless her passion for protecting her loved ones was that strong... it was strong alright... almost as strong as Jason's dad's light-deprived aura... only... this felt more out of love than it did out of the desire to kill... was this Jason's mother?

Words were spoken, but I could only see what was happening. I can't read lips very well, so I couldn't make out what they were saying... All I could tell was that something was said to Jason that made him go berserk. In the blink of an eye appeared the full-furred midnight wolf circling around me now. In yet another blink of an eye, the Alpha-female clawed at Jason. I can't watch... But in the same blink of an eye, the heart of the Alpha-female was ripped out and the head was torn off.

Jason's aura was fading, as though he were losing consciousness, causing him to continue tearing at the dead body of his own wolf mother... He lost his mind and ran around the auditorium aimlessly, as though he was trying to escape from a prison in hell. I had never seen an animal feel so trapped in what's supposed to be a free world... If I was awake... could I have stopped him...? 

Now, he's circling me. I can hardly sense his consciousness.

I closed my eyes and took yet another deep breath. After squinting a bit in hopes that I was just being delusional, I opened my eyes to see... myself...

Everything was so red and dark and there was just this searing pain in the back of my eyes that made me want to gouge them out immediately. I tried to take a deep breath, but now my heart is racing like crazy. At first I was able to keep calm with my eyes, but all of a sudden my heart is trying to claw its way out of my chest... or... is this my body?

I'm moving around my body... I'm walking around it... I feel the desire to kill something to satisfy myself...

I'm in Jason's body... It's so miserable and painful in here... Imagine a dagger being pierced through your skull, one millimeter at a time... Now imagine that your eyes are being literally boiled in hot water while they're still connected to your brain... Now imagine that the razor sharpest swords ever crafted are holding down your whole body as though they're shackles. Now imagine screaming the air out of your lungs, your stomach, your head, every part of you containing any air! But... you can't even be heard... Now, imagine all that... as the price for trying to hold back your instincts to kill...