Broken Nightmare

Chapter 5

  The intimidating guy that scared me to death was the first person to talk, "We, all of us, are in the Night Shade Pack—a Shape Shifter Pack."

I couldn't help but have a laugh escape my lips, and once that one shot through, I couldn't control the flows of laughter after it. I glanced up to expect everyone else laughing at the joke, but there were only stone angry faces staring back at me. My laughing came to an immediate stop and I looked back at each of them, "Wait—you're serious." I said, half in amusement.

I turned to Claire. "You believe them?"

"Well, think bout it, El. It explains things. It makes sense."

"No it doesn't. This is crazy—"

"Elana, I shot fire out of my hands today. I caught the school on fire with my hands. How else would you explain that?"

I scoffed. "Not with a dumb excuse like Werewolves."

I stopped when I heard a low growl come from the leader. Did he really just growl? "We don't have time for this." He mumbled. "Nathan. Trysten. Take them before everyone notices they're gone." Nobody moved at the command. "Now!" he said with more authority in his voice. Wait—take us where?

The blonde guy that, uh, healed my leg before argued. "But, Stephan, don't you think they should know?"

The leader—Stephan—looked at him sternly. "Now, Trysten." The he glanced over at the boy who saved me earlier. "You, too, Nathan. Unless you have any other objections."

Nathan locked his eyes with mine and I just sat there, absorbed in his beautiful dark eyes. After a pause, he responded without breaking his gaze with mine, but it sounded so far away. "Yes, Alpha."

I continued to stare at his melting chocolate circles. I tried to pull away from him, but I couldn't do it. I just kept staring at him like he did to me. I felt like I was in a trance. The other strange part, I didn't want to get out of it. It was like when I looked there, I was safe and I knew nothing was going to happen that I can't handle. He almost made me want to believe this whole Werewolf scam. Almost.

I didn't look away until a slight hold came across my arm. I looked up to find Claire with her still worried glance. She mouthed 'are you okay?' I just nodded and returned to my safe haven. I looked back to find that Nathan was no longer there. Instead, there was a huge furry wolf about the size of a small horse.

I felt my body jerk back in fear and my hands start to sweat. I looked around and there were many others. But the people who were there before were no longer there. Did we get attacked and I didn't notice? But then where is the blood?

I glanced at Claire and she was already climbing on the back of one of the furry over-sized wolves. I glanced at her worriedly and sprinted at her and started to tug at her arm. "What are you doing? For all we know it could me a mutation of some kind of wolf."

"Uh, did you not just see them change? You were staring at that guy and he transformed right in front of you."

"Nathan did not just transform. He, uh..." the truth was, I didn't know what happened to him. I was watching him the whole time and knew he didn't move, but could he really transform into a wolf?

I felt my hand get wet and cool. I looked down to find one of the wolves with beautiful dark brown eyes. The same as Nathan.

This had to be a dream. But I didn't have weird dreams. Maybe this is another metaphorical dream like the fire. I was about to wake up from this horrible nightmare with my sanity intact.