Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
While sitting there, lost in thought, I started thinking how the trail left behind by my arrow looked like a whip. A whip made of fire. Now. that would be interesting. I was staring at the wall, not paying attention to what was going on around me when Vincent started yelling at me.
“Joaquin, watch where that thing touches.”
“Huh?” I jolted back to my senses at his words.
When I looked around me I noticed I was holding exactly what I had been imagining. A shining red whip covered in red and orange fire. The handle was once again made of onyx and felt perfectly carved for my hand. I guess it would be, since it was made for my hand by my mind. Under the fire was the same ruby red color of my sword.
But I saw that Vincent’s panic was unfounded. The whip wasn’t burning the floor at all. The wood went unharmed as the whip curled around me.
I wanted to practice with my new weapons just like the others were. I summoned my sword again and held it in my left hand, the whip in my right. When I could feel the two perfectly balanced weapons in place I began attacking a few dummies as well.
The fire on both didn’t affect the wooden dummies at all. Hmm, why is my fire harmless. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t want to cause problems inside but shouldn’t my fire be able to burn things?
I thought those words right as I flung my whip at one dummy and swung wide with my sword, striking a second dummy. Both dummies were instantly set ablaze, burning in front of me.
“Shit.” I yelled. “I didn’t want to burn the place down.”
I ran forward, intent to pat the fire down until they could come over with buckets of water. I started patting the front of the first dummy to stop the fire from spreading. But instead of the fire going out, it spread to me. I was nervous at fire, flinging my hand to put it out, but the flames weren’t hurting me at all.
“I can’t be hurt by my own fire?” I wondered aloud as I went to the second dummy and touched the fire.
I could hear footsteps running toward me as I pulled the second set of flames onto me. My skin and clothes were unaffected and I didn’t even feel warm. Guess I’m hotter than fire.
The fire was moving up my arms as the steps halted and I heard everyone gasp.
“Joaquin?” Vincent sounded worried.
“I’m fine.” I told him with a grin. “It’s not hurting me. It’s my own fire.” I had let my weapons dissolve and so I just stood there watching as the fire spread all over my body.
I could see more yellow and orange than anything as the flames licked their way across my body. ‘Hmm, this looks like a phoenix.’ I mused to myself. And that was when there was a bright red light filling the room.
I felt something then. It wasn’t pain, more like a warm tingling sensation that spread through my whole body. It was actually kind of pleasant.
Then, I felt my body start to change. I was growing taller, and I felt like I was hovering off the ground. And, for some reason I was moving my arms up and down as I bobbed in the air. When I turned my head to look at myself I saw that I was a giant bird with red, orange, and yellow feathers.
I had become a phoenix. I was a real fire bird. This was a form that had nothing to do with a werewolf, but it had everything to do with fire. It basically meant that I was essentially the fire itself. I couldn’t believe this.
“Oh my Goddess.” Lucas looked at me in awe.
“Holy Shit.” Shane’s mouth was hanging open.
“Oh, mein Gott.” Dietrich’s voice slipped into his natural accent. Everyone was looking at me with shocked and wonder filled eyes. And I was hovering about them, feeling powerful.
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Riviana
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After my eventful day, and night, training my witch side and visiting the Gods in my bed, followed by a much needed day of rest, I was back to training my Goddess given wolf abilities. I needed to get a hand on it and learn how to summon a specific ability at will.
Over the course of several days I practiced my howl. The one that would push things back like I had sent a sonic wave blast or at least a big gust of wind. At first, it was difficult to perform, I would howl and nothing would happen. But I never gave up.
After nearly a week of consistent practice I could force the howl every time. I would feel the build up of magic, the tightening of my vocal cords, and I knew that I could do it whenever I wanted. But, sadly, it was not something I could do in my human form.
For practice I would have different items stacked in various places. I needed to control the size and force of the howl. That was more difficult than doing the howl on command. I wanted to be able to hit a small target among other objects, to be able to knock over several large objects at a time, and to hit targets farther away.
Obviously, large objects right in front of me were easier to knock down or send flying as it took little to no concentration of the magic. But it was difficult to narrow that stream of power to a small, controlled blast. I had managed it though, and now I could make a sonic blast that was only about as big around as my little finger. And with some effort I could manipulate the blasts to move them around, swirling to the side or up and down. That allowed a lot more precision.
After we perfected my howl, we moved onto trapping, and not the type a survivalist would do. I worked on creating cages with my ice magic and freezing people in place. I also wanted to work on forming cages of lightning, fire, and wind. Different people would require different elements.
I also started practicing with earth as an element. I didn’t know if Noah would be happy about sharing his element with me or not, but oh well. Earth was not hard for me to figure out as I loved nature anyway. I spent a good part of my childhood just laying about the grass, trees, and dirt back home. I loved being close to the earth all my life.
With earth magic I was able to shoot clumps of dirt, mud, and chunks of rocks at different targets. There was a lot of taget practice in my training. I successfully formed an earth cage to go with the other elements. And as I got better and better I was able to form earth golems and make them move for me. I even infused those golems with some wind magic and made them move with surprising speed.
Something else that I did that I found super cool, was cause the earth to swallow people. Okay, well, they weren’t truly swallowed. But the earth did open at their feet and they dropped into an oozing mud that went halfway up their body before becoming super hard. They were trapped there until I released them.
And as far as my cages went, I had decided on what was the best option. I formed a cage from the earth, it could be as big or as small as I needed. Then, I would wrap that cage in the other elements, even if they broke the stone bars, they would then have to break free of the other barriers.
Oddly enough, with all my elemental magic, and my ease of using earth magic, I was having trouble with plants. That seemed to be unique to Cedar for now. Oh well, I couldn’t complain too much, and I could always get the hang of it later.
After we worked for a while on the trapping techniques, I moved on to my different animal forms. I had already guessed that I could turn into any animal in the shifter world, and it turned out I was right. And I had a lot of options to pick from.
I had turned into a bear, bunny, and tiger before. All the animals I had become before stayed looking like my wolf form, white and shining with marks all over. But that wouldn’t be a good camouflage would it.
