Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
I practiced a lot of different animals every day. I became an antelope, a bear, a bunny, a cheetah, a house cat, a deer, a dog, an eagle, an elk, a fox, a jaguar, a lion, a monkey, a parrot, a tiger, and a zebra. It appeared that I wasn’t actually limited to just shifter animals, I could become any animal there was as long as I could picture it.
At first all my animal forms looked just like my wolf form. I was constantly snow white with blue, red, and purple marks. But as the days crept by, and with a lot of intense concentration, I was able to make my animal forms look like just any other from the wild.
I could be a regular white, black, or brown bunny. My fox was the usual rusty and white colors. My bears could be a regular white polar bear, a brown bear, or a black bear. The tigers, lions, cheetahs, jaguar, zebra, and parrots all had the proper colors and markings. My house cat and dog looked like anything you would see in someone’s house.
And then there was my wolf form. I could now disguise that as well. I chose a very light silver that looked nearly white but had the darker colors streaking down my back. I felt weird, off somehow, to see my wolf looking so different. But if I was ever bored of the look, I could change it anytime.
This massive amount of work took me more than a few weeks to accomplish. But, I know that it was well worth it to see the looks of joy on everyone’s faces as I managed to do something new. I was getting stronger, and I was slowly building up my body’s tolerance for my abilities.
I still had witch training here and there as well, I needed to split my time obviously. I had so much I needed to learn, and I didn’t want it to take too long before we went back home. Or before I went to hunt down Edmond.
After all my magic training, I worked on physical training, or combat training really. I still practiced a lot with my arrows and my howl. I could never get enough target practice in, apparently.
There was one thing I needed to learn that I had not had much practice in before. Almost none to be exact. I needed to practice fighting in my wolf form.
Back home, after I had my first shift,I had trained with Joaquin for a few weeks before everything got busy. But the problem was, he had seemed afraid to actually teach me how to fight in wolf form.
I don’t know if he wanted to keep me away from fights or he was afraid I would get hurt. But whatever the reason was, I needed to learn this stuff whether he liked it or not. This was my world now, and there was no changing that.
Lucas was brought in to help me with combat combat training, effectively replacing Sebastian and Hideki who had been with me this whole time so far. And with Lucas training me, it meant that Joaquin and the others would be training with me as well.
I nearly fell over when I saw Joaquin’s face the day we were to begin training together. He was so shocked that he turned as white as a ghost.
“Come on big boy, you’re not afraid I’m going to hurt you, are ya?” I taunted him as he looked at me with concern. The look of worry instantly left his face, only to be replaced by one of arrogance and challenge, and of course lots of teasing fun.
“Oh no, baby, I’m worried you won’t be able to keep up with me.” His heated look was enough to get my juices flowing, but there were too many people around for that. Right now I had to focus on training, later, much later, I could follow that line of thinking.
Once we were all prepared we began our training. The others had been fighting together and training with Lucas for a long time while I was still a newbie. Being so green, as Shane was so happy to call me, I started training directly with Lucas.
Lucas was a great teacher, and he had had a long time to perfect his fighting style and many others. He was an expert in hand to hand combat and different ways to fight with no hands at all. It was going to be an interesting time to say the least.
After I shifted, away from everyone else, we got down to business. Lucas showed me different grapples, one that worked with biting and wrapping your front legs around your opponent. It was hard to get used to at first, all the fighting I had done before had included hands for grabbing someone with.
I admit, biting my opponent made things easier, but it was still different, to say the least. And needless to say I was uneasy with the idea of biting anyone here, I didn’t like hurting people, especially good people. But Lucas just shook his head at me.
“You’re our queen, it is our job to train you. If we get hurt we will heal, you know that.” His voice held a slight edge to it, as if he were trying to anger me into training for real.
“You need to give her a clear target to fight against.” I heard Joaquin’s voice as he slowly made his way up to us.
“What do you mean, Sir?” Lucas wondered when he heard Joaquin’s words.
“Like an enemy she wouldn’t mind destroying. She needs to imagine she is fighting Edmond, or one of his cronies.”
“Like that will be possible. Joaquin, what the hell are you thinking? If you’re this far gone already, I should put you out of your misery Old Yeller.”
“You know I’m not past my prime yet, Little Bunny.” He smirked at me after I called him on that bullshit. “You need to train to fight Edmond, so you need to fight us like we’re Edmond.”
“But I don’t want to hurt anyone.” I felt my face blanche at his declaration. I needed to fight them so I could fight Edmond, that was so not going to happen.
“Do you want to hurt Edmond?” He asked me. “Or do you plan to let him get away?”
“What the fuck do you think?” I could feel my anger rising, the growl growing in my chest as he accused me of that level of treachery. “I would sooner kill him than let his ass get away with what he’s done. In fact, that’s exactly what I plan to do to him.”
“Good, now use that anger and fight me.”
He didn’t shift into his wolf form, he stayed in his human shape, but I didn’t care. Edmond would be in that type of body too, so I needed to know how to use a wolf’s skill against a man shaped opponent. He’s only man shaped because that cowardly, child stealing, family destroying piece of shit, Edmond, was nothing like a man.
I leapt at Joaquin, my teeth bared and claws aimed at his chest. He’s the one that asked for this, and he was going to be the one to deal with the consequences later.
I hit him with full force, square in his chest. The momentum of my leap toppled him over and we fell to the ground in a rolling heap. One flipping over the other, we rolled a few times until he twisted his body and pinned me to the ground and blocked the light of the sun with his broad shoulders.
He hovered over me, acting as the moon in a solar eclipse, breathing heavily and grinning darkly.
“This is why I want you away from the fighting.” His voice, his words, pissed me off. He wanted to lock me in a bubble for the rest of my life, I’ll be damned if I let him do that.
“Fuck off, Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore and you can’t tell me what to do anymore either. This is my time to shine.”
I brought my back legs up under him, planting them right about where his belly button was, then I kicked with all the force I could muster. Even in human form he outclassed me with sheer size. I barely managed to move him to the side when I pushed him.
“See what I mean, Little Bunny, you can’t take me on.” He was looking at me with dark eyes, half desire and half anger. He wasn’t angry at me, but for me.
“You’re stronger and faster than almost any man alive, possibly every man alive. You’ve been gifted with strength by the Goddess, not once but twice.” I snarled at him. “If I beat you, or even come close to it, you need to admit how strong I am.”
“Fine, if you even get close to beating me in a fight, I will never say anything about you joining a fight again.” His voice held a note of mischief. He thought he had this fight in the bag with his size, strength, and training. Yeah, well, I’ve got my own strengths too and he can’t match those.
